Improvements in the Process or Operation of Putting Warps into Condition for Weaving after they have been Dyed, Sized, or otherwise Treated, which Process or Operation is ordinarily designated "Dressing Warps."
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Process or Operation of Putting Warps into
Condition for Weaving after they have been Dyed, Sized, or
otherwise Treated, which Process or Operation is ordinarily
designated "Dressing Warps."
We JoHN COLLINGE HOWARTH, of Newton Heath, Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and Joix HoWARD STOTT of Baron Street Works,
Baron Street, Rochdale in the County of Lancaster Machine Maker do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the process or operation of putting warps into condition
for weaving after they have been dyed, sized or otherwise treated which process or
operation is ordinarily designated "dressing."
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Heretofore there have been two systems of dressing in ordinary use, onc
ordinarily known as "Yorkshire dressing" consisting in passing the whole warp to
be "dressed through a "reed" and "raddle" and winding it upon a beam
which may be placed in a loom or from which the warp may be transferred to
another beam which may be placed in the loom, and the other ordinarily known as
the "Scotch system" consisting in passing such portion of the warp to be dressed
as is of one colour or kind of yarn or thread through a "reed" and "raddle" and
winding it upon one beam and doing the like with each of the colours or kinds of
yarn or thread in the warp so that there will be employed as many beams as there
are colours or kinds of yarn or thread in the complete warp and afterwards winding
the several colours or kinds of yarn or thread from the beams aforesaid on to
another beam which may be placed in the loom or from which the warp may be
transferred to another beam which may be placed in the loom. Both of the said
systems have serious inconveniences in use, among others, that from the number of
yarns or threads forming a warp being large very great care and attention is
required to quickly "piece" broken yarns or threads and keep the yarns or threads
in proper order while they are passing on to the beam or beams.
Our invention consists in a system of dressing warps which obviates to a great
extent the difficulties and inconveniences attendant upon the systems above
mentioned and enables warps to be dressed more quickly, readily, efficiently and
cheaply than they have hitherto been.
According to our invention we cause the yarns or threads which are to form a
portion of the completed warp and which yarns or threads are arranged in the
manner in which they are required to be arranged in the completed warp to be
dressed separately from the rest of the warp and wound upon a beam, roller or
block and we either at the same time or subsequently cause the yarns or threads
forming the remaining portions of the warp and which are also arranged in the
manner in which they are required to be arranged in the completed warp to be
dressed separately in like manner and wound in like manner upon a block, roller or
beam, so that there will be as many beams, rollers, or blocks having yarns or threads
wound upon them as there are portions of the warp. The said beams, rollers or
blocks with the portions of warp wound thereon are then either placed together or
arranged in any other suitable manner and the portions of warp wound upon the
said beams, rollers or blocks are all wound therefrom on to a beam which may be
placed in a loom or from which the warp may be transferred to another beam to
be placed in the loom. According to a modification of our improved system of
dressing warps we may place the beams, rollers or blocks upon which the portions
of a warp are wound upon a roller or bar and place the roller or bar with the
beams, rollers or blocks placed upon it in a loom and employ the warp for weaving

page_text: without as above described previously transferring it to a beam which may be
placed in the loom or from which the warp may be transferred to another beam to
be placed in the loom.
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By dressing a warp in portions in accordance with our invention the
"dressing" may be more quickly readily and cheaply done and the portions of warp
containing each but a comparatively small number of threads the dressing" is
more efficiently accomplished than when the whole warp or a large portion of it is
"dressed" at one operation as in the systems hitherto employed.
Dated this Second day of August 1890.
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Process or Operation of Putting Warps into
Condition for Weaving after they have been Dyed, Sized, or
otherwise Treated, which Process or Operation is ordinarily
designated "Dressing Warps."
We, JOHN COLLINGE HOWARTH of Newton Heath, Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and JoHN HOWARD STOTT of Baron Street
Works, Baron Street, Rochdale in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to the process or operation of putting warps into condition
for weaving after they have been dyed, sized or otherwise treated which process or
operation is ordinarily designated dressing."
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Heretofore there have been two systems of "dressing" in ordinary use, one
ordinarily known as "Yorkshire dressing" consisting in passing the whole warp to
be "dressed " through a reed" and raddle and winding it upon a beam
which may be placed in a loom or from which the warp may be transferred to
another beam, which may be placed in the loom, and the other ordinarily known as
the "Scotch system" consisting in passing such portion of the warp to be dressed
as is of one colour or kind of yarn or thread through a reed", and "raddle
winding it upon one beam and doing the like with each of the colours or kinds of
yarn or thread in the warp so that there will be employed as many beams as there
are colours or kinds of yarn or thread in the complete warp and afterwards winding
the several colours or kinds of yarn or thread from the beams aforesaid on to
another beam which may be placed in the loom or from which the warp may be
transferred to another beam which may be placed in the loom. Both of the said
systems have serious inconveniences in use, among others, that from the number of
yarns or threads forming a warp being large very great care and attention is
required to quickly "piece" broken yarns or threads and keep the yarns or threads
in proper order while they are passing on to the beam or beams.
Our invention consists in a system of dressing warps which obviates to a great
extent the difficulties and inconveniences attendant upon the systems above
mentioned and enables warps to be dressed more quickly, readily, efficiently and
cheaply than they have hitherto been.
According to our invention we cause the yarns or threads which are to form a
portion of the completed warp and which yarns or threads are arranged in the
inanner in which they are required to be arranged in the completed warp to bo
dresssed separately from the rest of the warp and wound upon a beam, roller o
block and we either at the same time or subsequently cause the yarns or threads
forming the remaining portions of the warp and which are also arranged in the
manner in which they are required to be arranged in the completed warp to be
dressed separately in like manner and wound in like manner upon a block, roller o

page_text: beam, so that there will be as many beams, rollers or blocks having yarns or
threads wound upon them as there are portions of the warp. The said beams,
rollers or blocks with the portions of warp wound thereon are then either
placed, together or arranged in any other suitable manner and the portions of warp
wound upon the said beams, rollers or blocks are all wound therefrom on to a beam
which may be placed in a loom or from which the warp may be transferred to
another beam to be placed in the loom. According to a modification of our
improved system of dressing warps we may place the beams, rollers or blocks upon
which the portions of a warp are wound upon a roller or bar and place the roller or
bar with the beams, rollers or blocks placed upon it in a loom and employ the warp
for weaving without as above described previously transferring it to a beam which
may be placed in the loom or from which the warp may be transferred to another
beam to be placed in the loom.
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By "dressing a warp in portions in accordance with our invention the
dressing" may be more quickly, readily and cheaply done and the portions of
warp containing each but a comparatively small number of threads the dressing"
is more efficiently accomplished than when the whole warp or a large portion of it
is "dressed at one operation as in the systems hitherto employed.
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In order that the manner in which our invention is to be performed may be more
readily understood we in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings furnish a diagram
illustrating the process of dressing warps according to our invention.
In Fig. 1
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a is a portion of warp which has been dyed, sized or otherwise treated and requires
to be dressed or put into condition for weaving. In the said portion a of warp
the yarns or threads of the warp are arranged in the order and manner in which they
are required to be arranged while being woven or if need be other yarns or threads
or the yarns or threads forming another portion of warp are also incorporated with
the said portion of warp. The said portion a of the warp is passed through
arrangements of bars b, c and between and around rollers d, e, f, and over
bars g, h, j, k In their passage around the bars g, h, j, k the yarns or threads
forming the portion of warp are separated so that they will occupy the space which
they are required to occupy when being woven. After leaving the bar & the yarns or
threads forining the portion of warp are passed through a reed or raddle mand the
alternate yarns or threads are separated by means of a bar n.
In their passage
from the bar to the reed or raddle m the yarns or threads may be subjected to the
action of a brush o which if employed is, like the reed or raddle m, held by the person in
charge of the apparatus.
In so
far as the operations to which the yarns or threads
are subjected in their passage to the bar the process as conducted according to
our invention only differs from the processes of "dressing "hitherto in use in that
while the several yarns or threads of which the portion of warp is composed are
arranged in the precise order which they are required to occupy when being woven in
the loom a very much smaller number of yarns or threads are being "dressed" at
once than when a whole warp or a large portion of it is dressed" at one operation
as in the systems of "dressing "hitherto employed. From the bar the yarns or
threads are conducted over a guide roller p and wound upon a section block by
means of a machine similar to a sectional warping machine which may be of any
suitable construction but must be so arranged that the section block or the shaft >
on which it is mounted will be prevented from being turned in a direction contrary
to that in which the yarns or threads are being wound upon the section block
except at the wish of the person in charge of the apparatus.
This may be
conveniently accomplished by securing upon the section shaft r two ratchet
wheels 8, the teeth of one of which are arranged so as to point in a direction
opposite to the direction of the teeth of the other of such ratchet wheels 8, J. The
ratchet wheels s, s' are shown more clearly in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings
which is a front view of so much of a machine as it is necessary to illustrate in
connection with the description of our invention. Pawls t, t are arranged so as to
engage with the ratchet wheels, respectively, the ratchet wheels and pawl t
being employed when it is desired that the section shaft shall revolve in the
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page_text: direction indicated by the arrow A and the ratchet wheel and pawl being
employed when it is desired that the section shaft r shall revolve in the direction
opposite to that indicated by the arrow A. Should it be necessary at any time for
the section shaft to be turned in a direction contrary to that in which the yarns or
threads are being wound upon the section block 9 this may be accomplished by the
pawl or as the case may be being temporarily disengaged from the ratchet
wheel in conjunction with which it acts. In place of the ratchet wheels s and s¹
and pawlst, we may employ any suitable means by which the section shaft r may
be prevented from revolving whenever such section shaft ceases to receive motion
from the strap or other means by which it is ordinarily driven for instance we may
employ a clutch or brake which may be brought into action to prevent the section
shaft from revolving whenever for any reason the winding of yarn or thread on to
the section block 7 is required to ceasc. When the portion a of the warp has been
"dressed" and wound upon the section block q another portion of the warp is
dressed in like manner and wound upon another section block and if the warp
to be dressed is dressed in more than two portions the remaining portion or
portions of such warp is or are dressed in like manner and wound upon a separate
"section block or separate section blocks. When the whole warp has been
dressed and wound upon section blocks the section blocks are arranged upon a bar
rod, or beam in proper order, discs or flanges being placed if necessary between the
adjacent section blocks and the said bar rod or beam with the section blocks
mounted upon it may if it be desired be placed in a loom and the warp may be
woven as it is unwound from the said section blocks, but in practice it is preferable
that the warp should be unwound from the section blocks after they have been
placed upon the said bar rod or beam and be wound upon another bar rod or beam
which may be placed in a loom or from which the warp may be unwount on to a bean:
to be placed in a loom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
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The hereinbefore described improvements in the process of "dressing" or putting
warps into condition for weaving after they have been dyed sized or otherwise
treated which consist in dressing" separate from the remainder of the warp and
winding it into a section upon a beam roller or block a portion of a warp in which
portion all the yarns or threads are arranged in the order which they will be
required to occupy in the completed warp when being woven and proceeding in
like manner with the other portion or portions of the said warp and afterwards
placing the sections wound upon beams, rollers or blocks together or arranging
them in any other suitable manner and winding the warp on to a beam which may
be placed in a loom to be woven or from which the warp may be wound upon
another beam to be placed in the loom or placing the said sections, beams rollers or
blocks in a loom and weaving the warp as it is unwound from the sections beams
rollers or blocks.
Dated this Fourth day of May 1891
HOWARD CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicants.