An Improved Process and Apparatus for the Production, in a Single Operation Directly from Cops or Bobbins, of Warps Ready for Weaving.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1900-Accepted, 17th Mar.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Process and Apparatus for the Production, in a Single
Operation Directly from Cops or Bobbins, of Warps Ready for
Weaving.
A communication by ROSE BERNHEIM, of Ffersee-Augsburg, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of War-
wick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a process and apparatus for the production by
means of a single machine of warps ready for weaving, that is to say the pro-
duction of sized, "grey" and coloured (dyed) warps in one operation direct from
the cops or bobbins received from the spinning mill.
This process consists in the cops or bobbins being arranged in one plane and
the yarn wound off the same being drawn together in groups or sections to form
a warp and conveyed through a horizontal row of holes, then over a roller, and
from this latter passed in the form of a warp through dyeing and sizing troughs
and wringing or pressing out rollers and then over drying drums, the warp,
after the opening out of the groups or sections, being then passed over a measur-
ing roller and wound up on rollers in such a way that from these rollers warp
beams of variable length and width may be composed.
By this improved method as contrasted with the methods and apparatuses
hitherto employed for making "grey" and coloured warps, the various manipu-
lations such as spooling winding and warping are dispensed with.
This means a considerable saving of wages of operatives, working power, space
and time and thus allows of a considerable reduction in the costs of manufacture.
A further advantage of this process lies in the hitherto necessary large stocks
of bobbins of warp being dispensed with.
In order to carry out the process herein before described a machine is employed
which is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section and Figure 2 a plan view, whilst Figures 3,
4, 5, 6 and 7 show various details of the machine in elevation and section.
The machine is composed of four devices I, II, III and IV and the construction
and mode of working according to the hereinbefore mentioned process. is as.
follows:
I is the winding off device for the spun yarn. It consists of two parts, namely,
a table 1 and a frame 2 removably mounted thereon, which is intended to
receive the cops, bobbins, pirns and cross-spools or ordinary spools 3. On the
floor of this frame the cops are mounted outside the table on spindles in about
10 rows of 10 each one behind the other. On this frame 10 metal bars 4 are
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page_text: arranged above in an oblique row.
The yarns 9 of each 10 cops, which stand
one behind the other, are then combined in groups or sections and carried over
the said bars 4 (or in place of the latter through eyelets) thence through eyelets 5
in the frame and from there are conveyed over a brush roller.7 and in groups
or sections through a narrower row of eyelets 6. The brush roller 7 (or in place
thereof a plush receiver 7, Figure 3) has for its object to smooth and clean the
yarn. In order to accommodate ordinary flanged spools or bobbins, frames are
employed which are provided with horizontally placed spindles 11 as supports
for the spools or bobbins, Figure 3.
Said frame 2 is erected with the yarn threads already arranged thereon on the
table 1, and can be replaced on this latter without further trouble by another
frame arranged in a similar manner when the ends of the yarns have run off the
cops of the first one. The simple exchange of the empty frame on the table. 1
for a full one is rapidly effected and the interruption of working of the machine
for the purpose of inserting fresh material is accordingly of very short duration.
According to requirements several such frames filled with cops or spools are
arranged one behind the other or side by side on the table 1.
In order to brake the yarns 9 which are to be wound off the cops 3 (bobbins)
metal caps 10 are placed on the cops and the yarns run through these caps.
After the winding off device I there follows' the dyeing and sizing device II
through which the warp of grouped yarns is passed. This device II consists of
one or more troughs 12 containing the mordanting dyeing and sizing baths.
These troughs are so arranged that they may be easily and rapidly changed.
For this object they are inserted in holders 13 of wrought iron which are provided
at the 4 corners with racks 14: In these latter there engage pinions 15 which
are mounted on the machine standards and provided with cranks, whereby the
holders 13 with the troughs may be let down on to stands 16 erected beneath.
The troughs let down may be easily removed from these stands 16 and replaced
by troughs containing other baths, which latter troughs are then hoisted up
by means of the rack gearing 14 and 15.
The rollers 17 and 18 over and under which the warp 9 is conveyed through
the baths, are mounted on the machine standards 19, as also are the expressing
rollers 20 through which the warp has to pass. 21 are hoppers for refilling the
liquid whilst 22 are taps which serve for emptying the baths.
According to the extent of the effect or colour desired any suitable number of
troughs may be employed.
III is a drying device for the warp 9 over which the latter is carried after
leaving the device II. This drying device consists of drums 23 which are heated
by steam. For this object these drums are formed of two concentric cylindrical
casings 23 and 24 between which steam is admitted. The latter is conveyed
from 25 into the hollow space 26 in the drum axle and from thence through a
pipe 27 into the annular space of the drum (see Figure 7 in detail view) where
it circulates. The waste steam is conveyed through a pipe 28 into another
hollow space 29 in the drum axle and from thence through a pipe 30..to the
condenser.
The warp 9 is conveyed round the drying drums by means of guide rollers 31,
and in order to prevent it slipping off laterally over the ends of the drum, the
said ends are somewhat raised.
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32 are ventilators which in addition to accelerating the drying effect a cooling.
of the lavers of air surrounding the drum.
Behind the drying arrangement there is a beaming device IV mounted in the
machine standards. In this device there is a reed 33 through which the warp is
passed in order to divide the groups 9 into the separate yarns. The then divided
warp is afterwards carried from the reed 33. over a measuring roller 34 to a
roller 35 and wound on the latter, the said roller 35. being removably mounted
on its spindle. For this object it is composed of a sleeve 35 provided with, a
Jongitudinal spline or rib on its inner side as shown in detail in. Figures 4 and 5.

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This sleeve is mounted on a hollow shaft 37 in such a way that the rib 36 of the
sleeve engages in a longitudinal groove in the shaft 37.
One end of the warp is fastened on the roller 35. in the ordinary way and then
the warp is wound thereon, it being braked and pressed by means of a weighted
lever 47 and roller 48.
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A suitably large number of sleeves or cylinders 85 are kept in stock to corre-
spond with the difference in counts of the warps. Discs 38 adjustably and
removably mounted on the shaft 37 are placed on both sides of the sleeve or
cylinder 35 at the moment it is placed on the shaft 37. These discs ensure that
the wound-on warp tallies at both sides exactly, with the outer edges of the sleeve
or cylinder, when the latter, together with the warp wound thereon, is removed
from off the shaft 37.
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Warp, beams of variable width may be composed of rollers 35 provided in the
manner herein before described with dyed and sized yarn, a suitable number of
the sleeves or cylinders 35 with yarn wound thereon being placed on a shaft 39,
Figure 4, provided with a longitudinal groove and arranged closely together.
In Figure 4 two such sleeves 35 are shown arranged side by side as an example.
The warp beam shaft 39 has on one side a fixed disc 40 against which the
sleeves 35 with the yarn wound thereon are. placed. After a suitable number of
rollers 35 have been juxtaposed a second similar disc is placed, on the last roller
and keyed fast on the shaft 39.
The warp roller 35 Figures 1 and 2 is driven by means of a belt pulley 41
which is set in motion by means of a belt and pulley 42. The speed of rotation
of the roller 35 may be regulated by means of a brake device 43 arranged at the
side of the driving pulley 41 and operated by a hand wheel 44. The driving of
the belt pulley 42 and the expressing rollers 20 takes place by means of a belt
pulley 49 on a shaft 45 and bevel gear 46.
The drying cylinders 23 are rotated by the pull of the warp 9.
50 is a push rod with a device for throwing the belt pulley 49 out of action.
This device 49 and 50 for throwing the machine in or out of action' may be
located as desired on the front or rear end of the machine.
In addition to the advantages already enumerated this improved method has
the following: It yields an easily transportable warp capable of being composed
and combined as desired; it enables at any time a broader or narrower warp to
be rapidly prepared by a suitable juxtaposition of a greater or less number of
rollers; and also it allows of the easy conversion of a broad warp into 'a narrower
one or a narrow warp into a broader one.
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An Improved Process and Apparatus for the Production, in a Single
Operation Directly from Cops or Bobbins, of Warps Ready for
Weaving.
A communication by ROSE BERNHEIM, of. Ffersee-Augsburg, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer.
Dive Trascico
MIME of the Agency for Foreign

page_text: in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of War-
wick, and 322, High Holborn, in the. County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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:-
This invention has for its object a process and apparatus for the production by
means of a single machine of warps ready for weaving, that is to say the pro-
duction of sized, "grey" and coloured (dyed), warps in one operation direct from
the cops or bobbins received from the spinning mill.
This process, consists in the cops or bobbins being arranged in one plane and
the yarn wound off the same being drawn together in groups or sections to form
a warp and conveyed through a horizontal row of holes, then over a roller, and
from this latter passed in the form of a warp through dyeing and sizing troughs
and wringing or pressing out rollers and then over drying drums, the warp,
after the opening out of the groups or sections, being then passed over a measur-
ing roller and wound up on rollers in such a way that from these rollers warp
beams of variable length and width may be composed..
By this improved method as contrasted with the methods and apparatuses
hitherto employed for making "grey" and coloured warps, the various manipu-
lations such as spooling winding and warping are dispensed with.
This means a considerable saving of wages of operatives, working power, space
and time and thus allows of a considerable reduction in the costs of manufacture.
A further advantage of this process lies in the hitherto necessary large stocks
of bobbins of warp being dispensed with.
In order to carry out the process hereinbefore described a machine is employed.
which is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section and Figure 2 a plan view, whilst Figures 3,
4, 5, 6 and 7 show various details of the machine in elevation and section.
The machine is composed of four devices I, II, III and IV and the construction
and mode of working according to the hereinbefore mentioned process is as
follows:-
I is the winding off device for the spun yarn. It consists of two parts, namely,
a table 1 and a frame 2 removably mounted thereon, which is intended to
receive the cops, bobbins, pirns and cross-spools or ordinary spools 3. On the
floor of this frame the cops are mounted outside the table on spindles in about
10 rows of 10 each one behind the other. On this frame 10 metal bars 4 aro
arranged above in an oblique row. The yarns 9 of each 10 cops, which stand
one behind the other, are then combined in groups or sections and carried over
the said bars 4 (or in place of the latter through eyelets) thence through eyelets 5
in the frame and from there are conveyed over a brush roller 7 and in groups
or sections through a narrower row of eyelets 6. The brush roller 7 (or in place
thereof a plush receiver 7, Figure 3) has for its object to smooth and clean the
yarn. In order to accommodate ordinary Hanged spools or bobbins, frames are
employed which are provided with horizontally placed spindles 11 as supports
for the spools or bobbins, Figure 3.
Said frame 2 is erected with the yarn threads already arranged thereon on the
table 1, and can be replaced on this latter without further trouble by another
frame arranged in a similar manner when the ends of the yarns have run off the
cops of the first one. The simple exchange of the empty frame on the table 1
for a full one is rapidly effected and the interruption of working of the machine
for the purpose of inserting fresh material is accordingly of very short duration.
According to requirements several such frames filled with cops or spools are
arranged one behind the other or side by side on the table 1.
In order to brake the yarns 9 which are to be wound off the cops 3 (bobbins)
metal or the like caps 10 are placed on the cops and the yarns run through
these caps.

page_text: After the winding off device I there follows the dyeing and sizing device II
through which the warp of grouped yarns is passed. This device II consists of
one or more troughs 12 containing the mordanting dyeing and sizing baths.
These troughs are so arranged that they may be easily and rapidly changed.
For this object they are inserted in holders 13 of wrought iron which are provided
at the 4 corners with racks 14. In these latter there engage pinions 15 which
are mounted on the machine standards and provided with cranks, whereby the
holders 13 with the troughs may be let down on to stands 16 erected beneath.
The troughs let down may be easily removed from these stands 16 and replaced
by troughs containing other baths, which latter troughs are then hoisted up
by means of the rack gearing 14 and 15.
The rollers 17 and 18 over and under which the warp 9 is conveyed through
the baths, are mounted on the machine standards 19, as also are the expressing
rollers 20 through which the warp has to pass. 21 are hoppers for refilling the
liquid whilst 22 are taps which serve for emptying the baths.
According to the extent of the effect or colour desired any suitable number of
troughs may be employed.
III is a drying device for the warp 9 over which the latter is carried after
leaving the device II. This drying device consists of drums 23 which are heated
by steam. For this object these drums are formed of two concentric cylindrical
casings 23 and 24 between which steam is admitted. The latter is conveyed
from 25 into the hollow space 26 in the drum axle and from thence through a
pipe 27 into the annular space of the drumi (see Figure 7 in detail view) where
it circulates. The waste steam is conveyed through a pipe 28 into another
hollow space 29 in the drum axle and from thence through a pipe 30 to the
condenser.
The warp 9 is conveyed round the drying drums by means of guide rollers 31,
and in order to prevent it slipping off laterally over the ends of the drum, the
said ends are somewhat raised.
32 are ventilators which in addition to accelerating the drying, effect a cooling
of the layers of air surrounding the drum.
Behind the drying arrangement there is a beaming device IV mounted in the
machine standards. In this device there is a reed 33 through which the warp is
passed in order to divide the groups 9 into the separate yarns. The then divided
warp is afterwards carried from the reed 33 over a measuring roller 34 to a
roller 35 and wound on the latter, the said roller 35 being removably mounted
on its spindle. For this, object it is composed of a sleeve 35 provided with a
longitudinal spline or rib on its inner side as shown in detail in Figures 4 and 5.
This sleeve is mounted on a hollow shaft 37 in such a way that the rib 36 of the
sleeve engages in a longitudinal groove in the shaft 37.
One end of the warp is fastened on the roller 35 in the ordinary way and then.
the warp is wound thereon, it being braked and pressed by means of a weighted
lever 47 and roller 48.
A suitably large number of sleeves or cylinders 35 are kept in stock to corré-
spond with the difference in "
counts"
of the warps. Discs 38 adjustably and
removably mounted on the shaft 37 are placed on both sides of the sleeve or
cylinder 35 at the moment it is placed on the shaft 37. These discs ensure that
the wound-on warp tallies at both sides exactly with the outer edges of the sleeve
or cylinder when the latter, together with the warp wound thereon, is removed
from off the shaft 37.
Warp beams of variable width may be composed of rollers 35 provided in the
manner hereinbefore described with dyed and sized yarn, a suitable number of
the sleeves or cylinders 35 with yarn wound thereon being placed on a shaft 39,
Figure 4, provided with a longitudinal groove and arranged closely together.
In Figure 4 two such sleeves 35 are shown arranged side by side as an example.
The warp beam shaft 39 has on one side a fixed disc 40 against which the

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sleeves 35 with the yarn wound thereon are placed. After a suitable number of
ollers 35 have been juxtaposed a second similar disc, is placed on the last roller
and keyed fast on the shaft 39.
The warp roller 35, Figures 1 and 2, is driven by means of a belt pulley 41
which is set in motion by means of a belt and pulley 42. The speed of rotation
of the roller 35 may be regulated by means of a brake device 43 arranged at the
side of the driving pulley 41 and operated by a hand wheel 44. The driving of
the belt pulley 42 and the expressing rollers 20 takes place by means of a belt
pulley 49 on a shaft 45 and bevel
46.
gear
The drying cylinders 23 are rotated by the pull of the warp 9.
50 is a push rod with a device for throwing the belt pulley 49 out of action.
This device 49 and 50 for throwing the machine in or out of action may be
located as desired on the front or rear end of the machine.
In addition to the advantages already enumerated this improved method has
the following-It yields an easily transportable warp capable of being composed
and combined as desired; it enables at any time a broader or narrower warp to
be rapidly prepared by a suitable juxtaposition of a greater or less number of
rollers; and also it allows of the easy conversion of a broad warp into a narrower
one or a narrow warp into a broader one!
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be preformed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
1. The method of making warps ready for weaving directly from cops or
bobbins by means of a single machine consisting in the threads of the cops or
bobbins located in one plane in front of the machine being drawn together in
groups or sections to form a warp, and in this form conveyed for the purpose
of being dyed or sized, or dyed and sized, and also dried and beamed in one
operation, over rollers and through dyeing and sizing baths, and also wringing
or pressing out rollers and over drying rollers, and being wound up on rollers
after the sections have been opened out, in such a way that warp beams of
variable length and width may be composed from these rollers at any time, sub-
stantially as herein before set forth.
2. A machine for carrying out the hereinbefore described method of making
warps, comprising a removably mounted frame (2) carrying the cops or the like
arranged on its floor in rows, together with bars or guiding devices (4, 5 and 6)
which combine the rows of yarns into groups or sections lying in warp form
adjacent to one another, and partly form an inclined plane, and a smoothing
and cleansing device (7) placed behind the bars (4), in combination with dyeing
and sizing bath troughs (12) removable downwardly by means of rack gearing (14
and 15), as well as drying drums or cylinders (23) arranged behind said troughs
and provided with an annular outer casing heated by steam or the like, with
which is combined a reed for dividing the warp groups, and behind these a
removably mounted roller (35) of suitable width on which the yarn is wound, said
roller taking the yarn between two adjustable discs (38); in such a way that warp
beams of variable width or length may be composed at any time from a number
of such rollers substantially as described.
3. In a machine such as described, a drying drum or cylinder in which the
annular space for the circulation of steam is formed of two concentric cylin-
ders (23 and 24) between which the fresh steam is admitted on one side through
the axle of the drum and the waste steam discharged on the other side through the
axle, the surface of the drum over which the yarn is to pass being provided with
raised ends in order to prevent the yarn warp from slipping off, substantially as
described.
4. In a machine such as described the arrangement of a device for braking the
threads running off the cops, said device consisting of metal or the like caps (10)

page_text: placed on the cops, provided with holes for the threads, and braking the running
off threads through their own weight, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of January 1900.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.