Im. PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS POB WINDING AND REELING YARN
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Broadbent, of Dawson's Croft Mill; Salford,
in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "Im.
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS POB WINDING AND REELING
YARN."
Sealed the 4th September 1866, and dated the 6th March 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Broadbent at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
March 1866.
I, JOHN BROADBENT, of Dawson's Croft Mill, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR WINDING AND
REELING YARN," to be as follows:-
The object of my improvements is to economise time and labor in supplying
and removing the bobbins to and from winding and reeling machines and
collecting them into a suitable receptacle.
In performing my Invention I apply an endless band running in a trough
extending the whole length of the winding or reeling machine; this band is
moved slowly by means of a worm and wheel or other suitable gearing

page_text: applied to one of the pulleys over which the band passes. As fast as the yarn
is unwound from the bobbins the empty bobbins are placed on the endless
band, which delivers them into the receptacle above referred to. The same
apparatus may be employed to collect the full bobbins.
My Invention may be modified by applying two or more endless bands to
the same machine for supplying or collecting the full bobbins and for removing
the empty bobbins.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Broadbent in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th September 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BROADBENT, of Dawson's Croft Mill, Salford, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suecessors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Broadbent, Her special license that I, the said. John
Broadbent, my executors, administrators, and; assigns, or such others as I,
the said John Broadbent, 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, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR WINDING AND REELING
YARN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Broadbent,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seat
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Broadbent, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention; and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:

page_text: The object of my improvements is to economise time and labor in supplying
and removing the bobbins to and from winding and reeling machines and
collecting them into a suitable receptacle.
In performing my Invention I apply an endless band running in a trough
extending the whole length of the winding or reeling machine; this band is
moved slowly by means of a worm and wheel or other suitable gearing
applied to one of the pulleys over which the band passes. As fast as the
yarn is unwound from the bobbins the empty bobbins are placed on the
endless band, which delivers them into the receptacle above referred to.
The same apparatus may be employed to collect the full bobbins.
My Invention may be modified by applying two or more endless bands tó
the same machine for supplying or collecting the full bobbins and for
removing the empty bobbins.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which represents a convenient
mode of carrying the same into operation.
Figure 1 is an end elevation, and Figure 2 a side view of the principal
parts of an ordinary winding machine. to which my improvements are
applied. a, a, are the frame ends of the machine; b, the tin drum; c, c, the
spindles on which the bobbins c¹ are placed, and d, d, the large bobbins on
which the yarn from the bobbins c¹ is wound; these parts are made in the
ordinary and well-known manner; e is a trough extending the whole length of
the machine; the upper part of this trough is considerably wider than the
lower part, which is made with parallel lines and contains the endless flat
band f, passing around the driving pulley 9 and the end pulley h; there are
also intermediate rollers i at suitable intervals to support the flat band f,
which is kept at the requisite tension by the adjusting screws j acting on
the bearings of the end pulley h, as shewn in Figure 2. The requisite slow
motion is given to the endless band by the small pulley 6' on the axle of the
tin drum b, and a short strap passing over the pulley on the same
shaft as the worm k gearing into the worm wheel g¹ on the axle of the
pulley g, or the motion may be communicated to the endless band in any
cther convenient manner. The mode of operation is as follows:-When the
machine is at work as fast as the yarn or thread is unwound off the bobbins c'
the empty bobbins are drawn off the spindles c, and thrown by the attendants
from both sides of the machine into the trough e, they immediately drop on
the endless flat band f, which moves in the direction of the arrow in Figure 2,
and as the bobbins pass over the end pulley h they drop into the receptacle 1.
By means of this improvement the time and labor of the attendants is

page_text: economised and space is also gained, as the baskets for collecting and
removing the empty bobbins are not required between the machines.
My Invention may be modified to suit any description of machine for
winding and reeling yarn and to collect the full bobbins as well as to remove
the empty ones, and in some cases two or more endless bands may be applied
to the same machine for supplying and collecting the full bobbins and for
removing the empty bobbins.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention and described a convenient
manner of performing the same, I declare that I claim the application of one
or more endless bands to winding and reeling machines for collecting,
removing, or supplying empty and full bobbins as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Broadbent, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.