Year: 1888

page_text: "Date of Application, "31st Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 29th Jan., 1889
I THOMAS, HOLT: of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster Machine Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in reeling machines whether driven 'by
'hand or "by power and consists first, in the use and application of a 'travelling
lattice apron or creeper upon which lattice the bobbins tubes or spools when empty
are dropped or placed and by which they are carried to the end of the machine
and delivered into a box or other suitable receptacle.
The travelling lattice apron or creeper which works' in a box or trunk' may be
driven in any convenient manner as for example by means of a worm on the reel
shaft gearing into a worm wheel on a short shaft on which is a'chain wheel giving
motion by a chain to one of the rollers; over which the said lattice or equivalent,
passes and by which roller it is driven.
The second part of my Invention is applicable to the weight boards used in
reeling from mule cops.
In reeling from. mule cops. it is customary to "move the skewers when the cops
are reduced to near the bottom and then place the skewers with the cop bottom
in a pot step rail and back weight board.
My improvement consists in a new arrangement of the weights which I -hinge
on staples fixed to the back of the weight board. "Weights thus' hinged act more
effectually in keeping "the skewers' in their correct position and are 'less liable to
get out of order than weights supported in the ordinary manner.
Dated this 29th day of March 1888.

page_text: I THOMAS HOLT of Rochdale in the County of Lancaster Machine Maker do
hereby declaré 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in reeling machines whether driven by
hand or by power and consists first, in the use and application of a travelling
lattice apron or creeper upon which lattice the bobbins tubes or spools when empty
are dropped or placed and by which they are carried to the end of the machine
and delivered into a box or other suitable receptacle.
The travelling lattice apron or creeper which works in a box or trunk may be
driven in any convenient manner as for example by means of a worm on the reel
shaft gearing into a worm wheel on a short shaft on which is a chain wheel
giving motion by a chain to one of the rollers over which the said lattice or
equivalent passes and by which roller it is driven.
The second part of my Invention is applicable to the weight boards used in
reeling from mule cops.
In reeling from mule cops it is customary to move the skewers when the cops
are reduced to near the bottom and then place the skewers with the cop bottom
in a pot step rail and back weight board.
My improvement consists in a new arrangement of the weights which I hinge
-on staples fixed to the back of the weight board. Weights thus hinged act more
effectually in keeping the skewers in their correct position and are less liable to.
get out of order than weights supported in the ordinary manner.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a hand reeling machine to which the first part of
my improvements is applied.
Figs. 2 and 3 are end elevations of the same.
Fig. 4 is an end sectional elevation illustrating the second part of my Invention.
Fig. 5 is part of a similar view illustrating the ordinary system of arranging the
weights.
In Figs. 1, 2 and 3.-a designates the frame of the machine, 6 the reel and c the reel
shaft which is driven as usual by a band d from the shaft e. On the reel shaft c is a
worm, not shown, which gears into a worm wheel fon a short shaft g on which is also
fixed a chain wheel h which transmits by a chain i the motion received from
the worm on the shaft c to a chain wheel mounted on the shaft k on which is
also fixed a roller m.
The lattice apron or creeper n which I employ according to my Invention passes
over the roller m and also over other rollers m³ m³ m³ and is driven by the roller m to

page_text: carry forward the empty bobbins o to the end of the machine and deliver them into a
box or receptacle p. The lattice or equivalent n is arranged to work in a trunk or
casing 9 as shown.
In Fig. 4.-s designates one of the skewers and s¹ a partly wound off mule cop
mounted thereon; t is the pot step rail and u the back weight board, w the weight
and & the staple to which the said weight is hinged. The old system of attaching the
weight w is illustrated by Fig. 5 in order to show clearly the difference between my
improved mode of arranging the weights as indicated by Fig. 4 and the ordinary
manner of supporting the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is―
1. The arrangement use and application of a travelling lattice, apron, or creeper
upon which empty bobbins, tubes, or spools can be carried away to the end of a
reeling machine and there deposited substantially as and for the purposes indicated.
2. The improved arrangement of the weights substantially as herein described with
reference to Figs. 4 and 5.