Improvements in Machines for Balling Yarn or Thread.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1899
Complete Specification Left. 14th Apr., 1900-Accepted. 20th Aug. 1900
Date of ApplicatioI, CUL July, lo
Complete Specification Left. 14th Apr., 1900-Accepted. 20th Aug. 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Balling Yarn or Thread.
We, WALTER MCGEE and DAVID MCGEE, both of the Firm of Walter McGee
and Son, Engineers, Paisley, Renfrewshire, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machines for winding yarn or thread into balls and
it has for its object to provide, in conjunction with the thread cutting mechan-
ism of such balling machines, mechanical appliances for drawing the cut end
of the thread within the convolutions of the ball before the latter is removed
from the winding spindle whereby the time, labour and expense involved in so
fixing the thread end by hand are avoided.
To that end we secure upon the bracket support of the thread cutter provided
for each ball spindle a guide wherein is fitted to slide cross-wise a rod or bar
carrying adjustably thereon a needle provided with an eye and bent or directed
towards the cutter. The bar with the needle is reciprocated or pressed inwards
by a wedge or cam piece carried by the sliding cutter bar which is actuated in
the usual way from a hand lever, and upon the sliding cutter is secured a hook
or crochet needle which as it moves forward with the cutter bar is arranged to
enter the eye of the bent needle.
In the operation of the device when the thread ball has been wound the
cutter is actuated by the hand lever to cut the thread and by the movement of
the cam piece thereby effected the bent needle is pressed through the outer
convolutions of the ball thread. The crochet hook then passes through the
needle eye whereupon the flyer of the balling machine is moved round to lay
the thread across the hook which on being drawn back on the return movement
of the cutter mechanism engages the thread as it is cut and draws the cut end
through the eye of the needle. The movements of the needle and hook being
suitably timed the needle is then retracted and draws the cut end of the thread
with it through the outer thread convolutions and leaves it in the ball just
before the latter is doffed from the winding spindle.
One of the ball ending appliances is provided for each winding spindle and
they are all operated simultaneously by the hand lever which operates the
cutters.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,.
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Falling Yarn or Thread.
We, WALTER MCGEE and DAVID MCGEE, both of the Firm of Walter McGee
and Son, Engineers, Paisley, Renfrewshire, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to machines for winding yarn or thread into balls and it
has for its object to provide, in conjunction with the thread cutting mechanism
of such balling machines mechanical appliances for drawing the cut end of the
thread within the convolutions of the ball before the latter is removed from the
winding spindle whereby the time, labour and expense involved in so fixing
the thread end by hand are avoided.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 being a
view of the frame of a machine for balling yarn or thread showing the im-
provements applied thereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are plans to a larger scale of the
mechanical appliance in two different positions, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of
Fig. 2 taken in the direction of the arrows, Fig. 2. Fig 5 is a modification
of a detail hereinafter referred to.
In carrying out the invention, we secure upon the bracket support A of the
thread cutter B provided for each ball spindle a guide A¹ wherein is fitted to
slide cross-wise a rod or bar D carrying adjustably thereon a needle E pro-
vided with an eye E and bent or directed towards the cutter B. The bar D
with the needle is reciprocated or pressed inwards by a wedge or cam piece F
carried by the sliding cutter bar B which is actuated in the usual way from a
hand lever, and upon the sliding cutter B is secured a hook or crochet needle G
which as it moves forward with the cutter bar B is arranged to enter the eye
of the needle E.
The
In the operation of the device when the thread ball X has been wound the
cutter is actuated by a cam H on a shaft provided with a hand wheel, as shown
at Fig. 1, to bring the cutter mechanism into position to cut the thread and
by the movement of the cam pieces F thereby effected the needle E is pressed
through the outer convolutions of the ball thread, as shown at Fig. 2, the
crochet hook G at the same operation passing through the needle eye.
flyer of the balling machine then moves to lay the thread across the hook G
which on being drawn back on the return movement of the cutter mechanism
engages the thread as it is cut and draws the cut end through the eye of the
needle E. The movements of the needle E and hook G being suitably timed
the needle E is then retracted clear of the ball X to the position shown at
Fig. 3, drawing the cut end of the thread with it through the outer thread
convolutions and leaving it in the ball just before the latter is doffed from the
winding spindle Y.
One of the ball ending appliances is provided for each winding spindle and
they are all operated simultaneously by the hand wheel and by the cam H
which operates the cutters.
Instead of securing upon each cutter bar B a cam piece F, the same purpose
can be served by the provision of a rotating cam G, as shown at Fig. 5, having
a groove in its periphery similar in shape to the slot in the cam piece F, this
groove acting on a pin or roller on the end of a single transverse shaft D carry-
ing all the eye pointed needles E employed in the machine.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: -
1. In a machine for balling yarn or thread, the arrangement of mechanical
appliances for securing the cut end of the thread within the ball, substantially
as described.
2. In a machine for balling yarn or thread, the combination with the thread
cutting mechanism of a mechanically operated hook and eye pointed needle for
automatically drawing the cut end of the thread or yarn through the outer con-
volutions of the ball and leaving the end therein, substantially as described.
3. In a machine for balling yarn or thread, the combination with the thread
cutting mechanism, of a hook secured to the cutter bar, a cam piece also
secured thereon, a transverse sliding bar actuated by said cam piece, and a
needle adjustably secured to the sliding bar and having its eye directed towards
the cutter bar, and adapted to be entered by said hook, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated thi 101
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicants.