Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Reeling Yarns and Threads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Reeling Yarns
and Threads.
I, ALFRED GRUSCHWITZ, of Neusalz-on-the-Oder, Silesia, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained to and by the following statement :―
My invention relates to apparatus for reeling yarns and threads.
With the apparatus heretofore employed for reeling yarns and threads it is
necessary to stop the reeling cylinder when a sufficient number of threads have
been run upon the same, in order to bind these threads together into a skein by
means of a tying thread. This operation is repeated until the hank on the reeling
cylinder has the requisite number of skeins.
According to my invention I provide a tying device which enables the reeling
cylinder to be run continuously until its peripheral surface is completely covered
with yarn, whereupon the latter is automatically tied into the desired number of
skeins in one operation, thereby saving considerable time.
.
In the accompanying drawing which represents the said tying device,
Figure 1 is an end view of an adjustable reeling cylinder provided with the
tying device.
Figure 2 is a front view of part of this cylinder to a larger scale, showing the
arrangement of a certain number of tying tongs constituting the tying device.
Figure 3 is a section on the line - of Figure 2, while Figures 4 and 5
indicate characteristic positions of a pair of tying tongs.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 show the various forms which the tying thread
successively has in the positions shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 of the tying tongs in
order to effect the automatic and simultaneous tying of the skeins.
As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the tying tongs 1 are arranged in a slot side by
side at certain distances from each other in the direction of a generatrix in the
periphery of the reeling cylinder. Their number depends on the size and
number of the skeins which are to be produced upon the cylinder. Each pair of
tongs consists of two parts or shanks 2, 2 adapted to turn together upon a common
bolt 3, which is guided within the reeling cylinder A by slots 5 provided in bow
pieces 4, 4, and being supported in the fork 6 can be displaced by the rods 7, 8
and 9 in the radial direction. By the radial displacement of the bolt 3 all the
tying tongs are raised or lowered at the same time so that they either protrude
above the peripheral surface of the cylinder A and there form partitions or
compartments a a a, Figures 1, 2 and 3, or are drawn below the periphery into the
cylinder, Figure 5.
The distance of the tying tongs from each other is ensured upon the bolt 3 by
intermediate pieces 10. Upon a shaft 11 adapted to turn in the fork 6 are firmly
keyed the discs 12 having spiral slots 13 wherein the bolts 14 slide which latter
connect the lower ends of the right hand or left hand shanks 2,2 of the tying
tongs with each other in such a manner that in the turning movement of the
shaft 11 these shanks 2, 2 are either closed, Figures 3 and 5, or opened, Figure 4.
In lieu of the slotted discs 12 use inay also be made of other devices, for instance
eccentrics or the like which act in the manner described.
The reeling cylinder is shown in the present case as being made of two parts
and therefore adjustable for the purpose of enabling the skeins formed to be more
easily removed from the cylinder, after the two halves of the same have been
drawn together by means of the rack A' and the pinion A".

page_text: The device operates in the following manner: The lever g, Figure 1, is turned
so that all the tying tongs 1 protrude above the periphery of the reeling
cylinder A, Figures 1, 2 and 3, and form the compartments a, a, a; the shanks 2, 2
are closed by turning the shaft 11, Figure 3; and the tying thread c, in the
manner shown in Figure 2, is laid between the crossed shanks 2, 2, Figure 3, over
all the tying tongs, one end 6 of the tying thread having previously been attached
to the cylinder. After this the cylinder is caused to rotate, the thread guide
conducting the number of threads requisite for a skein into each of the
compartments a aa without interruption until all the compartments a, a, a of the
reeling cylinder are full, the tying thread c being pressed into the com-
partments a, a, a by the yarn itself as it enters them, thus presenting the form
shown in Figure 34. Now the reeling cylinder is stopped, the shanks 2, 2 of each
pair of tying tongs Figure 4 are opened by turning the shaft 11 backwards, and
the loops e, Figure 4, are formed through which the end d of the tying thread is
passed by means of a wire, so that the tying thread, embracing the skeins in the
compartments a, a, a assumes the form shown in Figure 4A. Then the lever 7 is
turned to the position indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1, and all the tongs 1 pass
back simultaneously into the cylinder A, Figure 5. Next the tying thread, which
is bent at a and b to form a kind of loop, is seized by these ends, stretched tightly
with the hand, and thus drawn together to be changed from the shape Figure 4A
to that shown in Figure 5A, whereupon the ends band d are firmly tied together
directly in front of the first skein. In this manner all the skeins are tied tingly
by the thread similarly to a chain stitch and, after the cylinder has been drawn
together by the pinion A" and rack A', can be easily removed from the said
cylinder.
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 :-
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A reeling cylinder which for the purpose of obviating its stoppage for the
tying is provided with an automatic tying device comprising a series of tongs which
are arranged side by side, protrude with their upper crossing arms from the
periphery of the cylinder, and receive between them the single skeins, which tongs,
by their arms being caused to move apart, cross the tying thread laid over them in
such a manner that the end of the tying thread can be passed through the crossed
parts, and that, after lowering the arms of the tongs below the surface of the
reeling cylinder, a regular binding of the several skeins is effected by the tying
thread.
Dated this 27th day of September 1893
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.