AN IMPROVED WARPING AND BEAMING MILL
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George White, of 7", Pancras Lane, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED WARPING AND BEAMING
MILL. A communication from abroad by Mr. Caspar Honegger, of
Rüti, Switzerland.
Sealed the 2nd April 1861, and dated the 22nd January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George White at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd January
1861.
I, GEORGE WHITE, of 7, Pancras Lane, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED WARPING AND
BEAMING MILL," that it has been communicated to me from abroad by
Mr. Caspar Honegger, of Rüti, Switzerland, to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to an improved mill for warping and beaming yarns
or threads from the bobbins on which the silk or other fibrous material is
placed previously to being warped.
The mill consists of a strong frame, in which the arbor of a horizontal reel
is caused to revolve by means of suitable gearing; the reel is formed of smooth
wooden bars fixed at the required distances apart on the periphery of a suitable

page_text: number of circular metal washers parallel to each other, and through the
center of which passes the arbor of the reel; and in order to allow the reel
while partaking of the revolving motion of the arbor to glide with a suitable
traversing motion over the said arbor, this latter is provided with a longitudinal
groove, in which is inserted a guide piece fixed to the washers. At the end
of the reel at which the winding-on commences, its diameter is larger than
that of the opposite end, part of the length of the reel forming at the said
larger end a sort of truncated cone, in order to cause the thread coiled up
thereon to glide from this part on the remainder or cylindrical part of the
reel. The arbor of this latter passes through a boss with which the second
washer, beginning from the conical end of the reel, is provided; to the opposite
end of this boss is fixed a pinion in gear with a tooth wheel, in the centre of
which forms a female screw or nut, in which is inserted a corresponding male
screw, which latter may at pleasure be kept in the fixed position, or be allowed
to revolve in the direction required for causing the reel to traverse in the
opposite direction of its conical end; while this screw is kept in its fixed
position, the reel while revolving is caused at the same time to traverse in tho
direction of its conical end. The threads or yarns proceeding from the
bobbins situated in a suitable creel are drawn through a moveable lease reed
and heck, and are made to coil on the reel, beginning towards the top of the s
truncated cone end of this latter, from which cone, by the traversing and
revolving motion of the reel, the coil may glide on the cylindrical part of the
reel. A tell-tale is connected to the arbor of the reel, and in order that after
this latter baving traversed to the required distance the same may be caused
to recede, provision is made for allowing to stop the motion of the reel, and
cause the screw over which this latter had traversed, and which screw had
remained stationary, to revolve in the direction requisite for causing the reel
to recede and wind up or coil another portion of the warp thereon. The beam
on which the warp is to be wound after proceeding from the reel is situated
behind and underneath this latter, and is fixed with its trunnions in a revolving
axle turning in suitable bearings in the frame of the mill, and in gear with the
other moving parts. The mill may be driven by manual or any other suitable
moving power, and is provided with suitable fast and loose pulleys, and suitablo
gearing for communicating motion to the required parts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
the said George White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE,
WHITE, of 73, Pancras Lane, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George White, Her special licence that I, the said George White, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
White, my 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 "AN IMPROVED WARPING AND
BEAMING MILL," it has been communicated to me from abroad by Mr. Caspar
Honegger, of Rüti, Switzerland, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George White, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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, 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 I, the said George White, 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 state-
ment:-
The Invention relates to an improved mill for warping and beaming yarns
or threads of silk, cotton, or other fibrous materials.
In the annexed Drawings, the Figs. 1, 2, & 3 respectively represent a front,
back, and side elevation view of a warping mill constructed according to this
Invention; Fig. 4 is a top view of the same; whereas the Figs. 5, 6, 7, & 8,
show views of separate parts thereof. In order to offer less confusion, and
make the whole easier understood, some parts in some of the Figures are left
out, and others represented as partly cut off; corresponding parts are in all
the Figures indicated by the same letters of reference.

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The mill consists of a strong frame of cast iron, wood, or other suitable
material, formed of two standards or side pieces A & A', fixed at foot in solid
bed plates or feet A², and connected by cross-bars or stretchers A³ & A', so as
to afford sufficient steadiness to the whole. In this frame is mounted the reel
on which the yarn is to be wound, and which by suitable pinions and tooth
wheels, the arrangement of which may be varied according to circumstances,
receives motion either by means of a winch handle or of driving pulleys X, X';
this reel is formed of a series of horizontal smooth wooden bars B, the ends of
which are fixed parallel to each other on the periphery of five or more washers
or light iron wheels B', B', B', B', & B', of exactly the same diameter
wheels B, B, B', & B, are provided towards the centre with a feather
gliding in a corresponding longitudinal slot hole d formed in the arbor or
shaft C, so as to admit the wheels to traverse along the arbor c whilst par-
ticipating in the revolving motion of the arbor C. At the outside and towards
one end each of these bars B', B³, B³, B', & B, is provided with a short
rail 6 forming incline, and fixed to the bar by means of a set screw b¹, one of
which set screws & is shown in Fig. 3, the entire of these rails thus forming a
sort of conical incline round that end of the reel where the rails are situated.
The arbor C passes through a boss D with which the wheel B' is provided, the
free end of which boss has a pinion D¹ in gear with a tooth wheel D³, the
short boss of which forms a screw nut for a corresponding screw E to work in,
by means of which screw the reel on revolving will at the same time be caused
to traverse or advance towards one of the ends of the mill, according to the
direction in which the reel, and consequently the pinion D¹, the wheel D',
and boss D³. The arbor C is provided with a spur wheel F gearing into a
pinion F fixed at one end of the arbor of the driving pulleys X, X'. It is on
the reel that the yarns proceeding from the bobbins in a creel are to be wound
for forming a regular warp by successive portions or knots, the length of which
portions may be regulated at pleasure. The yarns or threads on unwinding
from the bobbins pass into a lease reed I, and are attached to the lease pins
on the cross-piece M of the reel; the winding of the first knot or portions of
the warp on the reel must begin at the spot where the ends of the inclined
rails are flush with the wooden bars B, as by the revolution of the rcel the
threads will continue to coil themselves on wire formed by the inclined rails,
whilst by the traversing motion of the reel each successive coiling will be
caused to glide from the said cones on the wooden bars, so as finally fully to
cover these latter. The end N of the arbor of the reel is connected by a
pinion N¹ to a spur wheel N, the boss of which forms a worm N³ gearing into

page_text: a worm wheel N' driving the spindle N³ of a tell-tale N°, för indicating the
number of revolutions of the reel, and consequently the portions or lengths of
warp coiled on this latter. The first knot having thus been wound on, the same
is cut, and in order to wind on a second knot the reel is to be carried back
previously to its original position, which is done by the following means:->
G is a forked lever arm, represented separately in front and in side view
respectively in the Figs. 5 & 6; the lower end g of this lever forms a spring,
and is fixed to the standard A, the fork G¹ of this lever takes round the boss
of a spur wheel H, for driving back and connecting when required this latter >
with the driving pulleys X, X', or disengaging the same therefrom; in the
first case the wheel H by coming into gear as by a clutch with the pulley X,
causes the screw E to turn in the direction required for carrying back the
screw nut Ds, and with it the reel towards the standard A, till this nut D³ in
pressing against the lever arm G by means of its conical shape will lift this
lever arm, and thereby disengage the same from the second notch h³ of a
double notched bracket h (shown separately respectively in front and in side
view in the Figs. 7 & 8), in which it had been laid for the purpose, the lever
arm thus becoming free, will, by the action of the spring be carried back to
its original position, and thereby disengage the wheel H from the driving
pulleys, prevent any further backward traversing motion of the reel, as both
the wheel H and the screw E will be prevented from turning any further.
The reel has now resumed the position the same occupied at the beginning of
the coiling on of the first knot; for commencing a new one, the heck I must
be carried forward at a distance corresponding exactly with the width occupied
in the heck by the first knot, by which means the second one will join exactly
the first one, and so on for each succeeding one; for this purpose the heck I
is fixed to a screw nut i, in which works the corresponding screw J actuated
by a winch handle or hand wheel j, for causing the heck I to traverse for the
required distance along the reel. After the warp has been sufficiently coiled
on the reel, I cause the same at once to be wound over the roller K on the
ordinary warp beam L, which latter has a revolving motion imparted to it by
suitable gearing connected with that of the reel, and has at the same time a
reciprocating traversing motion imparted to it, in order that the warp should
wind itself more regularly on this beam. A break P actuated by a lever
arm P¹ serves for imparting the-necessary tension on the warp, which break
may serve likewise for regulating the speed of the revolving motion of the..
reel, the arbor C of which being connected by means of a friction plato Q to
the pinion D'.--The yarns or threads of silk, cotton, or other fibrous materials

page_text: are unwound from the bobbins situated in the ordinary manner in a vertical
creel in a position suitable for this unwinding.
Having now described the nature of the Invention, and the manner in which
the same is carried into effect, I would remark in conclusion, that I do not
confine myself to the shape or form, or the precise details of the above
described warping and beaming mill, as long as the peculiar character of the
same be retained; but what I claim is, the general arrangement and mode of
working of the herein-before described warping and beaming mill for yarns or
threads of silk, cotton, or other fibrous materials.
In witness whereof, I, the said George White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
GEO. WHITE.
(L.B.)