TV MAGUTNERY HAD WINDING CODE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Combe, Engineer, of 11, Trinity Crescent,
Trinity, in the County of Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Invention
of 66 Tun TV MAGUTNERY HAD WINDING CODE "
Scaled the 12th December 1873, and dated the 2nd July 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Combe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd July 1873.
I, JOHN COMBE, Engineer, of 11, Trinity Crescent, Trinity, in the
County of Edinburgh, Scotland, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING Cops," to be
as follows:-
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My Invention consists in improvements in the general arrangement
and detail of machinery described by me under a previous Patent, of
date December 3, 1870, No. 3185, and consists firstly in placing the
bevel pinion carried by the spindle under the cast-iron bridge, and in
making each cast-iron bridge carry these sockets for the pinions of four
spindles, and in casting two cups together and fixing them by screwing
the connecting bar which joins them to an upright bar, two of which
form portions of the cast-iron bridge. Two other upright bars form

page_text: portions of the cast-iron bridge on each side, and carry two round pins,
cach end of which carries the bell-crank lever which lifts and lowers the
spindle, and I make the rod which carries the spiral spring which lifts
the spindle in the form of an L, the shorter arm of the L jointing into a
socket in the bell-crank lever, and the longer arm of the L carrying the
spiral spring. Another portion of the cast-iron bridge, one at each side,
is made to carry two round rods, which extend across two cast-iron
bridges, and carry the eight oscillating levers respectively belonging to
the eight spindles carried by the two cast-iron bridges. And these
oscillating levers are formed of a small casting with a socket, which
turns on the round rod, and round this socket are the coils of a spiral
spring, one end of which slips into a hole drilled in the cast-iron bridge,
and the other end of the spiral spring slips into a hole drilled in the arm,
which projects from the socket, which carries the thin sheet-steel arms,
which carry the little roller of the oscillating lever. The socket of the
oscillating lever also carries two bevilled projections, which act on and
depress the catch spring.
When the oscillating lever is at the extreme end of its outward and
inward oscillation respectively, the catch spring is formed of an arm of
a lever carrying a round pin, which turns in a socket cast on the cast-
iron bridge, and drilled to receive the pin of the catch lever, and the
other end of the pin of the catch lever fits into the socket of a lever,
which projects inward under the cast-iron bridge, and is jointed to and
lifted by a wire connected with a catch, which is lifted by the rising of
the spindle top when the cop is wound to the full length required. The
catch lever has a double bevelled end, which rises into a slot in and
retains a slide bar of sheet steel, the inner end of which receives the end
of the arm of the bell-crank lever, which projects downward, and tho
other end of the sheet steel slide bar projects outward in front of the
machine, and is formed with a hook, by which it is laid hold of and
pulled out. In order to set the spindle it belongs to in motion, I give
the necessary friction to the spindle top by a slip of steel bowed inwards,
which is jointed on a pin below, and acted on by a small catch lever at
the top, which catch lever by being turned up or down binds or releases
the spindle top as it slides on the spindle; and I make the spindle with
two flat sides, to which the spindle top fits, and by putting three pointed
steel pins in the lower part of the spindle top, which prick into the top
end of the cop and prevent it from twisting and tightening on the

page_text: spindle. I form the spindle with four collars, which are embraced by
two half bushes, which fit into the forked arm of the bell-crank lever,
which lifts and lowers the spindle, and I square the lower end of the
spindle and let into the narrow end of the bevelled pinion a steel die
with a square hole cut in it to receive the squared end of the spindle. In
order to deaden the shock of the recoil of the bell-crank lever, when the
spindle is stopped, I have projecting bevelled faces cast on the cast-iron
bridge, against which a leather buffer, attached to the bell-crank lever,
strikes, when the lifting spring is let loose and the spindle rises.
My Invention consists, secondly, in placing pairs of heart wheels on
the driving shaft at intervals, which act on friction rollers carried by two
levers formed of sheet steel, which are placed between two cast-iron
bridges working on a pin at the outer end, and having their inner
ends attached by two connecting links to a bar of sheet steel extending
across a series of cast-iron bridges, and playing up and down on bevelled
guides cast on the cast-iron bridges in a line parallel with the bevelled
face of the cups in which the slit is formed, through which the yarn
passes as the cop is wound. Opposite each pair of cups cast together
a cross bar of sheet steel extends across in front of the two cups, and
having two connecting slits extending downwards, connecting the short
traverse bar in front of the two cups with the longer sheet steel
traverse bar which extends across the series of cast-iron bridges
below, and to which an up-and-down motion is communicated by the
two hearts acting on the two rollers of the two levers herein-before
described; and I apply weights or springs to the two sheet steel levers
to keep their rollers in contact with the heart wheels, and when a
higher rate of speed is used, and the nature of the material permits, I
make the form of the heart wheel approximate more or less to the
form which will give a movement similar to the crank or eccentric
wheel; I also, when winding from the spinning bobbin, and the nature
of the material permits, reduce the traverse of the oscillating and
provide it with a spring nip at the top end, through which the yarn
passes, and the tension of which holds the yarn close to the shorter
traverse bar which extends across and in front of such pair of cups;
and I make the pin which carries the socket on which the bobbin
wound from is placed with a joint at its lower end, so that the rotation
of the bobbin is retarded by the jointed pin allowing the lower end of
the bobbin to rub against a projecting lug, against which a spring or

page_text: weight is made to press the bobbin by acting on the jointed spindle
which carries the socket, on which the bobbin wound from is placed.
My Invention consists, thirdly, in confining the sheet steel slide
bars by a small bar screwing down on to the front rail, which extends
in front on each side of the machine, and making the front cover, in
which the slits in which the oscillating levers play, to screw down on
horizontal faces formed on the cast-iron bridges, so as to be firmly
fixed and readily removable. I also make the top cover either a flat
horizontal plate in machines winding from the hank or in the form
of a trough, along the bottom of which the travelling sheet travels in
machines which wind from the spinning bobbin.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Combe in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COMBE, Engineer, of 11, Trinity Crescent, Trinity, in the County of
Edinburgh, Scotland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Combe, Her special license
that I, the said John Combe, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Combe, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR WINDING COPS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said John Combe, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and

page_text: cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Combe, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:
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This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for
winding cops.
My Invention consists in improvements in the general arrangement
and details of machinery described by me under a previous Patent of
date December 3rd 1870, No. 3185.
These improvements I will proceed to describe by reference to the
annexed Drawings. Figure 1 is a transverse section; Figure 2 is a
plan, and Figure 3 is a front view, both partly in section, of a portion
of a machine for winding cops from hanks. In Figures 1 and 2 a dotted
line on the left hand side of the Figures indicates the centre of the
machine, and it should be understood that there are parts to the left of
this line similar to those on the right.
My Invention consists, firstly, in placing the bevel pinion a carried
by the spindle under the cast-iron bridge c which is bolted to the
longitudinal angle irons d of the frame, and in making cach cast-iron
bridge c carry the sockets e for the pinions of four spindles, and in
casting two cups f, f, together, as is shewn in plan at Figure 4, and
fixing them by screwing the connecting bar f which joins them to an
upright bar c¹, two of which (one on either side of the centre line) form
portions of the cast-iron bridge. By the same screws which attach f¹
and c¹, the cap piece f* of the bearings of the spindles b may be
secured; or these bearings may be formed, as seen in plan at Figure 5
and in front view at Figure 6; here the bar f¹ is bored to receive the
bushes, and the bushes which are in two parts are grooved on opposite
sides and secured by a staple. Two other upright bars c² form portions
of the cast-iron bridge on each side and carry two round pins g, cach
end of which carries the bell-crank lever h which lifts and lowers one of
the spindles b, and I make the rod i which carries the spiral spring (not
shown) which lifts the spindle in the form of an L, the shorter arm of
the L jointing into a socket / in the bell-crank lever, and the longer

page_text: arm of the carrying the spiral spring. Another portion c³ of the cast-
iron bridge c, one at each side, is made to carry two round rods / which
extend across two cast-iron bridges c and carry the eight oscillating
levers respectively belonging to the eight spindles carried by the two
cast-iron bridges, and these oscillating levers are formed of a small
casting with a socket which turns on the round rod k, and round this
socket are the coils of a spiral spring ", one end of which slips into a
hole drilled in the cast-iron bridge, and the other end of the spiral spring
slips into a hole drilled through the casting into the sheet stecl arm &
which projects from the socket. This arm is divided to form the thin
arms 2* which carry the little roller of the oscillating lever. The
socket of the oscillating lever also carries two beveled projections 1*
and which act on and depress the catch spring m when the oscillating
lever is at the extreme end of its outward and inward oscillation
respectively. The catch spring is formed of an arm of a lever carrying
a round pin which turns in a socket c* cast on the cast-iron bridge and
drilled to receive the pin of the catch lever, and the other end of the pin
of the catch lever fits tightly into the socket of a lever n which projects
inward under the cast-iron bridge, and is jointed to and lifted by a
wire o connected with a catch p which is lifted by the rising of the
spindle top 9 when the cop is wound to the full length required. The
catches p, p, are carried by a hollow adjustable standard p³, as is seen in
Figure 3. The catch lever m has a double beveled end which riscs into
a slot in and retains a slide bar r of sheet steel, the inner end of which
receives into another slot the end of the arm of the bell-crank lever h
which projects downward, and the other end of the sheet steel slide bar
projects outward in front of the machine, and is formed with a hook by
which it is laid hold of and pulled out in order to set the spindle bit
belongs to in motion.

page_text: The arrangement shown in Figures 1 and 2 is adapted especially for
winding from hanks. I give the necessary friction to the spindle top by
a slip of steel q¹ bowed inwards, which is jointed on a pin q³ below and
acted on by a small catch lever q3 at the top, which catch lever by being
turned up or down binds or releases the spindle top q as it slides on the
spindle 6; and I make the spindle with two flat sides to which the
spindle top fits, and by putting three pointed steel pins q' in the lower
part of the spindle top, which prick into the top end of the cop, I prevent
it from twisting and tightening on the spindle. I form the spindle with
four collars 6', which are embraced by two half bushes h³, h³, which fit
into the forked arm of the bell-crank lever h which lifts and lowers the
spindle; and I square the lower end 62 of the spindle and let into the
narrow end of the bevel pinion a a steel die a¹ with a square hole cut in
it to receive the squared end of the spindle; a spring piece a* supports
the pinion and die. In order to deaden the shock of the recoil of the
bell-crank lever h when the spindle is stopped I have projecting beveled
faces e cast on the cast-iron bridge c, against which a leather buffer h³
attached to the bell-crank lever strikes when the coiled lifting spring
around the rod i is let loose and the spindle rises.
My Invention consists, secondly, in placing pairs of heart wheels 8, 8,
on the driving shaft t at intervals which act on friction rollers u¹ carried
by two levers u formed of sheet steel, which are each placed between
two cast-iron bridges c and work on a pin u² at the outer end, and they
have their inner ends attached by two connecting links u³ to a bar of
sheet steel v extending across a series of four cast-iron bridges c, and
playing up and down on beveled guides c cast on the cast-iron bridges
in a line parallel with the beveled face of the cups f in which the slit f
is formed, through which the yarn passes as the cop is wound. Opposite
cach pair of cups f cast together a cross bar w of sheet steel extends
across in front of the two cups, and having two connecting slips w¹
extending downwards, connecting the short traverse bar in front of the
two cups with the longer sheet steel traverse bar v, which extends across
the series of cast-iron bridges below, and to which an up-and-down
motion is communicated by the two hearts acting on the two rollers u¹
of the two levers u herein-before described; and I apply weights or
springs to the two sheet steel levers u to keep their rollers in contact
with the heart wheels, and when a higher rate of speed is used, and the
nature of the material permits, I make the form of the cart wheel

page_text: approximate more or less to the form which will give a movement
similar to the crank or eccentric wheel.
Sometimes in place of mounting the cams s upon the shafts t I employ
the arrangement shewn at Figure 9. I place an intermediate shaft E
on the centre line of the machine and drive it with equal wheels from
one of the shafts t; on this intermediate shaft I mount heart cams s,
which then serve both for the front and back of the machine; I double
the levers u, as the Figure shews, so that the cams act directly in both
directions without the aid of weight or spring; the upper rollers u¹ I
connect directly with the cross bars w by the connecting slips w¹; the
connecting slips pass through guide slots near their upper ends. The
Figures 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 shew details of the forms of the
several parts.
My Invention consists, thirdly, in confining the sheet steel slide bars »
by a small bar d' screwing down on to the front rail d which extends in
front on each side of the machine, and making the front cover x in
which the slits in which the oscillating levers play to screw down on
horizontal faces c7 formed on the cast-iron bridges, so as to be firmly
fixed and readily removable. I also make the top cover y either a flat
'horizontal plate in machines winding from the bank, or in the form of a
trough, along the bottom of which the travelling sheet for taking away
the empty bobbins travels in machines which wind from the spinning
bobbin.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do ?
not confine myself to the exact details described; but what I claim is,
the improvements in machinery for winding cops, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Combe, have hercunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in the year of a
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-three.