US328470A - Machinery for drying skeins of yarn - Google Patents

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J. R. DEARDEN. MACHINERY FOR DRYING SKEINS 0P YARN. No. 328,470.

Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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JOHN RICHARD DEARDEN, OF SAXONVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINERY FOR DRYING SKEINS OF YARN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,470, dated October 20,1885.

Application filed September 6, 1884. Serial No. 142,343. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J GEN RICHARD DEAR- DEN, of Saxonville, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Drying Skeins of Yarn; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a horizontal section, and Fig. 4 a vertical section of a machine embodying my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 5 is a top View, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section, of a number of skeins as connected by the binding-warps'or endless tapes or cords, to be described. Figs. 7 and 8 are hereinafter referred to and explained.

By the above-mentioned machine the skeins of yarn are, like the weft-threads of cloth when arranged paralled to each other, connected by a warp, there being generally employed for such warp two sets of endless cords or tapes having two or three cords or tapes'to each set. I term these connecting cords or threads binding-warps, thus serving to connect the skeins so as to form a belt of them. This belt is led through and out of a drying apparatus, in going through which the skeins composing the belt are dried. From this drying apparatus the belt passes to or by and issubjected to the action of mechanism by which the binding-warps are drawn away from the skeins, so as to enable the'latter to fall apart or separate from each other.

In the said drawings, A denotes the frame of the machine, having within it a table or platform, B, from which there is extended downward, as shown in Fig. 2, a curved inclined chute, O. In the top of the said table is a series of parallel slots or openings, a, eX-. tending transversely across the said top. In each of these slots or openings at is a rod or warp-carrier, b, the slot or opening serving not only as a guide to the rod in its vertical movements, but as a recess or passage for a set of the binding-warps to go through. Each rod 1), at its lower part, is pivoted to a vi-' bratory arm, 0, there being two sets of such arms, one of which projects from one rockshaft, d, and the other from another rocknear one end at a right angle.

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shaft, 6, arranged as represented in thedrawings.

Each rod 12 has a hole, f, through it, near its upper end, to receive a binding-warp, which goes through it. These warps are endless tapes or cords, they being shown at 9.9. The

rods operate, like the harnesses of a loom, to

raise some of the warps and depress others, in

order for a shuttle carrying a weft-thread to is hitched on the upturned part of the rod. 7

The rod next is drawn backward, so as to pull.

the skein into the shed to the necessary extent. The rod next drops a short distance,

sufficiently" for its disengagement with the skein, after which the warp-carriers b are moved-some upward and the rest downwardso as to cross their warps upon the between the. crossed warps and disconnected from the introducer, a beater is driven for- As soon as the skein may be laid ward against the skein to force it into the shed of the warps, as the lay of a loom acts to beat the filling into the warp. This beater will be hereinafter described. After a skein may have been so bound the warps are moved forward a sufficient distance for the next skein to be introduced between them, and close against and parallel to the other, by means of the skein introducer. For this purpose the warps may have either an intermittent or a slow continuous motion.

As hereinbefore stated, each warp g is an endless band, tape, or cord. It passes down the chute O, and thence about a seriesof rollers, D, arranged in a drying chamber or box,

E. These rollers have sprocket-gears t on their shafts to engage with an endless chain, is, carried around a series of supporting and guide gears, Z. There is fixed on the shaft of one of the warp-guide rollers a beveled gear, m, which engages with a bevel-pinion, n, fixed on an inclined shaft, 0, supported in suitable boxes, 10. On the lower end of the shaft 0 is IOO fastened another bevel-pinion, q, that engages with another such pinion, r, fixed. on a horizontal shaft, s. The pinion r engages with another bevel-pinion, t, carried by the driving-shaft u of the machine. On this shaft is a fast pulley, o, and a loose pulley, w, the shaft being'properlysupport'ed in bearings 00, applied to standards y.

The beater is represented at F. It consists of a series of rods or arms, 2, and a horizontal rock-shaft, a, from which the said arms project upward through slots in the table, and between the ranges of endless binding-warps. A connecting-rod, b, is pivoted to one of the arms 2 and to a short lever, c, from which a stud, d, extends into the groove of a cam, e, fixed on the shaft 3. When the shaft 3 is in revolution, a reciprocating vibratory movetaeh to the block h to which the introducer at its rear end or part is pivoted, the two ends ment will be imparted to the beater F.

To operate the skein-introducer h-that is, to move it lengthwise on its ways h first in one and next in the opposite direction-I at of a band, f, going, as shown in Fig. 7, around a large pulley, g, and a smaller one, h, and partially around two small rolls, 9 h' supported by the frame, the said figure being a view Y to exhibit the arrangement of the introducer and'its operative band and pulleys. The pulley g is fixed on the shaft 2', provided with a spur-gear, k, which engages with a geared sector, Z, carried by a lever, m, from whose shorter arm a stud, n, extends'into a grooved cam, .0, fixed on the driving-shaft u.

When the cam 0 is in revolution, areeiproeating vibratory motion will be imparted to the lever m, whereby the toothed sector will be made to turn the gear k first in one and next in the opposite way, whereby the skeinintrodueer will be drawn in between and next out of the binding-warps. Each bindingwarp goes partlyabout one or more pulleys or sheaves, p, drawn downward by a weight, gf, to each, such pulley and weight being to keep the warp at a proper tension.

The belt of skeins after emerging from the .drying apparatus passes down an inclined 'plane, H, and underneath a presser-bar, I,

Thence they pass to and partly around guide-- pulleys u,- thence around other guide-pulleys, t, and the weighted-sheaves; thence to and over a ulley, '0 pivoted to the table asrepi resented. Each set of warps between which the presser is arranged has a separate mechanism, as described, for extracting it from the skeins.

The drying chamber or box is to have within or applied to it some suitable means of heating the air passing through it-such as shown, being a series of .pipes, t properly arranged for steam to pass through them and heat them.

From the above, it will be seen that the skeins in a wet state, as. they usually are after being washed, are to be successively introduced into the shed of the warps, and that such warps are to be woven upon the skeins in a mannervery like that in which warps are woven .on weft-threads in the"weaving of cloth; also, that the belt of skeins is moved forward through the drying apparatus, and

after exit therefrom the warps are drawn lat-- erally out of the belt, and the skeins are forced down and off the inclined plane H.

The skein-introducer has mechanism for depressing it out of engagement with the skein after the latter may have been drawn into the shed of the warps. The introducer slides through a block, to, which is movable in guides at m, and is pivoted to a rod, 11 that is pivoted to a lever, g/ which at the proper times is moved by a cam, z, to throw it upward and to depress it. this mechanism, such view exhibiting the cam as fixed on the driving-shaft. I

I claim- 1. The combination, substantially as described, for interweaving a series of skeins and a series of binding-warps,such combina- Fig. 6 is a view of tion consisting of the slotted table B, and the warp-carrying rods b, the skein-introducer h, and the beater F, and their operative mechanisms, essentially as described and represented. g

2. The combination of the series of endless warps provided with mechanism, substantially as described, for supporting them and maintaining them at proper tension with the table B, and the warp-carrying rods 12, the skeinintroducer h, and the beater F, provided with mechanisms for operating them, essentially as set forth. V

- 3. The combination of the series of endless warps provided with mechanism, substantially as described,for' supporting them and maintaining them at proper tension with the table B, and the warp-carrying rods b, the skeinintroducer h, and the beater F, having me'eh anisms for operating them, as explained, and

:also with the drying box or chamber, and the inclined plane H, and presser-bar I, and rollers 1, substantially as described, for extracting the warps, all being essentially and for the purpose or purposes, as specified. v

. j JOHN RICHARD DEARDEN.

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