Improvements in Means for Protecting and Rendering More Durable the Tips or Noses of Ring Twist, Weavers', and other Bobbins and Tubes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Protecting and Rendering More Durable
the Tips or Noses of Ring Twist, Weavers', and other Bobbins
and Tubes.
1 JOSHUA HENRY WILSON of Wilson Brothers Limited, of Cornholme,
Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Bobbin Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention refers to improved means for protecting and rendering more
durable the tips or noses of ring twist, weft and other bobbins and tubes liable to
be damaged at that part in the act of doffing or at other times.
I am aware that attempts have been made to protect the nose of such bobbins
by applying a shield of metal, but such metal shields become dinged or damaged
and are apt to become loose.
According to my invention I provide a separate tip or nose made of hard wood or
of a light and hard composition such as wood fibre, woodite, vulcanite or some such
light composition or material hard enough to resist the rough knocking and usage
to which such bobbins are subjected. I turn mould or otherwise fashion tips from
the said materials and shape the upper end of the bobbin to receive the same.
secure the tips in place I use glue or other suitable cement or might use any
convenient method or means of fastening as for example in some cases I might screw
the tips on the bobbin.
To
An advantage of my invention is that tips or noses such as hereinbefore
described not only protect and strengthen the bobbins but also improve their
appearance.
Dated this 20th day of February 1894.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
Improvements in Means for Protecting and Rendering More Durable
the Tips or Noses of Ring Twist, Weavers', and other Bobbins
and Tubes.
JOSHUA HENRY WILSON of Wilson Brothers Limited, of Cornholme,
Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Bobbin 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 and
accompanying drawings
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My invention refers to improved means for protecting and rendering more
durable the tips or noses of ring twist, weft and other bobbins and tubes liable to
be damaged at that part in the act of doffing or at other times.
I am aware that attempts have been inade to protect the nose of such bobbins
by applying a shield of metal, but such shields become dinged or damaged and are
apt to become loose.
According to my invention I provide a separate tip or nose made of hard wood
or of a light and hard composition such as wood fibre, woodite, vulcanite or some
such light composition or material hard enough to resist the rough knocking and
usage to which such bobbins are subjected. I turn, mould or otherwise fashion

page_text: tips from the said material and shape the upper end of the bobbin to receive the
same. To secure the tips in place I use glue or other suitable cement or I might
use any convenient method or means of fastening as for example in some cases I might
screw the tips on the bobbins. An advantage of my invention is that tips or noses
such as hereinbefore described not only protect and strengthen the bobbins but
also improve their appearance.
To render my invention more clearly understood I have attached hereunto a
sheet of drawings illustrating my improved hard tipped bobbin.
Fig. 1 is a view of an ordinary ring twist bobbin marked a. The hard tip is
marked b. Usually I make this separate hard tip or nose b of a wood harder than
the wood composing the bobbin (1. I might however form the tip of some suitably
light and hard material such as woodite, vulcanite or some other substance or fibre
sufficiently hard to withstand knocks and rough usage. The tip may be made
and applied in a variety of ways. Five convenient methods are shown by the
enlarged sectional views Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 but I do not of course confine
myself to these. In Fig. 2 the tip is turned or formed with a stump or projection 61
which enters a recess turned to receive it in the bobbin a. The most suitable mode
of fixing the tip is to glue or cement it in position, or I might thread the stump
and recess and screw the tip into place. In Fig. 3 the tip is formed as an
annular ring which is slipped upon the reduced end of the bobbin. In Fig. 4 the
tip is shaped as a curved annular ring completely covering the end of the bobbin.
In Fig. 5 an annular projection a¹ is turned on the upper end of the bobbin a,
the said annular projection fitting into an annular recess formed in the tip b.
In Fig. 6 this arrangement is reversed an annular projection 62 being formed on
the tip b and entering an annular recess cut in the bobbin a.
These sections will serve sufficiently to show how I carry my invention into
practical effect.
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.
Protecting and rendering more durable the tips or noses of ring twist, weavers'
and other bobbins and tubes by applying thereto separately formed tips or noses
made of hard wood or of some suitably light and hard substance or composition
which will better resist knocking and rough usage, substantially as described and
as illustrated.
Dated the 31st day of October 1894.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.