AN IMPROVED ARRANGE- MENT OF MACHINERY FOR MAKING Cops
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Combe, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim,
and Kingdom of Ireland, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ARRANGE-
MENT OF MACHINERY FOR MAKING Cops."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Combe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th November 1867.
I, JAMES COMBE, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, and Kingdom of
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY FOR MAKING COPS," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed to lessen the waste made in winding by reducing
the length of yarn under tension in its passage from the hank or bobbin to
the cop or spindle upon which the cop is formed, and to avoid the necessity
for using springs, catches, or analogous contrivances on the end of the spindle
for preventing the cop slipping off in the process of winding when the cop is
commenced at the small end of the spindle in machines which wind from the
hank or bobbin.
To effect these objects the spindles are placed horizontally, and the blade or
that part which receives the cop takes the form of an octagonal taper.
The
body of the spindle or part which passes through the driving socket is made
square. The socket is driven by a spring friction clutch, wherein the necessary
pressure for the frictional surface is got without putting any pressure upon the

page_text: bearings or collars when working. When the cop is commenced to be formed
the spindle is pressed forward by a weighted crank lever; it is built in a fixed
cup or hollow cone. The formation therefore of the cop presses back the
spindle until the cop has attained the required length, when an adjustable
stop upon the handle of the weighted crank lever comes in contact with a stop
wire in connection with the spring friction clutch. This stop wire being now
pressed aside liberates a lever, which allows a stopping spring to throw the
friction surfaces of the clutch out of contact, and thus stop the rotation of the
spindle. When an end breaks the stop wire is pressed aside, and thereby
made to stop the spindle by a projection on the boss of the vibrating or com-
pensating lever, which is kept in position only by the tension of the thread,
and weighted to enable it to bring the projection on its boss into action. To
facilitate the piecing of an end or the removal of a cop the cup is free to be
turned aside out of the line of its spindle.
The above described arrangement of machine can be made to wind
indifferently from the hank or bobbin.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Combe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
COMBE, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, and Kingdom of Ireland, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Combe, Her special licence that I, the said James
Combe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said James Combe, my 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
makė, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINERY FOR MAKING COPS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Combe, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Combe, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention is designed to lessen the waste made in winding by reducing
the length of yarn under tension in its passage from the hank or bobbin to
the cop or spindle upon which the cop is formed, and to avoid the necessity
for using springs, catches, or analogous contrivances on the end of the spindle
for preventing the cop slipping off in the process of winding when the cop is
commenced at the small end of the spindle in machines which wind from the
hank or bobbin.
To effect these objects the spindles are placed horizontally, as shewn in the
accompanying Drawing, in which Fig. 1. is a section of one side of a machine
constructed according to the present Invention, and Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
are detached views of certain of the operating parts to be hereafter specially
referred to. The same letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the
Figures.
Cop winding machines are generally made "double," that is, with a row of
spindles a at each side, with the reels 6 for holding the yarn to be wound
placed immediately beneath them, but for the purpose of economising space
I place the spindles a of the one side of the machine so that their inner ends
lie between those of the other side for a distance equal to the length of the
footstep slide a³. The cop c is formed upon the blade or that part of the
spindle marked a². It is made taper to facilitate the removal of the cop, and
receives by preference an octagonal form in section; the body a³ of the spindle
or that part which passes through the driving socket d to receive rotary
motion therefrom is made square in section. The socket d is driven by the
contrivance d¹ known as Combe's Patent spring friction clutch, wherein the
necessary pressure for the frictional surfaces is got without putting any pressure
upon the bearings or collars when working. The driving sockets for the
spindles a are driven from the pulley or spindle shaft e, which is provided with
spindle wheels that gear into the socket wheels d. a is the footstep
bracket for receiving the inner end of the spindle, the foot of which is shaped
like a ball, the step being split and socketted to receive it. Thus while the

page_text: spindle is free to rotate it is yet secured to the footstep, and must move
endwise with it. When the cop c is commenced to be formed the spindle a
is pressed forward by the weighted crank lever f which acts upon the rear of
the footstep bracket a', this bracket being fitted loosely on the slide a³. The
cop c is built in a cup c¹ carried by a short lever that is pivotted to a fixed
rail A. As the cop is built up it carries the spindle a back with it until the
cop c has attained the required length, the friction clutch is then put out of
action, and the rotation of the spindle is stopped. The like effect is produced
automatically when the yarn breaks. This result is obtained through the
intervention of a stop wire h connected with a stop lever h¹, which puts the
friction clutch in and out of action.
The means for operating the stop wire so as to release the stop lever and
allow the spring h² to act upon it and disconnect the clutch will be best
understood by reference to Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6, Figures 3 and 4 being top
views and Figures 5 and 6 front views of the parts shewn in side elevation at
Fig. 1 for stopping the rotation of the several spindles a. The yarn to be
spun passes from the reel to a bowle on the end of the vibrating lever k, and
thence to the spindle. When the yarn breaks the vibrating lever k is thrown
upward by the action of the weight , which is connected to the boss of the
vibrating lever k by a leather strap m. On the boss of the vibrating lever k
is a projection i with an inclined surface, as shewn in Figures 5 and 6, which
incline as the vibrating lever is thrown upward comes in contact with the stop
wire h, and by pressing it aside relieves the catch n on the stop wire h, thus
allowing the spring h³, Fig. 1, to act on the stop lever h¹, which throws the
friction clutch d¹ out of contact, and thus stops the spindle a. Fig. 4 shews
the position of the stop wire h when the spindle a is stopped. The spindle a
is also stopped automatically by the adjustable stopper 9 upon the handle f¹
of the weighted lever f (Figures 1 and 5). As the cop c is being built in the
cup c¹ it carries the spindle a and weighted leverf back with it, thus causing
the handle and adjustable stopper g to move downwards until the cop is the
required length; the adjustable stopper g then comes in contact with the stop
wire h, and by pressing it aside the catch n is released, and the spring h³ is
free to act upon the stop lever h* and stop the driving of the spindle, as before
described. To piece an end the cop c is drawn out of the cup c¹ by the
handle on the weighted lever f, and to doff it is drawn so far back that the
point of the spindle a¹ is free from the cup c, which is then turned aside to
the position shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 2, which is a front view of the cup
and its rail; the cup c is then free to be taken off, the spindle a is drawn and
held back by the handle f¹ until the cop c is taken off and the cup c¹ turned

page_text: into its working position, shewn in full lines at Fig. 2, ready for commencing
to form another cop..
The above described arrangement of machine can be made to wind
indifferently from the hank or from the bobbin. In the latter case the creel
or bobbin rail will be situate as shewn by dotted lines at 1, Fig. 1, and the
action of the vibrating or compensating lever k will be communicated to the
drag lever by the wire or connecting rod k³.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved
Arrangement of Machinery for Making Cops," and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above
in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the arrangement of machinery, as
herein described, for winding cops from hanks or bobbins, whereby the objects
above set forth are effectually attained.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Combe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.