An Improvement in Bobbins or Beams for Winding Yarns and Textures.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Bobbins or Beams for Winding Yarns and
Textures.
I, THOMAS BROWN of Regent Works Sheffield in the County of York, Steel
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the Specification No. 3282 of 1887 is described a construction of bobbins or
beams with their cylindrical portions made of steel plate bent round to tubular form
and provided at the ends with steel flanges of various kinds.
My invention relates to a construction of flange applicable to such bobbins or beams,
in such a manner that it can be shifted to or fro longitudinally so as to adjust the
operative length of the bobbin or beam, and fixed where required on the barrel. For
this purpose
I make in cast steel or malleable iron the flange with a sleeve projecting
from it loosely fitting the barrel. I slit this sleeve in three or four parts of its
circumference and around it I place two semicircular clips with projecting ears held
together by bolts and nuts. By screwing up these nuts the segments between the
slits of the sleeve are pressed inwards, the slits allowing them to yield, so that the
sleeve is made to clamp firmly the barrel at any part of its length where the flange
may be placed. In order to prevent the semicircular clips from shifting along the
sleeve, I prefer to make the sleeve with an outwardly projecting lip at its outer end,
and with small ribs projecting from the flange, so that the clips are kept in position
between these and the lip of the sleeve.
Dated this 27th day of March 1888.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improvement in Bobbins or Beams for Winding Yarns and
Textures.
I, THOMAS BROWN of Regent Works, Sheffield in the County of York, Steel
Manufacturer 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 :—
In the Specification No. 3282 of 1887 is described a construction of bobbins or
beams with their cylindrical portions made of steel plate bent round to tubular form
and provided at the ends with steel flanges of various kinds.
My invention relates to a construction of flange applicable to such bobbins or
beams, in such a manner that it can be shifted to or fro longitudinally so as to adjust
the operative length of the bobbin or beam, and fixed where required on the barrel.
For this purpose I make from rolled steel plate or in cast steel or malleable iron the
flange with a sleeve projecting from it loosely fitting the barrel. I slit this sleeve in
three four or more parts of its circumference and around it I place two semicircular
clips with projecting cars held together by bolts and nuts. By screwing up these
nuts the segments between the slits of the sleeve are pressed inwards, the slits allowing
them to yield so that the sleeve is made to clasp firmly the barrel at any part of its
length where the flange may be placed.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing is a front, view of a sliding flange according to
my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of a modified construction. Fig. 3 is a vertical
section of the flange shewn in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the flange
shewn in Fig. 2. Referring to Fig. 1 A is the flange and B the sleeve projecting
fron the flange and loosely fitting the barrel, this sleeve being slit at several parts
of its circumference. Instead of making the sleeve B in one piece slit as shewn in
Fig. 1, four or more separate brackets C may be fixed on the flange as shewn in Fig. 2.
Around the sleeve B or the brackets C is placed the band D consisting of two semi-
circular clips having ears, with bolts and nuts E. By screwing up these nuts the
segments of the sleeve B or the separate brackets C are strained inwards on the
barrel and the flange A is thus secured, at any part of the barrel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
For securing a flange at any part of a length of a beam or bobbin the combination
of a slit sleeve or of several brackets with a divided band and bolts and nuts for
clasping the same substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of November 1888.