US1152895A - Winding-drum. - Google Patents

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W. M. KECK.

WINDING DRUM.

APPLICATION FILED 050. I9, I914.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANCIGRAPH co., WASHINGTON. u. c.

WILLIAM M. KECK, or CQALINGA, oALIroRniA.

WINDING-DRUM.

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i j Specification of Letters Patent. .Paftefltgdsept "Z" 1915;

Application filed December 19, 1914. Serial No. 878,061.

To all whom itmay concern Be it known that; I, WILLIAM M. KnoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coalinga, in the county of Fresno and State of California, have invented :certain new and useful Improvements in Winding- Drums, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to machinery and more particularly to winding "drums adapted for use in well drilling.

The invention has for its principal obj sets to provide a winding drum particularly adapted to receive the drill line and which is capable of adjustment to receive various quantities of said line; one provided with means for guiding the first layer of line thereon, thereby providing a uniform and even wind of line, and one in which the line guiding means provides an adjusting means for the ends of the drum.

With the above mentioned and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in theform, proportion, size and minor details of construction within the scope of the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

To more fully comprehend the invention reference is directed to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of an embodiment of my invention, disclosing the supporting shaft, the linewinding drum and the adjustable ends thereon, one section of one of said ends having been removed. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but disclosing a portion of the drum in section. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of one of the adjustable ends.

Referring more particularly to the drawings wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several viewsl represents a suitable shaft, preferably a bull wheel shaft, formed at its ends with gudgeons 2 adapted to be mounted in suitable bearings, and said shaft is preferably formed with a squared or hub portion 3 on which is adapted to be'secured a bull wheel of any suitable construction.

Secured in any suitable manner on the shaft 1, as by Welding or shrinking and rotatable therewith is the cylindricaldrum hub portion 4 exteriorly threaded for its length as at 5, and surrounding said drum hub portion are the hubs 6 of annular end flanges T'which are interiorly threaded as at 8 and are adjustableof said; drum hub pertion by rotation thereon. The end flanges are formed preferably into two sections provided on their outer surface with radially extended strengthening ribs 9, certain of said ribs extending longitudinally of the side edges of said flanges and when said flanges are in position adjacent each other they are adapted to receive securing bolts 10 which detachably secure said sections together. A radial slot 11 is formed in one of the end flanges 7 and through the same is preferably passed the inner end of the line. In use the end flanges 7 are positioned with their threaded hubs surrounding and in mesh with the threads on said drum hub and adjacent sections are bolted together by bolts 10. The flanges may now be rotated on the threaded portion of the drum hub to adjust the same relative to each other, and when the same are in their desired position, the bolts 10 which unite adjacent sections are tightened,and the respective end flanges are looked on said drum hub and prevented from rotation thereon.

By my improved construction, the first layer of line wound on the drum is guided by the threaded portion 5 of the drum, which prevents adjacent coils from overlapping and cutting each other. The threaded portion of the drum hub performs two functionsthat of providing an adjust ing means for the end flanges and that of providing a winding guide for the first layer of line.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. A winding drum comprising a rotatable drum shaft formed with an unbroken spirally grooved outer surface providing a line guide, and a pair of end flanges rotatably mounted on said drum shaft and provided with spirally grooved hubs for engagement with the spirally, grooved line guiding surface of said drum shaft, whereby said end flanges are capable of independent adjustment longitudinally of said drum shaft.

2. A winding drum comprising a cylindrical hub formed with an unbroken spirally grooved surface providing a line guide, a pair of end flanges rotatably mounted on said hub and each formed with a spirally grooved hub for intermeshing with the line guide spirals on said first mentioned hub,

each of said flanges comprising a plurality of sections, and means for retaining the sections of the respective flanges together and around said first mentioned hub.

3. A winding drum comprising a shaft adapted vto be rotatably mounted, a tubular hub portion mounted on said shaft for rotation therewith and formed with an unbroken spirally grooved outer surface providing a line guide, a pair of end flanges rotatably mounted on said hub and each formed with a spirally grooved hub for intermeshing with the spirals on said first mentioned hub, each of said flanges formed of a plurality of sections, and means for uniting said sections together and for locking the same in their adjusted position on said first mentioned hub. a

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M.- KEGK.

Witnesses:

W. J. KELLEY, J. M. CLARKE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of ratents,

Washington, D. G.

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