Year: 1860

page_text: a drum or pulley immediately beneath the said rollers. This pulley is formed
higher at its flanches than in the centre, which is curved so that this drum
contracts and gathers the warp from both creels, and brings it into a form
ready for "balling," which may either be effected by mechanism or by hand.
An arrangement for making the warps with color in certain lengths is also pro-
vided by means of a worm and worm wheel and bevil gearing actuated from the
central rollers; a marker being secured upon the bevil wheel shaft, and in rotating
therewith passes through a color trough, and when so charged marks the warp at
certain intervals regulated by the speed of the rotation of the bevil wheel shaft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Stephen Hargreaves, Robert: Holden, and James. Nuttall
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we',, STEPHEN
HARGREAVES, of Haslingden, in the County of Lancaster, Warper;. ROBERT
HOLDEN, of the same Place, Beamer, and JAMES NUTTALL, of the same Place,
Overlooker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of September;, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give: and grant unto us,, the said
Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden and James. Nuttall, Her special licence
that we, the said Stephen. Hargreaves, Robert Holden and James Nuttall,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden and James Nuttall, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time: agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "AN IMPROVED WARPING MACHINE," upon the condition
amongst others, that we, the said Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden and
James Nuttall, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or
under the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Hargreaves, of Haslingden, in the County
of Lancaster, Warper, Robert Holden, of the saine Place, Beamer, and
James Nuttall, of the same Place, Overlooker, for' the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED WARDING MACHINE"
Sealed the 22nd February 1861, and dated the 1st September 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION' left by the said Stephen Hargreaves,
Robert Holden, and James Nuttall at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 1st September 1860.
We, STEPHEN HARGREAVES, of Haslingden; in the County of Lancaster,
Warper, ROBERT HOLDEN, of the same Place, Beamer, and JAMES NUTTALL, of
the same Place; Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED WARPING MACHINE," to be as follows:-
Our improved warping-machine is principally applicable to that description of
warping termed "ball warping" in which the warps are made up into "balls."
The improvement consists in an arrangement of apparatus, which is placed
between two creels of yarn, and is furnished at both ends with a series of
eyelets through which the yarn passes, and nearer the centre of the machine
arrangements of pegs or guides are provided, whereby the width of the
warp is contracted and the yarn passes from both ends of the machine to the
centre between a horizontal pair of rollers there arranged, and thence around

page_text: round one side of the gathering pulley i, which brings them into form for
"balling," as shewn. The apparatus for marking the warps at certain distances
consists of a "change" spur wheel upon the roller g, the worm and worm
wheel k upon the shaft l, upon which is a bevil wheel actuating the: bevil
wheel on the end of the shaft to which the marking roller m is attached, the
peculiar arrangement of which is seen in Figure 3. As; this mechanism
rotates, the marker is carried round and supplied with color from the trough.n,
and when it attains a vertical position it falls over (in the position of the. dotted
lines) and marks the warp in passing it, and by means of the worm and
wheel o; the number of marks is indicated upon the dial p.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect; we would remark in
conclusion that we claim,-
First, the novel method of warping from two creels, and gathering the
products of both creels into one warp by means of the pulley i..
Secondly, the arrangement of apparatus for effecting the desired object..
And, lastly, the arrangement of mechanism for marking the warps in certain
lengths, as herein-before described, set forth; and fully exhibited in. the
Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said. Stephen Hargreaves, have hereunto 2
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
set my
STEPHEN HARGREAVES. (L.S.)

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Stephen Hargreaves, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
Our improved warping machine is principally applicable to that description
of warping termed "ball warping" in which the warps are made up into
balls. The improvement consists in an arrangement of apparatus, which is
placed between two creels of yarn and is furnished at both ends with a
series of eyelets through which the yarn passes, and nearer the centre of
the machine arrangements of pegs or guides are placed, whereby the width
of the warp is contracted and the yarn passes from both ends of the machine
to the centre between a horizontal pair of rollers there arranged, and thence
around a drum or pulley immediately beneath the said rollers. This pulley is
formed higher at its flanches than in the centre which is curved so that it
contracts the warp and gathers it from both creels and brings it into a form
ready. for "balling," which may either be effected by mechanism or by hand.
An arrangement for marking the warp with color in certain lengths is also
provided by means of a worm and worm wheel and bevil gearing actuated
from the central rollers; a marker being secured upon the bevil wheel shaft
and in rotating therewith passes through a color trough, and when so charged
marks the warp at certain intervals regulated by the speed of the rotation of
the bevil wheel shaft.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about one inch to the foot, and having similar letters of reference marked upon
corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Figure 1 is a plan view of the warping machine, shewing the method of
reducing the yarns from the creels into a warp; Figure 2 is an end view of
the same; and Figure 3 is a detached view of color roller for marking the
warps.
In Figure 1, a, a, is the framing of the machine; and b, b, the creels
containing any required number of bobbins, the yarns from which pass through
a number of wire eyelets in the bars c, c, in the ordinary manner, and are then
gathered in certain numbers round the pegs or rollers on the bars d, d, or if
preferred, instead of the bars c, c, an arrangement of reeds and healds may be
substituted. The yarns are next passed to the pegs on the bar e, e, having
been gradually contracted in width until sufficiently narrow, and pass thence
over the roller f under the roller g (where they are marked in lengths) and
then over and between the rollers h, h, where both warps meet and are taken