IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING BY WARPING MILLS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard. Law, of Burnley, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and Stephen Hargreaves, of the same
Place, Warper, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING
BY WARPING MILLS."
Sealed the 27th August 1869, and dated the 3rd March 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Law and.
Stephen Hargreaves at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 3rd March 1869.
We, RICHARD LAW, of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, and STEPHEN HARGREAVES, of the same Place, Warper, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WARPING BY WARPING MILLS," to be as follows:-
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The object of our improvements is to keep the threads so separated in:
the act of warping that they will take the size more readily, and so that
the half beers will divide better in the subsequent operations, and our

page_text: improvements consist in warping with the "heck" open, that is, with one-
half the "eyes" up and the others down (except when the "lease" is
being taken), and in bringing the two sets of threads together or within
about half an inch of each other at the half beer or dividing rollers by
a rod, plate, or other suitable mechanism arranged so as to be easily
turned up or down or otherwise moved as required when taking the
"lease."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Law and Stephen Hargreaves in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd September 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
LAW, of Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and
STEPHEN HARGREAVES, of the same Place, Warper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Richard Law and Stephen Hargreaves,
Her special license that we, the said Richard Law and Stephen
Hargreaves, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Richard Law and Stephen Hargreaves, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WARPING BY WARPING MILLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Richard Law and Stephen Hargreaves, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and scal 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: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Richard Law and Stephen
Hargreaves, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, and
the accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-.
The object of our improvements is to keep the threads so separated in
the act of warping that they will take the size more readily, and so
that the half bears will divide better in the subsequent operations, and.
our improvements consist in warping with the "heck" open, that is, with
one-half the "eyes" up and the others down (except when the "Icase"
is being taken), and in bringing the two sets of threads 'together, or
within about half an inch of each other, at the half beer or dividing
rollers by a rod, plate, or other suitable mechanism arranged so as to be
easily turned up or down or otherwise moved as required when taking
the "lease."
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate the manner of carrying our Invention into
effect.
Fig. 1 is a cross section through the heck and "jack" box arm, and
Fig. 2 is a front view of the "jack" box.
The apparatus is shown in the position in which it is used when
warping.
a represents one-half of the eyes of the heck up; a', the other half
that are down; band are the threads; c, the jack arm; d, the half
beer or dividing rollers; e, the bars which prevent the threads from
getting below the rollers; f is the bent bar turning upon bearings
carried by the brackets (1) secured to the jack arm (c). The bar is
shown in full line in its position when the threads are passing on to the
mill, but when the "lease" is being taken it is turned up into the
position shown by peculiar dotted line, the projecting part (f) of the
bar (f) coming against a projection (f³) from one of the brackets (ƒ¹)
to prevent the bar from going too far over.
We have now particularly described the nature of our said Invention,
and the mode of carrying the same into effect, and claim as our Inven-
tion, the system or mode of warping by mills when one-half the eyes
of the heck are kept up above the other half during the time the threads
are passing on to the mill, a bar, rod, or plate, or its equivalent being
employed to keep the upper half of the threads down at the dividing

page_text: rollers, in the manner herein-before described and illustrated by the
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Law, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.