Improvements in Winding-off Yarn or Thread from Bobbins. Cops or Spools.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Winding-off Yarn or Thread from Bobbins. Cops
or Spools.
I CHARLES WHITE of 158 Broughton Road, Pendleton Salford in the County o
Lancaster, Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to winding-off yarn or thread from bobbins, without
the bobbin revolving during the process of winding-off.
I make a skewer or pin with a hole through it, on which the bobbin to be unwound
is placed one end of this skewer pin or tube has a trumpet mouthed flange or
ferrule of metal or other suitable material made on or fixed to it, the trumpet mouth
leading into the hole of the pin or skewer.
I place in the hollow skewer, a tube, on one end of which is attached a smooth
flange of metal or other suitable material made a little larger in diameter than the
full bobbin, when the yarn is in the bobbin in layers but it need not be any larger
in diameter than the full bobbin when the yarn is in the bobbin in the form of
a cop.
The bobbin when winding-off is placed on the hollow skewer or pin against the
flange of the tube, the end of the thread is taken from the bobbin over the flange of
the tube to the trumpet mouth at the end of the skewer and is then passed through
the hole of the skewer and delivered-with much less strain on the yarn than the
usual manner at the other end of the tube on to other bobbins, or in any other
manner that may be required.
The hollow skewer is fixed to the creel or framing of the winding off machine in
any convenient manner leaving the open ends of the skewer free for the passage of
the thread.
By another arrangement I make the hollow skewer without the trumpet mouth and
put the trumpet mouth on the opposite end to the flange of the flanged tube. Iu
this case the flanged tube is kept in its position by a fixed collar or pin on the hollow
skewer and when in position the trumpet mouth of the tube must project beyond

page_text: the end of the hollow skewer, so that the thread can be easily guided into the hole
of the skewer and delivered at the opposite end as previously described.
The hollow skewer with a trumpet mouth flange at the end of it may be applied
to loom shuttles for cops or spools-the yarn from which would be drawn or wound
off with less strain than on the present system.
Dated this 9th day of March 1888
PETER MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Winding off Yarn or Thread from Bobbins, Cops,
or Spools.
I, CHARLES WHITE of 158 Broughton Road Pendleton Salford in the County of
Lancaster, Mill Manager, 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:-
My Invention has reference to winding off yarn or thread from bobbins without
the bobbin revolving during the process of winding off.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings the same letters refer to similar parts as
shewn in the different figures.
Fig. 1
Figures 1 and 2 are drawn about one third size, and 3 and 4 full size.
represents in section a skewer with a bobbin on it, the yarn on which is to be
wound off according to my Invention. a represents a skewer or pin on which the
bobbin is placed (the yarn on the bobbin is represented in dotted lines) c is a hole
which goes through the skewer or pin, d is a trumpet mouthed flange or ferrule, of
metal or other suitable material made on or fixed in any convenient manner to one
end of the skewer pin or tube, the trumpet mouth leading into the hole c of the
skewer.
On this hollow skewer I place the tube e which rests at one end on the trumpet
mouth flange, and to the other end I attach the flange made. of metal or other
suitable material, and on which the bobbin b rests. The flange is made a little
larger in diameter than the flange of the bobbin to be unwound and also made
smooth so that the thread or yarn may pass easily around the flange in the process of
unwinding.
.
The bobbin to be unwound is placed on the hollow skewer and rests on the flange
of the tube e, which rests on the trumpet mouth of the skewer.

page_text: The thread or yarn is taken from the bobbin, over the flange to the trumpet
mouth d then through the hole c of the skewer and delivered at the other end of the
skewer on to other bobbins, or in any other manner that may be required-The hollow
skewer to be attached to the creel or the framing of the winding machine in any
convenient manner, leaving the open ends of the skewer free for the passage of the
thread or yarn. Fig. 2 represents in section another arrangement wherein the
trumpet mouth is attached to the end of the tube e instead of to the hollow skewer,
in some modes of attaching the skewers to the framing or creel of the winding
machine, this, arrangement may be more suitable and admits of the bobbin being
easily changed from an empty to a full bobbin. In this arrangement the flange
tube is kept in its position on the hollow skewer by the collar 9. fixed on the
skewer.
A hollow skewer with a trumpet mouth at one end and with or without a flanged
tube may be employed for unwinding bobbins built in the same manner as a cop and
Figures 3 and 4 shew arrangements for unwinding without a flanged tube, and also
applicable to loom shuttles, the figures represent in full size the outline of the side
and top of a shuttle with the hollow skewer shown in section as attached thereto. The
hollow skewer a has the trumpet mouth at one end, on which the spool rests, the
other end of the skewer is made to pass into a square head which carries a pin i
that fits into a square hole in the square head h. The skewer is kept in its position in
the square head by the spring one end of which is made to clip the groove k on the
hollow skewer, when the skewer is lying in the body of the shuttle and the shuttle at
work The yarn or thread passes from the bobbin cop or spool over the flange of
the trumpet mouth-through the hole c of the skewer and passes into a hole of the
pin which meets the hole c in the skewer and thus passes out through the hole into
the shed of the cloth in the usual manner-When a new cop or spool has to be put
into the shuttle the skewer is lifted or raised in the usual manner moving with the
pin i working in the body of the shuttle, the skewer is thus taken away from the
spring and the end of the hollow skewer can now be drawn away from the square
piece ; the empty spool taken off and a full one put on-the skewer is then put into
the square head and pressed back to its place in the body of the shuttle and which is
kept in its position end ways by the spring clipping the groovek of the skewer.
The spring also keeps the skewer in its position when lying in the shuttle and when
changing a cop in the usual manner.
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-
Winding yarn from bobbins cops or spools placed on a hollow skewer-either with
or without a flanged tube on the skewer the yarn being taken from the bobbin and
passed through the hole of the skewer, in the manner described and set forth in the
drawings.