US708184A

US708184A - Drying-reel.

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Publication number: US708184A
Application number: US10097402A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles D Weaver
Original assignee: CLARKWEAVER Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: CLARKWEAVER MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1902-04-01
Filing date: 1902-04-01
Publication date: 1902-09-02
Anticipated expiration: 1919-09-02

Description

No. 708,184. Patented Sept. 2, 1902.:

C. D. WEAVER.

DRYING REEL.

(Afiplication filed Apr. 1, 1902.

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A TTURNEYE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES D. WEAVER, OF MOPHERSON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLARK- WEAVER' MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF GREELEY, COLORADO.

DRYING-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,184, dated September 2, 1902. Application filed April 1, 1902. Serial No- 100,974. (No model.)

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. WEAVER,a citizen of the United States of America, resid-,

ing at McPherson, in the county of McPherson and State of Kansas, have invented cer-.

tain new and usefullmprovements in Drying- Reels; and I do 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 accom panying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

I 5 My invention relates to improvements in drying-reels, and will be described with special reference to its use in connection with shoe-lacing-tip machines of the character set forth in my simultaneously-pending application, Serial No. 72,294, filed August 16, 1901.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a shoe-lacing-tip machine equipped with myimproved drying-reel. Fig.

2 is a top view of the reel, shown on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view'of the reel-chain, illustrating the operating wormgear, shown on a larger scale. Fig. 4 illus trates the same mechanism, viewed at right angles to Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail, on a 3olarger scale, of a portion of the reel-chain. Fig. 6 is "a cross-section of the chain on the line a; 00, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a cross-section of the reel-chain-supporting guide. Fig. 8 is a section taken through the chain and support- 5 ing-guide, the parts being shown in operative relation. Fig. 9 illustrates another form of reel-chain. Fig. 10 is a section taken on the line w :0, Fig. 9.

The same reference characters indicate the 0 same parts in all the views.

Let the numeral 5 designate the framework of the machine, which may be of any suitable construction. Upon this framework is mounted and made fast a drumor casing 6, through the center of which passes a shaft 7, to which are made fast radial reel-arms 8. The shaft is journaled in the frame. Four arms 8, as shown in the drawings, are attached to each end of the shaft and located Within the drum at right angles to each other. Upon each reel-arm is slidably mounted a bracket 9, which is held in place upon the arm by a setbolt 9 or any other suitable device or means arranged to perform the desired function. The distance between these brackets measured around the reel determines the length of the laces. It is evident that this distance may be regulated by adjusting the brackets on the arms. On each of these brackets is arrangedasprocket-wheel 10. The two arms, one'on each end of the shaft, lying in the same radial plane form a pair. The two sprocket- Wheels of each pair of arms are connected by a chain 12, provided with notches 12, adapted to receive the convolutions of the lacing material and keep them separated while the reel is turning. As shown in the drawings, each link is composed of two separated members. In the forms shown in Figs. 9 and 10 a block 12, interposed between the link mein- 7o bers, is provided with pins 12 to catch the lac ing web or string and prevent it from stretching or slipping in order to insure the cutting of the lacing-web at the proper point. In the form of construction shown in Fig. 5 the notches 12 are intended to be so shaped as to prevent the web from stretching or slipping. Thelinks 12 of the form shown in Fig. 9 are provided with ordinary saw-tooth notches, the pins being relied on to prevent 8o theweb from slipping, as aforesaid. In the drawings (see Figs. 7 and 8) ahorizontal supportinguide for each reel-chain is employed. This guide is composed of two members 12 connected by a block 12 The members 12 are interiorly grooved, as shown at 12 to receive the extremities'of the hinge-pins 12 of the chain.

The sprocket 10 is fast on a spindle 13, journaled in the bracket 9. To the extremity of this spindle remote from the wheel 10 is made fast aworm-Wheel 14, Whose toothed periphery is engaged by a worm 15. To the spindle 15 of the worm is made fast a starwheel 16, adapted to engage pins 17, mounted 5 on the drum as the reel turns. There are four of these pins on one end of the drum on the inside. As the star-wheel engages each pin it is given one-fourth of a revolution. Hence the spindle of the star-wheel is given a complete revolution during each rotation of the reel. This movement of the spindle turns the worm mounted thereon, and the worm in turn actuates the worm-wheel spindle and the sprocket-wheels sufliciently to cause the chain 12 to travel just the distance between the notches 12 of the chain. In this manner the convolutions of the lacingweb are kept separate as they are wound on the reel.

Mounted on the front end of the framework is a shaft or spindle 18, upon which is mounted any desired number of spools 19 or a sleeve having any desired number of spoolcompartments or spaces upon which the lacing material is wound preparatory to use on the machine. As the shoelacing cord or string 20, which may be of ordinary manufacture, leaves a spool it passes through a suitable tension device 21, which gives it a form circular in cross-section preparatory to applying the solution thereto. The string is drawn from the spool by the reel, which stops at intervals long enough for the solution to be applied to the string through the instrumentality of the mechanism therefor, which mechanism is not herein described, as it forms no part of my present invention. After the solution has been applied to a portion of the web it must be partially dried before it can be molded into shape to form the tip. For this purpose it passes through an opening 6 in the drum or casing 6 to the reel 10, already described. A sufficient number of convolutions are wound upon the reel before the lacing-web is allowed to leave the latter to consume the time required for this partially-drying operation. The web then passes to the molding-wheels 5i and 55. As shown in the drawings, there are two pairs of these wheels mounted on upright bars 60, whichare slotted to permit the Vertical adjustment of the molding-Wheels when the length of the web between the tips is varied. After leaving the molding-wheels the lacing-web 20 passes downwardly under apulley 01 on a shaft 62 and thence over a roller 64. Two upwardly-projecting arms (only one being shown) are made fast to the rear extremity of the framework and provided with curved slots 70. On each side of the framework is a long arm 71, which is pivotally mounted on the frame at its forward extremity, whereby it is allowed to oscillate. In the rear extremities of these arms are journaled the extremities of a rod 72, to which is rigidly attached a parallel rod 7 3. The part 78 is a lever, fulcrumed as shown at 79. This lever is employed in the shoe-lacing-tip machine, but is not claimed in this application. The said lever is operated from a wheel 80. The arm 71 and its connections are raised to cause the

rods

72 and 73 to travel from the lower to the upper extremity of the slot 7O by means of a lifting-link 81, connected with a cam-wheel 82. The lower '93 of the cam-wheel 82.

part of the link is slotted and slides on a pin 83, fast on the frame.

The reel is operated by the rotation of a gear 85, fast on the reel-shaft 7. This gear meshes with a gear 86, fast on a spindle 87, to which is also made fast a gear 88, operated from a gear 89, a portion of Whose periphery is plain or free from cogs, since in this relation the operation of the reel is intermittent. Fast on the spindle of the gear 89 is a gear 91, which meshes with the gear 27, the latter being actuated from a gear 29 through the medium of a gear 28. The gear 01 also meshes with the gear 92, fast on the spindle A beveled wheel 04, also fast on the spindle 93, meshes with a similar gear 95, fast on one extremity of a shaft 96, whose opposite or rear extremity is provided with a gear 97, meshing with the gear 98, fast on the shaft or spindle 99.

From the foregoing description the operation of the mechanism will be readily understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a drying-reel, brackets adjustably mounted on the reel-arms, sprocketwheels mounted on the brackets, and means mounted on the sprocket-wheels for automatically shifting the convolutions wound on the reel.

2. The combination with the reel, of brackets mounted on the reelarms, sprocketwheels mounted on the brackets, chains carried by the sprockets, worm-wheels fast on the sprocket-spindles, a worm engaging each worm-wheel, a star-wheel mounted on the worm-spindle, and means for automatically actuating each star-wheel as the reel is rotated, whereby the chains are actuated for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with the reel, of sprocket-wheels mounted on the reel-arms, endless chains mounted on the sprocketwheels and extending substantially parallel to the axis of the reel, said chains being provided with notches for the convolutions wound on the reel, and means for actuating the chains as the reel is rotated.

4. In a machine of the class described, the combination with the reel, of sprocket-wheels mounted on the reel-arms, endless chains carried by the sprocket-wheels, and provided with notches, pins also mounted on the chains in line with the notches, and means for antomatically actuating the chains as the reel is rotated.

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

CHARLES D. WVEAVER.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS A. VANIMAN, EDGAR D. BALDWIN.