Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 4th Mar., 1887.
We JOSHUA HENRY WILSON Bobbin Manufacturer, and JOHN GREENWOOD,
Foreman both of Cornholme Todmorden in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements have reference to flanged headed bobbins called plank end, and
broad ended hobbins, used in preparing doubling, warping winding, fibrous substances
and in all textile trades, also in wire working and cord or rope making.
The heads or flanges of such bobbins are made sometimes of one thickness of wood,
and sometimes of two or more pieces or thickness, glued together, the grain of the
separate pieces crossing each other, such flanges or heads are very liable to break in
ordinary working. The object of our invention is to strengthen and render durable
the flanges or heads of such bobbins, which we do as follows:-We cut or turn in the
lathe, one or more grooves in the periphery or edge of the flange or flanges, we then
form the edge into the required shape by winding, or wrapping into the grooves soft
hemp or other fibrous materials, with glue or other cement, thereby giving increased
strength and durability to the bobbin.
We accomplish the same result by means of Tape, narrow strips of fabric, Hide,
Wire, metal strips plain or flanged, wrapped or compressed into the groove or grooves
in such a manner as to bind the timber composing the flange together.
PETER MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: We JOSHUA HENRY WILSON Bobbin Manufacturer, and JOHN GREENWOOD,
Foreman, both of Cornholme, Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster 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 :-
Our improvements have reference to flanged headed bobbins called plank end and
board ended bobbins, used in preparing, doubling, warping, winding fibrous substances,
and in all textile trades, also in wire working and cord or rope making.
The heads or flanges of such bobbins are made sometimes of one thickness of wood,
and sometimes of two or more pieces or thickness glued together the grain of the
separate pieces crossing each other, such flanges or heads are very liable to break in
ordinary working. The object of our invention is to strengthen and render durable
the flanges or heads of such bobbins which we do as follows-We cut or turn in the
lathe one or more grooves in the periphery or edge of the flange or flanges, we then
wrap.or compress metal strips plain or flanged into the groove or grooves in such a
manner as to bind the timber composing the flange together.
In the following sheet of drawings the same letters refer to similar parts as shewn
in the different figures. Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 represent in section flanges of bobbins,
which may be made of one or more separate pieces of timber, a represents the flange
6 the grooves cut or turned in the flange and c the metal strips shewn in the grooves of
the flange.
The strips may be made in one piece without a joint, like a hoop and compressed
into the groove or grooves of the flange, or they may be made in longitudinal lengths
and wrapped into the groove the ends to be soldered or brazed together or otherwise
secured to the flange to form a joint.
Fig. 1 represents a bobbin flange with a strip of metal, the section of which is of a
circular form, one edge of which is wrapped or compressed into the groove of the
flange, the other edge of the strip forming one corner or edge of the bobbin flange.
Fig. 2. represents a bobbin flange with a strip of metal of a similar sectional form to
that of fig. 1, the edges of which are wrapped or compressed into the grooves bb of
the flange.
Fig. 3 represents the flange of a bobbin into the groove of which is wrapped one
edge or flange of a strip of metal formed with two flanges, the other flange of the
metal strip, forming one corner or edge of the bobbin flange.
Fig. 4 represents the flange of a bobbin into the grooves bb of which is wrapped the
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page_text: two edges or flanges of a strip of metal formed with two flanges similar to that of
fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
The making of flanges of bobbins with strips of metal whether made in one piece
without a joint or otherwise, wrapped or compressed into a groove or grooves made in
the periphery of the flange, as, and for the purpose described.
PETER MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester,
Agent for Applicants.