IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS YARN OR THREAD
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Henry Bayley, of Bolton, in the County
of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and Frederick Luke Stott, of
Rochdale, in the same County, Machinist, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING COTTON AND
OTHER FIBROUS YARN OR THREAD."
Scaled the 12th July 1872, and dated the 23rd February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Henry Bayley
and Frederick Luke Stott at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd February 1872.
We, CHARLES HENRY BAYLEY, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, and FREDERICK LUKE STOTT, of Rochdale, in the same
County, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR WINDING COTTON
AND OTHER FIBROUS YARN OR THREAD," to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to prevent the fly or loose fibre which
falls or is thrown off in winding yarn or thread from getting upon the

page_text: thread as it passes to the bobbin by being caught up by the thread from
the accumulation upon the traverse rail, parts of such accumulation of
fibre frequently being carried forward in ordinary winding machines, and
when this takes place imperfections are found in the cloth made from
such yarn or thread. Our Invention consists in means for obviating the
above-named defect in winding machines by applying a roller covered
with flannel between the thread-plate guide and the bobbin, such roller
having bearings upon the traverse rail and extending from end to end
thereof, being placed a little below the threads.
The roller has a slow continuous or intermittent motion given to it, and
the fly collects and accumulates closely and compactly upon it, and is
removed at suitable intervals. The roller may be rotated by a ratchet,
pawl, stop, or incline, or by other suitable means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Henry Bayley and Frederick Luke Stott
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
HENRY BAYLEY, of Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner,
and FREDERICK LUKE STOTT, of Rochdale, in the same County,
Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Charles Henry Bayley
and Frederick. Luke Stott, Her special license that we, the said Charles
Henry Bayley and Frederick Luke Stott, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles Henry Bayley
and Frederick Luke Stott, our 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
" IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO
Isle of Man, an Invention for

page_text: skewers in rails which take the place of the inclined spindle rails f.
There is a pinion (a¹) on the tin drum shaft which drives a wheel (9¹)
on a shaft g, passing from end to end of the machine, upon the end of
which there is a small pinion which works into a mangle wheel, and
this wheel gives reciprocating motion to a horizontal rack which gears
into wheels on the shafts h that pass from end to end of the machine.
Upon the shafts h, at suitable intervals, are wheels which gear with
the
vertical toothed racks i working in suitable guides, upon
ends
of which racks the traverse bar or rail jis secured which carries the
thread guide plate k and the T screw adjusting guides 1, over which
the threads pass to the bobbins as the traverse bar ascends and
descends.
upper
All the parts above referred to are ordinary and well known parts of
winding frames, but there are other well known winding frames to
which our improvements are applicable, in which the traverse motion is
produced by a "heart wheel cam," and the motion is transmitted to the
rail in a different but well known manner. In most winding frames
there is a bar in front of the guide plate (k), which has woollen clothi
washers upon it over which the threads pass (before passing through the
plate k), and these cloth washers smooth the fibres of the thread in
passing, but many loose fibres fall or arc thrown from the thread after
passing the guide plate (k), and accumulate on the traverse bar j
between the guide plate and the bobbin d, and it is the object of our
Invention to gather up and prevent such loose fibres from being carried
forward by the passing threads.
Fig 3 is
a front view, and Fig 4 an end sectional view showing
detached and full size the roller or clearer m, according to our Invention
applied to the traverse rail or bar j. We prefer to form the roller m of
tubing in suitable lengths connected together by squares and sockets as
shown by Fig 5, a partial longitudinal section, and Fig. 6 an end view,
(both full size). The lengths of roller are each covered with flannel m¹
from end to end except where they rest in the bearings j", on the rail j.
When filled with fly the rollers (m) can be readily removed, the lengths
being detached from each other and the fly stripped. The rollers rest,
when empty, with their flannel surface in contact with the incline
formed upon the traverse bar j, but as they get covered with fly the
roller rises up the incline surface of its bearings which are brackets j¹
secured at suitable intervals along the traverse bar j.

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The
We prefer to rotate the rollers m continuously at about revolutions
per minute, and the motion may be transmitted by a band 92, from a
pulley g* on mangle wheel pinion shaft g (or the heart wheel shaft as
the case may be) to a central pulley n on a short shaft n', carried by a
bracket secured to the framing; the short shaft having a double grooved
pulley n upon it for two bands n*, one band passing to a pulley m² on
the end of the roller m on one side, and the other to the corresponding
pulley on end of the roller for the other side of the frame.
bands are elastic to some extent to allow for the increase length between
the rollers m and driving pulley shaft n' when the rollers m are above
and below its centre. Endless jointed tooth chain working sufficiently
slack may be used in place of bands. The pulley m² for driving each
roller m may be arranged to rotate in a bracket from the end of the
traverse bar j, as shown in Figs 3 and 4, the connection between the
pulley m² and roller m being made by a short rod m³ which can swivel in
the axis of the pulley m³ on a pin m*, passing through a slot in the rod
m³, the small end of this rod having a pin through it, the projecting
ends of which enter a cross slit cut in the end of the hollow roller m.
By this arrangement the driving axis of the pulley m³ is made stationary
and the centre of the roller m is allowed to rise as it fills or is covered
with fly.
Fig 7 is a front and Fig 8 an end view showing another method of
driving the rollers m, either continuously or intermittently at a slow
speed. m is the end of the roller; m* a ratchet wheel secured upon it;
m³ is a curved lever which can oscillate freely on the roller shaft m; m³ is
another curved lever which can also oscillate freely on the roller shaft
m. The boss of the lever me has a pin m' through it, which comes in a
groove in the shaft m, the pin serving to keep both levers from moving
end ways on the shaft; m³ is a pawl carried on a stud in the lever me to
b act on the upper part of the ratchet wheel. m is a weighted pawl
carried on a stud in the lever m³ to act on the under side of the ratchet
wheel. A stud p, carried by any suitable bracket from the framing A,
passes through the curved slot in each lever, and as the traverse bar j
rises and falls vertically the levers are made to oscillate, one pawl acts
5 to turn the roller m in the ascent, and the other in the descent of the
traverse bar j. One of the levers m³ or m³ may only be used, and in
this case the roller m will only rotate during the movement in one
direction of the traverse bar, and the time of the rotation (whether

page_text: during the upward or downward movement) will depend upon which of
the two levers is employed.
We have now particularly described the nature of our Invention, and
the manner of carrying the same into effect, and claim as our Invention
the roller or clearer (m) in machines for winding cotton and other fibrous
yarn or thread, arranged substantially in the manner and for the
purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Luke Stott, on my own
behalf, and on behalf of the said Charles Henry Bayley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.