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liar arrangement of the parts reduces the machinery to a most 

 compact form, occupying but a very small space. 



Figure 1 is a perspective view; figure 2 is a horizontal section^ 

 taken under the lower plate of the laying-block, and figure 3 is a 

 horizontal section taken under the top plate of the upper strand 

 spindle. Similar letters indicate like parts on all the figures. 



The strand spindles, the laying block, and all the appertaining 

 parts of the machine but the Vvinding capstan, are carried by a 

 rotating frame composed of a series of plates, AAA arranged 

 one above the other, concentric to a common axis, and connected 

 by uprights, B B B; the lowest plate has a journal inserted in a 

 s'ep, a. The upper plate. A, is rigidly attached by pillars, c c, 

 to a drum, C, which has a hollow journal working in a guide 

 bsaring, d, which is placed in the same vertical line with the sup- 

 porting journal in the lower bearing step, a. These bearings may 

 be secured in the frame, E F, or otherwise in a factory, the bed 

 plate, D, being bolted to the lower floor. The main rotating 

 frame constitutes the laying spindle, twisting the strand, into 

 rope, and motion is given thereto by a horizontal belt passing 

 around drum C. 



H H' H" are- the strand spindles, each one having a square 

 frame, with journals, h h, at top and bottom, and a spool, G, con- 

 taining the strand, secured (as usual) by a transverse pin, o-, pass- 

 ing through the frame. The jom-nals, h, of the several strand 

 spindles are fitted to bearings in the centres of certain of the 

 plates, A A, figure 3. The journals, h h, of the strand spindles, 

 the lower journal of the frame in step, a, and the upper journal in 

 bearing, d, of the main frame are in line with one another, so 

 that all have a common axis. The upper journal of each spool 

 spindle is hollow^ and the strands pass from the spools up through 

 them, as shown in figure 1, — each strand passirg up over a guide 

 roller, t, or arm,/, and thence through the hollow journals. 



I is a stationary spur gear around the exterior of the upper 

 bearing, d; the upper strand spindle, H, has similar spur gear of 

 the same size as I, one on its upper, and the other on its lower 

 end— J, figure 3, is its upper one; rhe middle strand spindle, H'y 

 has similar spur gear, and the lowest strand journal has similar 

 gearing attached to its upper journal. L is an upright shaft 

 working in bearings. In the head of drum, C, is a spur wheels 

 M, of tlie size of I, and gearing into the latter. It is secured on 

 the upper end of shaft L, figure 2; another spur wheel, of the 

 same size, is secured at the bottom, gearing into the spur wheel 

 on the top of the uppermost strand spindle. By means of these 



