CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR WARPING. AND BEAMING YARNS OR THREADS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James and Thomas Walmsley, of Little Harwood,
in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention. of " CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR WARPING. AND BEAMING YARNS OR
THREADS."
Scaled the 25th September 1868, and dated the 3rd April 1868..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James and Thomas
Walmsley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 3rd April 1868.
We, JAMES and THOMAS WALMSLEY, of Little Harwood, in the County
of Lancaster,. do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR WARPING AND
BEAMING YARNS OR THREADS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention is designed for the purpose of "warping" and beaming
yarns or threads from "spools" or direct from the "cops" without
previously "reeling" or "spooling," and for stopping the machine
employed for such purpose when any thread becomes disunited...

page_text: The improvements consist in mounting the "cops" or "spools" in
a series of vertical frames, which are supplied with guide or tension rods,
and "faller tension wires" around which the threads pass in such a
manner that by the combined action of the rods and "fallers" the proper
tension of the yarn is maintained; the yarns thence pass through guides
and beneath hooked wires (or through eylets), which they support in a
vertical position when unbroken. In front of these wires a frame of
horizontal bars are placed, which have a regular lateral reciprocating
movement, which motion is only prevented by the disunion of a thread
and the falling of its wire, with which one of the bars in the frame
come into contact, and by thus shortening such lateral movement
the traverse of a rod connected therewith is also decreased, and a
swinging bell-cranked lever having the upper end hooked comes into
contact with a vertical wire (which would otherwise have been removed
by the sliding or traversing rod), and by withdrawing such wire from
a notch in an ordinary spring handle it becomes released, and the driving
strap is transferred to the loose pulley, and the apparatus stopped until
the thread is united. The threads pass from the vertical wires through
a suitable "comb or reed" on to the warp beam on which they are wound
as a "beamed warp."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James and Thomas Walmsley in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JAMES
and THOMAS WALMSLEY, of Little Harwood, in the County of Lancaster,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent,
bearing date the Third day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said James and Thomas Walmsley, Her special license that
we, the said James and Thomas Walmsley, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said James and Thomas Walmsley,

page_text: 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR WARPING AND BEAMING YARNS OR
THREADS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James
and Thomas Walmsley, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or one of our 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, 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 James Walmsley, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 accompanying Drawings (that is to
say) -
Our Invention is designed for the purpose of "warping" and beaming
yarns or threads from "spools," or direct from the "cops
" without
previously "reeling or "spooling," and for stopping the machine
employed for such purpose when any thread becomes disunited.
"
The improvements consist in mounting the "cops" or "spools" in a
series of vertical frames, which are supplied with guide or tension rods and
"faller tension wires," around which the threads pass in such a manner
that by the combined action of the rods and "fallers" the proper tension
of the yarn is maintained; the yarns thence pass through guides and
beneath hooked wires or through eyelets, which they support in a
vertical position when unbroken. In front of these wires a frame of hori-
zontal bars are placed, which have a regular lateral reciprocating move-
ment, which motion is only prevented by the disunion of a thread and
the falling of its wire with which one of the bars in the frame come into
contact, and by thus shortening such lateral movement the traverse of
a rod connected therewith is also decreased, and a swinging bell-cranked
lever having the upper end hooked comes into contact with a vertical
wire, which would otherwise have been removed by the sliding or

page_text: traversing rod, and by withdrawing such wire from a notch in an ordi-
nary spring handle it becomes released, and the driving strap is
transferred to the loose pulley, and the apparatus stopped until the
thread is united. The threads pass from the vertical wires through a
suitable comb or reed on to the warp beam on which they are wound
as a beamed warp.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained
in detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a
scale of about two inches to the foot.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the framing supporting the cops
from which 'the "beam" is formed, together with the guides and appa-
ratus through which the yarns pass from the frame on to the beam;
Fig. 2 represents a sectional elevation of the apparatus in connection
with the strap fork to be employed as a stop motion when one or more
of the threads break in its passage from the cops to the beam; Fig. 3
represents a plan view of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 represents a view of the
framing or cross bars supporting the tension faller wires.
In Figs. 1, 2, 3, a, a, are the upright frames supporting the cops b, b;
the yarn from these cops or spools pass over their respective guide
wires c, c, which are placed in a step-like form one over the other, from
these wires the yarn passes the vertical wires d, d, which are secured
to the framing a; between these wires the pendulous faller wires or
rods e, e, are suspended, and are employed to rest upon the yarn between
the vertical wires, so that a proper tension to the yarn may be main-
tained in its passage, and from whence it passes over the guides f, and
beneath the hooked wires g supported on the rails g', g', and which such
yarn support in a vertical position when unbroken, the yarns after which
passes between the traversing guides over the roller i on to the beam k,
the speed of which is regulated according to the increasing diameter of the
beam by the ordinary driving cones and m. The traversing guides h
are. secured to the rail h', which receive a lateral traverse through the
medium of the lever n and tappet or cam n', the amount of traverse or
throw given to the guides being regulated by the position of the lever n.
The bearings o supporting the sliding rail are also capable of being
adjusted so as to place the rail and guides further from or nearer to
be evenly dispersed over
the roller i, enabling the yarn thereby to
Euch roller so as to run evenly on to the beam, or adjusting it so as to

page_text: cause them to run from the guides in an accumulated form representing
a tape.
and in
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The stop motion will be more readily understood on reference to Figs. 1,
2, and 3, in which the rail g' supporting the hooked guides g is shewn
in section; in front of each series of these wires horizontal bars p
are supported upon the lever q, which are secured to the vertical, rods r,
and through which a vibrating motion is transmitted from the under
sliding bar 8, actuated by the revolving stud t, secured to the disc.,
keyed on the driving shaft u; on the opposite side of the disc another
stud is secured, which also acts in a similar manner on the upper sliding
bar v, the alternate to-and-fro motion of which actuates the latch w on
for the
Y
the spring strap fork handle x and the catch
purpose
the manner following:- -So long as the threads are unbroken and con-
tinuous the hooked guide wires g remain in a vertical position, allowing
thereby of the free oscillation of the bar p, and the constant to-and-fro
motion of the sliding bars 8 and v, but so soon as one or more of the
threads break the hooked wires hitherto supported by such threads when
continuous fall into a horizontal position as shewn in dots (Fig. 1), the
effect of which is that they cause in such horizontal position an abut-
ment that prevents the free oscillation of the bar p, the effect of which
is to retard or stop the action of the bar 8, which prevents the latch w on
the spring handle being removed thereby, allowing such latch to be
caught by the catch of the sliding bar o during its downward movement,
the action of which releases the spring handle so as to cause it through
the medium of the strap fork to pass the strap from the fast to the loose
pulley, effecting thereby the stoppage of the machine.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be
distinctly understood that we claim,-
First. The novel and peculiar arrangement and construction of
mechanism described, whereby a beam can be filled with warp yarn
direct from spools or cops.
Secondly. The novel arrangement and adaptation to such mechanism
of a stop motion for preventing the continuous action of the machines
when one or more threads break or become disunited when passing from
the spools or cops on to the beam.

page_text: And, lastly, we claim, the general construction and arrangement of
parts, or any slight modification thereof for effecting the objects described,
set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Walmsley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of October, in the year of 5
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witnessed by
JOHN HUGHES,
Clerk to John Davies & Son,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
JAMES WALMSLEY. (L.s.).