Improvements in Apparatus Used in the Manufacture of Wicks for Making Wax Matches, Tapers, Candles, and the like.
Year: 1896

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Complete Specification Left, '27th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL
Improvements in Apparatus Used in the Manufacture of Wicks for
Making Wax Matches, Tapers, Candles, and the like.
We JAMES SMITH HARGREAVES, Manufacturer, and WILLIAM CLEGG,
Yarn Agent, both of Spring Mill, Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the manufacture of wicks for making matches &c. the clusters of yarn as
they are being coated with the fat stearine or wax are drawn through fixed guides
and are wound onto large drums and a great deal of waste and inconvenience is
caused owing to the clusters of yarn being wound onto the said drums in ridges,
whereby the yarn becomes loose and slack, and it becomes difficult to wind the
same from these drums again through the melted fat &c. and onto other drums,
and so on several times until the wicks have attained the required thickness, as
some of the yarns fall off the ridges and become slack and entangled together,
and these slack threads have frequently to be cut and drawn tight before the work
can be proceeded with, and the same takes place after the wicks are made in the
long lengths and as they are being passed through the cutting machine to cut them
into the required lengths.
The object of our invention is to prevent the yarn from being wound in ridges
and becoming slack and entangled and we propose to effect this by dispensing with
the fixed guides and substituting therefor traversing guides which we place in front
of each of the drums so that as the clusters of yarn after passing through the
fat &c. are wound onto the drums they will not be wound on in ridges as hereto-
fore but will be laid on quite evenly side by side from one end of the reels to the
other, whereby we avoid all liability to the yarn becoming slack and entangled,
and loss and waste of time and material is dispensed with.
Dated this 9th day of September 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Apparatus Used in the Manufacture of Wicks for
Making Wax Matches, Tapers, Candles, and the like.
We JAMES SMITH HARGREAVES, Manufacturer, and WILLIAM CLEGG,
Yarn Agent, both of Spring Mill, Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby 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:-
In the manufacture of wicks for making inatches &c. the clusters of yarn as they
are being coated with the fat stearine or wax are drawn through fixed guides and

page_text: are wound onto large drums or reels and a great deal of waste and inconvenience
is caused owing to the coated clusters of yarn being wound onto the said drums or
reels in ridges, whereby the coated yarn becomes loose and slack, and it becomes
difficult to wind the same from these drums again through the melted fat &c. and
onto other drums or reels, and so on several times until the wicks have attained
the required thickness, as some of the coated clusters of yarn fall off the ridges
and become slack and entangled together, and these slack threads have frequently
to be cut and drawn tight before the work can be proceeded with; and the same
takes place after the wicks are made in the long lengths and as they are being
passed through the cutting machine to cut them into the required lengths.
The object of our invention is to prevent the coated yarus from being wound in
ridges and becoming slack and entangled, and we propose to effect this by
dispensing with the fixed guides and substituting therefor traversing guides which
we place in front of each of the drums so that as the clusters of yarn after passing
through the fat &c. are wound onto the drums, they will not be wound on in ridges
as heretofore, but will be laid on quite evenly side by side from one end of the
reels to the other, whereby we avoid all liability to the yarn becoming slack and
entangled, and loss and waste of time and material is dispensed with.
On the drawing hereunto annexed Fig. 1 is a partial side elevation and Fig. 2 a
partial plan view of a machine for coating yarn with melted fat &c. in the manu-
facture of wicks for matches, tapers, candles and the like with our improvements
shown as applied thereto. a is part of the framing of the machine b the beam
from which the clusters of yarn are wound, e the trough or box containing the
melted fat &c. and d one of the drums onto which the coated clusters of yarn are
wound. We dispense with the ordinary fixed guides in front of the drums and
substitute therefor guides e which are mounted on bars f to which a constant
traversing motion to and fro is given for the purposes above mentioned by means
of a link g attached to a pin on a face-plate or disc i which is caused to revolve
by bevel gearing k and worm and worm wheel / driven from the axle of the main
drum d as shown on the drawing annexed, but we wish it to be understood that we
do not intend to confine ourselves to this method of driving, as the constant
reciprocating or traversing motion may be imparted to the guides in any other
convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In apparatus of the indicated nature used in the manufacture of wicks for
making wax matches, tapers, candles and the like, the combination with each
winding-on drum or reel of a constantly traversing guide for the purpose of
preventing the coated yarn from becoming slack and entangled and thus avoiding
the waste of time and material hitherto experienced in such manufacture.
Dated this 26th day of November 1900
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.