AN IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF BEAMING WARPS OR SUPPLYING WARP WEAVING OF FABRICS FOR WHICH SOME OF THE WARP THREADS REQUIRE TO BE OF A DIFFERENT TENSION TO THE OTHERS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Longden Hattersley, of Keighley, in
THE
the County of York, Machinist, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OR METHOD OF BEAMING WARPS OR SUPPLYING WARP
WEAVING OF FABRICS FOR WHICH SOME OF THE WARP THREADS REQUIRE TO BE
OF A DIFFERENT TENSION TO THE OTHERS."
Sealed the 11th November 1870, and dated the 16th May 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Longden
Hattersley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th May 1870.
I, RICHARD LONGDEN HATTERSLEY, of Keighley, in the County of
York, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF BEAMING WARPS OR SUPPLYING WARP
IN. THE WEAVING OF FABRICS FOR WHICH SOME OF THE WARP THREADS REQUIRE TO
BE OF A DIFFERENT TENSION TO THE OTHERS," to be as follows: —
.
This Invention relates to certain kinds of textile fabrics for the
production of which more length of warp or yarn is required in one
serics of the threads which comprise the warp than in the others, so that

page_text: while some of the warp threads are supplied in a slack state the others
are supplied on the stretch or with tension thereon, and consist in
passing the two different series or portions of the warp respectively
between a pair of nipping or delivery rollers, the two pairs of rollers
being geared together so as to rotate at suitable relative speeds, and
these rollers may be employed either in the warping or dressing machine
for regulating the supply of yarn to be taken on to the warp beam, or
they may be employed in the loom for receiving the warp from the
ordinary beams and supplying the same at the suitable rate, speed, or
tension respectively for fabrication or weaving thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Longden Hattersley in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 16th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
LONGDEN HATTERSLEY, of Keighley, in the County of York, Machinist, 1
send greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and 2
grant unto me, the said Richard Longden Hattersloy, Her special licence
that I, the said Richard Longden Hattersley, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Longden
Hattersley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 MEANS OR METHOD OF BEAMING WARPS OR SUPPLYING WARP
IN THE WEAVING OF FABRICS FOR WHICH SOME OF THE WARP THREADS REQUIRE TO
BE OF DIFFERENT TENSION TO THE OTHERS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Longden Hattersley, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Longden Hattersley, do
hereby declare the nature of my 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 two accompanying Sheets of
Drawings (that is to say) :-
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This Invention relates to certain kinds of textile fabrics for the
production of which more length of warp or yarn is required in one
scries of the threads which comprise the warp than in the others, so that
while some of the warp threads are supplied in a slack state the others
are supplied on the stretch or with tension thereon, and consists in
passing the two different scrics or portions of the warp respectively
between a pair of nipping or delivery rollers, the two pairs of rollers
being geared together so as to rotate at suitable relative speeds; and
these rollers may be employed either in the warping or dressing machine
for regulating the supply of yarn to be taken on to the warp beam, or
they may be employed in the loom for receiving the warp from the
ordinary beams and supplying the same at the suitable rate, speed, or
tension respectively for fabrication or weaving thereof.
Tandon that this Tantion man ha Galldamined I havin
Fig. 1 is the end elevation of a loom frame and such other parts as
aro necessary to shew the application of my said Invention thereto;
and Fig. 2 is the back elevation of the same.
A is the frame end; B, the ordinary warp beam; C, the warp thereon
as usual; D and E are rollers, of either wood or iron covered with
leather, cloth, or other pliable material; F is also a warp beam; and
G, the warp thereon; H and I are rollers similar to D and E; and J
is the usual setting-up beam for drawing in the cloth as it is woven.
The rollers E and I are mounted in stationary bearings, and the rollers
D and H are in bearings capable of moving in slides or slots, and which
are pressed by screws and springs K and L against the former named

page_text: rollers. The said rollers E and I are geared together by spur wheels AL
and N, the diameters of which differ according to the different lengths or
proportions of warp required to be drawn off each beam. In this
Drawing it will be seen that the wheel M on the roller I is much larger
in diameter than the wheel N on the roller E, consequently the latter 5
will rotate quicker, and thereby give off more warp than the former in
the same ratio as the said wheels bear to each other, and the ratio can be
varied by a change of the wheels M and N for others of different relative
diameters, as will be readily understood.
The same arrangement is applied for beaming warps on the warp 1
dressing or beaming machines, as shewn in Drawings, Figs. 3 and 4,
where two warps of different lengths are wanted to be wound on to one
beam in different ratios, so that only one warp beam need to be used in
the loom when weaving the above class of goods.
A is the frame of a warp dressing or beaming machine; B is the 1
gearing for driving the warp beam C; and D is the warp wound on the
said beam. E and F are two rollers of wood, iron, or other material
covered with cloth, or leather, or other pliable substance for the short or
tight warp to pass over; G and H are two other rollers, same or similar
to E and F, for the long or slack warp to pass over; I and J are two 2
spur wheels of different diameters fixed on and coupling together the
rollers E and G, so that as the warp is drawn forward from the dressing
apparatus, as shewn by lines K, on to the warp beam O, and passing
betwixt the rollers E and F and G and H respectively, and the spur
wheel J being larger than the spur wheel I the rollers G and H are
made to revolve quicker than the rollers E and F, consequently the
former pair will deliver a longer length of warp in the same time than
the latter, such warp threads therefore will be wound slack on the
beam C, whilst the other portion is wound tight thereon. Thus when
using warps beamed in this manner in weaving fabrics one portion of
the warp comes off the beam slack or quicker than the other, so as to
form the desired rib, rcp, pile, or other effect, for the production of which
in the weaving of cloth different lengths of warp are required to form
the said cloth. It will now be evident that the relative quantities of
each portion of the warp can be varied by changing the wheels which a
gear the two pairs of rollers together for others of different relative
diameters or having different numbers of the teeth, as is well understood;
also by having tho pairs of rollers of different relative diameters, and

page_text: ne gear wheels equal, this difference in delivery or supply of warp may
e obtained and varied in a similar manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Longden Hattersley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November,
in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
RICHP. L. HATTERSLEY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and. delivered
by the within-named Richard
Longden Hattersley, in the
presence of
W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford.