Winding Thread or other Yarns.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
Winding Thread or other Yarns.
We JOHN MAKANT CRYER, of the Lodge Bank Iron Works, and JOHN THOMAS"
WIBBERLEY, Engineer, both of Bolton in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of our. invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVERSE MOTIONS EMPLOYED IN
MACHINES FOR WINDING THREAD OR OTHER YARNS, to be as follows :-
:-
Our invention relates to an improved combination of details for winding thread or
other yarns from the bank on swifts or rices on to bobbins or other equivelents in any
suitable shape, and independently and separately of each other, in order to allow the
thread or yarn to be unwound again from the end of the bobbins or other equivelents
either in a horizontal, vertical or other position without friction on the thread or yarn
and without danger of breakage.
The bobbins or other equivelents will either have no bobbin ends or flanges, or else
will be provided with one bobbin end or flange at one end only according to the shape
or form the thread or other yarn is to have on the hobbins or other equivelents.
The holibins or other equivelents will be worked by friction from the drums on the
driving shaft of the machine in the usual manner.
On each side of the driving drums and parallel with the same, and in a horizontal
position two traverse screws with equal threads will be fixed extending the whole
length of the machine. These traverse screws will be carried or supported by suitable
brackets or fixings to the frame bed of the machine. At the end of each traverse
screw a small spur wheel will be keyed and gearing into each other, rotating also
towards each other and in opposite directions.
These wheels will be driven by a spur
wheel on the drum shaft of the machine through one or more carrier wheels. Between
and below the two traverse screws on each side of the driving drums a slide bar is
fixed extending also the whole length of the machine. On these slide bars suitable
traversing thread guides will slide or move horizontally by means of the traverse
screws. The traversing thread guides will be made also to oscillate on the slide bars
as centres or pivots. On each side of the vertical arm of the traversing thread guides
and at a radius equal to the distance from the centre of the slide bar to the centre of

page_text: cach of the traverse screws, a bearing block or half nut will be fixed screwed or tapped
in the bearing to correspond to the pitch of the thread on the traverse screws.
A little above these bearing blocks or half nuts and on the vertical arm of the traverse
thread guides, and at each side of the same a spring bar is provided and fixed at right
angles to the axis of the traverse screws or in any other convenient position. These
spring bars come into contact with small blocks parallel to the traverse screws with
inclined planes at one end of each. These blocks are fixed on suitable inside and
outside rods or bars above the traverse screws and also extending the whole length of
the machine. The spring bars move up the inclined planes of the parallel blocks
referred to above, and finally rest on the parallel part of the block, and compresses the
spring bar in for the purpose of reversing the traverse of the traverse thread guides at
the proper time. On a centre pin at the top of the vertical arm of each of the
traversing thread guides a catch plate is hinged which rests and slides at the other end,
on the top of the before-mentioned inside rods or bars. At the underside of each
catch plate a small pin or catch is attached for the purpose of holding the bearing
blocks or half nuts on the vertical arms of the traversing thread guides against the
traverse screws while the traverse screws are moving or traversing the thread guides
in a right or left hand direction.
When bobbins or other equivelents with one bobbin end or flange on each are being
used in the machine, one inclined plane for each bobbin or other equivelent will be
fixed on the top of the before mentioned inside rods or bars for lifting the catch plates
up, releasing the catch and allowing the spring bars to move the hearing blocks or
half nuts on the vertical arm of the traversing thread guides to the opposite traverse
screws, the catch then drops on the other side of the above mentioned inside rod or
bar, for the purpose of keeping the bearing blocks or half nuts in contact with the
traverse screws, while the traversing thread guides are moving on the traverse
screws.
On the end of one or both arms of the ordinary style of bobbin carriers, an inclined
plane or planes will be fixed for regulating the traverse of the traversing thread
guides, so as to form or shape the thread while it is being wound on the bobbins or
other equivelents with taper conical or other shaped end or ends. As the thread is
being wound on the bobbins or other equivelents it increases in diameter on the
bobbin, and consequently will lift or raise the inclined plane or planes at the end of
the bobbin carrier arm or arms at the same time. The inclined plane or planes comes
into contact with the catch plates a little sooner for every layer of thread or yarn
wound on the bobbins or other equivelents, and by this means will form at one or both
ends the thread with taper, conical or other shaped end or ends.
RICHARD HARGRAVES.

page_text: Improvements in Traverse Motions Employed in Machines for
Winding Thread or other Yarns.
We JOHN MAKANT CRYER of the Lodge Bank Iron Works, and JOHN THOMAS
WIBBERLEY, Engineer, both of Bolton in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to an improved combination of details for winding thread or
other yarns from the hank or swifts or rices on to bobbins or other equivelents in any
suitable shape and independently and seperately of each other, in order to allow the
thread or yarn to be unwound again from the end of the bobbins or other equivelents
either in a horizontal, vertical or other position without friction on the thread or yarn
and without danger of breakage. The bobbins or other equivelents will either have no
bobbin ends or flanges or else will be provided with one hobbin end or flange at one
end only according to the shape or form the thread or other yarn is to have on the
bobbins or other equivelents. The bobbins or other equivelents will be worked by
friction from the drums on the driving shaft of the machine in the usual manner.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect, we will describe the accompanying sheets of drawings, reference being made to
the letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1. is an end elevation of a. Thread winding machine, shewing the traverse
screws, thread guides &c. on one side of the machine only, the other side being exactly
the same.
Figure 2. is a plan of a portion of a thread winding machine, shewing the traverse
motion and the means of reversing the same &c. The traverse motion is only shewn
complete for one bobbin, but it will be the same for all the other hobbins on the
machine.
Figure 3. is a front elevation of a portion of a Thread Winding machine, shewing
the traverse screw thread guides &c.
Figure 4. is an enlarged view of the lever, link and other connection for raising the
inclined plane used for shortening the traverse of the thread guides.
Figure 5. is an enlarged view of the inclined plane for shortening the traverse of
the thread guides for forming the thread wound on the bobbins with conical end
or ends.
Figure 6. is a view of the spur driving wheel, also carrier wheel for operating the
spur wheels on the end of the traverse screws.
Figure 7. is an enlarged view of the sliding thread guides with catch plate hinged
on the top.
In all these figures the same letters and numerals are used to indicate corresponding
parts.

page_text: On each side of the driving drums A. fig. 1. and parallel with the same, and in a
horizontal position two traverse screws B. 1 with equal threads will be fixed extending
the whole length of the machine. These traverse screws will be carried or supported
in suitable brackets fixed or cast with the frames C. of the machine. At the end of
each traverse screw B a small spur wheel D figs. 2 and 6 will be keyed and gearing
into each other rotating also fowards each other and in opposite directions. These
wheels will be driven by a spur wheel F figs. 2 and 6. on the drum shaft of the
machine through one or more carrier wheels E. fig. 6. Between and below the two
traverse screws B. B on each side of the driving drums a slide bar G. fig. 1, is fixed
extending also the whole length of the machine. On these slide bars suitable traverse
thread guides will slide or move horizontally by means of the traverse screws B. B.
A catel plate K will be hinged on the top of each of the thread guides H with an
upright finger or guide eye at the end for guiding the thread on the bobbins, as shown
in fig. 7. The traversing thread guides will be made also to oscillate on the slide
bars Gas centres or pivots. On each side of the vertical arm 1. fig. 1, of the
traversing thread guides H and at a radius equal to the distance from the centre of
the slide bar G to the centre of each of the traverse screws B. Ba bearing block or
half nut 2 will be fixed and screwed or tapped in the bearing part to correspond to the
thread on the traverse screws B. B. A little above these bearing blocks or half nuts 2,
and on the vertical arm 1 of the traverse thread guides H and on each side of the same
a spring bar 3 is provided and fixed at right angles to the axis of the traverse
screws B. B. or in any other convenient position. These spring bars 3 come into
contact with small adjustable blocks 4. fig. 7. parallel to the traverse screws B. B
with an inclined plane 5 at one end of each. These blocks are fixed on suitable inside
and outside rods or bars I above the traverse screws B. B. and also extending the
whole length of the machine. These spring bars 3 alternately move up the inclined
planes 5 of the parallel blocks 4 referred to above, and finally rest on the parallel part
of the adjustable blocks 4, compressing the spring bars 3 in for the purpose of
bringing alternately the bearing blocks or half nuts 2 against, and into gear with the
other traverse screw B as shewn in fig. 7, thus reversing the traverse of the traversing
thread guides H at the proper time. On a centre pin 6 figs. 1 and 7, at the top of the
vertical arm 1 of each of the traversing thread guides H a catch plate K is hinged
which rests and slides at the other end on the top of the before mentioned inside rod
or bar I.
At the underside of each catch plate K. figs. 1 and 7 a small pin or block 8
fig. 7. is attached for the purpose of holding the bearing blocks or half nuts 2 on the
vertical arm 1. fig. 7. of the traversing thread guides. H. against one of the traverse
screws B. B figs. 1 and 7. while the traverse screws are alternately moving or
traversing the thread guides H in a right or left hand direction. The top of the inside
rods or bars I is provided with a rib or projection 16. fig. 7. on which slides the end
of the catch plate K. When the traverse of the thread guides is complete the end of
the catch plate K is lifted by being brought into contact with the inclined plane 17
or 18. figs. 1 and 3. for a constant or fixed traverse, and the inclined planes 17
and L. figs. 2 and 3 for a lengthening or variable traverse. One of the spring bars 3.
fig. 7 at that moment moves up the inclined plane 5. fig. 2-and oscillates the blocks or
half nuts 2 against the other screw, when, the small pin or block 8 at the underside of
the catch plate K, fig. 7. falls down on the other side of the rib 16. and holds the
block 2 fig. 7. against the screw while the traversing is going on, and vice versa.
When bobbins or other equivelents with one bobbin end or flange are being used in
the machine one inclined plane L. fig. 5. for each bobbin or other equivelent will be
fixed in slides 9. fig. 5. on the inner side of the before mentioned inside rods or bars I
for forming or shaping the thread while it is being wound on the bobbins or other
equivelents with taper, conical or other shaped end or ends.
As the thread is being wound on the bobbins 14 or other equivelents it increases in
diameter on the bobbin and consequently will lower the inclined plane L. fig. 5. by
means of the link 10, lever 11 carried by the arm 12. fig. 4. fixed to the top rail 18 of
the machine. The inclined plane I is thus lowered by every layer of thread wound on
the bobbins and is brought into contact with the catch plates K a little later and

page_text: lengthens the traverse a little for every layer of thread wound on the bobbins or other
equivelents, and will thus form at one or both ends the thread wound on the bobbins
with taper, conical or other shaped end or ends.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is
Firstly. The combination of details, consisting of traverse screws, thread guides,
Catch plates, &c. comprising the improved traverse motion, substantially as described
and as shewn on drawings and for the purpose herein specified.
Secondly. The apparatus substantially as shewn in figs. 4 and 5, and described in
the foregoing specification for lowering the inclined planes for lengthening the traverse
of the thread guides.
RICHARD HARGRAVES,
Agent for Applicants.