IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS FOR FOLDING, TIEING, AND LABELLING HANKS OF YARN OR THREAD
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Brook, junior, of Meltham Mills, in the
County of York, Thread Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
ARRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS FOR FOLDING, TIEING, AND LABELLING HANKS
OF YARN OR THREAD."
Sealed the 11th April 1860, and dated the 4th November 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Brook at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th November 1859.
I, CHARLES BROOK, junior, of Meltham Mills, in the County of York,
Thread Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS FOR FOLDING, TIEING, AND
LABELLING HANKS OF YARN OR THREAD," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to arrangements and mechanism for facilitating the
folding, tieing, and labelling of hanks of yarn or thread, and by which these
operations can be uniformly, neatly, and rapidly effected. My Invention
consists of two frames, in which several hanks are operated upon at the same
time. One frame (No. 1) is formed by a bar having along its length, at equal
distances apart, as many nippers as there are hanks to be tied; this bar
carries an excentric shaft, which, when rotated will open all the nippers

page_text: simultaneously; and it also carries at each end two hooks, one of them (a)
fixed, the other (b) sliding, being acted upon by a spring, which forces it in a
direction from the fixed hook; this No. 1 frame is carried in notches in the
sides of No. 2, which is a square frame, placed in an inclined position; it is
provided with two hooks (c and d) on each side, which either slide or turn on
pivots, each hook being acted upon by a spring or weight. The hooks c are
about the lengths of the hanks in distance from the hooks a, the hooks d are
midway between the hooks a and c, and the hooks 6 on the ends of the frame
No. 1, are midway between the hooks d and a. The object of the spring
action upon the hooks is to keep the banks tight, as the hooks are used for
holding the ends of the rods, upon which the hanks are placed or folded. The
operations with these frames consist in placing a label within each nipper on
No. 1 frame, then in passing two rods through the hanks to be folded, the
ends of one rod being held by the fixed hooks a on No. 1 frame, and the ends
of the other rod by the hooks c on No. 2 frame. The hanks are now
arranged so that each hank comes over a nipper or label; then a rod is placed
across the hanks and held by the hooks d on frame No. 2, when the rod held
by the hooks c is brought to the hooks (a), thus folding all the hanks round
the rod held by the hooks d. Another rod is then placed across the hanks,
and held by the hooks b on the frame No. 1, and the rod held by the hooks d
is then brought to the hooks a, and thus the hanks are made four-fold. No. 1
frame may now be removed from No. 2 frame, carrying with it the rods and
hanks, and may be placed on supports till the tieing is made which secures
the label to each hank, then the excentric shaft is turned, which releases all
the labels from the nippers, when the rods may be taken from the frame, and
the banks passed off the ends of them. The operations described are repeated
for each set of hanks to be folded, tied, and labelled.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Brook in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BROOK, junior, of Meltham Mills, in the County of York, Thread Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord

page_text: One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Brook, Her special license that I, the said Charles
Brook, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or such others as I,
the said Charles Brook, 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, 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
"IMPROVED ARRANGEMENTS AND APPARATUS FOR FOLDING, TIEING, AND LABELLING
HANKS OF YARN OR THREAD," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Brook, by an instrument 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Brook, 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 relates to arrangements and mechanism for facilitating the
folding, tieing, and labelling of hanks of yarn or thread, and by which these,
operations can be uniformly, neatly, and rapidly effected.
The accompanying Drawing exhibits three views of the arrangements and
mechanism above referred to, Fig. 1 being a cross sectional elevation of the
two frames employed when used together, Fig. 2 a plan view of one side of
the said frames when together, and Fig. 3 a sectional elevation of one of the
frames by itself. No. 1 frame is formed by a bar a having along its length, at
equal distances apart, as many nippers as there are hanks to be tied at one
time. Each nipper is formed by a concave surface b and a piston rod (6');
which slides up and down in a hole in the bar (a), the block or piston U² is
secured to the rod b¹ by a screw, and the rod (6') is surrounded by an
helical spring (6), which brings the under side of the projection from the
upper end of the piston rod (b') against the concave surface before mentioned,
between which surfaces the ticket (c) is held, as shewn. The front part of the
hole in which the piston block (62) slides is slotted to allow the screw (63) to.
pass when the nipper is opened to place the ticket, the head of the screw (6³)
forming a handle for this purpose. Each end of No. 1 frame carries a hook d

page_text: which is immoveable, and another hook e, which is screwed in a sliding piston
arrangement (e¹), the hook (e) passing through a slot in the socket part (*).
The sliding piston (e¹) is acted upon by an helical spring (e³), as shewn in
Fig. 3.
The No. 1 frame also carries in bearings (e) from the socket parts (e) an
excentric shaft f, which passes under the blocks or pistons (62) of all the
nippers, and it is by turning this shaft by the handle (f) that the nippers are
simultaneously opened. No. 1 frame, when used with No. 2 frame, rests on
ledges on No. 2 frame, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
No. 2 frame is placed in an inclined position, being secured to a table (g)
by screws at its lower side, and to an upright stand fixed to the table at the
upper side.
No. 2 frame has four lever hooks upon it, two on each side
(h and j); each of them is centered on a pivot (h' and ¹), secured in the side
of the frame. The lower end of each lever hook is acted upon by an helical
spring (and j), arranged as shewn, and pins (h³ and j³) are provided to
prevent the hooks from being pulled too far by the springs when the tension
of the springs is not acting upon the bars passing through the hanks to be
folded. In using these arrangements, tickets (c) are placed in each pair of
nippers (there are supposed to be 12 of them) of No. 1 frame, which is then
placed on No. 2 frame. Two rods are then passed through the twelve hanks
to be folded, tied, and labelled, the ends of one rod being held by the fixed
hooks d on No. 1 frame, and the ends of the other rod by the books (h) on
No. 2 frame. Each bank is then arranged to come over a pair of nippers,
and a third rod is then placed over the hanks, and held by the hooks j, on
No. 2 frame, when the rod from the hooks h is brought to the hooks d, and
then a fourth rod is placed on the hanks, and is held by the hooks e, when the
rod from the hooks j is brought to the fixed hook d. These foldings are
illustrated in dotted line on Fig. 1. No. 1 frame may now be removed and
placed on two brackets (k), screwed to the table, so that the hanks may be
tied, the act of tieing securing the ticket or label, as shewn in Fig. 3. When
the tieing is completed, the shaft f is turned, and the labels are simultaneously
released from the nippers, and the rods may be removed from the hooks and
withdrawn from the hanks. The operations described are repeated for each
set of hanks to be folded, tied, and labelled. One No. 2 frame is sufficient
for two or more No. 1 frames, as while one lot of hanks is being tied, another
lot may be folded.
I have now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which it may be carried into effect, and wish it to be understood

page_text: that I claim the use of arrangements and mechanism, substantially as herein-
before described, for facilitating the folding, tieing, and labelling of hanks of
yarn or thread, and particularly the arrangements and mechanism for holding
and simultaneously releasing labels or tickets to be secured to the hanks of
yarn or thread.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Brook, junior, have hereunto set
my band and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
CHARLES BROOK, JUN. (L.S.)