Improvements in Machines with Vertical Spindles for Making Cable Laid Cords or Plaited Cords or Flat Tapes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1891-Accepted, 18th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines with Vertical Spindles for Making Cable
Laid Cords or Plaited Cords or Flat Tapes.
We WALTER TWISS GLOVER of the firm of W. T. Glover & Co. of Bridgewater
Street Ironworks Salford in the County of Lancaster Engineers and WILLIAM
EDMONDS SAN GARDE of Accrington in the said County of Lancaster, in the
employment of the said firmn do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The machines above referred to are usually provided with hollow spindles with
internal rods held up by the yarn which is being twisted & laid or plaited. These
rods support in general weights either attached to the rods inside or cornected with
them in some method outside the spindles. These rods and weights serve to put a
tension on the yarn of which the cords or tapes are being made and also to stop
the machine when the yarn breaks or the supply on the hobbin is exhausted. In
our invention however we use solid spindles with a hole at the top as being more
durable & enabling us to dispense with the internal rods and the weights and the
machines can consequently be run at a much speed thereby increasing the production.
We put a tension on the yarn by means of a drag motion at the upper end of the
spindle consisting of washers weights or springs bearing on the bobbin either above
or below or both. We fix a stop motion on the flyer which on the breaking of the
yarn or on the bobbin running empty comes in contact with the knock off lever and
stops the part of the machine affected thereby. Moreover by our invention we are
enabled to dispense with the ordinary droppers and thus facilitate and simplify the
threading of the yarn through the spindle and the yarn is also as a consequence
subjected to less unequal strain in passing from the bobbin to the closing die.
Morcover seeing we use solid spindles without rods & without weights we can use
them much shorter than they are ordinarily and the machine can thus be made
lower and more easily accessible for the girl or lad who has to attend to it.
Dated this Fourth day of September 1890.
WALTER TWISS GLOVER.
W. E. SAN GARDE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines with Vertical Spindles for Making Cable
Laid Cords or Plaited Cords or Flat Tapes.
We WALTER TWISS GLOVER of Bridgewater Street Iron Works Salford in
the County of Lancaster, Engineer and WILLIAM EDMONDS SAN GARDE of
Accrington in the said County, Manager of said Iron Works 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 :-
Our invention consists of improvements in machines with vertical spindles
especially such as are used for making cable laid, plaited or other cords and tapes
or ribbons. We put a tension on the yarn used in the manufacture of such cords
or tapes or ribbons by means of a drag motion consisting of weights D Figs. 3 & 4
Sheet 1 washers E Figs. 3 & 4 or springs C Figs. 1 & 2 at the upper end of the
bobbin L Fig. 1 on the spindle A Fig. 1, or by washers G Fig. 1 or springs
Figs. 3 & 4 at the bottom of the bobbin, or both at the top and at the bottom.
We fix a stop motion dropper as H Figs. 1. 2. 3. & 4 at some convenient position on
the flyer which on the breaking of the yarn or on a hobbin becoming empty falls

page_text: and comes in contact with the knock off lever1 Figs. 1 & 2 and stops the part of
the machine affected thereby. The washers at the top or at the bottom of the
bobbins may be plain on their flat surface, or when more tension is required than a
Hat surface secures they may be mills or corrugated on the flat surface as K Fig. 2.
The yarn coming from the bobbin is passed through a hole about midway in the
flyer M Figs. 1 & 3, then through the stop motion dropper II Figs. 1. 2. 3 & 4
next through the top of the flyer and then through a hole B Fig. 1 in the top of
the spindle A Fig. 1, which spindle may be hollow or solid, but preferably solid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
10. The stop motion dropper II Figs. 1. 2. 3 & 4 fixed on the flyer M Figs. 1 & 3,
substantially as aforesaid so as to come in contact with the knock off lever as
already described herein.
20. A drag motion for putting a tension on the yarn and consisting of an
arrangement of weights washers ail springs one or any or all of them substantially
as aforesaid and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
W. E. SAN GARDE.
Henry Edwards, on behalf of
WALTER T. GLOVER.
W. E. SAN GARDE.
Henry Edwards, on behalf of
WALTER T. GLOVER.