IMPROVE- MENTS IN TREATING YARNS FOR AND IN COVERING WIRES FOR TELEGRAPHIC TELEPHONIC OR ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND OTHER PURPOSES WHETHER BRAIDED OR LAPPED AND IN SPINDLES FOR THE PURPOSE ALSO APPLICABLE TO SPINDLES OF BRAIDING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Twiss Glover and George Frederick James both
of Manchester in the County of Lancaster for an Invention of IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TREATING YARNS FOR AND IN COVERING WIRES FOR TELEGRAPHIC
TELEPHONIC OR ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND OTHER PURPOSES WHETHER BRAIDED
OR LAPPED AND IN SPINDLES FOR THE PURPOSE ALSO APPLICABLE TO SPINDLES
OF BRAIDING MACHINES "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Twiss Glover and
George Frederick James at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 18th January 1883.
WALTER TWISS GLOVER and GEORGE FREDERICK JAMES both of Manchester in
the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING YARNS FOR AND IN
COVERING WIRES FOR TELEGRAPHIC TELEPHONIC OR ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND
OTHER PURPOSES WHETHER BRAIDED OR LAPPED AND IN SPINDLES FOR THE
PURPOSE, ALSO APPLICABLE TO SPINDLES OF BRAIDING MACHINES"
The object of the first part of this Invention is to cover bare wire or wires which
have been previously covered with gutta-percha india-rubber & etc with a further
covering of yarns which in accordance with this Invention have been previously
immersed in or passed through heated ozokerit paraffin or other preserving and
insulating compound requiring heat in its application.
It has been usual hitherto to pass the wire already covered with the textile
covering through a bath containing heated ozokerit or paraffin and which is
attended with considerable trouble and care lest through overheating on the one
hand the gutta-percha or other covering foundation should melt in the process or
on the other lest the ozokerit or paraffin should not be sufficiently melted or limped
to permeate the fibre-but in this Invention the yarns are previously treated as
aforesaid.

page_text: This Invention further relates to improvements in the spindles which are by
preference used for braiding the improved yarn as aforesaid upon the bare or
covered wire and which improvements are equally applicable to braiding spindles
generally
Instead of the yarn passing at right angles to the dropper through the weighted
drop rod as heretofore whereby considerable friction is produced upon the yarn
rendering it impossible to use these spindles for some descriptions of yarn and
especially for yarn covered as aforesaid-we arrange the head of the spindle with a
slot opposite to the opening in which the dropper works and which slot acts as a
guide for the dropper and thus we afford facility for threading the yarn directly
through the hole at the upper extremity of the drop rod and which is in this case
parallel with and not at right angles to the dropper as heretofore-facility is thus
afforded also for mounting a friction roller at the top of the drop rod for the yarn
to pass round.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Walter Twiss Glover and George Frederick James in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 18th July 1883.
WALTER TWISS GLOVER and GEORGE FREDERICK JAMES both of Manchester in
the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING YARNS FOR AND IN
COVERING WIRES FOR TELEGRAPHIC, TELEPHONIC, OR ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND
OTHER PURPOSES, WHETHER BRAIDED OR LAPPED, AND IN SPINDLES FOR THE
PURPOSE ALSO APPLICABLE TO SPINDLES OF BRAIDING MACHINES,"
The object of the first part of this invention is to cover bare wire or wires which
have been previously covered with gutta-percha india-rubber etc with a further
covering of yarns which in accordance with this invention have been previously
immersed in or passed through heated ozokerit paraffin or other preserving and
insulating compound requiring heat in its application.
It has been usual hitherto to pass the wire already covered with the textile
covering through a bath containing heated ozokerit or paraffin and which is
attended with considerable trouble and care least through overheating on the one
hand the gutta-percha or other covering foundation should melt in the process or
on the other lest the ozokerit or paraffin should not be sufficiently melted or limped
to permeate the fibre but in this invention the yarns are previously treated as
aforesaid.
This invention further relates to improvements in the spindles which are by
preference used for braiding the improved yarn as aforesaid upon the bare or
covered wire and which improvements are equally applicable to braiding spindles
generally.
And in order that this part of our said invention may be the more readily
understood and carried into practical effect we have hereunto annexed a drawing
illustrative of our improvements in braiding and other spindles and will now
proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the letters of reference marked
thereon.
Fig 1 is a side sectional view Fig 2 a front exterior view and Fig 3 a plan of a .
spindle embracing our improvements. In all the views a is the spindle b the
bobbin e the yarn and d the weighted drop-rod. Instead of the yarn c passing at
right angles to the dropper e through the drop rod d as heretofore whereby con-
siderable friction is produced upon the yarn rendering it impossible to use these
spindles for some descriptions of yarn and especially for yarn covered as aforesaid-
we arrange the head of the spindle a with a slot fopposite to the opening g in
which the dropper e works and which slot acts as a guide for the front extremity
of the dropper. In this manner facility is aforded for threading the yarn directly
through the hole i at the upper extremity of the drop rod and which hole i it will
be noticed is in accordance with this invention parallel with and not at right angles
to the dropper as heretofore and which arrangement further permits of a friction
roller being mounted at the top of the drop rod for the yarn to pass round.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention together with the best methods with which we are acquainted for carrying
the same into practical effect we wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the precise details relative proportions or dimensions of tho
various parts of the improved braiding spindle hereinbefore described and illustrated
on the accompanying drawing as the same may be considerably varied without
departing from the invention but what we claim is :-
1 The improvement in treating yarns and in covering wires for telegraphic,

page_text: telephonic electric lighting or other purposes substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2nd The improvements in braiding spindles substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
In witness whereof we the said Walter Twiss Glover and George Frederick
James have hereunto set our hands and seals this seventeenth day of July in the
year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty three.