IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WINDING YARN OR THREAD
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walker Hulton, Joseph Hulton, and Thomas
Crook, all of Prestwich, in the County of Lancaster, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WINDING
YARN OR THREAD.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walker Hulton,
Joseph Hulton, and Thomas Crook at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th March
1875.
We, WALKER HULTON, JOSEPH HULTON, and THOMAS CROOK, all of
Prestwich, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
WINDING YARN OR THREAD," to be as follows:―
This Invention relates principally to apparatus employed for winding
threads of silk, cotton, or other fibrous materials on to small bobbins
or pins" which are used in the shuttles of small ware looms, but it

page_text: may also be applied with advantage to machines used for winding yarn
or thread on to bobbins for other purposes.
The principal features of the Invention are that the bobbins are
rendered self-stopping as soon as they are full, and that the thread
guide is made self-adjusting to each bobbin, by which means waste of
the material is effectually prevented and both time and labor are
economized.
In suitable bearings, supported by a convenient framing, we mount a
longitudinal shaft to which a constant rotary motion is communicated,
and on this shaft we key or otherwise fix at intervals a series of pulleys
or drums. Above this shaft is a fixed table provided with slots through
which project the upper circumference of the said pulleys or drums.
Above the table we mount a series of swinging frames (one to cach
drum), and each frame carries a spindle provided with a small roller or
pulley, which when the frame is lowered rests upon the upper circum-
ference of one of the pulleys or drums first named, and by this means a
rapid rotary motion is given to the spindle. One end of the spindle is
provided with a cup or disc which presses against one end of the small
bobbin or pin, and the other end of the spindle is acted against by a
spring which forces the cup or diso against the bobbin or pin, and thus
causes it to revolve. The other end of the bobbin is supported by a
small pin or pivot fixed in the frame. The bobbins are thus casily
removed and replaced by sliding the spindle endwise against the pressure
of the spring. On the table beneath each bobbin is a small fixed roller,
and when the bobbin is nearly full its increasing diameter brings it
into contact with this roller, and by the time that the bobbin is
sufficiently full the spindle becomes raised and lifts the small roller or
.pulley out of contact with the driving pulley or drum, and the bobbin
ceases to revolve.
In front of each bobbin is a thread guide, and these thread guides
are attached loosely to a guide rail to which a reciprocating motion is
given by a heart wheel or any other convenient means.
Each swinging frame is provided with a hinged plate of the exact
width to fit between the two flanges of the bobbin, and when the latter
is placed in the frame this hinged plate is lowered so that it presses on
to the thread on the bobbin and rests between the flanges. The outer
edge of this plate is provided with two pins or fingers between which

page_text: the guides oscillate, and by these means each guide is always set to the
exact position of its own bobbin, and thus all inequality in the thickness
of the bobbin flanges is compensated for and uneven winding and waste
are entirely prevented.
DPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Walker Hulton, Joseph Hulton, and Thomas
Crook in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th September
1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALKER
HULTON, JOSEPH HULTON, and THOMAS CROOK, all of Prestwich, in the
County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year.
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Walker Hulton, Joseph Hulton, and
Thomas Crook, Her special license, that we, the said Walker Hulton,
Joseph Hulton, and Thomas Crook, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Walker Hulton, Joseph Hulton,
and Thomas Crook, our exccutors, 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 Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WINDING
YARN OR THREAD," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Walker Hulton, Joseph Hulton, and Thomas Crook, our exccutors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: drums c, c, and by this means a rapid rotary motion is given to the
spindle ff. One end of the spindle is provided with a cup or disc
which presses against one end of the small bobbin or pin h, h, and the
other end of the spindle is acted against by a spring i, i, which forces
the cup or disc against the bobbin or pin h, h, and thus causes it to
revolve. The other end of the bobbin is supported by a small pin k, k,
fixed in the frame. The bobbins are thus easily removed and replaced
by sliding the spindle f, f, endwise against the pressure of the spring i, i.
On the table d, d, beneath each bobbin is a small fixed roller 1, 2, and
when the bobbin h, k, is nearly full its increasing diameter brings it
into contact with this roller l, l, and by the time that the bobbin h, h, is
sufficiently full the spindle f, f, becomes raised and lifts the small
roller or pulley g, g, out of contact with the driving pulley or drum c, c,
and the bobbin h. h. ceases to revolve.

page_text: operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes above par-
ticularly set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walker Hulton (on behalf of
myself and the said Joseph Hulton and Thomas Crook), have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.