IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS, CORDS, OR ROPES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1875

page_text: 15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leedham Binns in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEEDHAM
BINNS, of Grove House, Oakenshaw, Low Moor, near Bradford, in the
20 County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
25 give and grant unto me, the said Leedham Binns, Her special license
that I, the said Leedham Binns, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Leedham Binns, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
30 therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF BANDS, CORDS, OR ROPES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the

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in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Leedham Binns, do hereby declar
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say:-
The Invention relates, firstly, to a novel method of manufacturing
bands, cords, or ropes, whereby a cheap, strong, and effective article is
produced. For this purpose I form the core of the band, cord, or rope
of cheap material covered with strands of material of any desired quality
and colour as heretofore, such core and covering material being accord-
ing to one arrangement drawn off straight from their sources of supply,
and having no twist put thereon in the course of manufacture; or the
core may have the covering material wrapped or twisted around it; over
the core produced as above described I according to my Invention wrap
in contrary directions to each other two or more binding threads or cords
of any desired material and colour; by these means I am enabled to
produce bands, cords, or ropes, having the core thereof covered with
material of any desired quality and colour or combination of colours, and
having binding cords or threads of any desired material and colour or
combination of colours wrapped or twisted around such core in contrary
directions to each other so as to produce highly ornamental effects.
In manufacturing bands, cords, or ropes of the character above
described I employ machinery of a similar character to that described in 3
the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me, dated November 1,
1872, No. 3238, and employed in the manufacture of endless bands, but
modified as herein-after described.
Figure 1 is a front view of machinery or apparatus having my present
improvements applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a face view of the disc or plate in which the guides for the
core and covering material are formed; and Figure 3 is an edge view of
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the guide wheel or pulley d showing the application of guides thereto to
prevent the several coils of band, cord, or rope around such guide wheel
or pulley d chafing or rubbing against and overlapping each other.
Figure 4 is a left-hand end view; Figure 5 is a sectional elevation;
5 and Figure 6 is a right-hand end view of parts.
In the present description those parts of the mechanism which are
similar to those described in the Specification of my said former Patent
are marked with similar letters of reference to those employed in the
said Specification.
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According to my present Invention instead of forming the core of the
band, cord, or rope by winding or wrapping the material of which it is
formed any desired number of times around a pair of guide pulleys b, d,
as described in my aforesaid Specification, I form the centre of the core
of any desired number of strands of material s¹ passing together from a
bobbin or reel s or other source or sources of supply, whence it
through an eye or guide s and around or over tension knobs to the:
top of the wheel b which serves as a guide, and from which it
a central eye or guide s formed in a disc or plate of metal so carried by
the bracket so, and I cover the material s¹ forming the centre of the core
0 by means of any desired or necessary number of strands of material t¹
passing from a bobbin or reel t, or from another or other sources of
supply through guides t2, and thence through eyes or guides formed in
the plate or disc s5, and arranged concentrically around the central eye
or guide & through which the centre s¹ of the core passes. The strands s¹
5 and t¹ are drawn together from their reels or bobbins s, t, or from other
sources of supply, and are passed two or more times around the guide
wheel d for the purpose of obtaining a firm grip thereon, and are then
passed on to a bobbin or beam u on which the finished article is wound
as produced. The bobbin or beam u receives motion by means of a
30 band un passing partly around the pulley d and partly around a smal
pulley u² fixed on the axis of the bobbin or beam u, the band u¹ being
arranged with a tendency to drive the bobbin or beam u faster than i
required for winding the finished cord, rope, or band thereon, bu
accommodating itself to the rate at which the band, cord, or rope
5 produced by slipping upon the pulley u. Intermediate of the eye
or guides 84, 13, and the guide pulley d, the wheels j, k, carrying th
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page_text: bobbins B, C, for supplying and applying the binding cords or threads
are placed, and these wheels j, k, and the binding cords or threads are
applied to the core in a similar manner to that shown and described in
my aforesaid Specification for applying the binding or covering material
to the core of endless bands, that is to say, the ends of thread or other
material to form the binding cords or threads of the band, cord, or rope
are taken from the bobbins or reels B, C, and passed through the
eyes j¹, k¹, fixed in the discs j, k, and thence around the knobs or
buttons j², k², according to the strain desired to be put on the material.
From the last of these knobs or buttons j, k, the binding cords or
threads are passed through eyes or guides ³, ³, and are then fastened
to the core of the intended band, cord, or rope. When this is effected
the fork bar / is by hand slided in its bearings in the uprights 2, l, so as
to shift the driving strap 7* on to the driving pulley m¹ fixed on the shaft
or axis m. On this shaft or axis m is also fixed a worm or screw m³
which takes into and gives rotary motion to the toothed wheel d² fixed
on the shaft or axis d', on which shaft is also fixed the guide wheel d.
On the shaft or axis m are also fixed toothed wheels m, m³. The
'wheel m¹ gears directly with and gives rotary motion to the toothed
wheel n to which the disc j is fixed, and the toothed wheel m5 by means
of an intermediate pinion me gives rotary motion to the toothed wheel o
to which the disc k is fixed, but in contrary direction to that of the
toothed wheel n and disc j; thus the binding cord or thread from the
bobbin or reel B is wrapped or wound around the core in one direction,
and that from the bobbin or reel C is wrapped or wound around the core
in the contrary direction. The toothed wheels n, o, are mounted on the
boss or bearing c, and the discs j, k, are respectively screwed or otherwise
fixed to the wheels n, o, collars c¹ screwed to the boss or bearing c being
employed to retain the wheels n, o, securely in position on the boss c.
The guides j³, 13, at their forked ends serve to give support to the band,
cord, or rope during the wrapping of the binding cords or threads around
it, the band, cord, or rope passing between the two parts of such forked
ends.'

page_text: such machinery capable of producing long lengths of band, cord, or
rope, in manner substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leedham Binns, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy- 5
five.