Improvements in Machines for Winding Yarn.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Winding Yarn.
We, JoHN HALL, ROBERT HALL, JOHN HOWARD HALL, and OSCAR STANDRING
HALL, of Robert Hall and Sons Bury Limited, of Hope Foundry, Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this Inven-
tion to be as follows: -
Our invention relates to improvements in machines for winding weft yarn on
to tubes, bobbins or spools from reels cops or bobbins, and our improvements
consist chiefly of a novel combination and arrangement of parts.
In carrying our improvements into effect we guide the yarn from the reel,
cop or bobbin over and under drag rods or other suitable tension devices and over
the reciprocating faller by which it is guided on to the tube, bobbin or spool on
which it is to be wound. This tube, bobbin or spool is mounted on a rotating
spindle supported at two points. At the lower end the spindle is square or
rectangular in cross section and is fitted in a socket formed to receive it in a band
pulley or wharve which is fitted and free to rotate in the spindle rail and is driven
by a band from a tin roller or drum but the spindle may be driven in any other
convenient manner. At its upper extremity a button is fixed on the spindle and
near its upper end the spindle passes through a hole in a plate or is otherwise
suitably supported so as to be capable of a movement vertically in addition to
its rotary motion.
Near each spindle bobbin is a conical roller mounted and free to rotate on a stud
or pin carried by a rail.
As the bobbin, tube or spool fills the weft yarn wound thereon pressing against
the surface of the conical roller gradually forces the spindle upward until when
filled it leaves its foot step bearing and its freed end falls forward and downward
into a trough or receptacle into which the filled tubes, bobbins or spools are doffed.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1897.
We, JOHN HALL, ROBERT HALL, JOHN HOWARD HALL, and OSCAR STANDRING
HALL, of Robert Hall and Sons Bury Limited, of Hope Foundry, Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this Inven-
[Price 8d.]

page_text: tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to improvements in machines for winding weft yarn on
to tubes, bobbins or spools from reels cops or bobbins, and our improvements
consists chiefly of a novel combination and arrangement of parts.
In carrying our improvements into effect we guide the yarn from the reel,
cop or bobbin over and under drag rods or other suitable tension devices and over
the reciprocating faller by which it is guided on to the tube, bobbin or spool on
which it is to be wound. This tube, bobbin or spool is mounted on a rotating
spindle supported at two points. At the lower end the spindle is square or
rectangular in cross section and is fitted in a socket formed to receive it in a band
pulley or wharve which is fitted and free to rotate in the spindle rail and is driven
by a band from a tin roller or drum but the spindle may be driven in any other
convenient manner. At its upper extremity a button is fixed on the spindle and
near its upper end the spindle passes through a hole in a plate or is otherwise
suitably supported so as to be capable of a movement vertically in addition to
its rotary motion.
Near each spindle bobbin is a conical roller mounted and free to rotate on a stud
or pin carried by a rail.
The accompanying drawing represents a sectional end view illustrating the
application of our improvements to a machine for winding yarn from a reel on to
a tube bobbin or spool, the main part of the frame of the machine being omitted.
The yarn to be wound is in this case upon a reel 2 carried in bearings on the
frame, not shown, and on a spindle rail 3 is fitted and free to rotate a wharve 4
driven in this case by a band 5 from a tin roller 6; in the upper part of this wharve
is a rectangular socket to receive the lower end of a spindle 7 provided with a
button 8 at its upper end and this spindle is supported near its upper end in a
plate 9 carried on a rail 10 or otherwise suitably supported so as to be capable of
a movement vertically in addition to its rotary motion. A tube bobbin or spool 11
is placed upon the spindle 7 and is driven by a pin 12 in the spindle or in any
convenient manner.
Near each spindle bobbin or tube is a conical roller 13 mounted and free to
rotate on a stud or pin 14 carried by a bracket 15 secured to a rail 16. The yarn
from the reel 2 passes over and under drag rods 17, 18, or other suitable tension
devices and over a reciprocating faller 19 mounted on a rocking shaft 20 and by
which it is guided on to the tube, bobbin or spool 11 on which it is to be wound.
As the tube, bobbin or spool 11 fills the weft yarn wound thereon pressing against
the surface of the conical roller 13 gradually forces the spindle 7 upward until
when filled it leaves its footstep bearing in the spindle wharve 4 and its freed end
falls forward and downward into a trough or receptacle 21 into which the filled
tubes, bobbins or spools are doffed.
An empty tube, bobbin or spool is then placed upon each spindle which has
been doffed and the spindle is raised until its end can be replaced in the footstep
bearing in the wharve.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said In-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
In a machine for winding yarn upon tubes, bobbins or spools-
1. The combination with a spindle fitted in a rotating footstep and supported
so as to be capable of a vertical movement in addition to its rotary motion, of
a conical roller mounted and free to rotate in close proximity to said spindle sub-
stantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. The combination with the spindle 7, means for supporting and rotating
the same and the tube bobbin or spool 11 of the conical roller 13 substantially as
and for the purposes herein set forth.

page_text: 3. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts embodying
our improvements substantially as described with reference to the accompanying
drawing.
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H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT
Agents for Applicants.
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester.