IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES COMMONLY CALLED REELS FOR WINDING YARNS OR THREADS INTO HANKS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Stubbs, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINES COMMONLY CALLED REELS FOR WINDING YARNS OR THREADS
INTO HANKS."
Sealed the 10th December 1872, and dated the 13th June 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Stubbs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th June 1872.
I, JOSEPH STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES COMMONLY CALLED REELS FOR WINDING YARNS
OR THREADS INTO HANKS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an arrangement whereby I am enabled to
produce hanks of yarns or threads containing definite lengths and of
equal tension when opened out for polishing or other purpose. This
I accomplish by imparting to the guide rail a continuous traversing.

page_text: motion, which causes the yarns or threads to be wound spirally upon
the swift, each winding being disposed by the side of that which was
previously deposited.
The arrangement of mechanism I propose consists of a bar to which a
sliding motion is imparted from the swift shaft by means of a pinion 5
and rack, or other ordinary mechanism. Upon this bar is an incline
which acts against a pin projecting from the guide bar, and thus the
aforesaid traversing motion is effected. I propose to make the said
incline adjustable, in order to move the guide bar quicker or slower,
and thus to alter the pitch at which the yarn or thread is wound.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Stubbs in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 13th December 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, 1
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, by Her Letters Patent,
bearing date the Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand cight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and 2
grant unto me, the said Joseph Stubbs, Her special license that I,
the said Joseph Stubbs, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Joseph Stubbs, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time. agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, 2
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES COMMONLY
CALLED REELS FOR WINDING YARNS OR THREADS INTO HANKS," upon the con-
dition, amongst others, that I, the said Joseph Stubbs, by an instrument 3
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Stubbs, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (and accompanying Drawings, that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in an arrangement whereby I am enabled to
produce hanks of yarns or threads containing definite lengths and of
equal tension, or comparatively so when opened out for polishing or
other purposes. This I effect by imparting to the guide rail a con-
tinuous traversing motion, which causes the yarns or threads to be
wound spirally on the reel, each winding being disposed by the side
of that which was previously deposited. For this purpose I cause an
incline mounted on sliding bar to act against a pin projecting from
the guide bar, and thus the aforesaid traversing motion is effected.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represent one end of a recl in
side view with my Invention adapted, and Fig. 2 is an end view thereof.
At a is the reel, and at the axis thereof, upon which is mounted
a worm c gearing into a worm wheel d, the axis of which is carried by a
bracket e attached to the frame. On the axis of the wheel is a pinion f
taking into a wheel g fast with a pinion h, which is in gear with a
toothed rack i formed on a sliding bar k, which is that usually employed
for carrying the step piece 1, the said bar being mounted so as to be
capable of sliding in the frame, as is now practiced. Upon the step
piece is mounted another piece m formed with an incline s, and capable
of being turned on a centre n, and of being kept in any desired position
by means of a tightening screw o, which passes through a circular slot
formed in the said piece m. At P is the guide rail, to which is attached
the usual piece q, having holes therein for the reception of a projecting
pin, which is shown at r in the Drawing, and the guide rail is drawn
towards the incline & by a spring t, so as to cause the said pin to bear
against it. The reel being caused to revolve a slow rotatory motion will
be imparted to the wheel d by the worm c, and from thence through the
gearing f, g, to the pinion h, which it will therefore be perceived is
constantly acting upon the rack i, so as to cause the bark to move
gradually upward. As this takes place the inclines allows the pin r,
and consequently guide rail p..to be drawn by the spring slowly and
regularly towards the right hand, and the yarns or threads are therefore
traversed upon the recl as it revolves, and the angle of the said incline is
so arranged that the coils are laid successively alongside each other, and

page_text: thus the operation continues until the whole hank is wound. The pitch
at which the yarns or threads are to be wound may be altered by
loosening the screw o, and turning the piece m upward or downward
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upon its centre n, so as to alter the angle of the incline s.
Drawing I have shewn the reel mounted on an arm, as at u, turning on
a centre, and this arm being turned lifts the axis of the reel on to a
notch, thereby elevating it and removing the worm c out of gear with
the wheel d, after which the gearing may be turned back, so as to bring
the incline back to its starting position; but this arrangement does not
constitute any part of my Invention. The ordinary steps are shewn on
the plate 7, and may be used if desired by removing the incline s.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to
be understood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part
recited Letters Patent, and for the purposes above set forth, the use of
the continuously acting incline illustrated at 8.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Stubbs, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-two.