Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Winding Thread, Yarn, and the like upon Cops, Cones, Quills, or other Equivalent Cores or Forms.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Winding Thread, Yarn,
and the like upon Cops, Cones, Quills, or other Equivalent Cores
or Forms.
A communication from abroad by TRE MORSE MACHINE Company, of Boston,
in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Manufacturers.
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to machines for winding thread, string, yarns, and the like,
onto cops, cones or other equivalent or well known cores or forms.
The invention comprehends the use of a rotatable spindle which receives and
holds the cone, quill or other core which is to receive the yarn or string, said
spindle being mounted in such a manner as will enable it to swing in the arc of a
circle about an axis, a thread-guide being employed which is also preferably
mounted to swing in the arc of a circle about an axis which is not coincident with
the axis about which the spindle swings, means being provided to change the line
of movement of this thread guide in such a manner as to cause said line of move-
ment to always remain in substantially fixed relation to the swinging spindle, that
is, always remain in position directly above or at the side of said spindle, as the
latter changes its position.
The invention further comprehends novel means, consisting of a cam-faced
grooved or threaded nut, adapted to be fastened upon the end of the winding
spindle and to force the quill, tube or cone upon a tapering surface to wedge it
more firmly in position.
Another feature of the invention lies in the use of a novel, variable tension for
the string or yarn, said tension being connected in suitable manner with the
swinging spindle, so that as the latter and the thread guide are separated by the
filling of the thread upon the core or bobbin, the tension of the thread will be
gradually lessened.
It is preferred to construct this variable tension with a rotatable disc, upon the
surface of which bears a flexible friction strap, which, by the filling of the core or
bobbin, is turned to present gradually less and less of its surface for frictional
contact with the disc.
Suitable stop mechanism is provided, which when the bobbin is full, auto-
matically permits movement of the shipper to stop the machine, and the machine is
so constructed that it may be stopped and started by hand, without interfering
with the automatic stopping mechanism, which when set at the time the machine is
first started remains thereafter always in condition to automatically stop the
machine when the bobbin is full.
Cone pulleys, or other equivalent devices are employed, to vary the relative
movements of the reciprocating or moving thread guide and the rotating spindle to
accommodate different sizes or numbers of thread or yarn.
The invention comprehends, necessarily, suitable mechanism for driving the

page_text: swinging spindle in whatever position it may be, and the same as regards the
moving thread-guide.
Dated the 28th day of October 1895.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Winding Thread, Yarn,
and the like upon Cops, Cones, Quills, or other Equivalent Cores
or Forms.
A communication from abroad by THE MORSE MACHINE COMPANY, of Boston,
in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Manufacturers.
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of 55 and 6 Chancery Lane in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 for its object to provide an improved machine for winding
thread, string, yarns and the like onto cops, cones or other equivalent or well
known forms.
The invention comprehends a rotatable spindle upon which the quill, cone or
other core which is to receive the yarn, string and the like is mounted to swing
about an axis, and a thread guide also preferably mounted to swing about an axis,
and means to move this movable thread guide in such manner as to cause it to
maintain a substantially fixed line of travel relatively to the swinging spindle.
The invention comprehends a novel variable tension for the string or yarn and
other features, which with the foregoing will be hereinafter fully described and
particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the drawing,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine illustrating one embodiment of the
invention;
Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the machine Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 a partial rear side view of Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 a detail showing the manner of gearing the thread guide cam with its
driving shaft;
Fig. 5, a detail showing the variable tension device ;
Fig. 6, a sectional detail showing the winding spindle, and means for attaching
the quill or cone thereto;
Fig. 7, a sectional detail illustrating one method of forming and adjusting the
bearing surfaces;
Fig. 8, a detail of the shipper moving mechanism to be referred to.
Figs. 9 and 10, details respectively in side and plan view of a modification of the
invention adapted for winding cones, and
Fig. 11, a detail showing yet another modification, also for winding cones.
Referring to the drawings, A is the base, upon which are erected, as shown, two
standards a, a, in which are mounted the two parallel shafts a', a², the former of
which, as shown, constitutes the driving shaft.
Upon the shafts a¹, a³, are mounted respectively the oppositely facing cones or
cone pulleys a³, a', connected by a belt a under the control of a shipper a, fast on
a shipper rod a mounted at the rear end of the machine in a suitable bearing in
the standard a at that side of the machine and at its front end, see Fig. 8,
threaded to engage the interiorly threaded adjusting nut a journaled in the frout
standard a.

page_text: Rotation of the thumb nut a causes axial movement of the shipper rol a' and
travel of the shipper to move the belt as along its cones for varying the relative
speed of the two shafts.
The winding spindle bis journaled in the forked free end of a swinging support
or lever b', see Fig. 1, loosely journalled on a sleeve surrounding the projecting
front end of the shaft a', and is extended at the opposite side of the said shaft a¹ to
sustain the counter-weight b².
At its rear end the spindle b between the two arms of the forked end of the lever b¹
has fast upon it a gear wheel 63 in mesh with a gear wheel & loosely mounted
upon a spindle 6 carried by the lever b', said wheel b, in turn meshing with a gear
wheel be fast on the main shaft a' of the machine, rotation of said main shaft causing
corresponding rotation of the winding spindle.
The winding spindle and its lever like support 61 may be swung into any desired
position about the main driving shaft a', without in any way interfering with the
rotation of the spindle from said shaft, the intermediate idler wheel always
following and being in mesh with the two wheels at its opposite sides.
The thread guide c is formed in a finger c¹ on the end of a slide bar
C
mounted
to slide in suitable guide ways in the top or cross bar 3 rigidly connected with the
two carrying arms ct fulcrumed at c on the base.
These supporting arms have journalled in them a shaft c, fast on which
between the said supports is a path cam e', which acts upon a roller or other stud e⁹
on and to reciprocate the bar c and its thread guide c.
Mounted loosely upon a boss on the rear support of surrounding the shaft c is an
eccentric e, the strap co of which is provided with an arm ell, in the end of which
is journalled a stud e fast on the end of an arm cs of a strap c" surrounding
an eccentric loosely journalled on a boss of the rear standard a, surrounding the
shaft a².
The shaft a² is provided with a change pinion d, which meshes with and drives a
toothed wheel d', loosely mounted on the stud e12, and which in turn meshes with
and drives a toothed wheel 2 fast on and to rotate the cam shaft cº.
This connection between the shaft a² and the cam shaft es, whereby the latter is
driven from the former, is such as to permit the supports of carrying the thread
guide to be swung about their fulcrum to carry the line of travel of the thread
guide into any desired position without in any way disturbing the driving
connections.
By adjustment of the eccentrics & and c¹, the stud on which the idler wheel d¹
is mounted, may be drawn towards or moved from either the pinion d or the wheel d³
for fine adjustments, or for making changes in the gearing if desired.
One of the supports c, see Fig. 1, is provided with an L-shaped arm d³, the
upturned end of which is engaged by a roller or other suitable stud d' on the lever
support, carrying the winding spindle.
A weight adjustably mounted on an arm d on one of the supports e*, acts to
hold the said arm d³, always in operative contact with the said roller stud d.
The thread, yarn, string, twine or whatever it is desired should be wound into
cop, cone or other form by the machine, is taken from a suitable source and is led,
as shown at w, Fig. 1, over a suitable pulley, thence under a second pulley f',
thence up and over a grooved tension wheel, down and about a pulley 3, thence
through a pig-tail guide and through the guide to the quill, cone or other core
mounted upon the spindle.
The tension wheel is fast on a short arbor ³, loosely mounted in a forked
arm a on the front support a of the frame, and near the inner end of this short
arbor f and between the arms of the forked support is made fast a grooved
pulley f, shown best in Figs. 2 and 5.
Loosely mounted upon a sleeve bearing frame surrounding the arbor f is a
sleeve, provided with an arm f³, connected by a rod with the weighted end of
the lever support b', said sleeve being also provided with a segment-like arm ƒ to
which is connected one end of a cord or strap", which rests in the groove of the

page_text: pulley f and sustains at its lower end one or more weights 2, the latter acting
to keep the cord or strap f" in frictional contact with the bottom of the groove
of the said pulley, to exert more or less retarding effect upon and to resist
rotation of the arbor and its tension wheel 2, about which the thread, yarn etc.
is passed to the winding arbor.
The operation of the machine is as follows, viz.:-The quill, cone or other
suitable core Q, upon which the thread, etc., is to be wound, is suitably secured to
and upon the winding spindle b, and the machine set in operation.
Rotation of the main driving shalt al acts through the gears 66, 1, and ³, to
rotate the winding spindle in the direction of the arrow Fig. 1, to wind the thread
upon the quill or cone carried by the spindle.
The driving shaft a' also acts through the belt a and the cone pulleys to rotate
the shaft a² which, through the gearing shown in Fig. 4, also rotates the cam c',
which in turn reciprocates the thread guide c, causing it to traverse the length of
the quill or cone, and lay the thread thereupon in manner well understood by those
skilled in the art.
As the cop or body of thread builds up in thickness upon its core, the winding
spindle b will be depressed, its supporting lever ', turning about its fulcrum a', the
weight, however, keeping the surface of the body of thread always in contact
with the underside of the thread-guide.
It is essential in winding machines of this class that the thread guide maintain a
substantially constant position with relation to the body of thread being built up
upon the cone, and this desired uniformity of position is preserved in the present
instance by the roller on the lever , which as the lever is depressed by the
building up of the body of thread, acts through the L-shaped arm d³ to draw the
fulcrumed supports to the right, Fig. 1, against the action of the weight d³, to
carry the line of travel of the thread guide to the right, Fig. 1, thus maintaining it
always in substantially vertical position over the middle of the body of thread upon
the spindle.
As the body of thread upon the core or spindle builds up, it is desirable for the
best results that the tension be gradually reduced, to compensate for the greater
diameter of the body of thread and the more rapid travel of the thread, which of
itself acts in the nature of a tension.
This is provided for in the improved machine by the rod f, which as the body
of thread is built up and depressed as described, is raised by the raising of the
weighted end of the lever ', and when so raised, acts, see Fig. 5, to rotate the
segment 10 to the left in the direction of the arrow Fig. 5, to carry the point of
attachment of the friction cord or strap "farther down on the periphery of the
grooved wheel, and as the said friction cord or belt always hangs straight, by
reason of the weights suspended thereupon, it is clear that the farther the point of
attachment is moved towards a horizontal line passing through the axis of the
tension wheel arbor, the less the length of the cord or strap which remains in
frictional contact with the said grooved wheel.
Consequently as the body of thread is depressed, the weighted end of the lever 61
is raised, and the segment turned down to gradually reduce the frictional action of
the cord or strap on the grooved pulley, and thereby lessen the tension thus put
upon the thread.
This is an important feature of the invention, for it enables the obtaining a
uniformity of product which is impossible with an unvarying tension.
By means of the weights 12 and 62, which in fact act in opposition to each
other, one counter-balancing to a greater or less extent the other, a very nice
adjustment may be had, which is valuable in winding high grade threads, twine, or
whatever it is desired should be wound.
Referring now to Fig. 2, upon the driving shaft a' back of the front standard a
are the fast and loose driving pulleys h and ', the belt shipper for the same being
shown at 2, fast on a sliding shaft mounted in suitable bearings in the
standards a, a.

page_text: Parallel with the shipper shaft ³ and also mounted in the support a, a, is a
second shaft, provided near the rear standard with an arm / which overreaches
the shaft and lies in the line of travel of a lug hª on the said shipper
shaft h³.
A spring
interposed between the front standard a and the said arm * acts to
press the shaft rearwardly.
At its outer end in front of the front standard 4, the shaft h is notched to
receive one end of a lever 18, fulcrumed at 1 and provided with a set screw 10,
adapted to be engaged by the weighted end of the lever support as the latter is
raised by the building up of the body of thread on the core.
Assuming the driving helt to be upon the loose pulley, the machine is started
by drawing the shipper shaft towards the front of the machine, a suitable
knob /* thereon being provided for engagement by the operator, such forward
movement of the said shipper shaft also through its Ing and the arm causing
a similar forward movement of the shaft, and when the latter has reached the
limit of its forward movement, the lever acted upon by the weight of the set
screw drops into the notch 4* referred to, and holds the said shaft in its
forward position.
When the body of thread has been built up to the desired diameter, determined
by the adjustment of the screw 40, the rising weighted end of the lever engages
said set screw and lifts the latter, thereby disengaging the lever from the notch
in the rod, and permitting its spring to throw the said rod and also the shipper
rod into their rearmost positions carrying the driving belt from the fast onto the
loose pulley, and stopping the machine.
If it is desired to temporarily stop the machine before the body of thread has
been built up to the final size, the operator may push inwardly the shipper shaft
and stop the machine without interfering with the automatic stop mechanism
described, and he may thereafter again draw forward the shipper shaft to start the
machine, without disturbing the automatic stop shaft, leaving the latter in
readiness to automatically stop the machine when the full size of the body of thread
has been reached.
A stop screw m, threaded in a lug m on the front standard a acts to limit
the upward movement of the winding spindle, keeping the latter always at a
proper desired distance from the thread guide c.
The quill, cone or core upon which the thread is to be wound, may be mounted
upon and secured to the winding spindle in any suitable or desired manner.
However, see Fig. 6, the spindle is provided adjacent its supporting lever, with a
conical or tapering shoulder n, and at its front end the said spindle is provided
with a cam groove n for the reception of a pin n² on the clamping sleeve n³,
provided not only with a slightly tapering shoulder opposed to the shoulder n,
but also with one or more pointed projections n³.
The quill Q, shown in Fig. 6, or it may be a cone or other core, is slipped upon
the spindle and the clamping sleeve applied and turned, the pin n² in the cam
groove n acting to force the said sleeve inwardly to wedge the quill upon the
tapering shoulders and nt, and at the same time impress the projections into
the end of the quill to ensure rotation of the quill or core by and with the
spindle.
"
By means of the shipper rod a' the belt as may be shifted on its cone pulleys
and the relative speed of the winding spindle and the cam and thread guide
actuated thereby may be varied for different sizes of thread or yarn.
Referring to Fig. 7, the milled head therein shown enables the operator to
slightly rotate the main shaft whenever desired, without applying the power from
the driving drum. For instance, in fastening the thread to the bobbin on
commencement of winding, it is desirable to give one, or two slow turns, to secure
the thread in place before the bobbin becomes rapidly revolved by the driving
power. The operator gives this preliminary slow motion by turning the shaft a'.

page_text: The operator when desirable can stop the machine instantly, by grasping the
milled head and at the same time shifting the belt.
The lever support (Fig. 7) for the winding spindle should be always accurately
positioned, and to provide for the take up of wear the end of the bearing sleeve s
has been threaded as at s to receive a check nut o, which may be screwed up as
little as desired to take up wear and hold the lever support in proper position, a
set screw o furnishing means by which to lock said nut in its adjusted position.
Referring now to Figs. 9 and 10, the winding spindle is mounted on an angle, so
that the cone shaped core 7 shall be rotated with its upper side coincident with a
plane parallel with the base or parallel with the line of travel of the thread
guide c, as it is necessary that the thread guide always travel in contact or parallel
with the surface of the body of thread on the core.
In this modified construction the winding spindle is provided with a gear q
similar to the construction Figs. 1 and 2, which gear meshes with an idler g
attached to which is a skew gear 13, which meshes with and is driven by the
gear 6, Fig. 3, by this construction the spindle standing at an angle is suitably
driven from the mechanism, Fig. 1.
In Fig. 11 the cone like core 7 is rotated about a spindle having its axis
horizontal, as in Fig. 1, so that the upper surface of the body of the thread wound
upon the core, in case the latter is a cone, as stated, is not parallel to the line of
travel of the thread guide, as shown in Fig. 1, accordingly in Fig. 11, I show
means to cause the thread guide to travel obliquely to the path of the same, as
shown in Fig. 1, so that it shall be parallel to the conical surface of the core y, as
desired.
In this construction the support for the travelling thread guide is turned
downwardly at an angle as shown and the thread guide travelling in the angular
part of the support is connected by a suitable link or flexible member q with a
portion q carrying the stud 8 driven by the cam.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A machine of the class described, containing a swinging winding spindle,
means to rotate it, a travelling thread guide, and means to vary the position of the
line of travel of said thread guide, to maintain the said guide uniformly in the
same direct line opposite the middle of the body of the thread, notwithstanding
the changing positions of said spindle, substantially as described.
2. A machine of the class described, containing a swinging winding spindle,
means to rotate the same, a travelling thread guide and a swinging support
therefor, the swinging movement of the latter being independent of said travelling
movement, of the thread guide, substantially as described.
3. A machine of the class described, containing a driving shaft, a winding spindle
mounted to swing about the said shaft, intermediate driving connections for driving
said spindle by said shaft in any position of the former, a thread guide, a swinging
support therefor, a cam mounted in said support, connected to said thread guide to
operate the same, and connections intermediate the same and said driving shaft
for driving the said cam in any position of said support, substantially as described.
4. A winding machine, containing the frame, a shaft journaled therein, and
means to drive it, a spindle, a spindle support mounted to swing about the axis of
said shaft, a reciprocating thread guide, its support, means to actuate said guide,
and a weight acting upon the said spindle support to press the spindle normally
towards said thread guide, substantially as described.
5. In a machine of the class described, a frame, a shaft journaled therein, and
means to drive it, a support mounted to swing about the axis of said shaft, a
spindle journaled in the outer end of said support and means for driving the same
from said shaft, a reciprocating thread guide, a swinging support therefor, means

page_text: to press the said spindle and thread guide one towards the other, and connecting
devices between the said spindle support and thread guide support to cause
movement of one by the other, substantially as describeil.
6. The frame, the shaft journaled therein, and means to drive it, a spindle
support mounted to swing about the axis of said shaft, a winding spindle journaled
in the said support, and means for driving said spindle by said shaft, a reciprocating
thread guide, its support, a stud on the said spindle support, and an arm on the
thread guide support acted upon by said stud to cause movement of one support by
the other, substantially as described.
7. A machine of the class described, containing a frame, a driving shaft journaled
therein, a spindle support fulcrumed about the axis of said driving shaft, and the
spindle therein, means for driving said spindle from said shaft, a driven shaft, cones
on the same and said driving shaft, and connections for driving the former by the.
latter, a reciprocating thread guide, a fulcrumed support therefor, a thread guide
actuating cam mounted in the said support, and connecting means between said
cam shaft and said driven shaft, substantially as described.
8. In a machine of the class described, the frame, the driving shaft journaled
therein, a driven shaft driven thereby, the fulcrumed spindle support, its spindle
geared to and driven by the driving shaft, the reciprocating thread guide, a
fulcrumed support for said thread guide, the thread guide actuating cam journalel
in said support, means to vary the speed of said cam relatively to said spindle,
and geared to and driven by said driven shaft, substantially as described.
9. A machine of the class described, containing thread winding devices, a tension
wheel adapted to be rotated by the thread travelling to the said winding devices,.
a rotatable friction surface connected with the said wheel, a flexible friction belt in
contact with said friction surface, and means connected with the winding devices
for varying the area of frictional contact of said belt and rotatable friction surface
to thereby vary the tension en the thread, substantially as described.
10. A machine of the class described, containing the following instrumentalities,.
viz. The winding devices, the thread tension wheel, the friction wheel connected
therewith, the flexible friction belt, a movable arm to which it is attached, and
means to vibrate said arm to change the position of the said friction belt to vary
the tension, substantially as described.
11. A winding machine, containing a winding spindle, and a thread guide,.
supports for the same movable one towards and from the other, a tension wheel,
a rotatable friction surface connected therewith, a flexible friction belt acting upon
said friction surface, and connections between the said belt and said movable
support whereby the said relative movement of said supports as the body of thread
being wound increases, reduces the frictional contact of said belt upon said surface,.
substantially as described.
12. In a machine of the class described, a frame, and a shaft journaled therein,.
the fulcrumed support, the spindle thereon driven from said shaft, the reciprocating
thread guide and support therefor, means to move the said spindle normally
towards said thread guide, and automatic stopping devices adapted to be set in
operation by movement of the said fulcrumed spindle support, substantially as
described.
13. A machine of the class described, containing suitable winding devices,
and a main shaft for actuating the same, fast and loose pulleys on the said
shaft, a longitudinally movable shipper shaft and its shipper, a spring-actuated
shaft, and connections between said shipper shaft and said spring actuated shaft,
whereby movement of the shipper shaft to change the belt from the loose to the
fast pulley also causes movement of the said spring shaft against the action of its.
spring, opposite movement of the said shipper shaft taking place independent of
the said spring shaft, locking devices to engage and hold the said spring shaft in
its position where moved by said shipper shaft, and connections between the
locking devices and winding devices whereby release of the locking devices permits.

page_text: return movement of the spring shaft and with it the shipper shaft to change the
belt from the fast to the loose pulley, substantially as described.
14. A machine of the class described, containing a winding spindle provided at
its inner end with a tapering shoulder, a removable clamping collar adapted to
wedge the winding quill upon the said tapering shoulder, and engaging projections
on the said collar to engage said quill to operate, substantially as described.
15. A machine of the class described, containing a fixed shaft, and a movable
shaft and bearings therefor, toothed wheels on the respective shafts, an intermediate
wheel in mesh with the said toothed wheels, levers journaled about the axes of said
fixed and movable shafts, and jointed at and provided with a bearing for said
intermediate wheel, and eccentric bearings for and movable relatively to the ends
of said levers adjacent said fixed and movable shafts, whereby the adjustment of
said intermediate wheel with relation to either of its engaging wheels may be
varied, substantially as described.
Dated the 20th day of February 1896.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.