Improvements in Creel-skewers used in Textile Machinery.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 27th Dec.. 189C-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Creel-skewers used in Textile Machinery.
I, JOSHUA HENRY WILSOx of Cornholme Todmorden in the County of
Lancaster, Bobbin Manufacturer, do hereby declarè the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Creel skewers or pegs for creeling short collar tubes or bobbins are usually made
of one solid piece of wood, or with the addition of a peg of harder wood to form.
a foot. Those for long collar tubes or bobbins have a separate turned boss fitted
upon the skewer, secured with glue.
By ordinary wear the peg or foot of skewer, becomes blunt or damaged, and the
top also is easily broken. Long collar skewers, in addition to the above injuries
are liable, from giving way of the glue to get loose in the collar or boss.
My invention consists in making creel skewers hollow to reduce the weight-
whether with seperate changeable end pieces, or with end pieces fixed in the hollow
ends, and unchangeable and also in making such creel skewers in seperate
parts so fitted and put together that they are not liable to come in pieces, yet so
constructed that any of the parts can easily be replaced when required by any
ordinary workman and the skewer made equal to new at a trifling cost-and
also in securing the boss of long collar skewers more firmly to the body of the
skewer.
To reduce the weight of the skewer I bore a hole through it and where fast
ends are used they may be fixed in the ends of the skewer by gluing them in
the hole of the skewer or in any other convenient manner where seperate and
changeable ends are used. I insert seperate pegs into the hole at each end of
the hollow skewer, one to form the foot, and the other the top bearing, and where
solid skewers are used I bore a hole a short distance up the ends of each skewer
to receive the seperate pegs.
The stem or the part of those pegs which go into the hole of the skewer has
I fix a pin
a groove turned on it and is flattened at the end up to the groove.
in the skewer, passing through the side of the hole to go into or catch the
groove in the peg, the flat end part of the peg allowing it in going in to go up
to the groove and opposite to the pin, and by turning the peg slightly round
the pin lays hold of the groove in the peg and keeps it in its position in the
skewer.
For short collar tube skewers,--if preferred-a collar of thin metal may be fixed
at the foot end of the skewer to the shoulder on which the bobbin or tube rests,
this metal collar to have a hole in it the size of the hole in the skewer with
one or more slots in it. Instead of a groove in the stem of the foot-peg I drive
a wire pin through it, a little above the shoulder, equal to the thickness of the
metal of the collar, and projecting slightly through the stem, in putting in a
foot-peg, the projecting pin on the stem passes the slot or slots in the collar,
and the hole in the skewer being countersunk or spaced out at the end, the pin
in the stem is allowed to turn round and the peg is thus held in its place by
the collar. Thus by both these plans an old peg can easily be taken out and
a new one inserted.
To fix the seperate boss at the bottom of long collar skewers, in addition to
the glue used for that purpose-in the case of skewers without seperate ends,
I drive a pin through the boss and the skewer, and in the case of skewers with
seperate ends, the pin for securing the foot peg, and which goes through the boss
and the skewer, serves the same purpose.
The boss may be farther secured by the fixing of a thin metal plate or

page_text: washer, covering the end of the skewer and the boss, held in its place by the
shoulder of the foot-peg, and thus giving the boss increased support.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1890.
PETER
M'GREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Creel-skewers used in Textile Machinery.
I, JOSHUA HENRY WILSON of Cornholme, Todmorden in the County of
Lancaster Bobbin 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 :-
Creel skewers or pegs for creeling short collar tubes or bobbins are usually
made of one solid piece of wood, or with the addition of a peg of harder wood to
form a foot. Those for long collar tubes or bobbins have a seperate turned boss
fitted upon the skewer secured with glue.
By ordinary wear the peg or foot of skewer becomes blunt or damaged, and the
top also is easily broken. Long collar skewers in addition to the above injuries
are liable from giving way of the glue to get loose in the collar or boss.
My invention consists in making creel skewers hollow to reduce the weight,
whether with seperate changeable end pieces, or with end pieces fixed in the
hollow ends and unchangeable-and also in making such creel skewers in seperate
parts, so fitted and put together, that they are not liable to come to pieces yet so
constructed that any of the parts can easily be replaced-when required-by any
ordinary workman and the skewer made equal to new at a trifling cost, and, also
in securing the boss of long collar skewers more firmly to the body of the skewer.
To reduce the weight of the skewer I bore a hole through it, as shewn in
section, at Fig. 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings, where a represents the
skewer, b the hole in the skewer c the top part or peg, d the foot part, or peg-the
top and bottom parts or pegs are not shewn in section in the drawings-and where
fast ends or parts are used they may be fixed in the hollow ends of the skewer by
glueing them in, or in any other convenient manner. Where seperate and changeable
ends are used I insert seperate pegs into the hole at each end of the skewer, one
to form the foot, and the other the top bearing, and where solid skewers are used,
I bore a hole, a sufficient distance up each end of the skewer to receive the pegs.
To secure the seperate or changeable pegs in the skewer, I make the stem of the
pegs, c and d with a groove e turned on them and flatten them at f from the end
up to the groove. I then fix a pin g in the skewer, passing through the side of the
hole in the skewer, as shewn in Fig. 2-which is a plan of the skewer and peg at
the dotted line / Fig. 1-the pin fits the groove in the stem, and inserting the peg the
flat end part of the stem passes the pin and when the peg is up to the shoulder
the groove is opposite the pin, when by turning the peg round the pin lays hold of
the groove in the peg and keeps it in its position in the skewer.
For short collar tubes-if preferred-I shew in Fig. 3 another plan of inserting
the seperate foot peg in the skewer. I fix a collar or washer of thin metal i at
the foot end of the skewer to the shoulder on which the bobbin rests, as shewn in the
drawings this washer or collar to have a hole in it the size of the hole in the
skewer and having two slots in it as shewn in Fig. 5-which is a bottom plan of
the washer. Instead of making a groove in the stem of the footstep d'—as in the
foot peg
shewn in Fig. 1-I drive a pinj through it a little above the shoulder,
equal to the thickness of the metal of the washer or collar i and projecting
slightly through the stem, as shewn at Fig. 4-which is a plan of the peg as shewn
at the dotted line k. In putting in the foot peg the projecting pin passes the
slots in the washer, then turning the peg round the pin lays hold of the washer
and keeps the peg up in its place.

page_text: To fix the seperate boss at the bottom of long collar skewers in addition to the
glue now solely used for that purpose, in the case of skewers without seperate ends,
I drive a pin through the boss and the skewer or, in the case of skewers with
seperate ends as shewn at Fig. 6 which shews seperate same as at Fig. 1, and held
in their place by the same means, the pin g is made long enough to pass through
the seperate boss I see Figs. 6 and 7 thus giving a more secure holding of the boss
to the skewer, and to give additional security, I fix a thin metal plate or washer m
covering the end of the boss and the skewer and held in its place by the shoulder
of the foot-peg.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. Making creel skewers hollow either with fixed or removeable ends for the
purpose described.
2nd. Making creel skewers in seperate parts so put together that the top and
bottom parts or pegs, can be taken out and replaced, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
3rd. Securing the boss of long collar skewers by a pin through the boss and the
skewer-either with the addition of, or without, a metal plate or washer, as
described.
Dated this 26th day of December 1800
PETER
MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.