Improvement in Machines for Reeling Yarns.
Year: 1897

page_text: TIONAL DIEUITICATION.
Improvement in Machines for Reeling Yarns.
I, HARRY BOWER, Overlooker in a Worsted Factory, and residing at No. 3,
Queen's Road, Shipley, Bradford, in the County of Yorkshire, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement in machines for reeling yarns is composed either of india
rubber, leather, steel, or other metals; and consists of square, round, or oblong
plates; slightly bent, to admit the yarn or thread to be hanked, or reeled; the
plates have holes to admit screws, or nails; which are filled separately to the wing
or arm of the reel or swift; one plate for cach hank. I claim that the improvement
has three great advantages in the process of reeling all sorts of yarns. 1st. Less
number of knots required. 2nd. Time saved in arrangeing the thread.
3rd. Greater facility in leasing & tieing up the separate hanks.
In commencing to reel yarns, it is customary to knot the threads to be hanked,
round the wing, or bar of the swift, or reel, the machine is then set in motion for
a short time; until a few layers of the yarn or thread cover the knots, or begin-
ning portion of the hanks, firmly on the reel, or swift; the machine is then stopped;
the knots are broken off, & the end of the thread is arranged separately to its own
hank. The improvement dispenses entirely with these tedious operations.
Instead of knotting the ends together round the bar of the swift or reel; the
yarn or thread is simply slipped between the bar and the plate, fastened to the
bar; the thread is thus held in position until the swift or reel is filled with hanks
thus requiring no knots, at the commencement of the hanks; and as a consequence
none to break off; then again, no time is lost in arrangeing the thread to its own
hank; the thread has already been slipped in position; & can just as readily be
slipped out of the plate, & tied up with the leasing with a much greater facility
than the custom now in use.
The improvement can be used in reeling mohair, alpaca, silk, mixed, China
grass, flax, worsted, woolen & other yarns.

page_text: of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:.
The improvement in machines for reeling yarns is composed of round plates of
india rubber r R with holes in centre to admit screws SS¹ these rubber plates,
with a thin metallic washer d slightly bent at the edges 1) to admit the end of the
yarn or thread easily under the rubber plates, are screwed to the side of one of the
wings or bars of the reel, or swift, B at equal distances between the spaces occupied
by the hanks or layers of yarn when the reel or swift is filled with hanks, or layers
of yarn; one rubber plate with its relative metallic washer C required to be
screwed to, the bar or wing of the reel, or swift, for each hank, reeled at one
time by the machine.
In commencing to reel yarns, it is customary to knot the ends of the yarn to be
reeled or hanked round the wing or bar of the reel or swift B; the machine is then
set in motion for a short time; until a few layers of the yarn or thread cover the
knots, or beginning portion of the hank firmly on the reel, or swift; the machine
is then stopped; the knots are broken off, & the ends of the yarn or thread are
arranged separately to the respective hanks; thereby causing serious loss of time.
The improvement dispenses with these tedious operations. Instead of knotting the
ends of the yarn or thread round the wing or bar of the reel, or swift, the end of
the yarn or thread T is simply slipped between the bar, & the rubber plate X
fastened to the bar by means of the screw, & the thin metallic washer; the yarn or
thread is thus held in position until the reel or swift is filled with hanks; thus
requiring no knots at the commencement, &, as a consequence, there are no knots
to break off; then again, no time is lost in arrangeing the end of the yarn to its
respective hank; the end of the yarn has already been slipped in position; & can
be drawn out from the rubber plate, & the bar, & tied up with the leasing with a
much greater facility than the custom now in use.
P is sectional view of plan C¹ on the line EF as seen in elevation C.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
Round india rubber plates, r R, with holes in centre, to admit screws SS¹; the
rubber plates with a thin metallic washer C are screwed to the side of the reel, or
swift one rubber plate with its relative metallic washer for each hank. The
end of the yarn T is slipped between the rubber & the bar; to dispense
1st. With knotting the ends round the bar. 2nd. Breaking off the knots.
3rd. Arrangeing the end of the yarn to its respective hank.
Dated this 25th day of January 1898.