IMPROVEMENTS IN BOBBINS, REELS, SPOOLS, AND WINDERS."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Kenneth Henry Cornish, of 16, Heaton Villas, Peckham
Rye, S.E., London, Consulting Surgeon, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOBBINS, REELS, SPOOLS, AND WINDERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Kenneth Henry Cornish
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd February 1880.
KENNETH HENRY CORNISH, of 16, Heaton Villas, Peckham Rye, S.E., London,
Consulting Surgeon. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOBBINS, REELS, SPOOLS, AND WINDERS."
I make my bobbins, reels, spools, and winders in a flattened form, of metal, wood,
card board, papier-maché, earthenware, or other suitable and sufficiently rigid material,
or of brass, steel, or of other suitable and sufficiently rigid wire. Such bobbins, reels,
and winders may be peripherally circular, oval, triangular, square, oblong, pentagonal,
hexagonal, or of any other shape desired, and the edges on which the thread is
wound may be smooth, rough, or toothed. When stamped or otherwise formed of
tin-plate, sheet-brass, or other suitable metal, they may advantageously be made
hollow interiorly to their peripheries to as great an extent as the strength &
substance of the metal used will permit. This mode of manufacture will be found
very economical, as by cutting the smallest sized bobbins first several bobbins or
recls of various sizes may be obtained from what would otherwise be wasted in
making one large one; moreover, they would all be lighter and more elegant.
They may be made of wire if desired, and of any required outline. Names, trade
marks, &c., may be stamped on them. If made of cardboard or other kind of paper
they cannot be hollowed out to the same extent, as the material would not be
sufficiently strong & rigid, but alternate bands may be made to form a central
slot. Where metal is used a central slot; similar to that by which the ordinary
cylindrical reels are perforated in their long axis, can be readily formed by suitably
vertically slotting the sides which form the ends of the bobbins, reels, or winders,
and dilating them centrally. I can make spools for the shuttles of sewing machines
on this principle very cheaply, as I have only to add an axle of wire. I can also make

page_text: bobbins, reels, and winders of any required length, so divided longitudinally that a
number of threads, yarns, silks, &c., of different sizes, shades, colours, or materials
may be wound on the same bobbin. The advantages of my Invention are numerous.
Among them may be specified, 1, cheapness & uniformity; 2, lightness; 3, great
diminution of bulk, either when full or empty, as compared with cylindrical reels;
4, they will not roll far if dropt accidentally; 5, when intended for use in the
shuttles of sewing machines, my spools could be supplied to consumers ready filled,
as the cost of a dozen need not exceed that of a common wood reel holding a like
quantity of thread; 6, they may be made by self-acting or other machinery as
rapidly and almost as cheaply as pins; 7, bobbins, reels, and winders manufactured
for individual spinners being indelibly markable with their respective names,
trademarks, &c., fraudulent imitations would be rendered more difficult to
carry out.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Kenneth Henry Cornish in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st August 1880.
KENNETH HENRY CORNISII, of 16, Heaton Villas, Peckhamn Rye, S.E., London,
Consulting Surgeon. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOBBINS, REELS, SPOOLS, AND WINDERS."
I make my bobbins, reels, spools, and winders in a flattened form of metal, wood,
card-board, papier-maché, earthenware, or other suitable and sufficiently rigid
Inaterial, or of brass, steel, or other suitable and sufficiently rigid wire.
Such bobbins, recls, and winders may be peripherally circular, oval, triangular,
square, oblong, pentagonal, hexagonal, or of any other desired outline, and the
edges on which the thread is wound may be smooth, rough, or toothed. When
stamped or otherwise suitably formed of tin-plate, sheet-brass, or other suitable
metal, they may advantageously be made hollow interiorly to their peripheries to
as great an extent as the strength and substance of the metal used will permit.
This mode of manufacture will be found very economical, as by cutting the smallest
sized bobbins first several bobbins or reels of various sizes may be obtained from
what would be wasted in making one large one; moreover, they would all be
lighter and more elegant. They may be made of wire if desired, and of any required
outline. Names, trademarks, &c., may be stamped on them.
If made of card-board, or other kind of paper-fibre, they cannot be hollowed out'
to the same extent as in metal, since the material is weaker, but alternate bands
may be cut, and folded over to form a central slot. Where metal is used a central
slot, similar to that which perforates the common cylindrical reel, can be readily
formed by suitably vertically slotting the sides which form the ends of the bobbins,
reels, or winders, and dilating them centrally.
I can make spools for the shuttles of sewing machines very cheaply on this
principle, as I have only to add wire axles. I can also make bobbins, reels, and
winders of any required length, so divided longitudinally that a number of threads,
yarns, silks, &c., of different sizes, shades, colours, or materials may be wound on
the same bobbin.
The advantages of my Invention are numerous. Among them may be
specified,―
1. Cheapness and uniformity.
2. Lightness.
3. Great diminution of bulk, either when full or empty, as compared with
cylindrical reels.
4. They will not roll far if dropped accidentally.
5. When intended for use in the shuttles of sewing machines, my spools could
be supplied to consumers ready filled, as the cost of a dozen would not exceed that
of a common wood reel holding a like quantity of thread.
6. They may be made by self-acting machinery as rapidly and nearly as cheaply
as pins.
7. Bobbins, reels, and winders, manufactured for individual spinners, being
indelibly markable with their respective names, trademarks, &c., fraudulent imita-
tions would be rendered more difficult to carry out.
I claim to make bobbins, reels, winders, and spools of metal or other suitable
and sufficiently rigid material in a flattened and annular form, substantially as
described in this my final and complete Specification.
I claim the elotting and dilating the ends of such bobbins, reels, winders, and
spools, as and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: I claim the making of spools in a similar manner, with the addition of an axlo
of wire.
I claim the above mode of manufacturing bobbins for use in spinning, throwing,
winding, and twisting machines, as well as for the carriage of thread, tapes,
yarns, &c., when sent into the markets.
In witness whereof, I, the said Kenneth Henry Cornish, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
KENNETH HENRY CORNISH. (L.S.)