Improvements in Twisting, Doubling, and Winding Threads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov. 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Twisting, Doubling, and Winding Threads.
WILLIAM JAMES FORD Albany Villa Uppingham Road Leicester Hosiery
Manufacturer WILLIAM FORD Albany Villa Uppingham Road Leicester
Warehouseman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of our invention is improvements in winding machines to enable a
number of threds to be twisted together.
Our improvements consists of a drum fixed on the shaft of an ordinary winding
engine to the drum we attach a belt which is carried to a grove on an upright
spindle. To the upright spindle we fix a disk to the disk we attach a number
of wires.
At the top of the spindle we have two or more holes in the side, the spindle being
hollow at the top. The bobbins are fixed on the wire the threads are passed
through the holes in the sides of the spindle and brought together in the hollow
part of the spindle. The threads are carried through rollers and wound on to the
bobbins in the ordinary mauner.
Dated this 28th day of Januone 1902
W. J. FORD.
WILLIAM FORD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Twisting, Doubling, and Winding Threads.
We, WILLIAM JAMES FORD and William Ford of Albany Villa, Uppingham
Road, Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to machinery or apparatus for twisting, doubling and
winding threads and consists essentially of a revolving spindle furnished with a
bobbin supporting plate, carrying two or more bobbins, the threads from which
pass through openings in the upper tubular end of the said spindle where they are
brought together and from whence they pass, by the action of the said spindle, as
one thread through the usual intermediate mechanism, to the ordinary winding
bobbin.
The invention will be thoroughly understood from the accompanying drawing, in .
which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of so much of a twisting, doubling and winding
machine as is necessary to illustrate our invention.
Figure 2 is a dotail view showing on a larger scale, part of the revolving spindle,
bobbin supporting plate and tensioning device.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, A is the revolving vertical spindle
having bearings in the back rails B. B' of the machine, and furnished with a grooved
pulley A' receiving motion from a belt A* passing over a drum or pulley on the
usual driving shaft C' of the machine.
The spindle A. has fixed thereon a bobbin carrying plate D provided with two or
more upright spindles D' over which the bobbins are placed, the threads of which
are to be twisted.
Each thread D' after leaving the bobbin passes through an opening A³ in the
špiudle A and out through the tubular upper end thereof, when by the revolving
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page_text: action of the said spindle the threads are twisted one round the other and form a
single thread D'.
The latter then passes between and in contact with two or more tensioning wires
or pins E formed on a plate E connected by a screw E' to the usual back rail F of
the machine.
After leaving the tensioning wires E' the thread passes over the back rail F, thence
between the customary rollers G carried in a cup or socket G mounted on the well
known rising and falling bar G' and lastly to the usual winding bobbin H.
The latter is operated in the well known manner by boing mounted on a spindle J
carried on a bracket K and furnished with a disc L which is driven by frictional
contact with a disc or pulley L' on the driving shaft C¹.
In actual practice the best results are obtained by pitching the sides of the plate D
so that the summits of the bobbins incline towards each other and nearer to the
spindle A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a twisting, doubling and winding machine a bobbin carrying plate adapted
to carry two or more bobbins and to be revolved so as to twist the threads from the
said bobbins into a single thread substantially as described.
2. In a twisting, doubling and winding machine the combination of a revolving
vertical spindle, bobbin carrying plate thereon adapted to carry two or more
bobbins, and means for actunting the said spindle substantially as and for the
purpose described.
3. In a twisting, doubling and winding machine the combination of a revolving
vertical spindle, bobbin carrying plate thereon adapted to carry two or more
bobbins, and openings in tho said spindle through which the threads from the said
bobbins may pass substantially as and for the purpose described.
4. lu a twisting, doubling and winding machine the combination of a revolving
vortical spindle, bobbin carrying plate thereon adapted to carry two or more
bobbins and to pitch the summits of the said bobbins towards each other substan-
tially as and for the purpose described.
5. The improvements in twisting, doubling and winding machines consisting of
the parts constructed, arranged and operating substantially in the manner and as
and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.