AN IMPROVEMENT IN REELING AND WINDING SILK AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of the Office for Patents, Breams' Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN REELING AND WINDING SILK
AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
In manufacturing silk threads a number of skeins are produced side by side
upon a long reel, and each skein is tied by itself after which the reel is collapsed
and the skeins when removed therefrom are ready for dyeing.
Heretofore the skeins have usually been made of small size for the reason that
in their dyeing and subsequent manipulation the skeins are apt to become tangled.
and have their traverse destroyed so that it is difficult to rewind them.
In order to enable larger skeins to be used and dyed without danger of their
being tangled and having their traverso destroyed, the skeins have been wound
dingonally from side to side, or with a quick traverse and have had Incings inserted
completely across from one side to the other, the lacing thread or cord being passed
repeatedly through the skein. While that method of lacing tends to prevent the
skein from being tangled and preserves the traverse, it is objectionable because the
skein cannot be spread or drawn apart at the points where it is thus laced in order
to thoroughly inspect it after dyeing, and the lacing cords or threads are apt to
bind the thread or fibre so tightly at the several points where it is tied or laced,
that the die cannot readily penetrate it at those points and consequently the skein
is liable to spot.
The object of my Invention is to obtain skeins which will not become tangled
and which can be spread or pulled apart at any and every point in its length,
width or thickness so that it may be thoroughly inspected and which are not
bound so tightly as to prevent dye from readily penetrating them at any point.
To this end my Invention consists in a new kind of skein obtained by winding
the silk or other material upon a reel diagonally from side to sido with a quick
traverse, and securing it at the edges only, by lacing or ties, thereby leaving the
skein free to be pulled apart or spread throughout its circumference.
The Invention also consists in a skein having a lacing cord or thread passing in
a circumferential direction and through it at intervals.

page_text: In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a swift and a
skein placed thereon for rewinding, and laced or secured according to my Invention.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the skein alone; and Figs. 3, 4 and 5 represent
portions of skeins illustrating modifications of my Invention.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
A is the skein or a portion thereof, and B the swift on which the skein is placed
for rewinding in the usual way.
The skein is wound with others on a reel, and diagonally with a quick traverse
as shown by the crossed fine lines in the Drawing.
The skein shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has at one edge a lacing cord or thread a run
along circumferentially and at long intervals passed through the skein always from
the same side and near the edge. The manner of inserting the cord or thread may
be likened to overhand sewing with a very long stitch. A similar lacing might be
applied to the other edge of the skein, but that is represented as tied at long
intervals by separate ties of cord or thread b which have the same effect as the
lacing a both edges of the skein being secured while the skein throughout almost
its whole width is free to be pulled apart or spread.
The skein, of which a portion is shown at Fig. 3, has at one edge a lacing cord
or thread a which is applied like the cord or thread a in Figs. 1 and 2, save that
it is overcast at the points a where it is passed through the skein.
The other edge of the skein is secured by short cords or laces c which are passed
twice through the skein and have their ends tied. These cords or laces extend in
the direction of the circumference of the skein.
The skein of which a portion is shown in Fig. 4 has a single lacing cord or
thread a inserted at long intervals through the skein alternately from the inner
and outer sides thereof, and extending alternately on the inner and outer sides of
the skein, its direction being generally circumferential so that it does not confine
the skein laterally.
In the example represented in Fig. 5 the lacing cord or thread a passes through
the skein at both edges alternately at intervening points, and crosses the outside of
the skein diagonally between the said points.
It may be readily understood that in the examples of my Invention represented
and described the skein can be pulled out laterally or spread at any point and the
dye can readily penetrate it at all points.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed i declare that what
I claim is,-
1. A skein of silk or other fibrous material wound diagonally from side to side
with a quick traverse and secured at the edges only by lacing or tying, leaving
the skein free to be pulled apart or spread throughout its entire circumference
substantially as herein described.
2. A skein of silk or other fibrous material wound diagonally from side to side
with a quick traverse and having a lacing cord or throad passing in a circum-
ferential direction and through it at intervals leaving the skein free to be pulled
apart or spread throughout its entire circumference substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of June 1884.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.