IMPROVEMENTS IN APPAratus FOR GASSING AND REELING YARNS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Dentist, of Leeds, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPAratus
FOR GASSING AND REELING YARNS."
Sealed the 11th September 1874, and dated the 27th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes:
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th March 1874.
O
I, SAMUEL GIBSON RHODES, Dentist, of Leeds, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-,
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR GASSING AND REELING YARNS," to be as follows, that
is to say:-
1
My Invention relates to employing a series of Bunsen gas burners' so,
constructed that the gassing jet or flame is divided by separate tubes or
burners into several flames or jets acting on the yarn, instead of having
one jet of gas or flame as heretofore employed, and also in recling the-
yarn after having been gassed at one operation. For this purpose I
employ an apparatus formed with framework supporting spindles, gas-

page_text: piping, burners, and hollow air chambers, also the reel and driving
gear.
On the top part of the frame is fitted a main supply gas pipe having
branch pipes or tubes corresponding with the number of spindles on
which are placed the bobbins having the yarn to be gassed. These
branch pipes have small holes made therein through which the gas
passes, and are covered with metal covers open at the bottom part
through which passes atmospheric air. On the top of these metal covers
are fitted burners or small tubes; the gas passing through the branch
pipes mixes with the atmospheric air contained in the hollow air
chambers, then passes through the burners or small tubes and is
lighted in the following manner:-In the front of the metal covers is
fitted a small movable supply gas pipe having small tubes fitted therein
and working up and down by means of gear hercin-after described;
these small tubes work on the sides of the metal covers and the jets of
gas are kept burning during the time the apparatus is in use.
The bobbins having been placed on the spindles the yarn is passed
through eye guides over the rows of gas burners or small tubes and on
to the reel; the operator then actuates a starting lever fitted on the side
of the frame; to this starting lever is fixed the small movable supply
gas pipe on which are fitted the gas jet tubes. The starting lever being
pulled forward lifts up the jet tubes and lights the gas coming through
the burners or small tubes fitted on the top of the air chambers.
Directly the yarn on the bobbin has passed through the gas and is
recled the operator throws back the lever and lowers the jet tubes, at
the same time closes a tap fitted to the main supply gas pipe. This tap
is actuated by means of a rod fitted to the starting lever. This lever
also operates on a sliding block in which works the reel shaft, throwing
the reel out of gear to allow of the removal of the banks of gassed yarn..
The gas used for the gassing of the yarn is therefore stopped or shut off;
during the operation of taking off. the yarn from the reel and the
placing of fresh bobbins, effecting a great saving in the consumption
of gas.
The reel is actuated by means of friction pulleys or rollers, one being
fitted on a small shaft on which works a fast and loose pulley, the other
is fitted on the reel shaft. One end of the reel shaft is fitted in a.
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page_text: fitted to the frame; in the movable boss is fitted a stud passing through
the bearing plate on which turns the recl shaft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
GIBSON RHODES, Dentist, of Leeds, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes,
Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Gibson Rhodes, 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 therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR GASSING AND
REELING YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Samuel Gibson Rhodes, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NÓW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the samo
is to be performed, to be particularly described. and ascertained in. and

page_text: by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereto
annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say :-
The said Invention relates to employing a series of Bunsen gas
burners so constructed that the gassing jet or flame is divided by
separate tubes or burners into several flames or jets acting on the yarn
instead of having one jet of gas or flame as heretofore employed, and
also in reeling the yarn after having been gassed at one operation. For
this purpose I employ an apparatus formed with framework supporting
spindles, gas piping, burners, and hollow air chambers, also the reel and
driving gear.
On the top part of the frame is fitted a main supply gas pipe
having branch pipes or tubes corresponding with the number of
spindles on which are placed the bobbins having the yarn to be gassed.
These branch pipes have small holes made therein through which the
gas passes, and are covered with metal covers open at the bottom part
through which passes atmospheric air: On the top of these metal covers
are fitted burners or small tubes; the gas passing through the branch
pipes mixes with the atmospheric air contained in the hollow air
chambers, then passes through the burners or small tubes and is lighted
in the following manner :-In the front of the metal covers is
fitted a small moveable supply gas pipe having small tubes fitted therein
and working up and down by means of gear herein-after described;
these small tubes work on the sides of the metal covers, and the jets of
gas are kept burning during the time the apparatus is in use.
The bobbins having been placed on the spindles the yarn is passed
through cyc guides over the rows of gas burners or small tubes and on
to the reel; the operator then actuates a starting lever fitted on the side
of the frame; to this starting lever is fixed the small moveable supply
gas pipe on which are fitted the gas jet tubes. The starting lever being
pulled forward lifts up the jet tubes and lights the gas coming through
the burners or small tubes fitted on the top of the air chambers.
Directly the yarn on the bobbin has passed through the gas and been
reeled the operator throws back the lever and lowers the jet tubes, at
the same time closing a tap fitted to the main supply gas pipe. This
tap is actuated by means of a rod fitted to the starting lever. This lever
also operates on a sliding block in which works the reel shaft, throwing.
the reel out of gear to allow of the removal of the hanks of gassed yarn

page_text: The gas used for the gassing of the yarn is therefore stopped or shut
off during the operation of taking off the yarn from the reel and the
placing of fresh bobbins, effecting a great saving in the consumption
of gas.
The reel is actuated by means of friction pulleys, or rollers, one being
fitted on a small shaft on which works a fast and loose. pulley; the other
is fitted on the recl shaft. One end of the reel shaft is fitted in a
moveable boss having a flat base and working on a curved bearing plate
fitted to the frame; in the moveable boss is fitted a stud, passing through
tlic bearing plate on which turns the recl.shaft.
The reel is constructed of metal tubes made to open and close, so that
the removal of the gassed yarn is easily effected.
But in order to enable my improvements to be better understood, I
will proceed to describe the same by reference to the accompanying
Drawing, in which Figure 1 represents a front clevation of the apparatus
for gassing and recling yarns; Figure 2, side elevation; Figure 3,
sectional elevation through the line A, B; and Figure 4, plan of the
samc.
Figure 5 represents a side elevation of a cleansing apparatus for
removing nibs from silk or other yarn; and Figure 6, front clevation
of the same.
Similar letters of reference are used in all the Figures to represent
similar parts.
A, framework held firmly together by means of the stay rods B. On
the top part of this frame is fitted a main supply gas pipe C having
branch pipes or tubes D corresponding with the number of spindles on
which are placed the bobbins E having the yarn to be gassed. These
branch pipes or tubes D have small holes F made therein through which
the gas passes, and have taps G fitted thereto to regulate the supply of
gas. The branch pipes D are covered with hollow air chambers H
through which passes atmospheric air. On the top of these hollow air
chambers are fitted covers I having burners J fitted to them. The gas
passing through the branch pipes D mixes with the atmospheric air
contained in the hollow chambers H, and then passes through the
burners J and is lighted by means of gas jets coming from small tubes Li
supplied by the moveable gas supply pipe K. These small tubes L are
worked up and down by means of the lever M which is fitted on the

page_text: moveable gas pipe K; this lever being pulled forward lifts up the small
tubes Land lights the gas coming through the burners J. On the supply
pipe K is fitted a branch pipe N having a tap O; this tap is actuated
by means of the lever M, for when this lever is moved forward the tap O
moves with it, also the rod B, until the nuts Q come in contact with the
bracket, opening the tap when the lever M is moved forward and
partially closing it when the lever is moved back, keeping a very small
light burning. During the travel of the rod P between the nuts Q thero
is no action on the tap O, only opening and shutting it when wanted
and according as the nuts are set. The gas used for the gassing of the
yarn is therefore stopped or shut off during the operation of taking off
the yarn from the reel and the placing of fresh bobbins, effecting a
great saving in the consumption of gas. A stop lever S formed with
notches T is fitted to the framework and keeps the lever M. from moving
out of position when the gassing is in operation or when moved forward
for taking off the yarn. The yarn coming from the bobbins E passes
under a rod U and through a bush V, then over the burners J and over
a pulley W on to the reel Y, or through curved pieces of metal Z when
water is used. The water comes through a supply pipe into a pipe A¹,
on which are fixed the curved metal pieces Z; small holes are made in
the pipe A' and pieces Z, allowing the water to flow.
The reel Y is actuated by means of the driving pulley B₁ giving
motion to a shaft C on which is fitted a spur wheel D₁ working into
another spur wheel E. This wheel is fitted on a stud fixed in a moveable
boss F¹ working on a bearing plate G¹ fitted to the frame A. On the
moveable boss F¹ is fitted a stud H¹ passing through a boss formed on the
bearing plate G¹. On the wheel E¹ is formed a boss I¹ in which fits
the shaft J of the recl. Y. The recl turns on the stud or pivot H', and
is actuated by the lever M working a slide K', which when the lever M
is moved forward causes the slide to move on the bearer L', moving
forward the reel shaft J¹ and throwing the spur wheel E¹ out of gear
with the spur wheel D', stopping the reel; and at the same time the
gas is shut off in the pipe K during the operation of taking off the yarn
from the reel and the placing of fresh bobbins.
.
The reel Y is constructed of metal tubes M¹ made to open and close
so that the removing of the gassed yarn is easily effected..
Figures 5 and 6 represent a cleansing apparatus for removing nibs
from silk or other yarn. H, atmospheric air chamber, on the cover I of

page_text: which are fitted bearing plates N³, in which are fitted small spindles O¹
having small pulleys P¹ fixed thereon. The yarn to be gassed passes over
and under these pulleys, and at intervals some of these pullies have
scrapers Q' fitting in the grooves of the pulleys. The scrapers are fitted
in brackets bolted or cast on the bearing plate R¹; on this plate is formed
a handle §¹ to lift the scrapers out of gear when not required. The
scrapers are set by means of set screws to lift or lower according to the
thickness of the yarn going through.
Having thus described my improvements and the best means I am
acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is,-
Firstly. The employment of a series of burners for gassing yarn,
substantially as herein-before described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawing.
Secondly. The method of lighting and shutting off the gas, substan-
tially as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing.
Thirdly. The method of washing yarn after it has been gassed by
means of the water tubes, substantially as herein-before described and
represented in the accompanying Drawing.
Fourthly. The method of throwing the reel in and out of gear,
substantially as herein-before described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.
Witness,
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SAMUEL GIBSON RHODES. (L.S.)
WALTER JAMES TURNER, C.E.,
Patent Agent,
Bradford.