IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederich Eduard August Büsche at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th October 1879.
FREDERICH EDUARD AUGUST BUSCHE, of Schwelm (Westphalia), in the Empire
of Germany, Manufacturer. IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAIDS."
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrrangement of what are
commonly known as braiding machines, and has for its object the affording facility
for making braids of different widths and patterns in one and the same machine by
the employment of certain parts which are interchangeable and kept in reserve so
as to adapt the machine to the particular kind of braid or braids to be produced.
In carrying out my Invention I provide the bottom or base plate of the braiding
machine with openings, the number and position of which correspond to the
number and position of the notched disc wheels which the machine is intended to
contain, and in some or all of these openings I introduce firmly and securely a metal
or other holder, within which again there is accurately fitted a second or inner
holder which is easily removeable and interchangeable for the purpose hereinafter
explained. If desired this inner holder may be fitted direct onto the bottom or
base plate, but I prefer the arrangement above set forth. These removeable and
interchangeable holders serve to carry the pivots for the notched disc wheels
(similar to those used in German braiding machines) which I employ for carrying
and imparting the travelling motion to the various spindles on which the bobbins
are mounted. Where these interchangeable holders are not provided the pivots
will be fitted to the base plate in the usual manner.
The said inner holders are so
adapted as to enable the pivots (and their wheels) fitted therein to be brought
nearer together or farther apart as may be required for the grouping of the series
of spindles into subdivisions, according to the different widths and patterns of
braid to be produced, provision being made for adapting the usual thread guides to
each group or subdivision of the entire series of spindles. In order to maintain
the spindles perfectly steady, I provide them with two or more special supporting
plates resting either upon the toothed wheel and notched disc or upon the notched
disc only or upon a notched disc in conjunction or not with the toothed wheel, thus
affording a vertical support, whilst the lateral support is obtained by fixed guide
plates on the one side and the arrangement of wheel and notched disc on the other.

page_text: The fixed guide plate is composed of a number of separate removeable and
interchangeable plates or segments so arranged as to be readily changed and adapted
to the particular arrangement of notched disc wheels to be employed. I also
employ a peculiar self acting stop arrangement for stopping the machine on the
breakage of a thread, which consists in providing a transverse pin held up by a
spring situate near the bottom of the bobbin spindle, so that when the thread
tension weight falls the spring will be deflected and allow the pin to descend and
be brought within range of the end of an adjustable arm sliding longitudinally and
connected with the general engaging and disengaging gear of the machine,
consequently as the travelling motion of the spindle proceeds the said pin will
force the said arm inwards and so stop the machine by any of the well known
arrangements.