US1678367A - Reeling machine - Google Patents

Description

July 24, 1928, 1,678,367 P. ,1. THOMAS REELING MACHINE.

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P; J. THOMAS REELING MACHINE July 24, 1928. 1,678,367

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PAGIFIC J. THOMAS, OF PITTST ON, PENNSYLVANIA.

REELING MACHINE.

Application filed July 22 operator starts the machine for the neat skein. I I

An object of the invention is to furnish improved means for accomplishing this result on the ordinary ske'in winding machines provided with the usual stop motion mechanism and the like.

lVith the foregoing object outlined and pear as the description proceeds, the inven tion consists in the novel features hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and more particularly 20 pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of a portion of a skein winding machine with the improved mechanism attached thereto.

Fig.2 is a transversesectional view taken vertically through the machine and showing the position of the parts while the skeins are being wound and before the mechanism has actuated to stop the skein reela Fig. 3 'isa similar view; looking from the opposite end of the machine.

Fig. 4: is a View similar to Fig. 2' but illustrating the parts in the position which they occupy after a predetermined length of thread has been wound. on the reel and. the reel has been halted.

Fig. 5. is a detail bearing.

In the drawings, 1 and 2 designate the side bars of the machine frame which support a reel shaft 3'carryinga reel 1 on which the skeins of thread5 are wound. One end of the reel shaft is vertically movable in a bearing 6, having a supporting block slidably mounted in side bar 2, asshown in detail in Fig. 5, to permit a driven wheel 7 fixed on the reel shaft to be raised out of contact with a driving wheel8 fixed on a driving shaft 9. Located at the opposite end of the machine from the wheels 7- and 8, is a view of the reel shaft stub shaft 9 on which is mounted a rotatable worm gear 10 which is fixed to a drum 11.

The gear 10 will be hereinafter referred to as the counting wheel.,'and arranged between this wheel and the drum 11 is an armor pointer 12 which maybe fixed to rotate with other objects in view, which will up- 1926. Serial no. 124,176..

with the wheel 10, by any suitable means such as a set screw 13. As the arm 12 rotates with the wheel 10 during the operation of the machine, it is necessary to have a zero position for the arm at the beginningof the operation, and to take care of this, a stop 1% is fixed on the frame ofthe machine and is adaptedtobe engaged by the arm 12 when the wheel '10 rotates in one. direction. The wheel 10 is actuated by a. driving worm 15 fixed on a shaft 16 rotatable in a bracket 17 that is pivoted at 18 onthe frame of the inachine. The end ofthe shaft 16 remote from the worm 15, has abevel gear 19 which is in constant mesh with a similar on the reel shaft 3. From the foregoing, it will be seen that the driving shaft 9 rotates the wheel 8 and this wheel drives the wheel 7. In this way the reel shaft 3 is driven and the gears 20 and 19 actuate the worm 15 and the counting wheel 10. Consequently the arm 12, which rotateswith the wheel 10, is moved away from the stop jig-and when a suflicient amount of thread has been wound on the reel, the arm 12 will strike a pin 21 mounted ona bell crank lever 22 that'is pivoted at 28 on theframe of the machine. This bell crank lever has .a weight '24: that normally holds the end of one of its armsagainst a notched camn25 fixed on a rock shaft 26 that extends throughout the length of the machine and'is mounted in bearings in the frame lever22 and thebell crank lever moves out of the notch of the cam, so that the cam may rotate in a clockwise direction, in Fig. 3. This movement of the cam is caused by a. spring 27 which has one of its ends fixedat 28 to the frame of the machine and its opposite end connectedto the depending arm of a lever 29, which is mounted on a pivot 30. A rod 31 is adjustably connected to the lever arm 29 and also to a lever 32' which is fixed on the shaft 26. When the bell crank lever 22 is drawn out of the notch of the cam 25 and the cam turns under the influence of the spring 27, the arm 22" of the bell crank rides onthenose 25 of the cam and is held in contact with the cam by the-weight 24L. Therefore, whenthe cam is moved in the gear 20 fixed whereby when the cam is released by the first bell crank lever the second link may move the driven shaft out of engagement with the counting wheel. I

3. In a reeling machine, a reel shaft carrying a reel, a driven shaft, means for actuating said shafts, a rock shaft, means for driving the rock shaft from the driven shaft and including control mechanism for preventing actuation of the rock shaft until the driven shaft has been turned a predetermined number of revolutions, a lever for halting the movement of the reel shaft, an arm arranged to move said lever in one direction, said arm being movable with the rock shaft, and an automatically operating latch for retaining said arm in position after it has moved said lever.

i. In a reeling machine as claimed in claim 3, an eccentric on said rock shaft, aflexible element connected to the eccentric and means for exerting force on the flexiblemember to move the arm in a direction away from, said lever. i

5. In a reeling machine as claimed in claim 3, manually controlled means for releasing said latch.

6. In a. reeling machine as claimed in claim 3, an eccentric mounted 011 the rock shaft, a

flexible element for exerting force on the eccentric to move the arm away from said lever, and means engageable with the lever and connected to the flexible element to permit the operator to move the lever in one direction and to move the arm in the same direction.

7. In a reeling machine as claimed in claim 3, indicatingmechanism actuated by said rock shaft.

8. In a reeling machine, a reel shaft carrying a reel, a driven shaft, a driving shaft, contacting wheels on the reel shaft and driving shaft to permit the latter to actuate the former, a counting wheel actuated by the driven shaft, an arm movable with. the counting wheel, a weighted bell crank lever actuated in one direction by said arm, a cam controlled by said bell crank lever, a rock shaft controlled by the cam, spring actuated means also controlled by the cam for disconnecting the driven shaft from the counting wheel, and means actuated by the rock shaft for breaking the contact between the wheels on the reel shaft and the driving shaft.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

PACIFIC J. THOMAS.

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