connected by the binding warps or endless tapes or cords
Year: 1885

page_text: Fig. 3 a horizontal section, and
Fig. 4 a vertical section of a machine embodying this invention, the nature of
which is defined in the claim or claims hereinafter presented.
Fig. 5 is a top view, and
Fig. 6 a longitudinal section of a number of skeins, as connected by the binding
warps or endless tapes or cords, to be described.
Figs 7 and 8 are hereinafter referred to and explained.
By the above mentioned machine the skeins of yarn are like the weft threads
of cloth, when arranged parallel to each other, connected by a warp, there being
generally employed for such warp two sets of endless cords or tapes having two
or three cords or tapes to each set. I term these connecting cords or threads
"binding warps," thus serving to connect the skeins so as to form a belt of them.
This belt is led through and out of a drying apparatus, in going through which the
skeins composing the belt are dried. From this drying apparatus the belt passes
to or by and is subjected to the action of mechanism, by which the binding warps
are drawn away from the skeins, so as to enable the latter to fall apart or separate
from each other.

page_text: In the said drawings A denotes the frame of the machine, having within it a
table or platform B, from which there is extended downward as shown in Fig. 2
a curved inclined chute C. In the top of the said table is a series of parallel slots
or openings a extending transversely across the said top. In each of these slots or
openings, is a rod or warp carrier b, the slot or opening serving not only as a
guide to the rod in its vertical movements, but as a recess or passage for a set of
the binding warps to go through. Each rod b at its lower part is pivoted to a
vibratory arm c, there being two sets of such arms, one of which projects from one
rock shaft d, and the other from another rock shaft e.
The shafts d and e are connected with each other by gears d³ and e³ secured to
said shafts (see Fig. 4) and on one end of the shaft d is fastened an arm f pro-
vided with a stud g* which enters the groove in a cave 8* secured on the shaft S
(see Figs. 1 and 3).
During each revolution of the shaft S and cam s, the shafts & and e will be
rocked sufficiently to cause a new shed to be formed in the binding warps g.
Each rod b has a hole f through it, near its upper end, to receive a binding warp,
which goes through it. These warps are endless tapes or cords, they being shown
at g, g. The rods operate like the harnesses of a loom, to raise some of the warps
and depress others, in order for a shuttle carrying a weft thread to be thrown
between the two sets of warps but instead of a shuttle I have mechanism for
drawing the skeins successively through the "shed" of the warps, that is to say,
I use a rod arranged horizontally and bent upward near one end, at a right angle.
This rod shown at h I term the "skein introducer." It is first run through the
shed or opening between the crossed warps, after which a skein is hitched on the
upturned part of the rod. The rod next is drawn backward so as to pull the skein
into the shed to the necessary extent. The rod next drops a short distance suffi-
ciently for its disengagement with the skein, after which, the warp carriers bare
moved, some upward, and the rest downward, so as to cross their warps upon the
skein. As soon as the skein may be laid between the crossed warps and dis-
connected from the introducer, a beater is driven forward against the skein to
force it into the shed of the warps, as the lay of a loom acts to beat the filling into
the warp.
This beater will be hereinafter described. After a skein may have been so
bound the warps are moved forward a sufficient distance for the skein to be
introduced between them, and close against and parallel to the other, by means
of the skein introducer. For this purpose the warps may have either an inter-
mittent or a slow continuous motion.
As herein before stated each warp g is an endless band, tape or cord. It passes
down the chute C and thence about a series of rollers D arranged in. a drying
chamber or box E. These rollers have sprocket gears i on their shafts, to engage
with an endless chain. k, carried around a series of supporting and guide gears l.
There is fixed on the shaft of one of the warp guide rollers, a bevelled gear m,
which engages with a bevelled pinion n, fixed on an inclined shaft o supported in
suitable boxes p. On the lower end of the shaft o is fastened another bevel
pinion r, fixed on a horizontal shaft s.
The pinion engages with another bevel pinion t, carried by the driving shaft u
of the machine. On this shaft is a fast pulley v, and a loose pulley w, the shaft
being properly supported in bearings a applied to standards y.
The beater is represented at F. It consists of a series of rods or arms & and a
horizontal rock-shaft a¹, from which the said arms project upward through slots
in the table and between the ranges of endless binding warps.
A connecting rod is pivoted to one of the arms z and to a short lever c¹, from
which a stud extends into the groove of a cam e', fixed on the shaft 8. When
the shaft 8 is in revolution a reciprocating vibratory movement will be imparted to
the beater F.

page_text: To operate the skein introducer h, that is, to move it lengthwise on its ways -
first in one, and next in the opposite direction, I attach to the block, to which
the introducer at its rear end or part is pivoted, the two ends of a band f¹³, going
as shown in Fig. 7, around a large pulley g¹, and a smaller one, and partially
around two small rolls g2, 2, supported by the frame the said figure being a view
to exhibit the arrangement of the introducer and its operative band and pulleys.
The pulley gl is fixed on the shaft provided with a spur gear k¹ which engages
with a geared sector 1, carried by a lever m¹, from whose shorter arm a stud n¹
extends into a grooved cam o¹, fixed on the driving shaft u. When the can o¹ is
in revolution, a reciprocating vibratory motion will be imparted to the lever m²
whereby the toothed sector will be made to turn the gear k¹, first in one and next
in the opposite way, whereby the skein introducer will be drawn in between and
next out of the binding warps. Each binding warp goes partly about one or more
pulleys or sheaves pl, drawn downward by a weight q¹ to each such pulley and
weight being to keep the warp at a proper tension.
The belt of skeins after emerging from the drying apparatus, passes down an
inclined plane H, and underneath a presser bar I, arranged above the plane and
resting on the band so as to prevent it from being pulled sideways off the inclined
plano by the binding warps, while they are drawn laterally out of the belt.
On each side of the path of the belt down the inclined plane, there is arranged a
series of guide pulleys ', against the peripheries of which the several next adjacent
binding warps are run: the said pulleys being arranged so as to cause the warps to
be drawn laterally out from between the skeins from whence they each pass partly
about a pulley 8¹. Thence they pass to and partly around guide pulleys u¹, thence
around other guide pulleys t, and the weighted sheaves; thence to and over a
pulley v, pivoted to the table as represented. Each set of warps, between which
the presser is arranged has a separate mechanism as described, for extracting it
from the skeins.
The drying chamber or box is to have within or applied to it, some suitable
means of heating the air, passing through it, such as shown, being a series of pipes t
properly arranged for steam to pass through them and heat them.
From the above it will be seen, that the skeins in a wet state, as they usually
are after being washed, are to be successively introduced into the shed of the warps
and that such warps are to be woven upon the skeins in a manner very like that in
which warps are woven on weft threads in the weaving of cloth; also that, the
belt of skeins is moved forward through the drying apparatus, and after exit
therefrom, the warps are drawn Interally out of the belt, and the skeins are forced
down and off the inclined plane H.
The skein introducer has mechanism for depressing it out of engagement with
the skein, after the latter may have been drawn into the shed of the warps. The
introducer slides through a block w, which is movable in guides x¹, ¹, and is
pivoted to a rod y², that is pivoted to a lever y¹, which at the proper time is moved
by a cam ¹, to throw it upward, and to depress it. Fig. 6 is a view of this
mechanism; such view exhibiting the cam as fixed on the driving shaft.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The combination substantially as described, for interweaving a series of skeins
and a series of binding warps such combination consisting of the slotted table B,
and the warp carrying rods b, the skein introducer h, and the beater F, and their
operative mechanism essentially as described and represented.
2. The combination of the series of endless warps provided with mechanism
substantially as described, for supporting them and maintaining them at proper
tension, with the table B, and the warp carrying rods b, the skein introducer h and
the benter F, provided with mechanism for operating them, essentially as set forth.

page_text: 3. The combination of the series of endless warps provided with mechanism,
substantially as described for supporting them and maintaining them at proper
tension, with the table B, and the warp carrying rods b, the skein introducer h, and
the beater F, having mechanism for operating them, as explained, and also with the
drying box or chamber, and the inclined plane H, and presser bar I and rollers
substantially as described for extracting the warps all being essentially and for the
purpose or purposes as specified.