Improvements in Apparatus for Placing Tubes upon Spinning, Twisting, and like Machine Spindles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Placing Tubes upon Spinning,
Twisting, and like Machine Spindles.
We, JOSEPH BRIGGS SWAILES, GEORGE SWAILES and JOHN BROADMEADOW
SWAILES. of the Firm of John Swailes & Sons, of Moorhey, Oldham, in the
County of Lancaster, Cop Tube Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said invention, to be as follows:-
Cop tubes when to be placed on the spindles of spinning and twisting machines
are inserted in holes in rails or frames which are secured to arms centred on one
of the faller shafts or stands of mules, and these rails or frames with the tubes in
them can be partly rotated when required to bring them over the tips of the
spindles when the lid of the frame or rail is opened and the tubes are allowed to
fall from it simultaneously on to the spindles.
Our invention relates, firstly, to an improved arrangement and construction of
rails or frames for placing long cop tubes upon spindles.
One part of the rail or frame is made of wood with holes in it one for each
spindle for the tubes and with a hinged or other lid for retaining the tubes until
required to be discharged which parts are of ordinary construction.
To the wood rail or frame two or more slotted brackets are secured for a flat
bar of thin metal to slide in freely in a direction to and from the wood bar, this
flat metal bar has projections to work, in two or more of the slots in the brackets
to keep it from twisting.
This flat metal bar when at the ends of the slots in the brackets furthest from
the wood rail serves as a support for the ends of the tubes when inserted through
the holes in the wood frame or rail, and its weight acts to push the tubes from the
holes in the wood frame or rail when the rail is inverted over the tips of the
spindles.
There is also a metal plate secured to the slotted brackets and passing from
end to end of the frame or rail having a hole in it corresponding to each hole in
the wood rail or frame and the long cop tubes after passing through the holes in
the wood frame or rail, also pass through the holes in the thin metal bar which
thus forms a guide to keep the points of the tubes when inserted in the holes in the
rail or frame in their correct positions.
The flat metal bar moves between the ends of the slots in the brackets and the
fixed flat bar with holes for guiding the tubes.
Secondly. Our inveution relates to a modification of the improved rail for long
tubes above described by which the same rail or frame can be used for placing
long cop tubes upon spindles and readily altered to place short cop tubes upon
spindles when required.
In this case a round or other rod is arranged to be free in the slots in the sail
brackets above described between the fixed metal plate having the guiding holes
in it for the cop tubes to pass through and the wood rail, and this round rod or
bar resting against the flat bar with holes in it forms the support for the ends of
the tubes when placed in the holes in the frame or rail and also serves by its weight
to push the tubes from the holes in the frame or rail when the latter is inverted
over the tips of the spindles.

page_text: This rod is round by preference and is or may be arranged to pass into lateral
or side slots or recesses in the slots in the lengthway of the brackets when the
frame is in use for placing long tubes upon spindles.
The round bar can be held in either position by a thin securing plate passing
from end to end of the frame or rail secured to the slotted brackets by pins or
screws passing through diagonal slots in the securing plate so that when moved
endways one way it will lift to allow the round rod to move to or from the side
slots or recesses and when moved the other way will retain the rod on either side
of it as required.
Catches or other arrangements may be used in place of the thin securing plate.
Dated this Twenty-third day of December 1893.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Placing Tubes upon Spinning,
Twisting, and like Machine Spindles.
We, JOSEPH BRIGGS SWAILES, GEORGE SWAILES and JOHN BROADMEADOW
SWAILES, of the Firm of John Swailes & Sons, of Moorhey, Oldham, in the
County of Lancaster, Cop Tube Manufacturers, 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:-
Cop tubes when to be placed on the spindles of spinning and twisting machines,
are inserted in holes in rails or frames which are secured to arnis centred on one
of the faller shafts or stands of mules, and these rails or frames with the tubes in
them can be partly rotated when required to bring them over the tips of the spindles
when the lid of the frame or rail is opened and the tubes are allowed to fall from
it simultaneously on to the spindles.
Our invention relates, firstly, to an improved arrangement and construction of
rails or frames for placing long cop tubes upon spindles, some such long cop tubes
being termed “through spindles.”
Que part of the rail or frame is made of wood with holes in it for each spindle
for the tubes and with a hinged or other lid for retaining the tubes until required
to be discharged which parts are of ordinary construction.
To the wood rail or frame two or more slotted brackets are secured for a flat
bar of thin metal to slide in freely in a direction to and from the wood bar, this
flat metal bar has projections to work in two or more of the slots in the brackets
to keep it from twisting.
This flat metal bar when at the ends of the slots in the brackets furthest from the
wood rail serves as a support for the ends of the tubes when inserted through
the holes in the wood frame or rail, and its weight acts to push the tubes from
the holes in the wood frame or rail when the rail is inverted over the tips of the
spindles.
There is also a metal plate secured to the slotted brackets and passing from end
to end of the frame or rail having a hole in it corresponding to each hole in the
wood rail or frame and the long cop tubes after passing through the holes in the
wood frame or rail, also pass through the holes in the thin metal bar which thus
forms a guide to keep the points of the tubes when inserted in the holes in the rail
or frame, in their correct positions.
The Hat metal bar moves between the ends of the slots in the brackets and the
fixed flat bar with holes for guiding the tubes.
Secondly. Our invention relates to a modification of the improved rail for long
tubes above described by which the same rail or frame can be used for placing

page_text: long cop tubes upon spindles and, readily altered to place short cop tubes upon
spindles when required.
In this case a round or other rod is arranged to he free in the slots in the said
brackets above described between the fixed metal plate having the guiding holes
in it for the cop tubes to pass through and the wood rail, and this round rod or bar
resting against the flat bar with holes in it forms the support for the ends of the
tubes when placed in the holes in the frame or rail and also serves by its weight to
push the tubes from the holes in the frame or rail when the latter is inverted over
the tips of the spindles.
This rod is round by preference and is or may be arranged to pass into lateral
or side slots or recesses in the slots in the lengthway of the brackets when the
frame is in use for placing long tubes upon spindles.
The round bar cau be held in either position by a thin securing plate passing
from end to end of the frame or rail secured to the slotted brackets by pins or
screws passing through diagonal slots in the securing plate so that when moved
end ways one way it will lift to allow the round rod to move to or from the side
slots or recesses and when moved the other way will retain the rod on either side
of it as required.
Catches or other arrangements may be used in place of the thin securing plate.
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of our improved rail or frame, filled with tubes.
Fig. 2, is a view of the rail or frame looking at that edge of it which is upwards
when the tubes are to be allowed to drop from it.
Fig. 3, is a cross section of the rail or frame at A-B Fig. 1. In this figure a
long tube is shown in position and the alternative supporting and discharging rod
is shown on one side, and the lid of the frame is shut.
Fig. 4, is a similar view to Fig. 3, but without tube.
Fig. 5, is a view similar to Fig. 3, but with a shorter tube in position and the
alternative discharging rod in position ready to discharge the tubes, this rod also
serving as a support for the ends of the short tubes when the frame or rail is being
filled with such tubes.
Fig. 6, is an end elevation of the improved rail or frame, showing one of the
end guiding brackets, and the Hat metal supporting and discharging plate or rod
in the position it occupies when tubes are being filled into the frame, and with the
lid closed.
Fig. 7, is a similar end elevation to that shown by Fig. 6, but in this case, the
fat metal discharging plate is shown in the position, against the guiding rail,
when it bas discharged the tubes, and the alternative supporting and discharging
rod which is then supposed to be in use, at the bottom of a slot or groove formed
in the lengthway of the wood rail (such slot not being shown in Fig. 6) and the
lid is shown open.
In Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 a thin plate is shown extending the length of the
frame for retaining the alternative discharging rod out of action when long tubes
are to be used and for allowing it to come into action when short tubes are to
be used.
Fig. 8, is a partial cross sectional view, showing the alternative supporting and
discharging rod retained out of action.
Fig. 9, is a similar view to Fig. 8, where the supporting and discharging rod
has been liberated to come into action.
Fig. 10, is a side elevation of parts, and
Fig. 11, a cross section showing another method of holding and releasing the
alternative supporting and discharging rods.
Fig. 12, is a view of that edge of a frame at which the tubes are inserted into the
holes therein, and
Fig. 13, is a flat side elevation of it, and with that edge of the frame which is
shown in Fig. 12, downwards, as when tubes are to be dropped from it upon the
spindles.
The frame or rail illustrated by Figs. 12 and 13, is a modification which may be

page_text: used for medium, long and the shortest tubes, where by preference a single
supporting and discharging rod is employed (round by preference) arranged to be
made to operate for either length of tubes.
Fig. 14, is a cross section of the frame shown by Figs. 12 and 13, arranged for
short tubes, the supporting and discharging rod being shown in the position for
short tubes and when ready to be discharged from the frame with the lid closed.
Fig. 15, is a similar view to Fig. 14, but in this case the frame is arranged for the
medium long tubes and the lid is shown open.
The views Figs. 12, 13, 14 and 15 also show an improved form of holding spring
for the lid and a catch plate substituted for the ordinary holding spring and
staple.
Fig. 16 is a detached view looking at the slotted edge of the frame showing the
position of one arrangement for retaining the supporting and discharging rod when
short tubes are to be used.
Fig. 17, is a similar view to Fig. 16, showing the position of the same arrangement
when long tubes are to be used.
Fig. 18, is an edge, and
Fig. 19, a flat view of a modification of the arrangement shown by Figs. 16
and 17.
a, is the wood part of the frame, it is made with holes for the tubes a, in it
at the required distance apart according to the gauge of the spindles and of the
desired length.
To each end of the wood rail or frame a, a box bracket, is secured by screws.
There are also as many intermediate brackets b', at intervals as may be required
in the length of the frame also secured by screws to the sides of the wood rail
or frame.
c, is the metal plate with holes in it of the same gauge as those in the wood rail a,
for the tubes to pass through.
The ends of this plate c, are forked to fit on each side of the end box brackets b,
and there are holes in the plate e, for the intermediate brackets, to pass through
until they rest on a shoulder formed upon each bracket, the plate, being secured
by solder or other means to the brackets and b¹.
d, is a flat plate extending from one end box bracket b, to the other.
Each end of this plate d, is bent at an angle to form a guide to slide between
the sides of the box bracket so as to prevent the plate d, from twisting (see
right hand end of Fig. 1, where part of the side of the box bracket b, is
shown broken away in order to show the bent guiding end d¹, of the plate d,
more clearly).
This plate d, can slide between the position in which it is shown in Figs. 1
and 6, and the fixed guiding plate e, in which latter position it is shown in Fig. 7,
and it acts to support the ends of the long cop tubes when placed in the frame and
to discharge them by its descending weight when the tubes are to be dropped on to
the spindles.
e,
In Figs. 1, 3 and 4, the alternative supporting and discharging rod
is shown
retained out of action in a recess formed on one side of each bracket and b',
by means of a thin plate of metal, which has or may have a diagonal slot f,
in it, opposite each bracket band, for a pin, secured in each bracket, so that
by moving this plate, endways, it may be caused to lift and lower by the action
of the pius on the diagonal slots to allow the rod e, to pass out or into the said
recesses. The rod e, is shown in the recesses in Figs. 3 and 4, and out in Fig. 5, in
which case it is supposed to be acting ready to discharge the shorter tubes (r) one
of which is shown in Fig. 5.
Part of the plates c and d, are shown broken away at the right hand end of
Fig. 2, in order to show the plate, more clearly in that figure.
is the ordinary hinged lid;, the retaining spring, and h', the staple upon
which the end of the spring h, catches.
In place of the long plate f, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; Figs. 8 and 9 show a

page_text: substitute, namely, two or more hook ended plates ³, of thin metal secured at
intervals to the wood frame or rail a, each by a screw, passing through a slot in
the lengthway of the thin plate.
Fig. 8, shows the rod e, as when held out of action within the recess formed in
the brackets band b¹.
Fig. 9, shows the position of the movable plates 3, when the rod i' is released,
such plates 73, being then brought into the position shown in Fig. 8, to prevent
the rod e, entering the recess again until required to be secured therein.
Figs. 10 and 11, show another modification for retaining and releasing the rod e.
Two or more thin triangular formed plates f, are used and each plate is secured
on a pin f, on which it can turn to the inside of one side of a bracket ', which
side is cranked outwards to the thickness of the triangular plate (see Fig. 11).
As shown in full line in Fig. 10, one edge of the triangular plate, is down.in
the position closing the recess for the rod e, but when moved upon its pivot fo,
by means of a projection 7, for the finger to take hold of, to its position shown in
dotted line in Fig. 10, the recess for the rod is left open so that it may be placed
in or out of the recess. It is supposed to be in the recess as shown in Fig. 10,
and out of it when as shown in Fig. 11.
In the modification of our invention illustrated by Figs. 12 to 19 inclusive, a, is
the wood rail with holes for the tubes r; b, the end box brackets secured to the
rail a, by screws, and the intermediate brackets b', (one or more as required) secured
by screws to the edge of the rail a; e, the supporting and discharging rod (round
by preference) which can slide from the position shown in Figs. 13 and 15, (which
is the limit the brackets allow) to the bottom of the slot a', formed in the lengthway
of the wood rail a, when using long tubes, or the rod e, can be limited to the
position shown in Fig. 14 for short tubes falling in discharging such tubes to the
bottom of the slot a', in the lengthway of the rail.
, is a thin piece of metal hinged at f, to the wood rail a, on one side of the
slot or groove a', as shown best in Figs. 14 16 and 17, so as to be turned across
the slot or groove as shown best in Figs. 14 and 16, the free end of this part when
turned across the groove coming into a space formed between the edge of the
rail a', and a staple formed piece*, of metal secured to the edge of the rail by
screws, upon the other side of the slot or groove in the rail a.
When the hinged parts f8, are turned across the slot or groove a', as in Figs. 14
and 16, the frame is arranged for short tubes (r, Fig. 1), but when the hinged
parts, are turned in the lengthway of the rail, the frame is arranged for long
tubes, Fig. 13.
When the hinged part 8, is bent as shown by Figs. 18 and 19, a greater range
may be given to the movements of the rod e, admitting of longer tubes, but shorter
than the longest tubes a, shown in Fig. 13.
Hinged parts, similar to those shown in Figs. 13 to 17 inclusive and hinged
parts, similar to those illustrated by Figs. 18 and 19, may be applied as will be
obvious, to the same frame to suit several different lengths of tubes less than the
longest.
If desired arrangements similar to those illustrated by Figs. 16. and 17 and 18
and 19, may be applied to frames illustrated by Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive so as to
make such frames applicable to three or more different lengths of tubes a.
In Figs. 12, 13, 14 and 15 a more simple form of spring catch ², is shown for
holding the hinged lid y, until the tubes are discharged and in place of the
ordinary staple, (shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 which is driven into the
wood a, and is liable to be drawn out) a thin metal bent plate 3, with a hole
through it, for the bent spring 2, to pass through which bent plate /³, is secured
to the rail by two screws.
The position of the spring holder 2, is shown best when the lid g, is shut as
shown in Fig. 14, and when open in Fig. 15, in which the curl on the end of
the spring 2, catches upon the plate 13, when the lid g, has opened to the required
extent.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
1. The combination and arrangement of frames or apparatus for placing tubes
upon spindles so as to be applicable for two or more different lengths of tubes,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement of frames for placing tubes upon spindles
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1 to 7 inclusive, of
the drawings, or when modified by substituting either of the arrangements for
holding and releasing the supporting and discharging rod (e) illustrated by Figs. 8
and or Figs. 10 and 11 or when further modified by adding to such frame
arrangements illustrated by Figs. 16 and 17 or Figs. 18 and 19, of the drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of frames for placing cop tubes upon
spindles substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 12 to 17
inclusive or when modified by substituting the arrangement illustrated by Figs. 18
and 19 of the drawings.
4. The combination of the holding spring 12, secured to the lid g, with the
plate ³, secured to the rail a, by screws, as and for the purpose herein before
described.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of August. 1894
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.