IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS OR SWIFTS FOR WINDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS INTO HANKS, PART OF WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER MACHINES IN WHICH SUCH FIBROUS MATERIALS ARE WOUND FROM ONE SURFACE TO ANOTHER
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Stubbs, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS OR SWIFTS
FOR WINDING COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS INTO HANKS, PART
OF WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER MACHINES IN WHICH SUCH FIBROUS
MATERIALS ARE WOUND FROM ONE SURFACE TO ANOTHER." Partly a com-
munication from abroad by William Grover, of Holyoke, in the United States
of America.
Sealed the 16th April 1878, and dated the 19th October 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Stubbs at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th October 1877.
JOSEPH STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS OR SWIFTS FOR WINDING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS INTO HANKS, PART OF WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO
OTHER MACHINES IN WHICH SUCH FIBROUS MATERIALS ARE WOUND FROM ONE
SURFACE TO ANOTHER." [Partly a communication from abroad by William Grover,
of Holyoke, in the United States of America.]
This Invention relates, firstly, to a method of enabling the attendant to remove
the hank when a desired length has been wound. For this purpose the off end of
the axis of the movable part is adapted, so as to be capable of being turned away,
and the said movable part being then upheld by a suitable catch, and the
loosening effected in the ordinary manner, the attendant can strip off the finished.
hank.
The arrangement proposed is as follows:-The frame at one end consists of a part
capable of swinging upon a centre, and carries the axis of the real or swift. When
this swinging part is turned outward the said axis is liberated, and the end of the
reel left free for the hank to be stripped; but at the same time the movement of
the said swinging part acts upon an inclined or other suitable apparatus, so as to
support the reel while the stripping operation takes place.
Another part of the Invention relates to the method of adapting the bobbins or
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page_text: other such surfaces to the reel, with which view, instead of placing them upon
skewers or spindles as now practised, they are adapted horizontally and rest by
their weight upon suitably formed cradles in which they turn as the fibrous material
is drawn off; and it is proposed to cause it to pass in its course under a movable
finger, weighted, if desired, in order to prevent the bobbin from being lifted in its 5
cradle.
This part of the Invention is applicable to machines generally, in which there
is a process of winding fibrous materials from other surfaces, such as those for
roving, doubling, winding two or more ends, and for warping.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Stubbs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th April
1878.
JOSEPH STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN REELS OR SWIFTS FOR WINDING COTTON AND OTHER
FIBROUS MATERIALS INTO HANKS, PART OF WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO
OTHER MACHINES IN WHICH SUCH FIBROUS MATERIALS ARE WOUND FROM ONE
SURFACE TO ANOTHER." Partly a communication from abroad by William Grover,
of Holyoke, in the United States of America.
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This Invention relates, firstly, to a method of enabling the attendant to remove
the hank from the reel or swift when a desired length has been wound.
This part
of the Invention is shewn in two views, Figs. 1 and 2, the former being a partial
end view of a reel, and the latter a partial front view thereof.
At 1 is the main framework of the machine, and at 2 the reel on which the
material is wound, shewn in the Drawing, as collapsed, ready for the removal of the
hanks, such collapsing and also distention when used in winding being effected
in any usual manner, and therefore not constituting any part of this Invention.
The axis of the reel is at 3, mounted at the end, not seen in the Drawing, in any
usual manner, but at the off end on a bracket 4, which is capable of turning out-
ward upon a centre 5, carried by the frame 1. Upon this swinging frame is mounted
a bowl 6, situate within a recess formed in a lever 7, which is capable of turning
upon a centre 8, carried by an arm 9, extending from the frame 1 and supported by
a foot 10. The lever 7 is cranked, as shewn in the plain view, Fig. 3, and carries
at its end a cradle 11, which is situate beneath the staves of the fly, and the said
lever at its other end is provided with an elongated part 15.
According to the positions of the parts shewn, the winding has been completed
and the hanks are to be removed, for which purpose the reel has been collapsed in
the usual manner, as above referred to, but during the process of the winding, the
swinging bracket 4 has been kept in position by the slot of the lever 7, embracing
the bowl 6. For the purpose of removing the hanks, the attendant turns outward
the bracket 4 upon its centre 5, by which means the bowl 6 is caused to run up the
incline 13 and depress the lever 7, which turns upon its centre 8, whereby the
cradle 11 is moved upward beneath the fly 2 and brought into a position for

page_text: supporting it; but so far the said motion of the bracket 4 has only partially slidden
the bearing 14 along the axis 3 of the fly. A further turning outward, however, of
the bracket 4 entirely removes the bearing 14 from the axis 3, and the said bracket
is then turned sufficiently outward to afford a free passage for the hanks to be
removed, and the bowl 6 by running along the part 15 and resting thereon keeps
the cradle 11 in its elevated position, so that the fly is supported thereby, instead
of by the bearing 14. When the hanks have been removed, the swinging bracket 4
being turned back, the bearing 14 passes on to the axis 3, the bowl 6 runs into the
recess of the lever 7, and the cradle 11 falls by its own weight, by which means the
parts are restored to the positions shewn; the fly is then distended in the usual
manner, and the winding then again takes place.
In order to determine the space which the fly shall occupy when collapsed,
so as to suit it to the cradle 11, a pin 16 is adapted, which serves as a register.
Another part of the Invention relates to a method of adapting the bobbins or
other such surfaces to the creel, with which view, instead of placing them upon
skewers or spindles, they are adapted horizontally and rest by their weight upon
cradles, upon which they turn as the fibrous material is drawn off. This part of
the Invention is shewn at Fig. 4 in side elevation; Fig. 5, in plan view; and Fig. 6,
in end view; and in describing this part of the Invention it is to be assumed that
the material is drawn from the bobbin in a vertical direction.
At 20 is a board which answers to the foundation of a creel, and upon which are
supported rods 21, 22, the surfaces of the bobbins 23 (one only is shewn) resting
thereon. At 24 is an arm, capable of turning upon a centre 25, and carrying at its
upper end a pin 26, which projects into the bobbin 23. At 27 is a second arm,
capable of turning upon a centre 28, and carrying a pin 29, which projects into the
other end of the bobbin. The centre 28 is carried by a bell-crank lever 29, 29*, mounted
on a centre 30, the part 29* of the said lever being weighted, and by these means
therefore the arm 27 is borne inward, so as to keep the pin 29 within the bobbin 23,
but so as not to bind it, the board 20 being a stop for the lever 29; and by these
means therefore the bobbin 23 is centred by the pins 26, 29, but so as to be free
to revolve thereon. The end of the yarn or thread being conducted from the
bobbin to the surface on to which it is to be wound is drawn off while the surface is
in contact with the rods 21, 22, and the tension will therefore be uniform during
the whole process of unwinding; a provision however is, desirable to prevent the
bobbin from being jerked out of position by any sudden obstruction to the unwinding.
For this purpose, a pin 31 projects from the lever 24 which arrives against the
bottom of the board 20 should the bobbin be jerked upward, and there is also
another pin 32 on the lever 27, which, under similar circumstances, arrives against a
lever 33.
When a fresh bobbin is to be adapted the lever 29 is turned upon its centre 30,
and this carrying with it the lever 27 withdraws the pin 29 from the bobbin 23,
which may then be removed and another adapted.
The lever 27 has an extended part 27*, upon which is an adjustable weight 34,
by which means the weight with which the bobbin rests upon its supports may be
regulated.
In order to prevent the lever 24 from turning downward inconveniently for the
adaptation of a fresh bobbin it carries a stop 35 which arrives in contact with the top
of the board 26.
This part of the Invention may be adapted not only to reels or swifts but to
machines generally in which there is a process of winding fibrous materials from
other surfaces, such as those for roving, doubling, winding two or more ends,
and for warping the arrangements of such machines, being so modified as to allow
of the material being drawn off in a vertical direction.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I
claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent, and for the
purposes above set forth,—

page_text: Firstly. The use of the moveable end frame of the reel or swift, illustrated
at 4, for bringing into action a support for the fly when the said end frame is
removed.
Secondly. As applied to such machines, as aforesaid, adapting the bobbins or other
such apparatus of the creel horizontally, with their surfaces resting by gravity upon
suitable supports.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Stubbs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.