Improvements in the Treatment of Cotton or Linen Warps, or Warp Yarns, for Weaving Purposes
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment of Cotton or Linen Warps, or Warp
Yarns, for Weaving Purposes.
I, THOMAS PICKLES, of Cairo Mills, Burnley, Lancashire, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to the treatment of cotton or linen warps, or warp yarns,
for weaving purposes, and have for object the greater facility for sizing such warp
yarns when the same have been cleansed, bleached, dyed, or otherwise prepared
during or after the winding of the same upon the warp beams or back beams.
When such yarns have been so treated upon the beams, and when the consequent
moisture has been to a large extent extracted from the yarn, by any means, there is
still, for the most part, a residue of moisture remaining therein, which detracts
materially from the effectiveness of the sizing operation following.
To more completely get rid of this residual moisture, and so render the yarn
capable of taking up the required amount of size, and also to accomplish my
improvements, I employ, in connection with the sizing apparatus, whether the same
is a tape or slashing, or other dressing, sizing, or preparing machine, one or more
additional or supplementary drying cylinders, over or round which the yarn is
caused to pass on its way from the beam upon which it has been treated, to the
"sough" box of the sizing machine; by which means the yarn has driven off there-
from the moisture remaining from the prior preparation, and is more effectually
sized or dressed for weaving purposes.
Variations in detail may be made, such as in the form, position and number of
the supplemental cylinder or cylinders and their relation to the "sough" box, and
more than one "sough" box may be employed, without departing from the peculiar
character of the invention.
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WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment of Cotton or Linen Warps, or Warp
Yarns, for Weaving Purposes.
I, THOMAS PICKLES, of Cairo Mills, Burnley, Lancashire, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The improvements relate to the treatment of cotton or linen warps, or warp yarns,
for weaving purposes, and have for object the greater facility for sizing such warp
yarns when the same have been cleansed, bleached, dyed, or otherwise prepared
during or after the winding of the same upon the warp beams or back beams.
When such yarns have been so treated upon the beams, and when the consequent
moisture has been to a large extent extracted from the yaru, by any means at
present in use, there is still, for the most part, a residue of moisture remaining
therein, which detracts materially from the effectiveness of the sizing operation
following.
To more completely get rid of this residual moisture, and so render the yarn

page_text: capable of properly taking up the required amount of size, and also to accomplish
my improvements, I employ, in connection with the sizing apparatus, whether the
same is a tape or slashing, or other dressing, sizing, or preparing machine, one or
more additional or supplementary drying cylinders, over or round which the yarn is
caused to pass on its way from the beam upon which it has been treated, to the
sough" box of the sizing machine; by which means the yarn has driven off
therefrom the moisture remaining from the prior preparation, and is more effectually
sized or dressed for weaving purposes.
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In apparatus for the sizing of yarns as at present for the most part employed, the
yarn is drawn direct from the warp beam to the sough or size box, and is sized
without any intermediate treatment, afterwards passing over a drying cylinder or
cylinders to remove the moisture of the size.
By my invention this ordinary process is only employed after the yarn, from the
treated warp beam, has been dried upon the special supplementary drying cylinder
or cylinders which I employ between such warp beam and the sough box. The
supplementary cylinders themselves may be of the ordinary or any convenient
description, as I do not claim such apparatus per se, but in special combination, as
described.
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Variations in detail may be made, such as in the form, position and number of
the supplemental cylinder or cylinders and their relation to the "sough box, and
more than one 66
sough "box may be employed, without departing from the peculiar
character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In the treatment of cotton or linen warps or warp yarns for weaving purposes,
the combination of ordinary sizing and drying apparatus with one or more
supplementary drying cylinders, over which the damp or prepared yarn from the
warp beam is first caused to pass on its way to the "sough or sizing box or boxes,
for the purpose and in manner substantially as herein set forth.
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WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.