US592477A

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Publication number: US592477A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 1914-10-26

Description

(No Model.)

J. MOOAHEY.

BRAIDING CARRIER.

No. 592,477. Patented Oct. 26,1897.

WI TNESSES IN YEN TOR 87 (M fl j s AITTOIHIE? uoRms PEYEII co, PNOTD-LITNO wnsumm'ou UNrrnn- STATES JOHN MOCAIIEY, OF PROVIDEN RIIODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW ENGLAND BUTT COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BRAlDlNG-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,477, dated October 26,- 1897. Application filed January 15, 1897- erial No. 619,336. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.- the notch g in the back of the weight. (See Beitknown that I,J OHN MOOAHEY,ofProv Fig. 2.) Then it passes up through the top idenc-e, in the county of Providence and State guide .9 to the fabric. In this way the weight of Rhode Island, have invented certain new N hangs in the bight of the yarn 17, taking up 5 and useful Improvements in Spool-Carriers and letting out any slack that is made in the for Braiding-Machines; and I do hereby deyarn by the motion of the carrier in toward clare that the following is a full, clear, and the center or out 011 the plate. Now if the exact description thereof, reference being had upper end of the yarn is drawn on suddenly to the accompanying drawings, and to the letby the carrier moving from the inner race- 10 ters of reference marked thereon,'which from way to the outer raceway it will jerk the a part of this specification. weight up against the pawl and throw it oil This invention relates to the spool-carriers of the standard, and when the thread has used in braiding-machines. It is fully ex been improperly wound on the spool and plained and illustrated in this specification drawn in at the lower coil, so as to catch in 15 and the accompanying drawings. unwinding, the jerk will also throw the spool Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a off of the spindle or raise it up so high on the spool-carrier for braiding-machines. Fig. 2 spindle as to cause it to break down all the is a back elevation of the carrier. Figs. 3, 4, other yarns as it passes under them. This is and 5 are respectively a side elevation, a prevented by the projection h, against which 20 vertical section, and a top View of the upper the pawl strikes when raised clear up by the part of the carrier explanatory of its mode weight or the spool and does not allow it to of operation. come off, but instead it only breaks the yarn The object of the invention is to provide a and lets the weight drop, which stops the masimple way of preventing the pawl that conchine. (See Fig. 3.) When it is necessary 2 5 trols the rotation of the yarnspool from be to take the pawl off of the standard to change ing thrown off at, the top of the standard on an empty spool for a full one, raise the pawl which it slides by any sudden upward motion up and tip the upper end of it over toward of the tension-weight on the standard below the spool, to allow which each side of the it. This sudden rise of the weight is apt to standard B is cut away at n for a short diso occur when the carrier passes quickly from tance down from the guide 3 to make it narthe inner raceway to the outer raceway in row enough to allow the slot in the back of running the machine fast. the pawl to pass over it, so that it can he slid In the drawings, B is the standard of the up off of the standard. (See Fig. 4:.) By recarrier. versing these motions the pawl can be put on 3 5 J is the pawl that checks the rotation of the the standard again.

spool, and N is the tension-weight, both of Having thus described my improvement, I which slide up and down freely on the standclaim as my invention and desire to secure by ard B. Letters Patent 0 S is the yarn-spool, held on spindle R. At In a spool-carrier, a standard having a pro- 40 the lower end of the carrier 0 is the footjection made at its top to prevent the pawl flange that slides on the top plate of the mafrom being thrown off by the tension-weight chine. r is the flange that slides on the unor spool and having its sides narrowed away der side of said top plate, and c is the stud at the top to allow the pawl to be removed by by which the carrier is driven. tipping it over toward the spool, in combina- 45 To prevent the pawl J from being thrown tion with, a pawl, a tension-weight and a off, as before described, a projection h is cast spindle foraspool, substantially as described. on the front side of the top of the standard In testimony whereof I have hereunto set E, against which the pawl will strike when my hand.

it rises high enough. JOHN MCOAIIEY. 5 The course of the yarn b is from the spool In presence of- S through the hole e in the standard 13, then MATTIE E. LAWTON,

down under the tension-weight N, through BENJ. ARNOLD.