AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OF WINDING OR ROLLING SILK THREAD ON MOULDS OR BOBBINS, AND PLACING THEM IN SUITABLE BOXES,
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Thomas Hughes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
July 1862. A communication from abroad by Félicité and Ernest
Jaricot, of the Firm of Widow Jaricot and Son, of Lyons, France.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OF WINDING OR ROLLING SILK THREAD
ON MOULDS OR BOBBINS, AND PLACING THEM IN SUITABLE BOXES," a com-
munication to me from abroad by Félicité and Ernest Jaricot, of the Firm of
Widow Jaricot and Son, of Lyons, France, to be as follows:-
Instead of selling the silk thread done up as skeins, which when the thread
is required for use occasions loss of time and sometimes loss of material, I
wind, roll, or plait the thread in pellets on cylinders or moulds, and also
bobbins of various sizes according to the purpose for which the thread is
required. The aforesaid system is adapted for sewing, embroidering, and
crocheting silk for machines, and for silk thread in general; and the
cylinders, moulds, or bobbins are composed of wood, paper, glass, gutta
percha, earthenware, or other suitable material.
The nature of this Invention will be understood by referring to the Figures
on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings representing a few of the moulds or
shapes about full size, on which I wind, roll, or plait the thread ready for the

page_text: market; each of the said moulds having a hole in the middle for placing it on
the spindle of the winding machine.
Fig. 1 is a small cylinder hollowed at its circumference, and adapted for
holding the length of one skein of thread; Fig. 2 is a larger cylinder of a
somewhat similar shape, but having its diameter increased more than its
height; Fig. 3 has its height increased and also its diameter; Fig. 4, the
height increased and diameter decreased, and Fig. 5, the height and diameter
both diminished. These cylinders may be hollowed more or less as desired, or
left straight and smooth. The form of a truncated cone may also be given to
the mould at its two extremities, as in Fig. 6, and different proportions may
be given to this in height and inclination. Instead of hollowing the circum-
ference of the cylinder or mould, it may be bunched out, or larger in diameter
in the middle, as shewn in Fig. 7, and the edges of the mould may be rounded,
as in Fig. 8, and thereby when the thread is wound on have a more elegant
appearance. I do not confine myself to the forms and dimensions of the afore-
said moulds, but vary them at pleasure, as the object is to manufacture and
sell silk wound on moulds, to which is given the name of pelleted silk thread.
I wind the thread on the mould by introducing the spindle of the machine into
the hole of the mould, and by putting the machine in motion the thread is
wound on the mould in the same manner as cotton and flax threads are
wound. When the thread is wound on the mould a band of gummed paper
or other suitable material is placed around it in order to fasten it, on which
band may be placed the mark of manufacture, the quality, the number of size,
or any other desired inscription; or I place the mark or inscription
of paper or card, and cause it to be held fast by the silk itself.
on a disc
For the sale of this pelleted silk thread it is put in boxes of different
dimensions according to the quantity and arrangement required. On the
boxes are placed the mark of manufacture or any other inscription, and to
them is fixed a label indicating the shade, the quality, and number of size.
The aforesaid system of winding or rolling is excellent for small lengths, but
is not suitable for very long lengths, and therefore I employ bobbins of dif-
ferent sizes and shapes, which arrangement allows of winding first in the
interior of the bobbin a certain quantity of silk, and then fixing the bobbin
on a winding-on or balling machine.
I represent in Fig. 9, a bobbin having the insides of the flanges at right
angles with the trunk or cylinder; in Fig. 10, a bobbin having the flanges
thicker near the cylinder than at their peripheries in order to obtain strength;
in Fig. 11, a bobbin bunched out instead of being hollowed; in Fig. 12, a
bobbin having the flanges formed like truncated cones, and the trunk or

page_text: cylinder of a curved shape; in Fig. 13, a bobbin, with a projection on one of
the flanges in order to be able to fix the end of the thread on it at pleasure,
and in Fig. 14, a bobbin having the flanges rounded.
Thus I have described a few of the bobbins and moulds which may be
employed, but their shapes and dimensions may be varied ad infinitum, so
long as a shape is formed on which can be wound, rolled, or plaited silken
thread. When the thread is wound on the bobbins, it may be surrounded
with a band of gummed paper, card, caoutchouc, or other material, and the
marks and inscription placed in any desired manner.