Improvements in Machines for Finishing and Completing Twine or Oord.
Year: 1889

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Finishing and Completing Twine or
Oord.
I JOHN CHEYNE of Paterson in the County of Passaic and State of New
Jersey; United States of America Manufacturer, do declare the nature of this in-
vention and in what 'manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained-in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to finish and complete twine or cord, by one con-
tinuous operation with a class of machinery, less expensive than that now employed in
twine finishing in which several opperations are required.
I attain the object sought by devices that are illustrated in the accompanying
drawing, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the rear portion of a twine finishing machine, a portion
of the frame shaft, flyer, spindle etc. being removed in such figure.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the front portion of the machine, and
Fig. 4 is a plan of the same.
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A represents a portion of a twine or cord finishing machine of ordinary build,
having the usual frame A¹, forming tube b, shaft c, flyer d. The machine which is
constructed as is usual, need not it is thought to be further described herein.
On the frame A¹, of the machine A and at the rear end of the same, I arrange
and suitably fix one or more supporting pins B. the number of which pins will
correspond with the number of strands required to form the twine or cord to be
finished and completed.
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The pin or pins B. which are adapted to support the supply bobbins are provided
with rove, containing bobbins C. which bobbins contain the rove X. in its unfinished
state, and as the same leaves the rove forming machine.
At a suitable distance in front of the pin or pins B. and the bobbin or bobbins C.
thereon, I arrange and fix a size or solution box "D." which box is adapted to hold
the size or solution prepared for and through which the rove or unfinished and
incomplete twine or cord X. passes.
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The box D. containing the size or solution with which the rove is treated and
through which it passes is provided with a roller E. and two additional rollers F.
the former of which rollers is arranged on the edge of the box D, and is adapted to
support the rove X. drawn from off the bobbin or bobbins C, preparatory to the
roves entering the box D, 'and the size or solution therein.
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-The rove
✗, after the same has passed over the roller E, and has entered the
size or solution in the box D. passes under the rollers F. arranged near the bottom
of the box D, and remote from each other, in which positions the rollers F. are
adapted, to keep the rove X. immersed in the size or solution, to saturate the same
therewith:
At the opposite side of the box D,' in front of roller E, and projecting over the
size or solution box D. I arrange in slotted standards G and one above another,
rollers Hand H' which rollers owing to a weighted lever Harranged to act upon
the slide bearings H³ of the roller H are adapted by pressure, to press out of the
rove X. and back into the box D. any excess of the size or solution which the rove
may carry after leaving the box D. and the size or solution therein.
In front of the standards G. and at a suitable distance therefrom on the different
sides of the machine frame is arranged and fastened by bolts or otherwise a standard J.
having bearings J' in which bearings is journalled heated rolls K. K', which rolls
are provided with a gear K that gears with an intermediate gear K* which latter
is arranged on a stud fixed in the frame A¹ as shown.

page_text: The roller K. is provided with a pulley K' that connects with a pulley H³ on
the roller H. by a belt K' which adapts the roll K. to impart motion to the roller H.
while the roll K by means of pulley K' belt L' and gear K is adapted to rotate the
gear K and roll K. while the absorbing roll N. is turned by the heated rolls K, K¹.
The roll N. which is provided with one or more coverings of flannel felt or
other absorbing material, is arranged in a slot J' formed therefor in the standard J.
and rests upon the heated rolls K. K¹, and is adapted by means of said covering
or coverings of flannel felt or other absorbing material to absorb and take up any
remaining moisture, upon the rove or partly finished twine or cord X. after the
same bas passed from between the rollers H. H' and is passing over and between
the absorbing roll N. and heated rolls K. K¹ preparatory to the rove or partly
finished twine or cord X passing from the rolls K. K¹ and N to a drying
cylinder L.
The drying cylinder L. to which the rove or partly finished twine or cord passes
from the rolls K. K' and N. and around which the rove twine or cord passes
one or more times to dry the same, is arranged in front of the rolls K. K¹ in
bearings L prepared therefor, and is adapted to dry the rove or partly finished twine
or cord, while the same is passing one or more times around the cylinder, and from
which the rove or partly finished twine or cord ✗ passes to a forming tube 6 in
a dry and heated state.
The forming tube b, which is arranged in a rail 61 transversely fixed in the
machine as shown is adapted to receive the dried heated and partly finished twine
or cord, and which while the twine is passing through the same, lays, and by the
friction created in the twine passage, glazes the rove, or partly finished twine or
cord X. previously dried and heated, by the cylinder and which is twisted by the
flyer in its passage through the same, and preparatory to the finished twine or cord,
being laid by the flyer d, on a metal forming spool R.
The forming spool R. is arranged on a tube R' which latter is provided with a
groove on its inner surface to accommodate a feather Rx arranged therefor in a
removable spindle R upon which spindle the forming spool R. and tube R¹ are
mounted, and which is supported at one end in a standard S. and at the other end
in the flyer d as shown.
The tube R' is provided at the outer end of the same, with a recess T. to accommo-
date the upper and bifurcated end T₁ of a traverse bar 14 which latter is arranged to
slide on and over a rod To while the lower end of the said traverse bar enters and is
adapted to work in grooves T2 T3, of a face cam V. which cam is fixed on a shaft W,
journalled in bearings 1 and 2. fastened to the machine frame, and which is adapted
by means of the traverse bar T to reciprocate tube R¹, and forming spool R. back and
forth on the spindle R, which adapts the forming spool R to receive the
finished twine or cord X, from the flyer d, and to cause the flyer to lay the finished
twine or cord on and over the length of the forming spool R, to complete the twine or
cord as shown in fig. 3.
The cam shaft Wis provided with a gear 4, that gears with an intermediate gear 5
which latter is arranged on a stud fastened in the frame A', and which gears with a
gear 7. on the driving shaft C.
The drying cylinder L, around which the rove, or partly finished twine, passes to
be dried, preparatory to its entering the forming tube b, receives its motion from a
pulley O, on a transverse shaft P. by means of a belt O', while the belt L³, gives motion
to roll K¹, from the pulley L*, on the cylinder L.
The tube R¹; and flyer d, are actuated from the shaft c, by means of belts Z, Z', as
shown in fig. 3 and at different rates of speed, the tube moving endwise over
feather Rx.
The flyer d, arranged in bearings d³, has arms d', around which the finished twine'or
cord X, passes before passing over grooved pulleys a, to the forming spool R, on
which the finished twine or cord is wound and completed by one continuous operation,
and by machinery, costing less than one half, of the machinery now employed in twine
finishing.

page_text: The twine or cord X, finished and completed as shown in fig. 3 when taken from
the forming spool by removing the spindle R, from the flyer, is ready for the market
without further manipulation.
More or less twist may be given to the twine, by changing the gear n, which gear,
gears with a gear n', that is integral with a gear n³ on a shaft n³, which last mentioned
gear by means of gear n, controls the twist forming devices, if the change made in the
gear n, makes the motion of the twine less rapid, more twist will be given to the twine,
the opposite will be the case, when the movement of the twine or cord is made more
rapid.
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 [
claim is
First. Two heated rolls mounted to rotate in a machine for finishing and completing
twine or cord, a pair of pressure rollers also mounted to rotate and connecting with
the heated rolls, in combination with an absorbing roll mounted upon said heated rolls,
a size or solution box with rollers mounted upon said box, one or more bobbin sup-
porting pins B, and mechanism whereby the rolls and rollers are rotated, substantially
as described and shown.
Second. The combination of two heated rolls, a pair of pressure rollers with weight
and lever attached, a drying cylinder mounted to rotate in front of said heated rolls,
a forming tube, a flyer also mounted to rotate, mechanism whereby the cylinder and
flyer are rotated, substantially as described and shown.
Third. The combination of the flyer d, and spindle R', with the forming spool R,
tube R¹, transverse bar T4, the cam V. means for rotating the tube R¹ and cam V,
mechanism for regulating the twist as shown and set forth.
Dated this 11th
1000
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.