Improvements in Paper Tubes for Holding Yarn or Thread..
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1893-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Tubes for Holding Yarn or Thread..
We, JOSEPH BRIGGS SWAILES, GEORGE SWAILES and JOHN BROADMEADOW
SWAILES, of the firm of John Swailes & Sons, of-Moorhey, Oldham, in the County
of Lancaster, Cop Tube Manufacturers and Machinists, do hereby declare the
nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
Conical tubes have been made of paper with corrugations, and tubes have been
made of paper in the ordinary manner, and have then had holes punched through,
their sides, in both cases the corrugations and holes have been for the purpose of
giving the surface of the tubes more hold upon the yarn or thread wound upon them
in order to prevent it from slipping off the tubes especially when they have been
coned to a considerable extent.
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Tubes corrugated on their surface cannot be made cheaply, and tubes having.
holes punched through them are thereby very much reduced in strength, and are
otherwise objectionable. :
The object of our invention is to get all the advantage of tubes made in the.
ordinary way and then punched with holes through their sides, while at the same
time keeping them as strong or nearly as strong as unpunched tubes.
We carry out our invention and make our improved paper tubes from strips of
paper of the required shape, parts of which strips are perforated or punched with
holes before being rolled upon the tube coiling spindle so that only part of each slip:
of paper forming the last lap or last few laps, or forming those laps at the outer
surface of the tube are punched or perforated with holes.
When our improved tubes are to be made by the "hand fed" machine, the slips
of paper to form each tube are cut and prepared in the ordinary manner and a.
number of slips when piled upon each other are simultaneously punched with holes
in the required position.
When making our improved tubes in the automatic machine, where the paper is
fed from a web or roll, we apply punches actuated by mechanism in connection with
the ordinary automatic tube making machines, to punch holes in the web of paper
at the required place before the slip which is to form the tube is cut from the web,
and we prefer to punch the holes in the web before the paste has been applied.
Tubes thus made according to our invention have not holes punched entirely
through their sides, but when finished have only holes in the surface coils of which
they are formed which will give as much hold to the yarn or thread wound upon
them as tubes having holes punched entirely through their sides, while the full
strength or nearly so of the tube is retained, and the yarn or thread, which when
wound upon the tube may in some cases pass through the holes formed entirely..
through the sides of the tubes, is prevented in our improved tube from coming.in >
contact with or catching upon the skewer or spindle inserted in the tube after yarn
or thread is wound upon it.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Tubes for Holding Yarn or Thread.
We, JOSEPH BRIGGS SWAILES, GEORGE SWAILES, and JOHN BROADMEADOW
SWAILES of the firm of John Swailes & Sons, of Moorhey, Oldham, in the County
of Lancaster Cop Tube Manufacturers and Machinists 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:
Conical tubes have been made of paper with corrugations, and tubes have been
made of paper in the ordinary manner, and have then had holes punched through
their sides, in both cases the corrugations and holes have been for the purpose of
giving the surface of the tubes more hold upon the yarn or thread wound upon
them in order to prevent it from slipping off the tubes especially when they have
been coned to a considerable extent.
Tubes corrugated on their surface cannot be made cheaply, and tubes having
holes punched through them are thereby very much reduced in strength, and are
otherwise objectionable.
The object of our invention is to get all the advantage of tubes made in the
ordinary way and then punched with holes through their sides, while at the same
time keeping them as strong or nearly as strong as unpunched tubes.
We carry out our invention and make our improved paper tubes from strips of
paper of the required shape, parts of which strips are perforated or punched with
holes before being rolled upon the tube coiling spindle so that only part of each slip
of paper forming the last lap or last few laps, or forming those laps at the outer
surface of the tube are punched or perforated with holes.
When our improved tubes are to be made by the "hand fed" machine, the
slips of paper to form each tube are cut and prepared in the ordinary manner and a
number of slips when piled upon each other are simultaneously punched with holes
in the required position.
When making our improved tubes in the automatic machine, where the paper is
fed from a web or roll, we apply punches actuated by mechanism in connection with
the ordinary automatic tube-making machines, to punch holes in the web of paper
at the required place before the slip which is to form the tube is cut from the web
and we prefer to punch the holes in the web before the paste has been applied.
Tubes thus made according to our invention have not holes punched entirely
through their sides but when finished have only holes in the surface coils of which
they are formed which will give as much hold to the yarn or thread wound upon
them as tubes having holes punched entirely through their sides, while the full
strength or nearly so of the tube is retained and the yarn or thread which when
wound upon the tube may in same cases pass through the holes formed entirely
through the sides of the tubes, is prevented in our improved tube from coming in
contact with or catching upon the skewer or spindle inserted in the tube after yarn
or.thread is wound upon it.
Figs. 1, 5, 7 and 9, show shapes of paper when flat and punched with holes in
them ready to be coiled up into tubes of the forms shewn respectively by
Figs. 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, when finished. That part of each shape of paper without
holes or perforations is first wound upon the spindle the last layer or layers forming
the tube being perforated, but as before explained the holes do not pass through all
the coils or layers forming the tube but only through the outer surface coils or
layers.
In Fig. 9, a piece of a web of paper x, is shewn such as is used in automatic tube-
making machines, and the piece for each tube is cut from the web in the line of the
dotted lines ¹, Fig. 9. Other shapes of tubes are or may be made in automatic
machines, the shapes being punched with holes before they are rolled up into the

page_text: tube form by punches and dies combined with aud actuated by the automatic tube-
making machine in a well known manner.
When the tubes are fed to a machine one shape at a time by hand they are cut
to the required shape and are by preference punched when a number of shapes are
piled in a heap one above the other..
When it is desired that the holes in the shapes which form the last two or more
coils shall coincide they will have to be punched accordingly making due allowance
for expansion of the paper and by preference the holes in the last layer or layers
may be a little larger than those in the other layers so as to be more certain to
come opposite the holes in the coils beneath them. We prefer to punch the paper
shapes before they are pasted.
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. Paper tubes made from shapes of paper, punched or perforated with holes
before being coiled into the tube form, the holes or perforations passing through the
last coil or coils but not through all the coils forming the tubes substantially as and
for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The making of paper tubes substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the drawings.
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1000
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.