IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER TUBES SPECIALLY INTENDED FOR USE IN SPINNING MACHINERY
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of
Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the
City of London, Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER TUBES SPECIALLY INTENDED
FOR USE IN SPINNING MACHINERY."-A communication from abroad by
the Society Paul Corpet and Lessieux, of Moncel, France.
Sealed the 18th September 1868, and dated the 25th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th March 1868.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman,
and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER TUBES SPECIALLY
INTENDED FOR USE IN SPINNING MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of paper tubes specially
intended for use in machinery for spinning cotton and other filamentous

page_text: materials. The machine makes about 100 turns a minute, and makes
two tubes in every turn. The construction and action of the various
parts, and the operations to which the paper is submitted to be formed
finally into tubes will be understood by the following description:-
The main shaft of the machine is transverse and carries two bevil
wheels, two wheels with helicoidal teeth, another large wheel with
helicoidal teeth, and a cam. The bevil pinions drive by two other pinions
two longitudinal shafts at the two sides of the machine; these shafts
carry various parts hereafter referred to. The two wheels with helicoidal
teeth drive two other wheels on two other longitudinal shafts on the
opposite end of each of which is a toothed wheel. The large wheel with
helicoidal teeth has three circular tenons, which form three dead points
or stops for a horizontal helicoidal wheel. This horizontal wheel imparts
by a crank and connecting rod a reciprocating rectilinear movement to
a carriage on guides on the frame. The paper is previously cut into
strips about 4 or 5 inches wide, more or less, and placed on a reel, from
which it passes between two pairs of rollers after having traversed a
bath containing paste or adhesive matter, which coats the paper in the
middle for about a third of its width. Between the two pairs of rollers
several small felted rollers are placed coated with ink, and furnished
with commercial letters and signs to produce a trade or other mark on
On leaving the second pair of rollers the paper passes on to
a table where it is cut by a blade, the movement of which is produced
by a cam on one of the side longitudinal shafts; a spring returns the
blade to its first position. The portion of the paper beyond the blade
having in its middle a certain width of paste is supported on the guides
before mentioned, and on other guides. Before describing the movement
of this portion of paper, I will describe the appliance for causing the
quantity of paper necessary and indispensable for the manufacture of
a tube to advance from the second pair of rollers. The intermittent
movement which is produced for this purpose is obtained by a wheel
with helicoidal teeth, which also has a stop tenon forming the dead point
of a wheel into which it gears, and of a wheel on the same shaft as the
last-named wheel. The transmission of this movement to the second
pair of rollers is effected by toothed wheels. It will be understood that'
the paper taken between these rollers advances on the table the desired
quantity for the length of a tube. To return to the portion of paper on
the guides, a presser or gripper presses on this portion of paper and
draws it until it is opposite spindles one at each side, making it enter
the paper.

page_text: a longitudinal slit of the spindles. Another blade then comes down and
separates the paper into two parts in a helicoidal line slightly oblique
in relation to the longitudinal direction of the paper and exactly in the
middle of the paste. The spindles then receive a rapid rotary movement
which rolls the paper several times round them, the paper being pressed
by convenient appliances; the two tubes are thus made; then two rods
move and push them from the spindle and make them fall by means of
levers into a receptacle for the purpose.
:-
The movements of the several parts described are readily explained :-
The presser or gripper is a sort of lever turning on a fulcrum on the
carriage, one arm is terminated by a fork or two branches to press or
grip the paper, and the other arm is drawn at one side by a spring, and at
the other side by a roller, which is worked by a bent lever and the cam on
the main shaft. The reciprocating movement of the carriage is, as before
mentioned, produced by a crank and connecting rod. The second blade
is fixed to a lever worked by a cam on one of the side longitudinal
shafts; a spring returns it to its first position. The rotation of the
spindles is produced by the toothed wheels on the two other longitudinal
shafts through the intermediation of pinions. The intermittence of the
motion of the spindles is produced by the construction of the two
helicoidal wheels on the main shaft, which have dead 'points or stops
like the large helicoidal wheel. The appliances for pressing the paper
on the spindles are worked by cams on the side longitudinal shafts;
these appliances are levers which turn on axes or fulcra situated at
convenient parts of the frame; springs return the levers to their normal
position. The rods which push the tubes from the spindles move in
cylindrical holes in the supports of the spindles; springs keep them at
rest, and cranks push them. towards the spindles to cause the tubes to
be acted upon by the levers, which push them into the receptacle;
these levers. have their fulcra or axes on the frame, and they bear by
their own weights on and are moved by cams on the side shafts. The
main shaft is provided with a fly wheel..
The main features of this Invention are, the wheel with helicoidal
teeth having dead points or stops to work the carriage carrying the
presser or gripper; the mode or means of producing impressions on the
paper by means of parallel rollers between which it passes; the mode of
and arrangement for cutting the paper first transversely and afterwards
lengthwise to make two tubes simultaneously; and the mode of and.

page_text: arrangement for pushing the tubes from the spindles and guiding them
towards the ground by means of special levers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 24th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company,
of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special
licence that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
TUBES SPECIALLY INTENDED FOR USE IN SPINNING MACHINERY," (communicated
to me from abroad by the Society Paul Corpet and Lessieux, of Moncel,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention and in what

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture by machinery of paper
tubes specially intended for use in machinery or mills for spinning
cotton and other filamentous materials. The machine makes about
100 turns a minute, and makes two tubes in every turn. The con-
struction and action of the various parts and the operations to which
the paper is submitted to be formed finally into tubes, will be understood
by the following description, and by the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 a longitudinal
elevation of the machine.
The main shaft a of the machine is transverse and carries two bevil
wheels b, b', two wheels c, c', with helicoidal teeth, another large wheel d
with helicoidal teeth, and a cam B; A is the driving pulley, and Z
the fly wheel. The bevil pinions b, b', drive respectively by other
pinions ff, two longitudinal shafts g and h at the two sides of the
machine; these shafts g, h, carry various parts hereafter referred to.
The two wheels c, c', with helicoidal teeth drive respectively two other
wheels,, on two other longitudinal shafts i, j, on the opposite end of
each of which is a toothed wheel marked k and k' respectively. The large
wheel d with helicoidal teeth has three circular tenons, which form
three dead points or stops for a horizontal helicoidal wheel C. This
horizontal wheel imparts by a crank m and connecting rod na recipro-
cating rectilinear movement to a carriage D on guides o, o¹, on the
frame. The paper marked X is previously cut into strips about 4 or 5
inches wide more or less, and placed on a reel E, from which it passes
between two pairs of rollers F, G, and H, I, after having traversed a
bath J containing paste or adhesive matter which coats the paper in the
middle for about a third of its width. Between the two pairs of rollers
F, G, and H, I, several small felted rollers a¹, a", are placed coated with
ink, and furnished with commercial letters and signs to produce a
trado or other mark on the paper. On leaving the second pair of
rollers H, I, the paper passes on to a table K, where it is cut by a
blade L, the movement of which is produced by a cam p on the shaft h,
a spring q returns the blade L to its first position. The portion of the
paper beyond the blade L having in its middle a certain width of paste
is supported on the guides o, o¹, before mentioned, and on other

page_text: guides, . Before describing the movement of this portion of paper
I will describe the appliance for causing the quantity of paper necessary
and indispensable for the manufacture of a tube to advance from the
rollers H, I. The intermittent movement which is produced for this
purpose is obtained by a wheel s with helicoidal teeth, which also has a
stop tenon forming the dead point of a wheel t into which it gears, and
of a wheel u on the same shaft as the wheel t. The transmission of this
movement to the rollers H, I, is effected by toothed wheels. ', 2011. It
will thus be understood that the paper taken between the rollers H, I,
advances on the table K the desired quantity for the length of a tube.
To return to the portion of paper on the guides 1, 2, and o, o', a presser
or gripper M presses on this portion of paper and draws it until it is
opposite spindles N, N', one at each side, making it enter a longitudinal
slit of the spindles; another blade O then comes down and separates. the
paper into two parts in a helicoidal line slightly oblique in relation to
the longitudinal direction of the paper, and exactly in the middle of the
paste. The spindles then receive a rapid rotary movement which rolls
the paper several times round them, the paper being pressed by the
appliances P, P; the two tubes are thus made. Then two rods v, v',
move and push them from the spindles, and make them fall by means
of levers x, x¹, into a receptacle for the purpose. The movements of the
several parts described are readily explained. The presser or gripper M
is a sort of lever turning on a fulcrum z on the carriage; one arm is
terminated by a fork or two branches to press or grip the paper, and
the other arm is drawn at one side by a spring Q, and at the other side
by a roller R, which is worked by a bent lever S and the cam B on the
main shaft. The reciprocating movement of the carriage D is, as before
mentioned, produced by a crank m and connecting rod n. The blade O
is fixed to a lever T worked by a cam U on the shaft g; a spring y
returns it to its first position. The rotation of the spindles N, N', is
produced by the toothed wheels k, k, on the two longitudinal shafts i, j,
through the intermediation of pinions k", ". The intermittence of the
motion of the spindles is produced by the construction of the two
helicoidal wheels c, c', on the main shaft, which have dead points or stops
like the large helicoidal wheel d. The appliances P, P¹, for pressing
the paper on the spindles N, N', are worked respectively by cams V
and V on the side longitudinal shafts g and h. These appliances are
axes or fulcra situated at convenient parts of
and X' return these levers to their normal
levers which turn on
the frame; springs X

page_text: position. The rods v, v¹, move in cylindrical holes in the supports of
the spindles; springs 1, 1, keep them at rest, and cranks Y, Y', push
them towards the spindles to cause the tubes to be acted upon by
the levers x, x¹, which push them into the receptacle. These levers x, x¹,
have their fulcra or axes on the frame, and they bear by their own
weight on and are moved by cams x, x¹¹, on the side shafts. The
length of the tubes to be manufactured may be varied as required by
having a change wheel adapted for each length.
The main features of this Invention are, the wheel with helicoidal
teeth, having dead points or stops to work the carriage carrying the
presser or gripper; the mode or means of producing impressions on the
paper by means of parallel rollers between which it passes; the mode of
and arrangement for cutting the paper first transversely and afterwards
lengthwise to make two tubes simultaneously; and the mode of and
arrangement for pushing or removing the tubes from the spindles and
guiding them towards the ground by means of special levers.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
machinery for the manufacture of paper tubes arranged and acting sub-
stantially as herein-before described with reference to the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.