IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BUILDING COPS IN WINDING MACHINES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Gaskell, of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
BUILDING COPS IN WINDING MACHINES."
Sealed the 5th November 1867, and dated the 8th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Gaskell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th May 1867.
I, JAMES GASKELL, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR BUILDING COPS IN WINDING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
In the pirn or tube-winding machine instead of employing the ordinary
conical tubes in connection with a heart motion for forming the cops I use for
each cop a spindle mounted with a pirn or tube, on which I build the cop, by
means of the heart motion working in connection with an ordinary cop
builder, and this arrangement may also be employed for building cops in a
throstle frame.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Gaskell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
GASKELL, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Gaskell, Her special license that I, the said James Gaskell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Gaskell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR BUILDING COPS IN WINDING MACHINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Gaskell, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Gaskell, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
:-
In the pirn or tube-winding machine instead of employing the ordinary
conical tubes in connection with a beart motion for forming the cops, I use
for each cop a spindle mounted with a pirn or tube, on which I build the cop,
by means of the heart motion working in connection with an ordinary cop
builder, and this arrangement may also be employed for building cops in a
throstle frame.
These improvements will be clearly understood by the following particular
description thereof, reference being had to the figures and letters on the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Figs. 1 and 2 are end and front
elevations of a winding frame arranged according to my improvements, and

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UT the parts drawn about
In the end frames a, b, there are bearings, in which works the shaft c.
carrying the fast and loose pulleys d, e, the tin drum f, and the change
pinion g, which pinion gears into the toothed wheel h gearing into the large
toothed wheel i fixed to a short shaft ; working in standards fixed to the end
frame b, and carrying the heart k for giving to-and-fro motion to the bar 7.
To the end frames are fixed longitudinal rails m, n, for carrying the ordinary
mule or winding machine spindles o, having wharves p communicating by
bands with the tin drum f. The front part of the frame is adapted for
winding doubled yarns on tubes in the form of cops, and the back part of the
frame is adapted for winding cops on tubes from hanks or bobbius. To the
bar is fixed a cop builder r of the ordinary construction for acting on the
levers, connected by the rod t to the lever u fixed to the shaft v, and con-
nected by a link w to the lever a fixed to the shaft y. To the shaft v are
fixed levers a', b', having slots which pass over studs fixed to vertical rods c¹
working in guides formed in the rails m, n, and to the vertical rods is fixed a
plate d', Figs. 1, 2, and 4, in which is fixed a ring e¹ for each spindle, and on
each ring there is a traveller f1, as seen about full size in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7.
On the table of the frame there are supports g¹, h', ', carrying bobbins k', the
support g also carrying the arms for holding the rod and guide pulley's m¹.
To the shaft y are fixed two or more levers n¹ carrying a faller wire, and at the
back there are swifts o¹ for carrying the banks from which the cops are to be
formed. For doubling and forming cops the yarns on the bobbins are first
passed over the pulleys m', or between rollers, then in the inside of the
traveller f, and afterwards attached to the tubes on the spindles. The
machine is then put in motion, the tin drum f revolving and giving motion to
the spindles, and the heart k revolving, giving to-and-fro motion to the builder,
and up-and-down motion to the levers 8, u, b', the plate d', and rings and
travellers e, f, the said travellers constituting the drags for enabling the
yarns when doubled to be wound on the tubes. The builder is shifted in the
usual manner by moving a pin and nut acted upon by a screw having a
ratchet wheel moved one way by a projection fixed to a frame end, and the other
way by a weight. The lever s is moved upwards by the builder r, and down-
wards by the weight p', and causes the doubled yarns to be wound on the
tubes in the form of cops. The lever x moves simultaneously with the lever u,
and raises the faller wire by the action of the builder, and the yarns from the
banks are wound on the tubes in the form of cops. The frame is so arranged
that it can Le adapted not only for winding cops on tubes, but also be employed

page_text: for winding yarns or threads on bobbins in the usual manner, for when the
link wis disconnected from the lever u and the lever x connected to a vertical
rod having its lower end resting on the heart, an up-and-down motion can be
given to the faller wire adapted to winding on bobbins. It will be seen that
in the doubling and winding on the spindles perform the office of doubling,
and the friction of the travellers the winding on, and the effect will be similar
if a yarn has to be spun from two or more rovings, and therefore it is
evident that certain parts of this Invention can be applied to throstle frames.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I lay no claim to the heart motion, builder, spindles, and tubes, and the
rings and travellers taken separately; but what I do claim is,-
First, the arrangement of machinery or apparatus, as shewn and described,
for winding doubled or single yarns on tubes in the form of cops.
And, secondly, the employment of the lifting and falling plate with its fixed
rings and revolving travellers in connection with the cop builder to winding
and throstle frames.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Gaskell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named James Gaskell, in
the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JAMES GASKELL.
(L.S.)