IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPLYING TUBES OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL TO SPINDLES OF MULES AND OTHER SPINNING OR DOUBLING MACHINES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Wilkinson, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Yarn Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPLYING TUBES OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL TO SPINDLES OF
MULES AND OTHER SPINNING OR DOUBLING MACHINES, AND IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH.”
"
Sealed the 22nd September 1871, and dated the 31st March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Wilkinson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 31st March 1871.
I, FREDERICK WILKINSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Yarn Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING TUBES OF PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL TO SPINDLES
OF MULES AND OTHER SPINNING OR DOUBLING MACHINES, AND IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH," to be as follows :—
My Invention relates to a method of applying such tubes to spindles
as are now sometimes adapted, and which according to the usual
practice are previously formed and then placed upon the spindles.

page_text: picces 4 are connected together by a bar 7, from which there extend
upward a series of arms 8, capable of turning slightly on centres, their
upper ends being formed with hooked parts which are capable of sliding
upon guides 9 extending from a bar 10 connected to another bar 11.
Upon the bar 11 is a projecting pin 12 bearing against the surface of a
cam 13, which is formed with recesses 14, one side of each of which
constitutes an incline. Upon the aforesaid bar 7 is an arm 15, which
is jointed to a short lever 16, which carries a driver 17, taking into the
teeth of a ratchet wheel 18 upon the axis of the cam 13. Projecting
from the fixed part 10* of the frame is a scries of flat tubes 18 curved
inward at their outward ends and with spaces 19 on one side so as to
leave their interiors exposed, and opposite this exposed part and within
the spaces the parts 8 move. Upon the frame 10 are spring pieces 21,
formed, as seen in Fig. 1, with circular cavities 22, and beyond them
with spreading jaws 23. These cavities are, as will hereafter be seen, 1
used to encircle the spindles upon which the paper tubes are to be
formed. Within the springs 21 are axes 24, which are confined vertically
by discs 25 formed upon them, and they are pressed towards the circular
cavities 22 by coiled springs 26. The bar 7 is drawn in the direction of
the arrow by a spring 11", and thus the pin 12 is kept in contact with ?
the periphery of the cam 13. At 28, Figs. 5, is a portion of the mule
carriage, to which are adapted pullies 29, over which there passes a
band 30, having motion communicated thereto by one of the pulleys 29
being driven from the ordinary loose pulley by any convenient arrange-
ment. When my Invention is in use this band is in contact, as will be
described, with wharves 31, which are mounted in the frame. Upon the
frame 1, 1*, are projecting pins, on which are mounted bobbins 32, and
on these are coiled the strips of paper which are to be made into tubes,
such strips being by preference perforated transversely, as seen at Fig. 6,
the parts between such perforations being the length required to form a
tube. At 33 are projecting pins extending from the frame and at
corresponding distances apart, across the mule carriage, are V-formed
pieces 33*, upon which the pins 33 rest when the apparatus is in use,
and which constitute guides for the whole to slido upon. The strip of
paper for each spindle is passed, as shown by the red line, from the 3
Lobbin 32 through the flat tube 18, after which the apparatus is ready
for use in the following manner:-The attendant by means of the
handles 2 places the pius 33 upon the aforesaid V guides and then
thrusts the whole forward, pressing the projecting sliding parts 4 against
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page_text: the bolster rail. By this means the said parts 4 will be caused to slide
backward in the frame, carrying with them the bar 7, and this by
means of the arm 15 will carry forward the driver 17 so as to cause it to
slip over the teeth of the ratchet wheel 18 without turning it, and at the
same time the arms 8 will be forced backward upon their guide pieces 2.
At this time the pin 12 of the bar 11 is situate within one of the
notches 14 of the cam 13, being drawn therein by the spring 11*, and
the said bar has therefore been moved so as to remove the arms 8 from
contact with the strip of paper. The continued pressing forward of
the apparatus will now bring the strip of paper 34 in contact with
the spindle, and upon a further advance thereof will force the spindle
into the cavity 22 through the jaws 23, carrying with it the strip
of paper; by these means one of the rows of perforations of the strip
has been brought against .one of the jaws 23, which has a series of
teeth upon it, as seen, and the motions above described have severed
the strip through its perforations and. left a short length. upon the
spindle, which has now to be wound thereon. For this purpose the
band 30, Fig. 5, has been brought into contact with the pullies 31,
which compress it between themselves and the band of the spindle,
and the travelling motion of the said band thus causes the spindles
to turn and wind the paper thereon. The whole apparatus being now
withdrawn by hand the spindles pass from the spring clips 21 with a
coil of paper thereon, and this withdrawal allows the springs 5 to force
outward the sliding pieces 4 and bar 7, and this will carry with it the
arm 15 and driver 17, which now acting upon the ratchet wheel 18
will turn the cam 13 quickly a portion of a revolution, by which means
the pin 12 will be forced out of the notch 14 by the inclined side
thereof, and the said pin will then rest against the dead run of the cam.
By these means the bar 11 will have been forced a trifle forward against
its spring 11*, and the arms 8 will have been brought against the strip
of paper in the flat tube 18, and the simultaneous springing forward of
the bar 7 will cause those arms to carry forward another length of paper
into the position shewn ready for operation upon another set of spindles,
and thus the operation continues throughout the mule, the aforesaid
V guides constituting guages for adapting the apparatus. Another
operation has however taken place which has been omitted until now for
clearness of explanation. Before the paper has been wound on the cops
have of course been raised, but there is no occasion to remove them as
is now the case when spinning is effected on paper tubes. The faller is

page_text: then caused to descend and carry with it the yarn, and a few turns of
the spindles effected by the band 30 wind it upon them, causing it
to pass through the jaws 23 and to be lapped upon the paper, thus
holding it in its proper form of a tube, and when this has been effected
the whole apparatus is withdrawn as above described. The discs 25 are
for the purpose of holding the paper in contact with the spindles.
I have above spoken of the strips which are to form the tubes as of
paper, but they may be of metal foil or other suitable substance, and
although the apparatus is shewn as adapted for operating upon six
spindles at a time it may be constructed for any other number.
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Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it
to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise arrangement
of apparatus shewn and described, but claim as my Invention the use
of machinery or apparatus whereby the paper or other material to form 1
the tubes is coiled upon the spindles themselves while they are in the
mule.
:
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Wilkinson, have hereunto
set his hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy- 2