IM-. TMACHE BAD BEANING AND SIZING VADN
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dickinson, Machinist and Cotton Manu-
facturer, and William Parkinson, Machine Manager, both of
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IM-.
TMACHE BAD BEANING AND SIZING VADN "
Sealed the 21st November 1871, and dated the 26th May 1871..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dickinson
and William Parkinson at the Office of the Commissioners.of..
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th May 1871.
We, WILLIAM DICKINSON, Machinist and Cotton Manufacturer, and
WILLIAM PARKINSON, Machine Manager, both. of Blackburn, in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention"
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BEAMING: AND SIZING YARN," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates,, firstly, to beaming, and building, the yarn on
the beams so as to dispense with the flanges and thus prevent the
damage by friction and. breakage of the yarn.occasioned by tho-flanges;;
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page_text: this we effect by means of a contracting "rathe." When a portion of
the yarn is beamed the contracting "rathe" will gradually contract the
yarn so as to build a beam having tapered or angle ends.
Secondly. To an improved construction of conc drums and driving
belt therefor. The cones we construct much shorter than usual, and
employ for driving them a ring belt or strap, that is, a belt forming an
annular ring; this form adapts itself to the cones.
Thirdly. To an improved means of doffing a full beam of sized yarn
and replacing an empty one. Supported by brackets attached to the
end of the frame of the machine is a cross shaft on which are two ]
double arms having clip ends, the sized or weaver's beam is supported
by the clip ends of one pair of arms, the clips of the other pair support
o' carry an empty beam; when the sized beam is to be doffed or re-
moved the arms carrying the beams are turned on their supporting shaft
and the empty beam takes the place of the full one removed, this
construction greatly facilitates the removal and replacement of beams
and thus prevents the damage to the yarn whilst stationary on the
drying cylinders and prevents the size leaking or coating the squeezing
roller in the sow box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said William Dickinson and William Parkinson in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th November 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
DICKINSON, Machinist and Cotton Manufacturer, and WILLIAM PAR-
KINSON, Machine Manager, both of Blackburn, in the County of 2
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Ier
Letters Patent, bearing dato the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 3
give and grant unto us, the said William Dickinson and William
Parkinson, Her special licence, that we, the said William Dickinson
and William Parkinson, our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said William Dickinson and William Parkinson,
our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, 3

page_text: 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR BEAMING AND SIZING YARN," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Dickinson and William Parkinson,
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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Dickinson and William
l'arkinson, 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 and Sheet of
Drawings (that is to say) :-
Our Invention relates to an improved means of doffing a full beam
of sized yarn and replacing an empty one. Supported by brackets
attached to the end of the frame of the machine is a cross shaft on
which are two double arms having clip ends, the sized or weaver's beam
is supported by the clip ends of one pair of arms, the clips of the other
pair support or carry an empty beam. When the sized beam is to be
doffed or removed the arms carrying the beams are turned on their
supporting shaft and the empty beam takes the place of the full onc
removed. This construction greatly facilitates the removal and re-
placement of beams and thus prevents the damage to the yarn whilst
stationary on the drying cylinders and prevents the size baking or
coating the squeezing roller in the
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 clearly understood we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of
Drawings and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference
in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of such part of a sizing machine as
our Invention relates to, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; Fig. 3
a detail or detached view.
A, A, are the side frames to which are the brackets B, B, supporting
the shafts C. C. the latter carry the arms D. D the sized or
WARA..

page_text: beam E and E' are carried by the said arms.
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When the beam E' is full
the arms D, D, are turned on the supporting shaft C and the empty
beam E takes the place of the full beam E. The.gearing for driving
the beam consists of the pinion G on the cone-drum shaft H gearing
with the carrier wheel H' the pinion J, on the shaft J', carrier wheel K,
the wheel K' gearing with the wheel L, the latter working on a
stud fixed to the arm or lever M, the wheel L also gears with the
pinion N, the latter being on the "horse head" or coupling shaft P, a
similar pinion being attached to the other end of the arm D. In order
to change the position of the beams for the purpose of doffling or
removing a full beam the lever M is raised on its fulcrum S thereby
lifting out of gear the wheel L so that (sco Fig. 3, detached view) the
beam E and its pinion M will take the position occupied by the full
beam E', and on the lever M being lowered the connection of gearing is
again completed.
Having thus fully described and illustrated the nature of the said
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, we would have it distinctly
understood that we claim, the construction and application of the
apparatus for facilitating the doffing of the sized beams substantially as
berein described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Parkinson for and on
behalf of myself and the said William Dickinson, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
Ano
WILLIAM PARKINSON. (L.B.),
"Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn.