Improvements in Reeling Machines for Reeling Yarn.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 23rd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reeling Machines for Reeling Yarn.
We. THOMAS COLEBY of St. Ann's Square Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Yarn Agent and THOMAS GUEST and THOMAS BROOKES of the firm of Guest and
Brookes Poland Street, Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist first in applying an improved stop motion to reels so
that when a thread breaks, or runs off, the reel is stopped automatically. Wo fix
lengthways of the reel a bar having cavities, through which wires called for this
purpose drop wires-are free to move, being held up by the thread when in process
of reeling and allowed to drop when a thread breaks, the bar and wires being
substantially the same as the swivel box and drop guide wires well known in
winding frames.
Immediately below the drop wires and at a convenient distance, we place a shaft
or rod and to this we attach a suitable metal plate the length of the bar. Wben
oscillating this plate just clears the bottom of the bar first inentioned, when a wire
drops the oscillating plate is held by the wire.
We give this oscillating motion by means of a connecting rod or bar worked by
a crank or eccentric from any convenient shaft or part of the reel, this connecting
bar has a triangular slot or double incline which works on a stud in a finger or lever
fixed to the oscillating shaft, and when giving the oscillating motion the stud is lying
in the apex of the triangular slot, and the weight of the bar on the stud has sufficient
hold to oscillate the shaft, when the oscillating plate is held by the end of a dropped
wire the connecting bar being still moving (whether backward or forward) is forced.
upwards by the action of one of the inclines on the stud, and this upward motion
liberates a catch and allows the reel to be stopped by the action of a weight, spring,
or in any usual method.
Secondly, our invention consists in an arrangement to prevent the drop wires
falling when the reel is stopped, also to relieve the weight or strain upon the threads
when starting afresh. Above the first-named cavity bar we apply a plate or rod
connected with the stopping or setting on handle or otherwise, so that when the reel
stops this is brought into such a position as to sustain the drop wires until the reel is
again started.
Dated this 10th day of December 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reeling Machines for Reeling Yarn.
We THOMAS COLEBY of St. Ann's Square Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Yarn Agont and THOMAS GUEST and THOMAS BROOKES of the firm of Guest and
Brookes Poland Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster Machine Makers
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:
Our invention consists, first, in applying an improved stopping motion to reels
when a thread breaks, by the action of drop wires working in a cavity bar or swivel
box in the manner well known in winding frames.
We use an oscillating or rocking shaft worked by a connecting rod or bar having
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page_text: a to and fro or crank motion and a double incline, thus causing the reel to be stopped
quickly when a thread breaks.
We place this rocking shaft immediately below the cavity bar containing the drop
wires and to the shaft we attach a suitable metal plate which in oscillating lays hold
of a wire when it drops by the thread breaking and thus stops the reel.
And second, an arrangement to prevent the drop wires from falling when the reel
is stopped, and at same time relieving the weight or strain on the thread when
starting afrosh.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Fig. 1 represents a reel swift, with our
triangular slot connecting bar and oscillating or rocking shaft. Fig. 2 represents
the position of the cavity bar containing the drop wires and the oscillating shaft, also
the arrangement shewing the second part of our invention.
In Fig. 1, a represents a reel swift mounted in its shaft b in the usual manner,
ca pinion in the shaft driving a wheel & revolving on a stud fixed to any convenient
part of the reel framing, e is a stud fixed to the plato or arm of the wheel d on which
the connecting bar works. f is the connecting bar and as the wheel revolves it gives
a crank or, to and fro, motion to the bar or rod, g is a triangular or double incline
slot in the bar, which works on a stud / attached to the finger i fixed to the rocking
or oscillating shaft j. When the reel is working the to, and fro, motion of the bar f
gives an oscillating motion to the shaft the weight of the bar acting in the stud at
the apex of the slot, having sufficient hold to give this motion. The thread is taken
from the cop or bobbin in the usual manner, guided over a rod fixed to the reel,
down to, and through the eye of the drop wire k and up to the swift of the reel in
the usual manner.
The cavity bar / containing the drop wires is shown at Fig. 2 in its position to the
oscillating shaft, on the shaft we fix fingers to which we attach a metal plate or
finger n, this plate is immediately below the cavity bar and oscillates with the shaft j,
when a thread breaks the wire drops and stops the motion of the oscillating plate,
whether it is moving in one direction or the other, the bar f being still moving
immediately rises upwards by the action of one of the inclines and in rising stops the
reel, by the action of the pin o liberating a catch, or in any other convenient manner
according to the arrangement of apparatus used for driving the reel.
Fig. 2 shews the second part of our invention. We make the drop wires with a
projection p below the eye of the wire, leaving sufficient room for passing the thread
into the eye and to a shaft or rod 7, which we work in bearings attached in any
convenient manner to the reel we apply a plate or finger r, resting by its own weight
on the cavity bar / when the reel is working-When the reel is stopped the plate ris
raised to the position shewn in dotted lines, by the action of the ordinary apparatus
for stopping the reel or shifting the driving strap, on a finger s-or its equivalent
attached to the shaft or rod, thus preventing the wires from falling whilst the reel is
stopped.
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 :-
PETER
MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.