;Sy - spindle Corering JIoeltine.— Fig. 8 repre sents a six-spindle wind er. designed more particu larly for eovering eleetrical wires, The hare wire on the commercial spool or on a reel is placed on the stand ards under the machine (a tension regulated by the adjustment of the weight being applied); it then passes around a small sheave-wheel, which is so arranged that it can he lowered clown into the pan for holding a solution of white lead or other insulating compound, if used, and to raise it out of the solution when the machine is not in operation. It then passes up through the spindle, which is driven by a quarter-turn belt on to a tight and loose pulley, the loose pulley being chambered and filled with wool to retain the oil for lubricating. The wire up through the disk on which the flier is fastened, with a counterbalance oppo site. The spool is placed on the spindle, and the thread carried from it to the flier and under the drop-wire of the stop-inotion, then up through the eye of flier to the winding-point, where it is fastened to the wire coining up through the spindle, in the top of which is the grooved guide and support for the wire when being wound. Time guide can be finely adjusted for more or less tension and for the lay of the thread. The revolutions of the spindle which carries the spool and the flier around the wire at a high speed cover it uniformly and with the smallest fraction of insulation. Hanging over the thread and in the bottom of the flier is
the drop-wire, which, when the thread breaks, or a spool runs out, drops, and extending through the disk, in its revolutions comes in contact with a latch holding up the starting lever, releasing it, when it falls, changing the belt to the loose pulley and stopping the spindle, each spindle being independent. The spool is slotted, and when it runs out of thread is raised just above the spindle and taken off sidewise; the wire passing through the slot, a full spool is taken down from the spool-holder above and placed on the spindle and threaded up, when the spindle is ready to go on again. The wire passing up through the tube or spool-holder passes around the feed-wheel and over the sheave down on to the reel. The feed-wheel is driven by connections of shaft and gearing with the spindle, making it positive; a variety of changes of speed being obtained by change-gears. which is made by a simple and quick arrangement. The hand-mg at the left of the feed-wheel is loosened, the wheel is raised up, throwing the gears out of mesh, and, after the change is made. the wheel is dropped back to engage with the gears. The hand-nut on the right of feed-wheel, when loosened, re leases the wheel from the gear, and allows it to turn back to repair the wire or to mend a break.