IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR GASSING AND WINDING YARNS OR THREADS OF COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Stubbs, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, and John Corrigan, of the same Place, Mechanic, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR GASSING AND WINDING
YARNS OR THREADS OF COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Stubbs and John
Corrigan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1876.
JOSEPH STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and
JOHN CORRIGAN, of the same Place, Mechanic. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
GASSING AND WINDING YARNS OR THREADS OF COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS."
Our Invention refers firstly to apparatus for effecting the removal of the gassing
flame when the winding cases.
The gas burner is mounted upon a joint as usual, but the arm by which it is
moved is situate over a lever which extends to the front of the machine. This
lever turns loosely and is provided with an incline situate under another lever,
also turning upon a stud. The first mentioned lever carries a pin, which when the
gassing is not going on rests in the notch of a catch mounted on a centre. To set
on, the first mentioned lever is drawn out, which movement brings the incline under
a part of the weighted lever and then a pin draws away the catch and causes the
gas burner to turn on its centre through the medium of the inward end of the lever,
which is situate under its arm, but when this arm is not supported by the Baid
lever the flame turns upon its joint out of operation.
Another improvement relates to a method of facilitating the removal and replacing
of the grooved pullies around which the yarns or threads pass. On the periphery
of each of these pullies we form a groove within which is situate a pin or
spring adapted to the frame. When a pulley is to be removed the pin or spring
is drawn from its groove and the pulley may then be drawn from its stud. In
frames for winding two or more "ends we cause the yarns, or threads to pass
over and drive a roller mounted on a weighted lever, and when an end breaks the
usual lever or guide by falling liberates the weighted lever, which then carries
the roller inward and leaves the unbroken ends slack to prevent lapping, but the
breaking of the thread has been secured before it reaches the bobbin, or instead

page_text: of making the roller move inward we cause the eyes by similar means to move
outward, the roller in that case being stationary.
Another part of our Invention relates to the clearer of winding frames. Between
two plates provided with the usual slits we place a tumbler capable of turning upon a
centre, prevented from doing so beyond a certain point. This tumbler is provided
with projecting parts which overlap the slit of the clearer, and when the machine is
at work it is kept in a central position by the tension of the yarn or thread which
is prevented froin being moved from the clearer by the said projecting parts, but
when an end has been broken the tumbler turns slightly over, and then the pieced
up end may be passed through the top.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Stubbs and John Corrigan in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd December 1876.
JOSEPH STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and
JOHN CORRIGAN, of the same Place, Mechanic. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
GASSING AND WINDING YARNS OR THREADS OF COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS."
Our Invention relates, firstly, to a method of removing the gassing flame when
the winding ceases, and is shewn in the two partial views of a gassing flame,
Figs. 1 and 2.
At 1 is a portion of the frame upon which are mounted the usual grooved
rollers 2, 3, over which the thread (shown by the dotted line) passes, and from
thence to the bobbin 4; at 5 is the gas burner capable of turning on the centre 6,
and at 7 the supply gas pipe; at 8 is a hand lever turning on a stud 9, and
provided with an incline 10 at the handle end 8*, and at its other end with a
part 8**, which is situated in the position shewn beneath a finger 11 fixed by
means of a boss 12 on the gas burner 5, which is thus prevented from turning on its
centre 6. On the stud 9 is mounted a second lever 13, which is provided with a
stud 14 situate against the incline 10. The hand lever 8 has a slot 15, which
permits of its being moved to and fro horizontally, and it is also furnished with a
pin 16, which when the said lever is lifted on its centre passes on to a catch 21
formed on a pendant link 17. The lever 13 has a pin 18, which carries the bobbin 4
driven by the surface drum 19 in the usual manner, and it also has a projecting
pin 20, the use of which will be hereafter described. According to the positions of
the parts shewn the winding and gassing are going on in the usual manner. When
it is desired to remove the burner and arrest the winding the hand lever 8* is
turned upon its centre 9, whereby the part 8** is removed from under the finger 11,
and the burner 5 then turns over by the weight of the said finger, while at the
same time the bobbin 4 is lifted by the said lever 8 acting on the projection 14 so
as to turn the lever 13 upward. When these operations have taken place the pin 6
has passed on to the notch 21, and the levers are thus held in their raised positions,
and the pin 20 will be opposite a recessed part of the link 17. To set on the band
lever 8* is drawn bodily forward, the slot 15 permitting that movement, and the
effect of this is, first, to lift the pin 6 out of the notch 21 by means of the incline 10,
and then to bring the pin 20 against the link 17 so as to move the notch from
under the pin 6, and then the hand lever 8* being pushed inward the parts are
restored to the positions shown.
The next part of our Invention relates to a method of facilitating the removal
and replacing of the grooved pullies around which the thread passes. This is
shewn in two views at Figs. 3, 4.
At 1 is the grooved pulley, on which there is a grooved boss 2, within which is a
spring 3, the other end being carried by a nut 3* passing through a slot in the
frame 4 and used for securing the stud 5 in position; by pulling up this spring
through the medium of a turned-up part of the pulley is free for removal from its

page_text: stud 5. In place of the spring 3 projecting into the boss 21 a pin may be used, as
shewn at Fig. 5, such pin 6* being carried by a bracket 6, within which it has
simply to be moved upward for the removal of the roller, and downward to confine
the said roller to its working position. In both these cases the whole arrangement
may be moved bodily upward or downward to adjust the roller to the gas flame.
The next part of my Invention refers to frames for winding two or more "ends,"
and consists in a method of leaving the unbroken ends slack.
This arrangement is shewn at Fig. 6 adapted to that construction of machine for
which Letters Patent were granted to us bearing date November 26th, 1874,
No. 4061, and May 8th, 1875, No. 1717, the working of the several parts of which
it will not be necessary for us now to explain as it was fully described in the
Complete Specification filed under our said former Patents; it will, however, be
necessary to refer to some of the parts thereof in order to explain the nature of our
present Invention.
At 1 is the bobbin mounted in the cradle 2, and at 3 the setting on lever, a
continuation 4 of which rests during the operation of the machine upon a tumbler 5,
being drawn thereto by a weight 6. The tumbler 5 is provided with a wire 7,
against which when a thread breaks the needle lever 8 arrives, thus turning the
tumbler 5 upon its centre and liberating the lever 3, which then turns upon its
centre 7 by means of the weight 6, and thus far the parts and their operations are
substantially the same as those described in our former Specifications aforesaid, the
winding being arrested as therein described. To the lever 3 is jointed an arm 8*,
which pass through the front plate, which serves as a guide for it. This arm 8* is
provided with a fork 9 carrying a roller 10, one for each head of the frame, and over
this the yarn or thread passes on its way from the cop 11 and eye 12 to the
bobbin 1. When the before-mentioned operations take place on the breaking of an
end and the lever 3 is turned upon its centre it draws backward the roller 10
through the medium of the arın 8*, so that the yarns or threads passing over the
said roller are slackened and a lapping is prevented.
As an alternative of the arrangement above described we make the eye 12
inoveable, as shown by dotted lines. According to this arrangement the rail 13 to
which the eyes 12 are affixed is capable of sliding in guides 14 and 10; it is
connected to a rod 15 jointed to a lever 16, the other end of which is connected to
the arm 9, which when drawn back by the weight 6 slides forward the rail 13
through the medium of the lever 16 and rod 15, and the eyes 12 being moved with
it the necessary slackening required of the threads is accomplished.
The next part of our Invention relates to the clearer of winding frames, and is
shewn in three views, Figs. 7, 8, 9.
At 1 is the rail which carries the clearer, and it is attached to one part 2 of the
clearer, the other part being secured to the portion 2 by a screw 3, a slit 11 being
left between the two for the passage of the thread, as is well understood. The
clearer thus formed is provided with a hollowed space 4 constituting a chamber for
the reception of a tumbler 5, seen particularly in Fig. 9, and capable of turning
upon a centre 6 until the part 7 (which is on the heavier side) arrives against the
side of the chamber 4. The tumbler 5 is formed with a slit 8, at the top of which
is a recess 9, projecting into which is a tooth 12, and above this is an angular
slit 13. Supposing it required to adapt a thread to the clearer the tumbler 5 will
be in the position shewn at Fig. 9, and the thread having been lifted above the
clearer is passed downward and along the angular slit 13, whereby the tumbler will
be turned upon its centre 6, and then the thread passes into the vertical slit 8. The
machine being now put to work the tension of the thread will keep the slits 8 and
11 coincident, and if the attendent attempt to pass an unbroken thread over she is
prevented from doing so by the tooth 12, which covers the slit 11.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that we
claim as secured to us under the above in part recited Letters Patent and for the
purposes above set forth.

page_text: Firstly. In Fig. 1 the use of the levers 8, 13, and parts connected therewith,
substantially as described.
.
Secondly. In Figs. 3, 4, 5, the grooved boss 2 of the roller 1 and spring or
pin 3, 6*.
Thirdly. In Fig. 6 the use of the roller 10 moving bodily from the threads when
an end breaks or the equivalent movement of the eyes 12.
Fourthly. In Figs. 7, 8, 9, the use of the tumbler 5 adapted to the clearer.
In witness, I, the said Joseph Stubbs, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
JOSEPH STUBBS. (LS)