Improved Apparatus for Reeling Paper.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Reeling Paper.
We, ANDREW MASSON, and ROBERT SCOTT, Engineers, both of York Place, New
Wandsworth, Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for reeling paper, and consists in an improved
combination of means of removably carrying a series of bobbins and of
simultaneously shifting the series of bobbins so as to remove the reeled bobbin
from the reeling position into a position in which it can be removed and replaced
by an empty bobbin, and to bring an empty bobbin into the reeling position, and so
on, continuously, whereby the working of the apparatus will be rendered practically
continuous and there will be a great saving of time and labour, and reels of much
larger diameter than is at present practicable can be conveniently reeled and
manipulated.
In carrying out the Invention, a carrier-ring, at each end of the machine, is
formed with a series, of any convenient number (say, for example, three), of
bobbin-carriers arranged equidistant apart around the ring.
Each carrier-ring, is mounted in an end annular frame, with facility of rotating
therein, and the two rings are arranged with their respective bobbin-carriers
opposite in true alignment, and each pair of carriers is adapted to adjustably secure
a bobbin-spindle carrying a bobbin and gear-wheel.
Each carrier-ring is also internally toothed around its periphery, and gears with
a pinion, the two pinions being on a common shaft which passes through the
rings and the end frames, and is supported by suitable brackets and is driven
when it is required to shift the bobbins as and for the purposes aforesaid, while.
when the shaft is not being driven, the rings are locked in position by some part of
their actuating gear being engaged by a convenient locking detail.
Through the carrier-ring at the driving end of the machine, is also passed a
reel-driving-shaft, which is carried by convenient. brackets in a position excentric
in relation to the axial centre of the carrier-ring. and carries a pulley which is
driven by a belt from a pulley on the bottom shaft of the stack of calender-rolls,
and also a gear-wheel which is adapted to engage with the gear-wheel of the bobbin
which is in reeling position, (and with the gear wheel of each bobbin as and when
it is brought into reeling position) but not with the gear-wheels of the bobbins
which are not in reeling position, this being due to the excentric motion of the
carrier-rings in relation to the axial centre of the reel driving shaft.
The partial revolution of the carrier-rings is effected, at the required times,
from a countershaft which is provided with fast and loose pulleys driven by a belt
from a pulley on the bottom shaft of the calender rolls hy bevel gearing and a

page_text: worm-shaft supported by convenient brackets and a worm-wheel fast on the shaft
on which the said two pinions gearing with the carrier-rings are fast, as aforesaid.
The belt is shifted by a fork extending from a stem which is formed with an
arm connected to a slide-rod which is formed with a detent adapted to engage with
a pin projecting from said worm-wheel, the arrangement being such that when
the belt is in engagement with the loose pulley, the pin is in engagement with the
detent and the carrier-rings are locked in position, and the reeling of the bobbin
in position for reeling is effected by the operation of the gearing operated by the
reel driving shaft.
When such bobbin is fully reeled, the shifting of the carrier-rings with the
carrier bobbins is automatically effected from the countershaft, upon the attendant
lifting the slide-rod so as to remove its detent out of engagement with the pin pro-
jecting from the worm-wheel, and thrusting the rod somewhat to the rear, these
actions unlocking the gearing. serving to actuate the carrier-rings, and shifting
the driving belt from the loose pulley to the fast pulley, and placing the detent in
position to be re-engaged by the pin projecting from the worm-wheel, as it travels
round into engagement therewith whereupon, the pin
pin returns the slide-rod to its
normal position and throws the belt again onto the loose pulley;..the reeled bobbin,
during this movement,-being shifted from its reeling position and out of engage-
ment with the reel driving shaft into a position in which it can be removed and
replaced by an empty bobbin, and the next bobbin to be, reeled being simultaneously
moved into the reeling position and into engagement with the reel driving shaft.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Reeling Paper..
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We, ANDREW MASSON, and ROBERT SCOTT, both of York Place, New Wands-
worth, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this Iuvention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:--
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for reeling. paper, and, consists in
the combination with, an intermittently operated paper reeling gear, of means of
the nature hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, of
removably carrying a series of bobbins and of simultaneously shifting the series
of bobbins so as to, remove the reeled bobbin from, the. reeling position into, a
position in which it can be, removed and replaced by an empty bobbin, while, at
the same time, bringing an empty bobbin into. the reeling position, and so on,
continuously, whereby the working of the apparatus will be rendered practically
continuous, and there will be a great saving of time and labour."
On the accompanying drawings:-
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Fig. 1, represents an elevation of the improved apparatus, partly in section.o
CD Fig. 2, and Eig. 2, represents a sectional elevation on AB Fig. 1.
Like reference, letters indicate like parts,wherever they, are repeated on, the
drawings.
In carrying out the Invention,. a carrier-ring a,, at each end of the machine, is
formed with a series, of any convenient number (say, for example, three) of bobbin-
carriers a, arranged equidistant. apart around the ring.
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page_text: Each ring a, is mounted in an end annular bracket or frame b, (Fig. 1), with
facility of rotating therein, and the two rings are arranged with their respective
bobbin-carriers a¹, opposite in true alignment, and each such pair of carriers is
adapted to adjustably secure in any convenient manner a bobbin-spindle c,
together with its bobbin e', and a gear-wheel ³.
Each ring a, is also internally toothed, as at a³, around its periphery, and gears
with a pinion d; the two of which pinions are fast on a common shaft d, which passes
through both of the rings a, and the brackets b, and is supported by suitable
brackets d, and intermittently driven, as hereinafter described, that is, when
it is required to shift the bobbins as and for the purposes aforesaid, while, when
the shaft d', is not being driven, the rings a, are locked in position by some part of
their actuating gear being, as hereinafter described, engaged by a convenient
locking detail.
Through the ring, a, at the driving end of the machine, is also passed a reel-
driving-shaft e, which is carried by convenient brackets e¹, in a position excentric
in relation to the axial centre of the ring a, and carries a pulley e, which is driven
by a strap f³, from, a pulley f, on the bottom shaft f, of the stack of calender-
rolls f, and also a gear-wheel e, which is adapted to engage with the gear-wheel
of the bobbin c¹, which is in reeling position, (and with the gear-wheel of each
bobbin as and when it is brought into reeling position) but not with the gear-
wheels of the bobbins which are not in reeling position, this being due to the
excentric motion of the carrier-rings in relation to the axial centre of the shaft e.
The partial revolution of the bobbin-carrier rings a, is caused to be effected, at
the required times, from a countershaft d³, (which is provided with fast and loose
pulleys d, d, driven by a band f, from a pulley f, on the shaft f¹), by bevel
gearing do, and a worm-shaft d, supported by convenient standards or brackets d³,
and a worm-wheel d, fast on the shaft d.
The belt f, is shifted by a fork g, extending from a stem g', formed with an
arm 93, which is connected to a slide-rod g³, which is formed with a detent g',
adapted to engage with a pin do, projecting from the worm-wheel do, the arrange-
ment being such that when the belt f, is a engagement, with the loose pulley d³,
the pin do, is in engagement with the detent g, and the carrier-rings a, are
locked in position, and the reeling of the bobbin in position for reeling is effected
by the operation of the gearing operating the shaft e.
When such bobbin is fully reeled, the shifting of the bobbin-carrier-rings a,
with the carried bobbins is automatically effected from the shaft d, upon the
attendant lifting the rod g³, so as to remove its detent g', out of engagement with
the pin do, and thrusting the rod somewhat to the rear, these actions unlocking
the gearing serving to actuate the rings a, and shifting the belt f', from the
pulley d³, to the pulley d, and placing the detent g, in position to be re-engaged
by the pin do, as it travels round into engagement therewith, and, whereupon, it
returns the rod g³, to the position indicated in Fig. 2, and throws the belt f, again
onto the loose pulley; the reeled bobbin, during this movement, being shifted to
the position a, with its gear wheel 3, out of engagement with the gear e³, and
the next bobbin to be reeled being simultaneously moved from the position y, to
the reeling position, with its gear wheel c, into engagement with the gear e³.
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:-
In apparatus for reeling paper, in combination, annular end frames, annular
reel-carriers adapted to rotate in the frames and to removably carry a series of
bobbins, and means of simultaneously shifting the carriers and series of bobbins
so as to remove the reeled bobbin from the reeling position and out of gear with
the reeling gear, and of simultaneously bringing an empty bobbin into the reel-
ing position and into gear with the reeling gear, and of locking the parts when in

page_text: reeling position, and reeling gear adapted to rotate the bobbins when in position
for reeing, as set forth.
Dated this 28th day of July 1897.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.