Improvements in the Reading In or Setting Up of the Pattern upon. Bobbins in the Manufacture of Tufted Pile Carpets and other Tufted Pile Fabrics, and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Reading In or Setting Up of the Pattern upon.
Bobbins in the Manufacture of Tufted Pile Carpets and other
Tufted Pile Fabrics, and in Apparatus therefor.
I, HENRY DIXON, Managing Director of Henry Jecks Dixon and Sons Limited,
Carpet Manufacturers, of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the reading in or setting up of the pattern upon bobbins
in manufacturing that class of tufted pile carpets and other tufted pile fabrics. in
which the pattern is first set up on bobbins and then placed into the loom when
weaving such goods.
Hitherto in setting up the patterns for fabrics of the said class it has been the
practice to wind the material upon the bobbins direct from the counter-shaft,
whereby the material was all wound in one direction.
The weaving of fabrics with borders necessitated the rearrangement of all the
different threads when requiring to put the pattern on the bobbins in a reversed
order.
According to my present improvements I wind the material on the bobbins either
over or under, that is to say, either in a right hand or a left hand direction and, for
this purpose, I retain all the general arrangement of a reading in machine as at
present constructed but, instead of winding up direct from the counter-shaft, I
mount thereon a lever carrying wheels geared to run in opposite directions and so
rotate the bobbin-holders in one direction or the other according to which wheels
are put in gear by altering the position of the lever, thereby winding the material
either over or under the bobbin.
Dated the 15th day of January 1899
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Reading In or Setting Up of the Pattern upon
Bobbins in the Manufacture of Tufted Pile Carpets and other
Tufted Pile Fabrics, and in Apparatus therefor.
I, HENRY DIXON, Managing Director of Henry Jecks Dixon and Sons Limited,
Carpet Manufacturers of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, 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:-
My invention relates to the reading in or setting up of the pattern upon bobbins
in manufacturing that class of tufted pile carpets and other tufted pile fabrics in
which the pattern is first set up on bobbins and then placed into the loom.
Hitherto in setting up the patterns for fabrics of the said class having borders
it has been the practice to wind the material upon the bobbins direct from the
counter-shaft of the reading in machine, whereby the material was all wound in
one direction thereby necessitating after the bobbins for the border on one end. of
the carpet have been wound the rearrangement of the different threads before
winding the bobbins for the border upon the opposite end of the carpet upon which
bobbins the pattern is put in a reversed order.

page_text: According to my improvements I wind the material on the bobbins either over
or under, that is to say, either in a right hand or a left hand direction and, for this
purpose, I retain all the general arrangement of a reading in machine as at present
constructed but; instead of winding up direct from the counter-shaft as hitherto I
mount thereon a lever or levers carrying wheels geared to run in opposite directions
and so rotate the bobbin-liolders in one direction or the other according to which
wheels are put in gear by altering the position of the lever or; levers, thereby
winding the material either over or under the bobbins.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I. will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a reading-in machine provided with my improve-
ments for winding the bobbins for tufted pile carpets and other. tufted pile
fabrics.
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Figure 2 is a side elevation of the machine.
Similar reference letters in, both figures indicate similar parts.
a represents the frame of the machine, & the countershaft carrying the driving
pulley, c, d, d the bobbin holders and e, ef,f gear wheels for driving the same, all
of which parts are of known construction.
g, g are the levers which I mount loosely on the countershaft b, and h, i, j are
the wheels carried thereby to rotate the bobbin holders in either direction. The
wheels h, i, j are driven from the countershaft by the wheels k, k and are arranged
on the levers g, g, as shewn in Figure 2, so that when the said levers are moved in
one direction the wheels h, h will be moved into gear with the wheels f, and so
drive the bobbin holders in one direction and when the levers are moved in the
reverse direction the wheels h, h will be moved out of gear and the wheels j, j
into gear with the wheels f, thereby, moving the bobbin holders in a reverse
direction.
For moving the levers g, g in one direction I employ a foot lever / connected to
the said levers by a chain or the like m and a cross-bar n, springs o, o serving to
move the levers in the reverse direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained, the nature of my, said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I
claim is :-
:-
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1. Reading in or setting up the pattern upon bobbins used in manufacturing
tufted pile fabrics by means of apparatus adapted to operate in either a right or
left hand direction so as to wind the bobbins over and under as required substantially
as herein before described.
2. The improved reading in machine substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
G: F. REDFERN & Co.,
4; South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.