Improved Apparatus for Placing Paper Tubes on the Spindles of Spinning Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1890-Accepted, 5th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Placing Paper Tubes on the Spindles of
Spinning Machines.
A communication from AUGUSTIN STREUBEL, of Brodetz, in the Empire of Austria,
Spinning Mill Manager.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.1.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to a portable apparatus for placing paper tubes
quickly and securely on spindles of spinning machines.
This apparatus differs from the apparatus known up to the present time in so far
that it acts automatically, it can moreover be easily attended to, it can be constructed
for any distances between the spindles and also for any kind of paper tube case or
cylinder and has the further advantage of being very light and durable.
The apparatus consists of a series of preferably sheet zinc cases filled with
the paper tubes and then closed with lids. These cases are fastened to a channel
iron strengthened on one or both sides with iron bars. To the ends of the channel
iron is fixed a frame provided with handles. This frame carries two guide rods which
serve to guide the driving frame. On each side of this driving frame is a rack the
teeth of which gear with pinions. The driving frame is further provided with a series
of ejecting rods one for each case containing the paper tubes, which rods enter these
cases and bear against the paper tubes. The above named pinions being fixed to a
shaft which is under the influence of a coiled spring which tends to turn the said
shaft, the pinions will move the racks and the driving frame with its ejecting rods and
thus push the paper tubes towards the opening of the cases containing them.
The shaft is suitably journalled in the frame of the apparatus and is at one end
provided with a square head on which can be placed a key or crank for the purpose
of winding up the spring and simultaneously returning the driving frame. On the
other end the shaft is provided with a ratchet wheel and pawl which latter is held in
engagement with the teeth of the ratchet wheel by means of a spring. This arrange-
ment prevents the shaft from turning under the influence of the coiled spring unless
the pawl is disengaged from the ratchet wheel.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows: When the coiled spring is wound up,
the driving frame returned and the different cases filled with paper tubes, the cases
are closed by their lids and the pawl disengaged from the ratchet wheel. The paper
tubes are then pushed towards the openings of the cases containing them, but to
prevent the said tubes from being pushed out, the said openings are narrowed but
springy. To assure that the paper tubes shall stand exactly over the spindles the lids
of the cases containing the said paper tubes are provided with downwardly projecting
guides into which the spindles fit.
The operator thus places the apparatus over the spindles so that one spindle stands
under each of the front paper tubes; he then lowers the apparatus thus placing
the tubes on the spindles and withdraws the apparatus, the tubes slipping through the
narrowed openings of their cases and remaining on the spindles. Under the influence
of the coiled spring the next paper tubes will now stand against the opening and the
same operation can be repeated until all the spindles are provided with paper tubes.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Placing Paper Tubes on the Spindles of
Spinning Machines.
A communication from AUGUSTIN STREUBEL, of Brodetz, in the Empire of Austria,
Spinning Mill Manager.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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:-
The present invention relates to a portable apparatus for placing paper tubes
quickly and securely on spindles of spinning machines.
This apparatus differs from the apparatus known up to the present time in so far
that it acts automatically, it can moreover be easily attended to, it can be constructed
for any distances between the spindles and also for any kind of paper tube, case or
cylinder and has the further advantage of being very light and durable.
The accompanying drawings represent the said machine and shows in
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Fig. 1 a front and partial lateral section; in fig. 2 a side or end view; in
fig. 3a full sized section of one of the cases. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the spring,
Fig. 5 a detail view of the rack wheel, fig. 6 a transverse section of one of the cases
and Fig. 7 the machine in its application over the self-actor spindles.
The apparatus consists of a series of preferably sheet zinc cases A A¹ A² to A³
(fig. 1) each of which as shown at A is filled with the paper tubes R and then covered
with sliding lids B, figs. 2, 3 and 6. These cases are fixed in a channel iron
frame Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and are consolidated or connected together by means of
the flat bar D figs. 2, 3 and 7.
With the ledge (the frame E is firmly connected and provided with handles F.
The frame E carries two guide rods & figs. 1 and 3 which serve to guide the
driving frame H.
On cach side of the frame H there is a rack J with the teeth of which the
wheels K engage. These wheels are rigidly fixed on the shaft L figs. 1, 5 and 7
and as by the spring M within the case W the tendency to rotate in the direction
of the arrow I fig. 4 is imparted to the shaft L or in other words the rods the
small wheels K move the racks J and also the frame H and the poles H' figs. 1,
3 and 6 and by this means also the paper tubes R in the cases are moved towards
the orifices N N3 N° of the cases A A³ A".
The shaft L is supported in the bearings O figs. 1, 2, and 7 and at one of its ends
terminates in a rectangular part P figs. 1 and 7 on this end P is placed a crank by
which the frame H is drawn in the direction of the arrow II figs. and 3. The
shaft carries on the other end a small ratchet wheel Q fig. 5 to prevent the shaft
from rotating under the influence of the spring M the small ratchet wheel is retained
in position by the pawl T which is kept in gear with the ratchet wheel by the flat
spring S.
When it is required to release the ratchet wheel this can be done by depressing the
lever d which is pivoted so as to turn about the axis of the disc t in the direction of
the arrow fig. 5, by which a pin u mounted eccentrically upon the said disc is raised
and moved at the same time to the right and thereby carries round with it the pawl
pivoted at whereby the ratchet wheel is set free and commences by the action of the
spring M to rotate.
The operation of the apparatus when applied to self-actor spindles is as follows;-
After the driving frame is completely drawn up by the above mentioned crank
fixed on the shaft L in the direction of the arrow II fig. 1, and retained in this
position by the ratchet wheel the cases A A¹ to A are filled with paper tubes after
which the lids or covers B see figs. 1 and 6 are pushed in so as to cover them and the
ratchet wheel is released by means of the lever or arm d figs. 1 and 5. The
machine is then turned round and moved towards the ends of the spindles fig. 7. In

page_text: order to prevent the paper tubes falling out of the cases in consequence of the pressure
of the rods the orifices N-N to Nº are spring controlled or contracted by spring
action.
To place the paper tubes exactly over the centre of the spindles wings b are provided
on the lids for the reception or guidance of the spindles.
The paper tubes are fitted on the spindles in the following manner ;-
The machine is moved a sufficient distance over the spindles for each of them to be
beneath one of the tubes and is then lowered so that the tubes are received on the
spindles. The machine is then drawn in the direction indicated by the arrow I l in
fig. 1 by which action on each of the spindles the foremost of the paper cases will
remain. The machine is then moved along to another series of empty spindles and
the operation is repeated as by the removal of the foremost paper tubes the remaining
tubes are automatically pushed forward by the spring M.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An apparatus for placing paper tubes on the spindles of spinning machines con-
sisting of a frame E FF GG to which is fixed a series of spring cases containing
paper tubes and provided with lids or covers B in which cases engages a row of
rods H attached to the moving frame H and adapted to move forward the tubes R
contained in the said cases A to A substantially as described and illustrated in the
drawing.
2. The mechanism for advancing the rods H consisting of two racks J J arranged
at the ends of bar H and gearing with toothed wheels K secured on the shaft L which
is rotated when a small ratchet wheel Q is released by the expanding action of a spiral
spring M fixed to its end and located in a case W when it causes the said racks and
consequently the rods H' to move in the direction of the arrow I thus carrying the
tubes R towards the orifices N to N° of the tube cases contracted by spring action
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In apparatus for placing paper tubes on the spindles of spinning machines the
catch arrangement consisting of a ratchet wheel Q mounted upon shaft L, which
ratchet wheel when the spiral spring M is contracted by the rotation of the shaft Lis
retained in position by a pawl T and when the crank d is turned in the direction of
the arrow Fig. 5 is by means of a pin u released from its engagement with the said
pawl thus enabling the spiral spring M to exercise the action indicated in the pre-
ceding claim substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1890.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.