Improvements in Apparatus for Operating the Marking Appliances of Machines for Sizing Yarns.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 28th June, 1887.
Improvements in Apparatus for Operating the Marking Appliances
of Machines for Sizing Yarns.
We LEVI WILKINSON, Cotton Manufacturer and ELIJAH MORRIS Sizer, both of
Navigation Mill Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OPERATING THE MARKING
APPLIANCES OF MACHINES FOR SIZING YARNS to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an improved combination of mechanism for operating the
marking of yarn sizing machines, the object being to to reduce the number of parts
employed to facilitate the changing and adjusting the apparatus so as to mark at any
definite length of yarn and to dispense mainly with the use of change wheels.
According to this our invention we employ on the axis of the tin roller which is
the driver a wheel gearing with a change wheel; latter drives a wheel on a cross
shaft, a worm in the latter drives a worm wheel on a side shaft, and on this is another
wheel driving the color wheel and the tappet of the marking hammer. The cross shaft
referred to at its other end and on opposite side of the machine carries a pinion which
gears with a radius or face gear wheel having several concentric rings or circles of
teeth each ring forms a driving wheel for a studing or adjustable pinion wheel on a
cross shaft, on other end of the shaft is a sliding pinion gearing with a like wheel
having two concentric rings of teeth of such diameter as to represent two to one
variations of speed and on axis of the latter wheel is the shaft of the hammer
eccentric and color wheel.
As the first pinion is set in the larger or smaller diameters of the face gear wheel so
will the speed of its shaft and other pinion driving the second face wheel and color
roller be varied thereby changing the time of operation of the marking tappet and
marking hammer as desired, whilst if the pinion gearing with the second plate gear
wheel be moved on its shaft longitudinally so as to gear with the inner or outer
radius teeth the distance of the marking may be further varied in ratio of two to one.
Dated this 9th day of July 1886.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Operating the Marking Appliances
of Machines for Sizing Yarns.
We, LEVI WILKINSON, Cotton Manufacturer, and ELIJAH MORRIS, Sizer, both of
Navigation Mill Blackburn in the County of Lancaster 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 :-
This invention consists of an improved combination of mechanism for operating the
marking appliance of yarn sizing machines, the object being to reduce the number of
parts employed, to facilitate the changing and adjusting the apparatus so as to mark
at any definite length of yarn and to dispense mainly with the use of change wheels.
According to this invention we employ on the axis of the tin roller which is the
driver a wheel gearing with a change wheel, latter drives a wheel on a cross shaft, a
worm on the latter drives a worm wheel on a side shaft, and on this is another wheel
driving the colour wheel, and the tappet of the marking hammer.
The cross shaft referred to at its other end, and on opposite side of machine carries
a pinion, which gears with a radius or face gear wheel having several concentric rows
of teeth, each ring, or row forms a driving wheel for a stud or adjustable pinion
wheel on a cross shaft. On other end of the shaft is a sliding pinion gearing with.a
like wheel having two concentric rings of teeth of such diameter as to represent two
to one variations of speed, and on axis of the latter wheel is the shaft of the haminer
eccentric and colour wheel.
As the first pinion is set in the larger or smaller diameters of the face gear wheel,
so will the speed of its shaft and other pinion driving the second face gear wheel and
colour roller be varied thereby changing the time of operation of the marking tappet
and marking hammer as desired, whilst if the pinion gearing with the second plate
gear wheel be moved on its shaft longitudinally so as to gear with the inner or outer
radius teeth the distance of the marking may be further varied in a ratio of two
to one.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part
of this specification in which,
Fig. I is a front elevation of our improved apparatus for operating the marking
appliance of sizing machines.
Fig. 2 is a left hand side view (or end marked A) of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a right hand side view (or end marked B) of Fig. 1.
According to this our invention we employ on the axis 1 of the tin roller 2 which
is the driver a wheel 3 gearing with a change wheel 4, the latter drives a wheel 6 on a
cross shaft 6ª a worm 7 on the shaft 64 drives a worm wheel 74 on the shaft 8, on
this shaft 8 is a bevel wheel 8ª gearing with a like wheel 9 on the shaft 94 which is

page_text: in two pieces whereon is the tappet 10 for operating the shaft 10 of the marking
hammer.
The cross shaft 6ª has at its other and opposite side of the machine a pinion 10ª
which gears with the spur teeth of the wheel 11 on face of which are concentric
teeth 114 114 each ring of teeth 114, 11ª forming a driving wheel for the adjustable
pinion or bevel wheel 12 on the cross shaft 13; on the opposite end of the shaft 13 is
another sliding bevel or pinion wheel 14 gearing with a wheel 15, having two
concentric rings of teeth A, B, of such diameter, so as to represent two to one
variations of speed and on the axis of the wheel 15 is the eccentric 16 which operates
the colour hammer.
As the pinion or bevel wheel 12 is set in the larger or smaller diameters of the
teeth 11ª on the face gear wheel 11 so will the speed of its shaft 13, and other pinion
or bevel wheel 14 driving the second face gear wheel 10ª and colour tappet 16 be
varied, thereby changing the time of operation of the marking tappet 16, and marking
hammer as desired, whilst if the pinion or bevel wheel 14 gearing with the face gear
wheel 10 be moved longitudinally on its shaft 13, so as to gear with the inner radius
teeth A, or outer radius teeth B, the distance of the marking may be further varied
in the ratio of two to one.
Thus instead of having many change wheels to regulate the marking hammer we
employ only one, on the face of which are several rows of teeth (see Fig. 3) beginning
at the centre with a row of teeth twenty in number and advancing by tens in each ring
of teeth until ninety is reached. The marker is regulated by the pinion or bevel
wheel 12 working on shaft 13. By moving this wheel 12 on to the different rows of
teeth the counts are altered. Thus if wheel 12 is placed on the outside row of teeth
and the wheel 14 on the outside row of teeth A, the count is nine to one, if the
wheel 12 is on the innermost row of teeth the count is two to one.
Again by moving the wheel 14 on to the row of teeth B on wheel 10ª and wheel 12
on the outside row of teeth on the wheel 11 a count of eighteen to one is obtained.
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 ;
1. The general construction, combination and arrangement of parts as, and for
purpose herein described, and illustrated by drawings annexed.
2. The face gear wheels 11, 15, bevel wheels 12, 14, pinion 10 all in combination
and for purpose herein set forth.
3. The wheels 3, 4, 6, worm 7, worm wheel 74 and bevel wheels 84, 9, and tappet 10,
all in combination and for purpose herein fully described.
Dated this 29th day of March 1887.