Improvements in the Construction of Hollow Perforated Skewers, employed for Dyeing and otherwise treating Cops of Yarn or Thread, and in their Arrangement in connection with the Parts on which they are to be used.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3 th May. 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Hollow Perforated Skewers,
employed for Dyeing and otherwise treating Cops of Yarn or
Thread, and in their Arrangement in connection with the Parts
on which they are to be used.
We, GEORGE YOUNG of 189 Worsley Road, Winton, near Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Mill Manager, and WILLIAM CRIPPIN, of Egerton Mills,
Patricroft near Manchester aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention to be as follows:-
Hollow perforated cop skewers are generally made with a small button or flange
near their lower ends, the part of the skewer below the flange or button being
placed in a hole in a plate or table or in a nipple or tube, and a fluid tight join
has to be made between the lower part of the cop skewer and the hole in the
plate or table or the nipple or tube. Discs of india rubber have been used placed
between the button or flange on the skewer and the plate having the holes in
which the ends of the cop tubes are inserted.
But these rings are liable to be lost and displaced.
According to our invention we so form the flange or button on the cop skewer
that a disc or face of india rubber may be secured to its lower side.
The flange or button is or may be so blocked on its edge and turned as to grasp
and hold the edge of the disc or face of india rubber.
When the cop skewer is inserted in the hole in the table plate, the face of india
rubber comes against the face of the plate and this makes a joint with it.
The disc of india rubber may be made to stand away clear of the flange or
button, or it may be made flush with the turned down margin of the flange, and
in this case there is or may be un annular projection upon the plate round the hole
into which the cop skewer is to be inserted which will come against the face of
india rubber on the flange or button.
Or the face of india rubber is or may be made convex or coned, so as to be
certain to come in contact with the face of the plate before the turned down edge
of the button or flange can touch the upper face of the plate.
These hollow perforated cop skewers having buttons faced with india rubber or
equivalent elastic material may be used when the lower end of each skewer has to
be inserted in tubes or nipples and they may be prevented from falling out when
they have to assume an inverted position by an elastic ring in a groove, nipple or
hole for the skewer, and a groove in the skewer or by other suitable arrangements.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of October 1891
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Hollow Perforated. Skewers,
employed for Dyeing and otherwise treating Cops of Yarn or
Thread, and in their Arrangement in connection with the Parts
on which they are to be used.
We, GEORGE YOUNG, of 189 Worsley Road, Winton, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Mill Manager, and WILLIAM CRIPPIN, of Egerton Mills,
Patricroft, near Manchester aforesaid, Manufacturer, 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:-
Hollow perforated cop skewers are generally made with a small button or flange
Price 8d1

page_text: near their lower ends, the part of the skewer below the flange or button being
placed in a hole in a plate or table, or in a nipple or tube, and a fluid tight joint
has to be made between the lower part of the cop skewer and the hole in the plate or
table or the nipple or tube. Discs of india rubber have been used placed between
the button or flange on the skewer and the plate having the holes in which the
ends of the cop tubes are inserted.
But these rings are liable to be lost and displaced.
According to our invention, we so form the flange or button on the cop skewer
that a disc or face of india rubber may be secured to the lower side.
The flange or button is or may be so blocked on its edge and turned as to grasp
and hold the edge of the disc or face of india rubber.
When the cop skewer is inserted in the hole in the table plate the face of india
rubber comes against the face of the plate and this makes a joint with it.
The disc of india rubber may be made to stand away clear of the flange or
button, or it may be made flush with the turned down margin of the flange, and in
this case there is or may be an annular projection upon the plate round the hole
into which the cop skewer is to be inserted which will come against the face of
india rubber on the flange or button.
Or the face of india rubber is or may be made convex or coned, so as to be
certain to come in contact with the face of the plate before the turned down edge
of the button or flange can touch the upper face of the plate.
These hollow perforated cop skewers having buttons faced with india-rubber or
equivalent elastic material may be used when the lower end of each skewer has to
be inserted in tubes or nipples and they may be prevented from falling out when
they have to assume an inverted position by an elastic ring in a groove, nipple or
hole for the skewer, and a groove in the skewer or by other suitable arrangements.
Fig. 1 is a vertical elevation in section, showing two forms of hollow perforated
skewers, when their lower ends are inserted in the table plate or part which carries
them when they are in use for dyeing and otherwise treating cops of yarn or
thread.
Fig: 2 is an end view of the two skewers, and
Fig. 3 is a plan of a part of the table plate showing the holes in which the skewers
are inserted.
In the skewer a, Fig. 1, the disc or button b, is formed with a dovetail cavity
or one in which the cavity in the button enlarges in diameter from the outside to
the inside.
In this cavity a flat washer or ring of cylindrical form c, of vulcanized india-
rubber or like elastic material is forced, and its elasticity causes it to be held
securely in the cavity and its outer face in this case comes flush or slightly below
the conical flange 6, of the button, and the face of the disc of india rubber c,
when the end of the skewer is inserted in one of the holes d', in the table plate d,
rests and makes an air tight joint with an upward annular projecting surface d³, on
the face of the table plate d.
This upward projecting annular surface d, from the table plate may be formed
to come above the general surface of the upper face of the table plate d, or is
formed by preference by cutting out an annular cavity d', below the general upper
surface of the table plate.
The face of the india rubber ring c, held in the cavity of the button b, may
extend beyond the lower edge of the turned down flange b, of the button, so that
its face will come against the surface of the table plate d, when the skewer is
inserted in one of the holes therein, but we prefer the arrangement shown in
Figs. 1 and 3.
In the perforated skewer a', shown in Fig. 1, the enlarged cone surface of the
skewer is made to extend below the button b, thus forming a cavity to receive the
india rubber washer c, the cone of the cavity in this case being reversed that is,
less in diameter inside than outside, but the ring or washer of india-rubber C, when
forced in, holds with sufficient firmness, to be retained securely within the cavity.

page_text: But the cone of the cavity on the button for such perforated skewers may be
reversed, if desired, so that the largest diameter will be inside and the smallest
outside, as in the skewer a, Fig. 1.
The turned down flange 6, need not be a complete circle, as turned down
segments of the flange would do, but we prefer them with the flange b', all round
the button, as shown by a, and a¹, Fig. 1.
That end of the perforated skewer which is to enter one of the holes in the table
plate d, is or may be by preference slightly coned, the smaller diameter being at
the end so as to facilitate its entrance into the hole d', in the table plate d.
When the perforated skewers are to be held with some force when inserted in
the holes in the table plate or its equivalent the holes in the table plate or its
equivalent are or may be bushed with tubes e, of elastic metal, such as are shown
in Fig. 1, one of which e, is formed with a flange e', at the top and is expanded
when inserted in the hole in the table plate or its equivalent d, under the table
plate so that the bush of elastic metal will be firmly secured therein.
The part of the bush of elastic metal below the table plate is slit with two or
more slits and the parts, between the slits are bent inwards so that they will
have to be forced outwards when the end of the skewer is inserted, the elasticity
of the parts bent inwards acting to hold the skewer so that they would not drop
out if reversed in position.
The bush ex, Fig. 1, is formed same as the bush e, Fig. 1, but has no flange at
its upper end and when inserted in the hole in the table or its equivalent is
expanded into a recess form in the hole in the table or its equivalent like a boiler
tube in a tube plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
1. The construction of perforated skewers with discs or buttons to which elastic
washers or rings of india rubber or equivalent elastic material are attached,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
2. The combination of perforated skewers constructed as described in Claim 1
with a table plate or its equivalent (when in use therewith) with or without
annular upward projections from the surface of the table plate or its equivalent,
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
drawings.
3. The combination of perforated skewers constructed as described in Claim 1
with a table plate or its equivalent (when in use therewith) having elastic bushes,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of May 1892.
PETER J. LIVSKI,
Agent.