Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Winding or Spooling Thread, Filling, or Yarn.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Winding or Spooling
Thread, Filling, or Yarn.
A communication from abroad by JOHN WILLMARTH FOSTER, of Westfield, in
the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, in the United States
of America, Superintendent.
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 :-
This invention has for its object the production of a machine for simultaneously
winding thread or yarn onto a number of cones or tubes, a plurality of yókes to
sustain spindles for supporting cones or tubes being arranged about a rotatable
drum, a plurality of suitable driving rolls being also arranged about the drum,
and in order that the thread or yarn may be wound in the same manner and
direction onto the cones or tubes at opposite points of the drum, an idle driver
is interposed between the driving rolls at one side of the drum.
The thread or yarn may be taken directly from skeins or other sources of supply.
The frame of the machine has a main shaft, on which is secured a series of large
drums arranged end to end and provided each with a spiral groove preferably
extended entirely about the drum, and from near one to near the other end.
Guide bars are supported in suitable uprights, oue at each side the centre of
rotation of the drum, and thread guides are mounted on the guide bars, a plurality
of said guides for each drum, each guide having a suitable projection to enter
a groove in the drum, so that each groove receives the feet of a plurality
of thread guides.
The shaft referred to is connected by suitable means with shafts having ratchet
wheels thereon constituting stop motion actuating devices, the ratchet wheels being
rotated continuously and being adapted to be engaged by pivoted leg levers when-
ever a thread breaks or becomes slack, a drop wire at such time acting upon the:
leg lever to bring it into co-operation with the ratchet wheel to act upon-latches:
jointed each to a lever having at its upper end suitable open or enlarged bearings,.
the lever receiving the journals of a driving roll of suitable construction.
When the stop motion is actuated, the lever removes the driving roll from:
frictional contact with the periphery of the drum, and the rotation of the roll.
and also the thread winding operation is stopped.
The levers which carry the rolls are composed each of a rock-shaft having one
depending arm connected to a latch and two upwardly extended arms forked or
shaped to constitute bearings for the rolls, the rock shafts taking bearings at their
ends in suitable stands.
The yokes may be used to support either a cone holding or a tube-holding dead
spindle, and preferably the yoke will be so constructed that one part may be
adjusted on the other to enable the yarn to be wound more or less close to the base
end of the cone or tube, and the spindle for holding the cone is so hinged or
pivoted that it does not need to be removed from the yoke when it is desired
to take off or apply a cone.

page_text: The yokes are carried upon a suitable rod, and means are provided for preventing
the too easy rising of the yoke as the yarn is being wound onto the cone or tube,
and the centres of motion of the yoke and brake are sufficiently eccentric one to
the other to cause the brake to exert a little more power as the yoke rises than
when it falls.
A dead spindle pivoted to one arm of a yoke is surrounded loosely by a hollow
sleeve having a conical base, said sleeve being provided with cone or shell engaging
devices which may be moved to effect the engagement or disengagement of the
interior of the cone when it is desired to apply a cone to the sleeve to be filled
with yarn or to remove a filled cone.
The dead spindle pivoted on the yoke may have mounted on it a sliding cam
adapted when the spindle is turned outwardly from the yoke to strike a projection
connected with the yoke, thus causing the cam to be slid on the spindle and act
on the ends of a cone-engaging device made as a spring dog or dogs having suitable
points, the said engaging device being connected to a sleeve mounted to rotate
loosely on the spindle, the pin or pins engaging the interior of a paper or other
cone or shell, the sleeve having at its ends suitable surfaces to fill the interior
of and hold the cone or shell at its ends.
When the spindle is turned into and both ends are held by the yoke, the engaging
device by its expansion pushes the cam toward the pivoted end of the spindle and
enables the engaging device to project its pin into the cone or shell.
Or the sleeve on the spindle may have a conical base with slots to receive pins
connected to the cone-engaging devices, made as dogs, mounted to turn about
pivots set in the base, the pins being acted upon by suitable cam devices when the
spindle and base are rotated inde endently of the cam member.
The cam member or disc has two pins, and when the sleeve on the spindle
and the disc with it, are turned out and the spindle rotated, the pins will contact
with one or another of two stops forming part of the yoke arm.
When a pin meets a stop, the disc will be arrested, so that further rotation of
the sleeve and its base will cause the pins to travel from the edge of the disc, and
according to the direction of rotation of the sleeve and base with its attached
engaging devices, the said devices will be thrown out to engage with the interior
of the cone or shell to confine it to the sleeve and base on the spindle, or they will
be retracted to release their hold upon the cone or shell to let it be removed
from the sleeve and spindle.
The yoke is provided with a spindle stop against which the base of the sleeve
will strike when the spindle is turned out into position to have a conical tube
taken from or put upon it.
The free end of the dead spindle enters a suitable bearing in the other arm.
When it is desired to wind yarn upon a plain cylindrical tube, one of the
yoke arms is removed and another substituted of suitable shape to receive and
constitute a bearing for a spindle, the arm having a lug provided with a hole to
receive a stud forming part of said bearing, so that the bearing may tip on the
lug, the bearing receiving one end of the spindle the latter beyond the bearing
having a pin extended therethrough to prevent the spindle from dropping out
of the bearing when one end of the spindle is turned aside cut of the yoke.
The spindle has a screw thread or projection to engage the end of the paper
or other tube.
The number of spindles which the drum may rotate is not limited, nor must
the spindles be located at a certain number of degrees apart about the cylinder,
and other devices may be employed in the stop motion.
The machine may be provided with supports for swifts, one set of swifts being
located above and the other set below the drum shaft, the yarn from the swifts
being led under suitable tension rods or devices on its way to the thread guides of
the machine.
The arms carrying the driving rolls for rotating the sleeve or spindle have
connected directly to them the latches carrying part of the stop motion mechanism,.

page_text: so that the latter directly moves the arms to place the driving roll carried
thereby out of frictional contact with the driving drum.
Fig. 1 of the drawing shews an end view of a winding or spooling machine
containing my improvements.
Fig. 14, shews stand 67* detached.
Fig. 2, is a detail shewing part of the drum and the winding devices and stop
motion mechanism used at the left side of the machine viewing Fig. 1.
Fig. 2, shews some of the parts in Fig. 2 enlarged.
Fig. 2B, shews part of the sectional driving roll at the left in Fig. 1, with its
support enlarged, the driving roll at the opposite side of the drum being like it,
but shewn as differently supported.
Fig. 2, a detail of the devices for holding up the yokes carrying the spindles.
Fig. 3 shews the devices and stop motion used at the right of the drum.
Fig. 4, a front elevation of the machine represented in Fig. 1, it being shewn as
broken out between its ends to save space on the drawings, one of the yokes being
sliewn as containing a pivoted spindle provided with a sleeve having a paper cone,
another or thread yoke having a pivoted spindle provided with a paper tube, while
the central yoke shews the spindle and sleeve without the paper cone.
Fig. 4, shews, enlarged, the yoke holding the spindle for a paper tube.
Fig. 4, a detail looking to the left from the dotted line 8, Fig. 4^.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of a yoke having a dead spindle and a sleeve thereon
adapted to receive and hold a paper cone, the cone being shewn by dotted lines,
other dotted lines shewing the spindle with its sleeve turned out of working
position.
Fig. 6 is a left hand end view of the yoke and holder shewn in Fig. 5, the
spindle being omitted.
Fig. 7, is a right hand end view, the spindle being omitted.
Fig. 8, a section of the spindle and sleeve in the line a Fig. 5 said figure
shewing a face view of the base of the sleeve with the cone holding dogs or devices
retracted.
Fig. 9, a similar view with the dogs or devices thrown out in operative position.
Fig. 10, an inner side or rear view of said base.
Fig. 11, a section in the line at, Fig. 10.
Fig. 12, a view similar to Fig. 10, but with the parts in a different position.
Fig. 13 shews one of the thread-guides a detached.
Fig. 14, in longitudinal section, shows part of a spindle-carrying yoke, and a
modified form of sleeve to hold a conical shell, the dotted lines showing the spindle
and its parts turned out of working position.
Fig. 15, is an end view of the yoke and parts shewn in Fig. 14 the dotted
line shewing the line of section for Fig. 14; aud
Fig. 16, is a cross-section in the line -, Fig. 14.
The frame A, of suitable shape to contain the working parts, has suitable
bearings for a shaft A', on which is secured a series of large drums A² arranged
end to end and each provided with a spiral groove extended preferably, as shewn,
entirely about the drum, and as herein shewn, from near one to near the other end
of said drum.
The frame has suitable uprights B, B, one at each side the centre of rotation of
the drum said uprights supporting respectively guide-bars a' shewn best in Figs. 2^
and 4, upon which are mounted like thread guides a², a plurality of thread-guides
for each drum, said thread-guides having each a suitable foot or projection a*
Figs. 2 and 13, to enter a groove in the drum, each groove receiving the feet of a
plurality of thread-guides.
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The shaft A referred to has fast upon it a sprocket gear a", over which is
extended a sprocket chain a, said sprocket chain running against and about
5 sprocket wheels a and a', and about an idler a³ and driving the shafts a³ and a"",
said shafts having upon them suitable like ratchet wheels a, best shewn in Fig. 3,
said ratchet wheels constituting stop motion actuating devices, they being rotate

page_text: continuously and being adapted to be engaged by certain leg levers b pivoted
at b, whenever a thread breaks. or becomes slack, for at such time a drop wire b³
settles upon the outer end of the leg lever and raises its notched inner end into
the path of movement of said ratchet wheel, the latter then pulling said leg lever
in toward the centre of the machine.
These leg levers are pivoted each in like manner, as at 1, upon latches
extended through guide stands 67* attached to the frame work, and each latch is
jointed to a lever having at its upper end suitable open or enlarged bearings.
The lever b', shewn at the right in Fig. 1, and in Fig. 3, receives the journals of
a driving roll, which may be preferably made up of a shaft and a series of
discs thereon, as in Fig. 28.
Whenever the stop motion ratchet wheel acts as described it moves the lever
referred to, and removes the said driving roll from frictional contact with the
periphery of the drum, and consequently the rotation of said roll is stopped, and
also the thread winding operation is stopped, as will be described.
At the left in Fig. 1, and in Figs. 2 and 2^, the lever marked 677 is shaped
somewhat differently from lever b', it being somewhat elongated at its upper end,
and that lever, instead of supporting a sectional driving roll, supports a plain
cylindrical rolls, which I denominate as an intermediate driving roll, it contacting
directly with the drum A2, and between said intermediate driving rolls and the
spindle, of whatever form, see Figs. 1, 4 and 5, carried by the yoke ic, I
interpose the sectional driving roll 30, it having its journals, in short links ³¹
pivoted upon the lever 67.
In this way, by the interposition at one side of the drum of the intermediate
driving. roll, it is possible to make one drum a driver for a plurality of spindles
arranged about its periphery at greater or less distances apart, and yet have the
winding on all the spindles in the same direction.
I have used the term "lever" to designate the parts 67 and 677, which carry the
rolls referred to, said levers being each composed of a rock-shaft having one
depending arm connected to a latch 6 and two upwardly extended arms forked or
shaped to constitute bearings for the rolls, said rock-shafts taking bearings at their
end in the stands B.
My correspondent has improved the construction of the yokes w, so that they may
be used to support either a cone-holding spindle a see Figs. 4 and 5, or a tube
holding spindler, see Figs. 4 and 4* and preferably the yoke will be subdivided,
so that one part may he adjusted on the other to enable the yarn to be wound more
or less close to the base end of the paper cone or tube, and there is also hinged or
pivoted the spindle a for holding the paper cone c', so that the said spindle does
not need to be removed from the yoke when it is desired to take off or to apply
a cone.
The framework has bearings at its ends for a suitable rod e, upon which is
mounted loosely the hubs e carrying the yokes w, each hub having a suitable
projection or shoulder, as e, see Fig. 20, which, when the yoke is lifted or turned up
about the rod e, will be engaged by the hooked end of a lever 3 pivoted at 103
upon a stand fixed to a cross-bar e of the frame by a bolt e, said stand having a
shoulder or projection against which acts one end of a spring e' which acts upon a
shoulder or projection of a friction plate or brake e, also pivoted at 103, which
causes the end of the levere to bear upon the projection e² of the hub of the yoke
when the yoke is in working position, the brake e keeping the yoke down steadily
in place.
L
This brake, by the friction exerted upon the projection & referred to, by or
through the spring e', prevents the too easy rising of the yoke as the yarn is being
wound onto the cone or tube, to be described, on the spindle a or r.
The centre of motion of the yoke having the projection, and the centre of motion
of the brake are sufficiently eccentric one to the other to cause the brake to exert
a little more power as the yoke w rises than when it falls.
The yoke wo, as herein shewn, is adapted, see Figs. 4 and 5, to hold a pivoted

page_text: spindle a provided with a loose sleeve enlarged at its inner or base end at, and
having shell-engaging devices.
The yoke may also carry a spindle, as r, upon which may be placed a cylindrical
tube.
The yoke has what may be denominated as a central head having a socket to fit
a projection e* of the hub e', the arms of the yoke, marked w¹ and w², being shewn
as detachably connected thereto, but in an adjustable manner, by a suitable bolt w³
and slot w, best shewn in Fig. 5.
As herein shewn the head of the yoke is provided with grooved ways, in which
slide projections forming parts of the arms w' and w².
In Figs. 5 and 7, the yoke arm w² has pivoted to it a dead spindle a, or a spindle
on which is mounted to rotate a sleeve 620 having an attached base or enlargement 6",
said enlargement being adapted to receive the inner or enlarged end of a shell 622
supposed to be of paper or thin light weight material, the shell being shewn as of
cone shape, and as being held in position by dogs c, c, pivoted on the enlarged or
base end of the sleeve at e and having pins e extended through holes in said base,
a suitable cam or device, to be hereinafter described, acting on said pins to throw
the dogs out, as in Fig. 9, to engage and hold the shell, or to draw them in as shewn
in Fig. 8, to release the shell, the dogs acting as described in the Specification of
Letters Patent granted to me on a communication from the said John Willmarth
Foster dated June 13 1893, No. 11549, but in said case the spindle is not pivoted
to the yoke, nor is the base made as part of a sleeve hung on a stationary spindle.
The dead spindle herein shewn has at one end an eye, through which is extended
a pivot bolt a to thus pivot the dead spindle to one arm, as w², of the yoke, the
opposite arm of the yoke having a shoulder a22 and spring a23 to co-operate with
the free end of the dead spindle and hold it steadily when in the position shewn by
full lines Fig. 5, but enabling the spindle to be turned out, as shewn by dotted lines.
The sleeve 20 is kept on the dead spindle between a shoulder 2 (Fig. 11) and a
pin 3-Fig. 5.
At the rear side of the base 2, and, as shewn, within it and surrounding the
dead spindle loosely, there is provided a cam plate 20 having as shewn, two
pins 40, 40, one of which pins will strike a stop 60 carried by the yoke when the
spindle is turned out as shewn by dotted lines Fig. 5, one or the other of said pins
striking said stop according to which direction the sleeve and base are turned about
the spindle, and as soon as the cam plate is arrested by the stop 60 the further
movement of the sleeve and base causes the pins c² of the dogs to ride over the
edge of the cam plate e20 and throw the dogs in or out, as desired.
i
One pin 40 would answer, but with two, the dogs are moved more quickly or
with less rotation of the sleeve.
The sleeve 20 is shewn as provided with an oil hole 8 for the introduction of oil
between it and the dead spindle.
The dogs constitute one form of shell engaging device.
The head of pivoted end of the spindle a is shewn as flattened at 60*, 61", and
the yoke has connected to it by screws 62 a spring 63, the latter acting on said
flattened faces 60* or 61* to keep the spindle in one or the other of its two positions.
I have also shewn the hollow sleeve 620 as provided with shell-holding
springs 0, 0, which engage the interior of the small end of the shell or cone 62,
and aid in keeping it steadily in place.
When it is desired to wind yarn upon a plain tube t, I have only to remove the
yoke arm ², and instead, substitute a yoke arm w of suitable shape to receive and
hold a bearing for the spindle r, as shewn in Figs. 44 and 4B, and at the left
in Fig. 4.
Referring to Figs. 44 and 43, the arm w has a lug provided with a hole which
receives a stud 34 forming part of a bearing w, so that said bearing may tip on
said lng.
The bearing w receives in it one end of the spindler, and a pin 33 is extended

page_text: through the spindle to prevent the latter from dropping out of the bearing when
one end of the spindle is turned aside out of the yoke.
The spindle near its scored part, is flattened or slabbed off at two opposite sides,
as at 36*, so that as said spindle is turned outwardly, said flattened part may enter
between two lugs 35 extended from the yoke arm, the two lugs straddling the
spindle and preventing it from being rotated while the operative removes or applies
a tubet to the spindle and fixes said tube onto the scored or threaded part 101,
see Fig. 4^.
Referring to Fig. 1, the first yoke at the right, see also left of Fig. 4 is supposed
to be holding a spindle provided with a paper cone, and between said paper cone
and the drum A2 is interposed a sectional driving roll, mounted in bearings of
lever, connected with the stop-motion devices.
Fig. 3 shews by a circle the said spindle a separate from the yoke and the stop-
motion mechanism co-operating with that side of the machine, and it will be seen
the drum A directly rotates the driving roll, and the latter the spindle, the yarn
being wound upon said spindle or the paper cone thereon by the direct contact of
said cone or the accumulated yarn thereon against the sectional driving roll.
I have herein shewn each drum as driving spindles at diametrically opposite
points, but this invention is not limited to the number of spindles which each drun
may rotate, nor to the number of degrees apart about the cylinder that they may
be located; nor is my invention limited to the exact devices employed in the stop-
motion mechanism.
I have herein represented the machine as provided with supports for swifts 23
and 24, one set of swifts being located above, and the other set below the drum
shaft A', the yarn from said swift being led under and between suitable tension rods
or devices on its way to the thread-guides of the machine.
It will be noticed in my invention that the arms carrying the driving rolls which
rotate the spindles. have connected directly to them the latches carrying part of the
stop motion mechanism, so that the said stop-motion mechanism directly moves said
arms so as to place the driving-roll carried thereby out of frictional contact with
the driving drum.
In Figs. 14, 15 and 16, a pivoted spindle is shewn as provided with a sleeve
having bearings at each end for the shell, and having one or more dogs shewn as
spring armis, provided with points, which, in one position of the spindle, or when
turned into working position, act to enter the shell, the turning of the spindle into
its other or non-working position, causing the said dogs to be moved towards the
spindle to release the shell.
Referring now to this construction as shewn in Figs. 14, 15 and 16, the yoke
is but partially shewn and is substantially the same as the yoke shewn in
Fig. 5.
The yoke has pivoted to it at m a spindle m' having a head provided with two
like faces m² against which may act a spring m³ to retain the spindle in working
position, shewn by full lines, or out of working position, as shewn by dotted lines,
Fig. 15.
The spindle is shewn as surrounded loosely by a spring mover or actuator n,
shewn as a conical-faced or cone like slide or plate, the acting surface of said plate,
as herein shewn, being at the interior.
The spindle has a shoulder against which acts the inner end of a sleeve o mounted
loosely on the spindle and kept thereon by a washer o' and a screw o², the latter
entering the end of the spindle m¹.
The sleeve has at or near each end a bearing, as at o³ and of for the shell r to be
used, the latter being composed preferably of paper.
These bearings are shewn as shaped to receive a cone shaped shell, and with the
bearing o³ constitutes what is hereinafter called a "base."
The sleeve has attached to it in suitable manner, as by screws s, dogs made as
spring arms shaving suitable points s², which, when the spindle is in operative

page_text: position, as shewn by full lines Fig. 14, enter the interior of the snel and or Gite
same on the spindle."
When a shell is to be put on or taken off the spindle, the spindle will be turned
out of its working position, as shewn by dotted lines, and, in so doing, the plate ⟫
will meet the projection 2 forming part of the yoke, and as the forward movement
of the spindle is completed the said plate is made to travel longitudinally on the
spindle, and at such time the cam face of the plate acts on the ends of the spring
arms s causing said arms to effect the withdrawal of the pins from the shell.
When the arms are retracted as shewn by dotted lines, the shell may be removed
or applied thereto, and when the spindle is put in place the spring arms will
immediately be released to let the points enter the shell.
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:
1. In a machine for simultaneously winding thread or yarn onto a number of
cones or tubes, the use with a rotatable drum, of a plurality of yokes sustaining
spindles pivoted thereto at one end, and a plurality of driving rolls arranged about
the said drum and between it and the said spindles, the driving roll at one side of
the drum having interposed between it and the drum an idle driver in order
that the thread or yarn may be wound upon the cones or tubes carried by the
spindles in the same manner and directior.
2. The use in a thread winding machine, of a rotatable drum having a spiral
groove, a plurality of thread guides adapted to be reciprocated by each of said
grooves; a plurality of yokes located about the periphery of said drum at different
points; a spindle pivotally mounted at one end on one arm of each of said yokes
and provided with a rotatable sleeve adapted to receive a cone; a plurality of
spindle driving rolls located at different distances about the centre of rotation of
said drum, movable bearings to guide and sustain said driving rolls in their rotation,
and stop motion mechanism co-operating with the said movable bearings of the
driving rolls whereby when a thread breaks the contact of a driving roll with a
drum is broken to stop the rotation of a roll and the winding operation.
3. The use in a thread winding machine, of a yoke made with one part adjustable
on the other, of a spindle pivoted to one of the parts of the yoke and provided
with a sleeve having devices to engage and hold a shell or cone, adjustment of one
part of the yoke on the other enabling the yarn to be wound more or less close to
the base end of the shell or cone, the turning of the spindle upon its pivot enabling
the shell or cone to be removed without removing the spindle.
4. In a thread winding machine, the use with a yoke pivoted upon a rod, of a
brake located eccentrically to the pivot of the yoke, whereby the brake exerts
more power as the yoke rises.
5. Also the use in a thread winding machine, of a yoke having a dead spindle
pivoted to one arm thereof and surrounded loosely by a hollow sleeve having a
conical base, said sleeve being provided with cone or shell-engaging devices
which may be moved to effect the engagement or disengagement of the interior of
the cone or shell when it is desired to apply a cone or shell to the sleeve to be filled
with yarn or to remove a filled cone.
6. The use in a thread winding machine, of a yoke having a dead spindle pivoted
to one of its arms, and provided with a sliding cam, a sleeve carried by said spindle
and having cone-engaging devices made as spring dogs having suitable points
adapted to engage the interior of a paper or other cone or shell, the said sleeve
having at its euds also suitable surfaces to fill the interior of and hold the cone or
shell at both ends, the movement of the sliding cam on the spindle when the latter
is turned inwardly, operating the spring dogs to engage the cone or shell, and
vice versa.
7. The use in a thread winding machine, of a yoke having arms and a pivoted
bearing adapted to receive one end of a spindle, the said spindle having a screw

page_text: thread or projection adapted to be engaged by the interior of a cylindrical tube,
the spindle bearing being free to be turned out and in from the yoke substantially
as described.
Dated the 11th day of March 1895.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.