IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR REELING AND TIEING-UP HANKS OR SKEINS OF YARN OR THREAD
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Coleby, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Commission Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR REELING AND TIEING-UP HANKS
OR SKEINS OF YARN OR THREAD."
Sealed the 3rd January 1873, and dated the 17th October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Coleby at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th October 1872.
I, THOMAS COLEBY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Com-
mission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR REELING AND TIEING-UP
HANKS OR SKEINS OF YARN OR THREAD," to be as follows:-
The machine is constructed to reel 40 or other convenient number of
hanks in sections of 10 hanks each, or less, or more, according to the
fineness of the yarn and size of the banks required, and each section is
so driven that it can be started and stopped independently of the others.
I cause the swift of each section to revolve on a fixed centre or pivot

page_text: to prevent vibration and facilitate the doffing; or each swift may
revolve on its own axle and be removed for doffing if more convenient.
Each section of the reel is driven separately by a band acted upon by a
tension pulley, or by gearing, or by friction, whether flat or conical, so
as to enable the reeler to vary and adjust the speed of the swift at any
moment, and to enable one section to be stopped without stopping the
others.
The apparatus for ticing-up the hanks or skeins consists of one or
more plates or bars with serrated edges, or other equivalents which are
either attached to the reel or used separately from it, to separate and
arrange the leas or other divisions of the hank, and facilitate the
insertion of the lea band and ticing-up of the hank. The lea band is
inserted by an instrument or small tool adapted to pass the band
between the leas.
The swift is stopped when a yarn or thread breaks by means of a
self-acting stop motion similar to the weft-stop motion of a loom, or
like the stop motion of a doubling frame, or other equivalent con-
trivance.
the fox timing-un the banks or skeins and the self-acting
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Coleby in the Great Seal Patent Office
on, the 17th April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
COLEBY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,, Commission Agent, 1
send' greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her licirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Coleby, Her special licence that I,,
the said Thomas Coleby; my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Thomas Coleby, my executors, administrators,

page_text: 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 Ircland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND
APPARATUS FOR REELING AND TIEING-UP HANKS OR SKEINS OF YARN OR THREAD,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Coleby, my
executors or administrators, 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 Thomas Coleby, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
:-
The machine is constructed to recl forty or other convenient number
of hanks in sections of ten hanks each, or less, or more, as may be
required, and each section is so driven that it can be started and
stopped independently of the others. I cause the swift of cach section
to revolve on a fixed centre spindle or pivot, this facilitates the doffing;
or each swift may be made fixed to and revolve on an axle if in any
case it be found more convenient. Each section of the reel is driven
separately by a band acted upon by a tension pulley, or by gearing, or
by friction, or by any well known mechanical means; by which one
section can be stopped without stopping the others.
The apparatus for ticing-up the hanks or skeins consists of plates or
bars with serrated edges, or other equivalents which are either attached
to the reel or used separately from it to separate and arrange the leas
or other divisions of the hank, and facilitate the insertion of the lea
band and ticing up of the hank. The lea band may be inserted by
an instrument or small tool adapted to pass the band between the leas
or by the finger.
The swift may be stopped when a yarn or thread breaks by means
of an improved self-acting stop motion, consisting of two revolving
rollers and a stop as will be more particularly described hereafter.

page_text: The apparatus for ticing-up the hanks or skeins and the self-acting
stop motion are applicable to recling machines of overy description.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, and readily
carried into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters
marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is an end clevation drawn partly in section; Fig. 2 is a
front clevation; and Fig. 3 a plan of my improved machine for
recling yarn.
In the machine I am now going to describe there are four swifts, each
capable of holding ten hanks of yarn. I wish to remark here that the
number of swifts and the number of hanks wound on cach may be
varied, as the machine shewn in the Drawing is only given as a
convenient mode of carrying my Invention into operation.
The swifts a, a, are mounted on the fixed centre spindles b, b, which
are bolted or otherwise secured to the double frame c; each swift is
driven by a baud from the pulleys d' on the driving shaft d, which is
placed by preference near the floor of the room; but the driving shaft
may be placed in any other convenient position. The cords or bands
from the pulleys & pass around the grooved inner boss of cach swift,
and around cach of these bosses is also passed a friction band e, and
which acts as a break to check the momentum of the swift; when it is
necessary to stop it the bands for driving the swifts are tightened by
the tension pulleys d³ which are mounted on studs passing through the
double frame c, and these studs are drawn towards cach other by the
springs ; the studs are connected to the starting levers d' by the
links ď, and cach starting lever is provided with a ratched segment into
which the catch de enters; these catches have projecting arms which
are acted upon by the attendant to disengage the catch when it is
desirable to stop the swift and by self-acting machinery hereafter
described when the hank is complete. The cops are placed on
skewers and fixed in the tables h, and the yarn from each cop is carried
through a guide wire and then through a nick in the edge of the
plates ; these plates are supported on the rail j, and each plate is
pulled in the direction of the arrows in Fig. 3 by a weighted cord
passing over the guide pulleys k. At the inner end of each plate i is a
projection with steps, the number of which must correspond to the

page_text: number of divisions that are required in the hank as usual. To the
boss of cach swift is also fixed a worm 7, each worm gears into a spur
wheel m in the face of which is a pin, which in revolving takes into
one of the teeth in the rack n which slides in the upper side of the
frame c; the outer end of the rack forms the abutment for the steps in
the end of the plates i, and within the rack is a sliding bar o, the
object of which is to release the catch d by hand when the attendant
wishes to stop the swift. To two bars of the swift are fixed the
serrated bars p partly shewn in Fig. 4, the object of which is to separate
the leas and to facilitate the ticing-up; these serrated bars are so placed
on the adjacent bars of the swift that the recess p' of the one is in line
with the recess p² of the other.
The improved self-acting stop motion consists principally of two
rollers &¹ and 8³, sec Fig. 5, and the drop pins &³; the roller 8³ is driven
by pulleys and band from the shaft d, see Fig. 1, or in any other con-
venient manner. The rollers and are held in contact by springs or
otherwise. The pin is held suspended in position while the yarn is
being wound on the reel, either upon the thread or upon the balanced
lever acting upon the thread; or the pins may be held up by some
other arrangement adapted to the quality and tension of the yarn; but
when the thread breaks the pin falls, so that the lower end is caught
between the rollers &¹ and 8³. The roller s being supported in movable
bearings is thereby forced apart from 8, and the axle of the roller &¹
acting on the links causes the lever & to raise the catch d', thereby
liberating the starting lever d and stopping the swift as beforc
described. The pin & is formed with a projection which falls upon the
bar & placed above the rollers & and &²; this bar is made to turn upon
a pivot c' and is also connected to the starting lever d' by the link 83,
so that the action above described which liberates the catch a causes
the lever d* to raise one edge of the bar & and lift the pin up to its
original position, and by this or other equivalent means the other pins
also are sustained in position when the machine is stopped without
bearing upon their several threads. When the thread has been pieced
and the swift set in motion by depressing the lever d', the bar & is
let down and the pins are again suspended upon or by their respective
threads.
The mode of operation is as follows, and the parts are shewn in the

page_text: the tension pulleys are now all pressing against the bands that
drive the swifts and the break bands e are all slack; as soon as the
swift has performed eighty or other definite number of revolutions the
pin in the wheel m comes against and moves the rack n one tooth or
the distance of one of the steps on the bar i, the weighted cord then
acting on the said bar moves it in the direction of the arrow until the
next step comes against the end of the rack "; the yarn is then wound
on the swift at a little distance from that previously wound on, the
lateral motion of the guide plate i also moves the yarn into other and
corresponding recesses in the serrated bars p, and these lateral motions
of the guide plate are repeated by the revolutions of the wheel m until
all the steps in the plate i have been brought in succession against the
end of the rack », thereby dividing the lank into seven or other
convenient number of leas or divisions. When the last division is
complete the shoulder of the rack acts on the sliding piece o, and this
piece acting on the finger of the catch & raises the catch out of the
ratchet segment of the starting lever d', the spring & then comes into
action and draws the tension pulley d² out of contact with the driving
band, at the same time it tightens the break strap e against the pulley
on the boss of the swift, thereby stopping it.
When it is necessary to stop any of the swifts by hand the
attendant pushes the slide o against the finger of the catch & to
liberate the starting lever d and to bring the spring into action,
which removes the tension from the driving band and applies the
break e as above described. When a swift is stopped the handle of the
starting lever d' is up, as shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and in order
to set the swift again in motion it is only necessary for the attendant to
depress the handle until the teeth of the ratchet segment are held by
the catch d; this action releases the break strap c and applics tension
to the driving band.
When the leas or divisions of the hank are wound on the alternate
clevations and depressions of the serrated bars p, the attendant readily
passes the lea band beneath the leas elevated on the one bar and brings
it back beneath those which are clevated on the other bar. After
ticing-up the banks the arms of the swift to which the serrated bars p
are fixed are brought together, the hanks are thus loosened, and by means
of the levers p³ and p* two bars with smooth edges are made to lift the

page_text: leas out of the recesses in the bars p to allow the hanks to be doffed
from the end of the swift.
The machine above described and shewn in the Drawing is suitable
for reeling cotton yarn from cops into hanks of the customary form of
seven leas, but my improvements with slight modifications are equally
applicable to reels for reeling yarns made of other materials, and whether
spun upon bobbins or spools or otherwise, and for making the banks
cross reel or in any other manner.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention and described a con-
venient manner of performing the same, I wish to remark that I do not
intend to limit myself to the details given, as they may be considerably.
varied or modified without departing from the peculiar character of my
Invention; and I claim,―
First. Making the reel in two or more sections instead of in one
length as heretofore, and driving and stopping each section indepen-
dently of the other or others.
Secondly. Supporting the swifts on fixed centres, spindles, or pivots.
Thirdly. The apparatus for facilitating the separating the leas and
tieing-up of the hanks, consisting of the plates or bars p and parts acting
in combination therewith, as described.
Fourthly. The improved self-acting stop motion for stopping
swift when a thread breaks, as described.
And lastly. I claim the above improvements whether used col-
lectively or separately, or the combination of any part of them.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Coleby, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.