Improvements in Guide Reels or Rollers and in the Spindle Driving Rollers used in Machines for Spinning, Doubling, and Winding Cotton and other Yarns.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 30th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Guide Reels or Rollers and in the Spindle Driving
Rollers used in Machines for Spinning, Doubling, and Winding
Cotton and other Yarns.
We, JOSEPH HETHERINGTON STUBBS, of Mill Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, and JAMES BURTINSHAW, of Lever Street Tin Works,
Manchester aforesaid, Tinplate Worker, 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 form of reel or roller over which the
yarn or band passes. These were formerly made of wood but we now find that
they can be made of sheet metal without any objectionable features.
The invention consists essentially in constructing the reel or roller from sheet
metal stamped or drawn in two pieces one piece forming the body and one end
of the reel or roller and the other piece the other end and also in applying to the
ends of the reels or rollers a disc or strip of cardboard or other soft or non-conduct-
ing material to prevent vibration and deaden or destroy all noise.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. Sectional elevation of guide reel or roller over which the yarn passes
constructed according to our invention.
Fig. 2. End elevation of same.
Fig. 3. Sectional elevation showing a modified form of construction.
Fig. 4. Sectional elevation of "tin" driving roller of mules made in sections
(reduced scale).
Fig. 5. End elevation of same.
Referring to Figs. 1 to 3. The reel over which the yarn passes is constructed of
two pieces the body A and one end B being drawn or stamped in one piece from a
disc of sheet metal and the other end Cattached thereto by bending or spinning
the edge c thereof over the edge a of the body A.
Inside the ends B and C are secured two discs or strips D) of cardboard or other
material non-conducting to sound. The cardboard or non-conducting material is
secured as in Fig. 2 by tongues or points punched out of the ends B and C of the
reel which pass through the cardboard. Or it may be secured as in Fig. 3 by
being inserted in a groove c¹ at one end and being clamped between the body A
and end C at the other end.
Fig. 4 shows a long cylinder or roller for driving the spindles such as used in
mules and other spinning frames made up of a number of sections, to the disc E
in the end of each section the cardboard or non-conducting material D is attached
by the tongues or pins e stamped out thereof or in other convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1
sheet metal reel or roller constructed of two parts stamped or drawn.

page_text: with discs or strips of non-conducting material attached thereto to deaden sound
substantially as described.
2. In a sheet metal roller or reel the use or combination of a disc strip or piece
of cardboard or other similar non-conducting material to deaden or destroy sound
substantially as described.
3. A sheet metal reel or roller substantially as described and shown with
reference to Figs. 1 to 3, or Figs. 4 to 5.
Dated the 22nd day of April 1898
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.