IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR REELING AND TWISTING YARNS AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Greatwich, of Kidderminster, in the County of
Worcester, Mill Manager, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES
FOR REELING AND TWISTING YARNS AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Greatwich at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1880.
WILLIAM GREATWICH, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Mill
Manager. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR REELING AND TWISTING YARNS
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
This Invention consists in the construction of a machine designed to reel and
twist simultaneously yarns and other fibrous materials. The annexed Drawings
represent the machine in its several elevations. a is the ordinary frame carrying
the reel (6), the driving pulley (c), and change wheel (d); the brackets (e) carry a
spindle (f) and flyer (9) with a bobbin (h); the fraune also carries a series of relief
pulleys (i) for the purpose of easing the strain of the yarn upon the reel. The
bobbin (h) in this machine is made to travel in the reverse direction to that in
which the flyer turns, the object of which is to relieve the strain upon the yarns,
and to ease also the skein upon the reel. This machine may be used for any
number of threads that can be wound one bobbin, and is designed to strengthen
the yarn.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Greatwich in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
September 1880.
WILLIAM GREATWICH, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Mill
Manager. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR REELING AND TWISTING YARNS
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
This Invention consists in the construction of a machine designed to reel and
twist simultaneously yarns and other fibrous materials. The annexed Drawings
represent the machine in its several elevations. (a) is the ordinary frame carrying
the reel (b), the driving pulley (c), and change wheel (d); the brackets (e) carry a
spindle (f) and flyer (9) with a bobbin (h); the frame also carries a series of relief
pulleys (2) for the purpose of easing the strain of the yarn upon the reel. The
bobbin (h) in this machine is made to travel in the reverse direction to that in
which the flyer turns, the object of which is to relieve the strain upon the yarn,
and to ease also the skein upon the reel. This machine may be used for any
number of threads that can be wound upon one bobbin, and is designed to strengthen
the yarn.
In the annexed Drawings only a sufficient portion of the machine is shewn to
clearly elucidate the Invention, and in the Drawing (Sheet 2) is shewn a form of clutch
gearing designed to throw the reel out of gear when full, so that the attendant may
more readily remove the hanks from the reel.
The operation of the machine is as follows:-A bobbin (h) covered with yarn or
other fibrous material is mounted on the spindle (f), on which spindle are also the
flyers (9), these revolving in the opposite direction to that in which the bobbin
travels; the strain upon the yarn is eased, and so also is that of the hank or skein
upon the reel during the operation of twisting, and this result is further aided by
the pulleys (i), over which the twist passes onwards to the reel (b), supported in its
course by the guide (6¹). The operation having proceeded until the reel is full the
attendant throws the reel out of gear, freeing it from the driving pulley by releasing
the clutch gear, shewn in Sheet 2, and removing the banks; the apparatus is
thrown into gear again by the coiled spring (K), and is ready for use.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed I claim, the arrangement and combination of the
several mechanical parts or their equivalents into a machine for the purpose of
twisting and recling yarns or other fibrous materials, substantially as herein
more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Greatwich, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.