CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METALLIC REELS FOR WINDING COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER THREADS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING THE SAME
Year: 1851

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HINKS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of June, (One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-one), in the fourteenth year of. Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Hinks, my exors; admors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said James Hinks, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Hinks, my exors, admors,.
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to.
time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF METALLIC REELS FOR WINDING COTTON, SILK, AND OTHER
THREADS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING THE SAME;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said James Hinks, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my land and

page_text: seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Hinks, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists,―
Firstly, of improved methods, herein-after particularly described, of con-
structing metallic reels; and,
Secondly, of machinery, also herein after particularly described, to be used
in making the said reels or partially making the same.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent one of my improved reels. The said reel
consists of a hollow cylinder of metal having dises on its ends, the said
cylinder being made and the said discs being attached thereto as follows:-a,
Figure 3, represents a sheet of metal, two opposite edges of which are
furnished with the four teeth or projections b, b; c, Figure 1, is one of the
discs which constitutes the ends of the reel. The said disc is perforated with
four holes d, d, d, d. When the plate of metal a, Figure 3, is rolled up so as
to constitute the hollow cylinder e, Figure 2, the teeth b, b, Figure 3, are
passed through the said holes d, d, Figure 1; and the said teeth being turned
back; as represented in Figure 2, the said disc is affixed to the said cylinder.
The reël is completed by caps being placed on the discs c.
Figures 4, 5, and 6 represent another of my improved reels. I make this
reel in the following manner :-I cut a series of slits in the opposite sides of
the piece of sheet metal, of which the cylindrical part of the reel is made as
represented in Figure 6; after the said piece of sheet metal is rolled up, the
cut or slit ends are expanded into a conical form, as represented in Figures 4
and 5, and the caps constituting the ends of the reel are turned over-the
said conical ends," as represented in Figure 5. The slits in the ends of the
cylinder may either be close, as shewn in Figure 4, or distant, as shewn in
Figure 5. I introduce into the interior of the axes of the reel, Figures 2 and 5,
a coil of sheet metal, as represented at f, Figure 5; the object of this coil is to
support the said hollow cylinder, so that the pressure of the thread in winding
may not affect the figure of the cylinder, and also to facilitate the winding of
the said thread.

page_text: Figures 7 and 8 represent another of my improved reels. This reel consists
of a hollow cylinder g, made of sheet metal; the ends of the said cylinder, are
fixed through holes in the discs h, constituting the ends of the reel, and the
said ends g¹ are expanded and turned back as represented. In this way the
discs h, h, are prevented from coming off the cylinder g, but they may never-
theless slide towards the middle of the said cylinder; to prevent this I affix the
said ends g to the discs h by soldering the same to the outer faces of the said
discs. This reel is completed by covering the outer faces of the said discs by
metallic caps.
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Figures 9 and 10 represent another of my improved reels. This reel is
formed of a hollow cylinder of sheet metal i on which is placed a hollow
cylinder of wood or other suitable material of somewhat shorter length than
the metal cylinder i; the discs are placed on the ends of the said metal
cylinder, and the said ends are afterwards expanded and turned back. By this
means the, discs are prevented from coming off the metal cylinder i, and are
prevented from sliding on the said metal cylinder by the wooden cylinder j, the
said discs being held between the expanded and turned ends of the metal
cylinder and the ends of the wooden cylinder.
Figures 11 and 12 represent the former in vertical section and the latter in
plan, the capping machine which constitutes the second part of my Invention.
1, m are two dies, the former fixed, the latter having a sliding motion in the
bed o; motion is communicated to the said die m by the camb pacting on the
roller q on the end of the bolt r to which the die m is affixed. The camb p
constitutes one arm of a lever turning upon a joint at s, the other armt of the
said lever is connected with a treadle by means of the cord u. The return
motion of the bolt r and die m is effected by a helical spring connected at
one end to the said bolt and at the other end with any convenient fixed object.
In using my capping machine the cap is dropped into the space a between the
dies l, m, and the end of the reel on which the cap is to be affixed is placed in
the said cap; by means of the treadle connected with the cord u, the workman
causes the die m to advance and compress the cap upon the end of the
reel; by making the die m advance and retire three or four times, and
partially turning round the reel after each advance of the said dic, the
compression is effected all round the said cap, and it becomes firmly fixed on
the reel.
Having now explained the nature of my said Invention and the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
Invention,

page_text: Firstly, the method herein described, and represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3
of the accompanying Drawing, of constructing metallic reels, namely, by
forming projections on the ends of the hollow metal cylinder constituting the
axis of the reel, and passing the said projections through holes in the discs
constituting the ends of the said reel, and fixing the said discs or ends by
turning back the said projections..
Second, the method of constructing metallic reels herein described, and
represented in Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the accompanying Drawings; that is to
say, by forming a series of slits in those edges of the plate of metal which,
when the said plate is rolled into a cylinder, constitute the ends of the said
cylinder, and afterwards expanding the said ends into a conical form and
completing the reel by attaching caps to the said expanded ends, also sup-
porting the interior of the said or other reels by a coil of sheet metal
placed therein.
Thirdly, the method of constructing metallic reels herein described, and
represented in Figures 7 and 8 of the accompanying Drawing; that is to say,
by passing the ends of the hollow metal cylinder consituting the axis of the
reel through a hole in the centre of the disc constituting the ends of the said
reel, and attaching the said discs to the cylinder by turning back the ends of
the said cylinder and soldering the said turned-back ends to the exterior faces
of the said discs.
Fourthly, the method herein described, and represented in Figures 9 and 10
of the accompanying Drawings, of constructing metallic reels; that is to say,
by constructing the axis of the said reel of two hollow cylinders placed one
upon the other, the outer one being shorter than the inner one, and affixing the
discs constituting the ends of the reel by turning back the ends of the inner
cylinder (on which the discs have been placed), and thus holding the said disos
between the ends of the larger hollow cylinder and the turned-back. ends of
the smaller hollow cylinder.
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Lastly, the machine herein described, and represented in Figures 11 and 12
of the accompanying Drawings, for capping reels; that is to say, by attaching
the said caps to the said reels by compressing the same between a fixed and
moveable die.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Hinks, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
JAMES (L.B.) HINKS,

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1851, the aforesaid James Hinks came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.