Improvements in and connected with the Winding and Delivering of Weft Thread for Use in Weaving.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with the Winding and Delivering
of Weft Thread for Use in Weaving.
A communication from FRANKLIN FULTON HODGES, of 115, Chauncy Street,
Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Straw
Goods Manufacturer.
1, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
Weft thread made from fibrous material is commonly wound upon bobbins as it
is spun, and said bobbins, or it may be cop-tubes, containing the weft thread are
put upon spindles of loom shuttles.
The use of a spindle and bobbin, one or both, in a loom shuttle takes up very.
much of the available space at the interior of the shuttle, space which should be
occupied with thread, for the longer the weft thread, the longer the loom may be.
run without stopping for change of shuttle or resupplying of weft.
Some fibrous threads of more or less stiff character, as for instance, paper
thread, is very difficult to handle rapidly on a bobbin, and it was to use this class
of weft that my present invention was first devised, but my invention is also
applicable to other fibrous threads, as of cotton, wool, linen, silk, or their.
mixtures.
In leading up to my invention my correspondent attempted to wind the thread
after the manner of what is known as the filling wind, and then to remove the
wound mass or cop from the spindle or bobbin, and put it into the shuttle with the
base of the cop next that end of the shuttle containing the delivery eye, the thread
being drawn out of the interior of the shuttle from its base end, or the end where
the winding to build up the cop was started.
In such plan the thread was drawn directly out from the base of the cop and
the strain of delivery was 'always from the base toward the nose of the cop and
after the thread had been drawn out of the base for from one-third to half the
length of the cop, one or more conical layers would pull out at the base of the
cop and form a tangle which would break the thread and result in the stopping of
the loom.
The operator would then pull away and break off the thread which had been
pulled off in coils, and rethread the shuttle.
This plan resulted in such great loss of thread that it had to be abandoned, but
it was discovered that this waste of thread and stoppage of the loom might be
obviated, hence my present invention.
In accordance with my invention the cop is wound in conical layers after the
manner of the filling wind, the runs of thread from one to the other extremity of
each layer being somewhat coarse; and the end of the thread, commencing the first
conical layer, is led from the base of the cop out through the pointed end of the
cop, and the thread, the winding of which was started at the base, is unwound
from the interior of the cop out through its point rather than out through its base,"
and as a result thereof it is impossible for the conical layers of thread, one within
the other from the base toward the point, to be pulled out of the base several
coils at a time, for the strain on the thread during the delivery operation is always

page_text: exerted in the direction to keep the conical layers seated each in the next one to
it toward the nose of the cop its delivery end.
The shuttle body has its inner side walls suitably notched to form teeth, to
coöperate with the outer surface of the cop and aid in keeping it in place in the
shuttle notwithstanding the shocks to which the shuttle is subjected by the usual
picker stick.
The shuttle has a friction strap, preferably of metal,. which is kept in place by
a suitable catch, a suitable tension device acting on the thread after leaving the
eye, or post, and on its way out from the shuttle body at the delivery eye in the
side wall-of-the shuttle..
The thread preparatory to winding it into cop form is connected to the tip of
the spindle, and thereafter the building of the cop is commenced and carried on
so as to form the first conical layer for the base of the cop, the second layer being
laid backwardly over it and then back again, the winding in conical layers being
continued backward and forward after the manner of the filling wind, but with
rather long spirals, until the nose of the cop-is built, when the thread is broken off
and wrapped about the nose and secured in some suitable knot or twist outside.
the cop.
The wound cop is then removed from the spindle and is put when wanted into
the shuttle, and the end of the thread which was connected to the spindle near its
point, and about which conical layer after conical layer was wound in building up
the cop from the base to its nose or point is led out through the delivery eye of the
shuttle, so that said thread lies in the centre of the cop. Now when the shuttle is
put into use in the loom; the thread is pulled off in the direction from the nose of the
cóp through its hollow centre to its base, so that the conical layers first wound are
first drawn off through the hollow nose of the cop, and the strain being in such
direction the tendency of the conical layers to be pulled out in a mass several
layers at a time from the base of the cop and form a tangle and break the thread
is obviated and the thread will pull off steadily and uniformly without kinks up to
substantially the last layer wound in the finishing of the nose of the cop.
This invention is of great practical importance with a fibrous weft of the nature
of paper, and the delivery is easier and with less strain than were the thread to be
unwound from the point of the cop backward, one conical layer after another being
taken off the outside of the cop..
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COMPLETE. SPECIFICATION....
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Improvements in and connected with the Winding and Delivering
of Weft Thread for Use in Weaving.
A communication from abroad by FRANKLIN FULTON HODGES, of 115, Chauncy
Street, Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America,
Straw Goods Manufacturer.
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I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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:-
. Weft thread made from fibrous material is conĭmonly wound upon bobbins as it
is spun, and said bobbins, or it may be cop-tubes, containing the weft thread are
put upon spindles of loom shuttles.
: The use of a spindle and bobbin, one or both, in a loom shuttle takes up very

page_text: much of the available space at the interior of the shuttle, space which should be:
occupied with thread, for the longer the weft thread, the longer the loom may be.
run without stopping for change of shuttle or resupplying of weft.
Some fibrous threads of more or less stiff character, .as for instance, paper.
thread, are very difficult to handle rapidly on a bobbin,.and it was to use this class
of weft that the present invention was first devised, but the invention is also
applicable to other fibrous; threads as of cotton; wool,. linen, silk, or their
mixtures.
In leading up to my invention my correspondent attempted to wind the thread
after the manner of what is known as the "filling, wind," and then to remove the
wound mass or cop from the spindle or bobbin, and put it into the shuttle with the
base of the cop next that end of the shuttle containing the delivery eye, the thread
being drawn out of the interior of the shuttle from its base end, for the end where
the winding to build up the cop was started.
In such plan the thread was drawn directly out. from the base of the cop and
the strain of delivery was always from the base toward the nose of the cop and
after the thread had been drawn out of the base for from one third to half the
length of the cop, one or more conical layers would pull out at the base of the.
cop and form a tangle which would break the thread and result in the stopping of.
the loom.
The operator would then pull away and break off the thread which had been
pulled off in coils, and rethread 'the shuttle.
This plan resulted in such great loss of thread that it had to be abandoned but
it was discovered that this waste of thread and stoppage of the loom might be
obviated, hence my present invention.
In accordance with the invention the cop is wound in conical layers after the
manner of the, "filling wind," the runs of thread from one to the other extremity
of each layer being somewhat coarse, and the end of the thread, commencing the
first conical layer, is led from the base of the cop out through the pointed end
of the cop, and the thread, the winding of which was started at the .base, is
unwound from the interior of the cop out. through its point, rather than out
through its base, and as a result thereof it is impossible for the conical layers of
thread, one within the other from the base toward the point, to be pulled out of
the base several coils at a time, for the strain on the thread during the delivery
operation is always exerted in the direction to keep the conical layers seated each
in the next one to it toward the nose of the cop its delivery end..
Fig. 1 in top view shews a loom shuttle containing a cop wound and being
delivered in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2 is a section in the line.
The shuttle body A has its inner side walls suitably notched to form teeth a, to
co-operate with the outer surface of the cop and aid in keeping it in place in the
shuttle notwithstanding the shocks to which the shuttle is subjected by the usual
picker stick.
The shuttle has a friction strap b preferably of metal, which is kept in place by
a suitable catch ', a suitable tension device 6 acting on the thread after leaving
the eye or post 63 and on its way out from the shuttle body at the delivery eye in
the side wall of the shuttle. .
The thread t preparatory to winding it into cop form was connected to the tip
of the spindle, and thereafter the building of the cop was commenced at the
point 2 and carried to the point 3 so as to form the first conical layer for the base
of the cop, the second layer being laid backwardly over it from the point 3 to the
point 4 and then back again to nearly the point 3, the winding in conical layers
being continued backward and forward after the manner of the filling wind, but
with rather long spirals, until the nose of the cop is built, as at n, when the thread
is broken off and wrapped about the nose and secured in some suitable knot or
twist outside the cop. The wound cop is then removed from the spindle and is
put when wanted into the shuttle, and the end 2 of the thread which was connected

page_text: to the spindle near its point, and about which conical layer after conical layer was
wound in building up the cop from the base to its nose or point is led out through
the delivery eye of the shuttle, so that said thread lies in the centre of the cop,
as shewn in the drawing.
Now when the shuttle is put into use in the loom, the thread is pulled off
and the pull on the thread is from the nose of the cop through its hollow centre to
its base, so that the conical layers first wound are first drawn. off through the
hollow nose of the cop, and the strain being in such direction the tendency of the
conical layers to be pulled out in a mass several layers at a time from the base of
the cop and form a tangle and break the thread is obviated and the thread will
pull off steadily and uniformly without kinks up to substantially the last layer
wound in the finishing of the nose of the cop.
This invention is of great practical importance with a fibrous weft of the
nature of paper, and the delivery is easier and with less strain than were the
thread to be unwound from the point of the cop backward, one conical layer after
another being taken off the outside of the cop.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described method of winding and delivering weft thread, which
consists in winding the thread into cop-form in conical layers commencing at the
base of the cop and ending at the nose thereof, leading the end of the thread back
of the first conical layer of the base of the cop through the nose of the cop, and
thereafter pulling the thread laid into conical layers for the commencement of the
base of the cop, and the thread of subsequent successive layers out through the
nose or last finished end of the cop, the strain on the thread being exerted from
the base of the cop toward the nose thereof to thus keep the successive conical
layers subjected to a strain to keep the successive layers together, substantially as
described.
Dated the 21st day of March 1894.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.