Improvements in Machines for Winding Yarn or Thread.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1891-Accepted, 19th Mar.,
1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Winding Yarn or Thread.
1, FRIEDRICH ANTON LUDWIG of Chemnitz in Saxony, 16 Wilhelm Str.,
Engineer, 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 :-
The object of my present invention is to construct a winding machine, in which
all spindles are driven simultaneously from one driving wheel, and which is so
arranged as to occupy much less floor room, than the winding engines known up
till now.
I attain these objects by arranging the spindles circularly around the driving
wheel and by the details of construction hereinafter more particularly described
and illustrated.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved circular winding engine,
Fig. 2 is a plan view, with the parts above line A-B (Fig. 1) removed,
Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the guide fork h.
Fig. 4 is a diagramatical view of arrangement of machines up till now in use.
In winders up till now in use each spindle I was provided with a separate
driving wheel III and as the spindles were arranged in a row, it was impossible
to reduce the floor room occupied by the winders. It was however necessary to
arrange the spindles in a row in order to be able to mount the driving gears III of
the spindle wheels II on one and the same horizontal shaft IV. A further
disadvantage of such winders where a number of spindles are employed, is that the
attendant cannot immediately notice when a thread breaks anywhere, as it is
practically impossible to overwatch the whole machine at once.
By my improved winder I save about 60 % of the floor room and the
construction of the machine is so compact that the attendant can conveniently
observe all the spindles at one and the same time.
In order to make this Specification more easily intelligible I refer to the
accompanying drawings in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout
the several views.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the machine.
Fig. 2 is a part plan.
Fig. 3 represents in detail the fork . and Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the
arrangement of the machines up till now in use.
Referring to Fig. the shaft bis driven by the pulleys a by a strap. Keyed
onto the main shaft is the pinion c driving the spur gear e arranged on the
shaft d which is suitably mounted in the machine frame. The heart shaped cam f
is also mounted on the said shaft d and revolves with the same imparting vertical
motion to the bar g. In order to prevent the latter from revolving a fork h (Fig. 3)
is mounted on the bar g and embraces the shaft d. At the lower end of bar g a roll i
is mounted which runs on the cam h. The driving gear wheel k of the spindles, is
mounted on the central sleeve of the machine frame and driven by means of the
intermediate bevel gears m and e-the latter having crown n and being mounted
on the shaft d-from the pinion c of shaft b. The bevel gear wheel k engages
simultaneously all the bevel wheels p of the spindles p¹. These spindles may
however be disengaged separately by means of the slotted switches 4, (Fig. 2) which
are pivotally attached to the machine frame at 92 and have inclined surfaces q'.
By turning the handles of these switches, the inclined surface will be passed under
the boss of the spools, thereby raising the latter and disengaging them from the
bevel wheel k.

page_text: The cone wires r hold the yarn cops and the threads are passed from the
yarn cops to the hooks, thence over the whirls u through the thread cleaner v
over the hooks w, which rise and fall with the bar g and may be adjusted on their
screw spindles and then to the bobbins on the spindles p'.
The advantages of the construction hereinbefore described are, that the spindles
are brought closer together and can be more conveniently and carefully controlled
by the attendant, whilst the machine does not occupy so much floor room as that
required by the machines up till now in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner of performing the same, what I claim is:-
wheels
P';
by means of intermediate gearing c, e, n
1) The combination of the circularly arranged bobbin spindles having bevel
with the main driving wheel mounted on sleeve driven from shaft b
and m substantially as described.
2) The combination of the cam mounted on the intermediate shaft d, the
fork arranged as described and the vertically moveable bar 9 substantially as
described.
3) A winding machine constructed substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of July 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.