US1301223A - Winding mechanism. - Google Patents

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S. C. BURLINGAME.

WINDING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION HLED APR. 10. 1918.

Patented Apr. 22,1919.

ENTOR 6? MRNEY UNITED sTAT s rA'rENT orriou.

srErnEN o. BURLINGAME, or STERLING, comvuorrcu'r.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that LSTEPHEN (1131m- LIN AME, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Sterling, in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Winding Mechanism, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to improved apparatus for use in connection with textile machinery and has particular reference to an improved device upon which the finished article is wound and delivered to the user.

Heretofore it has been customary in the manufacture of textiles to wind the finished product in predetermined lengths upon a metal plate forming part of the textile machine from which plate it is transferred to a Wooden board, usually, or it may be pasteboard, upon which it is delivered to the users. WVood and pasteboard at the present time are more or less expensive, so that the old method of winding the cloth upon a board or pasteboard has-reached the point where it adds quite materially to the cost of production of the goods. With this in mind, I have devised an improved apparatus intended to replace that just outlined above, which apparatus comprises, briefly, an improved plate to be applied to textile machines and a wire frame to be used in conjunction therewith upon which the cloth or finished goods is wound. My improved apparatus facilitates removal of a bolt of goods from the machine and, at the same time, reduces the cost of manufacture in that my metal frame will be cheaper than the wooden board or pasteboard heretofore used, and in addition to that, if desired, the public could be educated to preserve the wire frames and they could be returned to the manufacturer of the goods to be used over again.

In the accompanying drawing, I have not attempted to show the textile machine in detail at all as this forms no part of the present invention.

Figure 1 shows 'in perspective my improved frame with the bolt of goods shown in dotted lines wound thereon.

Fig. 2 shows my improved frame and the plate of the textile machine upon which it is mounted, both shown in elevation with a bolt of .goods wound thereon, the goods being shown in dotted lines the same as in Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

WINDING MECHANISM.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

, Application filed April 10, 1918. Serial N 0. 227,630.

Fig. 3 shows in elevation my improved frame and supporting plate therefor removed from the machine; and

Fig. 4 shows in elevation the plate of Figs. 2 and 3 and a modified form of my wire frame.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, 1 designates a plate of metal or other suitable material mounted for rotation upon any suitable apparatus, being here shown diagrammatically, as the method of mounting this plate upon the machine forms no part of the present invention. This plate is substantially rectangular in shape, and is formed with flanges designated 2 adapted to receive and hold in place a rectangular metal frame 3, this frame being slightly larger than the plate 1 on three sides, so that when in position upon the plate 1, the two sides and one end will project beyond the corresponding sides and end of the plate 1, so that when the cloth, shown in dotted lines and which I will designate 4, is wound about the frame 3, it will not engage the plate 1. I prefer to have the frame 3 of such a size that in use it will be sprung over the flanges 2 and be held thereby under tension. An orifice 5 is provided in the plate 1 beyond the left-hand end of the frame 3, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that after the cloth is wound on the frame the frame and cloth may be removed bodily from the plate 1, as the operator may merely insert one hand in the orifice 5, grasp the frame 3, and by grasping the other end of the frame, may lift the bolt of goods, together with the frame, from the flanges 2 on the plate 1 and slide the bolt of goods and its frame off the plate 1, the finished article on its frame being shown in Fig. 1. As I have mentioned above, the users of the goods, that is to say, manufacturers, storekeepers and the like, could be educated to preserve the frame 3 and the same could be returned to the textile manufacturer to be used over again, thereby effecting a great saving over the wooden boards or pasteboard now used.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 4, a plate 1 of metal or other suitable material is shown similar to the plate 1 of the construction just described, this plate being provided with flanges 2 similar to flanges 2 of the preferred form of my invention, for the reception of metal frames 5 and 6, functioning as does the frame 3, already referred to. The operation of this form of grasped by the operator to enable him to, remove the bolt of goods WOUIlCl upon the frame 5 and 6 from the plate 1' in amanner which is clearly 0 vious;

I do not Wish to be hmitedi to the precise;

details of construction herein illustrated and described, as. various departures might be made therefirom. Within the scope of: my in vention.

hat I claim, as new-and desire to secure y LettersPatent ofthe-United States is;=-.-Y

1. In Winding mechanism, the combinae tion 013 a irameofrresillent material, and: a

support for the same overswhieh the, frame,

is stretched to be held thereon by the ten- Qn, n. the frame: 7

2. In winding*hiechanism, the combination, of. a frame of resilient material, a support for the same over which the frame is stretehed to be held thereon by the tension in the frame, the frame extending-beyond the sides 0t this .S upport so that together with the material thereon, it may be removed from the support. 1

- .3. In. Winding mechanism, the, sl mbiriation oi: a. frame. oi resilient-mate iel, a sup.

port tor the. same and flanges 0n the side over which. ,hB,f11LII1Q= .S.Sl3

,tched t held hereon by the WIASiQ L the frame,

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