IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING OR BEAMING Machines
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Walmsley, of Accrington, in the County
of Lancaster, Mechanic, and John Walmsley, of Accrington, afore-
said, Overlooker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING
OR BEAMING Machines.”
Scaled the 29th December 1874, and dated the 3rd July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Walmsley and
John Walmsley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 3rd July 1874.
We, JAMES WALMSLEY, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster,
Mechanic, and JOHN WALMSLEY, of Accrington, aforesaid, Overlooker,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WARPING OR BEAMING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
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This Invention has for its object the use and employment of apparatus
of a more simple construction for stopping the machine when an end
1 hanks.

page_text: so long as the ends remain in continuity or unbroken. A traversing or
oscillating step bar or bars is or are caused to oscillate or move to and
fro under the said grate by means of arms affixed to bosses on a cross
shaft having a rocking or partial rotary motion imparted by means of a
crank and tappet; the said cross shaft carries a trough or receptacle
within which the hooks or cyclets are caught on dropping through the
grating. On an end breaking its hook or cyclet will drop partially
through the grating, its foot or end resting on the step of traversing
oscillating bar; on the return movement of the said bar the end or foot
of the fallen hook will be caught or fouled by the edge of the upper
portion or step of the oscillating bar knocking off the stop rod; the hook
resting on the lower step of the oscillating bar the continued movement
of the said bar will carry the lower stop clear of or from under the foot
of the fallen hook, whercon the latter will fall into a trough or receptacle
suspended thereunder for receipt of the hooks. The hooks we employ 1
are of flat wire, forming a loop, one by being made longer than the other
and slightly cranked near its lower end.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Walmsley and John Walmsley in the Great
Scal Patent Office on the 2nd January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JAMES
WALMSLEY, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanic, and
JOHN WALMSLEY, of Accrington, aforesaid, Overlooker, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said James Walmsley and John
Walmsley, Her special licence that we, the said James Walmsley,
and John Walmsley, our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said James Walmsley and John Walmsley, 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,

page_text: exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, tho Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING OR BEAMING MACHINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said James Walmsley and John
Walmsley, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing.
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describo 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that wo, the said James Walmsley and John
Walmsley, 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, that is to say :—
This Invention has for its object the use and employment of apparatus
of a more simple construction for stopping the machine when an end
breaks.
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We employ a grating over which the yarn passes; the several threads
or ends are passed through hooks or cyclots suspended within the grate
so long as the ends remain in continuity or unbroken. A traversing or
oscillating stop bar or bars is or are caused to oscillate to move to and
from under the said grate by means of arms affixed to bosses on a shaft
having a rocking or partial rotary motion imparted by means of a crank
and a tappet; the said cross shaft carries a trough or receptacle, or the
trough may be supported by the framework within which the hooks or
eyelets are caught on dropping through the grating. On an end breaking
its hook or eyelet will drop partially through the grating, its foot or end
resting on the step of traversing oscillating bar; on the return movement
of the said bar the end or foot of the fallen hook will be caught or fouled
) by the edge of the upper portion or step of the oscillating bar, knocking
off the stop rod; the hook resting on the lower step of the oscillating bar,
the continued movement of the said bar will carry the lower step clear
of or from under the foot of the fallen hook, wherein the latter will fall
into a trough or receptacle suspended thereunder for receipt of the
5 hooks. Tho hooks we employ are of flat wire forming a loop, one leg
being made longer than the other and slightly cranked near its lower
cnd.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will
now proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the same
may be fully understood wo have hereunto annexed a Sheet of
Drawings, and have marked the same with figures and letters of
reference, the same letter referring to the same part in the several 5
views or figures.
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Fig. 1 is an end view of a machine having our improvements attached;
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same; Fig. 3 is a detail partly in
section on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4 and 5 are side and front views of
the fallen hooks drawn about half size; Fig. 6 is a detail.
A, A, are the end frame of the machine; these support the grating B,
extending across the machine, and over which the yarn C is passed."
Within the openings or spaces of the grating are hooks or cyclets D
through which the yarn is passed, and which hooks or cyclets are
suspended so long as the yarn remains in continuity or unbroken. E is
a step bar which extends nearly the length of the grating B, and which
is caused to oscillate to and fro under the grating B by means of the
arms F carried on the cross shaft G, and which movement is given
through the partial rotary motion of the shaft G obtained by means of
the tappet H and the cranked lever J working on the fulcrum h. On
the oscillating shaft G is an arm g carrying a finger g¹ which rides upon
the cranked part X of the lever J so long as the hooks or cyclets arc
suspended, but when a hook falls the partial rotation of the shaft
carrying the step bar is suspended by the fallen hook, whercon the
cranked end X of the lever J passes forward from under the finger g',
the latter falls and comes in contact with the spring stop rod which is
"knocked off" and the machine is stopped. The fallen hook or cyclet
will afterwards on the machine being again started and the step bar
moving from under the grating fall into the trough or receptacle K.
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or
The action of the machine is as follows:-So long as the "ends
several threads of the warp are in continuity or unbroken, the process of
winding or "bearing" the yarn on the weaver's beam K proceed. Mean-
while the hooks or cyclets D are suspended by the yarn within the
openings of the grating B, and the step bar E is moving to and fro under
the grating, as described, on an end breaking its hook or cyclet D will

page_text: fall or drop partly through the grating, its foot or end resting on the
bar E until on. the further movement of the said step bar its edge or-
step d will catch and strike the fallen hook, so holding and suspending
the partial rotary motion of the shaft carrying the oscillating bar, and
bringing into operation the "knocking off" apparatus above described,
and stopping the machine...
"
Having thus fully described the object and particulars of this our
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, we would for the purpose of
distinguishing and pointing out what is new and what is not now have
it understood that we lay no claim to the hooks or eyelets nor to the
levers and catches used for the purpose of "knocking off," nor to the
trough K, but what we do claim is, the use of the step bar E constructed
and applied in the manner and for the purpose herein fully described
; and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Walmsley, have for, and on
behalf of myself and the said John Walmsley, liave hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December One thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-four. » .
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
- Halifax & Blackburn.
JAMES WALMSLEY. (L.S.)