Improvements in Certain Machinery or Apparatus for Winding or Reeling Yarns or Threads.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Certain Machinery or Apparatus for Winding or
Reeling Yarns or Threads.
I, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, of Wardleworth Iron Works, Whitworth Road,
Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a certain kind of machinery or apparatus for winding or
reeling yarns or threads from cops or from bobbins such as are usually employed in
ring spinning machines.
The kind of machinery or apparatus to which my invention relates is that in
which brushes are provided to prevent the yarus or threads being unwound from
cops or bobbins, from becoming too rapidly unwound and from "snarling."
My invention consists in an arrangement of apparatus for supporting the brushes
employed in machinery or apparatus of the kind above mentioned. The object of
the arrangement of apparatus in which my invention consists is to enable the
pressure exerted upon the cops or bobbins by the brushes employed to be readily
varied in accordance with the nature, strength and tendency to "snarl" of the
yarns or threads being unwound from the said cops or bobbins and to reduce
the liability of the brushes to wear and to render such brushes more easy to replace
when worn than the brushes hitherto employed for the purpose of preventing yarns
or threads from being too rapidly unwound from cops or bobbins.
According to one arrangement of my invention so mount the brushes which I
employ that when in position in the machines in which they are to be employed
the yarns or threads being unwound will act upon the bristles of the said brushes
in a direction from the foundations in which the said bristles are fixed to the free
ends of such bristles and consequently will not wear such bristles so rapidly as in
the arrangements in ordinary use in which the yarns or threads being unwound
pass
across the ends only of the bristles of the brushes employed. I so mount each of
the brushes employed in a machine to which my invention is applied that it may be
turned about an axis placed in any suitable position and so that each brush may
be caused to bear more or less upon the cop or bobbin in conjunction with which it
is employed according to the nature of the yarn or thread being unwound from the
said cop or bobbin. I employ two brushes in conjunction with each cop or bobbin
from which yarn or thread is being unwound and cause such brushes to bear upon
opposite sides of the said cop or bobbin. The brushes are mounted so as to be
capable of being adjusted bodily and in an angular direction and are secured by
means of suitable nuts in any position into which they may be adjusted. The
brushes may be mounted upon brackets so formed as to encircle the cops or bobbins
from which the yarns or threads are being unwound and such brushes may be
caused to keep the cops or bobbins out of contact with the said brackets so that
injury to the yarns or threads may be avoided.
According to another arrangement of my invention I employ oue brush mounted
in the manner above described and when this arrangement of my invention is
employed it is necessary that devices to maintain in position the bobbins or cops
from which yarns or threads are being unwound shall be employed and such means
may be brackets encircling the said bobbins or cops and serving also to support
the brushes which I employ.
According to another arrangement of my invention I provide a rod or other
suitable means connected to or arranged to act upon each of the brushes employed
in a machine to which my invention is applied and arrange such rod or other
suitable means so that by such rod or other suitable means being operatel by

page_text: means of a screw or in any suitable manner the brushes employed in the machine
may all be caused to bear more or less upon the cops or bobbins in conjunction
with which they are used in accordance with the nature of the yarns or threads
being unwound from the said cops or bobbins.
The brushes which I employ may be so made that the studs or axes by means of
which such brushes are adjusted may pass through the backs or foundations in
which the said bristles are set or secured or bristles may be mounted in the heads
of screws or studs secured in position in arms or brackets in any suitable mauner.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of September 1892.
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Certain Machinery or Apparatus for Winding or
Reeling Yarns or Threads.
I, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, of Wardleworth Iron Works, Whitworth Road,
Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, 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 :-
My invention relates to a certain kind of machinery or apparatus for winding or
reeling yarns or threads from cops or from bobbins such as are usually employed in
ring spinning machines.
The kind of machinery or apparatus to which my invention relates is that in
which brushes are provided to prevent the yarns or threads being unwound from
cops or bobbins, from becoming too rapidly unwound and from "snarling."
My invention consists in an arrangement of apparatus for supporting the brushes
employed in machinery or apparatus of the kind above mentioned. The object of
the arrangement of apparatus in which my invention consists is to enable the
pressure exerted upon the cops or bobbins by the brushes employed to be readily
varied in accordance with the nature, strength and tendency to "snarl" of the
yarns or threads being unwound from the said cops or bobbins and to reduce the
liability of the brushes to wear and to render such brushes more easy to replace
when worn than the brushes hitherto employed for the purpose of preventing yarns
or threads from being too rapidly unwound from cops or bobbins.
According to one arrangement of my invention 1 so mount the brushes which I
employ that when in position in the machines in which they are to be employed the
yarns or threads being unwound will act upon the bristles of the said brushes in a
direction from the foundations in which the said bristles are fixed to the free ends
of such bristles and consequently will not wear such bristles so rapidly as in the
arrangements in ordinary use in which the yarns or threads being unwound pass
across the ends only of the bristles of the brushes employed. I so mount each of
the brushes employed in a machine to which my invention is applied that it may be
turned about an axis placed in any suitable position, and so that each brush may
be caused to bear more or less upon the cop or bobbin in conjunction with which it
is employed according to the nature of the yarn or thread being unwound from the
said cop or bobbin. I employ two brushes in conjunction with each cop or bobbin
from which yarn or thread is being unwound and cause such brushes to bear upon
opposite sides of the said cop or bobbin. The brushes are mounted so as to be
capable of being adjusted bodily and in an angular direction and are secured by
means of suitable nuts in any position into which they may be adjusted. The
brushes may be mounted upon brackets so formed as to encircle the cops or bobbins
from which the yarns or threads are being unwound and such brushes may be
caused to keep the cops or bobbins out of contact with the said brackets so that
injury to the yarns or threads may be avoided.

page_text: One form of this arrangement of my invention is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of
the accompanying drawing;
Fig. 1 being a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan of so much of a machine for
reeling or winding yarns or threads as is necessary to illustrate the description of
this part of my invention.
The same letters of reference are applied to corresponding parts in all the
figures.
In both of the Figs. 1 and 2, (a) (a) are the brushes which I employ. The
brushes (a) (a) are mounted in the heads of bolts (b) which pass through slots (c¹)
formed in a bracket (c) and are secured therein by means of nuts (6') which are
secured upon such bolts (b). The bracket (c) is secured by screws or any other
suitable means to a rail (d) extending in the direction of the length of the machine
or is supported in any other suitable manner. (e) is the bobbin or tube from which
yarn or thread is to be unwound. The bobbin or tube (e) is supported at its lower end
by a bracket (f) which may be of any suitable form and be secured to the rail (d)
or be supported in any other suitable manner. (7) is a guide which may be secured
in the rail (d) or may be supported in any other suitable manner and serves to guide
the yarn or thread unwound from the bobbin or tube (e). The slots (c) enable the
bolts (b) to be moved nearer to or farther from the bobbin or tube (e). The
bolts (6) may also be placed in any required angular position in the slots (c¹) so that
the brushes (a) secured in such bolts (6) may be caused to bear to any required
extent against the bobbin or tube (e) according to the nature of the yarn or thread
being unwound from such bobbin or tube (e). The brushes (a) (a) bear upon
opposite sides of the bobbin or tube (e) and such brushes (a) (a) may be so adjusted
that the bobbin or tube (e) may be kept out of contact with the bracket (c) so that
injury to the yarn or thread being unwound from the said bobbin or tube (e) by
contact with such bracket (c) may be avoided. When yarn or thread is being
unwound from the bobbin or tube (e) such yarn or thread in passing through the
bracket (c) to the guide (9) will act upon the bristles of the brushes (a) (a) in a
direction from the heads of the bolts (6) in which the said bristles are fixed to the
free ends of such bristles. The brushes (a) (a) may be caused to bear against the
bobbin or tube (e) as firmly as may be necessary in order to impart to the yarn or
thread being unwound from the bobbin or tube (e) the tension necessary to prevent
such yarn or thread from " snarling" and in cases in which very soft or tender
yarns are being unwound from a bobbin or tube the pressure exerted by the
brushes (a) (a) upon the bobbin or tube may be reduced to any required extent.
The bracket (c) is shown as being formed with a slit (c2) in order that the yarn
from the bobbin or tube (e) may readily be passed into the central opening of the
said bracket (c).
According to another arrangement of my invention I employ one brush (a)
mounted in the manner above described. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a front
elevation and a plan of so much of a machine for reeling or winding yarns or threads
as is necessary for the illustration of one form of this arrangement of my invention.
As except for the employment of one brush (a) instead of two of such brushes (a)
the arrangement illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 is similar to that illustrated in Figs. 1
and 2, I will not further describe the construction and arrangement of the parts
shown in Figs. 3 and 4 but apply to such parts the same letters of reference as are
applied to corresponding parts in Figs. 1 and 2. The brush (a) employed in the
arrangement illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 may be adjusted into any required position
and be caused to exert upon the bobbin or tube (e) in conjunction with which it is
employed any pressure which may be requisite for the prevention of the "snarling'
of the yarn or thread being unwound from such bobbin or tube (e). In the
arrangement illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 the yarn or thread being unwound from
the bobbin or tube (e) can not be kept out of contact with the bracket (c) which
supports or keeps in position the point or nose of the bobbin or tube (e).
"
I would have it understood that the brushes (a) (a) shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4
instead of being inserted in the heads of bolts (6) may be inserted in foundations or

page_text: backs of any suitable kind supported upon the brackets (c) in such manner that the
said brushes (a) (a) may be caused to act in the manner above described in
conjunction with the bobbins or tubes (e) with which they are employed.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a front elevation and a section taken on the plane
indicated by the line (A) (A) of Fig. 5 of so much of a machine for winding or
reeling yarns or threads as is necessary for the illustration of another form of this
arrangement of this part of my invention. The same letters of reference are
applied to corresponding parts in both of these figures and as the brackets (c)
and () supporting the bobbin or tube (e) from which yarn or thread is to be
unwound are in a measure similar to the corresponding brackets (c) (f) shown in
Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, I shall apply to parts shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the same letters of
reference as are applied to corresponding parts shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and
shall not further describe such parts. The brush (h) employed in accordance with
this form of this arrangement of my invention is inserted in a back or foundation (¹)
which is secured to a plate (i) which is provided with slots (1) through which pass
screws () by which the plate (i) is secured to the rail (d). The slots (¹) enable
the plate (i) to be adjusted longitudinally into any required position in order that
the brush (h) may be caused to exert any required pressure upon the bobbin or
tube (e) from which yarn or thread is to be unwound and the screws (1) enable
such plate (i) to be secured in any position into which it may be adjusted.
According to another arrangement of my invention I provide a rod connected to
or arranged to act upon each of the brushes employed in a machine to which my
invention is applied and arrange such rod so that by such rod being operated by
means of a screw or in any suitable manner the brushes employed in the machine
may all be caused to bear more or less upon the cops or bobbins in conjunction with
which they are used in accordance with the nature of the yarns or threads being
unwound from the said cops or bobbins.
Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively a front elevation and a section taken on the plane
indicated by the line (B) (B) of Fig. 7 of so much of a machine for reeling or
winding yarns or threads as is necessary for the illustration of this arrangement of
my invention. The same letters of reference are applied to corresponding parts in
both of these figures and as the brackets (e) and (f) are in a measure similar to the
brackets (c) and (f) shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, I shall apply to parts
shown in Figs. 7 and 8 the same letters of reference as are applied to corresponding
parts shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and shall not further describe such parts.
The brush (h) which is employed in conjunction with the bobbin or tube (e) from
which yarn or thread is to be unwound is mounted upon a rod or bar (k) which
extends throughout the length of the rail (d) and is so mounted upon such rail (d)
as to be capable of being moved to and fro thereon as may be necessary or desirable
either in the direction indicated by the arrow ((') or in the opposite direction.
The movement of the rod or bar (A) in the direction indicated by the arrow (C) or
in the opposite direction may be limited in any suitable manner such for instance
as by screws which may pass through slots formed in the rod or bar (k) and be
inserted in the rail (d) so as also to guide and support the rod or bar (k). A screw
or any other suitable means is provided in order that the rod or bar (k) may be
moved longitudinally or such rod or bar (k) may be adjusted into position by hand
and be secured in position in any suitable manner. By the rod or bar (k) being
moved in the direction indicated by the arrow (C) to a suitable extent the
brush (h) mounted upon the said rod or bar (k) may be caused to bear to any
desired extent upon the bobbin or tube (e) in conjunction with which it is employed
and by the rod or bar (k) being moved in the direction opposite to that indicated
by the arrow (C) the brush (h) may be caused to bear more lightly upon the
bobbin or tube (e) with which it is employed according to the nature of the yarn or
thread being unwound from such bobbin or tube (e). The rod or bar (k) has
mounted upon it as many brushes (h) as there are pairs of brackets (c) and (f)
employed in the machine and in case provision is made in the winding or reeling
machine for the unwinding of yarn or thread from more than one row of bobbins or

page_text: tubes, a rod or bar carrying brushes is employed in conjunction with each row of
bobbins or tubes.
Although I have shown the brackets (c) (1) as being adapted to hold bobbins
or tubes and as being all of one kind I would have it understood that the bobbins
or tubes may be supported in any other manner which may be suitable and that
brushes arranged in accordance with my invention may be employed in machines
for reeling or winding yarns or threads from cops by supports adapted to hold such
cops being provided in such machines.
Each of the arrangements above described is applicable to winding or reeling
machines for windling or reeling yarns or threals from any number of cops or
bobbins.
The application of the arrangements of apparatus in which my invention consists
enables the pressure exerted upon the cops or bobbins by the brushes employed to
be readily varied in accordance with the nature, strength and tendency to "snarl
of the yarns or threads being unwound from the said cops or bobbins and renders
such brushes less liable to wear and more easy to replace when worn than the
brushes hitherto employed for the purpose of preventing yarns or threads from
being too rapidly unwound from cops or bobbins.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In such machinery or apparatus for winding or reeling yarns or threads from
cops or bobbins as is provided with brushes to prevent the yarns or threads which
are to be unwound from becoming too rapidly unwound froin the cops or bobbins
and from "snarling," brushes which are mounted so that when they are in use the
yarns or threads being unwound will act upon the bristles of such brushes in a
direction from the foundations in which such bristles are fixed to the free ends of
such bristles and are mounted so as to be capable of being each turned about an
axis and of being adjusted bodily in position and secured in position when adjusted
in order that each brush may be caused to bear more or less upon the cop or bobbin
in conjunction with which it is employed and are arranged in pairs so that the two
brushes which act in conjunction with each cop or bobbin bear upon opposite sides
of such cop or bobbin for the purpose and substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described in reference to and indicated in and by Figs. 1 and 2 of the accom-
panying drawing.
2. In such machinery or apparatus for winding or reeling yarns or threads from
cops or bobbins as is provided with brushes to prevent the yarns or threads which
are to be unwound from becoming too rapidly unwound from the cops or bobbins
and from "snarling," brushes which are mounted so that when they are in use the
yarns or threads being unwound will act upon the bristles of such brushes in a
direction from the foundations in which such bristles are fixed to the free ends of
such bristles and are mounted so as to be capable of being turned about an axis
and of being adjusted bodily in position and secured in position when adjusted in
order that each brush may be caused to bear more or less upon the cop or bobbin
in conjunction with which it is employed substantially in the manner herein before
described in reference to and indicated in and by Figs. 3 and 4 of the accom-
panying drawing.
3. In such machinery or apparatus for winding or reeling yarns or threads from
cops or bobbins as is provided with brushes to prevent the yarns or threads which
are to be unwound from becoming too rapidly unwound from the cops or bobbins
and from "snarling" brushes which are mounted so that when they are in use the
yarns or threads being unwound will act upon the bristles of such brushes in a
direction from the foundations in which such bristles are fixed to the free ends of
such bristles and are mounted so as to be capable of being adjusted bodily in
position and secured in position when adjusted, in order that each brush may be
caused to bear more or less upon the cop or bobbin in conjunction with which it is

page_text: employed substantially in the manner hereinbefore described in reference to and
indicated in and by Figs. 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawing.
4. In a machine or apparatus for winding or reeling yarns or threads from cops
or bobbins which is provided with brushes to prevent the yarns or threads which
are to be unwound from becoming too rapidly unwound from such cops or bobbins
and from "snarling"; brushes connected to or arranged to be acted upon by a rod
so that by such rod being operated by means of a screw or in any other suitable
manner the brushes employed in the machine may be caused to bear more or less
upon the cops or bobbins in conjunction with which they are respectively used, in
accordance with the nature of the yarns or threads being unwound from the said
cops or bobbins and substantially in the manner herein before described in reference
to and indicated in and by Figs. 7 and 8 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of June 1893.
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.