IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BAND OR ROPE
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Hirst, Cyrus Earnshaw, and Andrew Holroyd,
all of Marsden, near Huddersfield, in the County of York, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING BAND OR ROPE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Hirst, Cyrus
Earnshaw, and Andrew Holroyd at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 22nd September 1880).
SAMUEL HIRST, CYRUS EARNSHAW, and ANDREW HOLROYD, all of Marsden, near
Huddersfield, in the County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
MAKING BAND OR ROPE."
This Invention relates to a new combination and arrangement of apparatus for
making rope or band, such as that employed in driving the spindles of spinning
machinery, or for other purposes.
Our improvements consist in the employment of a wheel or face plate, onto
which are placed in a horizontal position, say two, three, or more spindles, having
bobbins loose thereon containing the yarn or strands for making the band or rope.
Upon these spindles are fixed a bracket carrying one or more grooved pullies, over
which the yarn or strand passes, and thence forward through a hole formed at one
end of the spindle. Motion is communicated to the face plate by pulley or other
suitable means; and by gear wheels motion is given to the spindles for twisting
the yarn or strands, and the yarn or strands thus twisted are carried forward and
passed through two or more holes in the shaft of the face plate, when the two,
three, or more strands are twisted together into one band or rope. For preventing
the bobbins running at various speeds, and thus delivering the yarn or strands irre-
gularly, a band, cord, or strap is passed around the flange of each bobbin. By this
arrangement of apparatus the use of a "rope walk" is not required, and considerably
more band can be produced in a given time than can be effected by the present
construction of machinery.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Samuel Hirst, Cyrus Earnshaw, and Andrew Holroyd in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 22nd March 1881.
SAMUEL HIRST, CYRUS EARNSHAW, and ANDREW HOLROYD, all of Marsden, near
Huddersfield, in the County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
MAKING BAND OR ROPE"
This Invention relates to a new combination and arrangement of apparatus for
making rope or band, such as that employed in driving the spindles of spinning
machinery, or for other purposes.
Our improvements consist in the employment of a wheel or face plate, onto
which are placed in a horizontal position, say two, three, or more spindles, having
bobbins mounted loosely thereon, containing the yarn or strands for making the
band or rope. Upon each of these spindles is fixed a bracket carrying one or more
=grooved-pullies, over which-the-yarn-or-strand-passes-and-thence-forward-through
a hole formed in the end of a spindle. Motion is communicated to the face plate
by pully or other suitable means, and motion is imparted to the spindles for
twisting the yarn or strands by a suitable arrangement of gear wheels. The yarns
-or-strands-when-twisted-are-carried-forward-and-passed-through-two_or_more_holes.
in the shaft of the face plate, when the two, three, or more strands are twisted
together into one band or rope.
For preventing the bobbins from running at various speeds, and thus delivering
the yarn or strands irregularly, a band, cord, or strap is passed around the flango
of each bobbin, or around pullies connected therewith.
By this arrangement of apparatus the use of a "rope-walk" is not required, and
considerably more band can be produced in a given time than can be produced
by existing machinery.
In order that our Invention may be more fully understood, we herein give
reference to the accompanying Sheets of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side
elevation of the machine; Fig. 2 an end elevation; Fig. 3 a front view of face plate
and twisting apparatus; and Figs. 4 and 5, details.
A is the main shaft of the machine, upon which is mounted a face plate B
carrying three or more elongated bosses or sleeves C. Through each of these bosses
passes a spindle D, upon one end of which is keyed a spur wheel E, and on the
other end a bracket F carrying two grooved pullies F¹. At the end of each spindle
is a diagonal hole for the strand of yarn to pass through. The strands of yarn aro
wound upon bobbins G which are mounted upon the bosses C, each bobbin being
connected by a pin a with a pulley H, also mounted on the boss. C. Over the
entire series of pullies H is passed an endless cord, in the manner shewn in Fig. 3,
for the purpose of securing a uniform rate of speed. The strands of yarn pass
through holes in the end of the driving shaft A (as shewn in detail, Figs. 4
and 5) and are thereby twisted into a rope which passes over pulley K and under
the pulley L back to the driving end of the machine, being drawn in this direction
by grooved nipping rollers M. These rollers are provided with grooves of various
diameters to suit different thicknesses of rope.
The spindles D are caused to revolve upon their own axes by means of the
wheels E which gear through intermediates N with the wheel P which is fixed to
the bracket Q, the shaft A passing through the centre thereof. Around the
wheel P the wheels E and N revolve with a sun and planet movement.
tension or nipping rollers M are driven by the train of gearing R, S, T, from
the main driving shaft.
The
Having thus described the nature of our invention, and shewn by Drawings how
the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practice, we would have it

page_text: understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details of construction
herein shewn, as the same may be varied, but what we claim as our Invention and
consider to be new is,―
Firstly. The employment of a revolving face plato B carrying a number of
bobbins G, caused to revolve upon their own axes, and also around a central axis A
in the manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
Secondly. The combination of a face plate B with the bobbins G and brackets F,
as and for the purpose herein shewn and described.
Thirdly. The formation of guides or eyes b in or about the end of the shaft A, as
and for the purpose herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Andrew Holroyd, for and on behalf of myself
and the said Samuel Hirst and Cyrus Earnshaw, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
ANDREW HOLROYD. (LS.)