Improvements in Apparatus for Winding or Reeling Yarn or the like, and Dividing the same into Hanks.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Winding or Reeling Yarn or the like,
and Dividing the same into Hanks.
I, LOUIS OEMLER, of Nonnenstrasse, Leipzig-Plagwitz, in the Empire of
Germany, Gentleman, 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 relates to an improved apparatus for winding yarn or the like, in
which the forming of the same into hanks is effected in an automatic manner.
The characteristic principle of the arrangement of the apparatus is, that the yarn
to be wound is laid over the rods of the reel by means of a rotary winder or guider,
the reel is moved horizontally during the winding.
During this displacement and after a determined number of revolutions of the
winder, the yarn wound on the reel is separated and bound into a hank in a
mechanical manner by means of a special upper and under thread.
This is effected by a device for forming a knot or connection for uniting the
upper and the under thread, which consists of a peculiarly operating seizing
mechanism for the upper thread in co-operation with a device operating the under
thread.
The arrangement of the apparatus and the co-operation of the parts coming into
consideration, are shown in the annexed drawing.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the yarn winding apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of same.
Fig. 3 is a front view thereof.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged front elevation of the knotting device in one position.
Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the shuttle carrier hook in the same position. Fig. 6
in a plan view of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is an enlarged front elevation of the same parts as
are shown in Fig. 4 but in a different position. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the
shuttle carrier hook in the same position as in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 is a plan view
of Fig. 7. Fig. 10 is a sectional side elevation on a larger scale of the mechanism
for bringing the knotting and binding gear into action. Fig. 11 is a section on
line y-y Fig. 10 and Fig. 12 is a similar section of the parts in a different position.
Fig. 13 illustrates part of Fig. 10 with the parts in a different position.
The yarn or thread A to be wound upon the reel W is taken by means of a rotary
arm L around the arms F of the reel. The reel W is provided with a guide
plate W which slides on a rail W² fixed on the bed plate of the apparatus and is
displaced by means of a worm Z provided on the shaft S.
However, the reel W may be fixed and the guide L be displaceable.
After a certain number of revolutions of the thread guide L, which is determined
according to the size of the hanks required, the device for binding the skeins into
hanks is put into operation in the following manner:
On the shaft of the arm L is a pulley L geared by belt L2 with a pulley S¹ on
shaft S. On the latter is a wheel S2 with preferably only two teeth SS (sec
Figs. 11 and 12) and on a shaft S parallel to shaft S is a wheel So with

page_text: recesses $ into which the teeth SS can engage so as to give intermittent partial
rotation to the shaft S. The shaft carries a pulley S8 over which a belt S
passes on which belt are bosses S10 S1. Two levers $12 $13 are pivoted so that
their ends are respectively met and raised by the bosses S S. Attached to the
levers SS are two bars SS suitably guided and having wedge shaped
ends S16 S17, adapted when the bar is raised to press the corresponding pulley S18
or $10 towards the wheel S. The wheel S2 and the pulleys S18 S1 have clutch teeth,
and the pulleys S18 $19 are loose on the shaft S and are pressed away from wheel S
by the springs $20 $21.
According as the one or other lever S12 S13 is raised by a boss on the band so
is the one or other pulley S16 S19 brought into operative connection with the shaft S;
but when no boss is beneath either lever S S both pulleys SIS S are disengaged
and remain stationary.
The pulley S18 is geared by belt $22 to pulley on shaft and the pulley $19
is similarly geared by belt S23 to a pulley i turning on a gudgeon in the frame
work.
It will be seen, that after a certain number of revolutions of the shaft S, the
reel is moved longitudinally a certain distance by the worm Z and the wheel S6 will
have been revolved so far as to bring the bosses St S into respective operation
at the proper moments to cause the operation of the binding & knotting mechanism
by setting in gear the pulleys S18 S which operate the pulleys and i
By means of a crank pin on the pulley a pivoted lever h (Figs. 1 and 2) is
turned or swung which lever is for the purpose of deflecting the under thread u, to
bring it within reach of the book on the slide N which carries the upper thread
Figs. 4 and 6.
The two threads o and a used for binding have each one end fixed on the arm c
of the reel (Fig. 6), the upper thread o is drawn from a spool in a shuttle in the
slide N whilst the under thread is by means of the lever / drawn off the bobbin R
on which the slack is rewound and tension maintained by the weight g.
The under thread u is seized by an arm / Fig 4 on the lever hand is held by
means of a bolt m movable in the arm 7 which bolt by sliding on the inclined
plane B is lifted to project from the arm 7 (Fig. 7), and simultaneously by the
swinging movement of the lever the lever arm is brought from its oblique
position (Fig. 4) into a vertical position, (Fig. 7) and consequently the under
thread is held in such a manner by the lever arm C and the bolt m Fig. 9 that
the circularly moving hook of the bar N which can enter between C and m
and catch the thread and cause the shuttle to pass around it to twist the upper
thread round the under thread which is sufficient as a knot for the purpose in
view.
The required circular movement of the hook is given as follows:-This hook
is nearly circular, that is to say in the form of a ring with a slit or orifice one of
the ends next the orifice being bevelled off as shown at d. It is made up of two
superposed parts as shown in Fig. 6 having a groove between them in which the
Hanger of the shuttle lies so that the shuttle may revolve in the hook. The
bar N is attached to a bar K which has elongated slots through which pass
screws attaching the bar with a limited longitudinal movement to the bar E.
The bar E is carried by two pins EE placed excentrically on two toothed
wheels geared to an intermediate toothed wheel D. The wheel D is keyed
on the shaft. v, the wheel 12 and the wheel D revolve Onl stub shaft
or gudgeons on the frame work not shown in the drawing.
When the
2"
shaft is revolved the wheel 1) revolves and revolves also the wheel 1) which again
revolves the wheel D² whose speed is equal to that of wheel 1 the pins EE thus
describe equal circular paths and give the bar E and consequently the bar K and
bar. Na corresponding circular movement.
When the under thread is carried into the position shown in Figs. 7 and 9 it
passes under the end of the hook and is engaged between two teeth on the
Hanger of the shuttle (Fig. 8). Now the hook O commencing to move down-

page_text: wardly and forwardly (Fig. 4) its point d enters the loop of the thread u and the
latter lies between the inside of hook O and the shuttle z. The hook continuing its
circular movement causes the thread u without shifting its place to pass over and
around the shuttle, or more properly speaking causes the shuttle to pass under and
around the stationary thread u until the outlet of the hook again arrives opposite
the thread . The shuttle z will have been revolved by the engagement of the
thread with its teeth and the thread o will have been looped round the
thread u.
To draw tight the stitch or twist it is desirable to give a draw back
movement to the hook which may be done by a cam P Figs. 4 and 6 acting on the
turned back end of the bar K (Fig. 6).
When a double knot or twist is required the arrangement is such that the process
of forming the knot is performed twice, the one immediate after the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
An improved apparatus for winding yarn or the like in which the yarn is wound
by a rotary guide on to a reel, these parts having relative displacement, the one
to the other, the yarn being bound into hanks by means of an upper and a lower
thread connected together substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of March 1808
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.