Improvements in the Drying and Winding of Yarn.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23 Oct.. 1897
Improvements in the Drying and Winding of Yarn.
I, ABRAM COMBE, of the Firm of Combe, Barbour, and Combe Limited, of Falls
Foundry, Belfast, Ireland, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in winding machines for winding yarns in
a cylindrical or roll form, the object being to so construct such machines that wet
yarn can be dried and wound by one and the same operation, thus greatly reducing
and simplifying the processes heretofore necessary.
According to this invention, the winding machine is constructed and operates in
the ordinary manner, but the driving druins or rollers, which by frictional contact
drive the spindles on which the yarn is being wound, are hollow, and a current of
steam or heated air is blown or passed through such drums or rollers, and by which
they are heated. As the yarn is wound into the cylindrical form it rests on the
heated drums and the latter dry it, each successive layer of yarn being a considerable
period in contact with the heated drums before it is covered by succeeding layers.
For some classes of yarn I employ a jet of dry or heated air, which is blown onto the
yarn and assists in the drying process, and this jet may be used in combination with
the heated drums, or independantly, as may be found necessary.
Dis 4th don of ovember 1906
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BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.
I, ABRAM COMBE, of the Firm of Combe, Barbour, & Combe, Limited, of Falls
Foundry, Belfast, Ireland, Machinist do declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in winding machines for winding yarns in a
cylindrical or roll form, the object being to so construct such machines that wet yarn
can be dried and wound at one and the same operation, thus greatly reducing and
simplifying the processes heretofore necessary, consequently lessening the cost of
production.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-
Fig. 1 is a sectional end elevation of as much of a roll winder as is requisite to shew
the nature of the invention.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a section of the driving roller or drum, which by frictional contact drives
the spindle or roll on which the yarn is being wound.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the driving roller.
According to this invention the winding machine is constructed and operates in the
ordinary manner, but the driving drums or rollers 1 which by frictional contact drive
the rolls of yarn 2 being wound on the spindles 3, are hollow, and a current of steain
or heated air is blown or passed through such drums or rollers 1 and by which they
are heated. At 1 is the driving roller or drum which is driven in the ordinary
manner and by frictional contact drives the roll of yarn 2 as it is being wound or
built on the spindle 3.
The hollow roller 1 is provided with safety steam valve 4 and vacuum valve 5 and
the usual internal arrangement of buckets 6 such as are ordinarily used in steam
heated cylinders to remove the waste water of condensation.
By the use of this roller heated by steam or hot air, the wet yarn as it is being
wound on the roll or spindle 3, comes into contact with the heated surface of the
roller 1 and is dried as each successive layer is a considerable time in contact with the
heated roller before it is covered by successive layers, and this dispenses with the usual
process of reeling before drying, the yarn is less handled and the tossing and shaking
that it receives in the usual reeling, drying, and re-winding is obviated.
For some classes of yarn we employ a jet 7 of heated air, as shewn in Fig. I to further
assist in drying the yarn, the jet 7 being used in conjunction with the heated roller 1,
or it may be used independently of the beated roller.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) In machines for winding and drying yarn, the application to and combining
with the winding roll of yarn of a heated hollow winding roller or drum, substantially as
illustrated and herein described..
(2.) In machines for purpose aforesaid a winding roll of yarn, a heated winding
roller or drum, and a blast pipe for discharge of heated air to said winding roll of
yarn, all combined, and as herein described.
Dated this 31st day of August 1897