IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER TUBES
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM AMBLER, of Walk Mill Paper Tube Works, Keighley in the County
of York, Paper Tube Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
TUBES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for manufacturing
paper tubes, and has for its object the arrangement of the apparatus in such a
manner, that a flange may be secured to one end thereof, by which each tube will
hold an increased quantity of yarn, and the weaver is enabled to weave direct from
the tube as is the case with ordinary parallel tubes without flanges.
My invention consists in passing the paper between pasting rollers, then between
rollers having an intermittent motion which carry the pasted paper forward a
suitable distance; and when stationary it is severed from the web by a pair of
shears and carried forward by endless belts having an intermittent motion also.
When the endless belts are stationary, the paper is again cut but in a longitudinal
direction, and fed right and left to a revolving conical spindle, one each side thereof
which wrap the pasted paper around the same under pressure, thereby forming two
paper conical tubes. These are stripped from the conical spindles by reciprocating
bushes sliding on the same, the tubes falling into suitable receptacles and afterwards
dried.
The flanges are punched out of card board, which is passed through the apparatus
by rollers having an intermittent motion, the centre holes of the flanges being first
punched, then when the punches are clear, the rollers are actuated thereby carrying
the card board forward such a distance that the centres of the punched holes are
exactly beneath the punches for the diameter of the flanges. These are secured on
the conical tubes by pressing each tube on a revolving spindle, which expands the
extreme end and which is coated with a narrow strip of liquid glue; the flange is
then driven home hard against the spindle collar where it is secured by the glue
and expanded end, true with the axis of the tube when withdrawn from the
spindle.
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I will now further explain my invention by aid of the accompanying drawings
in which Fig 1 représents a side elevation of my improved tube making machine.

page_text: Fig 2 is a plan of the same Fig 3, an end view of the tube flange punching
apparatus. Fig 4, a front view of the same. Fig 5, a front view of the apparatus
for securing the flanges and Fig 6, a side view of the same.
The paper is placed upon reels as in ordinary machines, and passed between the
feed rollers A, to the pasting rollers B, the bottom roller being in contact with
roller C, revolving in paste trough C¹, the top roller receiving its supply of paste
from the hopper B¹. On the paper leaving the pasting rollers B, it passes over
guide roller D, to the intermittent rotary rollers E, where it is severed by the
shears E¹, the top arm of which is operated by tappet F, on revolving shaft G ; the
endless belts H, H, then carry the paper forward to the second pair of shears J,
where it is held stationary by the arm J pressing it on the support J', until cut by
the shear arm J; both the shear art J and pressing arm J¹ are actuated by
tappets K, K, on main shaft L.
Immediately after the paper has been divided in the manner described, the
conical spindles M.and M' begin to revolve and wrap a piece of pasted paper under
pressure around each, thereby forming two tubes; the conical spindles then stop
rotating and the pressure on the paper tubes on the spindles is released by the
tappets N and N' on the shafts G and G raising the respective levers O, thus
allowing the tubes to be stripped from the conical spindles by the reciprocating
bushes P and P¹, that are actuated by the belt P2 which is attached to the lever R,
and passea
around the pulley Q, the lever R being actuated by the tappet R* secured
on shaft G.
The intermittent motion to the shafts S and S₁ for rotating the conical
spindles M and M is obtained by the helical toothed wheels S and S³ the wheels S'
on the main shaft having a few teeth cut away which allow the spindles to stop as
long as necessary, and in order to give the requisite intermittent motion to the
rollers E, and endless belts H, H, I cut away a few teeth on the respective
pinions T which allow the wheels T gearing therewith to revolve until the
projecting pins T' come in contact with the projections on pinions T, thereby
causing the said pinions to advance until the teeth gear with the respective
wheels T¹ thus rotating the rollers E and pullies H' and H', on which the endless
belts H, H, are placed, as much as is required to convey the paper to the desired
position for being operated upon as before described in the respective positions.
The pinions T are locked when out of gear with wheels T' by the respective curved
plates T being in contact with the rib on side of wheels T¹ as shewn in detail
Fig 7; a portion of each rib being cut away to allow the curved plate to pass when
the pinions are actuated by the pins T as before described.
The flanges are stamped by the apparatus shewn by Figs 3 and 4; the sheets of
card board being fed in the direction of the arrow between the rollers U, which
have an intermittent motion imparted to them by the catch wheel V, operated by
the catch and lever V₁, connected to the revolving disc V, the catch wheel V, is
secured to the spur wheel immediately behind the same which gears with the
wheels V, and V³, secured to the shafts of the respective bottom rollers U, thereby
imparting motion to the rollers and card board, every time the punches P, are clear
of the latter. The punches P, are arranged in two rows on cross bar W, which
receives a reciprocating motion by the eccentrics E, secured on main shaft S; the
centre holes of the flanges are first punched by row ✗, (see detail of guide plate Y,
Fig 8) then the rollers U, and U₁, are actuated as before described, carrying the
card board forward until the centre of the holes X, are under the centre of the
punches for the circumference, when, on the cross bar W, decending, the flanges are
completed, another row of centre holes being punched at the same time.
The flanges are secured to the tubes by pressing each tube on the revolving
spindle S, (see Fig 6.) which is formed with a curve in the angle at S¹, between the
spindle and face of collar; this curve expands the end of paper tube, and on
pressing down the treadle Z, the narrow disc D, is raised and brought into contact
with the tube, coating the same with a strip of liquid glue, the narrow disc D,
receiving its supply from the larger disc D', which revolves in glue trough T.

page_text: When the flange is placed on the tube, it is driven home against the collar face
by means of a hand-beater, or by the arm A, which on being actuated by the hand
lever L, presses the flange hard against the face of the collar; The hole in the
flange fitting tight on the tube and the expanded end thereof being partly or fully
imbedded in the card board flange by the force of the blow, supports the same true
with the axis of the tube when withdrawn from the revolving spindle S.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The general arrangement and combination of the apparatus for making paper
tubes substantially in the manner shewn and described.
Imparting an intermittent motion to the rollers E, in the manner shewn and
described.
Imparting an intermittent motion to the pullies and endless belts H, H, for the
purpose described.
The punching of the tube flanges by the apparatus described and illustrated by
Figs 3 and 4.
The securing of the flanges on the tubes in the manner described in reference to
Figs 5 and 6.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1885.
WAUGH & CHAPMAN,
70, Chancery Lane, W.C.