IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF WINDING HOSIERY YARN, AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Howgate Greaves Warburton, of Leicester, in the County
of Leicester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF WINDING
HOSIERY YARN, AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Howgate Greaves Warburton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th September 1876.
HOWGATE GREAVES WARBURTON, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester. "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF WINDING HOSIERY YARN, AND IN APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREFOR,"
The object of this Invention is to enable hosiery yarn to be wound and trans-
mitted upon paper tubes instead of upon spools, and at the same time so to wind
the yain that it can be unwound or drawn off with the same facility as from a
spool.
Hitherto such yarn has been either wound upon a solid taper wooden spool
which had to be carried or transmitted with it, or it was wound in the form of a
solid cylinder upon a cylindrical paper tube mounted upon a cylindrical bobbin, and
then removed from the bobbin and transmitted or carried upon the taper tube,
in which latter case the cylindrical form of the ball (if we may so term it) of
yarn prevented it from being unwound or drawn off with the requisite facility and
evenness.
My improvements consist, firstly, in a method of winding the said yarn, whereby
it is wound on to a taper tube in a conical form, and consequently the yarn can be
drawn off with the same facility as from the ordinary wooden taper spool, at the
same time that the bulk and weight of the wooden spool is dispensed with and.
the expense of carriage much diminished, and the yarn is crossed backwards and
forwards in the winding in such a manner that it will not come loose, but will
retain its bulk and form as well without the spool or bobbin as with it. For this
purpose I employ a taper tube mounted upon a taper spindle which runs loosely in
two end guides and rests upon, and is driven by a taper drum to which a continuous
revolving motion is given in any convenient manner, the drum and the spindle loop
taper, in the same direction so that the axis of the drum being horizontal, the
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page_text: axle of the spindle will be inclined thereto in a degree proportioned to the amount
of taper.
The thread guide has a to-and-fro motion given to it corresponding with the
length of the tube (or rather shorter), and the consequence is that as the taper tube
is caused to revolve by friction of contact with the taper drum, the yarn is wound
on in a conical form with truncated ends, and is so crossed backwards and for-
wards in the winding that it will retain its form and bulk without coming loose at
the ends.
When a sufficient amount has been thus wound on in a taper or conical form the
tube is withdrawn from the taper spindle, and another tube substituted, and the
operation proceeds as before. These taper tubes with the conical roll of yarn
thereon may be packed and carried in the ordinary way without damage, and it
will be found that the yarn may be unwound or drawn off from them with the
greatest facility.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Howgate Greaves Warburton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th March 1877.
"IM-
HOWGATE GREAVES WARBURTON, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester.
PROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF WINDING HOSIERY YARN, AND IN APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
"
The object of this Invention is principally to enable hosiery yarn to be wound
and transmitted on paper tubes instead of upon spools, and at the same time so to
wind the yarn that it can be unwound or drawn off with the same facility as from
a spool, but the Invention may also be employed for other yarns or threads.
Hitherto hosiery yarn has been either wound upon a solid taper wooden spool
which had to be carried or transmitted with it, or it was wound in the form of a
solid cylinder upon a cylindrical paper tube mounted upon a cylindrical bobbin, and
then removed from the bobbin and transmitted or carried upon the taper tube,
in which latter case the cylindrical form of the ball (if we may so term it) of
yarn prevented it from being unwound or drawn off with the requisite facility and
evenness.
My improvements consist, firstly, in a method of winding the said yarn, whereby
it is wound on to a taper tube in a conical form, and consequently the yarn can be
drawn off with the same facility as from the ordinary wooden taper spool, at the
same time that the bulk and weight of the wooden spool is dispensed with and the
expense of carriage much diminished, and the yarn is crossed backwards and
forwards in the winding in such a manner that it will not come loose but will
retain its bulk and form as well without the spool or bobbin as with it.
Secondly. My Invention consists in a peculiar arrangement of mechanism for
effecting the winding of the yarn or thread in the manner described.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed
or carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly under-
stood I have annexed hereto two Sheets of Drawings illustrativo thereof, and have
marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in
the following explanation thereof:-
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawings represents a front olevation of part of a winding
frame made according to my Invention; Fig. 2, a plan view, and Fig. 3, a transverse
section of the same.
a, a, is the framework of the machine supporting in suitable bearings two longi-
tudinal shafts b, b, which are geared together by the spur wheels c, c, one of the
shafts being driven by means of a band or strap passing round the driving pulley
d, d. I employ a series of taper tubes mounted upon taper spindles e, e, which run

page_text: loosely in two inclined end guides f, f, and rest upon and are driven by taper drums
9. g, keyed on the longitudiual shafts b, b. The drums g, g, and the spindles e, e,
both taper in the same direction, so that the axis of the drums g, g, being horizontal,
the axles of the spindles e, e, will be inclined thereto in a degree proportioned to the
amount of taper (see Fig. 1). The thread guides h, h, are fixed to a rail i, i, which
has a to-and-fro motion given to it corresponding with the length of the tube (or
rather shorter) by means of a bowl k running in the groove of the cam 1, 1, and the
consequence is that as the paper tubes are caused to revolve by friction of contact
with the taper drums g, g; the yarn is wound on in a conical form with truncated
ends, and is so crossed backwards and forwards in the winding that it will retain its
form and bulk without coming loose at the ends When a sufficient amount has
been thus wound on in a taper or conical form the tube is withdrawn from
the taper spindle e, e, and another tube substituted and the operation proceeds as
before.
The form in which the yarn is wound is seen clearly at Figs. 1 and 2, and the
form of the thread guide is shown at Figs. 1, 2, 3. These taper tubes with the
conical rolls of yarn thereon may be packed and carried in the ordinary way without
damage, and it will be found that the yarn may be unwound or drawn off from
them with the greatest facility.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention,―
First. The method of winding the yarn or thread upon a taper tube in a conical
forin, substantially as and for the purposes described.
And, Secondly. I claim the construction of the apparatus employed for Buch
purpose, as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings annexed, or any
mere modification or imitation thereof constructed and operating in substantially
the same or a similar manner.
And especially I claim (a) the conical spindles e, and the conical drums g, g,
constructed and operating as described. (b) the thread guide h, h, constructed and
operating as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Howgate Greaves Warburton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
HOWGATE GREAVES WARBURTON. (L.S.)
HOWGATE GREAVES WARBURTON. (L.S.)