IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING MACHINES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas White, John White, and
Matthew White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd
March 1876.
THOMAS WHITE, JOHN WHITE, and MATTHEW WHITE, all of Paisley, in the
County of Renfrew, North Britain, Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING
MACHINES."
This Invention has reference to the winding of yarns and threads on to bobbins
such as those used in throstle spinning frames, and in roving, warping, and other
machines, and consists in ranging these bobbins each on a loose horizontal spindle
carried in small longitudinal portable frames sliding vertically in guides in side
cheeks or frames ranged along the two sides of the whole winding machine,
between the two end frames, or it might be intermediate frames of an A shape.
These cheeks and fraines are secured by strong rails along the whole length of the
apex of the side frames and cheeks and their two lower sides at the base, where
there are three longitudinal shafts running in bush bearings within the frame
throughout the whole length of the machine, with collared pulleys on them between
cach set of frames and cheeks, having steel or other metal bands nearly the breadth
of the bobbin passed and revolving over these pulleys, in the form of a series of
isosceles triangles, looking on the end of the machine. So that a row of these
bobbins rest by their barrels and surface of the yarn being wound on them with
their own weight and that of the light sliding frames on the two opposite sides of
the outer surface of each band so as to wind and fill the bobbins by the consequent
rolling and frictional action of the bobbins on the bands, which are the real
drivers. The two lower shafts only, with the steel or other metal bands on them,
are driven, the upper shaft at the apex revolving by the frictional action of the
bands over its pulleys, and the two lower shafts are driven by a transverse first
motion shaft at one end, geared thereto by bevel wheels, or by skew wheels or
worm and worn wheels, or other equivalent gearing, which would drive the pulleys
of both shafts in the same direction and at the same circumferential speed. This
first motion transverse shaft is driven by a fast and loose pulley on it, and a belt
passed over them from any adjacent prime moving shaft or other equivalent
ordinary driving gear or mechanism used for driving such like machines. Thus by
these improvements 15 bobbins may be ranged and driven on each side of each
band within a convenient height for the attendant to ship and unship them, and
if the machine had 12 bands in the length this would wind 360 ends or bobbins,
but there might be more or less in the height of each row or the bands in the

page_text: length of the machine, giving a proportionate power or number of bobbins wound
in a correspondingly small space.
The feeding of the ends or threads on to each bobbin may by one arrangement
be effected by a light iron rectangular frame reciprocated in guides longitudinally
over the two angled sides of the main frame. This reciprocating frame has a light
transverse round bar across it for each angled vertical row of bobbins, with a
groove, finger, or oye to guide the thread to each bobbin, all the threads being
passed longitudinally to these over transverse guide bars, one to each reciprocating
frame at one end of the machine, led to their respective bars, grooves, and bobbins.
These two reciprocating frames are connected by a transverse bar or bars at the
opposite end of the machine to that of the driving gear and thread guide bars, and
are actuated to-and-fro by a connecting rod or other equivalent from a longitudinal
reciprocating mangle wheel motion, or it might be a heart motion taken from an
angled vertical shaft actuated at a slow speed by a screw wheel on its lower end
and a screw on the far end of one of the longitudinal lower shafts or other equivalent
mechanical motion.