US631552A

US631552A - Quilling-machine.

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Publication number: US631552A
Application number: US70975899A
Authority: US
Inventors: Robert Atherton
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-03-20
Filing date: 1899-03-20
Publication date: 1899-08-22
Anticipated expiration: 1916-08-22

Description

Patented Aug. 22, I899.

a. ATHERTON. OUILLING MACHINE.

(Applicafion flied Mar. 20, 1899.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT ATHERTON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

QUlLLlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,552, dated August 22, 1899.

Application filed March 20, 1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT ATHERTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Quilling-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to weft-thread spooling or quilling machines, and it has reference particularly to the cop building or spooling devices involved as a part of the mechanism of such machines.

The invention is designed as an improvement upon the device shown and described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 596,794, issued to Jean Schweiter January 4:, 1898.

In these machines to produce the cop, which is wound in successive and overlapping layers of conical form, a reciprocating motion is imparted either to the spindle or the thread-guide carrier simultaneously with the rotation of either 'of these elements in winding said cop, and by virtue of this relative reciprocation an intermittent engagement between the bobbin on the spindle, or rather the cop being formed thereon, and the threadguide carrier is affected so as to advance the one relatively to the other in producing the layers of the cop. It is assumed that the parts have a rapid relative rotation, and since if there is a direct engagement between the cop and the thread-guide carrier at each of the reciprocating movements the thread of the cop will not only suffer the conse-j quenoes of the friction, but will not be uni-; formly wound, it has been proposed by the above -mentioned patentee to interpose anj independently-movable element between the; cop and the thread-guide carrier, which element when impinged by said cop will take the impact of the thread-guide carrier.

In view of the foregoing the object of my invention is not only to provide a threadguide carrier having an independently-moverial No. 709,758. (No model.)

able means between itself and the cop being wound, but to also so arrange said means that it will be readily adjustable in such a way that different sizes of cops may be produced in the same cop building or spooling device.

The invention therefore consists in the improved spooling device and particularly in its improved thread-guide carrier andin the combination and arrangement of the various parts of said spooling device, substantially as will be hereinafter pointed out and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

. wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 represents my improved quilling device in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the thread-guide carrier slightly enlarged. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line m w in Fig. 2, the same being somewhat enwhich is suitably supported and to which is imparted the usual longitudinally-reciprocating movement, and 1) indicates the spool or bobbin, which is mounted upon the upper end of said spindle.

0 indicates a rotatable disk which is penetrated by the spindle a and to which a rotary motion is imparted through a friction-disk d, rigidly connected thereto and bearing upon a suitably-driven beveled wheel e.

f designates the thread-guide carrier, and g g designate its vertical guides, which, being stepped at their lower ends in the disk 0, penetrate the plate h of the thread-guide carrier and also the guiding-sleeves t' t", extending downwardly from said plate. Said plate is also provided with an opening for the bobbin '1). One of the guidessay the guide gis pin q, rendered adjustable axially as well as vertically by a set-screwr, arranged in a short tubes, projecting downwardly from the plate h and penetrated by the pin.

The adjustable mechanism which I have devised for operative interposition between the cop and the plate of the thread-guide carrier may be thus described:

25 designates sockets iuclosing antifrictionballs 25, adapted to bear upon the cop and preferably composed of fiber and each provided with an upwardly-extending shank t which penetrates a block t integrally or at least rigidly secured thereto. Each of these devices practically constitutes a ball-caster. Each shank 25 projects through a radial slot or elongated opening t that is formed in the plate 7b of the thread-guide carrier, while its block 15 which is rectangular in shape, rests in a groove i coincident with the slot F, but somewhat wider and slightly longer than the same. By this arrangement each caster is so mounted in the thread-guide carrier as to be movable radially therein.

M denotes a disk having a central opening a, coinciding with the opening in the plate of the thread-guide carrier, said disk resting upon the top of said plate and having an operating-knob a whereby it may be moved for a limited distance, being guided by projections M, which penetrate concentric slots 11. in said disk. It should be remarked that one or more of the projections w should be a screw, whereby the disk may be firmly held in any desired position. The disk is also provided with eccentrically-arranged slots to, through each of which projects the shank i of the caster. In view of the foregoing it will be obvious that when the disk is rotated by its operating-knob n in either direction the several casters will also be moved radially in the plate It. Thus adjustment of the several casters simultaneously may be readily effected, and thereupon it is only necessary to tighten one of the screws forming the projections which guide the disk in order to secure the latter firmly in the desired position.

In the modified form of my invention shown in Fig. 4 the shank t of each caster is squared in cross-section and projecting through a correspondiugly-shaped opening in the plate is longitudinally movable in the latter. Between the socket t of the caster and the under side of the plate is disposed a spiral spring o, encircling the shank t and above the plate is a nut '1), which is screwed onto the free or upper end of said shank. It should be remarked that the several casters converge toward the cop, and hence the openings in the plate through which they extend are inclined. w designates a bushing formed integrally upon the top of the plate about the opening for the shank of each caster and having its top surface inclined, so that the nut Q) may take squarely against it. In this form of my invention, therefore, the several casters are automatically adjustable, they being adapted to accommodate themselves to various sizes of cops without the necessity of previous manual adjustment. In other words, each caster is yieldingly mounted in the plate.

It may be well to observe that by providing ball-casters as the intermediate elements between the thread-guide carrier and the cop being wound means is provided for taking the impact of the cop, whether consequent upon the rotary or longitudinal movement of the thrust of the latter, in such manner that the disarrangement and wearing of its newly= wound thread is reduced to the minimum.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a thread-spoofing machine, the combination of a thread-guide carrier and ballcasters carried thereby and adapted to engage the cop on the bobbin being wound, substantially as described.

2. In a thread-spooling machine, the combination of a thread-guide carrier, and ballcasters ad j ustably mounted therein and adapted to engage the cop on the bobbin being wound, substantially as described.

3. In a thread-spooling machine, the combination of a thread-guide carrier, ball-casters mounted in said carrier and movable radially with reference to the axis of the cop being wound, and means for adjusting said ball-casters, substantially as described.

4. In a thread-spooling machine, the combination of a thread-guide carrier, ball-casters mounted in said carrier and movable radially with respect to the cop being wound and a disk mounted on said carrier and provided with concentric slots penetrated by said casters, substantially as described.

5. In a thread-spooling machine, the combination of a thread-guide carrier, blocks movable radially therein with reference to the axis of the cop being wound, ball-casters carried by said blocks, and a revoluble disk carried by said thread-guide carrier and provided with eccentric slots receiving the shanks of said ball-casters,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of March, 180.).

IVitnesses:

ALFRED Gnn'rxnn, LOUISE SNYDER.