A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR 'TIEING IN' WARPS
Year: 1884

page_text: "Tieing in " Warps.
I, JOSEPH PICKLES BINNS, of 21, Wolseley Terrace, Halifax, Yorkshire, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE
OR APPARATUS FOR 'TIEING IN' WARPS," to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to-apparatus to be employed in tieing into a knot
two or more threads together, and for which purpose prior Letters Patents have
been granted to me bearing dates the 25th day of May A.D. 1872, Nº 1599 and the
25th day of April A.D. 1883 N° 2098.
My present invention consists in the employment of entirely new apparatus for
tieing knots and in passing such knotted threads onto a cord. For the purpose of
carrying out my invention I employ two reciprocatory rods, which I call thread
moving rods, having suitable shaped ends. These rods are employed for receiving
and carrying the threads forward to be operated upon, and after the knot is tied
the said threads are placed upon a horizontal travelling cord by the reciprocatory
rods, so as to make room for the next succeeding threads. Hinged to these rods
are short sliding bars, which in conjunction with the said rods are caused to
reciprocate by a set of cams, whilst another set of cams cause the rods to rise for
the purpose of lifting the tied threads onto the travelling cords; the rods lowering
again by a spring or by their own weight when liberated by the cains.
Before the knot is tied it is necessary to cut the selected threads to a suitable
length, and this is accomplished by a pair of shears, fully shown in the drawings
and described in the Specification of my former Patent, dated 25th April, A.D. 1883,
No 2098.
The warp threads are tied into a knot by means of various forms of instruments
and a brush, to be hereinafter described. The first instrument employed for this
purpose I prefer to call a thread supplier, which consists of a pair of jaws similar
to pliers, the said jaws being opened and closed at the proper time by the use of
a tumbling lever, spring, and inclined plane, during the reciprocatory motion of
the said jaws, which is imparted by a rotary cam and spring; another rotary cam
being employed to give the instrument along with its headstock a transverse
motion. The jaws are employed for seizing, holding, and placing the threads in
the required positions, and for giving or feeding forward the necessary quantity of

page_text: thread to form a loop. The next instrument employed I term an auxiliary thread
supplier, and it is provided with a slot or opening for the threads to slide in and to
be confined there for a short time. This last mentioned instrument has also a
reciprocatory motion imparted to it, which is obtained by the thread supplier
previously mentioned coining into contact with it during one of its reciprocatory
movements, whilst a spiral spring moves it in the opposite direction. I also employ
a stationary finger which I call a thread retainer, provided with a slot or opening
in one side thereof for the threads to slide in, and which are retained there until
the knot is tied. The next instrument I employ in the process of tieing the knot
I call a thread looper, which has jaws and is made in the form of pliers, having a
reciprocatory motion given to it by a rotary cam. In addition to the instrument
baving a reciprocatory motion it also has a rolling motion imparted to it by
another rotary cam, and rack and pinion. One jaw of this instrument has a hole
formed in it, and the other jaw is made with a slot or opening extending through
to the end. This instrument takes hold of the threads, and by its rotary movement
forms them into a loop, the opening and closing of its jaws being performed during
its reciprocatory and rotary movements by means of springs and a suitably shaped
bush. The next instrument I call a thread hooker and it is omployed for securing
and drawing the loose ends through the loop which has been formed by the thread
looper previously mentioned. This hooker has a reciprocatory motion imparted to
it by a rotary cam, and also a rolling motion by another cam, and rack and pinion,
or equivalent, which latter motion causes the hook to secure the loose ends of the
threads and to draw them through the loop, binding such loose ends against a fixed
brush for the purpose of tightening the knot.
The means I employ for holding the threads to be operated upon before they are
cut by the shears previously mentioned consists of a suitably shaped slotted plate.
A number of threads knotted together are placed in the slots of the said plate and
are prevented from slipping therethrough by the knot. A comb is formed on one
end of the said, plate so as to keep the threads open and spread out, whilst at- the
other end of the said plate is a hole for a cord to be connected to. I also employ a
double headed bolt with a slot through it for the cord to be passed through, which
is fastened by means of two washers and 'wing-nut,' one of the heads of the said
bolt being placed in a groove formed in a projecting piece of the frame work; the
object of having a double headed bolt enables me to move it along the groove
without unfastening the cord. The whole of the apparatus above described are
connected to and supported by suitable framework, and the motions of the various
cams and eccentric are obtained by suitable shafts and gearing operated from any
convenient sourco.
The means of transferring the old warp from one side of the machine to the other
side after the ends have been tied are the same as those described and shewn in the
drawings of my former Patent, dated 25th of April, A.D. 1883, Nº 2098.
The new and old warp is carried by a suitable carriage, and is caused to travel
upon a bed by a ratchet wheel and catch, and rack and pinion operated by
eccentric or other suitable means.

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“Tieing in ” Warps.
I, JOSEPH PICKLES BINNS of 21 Wolseley Terrace, Halifax in the County of
York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR "TIEING IN" WARPS," and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to apparatus to be employed in ticing into a knot
two or more threads together, and for which purpose prior Letters Patent havo
been granted to me bearing dates the 25th day of May A.D. 1872 N° 1599, and tho
25th day of April A.D. 1883 N° 2098.
My present invention consists in the employment of entirely new apparatus for
tieing knots and in passing such knotted threads onto a cord which is illustrated in
the accompanying drawings wherein Fig. 1 is plan view of machine Fig. 2 side
elevation, Fig. 3 front elevation and Fig. 4 section through the line A.B, in Fig. 1.
Numbor 1 is framing of machine for supporting the various parts, 2 and 3 are
two rods which I call "thread moving rods" and are employed to receive the
threads at the commencement of the operation. These rods are pivoted at 4 on one
end of the bell crank rods 5 by which they are carried, and the said rods 2 and 3
have a reciprocatory motion given to them alternately by means of cams 6 and 7,
and in addition to a reciprocatory motion, the said rods also have an oscillatory
motion alternately, one being up and one down as shewn on the drawings for the
purpose of lifting the tied threads onto the cord 8, such oscillatory motion being
given to the rods by other cams 9 and 10 shewn in Figs. 1 and 3 only. Previous
to the knot being tied it is necessary for the selected threads to be cut to the
requisite length and this I accomplish by a pair of shears fully shewn in tho
drawings and described in the specification of my former Patent dated 25th of April
1883 N° 2098. The warp threads are tied into a knot by means of various forms
of instruments and a brush to be hereinafter explained.
The first instrument employed for this purpose I prefer to call a " thread
supplier" which is shewn at 11 and consists of a jaw hinged at 12 to a small
forging attached to the bar 13 which bar has a reciprocatory motion in oue
direction by a cam 14 acting against a bowl on the end of the said bar 13, the
return motion of such bar being attained by spring 15. This jaw of the thread
supplier is opened during the forward motion of the bar 13 in consequence of the
inclined surface coming under a tumbling lever 16 which is rigid whilst the jaw is
passing underneath it, but when the jaw is returning from under the tumbling
lever it is opened by the spiral spring 17 (see detail Fig. 5-sheet 4) the said jaws
being employed for siezing, holding, and placing the threads in the required
positions, and for giving or feeding forward the necessary quantity of thread to
form a loop
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page_text: The next instrument employed I term an "auxiliary thread supplier" and
is shewn at 18 working upon a pivot 19 being caused to oscillate theroon by means
of a stud or finger 20 attached to the front end of the bar 13, which passes through
suitable openings made in the framing or headstock 21. This headstock rests upon
the framing 1 and is kept steady by the part 22 fitting into a hole in the frame 11
such headstock having a reciprocatory motion in one direction by cam 23 acting
upon a runner on the end of the headstock at point 24, the return motion being
obtained by a spiral spring 25; it will therefore be seen that in addition to the
thread supplier 11 and finger 20 having a forward reciprocatory motion, they also
have a lateral reciprocatory motion consequently when moving laterally in the
direction of the arrow 26 the finger 20 comes underneath the elbow of the thread
supplier 18 as seen in detail Fig. 6, and that when the bar 13 is returning in the
direction of the arrow 27 that the finger 20 will strike against the underside of the
thread supplier, and cause it to oscillate upon its pivot in one direction the spiral
spring 28 causing it to return, by which means it performs its part of the work;
the sneck 29 in the said thread supplier being employed to hold the thread whilst
the loop is being formed.
I also employ a stationary finger or har 30 (shewn in detail Fig. 7) which I call
a thread. retainer having a sneck 31 for the purpose of holding the threads until
the knot is tied. The next instrument I employ in the process of tieing the knot
I call a thread looper and is shewn at 32 and in section Fig. 8 which is composed
of a pair of jaws like pliers and has a reciprocatory motion which is given thereto
by a cam 33 acting against bowl 34 connected to the end of a short bar 35 working
in an opening in the bearing 36. The pliers are connected to a spindle 37 having
a pinion 38 fastened thereon, such pinion gearing with a rack 39 caused to
reciprocate back ward and forward by a cam 40 and spiral spring attached to the
rack at point 41 whereby the said spindle 37 has an oscillatory rotary motion in
addition to a reciprocatory motion.
The spindle 37 rotates and slides within the boss 42 and the pliers carried by
the spindles are opened and closed in the following manner.
The hinged jaws a of the pliers 32 are enlarged at b and there is a slot or groove
in the spindle in which the hinged jaw can be depressed for the purpose of opening
the jaw as hereinafter explained. When the cam 33 has pushed the spindle forward
to the extent of its stroke, the flat spring 44 lifts up one end of the jaw whereby it
is closed, causing it to seize hold of the thread, the spindle then through the action
of the spring 43 causes the spindle to return, but in doing so, the enlarged end of
the jaw b comes into contact with one end of the boss 42, causing such boss to slide
endwise and compressing the spring 55. The rack 39 then causes the spindle to
rotate forming a loop in the thread thereby, and when the spindle has rotated
sufficiently far, the hinged jaw a will have come opposite a groovo c cut in
the boss 42 as shewn in detail Fig. 9 and immediately after the enlarged end
of the jaw b has come opposite the said groove c, the spiral spring 55 which
has been depressed forces the boss 42 further onto the spindlo until the enlarged
end b comes opposite the annular groove ƒ formed in the boss which groove is
cam shaped.
The rack now moves in the opposite direction causing the spindle 32 to rotate
also in the opposite direction, the movement of which within the annular groove
causes the hinged jaw a to be again depressed within the slot formed in the spindle,
by which means the jaw is opened and the thread released, when the cam 33 again
pushes the spindle forward so as to seize hold of another pair of threads to form
another loop and so on at each revolution of the said cam, such loop afterwards
being tied into a knot as shewn in Fig. 10.
Instead of employing the annular groove ƒ for opening the jaw a, the horizontal
groove c may be inclined or wedge shape so that as the jaw is returning up the
boss, the incline would depress the jaw a into the groove h whereby the said jaw
would he opened

page_text: The next instrument employed is a thread hooker or neodle, and it is used for
securing the thread, and drawing the loose ends thereof through the loop which has
been formed by the thread lopper 32.. This needle is marked 45 and it is attached
by set screw 40 to bar 47 caused to slide backward and forward by a cam 48
working against a bowl 49, this cam however only moves the needle in one
direction, the opposite movement being obtained by a spiral spring.which for the
sake of clearness is not shewn in the drawing as the notion will be readily under-
stood, but the said needle may be operated in both directions by cams.
I will now proceed to describe the action of the machine which is as follows,
The new and old warp which it is intended to tie together are placed upon
a suitable carriage, and caused to travel upon a bed so as to bring the warp up to
its work, the operator then takes hold of two threads one of which is new and the
other old, and these ho places into the slot 50 of one of the thread receivers 2 and 3
which rises a little and moves backwards carrying the said two threads in front of
one of the shear blades, (not shewn) the shears then move the distance required
but the threads are not cut until they have been secured by the thread supplier 11
and the thread looper 32 both of which advance forwards with their jaws open,
and when closed they secure the threads; after the threads are secured they are
severed by the closing of the shears. The thread supplier 11 now moves back-
ward to allow the shears to return and at the same time moves towards the thread
looper 32 so as to supply it with the needful length of thread to form the loop.
While the thread is being supplied the thread looper moves backward and 'as its
position lies between the thread retainer 30 and the auxiliary thread supplier 18,
they cause the thread to bend to the required size, when the looper begins to
revolve or roll over, by which movement it forms a loop, and when it has rolled
over until the round hole e in the looper jaw comes opposite to the thread hooker
or needle 45 which said looper remains motionless for a time, the thread supplier
meanwhile moving further backwards at the same time the finger 20 comes into
contact with the auxiliary thread supplier whereby it is lifted on its pivot and tho
threads which have been detained are now released. The thread supplior still
moves further back to such a position that the ends of the threads are further back
than the thread hooker, the said thread hooker having advanced through the holes a
in the jaws of the thread looper, and by the opening of the jaw of the thread
supplier, the threads are lifted against the thread hooker, and by the said hooker
moving backwards it secures the loose ends of the two threads and draws them
through the loop, and through the hole e in the jaw of thread looper and in its
motion presses the ends of the thread against the brush 56. The jaw of the thread
looper now opens and releases the loop which has been formed in the jaw and the
thread receiver with the two ends in its slot moves still further back lifting up the
two threads which are in the said slot 50 of the rods 2 or 3 drawing the threads
(which are being held against the brush 56 by the hooker) into a knot and places
the said two threads on the cord 8, the thread receiver afterwards lowers and moves
forward to its original position ready for a fresh supply of threads and so on, one
after another.
It will be observed that in one of the jaws 32 there is a long slot g which is
employed for the purpose of allowing the thread to slip through when the needle is
pulling the loose ends through the loop to form the knot.
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Although the looper or jaws 32 seize hold of the thread, it must be understood
that the thread is not held fast, but is held secure so that the threads can slide
end wise.
The means I employ for holding the threads to be operated upon before they are
cut by the shears previously mentioned consists of a suitably shaped slotted plate;
and the means I employ for transferring the old warp from one side of the machine
to the other side after the ends have been tied, are the same as those described and
shewn in the drawings of my former Patent dated 25th of April A.D. 1883
No 9008

page_text: Having now fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
shewn by drawings how the same may be performed I would observe that the whole
of the machine herein set forth is new and original and therefore I desire to claim
as my Invention
The machine formed and constructed substantially as is herein shewn and t
described for "tieing in"
warps.
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Secondly. I claim in a warp “ tieing in" machine the employment of the rotary
thread looper 32 and parts connected therowith substantially as described.