Improvements in and connected with Spooling Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891'
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Spooling Machines.
I, HENRY DAVENPORT of the firm of Wardle & Davenport, of Leek in the
County of Stafford, Silk Manufacturers, 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:-
In the case of defective spooling it is at present difficult if not impossible
to identify the machine or operator to which or to whom the defect may be
attributable and the defective work is thus continued when, if the blame could be
readily brought home, the defect might be stopped at once and the proper remedies
applied.
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby defective spooling may
be traced to its source without delay and with certainty. For this purpose I mark
upon each spool or reel whilst it is in the machine, some distinctive letter figure or
device, a different letter figure device or combination of one or more of them being
employed for each machine or for each operative.
In carrying out our invention, we form or secure upon that part of the knocking-
off lever, that is to say, of the lever which comes into contact with the spool in the
act of removing it from the spindle, a die stamp or other equivalent means by
which the mark may be made upon the spool. In the act of removing the spools,
the die or stamp is brought by the lever into contact with the spool which is
thereby impressed or marked with the means for identification.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner my said invention may be
carried into practical effect.
In these drawings,
Figure 1 is an end elevation and
Figure 2 is a front view of the part of an ordinary hand spooling machine to
which these improvements relate.
Figure 3 shews a front and side view respectively of the lever by means of which
the spools are removed from the spindle in the machine illustrated by the Figures 1
and 2.
Figure 4 illustrates in front and side view respectively the lever which is used
for knocking off the spools in a "Smith spooling machine" and other machines of a
similar type.
In each of the figures A is the knocking-off lever, that is to say the lever by
means of which the spools are forced off the spindles after they have been wound.
B is the die or stamp formed or secured upon the lever A in such a position and in
such a manner that when the lever is operated to remove the spool C, the die or
stamp B will be brought into forcible contact with the end of the spool and mark
or impress it with the figure or other character or device upon the die, thus pro-
viding means for the identification of the operative and machine engaged in the
winding of each spool.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. The combination with the knocking off lever of a spooling machine, that is to
say with the lever by means of which the spools are removed, of a stamp or die,
substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter described.

page_text: 2. The hereinbefore described means for and method of identifying spools or
reels wound in a spooling machine, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 26th day of June A.D. 1891.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.