Jack Santa Lucia

41577930, Jun 12, 1979

Aug 3, 1977

5/821755

Jack S. Lucia - Fair Lawn NJ

Independent Machine Company - Paterson NJ

B65H 5420

242 355R

A thread winding system has a rectangular hollow central support column housing having front and rear panels through which a plurality of bobbin support shafts extend and are supported for rotation; the shafts are arranged in horizontal and vertical rows and each includes a friction drive member and a pivot latch means on its extreme outer end for maintaining a bobbin in position on each end of the shaft to be drivingly rotated. Thread guide frames each consisting of unitarily connected vertical and horizontal rods extending between the vertical and horizontal rows of bobbin supporting shafts are provided adjacent the front face and the rear face of the supporting column and are reciprocated by a rotating barrel cam on the interior of the support column with guide means on the frame guiding individual threads to a respective one of the bobbin members. A chain drive system on the interior of the support column drives the shafts and the barrel cam. An alternative construction employs a pivotal latch member on the end of each shaft with a roller engaging the bobbin end face to hold the bobbin in position against the urging of the spring urged friction drive means.