Improvements in Twisting or Stranding, Laying, and Covering Machinery.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th May, 1895-Accepted, 29th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Twisting or Stranding, Laying, and Covering
Machinery.
We ABRAM COMBE Machinist and THOMAS MAGEE Machine Viewer both of
Falls Foundry Belfast Ireland do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The arrangement and combination herein described is a further devopment
of Patents 1591887 801888 and 4112" of which Letters Patent were granted to
Abram Comb one of the present applicants.
The objects of this invention is to combine the flyer made up of the combination
of open legged flyer and hauling pulleys as described in Patent No. 801888 with
creel bobbins carried in flyers, so as to make a laying machine; also to combine
the said open legged flyer with two or more sets of register plates and tubes, so
that a core may be twisted or formed in one set of register plate and tube and be
covered with yarns in the next or succeeding set of registrar plates and tubes
simultaneously.
The creel bobbins are carried in preferably a horizontal position in vertical
flyers.
The flyers are suspended vertically and concentrically to the tubing eye of the
taking up flyer, and they are driven by geering straps or bands.
When forming a core of twisted yarn and covering said core with one or more
coverings of other yarn, the register plate and tubing eye to form the core or
placed vertically over the registrar plates and tubing eyes which form the covering
or coverings, the register plate for directing the yarns of the core radially into the
first tube being smaller in diameter than the succeeding registrar plate or plates
for directing the covering yarus radially into its tube or their tubes the latter
being large enough to admit of the twisted core and the covering yarns which form
the covering round the core passing through it.
When desired the core may be covered by twisted or untwisted silver instead of
by yarns, in which case the register plate which serves for directing the yarns of
the covering radially into the tube is dispensed with and a suitable conductor is
placed for feeding the silver into the covering tubing eye.
The machine can also be used for covering wire or a core prepared on other
nachinery by placing said wire or core on a flyer directly above the first tubing
ye and making said flyer to revolve in a suitable manner.
Dated this 16th day of August 1894.
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Twisting or Stranding, Laying, and Covering
Machinery.
We, ABRAM COMBE, Machinist, and THOMAS MAGEE, Machine Viewer, both
of Falls Foundry, Belfast, Ireland, 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:-
The arrangement and combination herein described is a further development of
Patents 1591887, 801888 and 4112" of which Letters Patent were granted to
Abram Combe, one of the present applicants.
The objects of this invention are to combine the flyer made up of the com-
bination of open-legged flyer and hauling pulleys as described in Patent No. 80188
with creel bobbins carried in flyers, so as to make a laying machine; also to
combine the said open-legged flyer with two or more sets of register plates and
tubes, so that a core may be twisted or formed in one set of register plates and
tubes, and be covered with yarns in the next or succeeding set of register plates
and tubes simultaneously.
The creel bobbins are carried in preferably a horizontal position in vertical
flyers.
The flyers are suspended vertically and concentrically to the tubing eye of the
taking up flyer, and they are driven by gearing straps or bands.
When forming a core of twisted yarn and covering said core with one or more
coverings of other yarn, the register plate and tubing eye to form the core are
placed vertically over the register plates and tubing eyes which form the covering
or coverings, the register plate for directing the yarns of the core radially into the
first tube being smaller in diameter than the succeeding register plate or plates for
directing the covering yarns radially into its tube or their tubes, the latter being
large enough to admit of the twisted core and the covering yarns which form the
covering round the core, passing through it.
When desired, the core may be covered by twisted or untwisted sliver instead
of by yarns, in which case the register plate which serves for directing the yarns
of the covering radially into the tube, is dispensed with, and a suitable conductor
is placed for feeding the sliver into the covering tubing eye.
The machine can also be used for covering wire or a core prepared on other
machinery by placing said wire or core on a flyer directly above the first tubing
eye, and making said flyer to revolve in a suitable manner."
Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
in which :-
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of the laying machine.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the laying machine.
Figs. 3 are views in elevation, and section, drawn to an enlarged scale, shewing
the creel flyer.
Fig. 4 is an elevation of two sets of register plates, and
Fig. 5 shews a revolving flyer suspended over the tubing eye.
In Figs. 1 and 2, 1 is the open-legged flyer, 2 being the shaft for driving the
flyers. On one end of this shaft is a wheel 3 gearing into the train of wheels 4, 5
and 6, 6 being for driving the haul pulley shaft 7, the speed of this shaft 7
regulating the length of laid cord hauled through by the haul pulleys 8.
From the other end of shaft 2, the shaft 9 is driven either by a train of gearing
or a belt, or by a combination of gearing and belt. This latter arrangement is the
one shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, viz. :-The wheel 10 on shaft 2 gears into the wheel 11,

page_text: which carries a change wheel 12, which gears into the wheel 13 which is mounted
on the same socket as the pulley 14; a belt from this pulley drives pulley 15 on
the shaft 9. From this shaft 9 the creel flyers 16 can be driven by belt or band
pulleys or by gearing, preferably we drive by means of an endless round band
working into each of the three pulleys 17 as shewn, and passing over a tension
pulley 18 to take up the slack,-19 is the register plate, and 20 the tubing eye.
Figs. 1 and 2 shew three flyers in the creel, but there may be either more
or less.
Figs. 3 are views on a larger scale of the creel flyer 16, A being the bobbin
containing one of the strands to be layed, B is the flyer socket, on the upper end
of which the band pulley C for driving the flyer is fixed. Down the centre of
this socket is passed a plunger D with the presser E which imparts the drag to
the yarn or twist in the bobbin A. To regulate the amount of this drag, a
thimble F is screwed into the socket B, and this thimble is made sufficiently
long, so that it can be raised or lowered so as to compress less or more the
spring I which pushes down the plunger D with the presser E on the end of
it. A knob G being attached to the thimble, so that it can be readily screwed
up or down by hand, and a jamb nut H being used to fix the thimble as soon as it
has been adjusted, to give the desired amount of drag.
Fig. 4 shews the combination of the open-legged flyer 1 with two sets of register
plates K and L. The yarus to form the core are passed round the register plate L
and through the tubing eye M and down to the tubing eye N the covering yarn
being passed round the register plate K and through the tubing eye N down to the
hauling pulleys of the open-legged flyer.
More than two sets of register plates may be used in succession.
Fig. 5 shews on a larger scale the same arrangement as Fig. 4 applied to
covering a central core twisted or otherwise. The core is contained in a bobbin A
suspended preferably horizontally in a vertical flyer which is placed over the
centre of the tubing eye M, and is made to revolve at practically the same speed
as the taking up flyer, so that no twist is imparted to the core during the operation
of covering the latter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
(1.) The improvement in machines for purpose aforesaid, wherein is employed
in combination:-Flyer or flyers carrying and operating creel or delivery bobbins;
register plates; open-legged flyers; hauling pulleys and take up bobbins, as herein
fully described, and illustrated by annexed drawings.
(2.) Flyer or flyers carrying and operating creel or delivery bobbins, combined
with two or more register plates, and tubing eyes as illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5
of the drawings annexed.
Dated this 15th day of Mar 1905.
ABRAM COMBE,
THOMAS MAGEE,
By their Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.