A New Method of Manufacturing Silk Cord and the like, and in Machinery therefor.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SECIFICATION.
A New Method of Manufacturing Silk Cord and the like, and in
Machinery therefor.
I, ALFRED SMITH of 100 Gosford Street Coventry in the County of Warwick,
Silk Cord Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to a new method of manufacturing silk cord and
especially relates to the means for covering or wrapping the cotton or other cord
or the like with silk.
The machine or apparatus is built up, and consists of a strong framework of
iron or other suitable metal or wood, this framework is supported by standards
carried up to the required height, metal shafting is arranged horizontally within
the framework upon which shafting is a driving wheel, driving pulleys and
cone pulleys all in connection with each other, by driving banding, power is
transmitted to the same from an engine or other suitable means for producing
motion.
Upon the forepart of this framework forming with its accessories the machine is
a horizontal shaft which carries a beam or bobbin which revolves upon same upon
this bobbin the cotton cord is wound the bobbin being so weighted that the cotton
may be kept tight whilst being fed up by the action of the machine.
Above this horizontal shaft is a bearing of metal or wood running parallel with
same this bearing supports the following parts (viz.) two standards carrying
revolving pulleys and a revolving shuttle situated in the centre of the pulleys and
revolving in its own bearings and standards.
Fixed to the shuttle is a bobbin upon which is wound the silk for covering the
cord and a metal slide (preferably of steel) for holding the cotton cord is also
attached to the shuttle, guides are used situated upon the slide and the shuttle in
order to guide the silk as it unwinds from the bobbin. As already stated the
cotton cord being wound upon the lower beam or bobbin the cord is carried up over
one of the pulleys, situated by the revolving shuttle horizontally through the
tubular spindle attached to one of the dises of the shuttle onward through the
slide and tubular spindle of the other disc of the shuttle and under the second
pulley, thence up to and round a cone pulley and finally being received by a
bobbin.
By these means when the machine is in motion and the pulleys shuttles and
bobbins revolving the rapid revolution of the shuttle with the silk bobbin and
guides thereon causes the silk to be evenly wound or wrapped around the cord
which is drawn through the shuttle by the action of the machine and which is paid
off by the bobbin upon which it is wound and having been so covered by the silk in
its passage through the shuttle the now covered silk cord is fed up to and wound
around the bobbin provided for the purpose.
The machine may be constructed in a variety of ways, so as to comprise any
suitable number or sets of the necessary shuttles, bobbins and pulleys etc. for the
manufacture of silken cord or such like.
By my method a far larger quantity of work can be turned off in much less time
and a great saving of labour and material is effected.
Dated thin 17th day of Anril A D 1892

page_text: A New Method of Manufacturing Silk Cord and the like, and in
Machinery therefor.
I, ALFRED SMITH of Auckland House, Springfield Road (late of 100, Gosford
Street), Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Silk Cord Spinner, do hereby
declaro 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 :-
Reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed and to the figures and
letters shewn thereon.
Figure 1. is a front elevation of the machinery or apparatus.
Figure 2. a side elevation.
Figure 3. the shuttle & its mechanism.
Figure 4. a detail of the slide to an enlarged scale.
My invention has reference to an entirely new method of manufacturing silk cord
and especially relates to the improved means for covering or wrapping the cotton
cord or other cord with silk.
The machinery or apparatus is built up of strong framework, consisting of cross
pieces A of iron or other suitable metal or of wood, and standards B carried up to
the required height as shewn, suitable metal shafting C, C¹, C³, C³, is carried by
the standards and framework. Upon the shaft is a driving wheel D, in
connection with driving pulleys E and cone pulleys or chucks F all working with
each other by driving banding or other suitable means: driving power is trans-
mitted to the machinery at the pulley G, by a band from an engine or other means
for producing motion.
I will now proceed to describe my improvements and the general construction
and arrangement of the same.
A bearing or platform H of metal or wood is supported by the standards B,
this platform carries the following parts vizt.-two standards I, 1', having
revolving pulleys therein J J', and a revolving shuttle K carried by tubular
spindles L L', and situated between the pulleys J, J', and revolving in its own
bearings and supports M, M'.
Attached to the shuttle K is a bobbin N upon which the silk N¹ is wound and a
slide O preferably of steel (though it may be of other material) is also suitably
attached horizontally to a bar P in the centre of the shuttle K, guides Q are
situated upon the slide O and shuttle K, to guide the silk as it unwinds from the
bobbin.
Beneath the bearing or platform H upon the shaft C is a beam or bobbin R
which revolves thereon when in motion.
The action is thus. The cotton cord R' to be covered with the silk is wound
upon the bobbin R, which is so weighted that the cotton cord R' may be kept
tight whilst being fed up by the action of the machinery for covering. The cotton
cord having been carried up over the pulley J, horizontally through the tubular
spindle L of the shuttle K onward through the slide O aud tubular spindle L' of
the shuttle and under the second pulley Ji thence up to and round a cone pulley or
chuck S on the shaft C' and finally is received by the beam or hobbin T, upon the
upper shaft C³ as shewn, so that when the machinery is in motion, and the various
pulleys, bobbins, and shuttle revolving, the rapid revolution of the shuttle K, with
the bobbin N attached thereto, the slide O and guides Q causes the silk N to
unwind from the bobbin N and to be evenly wound or wrapped around the cord R¹
which is fed through the shuttle K and slide O, the cord having been covered with
silk in its passage through the shuttle K and slide O, the now covered silk cord R*
is fed up to and wound upon the bobbin T as stated.

page_text: The machinery or apparatus may be constructed in a variety of ways, so as to
comprise any suitable number or sets of the necessary shuttles with the accessories
thereto for the manufacture of silken cord or such like.
By my improved method a far larger quantity of work can be turned off than by
any existing method also in much less time and at a great saving of labour and
material.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the particular
construction or disposition of the parts embodying my improvements, as I can vary
the method of applying the same as occasion may require without departing from
the general principle of this my invention.
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 I
claim is,
Firstly. In machinery for the manufacture of silk cord and such like, the
introduction into such machinery and method of applying a revolving shuttle with
its accessories as shewn or any other device capable of acting similarly to a shuttle
for the purpose set forth and described.
Secondly. In combination with machinery for the manufacture of silk_cord and
such like, the revolving shuttle K the bobbin N, the slide O, and guides Qall
constituting accessories of the said shuttle, together with the tubular spindles L, L',
standards I, 1, pulleys J, J', and the supporting bearing or platform H all for
the purpose and operating in relation to each other and to the other parts of
the machinery in manner, and for the purpose substantially as set forth and
described.
Thirdly. In combination with machinery for the manufacture of silk cord and
such like, the weighted beam or bobbin R upon the shatt C or other similarly
acting means, operating in connection with all the other working parts substantially
for the purpose as set forth and described.
Fourthly. The general construction and arrangement of parts alone or in
combination comprising my improvements as set forth and described.
Dated this 18th day of January A D 1894
EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.