US637901A

US637901A - Spool-carrier.

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Publication number: US637901A
Application number: US70661799A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Sommer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-02-23
Filing date: 1899-02-23
Publication date: 1899-11-28
Anticipated expiration: 1916-11-28

Description

No. 637,'9ol. Patented Nov. 28, |899.

` J. SUMMER.

SPDOL CARRIVER.

(Application med Feb. 2a, 1899.)

('No Model.)

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Nrrnn STATES PATENT Fries.

JOHN SOMMER, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

SPOOL-CARRIER.

srEciFIcATroN omngprt of Letters Patent No. 637,901, rated Novemtef 2s, 189s. Application iiled February 23, 1899. Serial No. 706,617- (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SOMMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spool-Carriers 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to spool-carriers; and my object is to facilitate the construction, improve the efficiency, and increase the durability of the same.

My improvement relates generally, as above stated, to spool-carriers, and is designed to provide a support for the spool to hold it in the proper positionin connection with the machine to which it is designed to deliver a strand that is wound thereon and to provide a tension upon said strand by friction-bearing means and also to provide a convenient j manner of placing the spool in the support and for detaching the same. The particular application I make of the spool-carrier is in connection with a frame in which a spool or spools are designed to be carried and a frame rotated to prevent the twisting of Wires together or to compensate for the twisting of wires together to form a cable by separate means by turning the spools in the frame the same number of revolutions that are made by the machines that make the twist to form the cable.

My particular application of a frame used for the purpose I specify may be seen by reference to the application for Letters Patent of Peter Sommer, John Sommer, and Peter W. Sommer, filed the 3d day of February, 1894,`

the same. Fig. 3 is a section through the line X X of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail view.

In the figures, A is a rectangular frame.

A' and A2 are journals upon the ends of said frame. a a are perforations through said journals.

B B is an S-shaped frame.

B B2 are oppositely-curved portions of the S-shaped frame.

O O O O are the rims of the spools designed to be supported within the frame, which said spools are carried, respectively, in the opposite curves of the S-shaped portion of the frame.

D D are plates hinged to the curved portions cf the S-frame and bearing against the ends of the spools.

E E are bearing-plates fixed upon the ends of the plates D D and are formed to match with the circulnferenees of the rims of the spools and to bear thereon or to be supported in substantially a bearing relation therewith.

F F F F are bolts fixed in the said portions of the frame A, as best shown in Fig. 3'of the drawings, the said bolts extending out from the said frame some little distance and bearing through perforations iu theplates D.

f f are coiled springs bearing between and against, respectively, the heads of the bolts and outside faces of the plates D, substantially in the manner shown in the` drawings, and are provided to hold the hinged plates D in bearing relation against the ends of the spools and the bearing-plates E in proper position with relation to the rims of said spools to assist, in conjunction with the curved portions of the S-frame, in supporting the said spools as they are revolved with the frame A and also to enable the said plates D a sufficient lateral swinging from their hinges to free the bearing-plates E from contact with the rims of the spools to facilitate in the removal of the spools from the frame and in the placing of the same therein. j

I desire to call the attention of the Office to a former application for patent by myself upon which Letters Patent No. 546,358 were issued upon the 17 th day of September, 1895, in which I show the means for supporting spools in a frame and turning them Vacross their axes within the said frame and also supporting them to turn upon their axes under frctional bearing upon the rims thereof IOO s caracol to provide a tension for astrand being delivered therefrom. In my present application I show another means of accomplishing the same result.

The operation of the device is very simple. The spools containing strands having been properly deposited within the framework, the wire strands from said spools are carried forwardly and passing through the perforations a a in the journal A2, and the strands being drawn out a tension will be obtained thereon as a result of the frictional contact of the rims of the spools with their supports. The supply of strand upon the spools having been exhausted, they may be removed (or either one of them) by simply shifting the plates D laterally to remove the rim-bearing plates E E from contact with the frames, when the spool may be withdrawn from the frame. A spool is deposited in the frame in the same manner-that is, by the same manipulation of the adjustable plates.

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

1. In a spool-carrier, the combination, with a revoluble frame,havin g curved bearing-surfaces, for supporting the rims of a spool, or for bearing against a portion of the circumferences thereof, and of laterally-adjustable plates hinged to the said curved plates for engaging portions of the rims on opposite sides from the said curved supporting-plates, and means for holding the said laterally-adjustable plates in position for bearing upon the spool-rims but allowing them to be moved laterally to release the said rims.

2. In a spool-carrier, the combination, witha revoluble frame of two bearing-plates for supportinga spool upon its rims, located upon the opposite sides thereof, one fixed with relation to the frame and one movable with relation to the rims of the spool a supportingplate bearing across the axis of the spool and hinged to the fixed plate.

3. In a spool-carrier, the combination with au S-shaped frame, the curved portions of which are adapted to bear against a portion of the spool-rims, of plates hinged vto the S- rim and adapted to engage portions of the circumferences of the spool-rims upon the opposite sides and adapted to be adj usted with relation to the rims of the said spools.

4. In a spool-carrier, the combination with a revoluble frame provided with a journal at each end, of a fixed curved plate adapted to receive and support the rim of a spool on one side and an adjustable plate adapted to support the rim of the spool on the opposite side from the fixed plate and means for holding the adjustable plate under a yielding tension to hold it in place to support the spool-rim and yield under pressure to permit the removal of the spool.

5. In a spool-carrier, the combination with a frame provided with a journal at each end and revoluble at right angle with the direction of rotation of the spool adapted to be supported therein, of a curved bearing-face for supporting the rim of a spool, a laterallyadjustable plate, and means connected with said adjustable plate to support it in such adjustable relation with the rim of a spool, all substantially as described and shown.

6. In a spool-carrier, the combination With a fixed curved plate supported in a frame revoluble at right angle with the direction of rotation of the spool adapted and to be supported therein, adapted to support the rim of a spool on one side, of a laterally-adjustable plate adapted to support the spool upon the opposite side and to be moved laterally to release the spool-rim to permit its removal or.the placing of the spool in position to be supported by the plates, all substantially as described and shown.

7. In a spool-carrier, the combination with a revoluble frame provided with a journal at each end, one of which has a perforation therethrough, of a iixedcurved plate adapted to support the rim of a spool on one side and a laterally-adj ustable plate adapted to support the rim of a spool on the opposite side and to be moved laterally to release the spool-rim to permit its removal or the placing of a spool in position in the frame to be supported by the plates, all substantially as described and shown.

8. In a spool-carrier, the combination with an S-shaped frame the curved portions of which are adapted to bear against a portion of the spool-rims, of adjustable plates adapted to engage portions of the circumferenoes of the spool-rims on the opposite sides and suitable yielding mechanism for holding the IOO plates under tension in position to support the spool-rims but adapted-to yield under pressure to allow the plates to be shifted, all substantially as described and shown.

9. In a spool-carrier, the combination with the fixed curved plate B adapted to support the rim of a spool on one side of the laterallyadjustable curved plate E, adapted to support the spool on the opposite side, and the -plate D, connected with the curved plate E,

and hinged to the fixed curved plate B and yielding mechanism for holding curved plate A E, under tension in position to support the spool-rim but adapted to yield under pressure to allow the plate to be shifted, all substantially as described and shown.

10. In aspool-carrier, the combination with the revoluble frame A of the curved plates B, B2, adapted to support the rims of spools on one side, the laterally-adjustable plates E, E, adapted to support the rims of the spools on the opposite side, the plates D, D, connected each with one of the plates E, and hinged to the curved plates B', B2, and mechanism for holding curved plates E, under tension in position to support the spool-rim but adapted to yield under pressure to allow the plate to be shifted, all substantially as described and shown..

il. In a spool-carrier, the combination with the revoluble frame A, provided with journal A' at its rear end and the journal A2 at its forward end having the Wire-delivery passages a, ct, therethrough, of the fixed curved plates B', B2, adapted to support the rims of spools on one side, the laterally-adjustal'de plates E, E, adapted to support the rims of the spools on the opposite side and suitable mechanism for supporting the adjustable plates E, E, and for holding the same under tension to support the spool-rims but adapted to yield under pressure to allow the plates to be shifted, all substantially as described and shown.

l2. In a spool-Carrier, the combination with the revoluble frame A, provided with journal A at its rear end and the journal A2 at its forward end having the Wire-delivery passages a, a, therethrough, of the Xed curved plates B', B2 adapted to support the rims of spools on one side, the laterally-adjustable plates E, E, adapted to support the rims of the spools on the opposite side, the plates D, D, connected each with one of the plates E and hinged to the curved plates B', B2 and the set-screw F F F F, bearing through the perforations in plates D, and being fixed upon the frame A, and the spring f f f f, intervening between the face of the plates D and the heads of the set-screws, all substantially as described and shown.

13. Ina spool-Carrier, the Combination with the fixed curved plate B' of the plate D, hinged thereto, the curved plate E, fixed to plate D, the set-screw F F bearing through the perforations in plates D, and the spring ff, intervening between the heads of the set-screws and the face of plates D, all substantially as described and shown.

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

JOHN SOMMER.

Witnesses:

C. S. TAYLOR, MINNIE HALEY.