IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING OR BALLING YARN OR OTHER TWISTED MATERIAL
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Combe, of Belfast, in the County of
Antrim, and Kingdom of Ireland, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING OR BALLING YARN OR OTHER TWISTED
MATERIAL."
Sealed the 3rd July 1868, and dated the 6th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Combe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th January 1868.
I, JAMES COMBE, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, and Kingdom
of Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING OR BALLING YARN OR OTHER
TWISTED MATERIAL," to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to the formation of rolls or cylinders
of yarn or other twisted material, but some of the parts are applicable
to other winding machines, and they consist of a new arrangement of
machinery for forming these rolls or cylinders on a bare spindle or
skewer, or upon a tube of any suitable material, which when required
can be withdrawn from the roll. The yarn is wound by surface contact

page_text: with a horizontal drum or roller, so that the material is wound on at a
uniform speed, and the parts that carry the roll are so contrived that
when it has attained the required diameter it is lifted out of contact
and thereby stopped. This same arrangement is also used to facilitate
the piecing of the yarn when it breaks, or the bobbin or hank from
which it is wound is exhausted, each roll being independent of the
others in the same machine. The quick traverse is used for the purpose
specified and described in the present Inventor's Patent, dated
April 29th, 1867, No. 1241.
To simplify further the action of the machine the thread guide is of
a novel construction being so made that it takes hold of the thread
or yarn by the action of the traverse and without requiring any
threading through by the attendant. This thread guide is applicable
to other winding machines, but is of especial advantage in the case of
the very quick traverse which is required in machines which form rolls
which can be handled and used in different processes of manufacture
without having always a tube or skewer in them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said James Combe in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
COMBE, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, and Kingdom of Ireland,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of January, 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 beirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Combe, Her special licence, that
I, the said James Combe, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said James Combe, 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 FOR

page_text: WINDING OR BALLING YARN OR OTHER TWISTED MATERIAL," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said James Combe, 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 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 James Combe, 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say) :-
-:
This Invention relates, first, to a novel arrangement of mechanism
for the formation of rolls or cylinders of yarn or other twisted material;
and, secondly, to the application of certain parts of this arrangement to
other winding machines.
The nature of the Invention will be understood on reference to the
Drawings annexed, in conjunction with the following description wherein
the same letters of reference apply to the same parts in all the views.
Fig. 1 shews in vertical end section a double winding machine
constructed according to my Invention for forming rolls or cylinders of
yarn on a bare spindle or skewer, or upon a tube of any suitable
material which when required can be withdrawn from the roll. The
Drawing illustrates the winding of the yarn on one side from bobbins
and on the other side from reels, one row only of rolls being formed on
each side. Where it is required to wind from bobbins only more rows of
rolls than one may be formed on each side of the machine, and the
machine instead of being double as shewn may be made single.
a is one of a series of skewers or spindles on which the rolls a¹
are to be wound. These spindles or skewers are carried loosely in
small rocking frames b, one of which is shewn in plan view at Fig. 2.
This frame rocks on a stud b' made fast to a flat vertical bracket c
connected with a transverse horizontal bar C which is supported by
the main framing A of the machine. The frame b has a wedge-shaped
projection 6' at its rear, and in contact therewith is a weighted crank.

page_text: lever d having a corresponding wedge-shaped projection d' which bears
upon the part 3 of the rocking frame b, and is intended to put pressure
upon the roll during its formation; B, are transverse friction rollers for
giving motion to the spindles a, and the rolls forming thereon. Upon
these rollers B the rolls a¹ are respectively pressed until they have
become of the required diameter. The rolls in attaining this size will
lift this frame b and cause eventually the points of the wedges d¹, 6³, to
pass each other, the action of the weighted lever on the frame b will
then be reversed, and the wedge d¹ now acting upon the upper surface of
the wedge-like projection 6 on the roll frame b, will lift the roll a¹ out
of contact with the surface or driving roller B and thus stop its motion.
The yarn in going on to the spindle a passes from the bobbin e or reel f
as the case may be, through the thread guide g, which receives a quick.
reciprocatory motion or traverse parallel to the axis of the roller B for
the purpose of laying the yarn evenly over the spindle. This traverse
motion is effected by mounting the guide upon a horizontal rock lever g¹
which has for its fulcrum a pin G. The rock lever carries at its side a
bowle which is acted upon by a side tappet h mounted on a transverse
shaft H. The coils of yarn are thus caused to bind together and make
the roll so that when taken off the spindle or tube a it will retain its
form independently of any bobbin or tube.
The peculiar construction of the thread guide 9 (which is applicable as
above stated to other winding machines than that above described) will
be seen from the enlarged views, Figures 3 and 4. The object of thus,
constructing the guide is to enable it in passing backwards and forwards
to take hold of the thread and retain its hold thercon, thereby obviating
the necessity for threading which would be very inconvenient, if not
impracticable with such a quick traverse as is required in my improved
machine. When starting to form a roll or after piecing an end, the
spindle skewer tube a or partly formed roll a¹ is brought down into
contact with the surface roller B and the yarn or thread e', f', is thereby
drawn into a straight line from the guide rod i to the top of the surface
roller B. The thread guide g is set in such a position that when it
passes the yarn by the action of its traverse from right to left, it lifts the
yarn over its upper inclined surface and on its return to the right it
depresses the yarn by its inclined under side until it slips by the traverse
of the guide ġ into the groove g² which being made sufficiently deep
retains the yarn in position, thereby ensuring its being carried backward
and forward by the traverse of the guide.

page_text: I would here remark that when winding more rows of rolls than one
on the same side of the machine a corresponding change in the number
of surface rollers will be required for rotating the spindles, and that as
each roll is independent of the others (the rocking frames being arranged
in lines on independent fulcrums as will be readily understood,) the
piecing of the yarns when they break, or the bobbins or reels are
exhausted may be effected with great facility.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "Improvements
in Machinery for Winding or Balling Yarn or other Twisted Material,
and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it
to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent, I
claim,―
First. The arrangement above described for making rolls by a quick
traverse and surface contact winding from either hanks or bobbins, and
with one or more tiers of surface rollers.
Second. The means described for stopping the roll when it has reached
the required diameter, and the application of this contrivance to ordinary
spool or bobbin winding machines.
Third. The peculiar form of self-threading thread guide above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Combe, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Third day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JAMES COMBE. (L.S.)