An Improved Paper-reel.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Paper-reel.
I, WILLIAM WILSON HORN, of 151 Strand, Middlesex, Patent Agent, (a communi-
cation to me from abroad, by Edward J. Pope, and Charles E. Pope, both of
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America, Gentlemen,) do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
This my invention relates to a new and improved paper reel and it consists of a reol-
frame which takes the form of the boss of a wheel with a convenient number of arms.
At the extremity of these arms are the reels, mounted upon spindles which are
journalled in suitable bearings. The reel-frame is mounted in suitable bearings upon
the framework of the machine, and is adapted to be rotated so as to carry a reel when
full, rearward, and to bring an empty reel into position to be filled. I provide suitable
gear wheels which derive motion from a power driven pinion, and which gear-wheels
engage a pinion upon the reel spindle and cause the reel to revolve until the paper is
taken by the next reel. Suitable cutting teeth carried by a rock-shaft-fitted at one
end with a dog adapted to engage with a tripping-arm carried by the reel-frame arm
whereby the rock-shaft is revolved-clamp and cut the paper as the reel revolves
under it.
Dated this 21st day of December 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Paper-reel.
I, WILLIAM WILSON HORN, of the firm of Horn & Son, of 151 Strand, London,
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, (a com-
munication to me from abroad, by Edward J. Pope and Charles E. Pope, both of
Eau Clairo, in the County of Eau Claire, and State of Wisconsin, United States of
America, Gentlemen,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
articularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to reels for taking the paper from the calender-rolls in paper-
nills. and will be fully described hozninaitan.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Paper-reel.
J, WILLIAM WILSON HORN, of the firm of Horn & Son, of 151 Strand, London,
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, (a com-
munication to me from abroad, by Edward J. Pope and Charles E. Pope, both of
Eau Claire, in the County of Eau Claire, and State of Wisconsin, United States of
America, Gentlemen,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to reels for taking the paper from the calender-rolls in paper-
nills. and will be fully described hospinatan
In the drawings
Figure 1 is an elevation of one side of my improved reel-frame.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the opposite side.
Figure 3 is a plan view.
Figure 4 is a detail section.
Figure 5, a longitudinal section of one of the paper-reels.
Figure
6 a detail cross-section of the same.
Figures 7, 8, and 9 show modifications.
A is the base of my machine, and B is the reel-frame the shaft B' of which has
bearings at a a' on the stand. The arms of the recl-frame carry the
reels or rollers D the shafts b of which have suitable bearings in the ends of said
arms.
E is a cog-wheel that is secured at one end of the reel-frame, and this is driven by
pinion c on the shaft d by the hand-wheel or crank e, to turn the wheel after each
reel bas received its complement of paper.
Shaft carries pulley, which latter is connected by a belt K with suitable driving.
>ower. A sprocket-wheel F is fastened on the inner end of the shaft h¹ and this
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page_text: wheel carries an endless chain / which stands in position to receive each of the
pinions G, that are fixed each to an end of one of the reels D, as it is presented to it
from below and comes into engagement with pinion G just as the latter comes out of
engagement with pinion N¹, and the endless chain comes out of engagement with
each pinion G just as its successor gets in position for work.
Pulley N and its shaft N are driven by any suitable power to drive pinion N',
which lattor is always in position to receive pinions G, successively, as they are
presented from below.
Ench of the reels D is formed with a longitudinal channel B' to receive a rock-
shaft B* on which is fixed a series of slightly-curved teeth B. These rock-shafts are
each suitably journalled on the reel, and one end is shaped to receive an end of a flat
spring B, which serves as a yielding lock to prevent it from turning except at the
proper time.
One end of each shaft B³ comes outside of the head of its reel, and carries a dog B6,
and an arm B7 projects out from the adjacent bearing of each reel in the path of this
dog, so that when the empty reel begins to turn in the direction indicated by the
arrow in Figure 1 the dog will be struck by the arm and the teeth will be forced
through the paper and over in position to clamp it down on the reel.
The operation of my device is as follows:
While a reel is being filled the parts are in position as shown in Figure 2. When
a reel has been filled and it is necessary to put an empty one in place of the one filled,
the reel-frame is turned by means of the crank or hand-wheel e and the pinion of the
filled reel is lifted out of engagement with pinion N and into engagement with
endless chain. The reel now gets its motion from the chain 2, and continues to
revolve as it is lifted by the revolution of the reel-frame until the empty reel on the
next lower arm C comes up to the paper between the last-filled reel and a depressing
roll T. The arm B' now strikes the dog as the empty reel commences to revolve and
throws the teeth over, through, and on to the paper thus cutting and clamping it as
the reel revolves, and thus a filled reel is replaced by an empty one without any
cessation in the winding of the paper, and no paper is lost by the change from one
reel to the other.
The upper loop of belt h³ passes over a smooth pulley 7 the shaft of which has its
bearing on a standard L, that projects up from the standard A, and this belt has slack
enough to allow of its yielding to permit the pinions G of the reels D to describe
their circle in the revolution of the reel-frame.
In Figures 7, 8, and 9 is shown a modification of my invention, wherein for
chain his substituted a pinion M, the shaft M¹ of which is journalled in one end
of an arm M², the outer end of which is fitted loosely on the shaft B' of the
reel-frame. The outer end of shaft M¹ is also carried by an end of an arm M³,
the other end of which arm is loosely fitted on a short shaft E', one end of which
is stepped in an end of shaft B', while its other bus its bearing in a stand H.
The shaft M' also carries a pinion M, and this pinion is connected by un inter-
mediate gear wheel H³ with a pinion E on shaft E which shaft carries a
pulley E, that is connected by a belt E with a driving-power. A sliding catch m
is fitted in arm M and this catch is held over the path of the reel-frame arms
when the arm M' is in a nearly horizontal position by an inclined arm n that pro-
jects up from the stand A, which arm wedges against the inclined head of the
catch m, and when the arm M' is being lifted by one of the arms of the reel-frame
the friction between the catch and reel-frame arm serves to hold the catch over the
said reel-frame arm against the tension of a spring p, that is fixed at one end to the
arm M, while its other engages the catch-head with a tendency to draw outwardly on
the catch; but after the arm M'has been raised to an angle of about forty-five degrees.
the weight of it becomes insufficient to overcome the tension of the spring, and there-
fore the catch is withdrawn by the spring and the arm M' drops to the support P, in
position to bring the pinion M in position to mesh with the next filled reel that rises, so
that each newly-filled reel is turned until the succeeding empty one gets in position
for work.

page_text: In the modification just described, the pinion F is removed from its shaft h¹
and the described pinion N' is substituted therefor, performing the same office in its
new location that it did when mounted on shaft N' in Figure 8.
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. In a paper-reeling device, the combination, with the frame and reels and their
pinions and a fixed power-driven pinion for successively revolving said reels, of a
suitably driven chain arranged to overhang the path of each newly-filled reel
while it is rising to give place to an empty reel and to engage the pinion of said
filled reel and revolve it until the paper is taken by the next lower reel, substantially
as described.
2. The combination, with a paper-reel frame and reels carried thereby, of pinions
fixed on the shafts of said reels, a suitably-driven stationary pinion for revolving each
reel in succession when the reel-frame is at rest, and other driving connections
adapted to engage the pinion of each newly-filled reel as it is lifted by the turning
of the reel-frame to give place to an empty reel, substantially as described.
3. The combination, with a paper-reel frame, of a reel a rock shaft, and clamping
and cutting teeth carried thereby a dog secured to one end of the rock-shaft and a
tripping arm carried by the reel-frame arm and adapted by engagement with said dog
to revolve the rock-shaft and cause the teeth to clamp and cut the paper as the reel
revolves under it, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of September 1890.
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.