IMPROVEMENTS IN CREEL PEGS USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING SPINNING AND WINDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Patrick Coonan of Rishton near Blackburn in the County
of Lancaster for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CREEL PEGS USED IN
MACHINERY FOR PREPARING SPINNING AND WINDING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Patrick Coonan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th May 1883.
PATRICK COONAN of Rishton near Blackburn in the County of Lancaster
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CREEL PEGS USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING SPINNING
AND WINDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
"
The object of this invention is to make such creel pegs more durable than here-
tofore and also to allow of a softer yarn with less twist in it to be manufactured
with less liability for the breaking of the the thread.
The foot of the creel pegs at present in use is made of hard wood such as box-
wood or lancewood and after a time the points become soft and dull and the
fibres loose, causing more friction and hence more tension and breakage of the
yarn.
To obviate this defect I propose to provide the foot of the creel pegs with metal
tips in the following manner. I form the tips by preference of malleable cast
iron the lower part being in the usual concave conical form, and the upper part
forming a pointed tang about an inch long.
Before the creel pegs are turned I drive this tang into one end of the wood of
which the peg is to be formed, so far that the upper edge of the cone is recessed
into the end of the wood and I then proceed to turn the peg in the lathe in the
usual manner turning the wood and the metal to the same curve so that the joint
is quite smooth.
Creel pegs fitted with metal feet or tips in this manner will be found to be very
much more durable than those in ordinary use and the friction will be so very
slight that the sliver will require much less twist and will be much less liable to
break than heretofore, and the quality of the yarn will be greatly improved.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
"
by the said Patrick Coonan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th November 1883.
PATRICK COONAN of Rishton near Blackburn in the County of Lancaster
IMPROVEMENTS IN CREEL PEGS, USED IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING SPINNING
AND WINDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
"
The object of this invention is to make such creel pegs more durable than
heretofore and also to allow of a softer yarn with less twist in it to be manufactured
with a reduced liability for the breaking of the thread.
The foot of the creel pegs at present in use is made of hard wood such as box-
wood or lancewood and after a time the points become soft and dull and the fibres
loose, causing more friction and hence more tension and breakage of the yarn.
To obviate this defect I propose to provide the foot of the creel pegs with metal
tips in the following manner.
I form the tips by preference of malleable cast iron the lower part being in the
usual concave conical form, and the upper part forming a pointed tang about an
inch long.
Before the creel pegs are turned I drive this tang into one end of the wood, of
which the peg is to be formed, so far that the upper edge of the cone is recessed
into the end of the wood and I then proceed to turn the peg in the lathe in the
usual manner turning the wood and the metal to the same curve so that the joint
is quite smooth.
Creel pegs fitted with metal feet or tips in this manner will be found to be very
much more durable than those in ordinary use and the friction will be, so very.
slight that the sliver will require much less twist and will be much less liable to
break than heretofore, and the quality of the yarn will be greatly improved.
Having now described the nature and object of my said invention together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect I wish it to be understood that I claim as my invention the
manufacture of creel pegs (used in machinery for preparing, spinning and winding
cotton, and other fibrous substances) with metal feet or tips substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Patrick Coonan have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three
PATRIOT
COON ART