Improvements in Winding Frames for Winding Yarn or Thread on to Bobbins.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 21st May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Winding Frames for Winding Yarn or Thread
on to Bobbins.
We THOMAS GUEST and THOMAS BROOKES, both of Poland Street Oldham
Road Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Machine Makers do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist in an arrangement of parts to equalize the drag or
tension of the yarn in passing from the spool, cop, or bobbin to the bobbin on which
it is to be wound.
In the present mode of winding the yarn is drawn from the spool, cop, or bobbin
which is carried by a rail or bar attached to the framing of the machine, it then
passes over a rail covered with flannel or other suitable material, then through an
eye or, under a tension rod fixed to a rail or bar. These rails or bars are also
attached to the machine framing, and consequently do not rise or fall during the
process of winding.
The yarn is then carried up to and over a washer rod or bar, then through an
eye or guide on the traversing rail, both being attached to the upright traversing
rod or bar, which rises and falls and guides the yarn on to the winding bobbin in
the usual manner.
To equalize the drag or tension of the yaru in passing from the spool to the
bobbin in the process of winding, we place the spool on to a rail attached to, or
forming part of the upright traversing rod or bar. The flannel rail and the rail
carrying the tension eye or rod, we also attach to the upright traversing rod or bar,
so that in the traversing bar rising and falling, the whole goes together, iz,
the spool and all the parts over which the yarn passes up to the guide eye in the
traversing rail which guides the yarn on to the winding bobbin-and thus, the
angle of the thread or the distance betwixt the parts over which the thread passes
never varies, thus keeping the drag or tension uniform throughout the lift or
traverse. All the different rails on the upright traversing bar are adjustable for
the purpose of regulating the amount of friction or drag required according to the
difference in strength of the yarn to be wound.
Dated this 13th day of August 1891.
PETER
MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Winding Frames for Winding Yarn or Thread
on to Bobbins.
We THOMAS GUEST and THOMAS BROOKES both of Poland Street Oldham
Road Manchester in the County of Lancaster Machine Makers 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 improvements consist in an arrangement of parts to equalize the drag or
tension of the yarn in passing from the spool, cop or bobbin to the bobbin on which
it is to be wound, and is as follows. We attach the rails which carry the spools
containing the yarn to be wound and the other parts over which the yarn passes
in the process of winding to the upright traversing rod or bar (or to one which
moves in accordance with it) and which travels up and down to guide the yarn

page_text: on to the bobbin on which it is to be wound, -instead of as at present being
fixed to the framing of the machine and consequently having no up and down
motion. By moving the spool and its connections up and down with the guiding
bar the angle of the thread, or the distance betwixt the parts over which the
thread passes from the spool to the bobbin never varies thus keeping the drag or
tension uniform throughout the lift or traverse.
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In the accompanying sheet of drawings, a represents a bobbin of an ordinary
winding machine on which the yarn is to be wound and which is driven in the
usual manner, is the ordinary upright traversing bar which rises and falls by the
action of a rack and pinion, shewn in dotted lines, and worked in the usual manner.
To the upright traversing rod or bar is attached the rail e carrying the eye d
through which the thread passes on going on to the bobbin in the usual manner.
To the upright bar we attach a bracket e (or it may be made to form part of the
upright bar) to which we attach the rail carrying the spool from which the yarn
is to be wound. The thread then passes from the spool over the flannel rail h,
then through or under the tension eye or rod; on the rail, then over the washer
rod k, then through the eye d which guides it on to the bobbin in the usual manner.
The rail, the flannel rail h, the rail, and washer rod k, are all attached to the
bracket e forming part of the upright bar b, and move up and down with it. All
the different rails on the bracket e are adjustable for the purpose of regulating the
amount of friction or, drag required according to the difference in strength of
the yarn to be wound.
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
Attaching the rails of winding frames which carries the spool containing the yarn
to be wound, the flannel rail, the rail containing the tension eye or rod, or other
similar parts, to the up traversing rod or bar or its equivalent-which guides the
yarn on to the bobbin on which it is to be wound for the purpose and substantially
as in the manner described.
Dated this 14th day of Anril 1809
PETER
MCGREGOR,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.