US934580A - Warping or reeling mechanism. - Google Patents

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G. P. THIEL. WARPING OR REELING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.19,1909.

934,580, Y Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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WARPING 0R REELING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.19,1909.

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WARPING 0e RBELING- MEGHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.19,1909.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFT.

CHARLES 1. TI-IIEL, OF NORTH ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DAVIS & FURBER MACHINE COMPANY, OF NORTH ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, A COR- POBATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

WARPING OR REELING MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES P. THIEL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of North Andover, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Warping or Reeling Mechanism, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representing like parts.

lily invention relates to a warping reel or section-builder of the type in which section pins have been superseded by coning members mounted on the reel, whereby the deposits of yarn or fibrous material are formed in regular layers one upon the other into the form of substantially truncated cones, one of the sectionsviz: the first one built-becoming a guide for the building of the subsequent sections in a regular series of like cone-shaped deposits on the reel in the rotation thereof.

hen the desired number of ends constituting the warp are obtained the same is ready to transfer, as in the usual beaming operation.

Heretofore the several coning members or section-builders on the reel have been so arranged as to be simultaneously adjustable to vary the angle of inclination of such mem bers, and one of the objects of my present invention is the production of improved means for effecting the simultaneous adjustment referred to, the means embodied in my present invention being readily applicable to existing reels without necessitating the removal or shifting of a reel-spider. The construction of the adjusting means is simple, compact, positive in operation, and readily operated when necessary.

Another object of my invention is the production of mechanism for automatically effecting movement of the warping mechanism longitudinally synchronously with the rotation of the warp reel, to effect the feed of the sheet of warp or other fibrous material with a gradual and uniform advance toward the end of the reel upon which the section-building is initiated. Inasmuch as different kinds of fibrous material require different feeding speeds, that is, different speeds for the longitudinal movement of thereel, I have incorporated in the mechanism for effecting such movement a speed-changing device which provides for a wide range in the matter of speed. The reel has to be positioned properly for the building of a fresh section after a preceding section has been built or laid up, and this positioning is herein effected manually through a portion of the mechanism which causes the automatic feed movement, said mechanism being uncoupled or disconnected from the reel-shaft when the manual positioning of the reel is necessary.

Another object of my invention is the roduction of a novel indicator to register the width of each section, and to enable the reel to be properly positioned for starting each section, so that all'the sections of a series will be alike in width and conformation, presenting an unbroken surface on the periphery of the body built or laid up in the manner referred to. The section width can be varied as desired according to the character of the material handled, and the spacing will be maintained uniform throughout the building operation.

The various novel features of my invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure l is an end elevation of the warping-reel and its frame, showing my improved mechanism for effecting the traversing movement of the apparatus, the supporting rails being shown in section; Fig. 2 is a front elevation, centrally broken out, of the apparatus illustrated in Fig. 1, the lefthand end of the warp-reel being broken out to show the means for adjusting the coning attachments, only two of the latter and their connections being shown, in order to avoid confusion; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail in elevation of one of the coning devices; Fig. 4; is an enlarged vertical section on the ir regular line l4, Fig. 2, looking toward the right, of the adjusting mechanism for the coning devices, but with the warp -reel turned about 90 from the position shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional detail, enlarged, on the line 5-5, Fig. 2,

looking toward the left; Fig. 6 is a detail partly in section of that portion of the ad just-ing mechanism mounted on the shaft of the warp-reel; Fig. 7 is an enlarged top plan view and part section, of a part of the speed-cl1anging device shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a detail, on an enlarged scale, partly in elevation and partly in section, of the means by which the rotation of the warp-reel is transmitted from the speed-changing device to the fixed rack to effect the traversing movement of the reel, and also illustrating the indicator, to be referred to; Fig. 9 is a right-hand elevation of a part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 8; Fig. 10 is a plan view of the dial and hands of the indicator, taken below the line 1010, Fig. 8.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the traveling frame comprises the ends 1 rigidly connected at 2 and 3 and supporting the shaft 4. of the reel, said shaft having fixedly attached thereto at its end spiders 5 provided with pulleyrims (3, a series of intermediate spiders 7 supporting the cross-arms 8 of the reel, said cross-arms being also attached to the end spiders 5, all being of substantially well known construction in warping or reel ing machines of the type hereinbefore referred to.

Rotation of the reel is effected as usual by means of suitable belts, not shown, connecting the pulley-rims 6 and sheaves 9 on an overhead shaft 10 mounted on the traveling frame, in well known manner, and neither the reel itself nor the mode of rotating it form any part of my invention.

The several coning devices are pivotally mounted on the cross-arms 8 of the reel, at the left hand side thereof as herein shown, each of said devices comprising a casting 11 having depending flanges 12 prolonged at their inner ends to straddle the cross-arm and pivot-ally connected therewith at 13, see F 3 and 1.

It will be understood that each cross-arm of the reel carries a coning device and that the latter is angularly adjustable 011 its pivot 18, and the means for simultaneously adjusting the coning devices will now be described.

I have designed the adjusting mechanism so that it can be applied to warp-reels of usual construction now in use without neces sitating the dismemberment of the reel or the removal of one of its intermediate spiders, and as in actual practice the space between the end spider and the next intermediate spider is relatively small I have devised the adjusting mechanism with particular ref erence to such conditions.

Having particular reference to Figs. 2, 4, 5 and 6, a two-part hub 14 and circular car rier 15 is fixedly secured to the reel-shaft 4 by a. suitable set-nut 16 adjacent the hub of the first intermediate spider '7, the carrier having an annular, outturned flange 17 provided with slotted seats 18. Each seat sustains a bifurcated arm 19 securely held in the seat by a clamping bolt 20, said arms being arranged parallel to each other and to the reel-shaft at, and projecting toward the ends of the reels. A series of gear-segments 21 are pivotally mounted in the bifurcated ends of the arms and are thus disposed radially with relation to the shaft 4, each segment at its outer end being pivotally connected with the inner end of a radial link 22, the outer ends of the links being forked or yoked at 23, Fig. 4E, and pivotally connected at 24 with the depending flanges 12 of a coning device, the fork or yoke straddling the cross-arm of the reel. An actuator, shown as a two-part worm 25, is rotatably mounted on the reel-shaft between the fixed hub 14 of the carrier and the hub 5 of the end spider 5, the worm meshing with the series of gear-segments 21, so that by rotating said worm, by the handles 26, the said segments are simultaneously rocked on their pivots 21*, Fig. 6. Rotation of the worm in one direction revolves the gearsegments to swing their outer ends away from the reel-shaft and thereby the links 22 operate to swing the coning devices in the direction of arrow 27, Figs. 2 and 3, to make a more acute angle with the cross-arms of the reel, while opposite rotation of the worm operates through the links to draw the coning devices inward toward the center of the reel. Thus all of the coning devices are adjusted simultaneously and to a like amount, to "ary the width of warp-section as desired to conform to the character or grade of the yarn or other fibrous material to be coned, the worm 25 looking the gear segments, and consequently the coning devices, in adjusted position.

The two-part arrangement of tlieavor'ii'l and the carrier for the segment-gears enables the mechanism to be readily applied, the halves of the two-part members being secured together in usual manner, by bolts, as shown herein.

The adjustment of the carrier-arms 19 in the seats of the carrier enables the various parts to be set up with the requisite accuracy so that each coning device will be at the proper angle with respect to the crossarm of the reel on which it is mounted.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the inclined faces of the devices 11 constitute a guide for the first section of yarn built up in the reeling operation, and this cone-like winding or section of yarn or other fibrous material becomes a guide for the building up of a successive series of like cone-shaped sections.

The frame-ends 1 are provided at the front and rear with flanged wheels 28, those at the front of the frame traveling longitudinally upon a common rail 29, while the rear wheels travel upon the head of the rear rail 31, shown in cross-section in Fig. 1 as having an inclined web upon the rear face of which rack-teeth are formed at 32.

The rack-teeth mesh with a pinion 33 fast on a diagonal traversing shaft 34 rotatably mounted in bearings 35, 36 011 the right hand end of the reel-frame, the shaft being held from longitudinal movement by collars 37 fast upon it, a roll 38 carried by the bearing 36 traveling upon the lower face of the rail-web adjacent the head 30, Figs. 1 and 2, and acting to positively maintain the pinion 33 in mesh with the rack 32. At its upper end the shaft 34 has an attached crank handle 39, to rotate the shaft by hand, and a shiftable gear 40 is connected with the shaft to rotate with it by a suitable key 41, Figs. 1 and 8, shifting movement of the gear longitudinally of the shaft being limited by stop collars 42, downward movement of said gear from the position shown in Figs 1 and 8 disconnecting it from the speed changing device, to be described. Gear-hub 43 is annularly grooved to receive the yoke-like lower ends 44, Figs. 8 and 9, of depending links 45 connected by a transverse pivot-pin 46 with the branched end 47 of a shifting lever 48, fulcrumed at 49 on a part of the bearing 35, a strong spring-catch 50 coiiperating with the pivot-pin 46 to retain 'the gear 40 in operative or inoperative position.

If the gear 40 is shifted to inoperative position by lifting the free end of the shifting lever 48 the shaft 34 can be rotated by hand to effect traversing movement of the traveling frame and the warp-reel carried thereby, the coiiperation of the pinion 33 and rack 32 effecting such. movement, as will be apparent.

The transmitting means, including the speed -changing device, between the reelshaft 4 and the gear 40 will now be described, having particular reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 7.

At the side of the frame adjacent the traversing shaft 34 the reel-shaft 4 is eX- tended and provided with a screw-thread or worm 51, which is relatively long, as shown in Fig. 7, meshing with a worm-pinion 52 fast on the upper end of a shaft 53 rotatable in a sleeve-like bearing 54 forming part of a carriage 55.

As shown in Fig. 1 the bearing 54 maintains the shaft 53 in parallelism with the traversing shaft 34, the carriage 55 being mounted to slide in and out on a strut 56 bolted to the frame-end 1, and extended at right angles thereto, the strut being longitudinally slotted at 57, Fig. 7 and undercut at 58 to form a guideway for a nut 59. Said nut engages a screw-threaded shaft 60 rotatably mounted at its outer end in a bearing (31 at the outer end of the strut, a handwheel 62 fast on the shaft enabling it to be turned to thereby effect travel of the nut along the guideway 58. A stud 63 fixed in the nut projects upward through the slot 57 and through a hole in the carriage 55, and thereby the travel of the nut effects like travel of the carriage along the strut 56, a nut 64 screwed onto the upper end of the stud acting when set up to clamp the carriage from movement.

The lower end of the shaft 53 has detach- ;ably mounted thereon, as by a nut 65, Fig. 1, a change-gear 66, which meshes with the large gear 40 keyed to the traversing shaft 34, the devices intermediate the reel-shaft 4 and the gear 40 constituting a combined transmitting and speedchanging device. Supposing that the gear 66 is the smallest one of a set of change-gears adapted to be mounted on the shaft 53, then the carriage 55 will be set far enough out from the frame end 1 to bring the teeth of gears 66 and 40 properly in mesh, a portion of gear 40 being indicated by dotted lines Fig. 7. The traversing shaft 34 will thus be rotated at its slowest speed, and the rotation of the warp-reel during the building up of a sec- :tion of warp will act through the mechanism described to slowly and automatically effect longitudinal movement. of the reel and its frame along the rails in the direction of :arrow 150, Fig. 2.

When the section has been completed the :operator lifts the shifting lever 48 and thereby shifts the gear 40 into inoperative position, disengaging it from the change-gear, as 66, so that by reverse rotation of the shaft 34, (by means of the handle 39) the reel and its frame will be moved oppositely to the narrow 150 into the proper position for be- :ginning the building of the next coneshaped section of yarn.

Now, supposing it be desired to effect the automatic travel or longitudinal feed of the :reel at a faster speed, the gear 66 is removed and a gear of larger diameter is substituted. This requires a change in the position of the carriage 55,however; the larger the change- ;gear the greater the distance the carriage must be moved to the left, Fig. 7 in order to bring the teeth of the change-gear and the gear 40 properly into mesh, and when the proper position is attained by rotation of ;the threaded shaft 60 the nut 64 is set up and :the carriage is clamped firmly. Whatever the position of the carriage it will be apparent that the parallelism between shafts 34 and 53 is maintained, and the more the car- :riage is moved to the left, Fig. 7, the farther inward will the worm-pinion 52 be moved along the worm 51. Said worm is made long so that it will always remain in mesh with the pinion 52 no matter what the set ting of the carriage may be. This mechanism is convenient, simple, easy to manipulate, and it provides for a wide range of speeds for the automatic feed of the warping-reel during section-building.

After a section has been built the warpreel is set by hand in position to build the next section, and in order to properly effect the setting an indicating device is necessary, whereby the attendant can readily bring the reel to the exact starting point for building up one section after another, and such indicating device must also provide for the adjustment of the reel for building warp-sec tions of any desired Width. Herein I have shown a very simple and effective indicator device which fulfils the required conditions and which is at the same time easily operated, the device being located at a convenient point for inspection, adjustment, or other required manipulation, and such device will now be described.

Upon the traversing shaft 34, near its upper end and herein shown as above the collar 37, I fixedly attach by a suitable setscrew 67 the hub of an indicating disk 68, the upper face of which is graduated, see Figs. 2 and 10, to represent inches in the present instance, and a fixed pointer 69 is attached to the reel-frame adjacent the periphery of the disk. A flanged sleeve 70 loosely surrounds the shaft 34 and rests upon the face of the disk, and an index-pointer or hand 71 is attached to the sleeve and extended radially to the graduated edge of the disk. Loosely surrounding the sleeve is a. collar 73 provided with an index-pointer or hand 72, arranged to cooperate with the disk 68, and by means of a set-screw 74, Fig. 8, the sleeve and collar can be clamped together with the hands in any desired relative position, while by means of a spring 75 acting against a washer 7(3 bearing upon the upper ends of the sleeve and collar the said parts will revolve with the traversing shaft 34. Thus after the indicator device has been set and section-building is begun the relative position of the hands 71, 72 and the disk 68 will not be changed as the shaft 34 is revolved, but the relative position of said disk and the fixed pointer 69 will be changed, the extent of the change depending upon the distance traveled by the warp-reel in building up a section.

The width of each section, which is determined or controlled largely by the nature and quality of the fibrous material, is measured on the disk by the angular distance between.the hands 71, 72, read at the right hand side of the fixed pointer 69. For instance, it will be supposed that the sections are to be four inches wide, and viewing Fig.

10 it will be seen that with the hands 72 and 71 set upon the numerals 1 and 5 on the disk a four-inch measurement is indicated between them, taking the readings at the right of the pointer 69.

The hands remain clamped by the set-screw 74 after the width of the section has been indicated, and'it will be supposed that in Fig. 10 the numeral 1 on the disk 68 is opposite the fixed pointer 69 at the beginning of the initial section, or that one which 1s formed by the comng devices on the reel. The reeling is started, and as it progresses the disk and hands will be slowly turned in the direction of arrow 200, F 1g. 10, until the section is built, and the yarn is secured in usual manner, but when so the hands 71, 72 will be brought back to theposition shown in Fig. 10, the reel having then been brought backa distance equal to that traveled in laying or building up the first section, but the reel must be moved an additional distance equal to the width of the new section to be built. Consequently the attendant will continue the rotation of the shaft 34 and the indicator disk and fingers, opposite to arrow 200, Fig. 10, until the hand 71 and disk numeral 5 are opposite the fixed pointer 69, it being remembered that the indicator device was set for a section width of four inches.

Building up of the second section now begms, it being understood that when the frame and reel are to be brought back by hand after completion of a section the gear 40 is temporarily disengaged from the transmitting and speed-changing means, as has been described. As the building started with the disk numeral 5 opposite the pointer 69 the reel will be fed automatically in direction of arrow 150, Fig. 2, and building of the second section will be completed when the pointer 69 is half way between numerals 5 and 4 on the disk. Now the attendant disconnects the shaft 34 from the transmitting means and turns back said shaft,thereby bringing back the reel, until pointer 69 is opposite the disk numeral 5, after which the attendant revolves the hands 71, 72 against the pressure of the spring 75 until hand 72 points to 5 on the disk and hand 71 points to 3 on said disk, but without changing the angular distance between the hands. Thereupon the backward rotation of the shaft 34 is resumed and continued until four full spaces on the disk have been moved past pointer 69, bringing hand 71 and numeral 3 opposite said pointer, and the apparatus is In practice I prefer to so calculate the mechanism intermediate the reel-shaft and the rack 32 that one large or full division of the dlsk, i. c. from 1 to 2, 5 to 6, etc. is the equivalent of the longitudinal movement of the reel a distance of one inch, the sub-divi sions on the disk indicating fractions of an inch. Thus, if the disk is given one com plete rotation it indicates a longitudinal movement of the reel of exactly six inches, and so on.

It will be observed that the indicating means herein is not automatic in the ordinary sense of the term, as the setting each time is effected manually, but it is a simple, convenient, and readily accessible means to indicate to the attendant just what should be done and when to do it.

The graduated disk not only indicates to the attendant the actual distance traversed by the reel in a longitudinal direction, but it also indicates the length'of the feed movement in building a section, and in connection with the hands 71, 72 and pointer 69 indicates the proper return movement of the reel to position to begin the building of any succeeding section.

My invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement herein shown and described for the same may be varied or modified in different details by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the annexed claims.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A longitudinally-movable frame, a rotatable warping reel mounted in said frame and provided with coning devices, manually operated means to effect simultaneous adjustment of said devices, a traversing shaft carried in fixed bearings on the frame and having a rack-engaging pinion, a fixed rail having on one face of its web a rack with which said pinion meshes, a roll carried by the frame and engaging the opposite face of the rail web adjacent the pinion, to maintain the pinion and rack positively in engagement, transmitting mechanism between the reel and said shaft, to rotate the latter and effect longitudinal feed of the frame and reel, and a gear manually shiftable longitudinally on the shaft into and out of coiiperation with the transmitting mechanism.

2. A -longitudinally-movable frame provided with flanged wheels, a rotatable warping-re el mounted therein and provided with coning devices, fixed rails on which the wheels'travel, one-0f said rails having an inclined web provided on one face with a rack, a traversing shaft mounted in fixed bearings on one end of the frame in parallelism with said rail. web and having an attached pinion in continuous mesh with the rack, a roll carried by the frame and engaging the face of the web substantially opposite said pinion, to thereby maintain the pinion and rack in positive engagement at all times, a gear shiftable longitudinally on the shaft, manually actuated means to shift it longitudinally of the shaft into and out of operative .position, and transmitting gearing actuated by rotation of the reel and adapted to cooperate with the shiftable gear, when operatively positioned, to thereby effect longitudinal feed movement of the reel-frame.

3. A longitudinally-movable frame, a rotatable warping-reel mounted therein and provided with coning devices, a fixed rail provided on one face of its web with a rack, a

traversing shaft carried by the frame and having an attached pinion 1n mesh wlth the rack, means on the frame to cooperate with the-other face of the rail web and positively retain the pinion in continuous mesh with the rack, a train of gearing driven by rotation of the reel and including a changegear, and a shiftable support therefor, a gear mounted on and rotatable with the traversing shaft, and also movable longitudinally thereon, and manually operated means to move said gear lOllglijllltllllfllly of the shaft. into and out of mesh with the change-gear, the relative position of the rack and pinion remaining constant when the gear is shifted longitudinally on the shaft.

4. A longitudinally-movable frame, a rotatable warping-reel mounted therein and provided with coning devices, a fixed rack. a traversing shaft carried by the frame and having an attached pinion in mesh with the rack, a worm coaxial with and rotated by the reel, a worm-pinion meshing therewith and'mounted on a short-shaft, a change-gear detachably mounted on the said shaft, a carriage having a bearing for the short-shaft, maintaining the latter parallel to the traversing shaft, means to adjust the carriage longitudinally of the reel-axis to accommodate change-gears of different diameters, and a gear-on the traversing shaft adapted to mesh with the change-gear.

A longitudinally-movable frame, a retatable warping-reel mounted therein and provided with coning devices, a fixed rack, a traversing shaft carried by the frame and having an attached pinion in mesh with the rack, a change-gear a shaft on which it is mounted, means to adjustably sustain the said shaft in parallelism with the traversing shaft but at different distances therefrom, according to the diameter of the changegear, a gear on the traversing shaft adapted to mesh with the change-gear, and meansto rotate the latter by or through rotation of the reel.

6. A longitudinally-movable frame, a rotatable warpingreel mounted therein, traversing means for the frame, including a shaft carried by the frame and adapted to be actuated by or through rotation of the reel, and indicating means including a graduated disk rotatable with said shaft, a

pointer fixed on the frame, hands cooperating with the disk and frictionally connected with the shaft, to normally rotate with the disk, and means to clamp the hands in fixed angular relation.

7. A longitudinally movable frame, a rotatable Warpingreel mounted therein, traversing means for the frame, including a shaft adapted to be rotated automatically to feed the frame, and operative manually to bring the frame back preparatory to starting the next feed movement, and indicating means including a fixed pointer, an indicating disk adjacent thereto and rotatable with said shaft, and relatively adjustable hands movable with the shaft above the disk.

8. A longitudinallymovable frame, a rotatable warpingreel mounted therein, traversing means for the frame, including a traversing shaft carried by the frame, an indicator disk fixed on said shaft to rotate therewith, a cooperating pointer mounted on the frame, two hands rotatably mounted on the shaft adjacent the disk, means to clamp the hands from relative movement, and a friction connection to cause normal rotation of the clamped hands with the shaft while permitting positive movement of the hands relative to the shaft and'disk.

9. A longitudinally-movable frame, a rotatable warpingreel mounted therein, traversing means for the frame, including a traversing shaft carried by the frame, an indicator disk fixed on said shaft to rotate therewith, a cooperating pointer mounted on the frame, a sleeve loosely surounding the shaft above the disk and having an attached hand, a collar embracing the sleeve and provided with a hand, said hands extending over the face of the disk, means to lock the collar and sleeve together and maintain the hands from relative movement, and a spring acting upon the sleeve and collar to normally cause their rotation with the shaft while permitting setting of the locked hands with relation to said disk.

10. The combination, with a warping-reel having cross-arms, the reel-shaft, and coning devices pivotally mounted on the cross-arms, of a series of gear-segments radially arranged about the shaft, a support fixed on the shaft and upon which the segments are pivotally mounted, connections between the segments and the coning devices, to change the angularity of the latter by angular movement of the gear-segments, and a worm rotatably mounted on the reel-shaft and in mesh with the segments, to effect angular movement of the same.

11. The combination, with a warping-reel and its shaft, and coning devices pivotally mounted on the reel, of an actuator rotatably mounted on the shaft, and adjusting connections between the actuator and the several coning devices, said connections including rocking members, radially disposed about the shaft and cooperating with the actuator, rotative movement of the latter rocking said members simultaneously and equally.

12. The combination, with a warping-reel and its shaft, and a series of coning devices adjustably mounted thereon, of a carrier fixed on the shaft, opposite and radially disposed gears mounted to rock on said carrier and operatively connected with the coning devices to adjust the same, and manually lar movement of said gears.

14. The combination, with a warping-reel and its shaft, and coning devices pivotally mounted on the reel, of a two-part carrier detachably secured to the shaft, a series of rocking members pivotally connected with the carrier and radially disposed about the shaft, a connection between each rocking member and a coning device, and an actuator rotatably mounted on the shaft in operative engagement with said rocking members, to rock them by rotation of said actuator and thereby to vary the adjustment of the coning devices.

15. The combination, with a warping-reel and its shaft, and coning devices pivotally mounted on the reel, a carrier fast on the shaft and provided with arms parallel to the shaft, radially-disposed rocking members pivotally mounted on said arms and operatively connected with the coning devices, and

manually operated means to engage and sisaid members through equal angles, to theremultaneously rock said members through by adjust the angularity of the coning deequal angles. vices.

16. The combination, with a Warping-reel In testimony whereof, I have signed my 15 and its shaft, and coning devices pivotally name to this specification, in the presence of mounted on the reel, a series of radially distwo subscribing Witnesses.

posed rockin members arranged around the 1 shaft, a supp ort for said members, fixed on CHARLEb THlEL' the shaft, a connection between each member Vitnesses:

and a coning device, and manually operated G120. L. WRIGHT,

means to engage and simultaneously rock GERALD MILLER.

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