IMPROVEMENTS IN BALLING MACHINES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Barbour, of Danesfort, Belfast, and James Barbour,
of Falls Foundry, Belfast, Ireland, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BALLING MACHINES."
Scaled the 7th November 1876, and dated the 10th May 187
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Barbour and James
Barbour at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th May 1876.
Samuel Barbour, of Danesfort, Belfast, and JAMES BARBOUR, of Falls Foundry,
Belfast, Ireland. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALLING MACHINES."
These improvements relate to machines for making balls or self-contained parcels
of yarn, thread, twine, or cordage, and consist in giving a varying speed to both the
spindle upon which the ball is made and the flyer that winds the yarn thereon.
The speed of both these principal movers is varied simultaneously, but each in a
different ratio and with each layer of yarn by a combination of expanding pullies
and discs with frictional runners thereon, so that the yarn or material being wound
is taken from the bobbin or other yarn holder at an uniform speed.
The spindle on which the ball is formed decreases in speed as the hall increases
in size, and the flyer also decreases in speed but in a different proportion, and thus
cach coil of thread can be placed alongside its predecessor as close as is desired.
The variation in speed of both parts is effected by the movement of a lever by
the attendant who has all the motions thoroughly under control so that no stoppage
or interruption of the work is required to change from one speed to another.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said Samuel Barbour and James Barbour in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th November 1876.
SAMUEL BARBOUR of Danefort, Belfast, and JAMES BARBOUR, of Falls Foundry,
Belfast, Ireland. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALLING MACHINES."
These improvements relate to machines for making balls or self-contained parcels
of yarn, thread, twine, or cordage, and consist in giving a varying speed both to the
spindle upon which the ball is made and to the flyer that winds the yarn thereon.
The manner in which this is accomplished will be understood on reference to the
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page_text: following description and the Drawings annexed thereto, wherein the same letters
and figures of reference always apply to the same parts.
The Drawings consist of three views of a double machine for making balls with
these improvements applied, Fig. 1 being an elevation from the front or one of the
working sides; Fig. 2, an end elevation; and Fig. 3, a top view or plan.
a is a slowly rotating spindle on which the ball b is formed by the winding of the
thread b¹ from the bobbin b or other holder, which thread is carried through the
hollow spindle. The angle at which the axes of the flyer c and spindle a are set
to each other determines, as is well understood, the length of the ball b, and this
angle is adjustable by the attendant as in balling machines of the ordinary con-
struction by a handle d attached to the frame d' that carries the spindle a and its
driving gear.
The peculiar feature of this Invention is that the speed at which the flyer cand
spindle a rotate is gradually decreased as the ball b increases in size by the attendant
pressing with the foot upon a pedal lever e which is fast upon the shaft e¹ that has
a lever on it connected by a rod e³ to another leverf carried on a fixed centre f¹
in the framing g of the machine, which lever f as the ball b increases in size
diminishes the diameter of the driving cones f by opening them, and increases the
diameter of the driven cones f3 by closing them. This movement of the cones will
lessen the speed of the shaft f to which is keyed a series of grooved pulleys f³ that
drive the flyer c by corresponding pulleys c¹. In addition to diminishing the speed
of the flyer by this movement the shaft f which carries the driven cones f has on
it a pulley or runner which is free to move endwise on the shaft f', to which it is
connected by a feather and groove. This pulley or runner is guided in its position
on the shaft by a frame or fork that carries another runner or pulley h², and
between these two pulleys or runners hand is a disc i which the pulleys or runners
h and he drive at a further gradually diminishing speed, for not merely does the
driving runner diminish in speed as the cones 3 on the shaft increase in size
but the same lever f is connected to the frame or fork ¹ by a rod ³, and so the
pulleys or runners h, h², that drive the disc i are moved outwards from its centre
and so the speed of this disc i is gradually reduced in an increasing proportion over
the diminishing speed of the shaft that carries the driving runner and the
grooved pulley f5 for driving the flyer c.
The disc i drives the spindle a on which the ball is formed by means of bevil
wheels and shafts, and a pair of grooved pulleys a,.a. Thus the spindle a on
which the ball b is formed decreases in speed as the ball bincreases in size, and the
flyer c also decreases in speed but in a different proportion while placing each coil
of thread b' alongside its predecessor as close as is desired.
The variation in speed of both the spindle a and flyer c is effected by the move-
ment by the attendant of one lever e, he having all the motions thoroughly under
control, so that no stoppage or interruption of the work is required to change from
one speed to another.
Having now set forth the nature of our Invention of "Improvements in Balling
Machines," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, we wish it
to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent we claim, the
arrangement of mechanism above described, or any mere modification thereof, for
varying simultaneously the speeds of the spindle and flyer in balling machines
during the formation of the ball whether such speeds vary in similar or diverging
proportions.
In witness whereof, we the said Samuel Barbour and James Barbour, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, the Eighth day of November, in the year
One thousand night bundrod und seventy-six
SAM BARBOUR.
(L.S.)
JAMES BARBOUR. (L.S.)