US1127551A - Cordage-machine. - Google Patents

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I. R. A. VINCENT.

GORDAGE MACHINE;

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7,1913.

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Specification of Letters iatent.

Application filed February 7, 1913. Serial No. M6357.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN R. A. VINCENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cordage Machines, of which the following is a specification.

'The invention relates to cordage ma-' chines, and more particularly to the class of machines for covering ropes or the like.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character wherein the frame for supporting the cordage feeding and wrapping mechanism is supported in a novelmanner and is driven from a motor carried thereby.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character wherein the connections between the motor and the propelling mechanism serve to drive the vcordage feeding and wrapping mechanism so that a rope, wire or the like can 'be covered with yarn, marline or any other .cordage in a quick and convenient manner. w i

A further object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and 'efiicient in operation, and inexpensive in manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine'constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a similar view looking toward the opposite end of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the machine. Fig. 5 is a top plan view thereof. 7

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, and especially Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the machine comprises a movable carriage in the form of a frame 10 which has journaled at its upper end and at one side thereof track rollers 11 which are adapted to travel upon a track 12 mounted upon hangers or brackets 13 fixed to the wall or other stationary support, the track being provided with a toothed rack 14 with which meshes a cog gear 15. the same acted upon by means of a worm screw 16 fixed to a driven shaft 17 journaled in bearings 18 formed on or mounted upon the upper end of the frame. I t will be noted that this frame is suspended from the track 12 and is adapted to travel upon the same longitudinally thereof. Supported in the lower end of the frame is an electric or other power motor 19 which is rovided with a driving shaft'20, the same eing journaled in the sides of the frame, and carries a sprocket wheel 21 over which is trained an endless chain 22 which is also trained over a sprocket wheel 23 fixed to a hollow serving mandrel or tube 24 which is journaled in the frame intermediate the ends thereon-and through which is adapted to be passed rope, wire, or the like, to be covered with spun yarn, marline, or an-v other cordage. The mandrel or tube 24 has fixed thereto a second sprocket wheel 25 over which is trained an endless sprocket chain 26, the same being also trained over a sprocket wheel 27 fixed to the driven shaft 17 so that on the rotation of the driving shaft 20 similar movement will be imparted to the driven shaft for moving the carriage 10 upon the track 12, and also simultaneously rotating the serving mandrel or tube 24, the yarn, marline, being fed to the rope, wire or the like, in a manner presently described.

Fixed to the mandrel or tube 24 at one end thereof is a disk 28 carrying spool holders 29 on which are rotatably mounted spools 30 which have wound thereon the yarn, marline, or other cordage to be fed to the rope 31, wire, or the like, which is passed through the serving mandrel or tube 24 to be covered with the yarn, marline or other cordage during the operation of the machine. The spool holders 29 are provided with tension devices 32 which act upon the spools to regulate the speed of rotat on thereof when the yarn or other cordage is being unwound therefrom during the operation of the. machine. The disk has adjustably connected thereto a guide arm'33 over which is trained the yarn orother cordage so as to properly guide the same when being wrapped on the rope 31, wire, or the like, when the machine is in action.

In the operation of the machine, when the Patented Feb. 9, rat-,5.

or any other cordage rope 31, wire, or the like isto be covered Wlth' spun yarn, marline, or any other cordage, the carriage 10 is driven in a right hand direction over the track 12 so that the mandrel or tube 24 will act upon the yarn or cordage for the proper serving thereof on to the rope 31, wire, or the like. Now, on

reversing the direction of travel of the carriage 10 the linen, burlap, or other cordage will be parceled on the rope 31, wire, or the like, and in this instance such cordage will not pass through the mandrel or tube 24, and will be guided by the guidearmsBQ, as

v shown in the drawings.

supporting said feeding, and wrapping mechanism and having peripherally grooved rollers movable over the rails of the track, shafts journaled on the truck frame at right angles to each other, a worm thread on one shaft,a wormgear on the other shaft and mesh1ng.with the said thread, a pinion on one of the'shafts and meshlngwith the toothed rack, and a motor on the truck frame and having driven connections with one of said shafts.

2. In a cordage machine, a' pair of brackets adapted to be stationarily mounted in spaced relation to each other on a fixed formed with the brackets, a toothed rack b'etweenthe rails and parallel with the same, a truck frame having peripherally grooved rollers movable over the rails of the track, shafts ournaled on the truck frame at right angles to each other, a worm thread on one shaft, a worm gear on the other shaft and meshing with the said thread, a pinion on one of the shafts and meshing with the toothed rack, a motor on the truck frame and having driven connection with one of said shafts, means for guiding cordage through the frame, and mechanism actuated by the driven connections for feeding wrapping material to the cordage.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEONARD K. TALLEY, JOHN J. VURKE.

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