IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING OR BEAMING MACHINES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas Entwistle, of
Accrington, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING OR BEAMING MACHINES."-Partly a commu-
nication from abroad by Edwin H. Cummings, of Lewiston, County
of Androscoggin, State of Maine, United States of America.
Scaled the 24th October 1871, and dated the 27th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Grimshaw Heyes
and Thomas Entwistle at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th April 1871.
WC, GRIMSHAW HEYES and THOMAS ENTWISTLE, of Accrington, in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARPING OR BEAMING MACHINES," being the
result partly of a communication made to us from abroad by Edwin H.
Cummings, of Lewiston, County of Androscoggin, State of Maine, United

page_text: (to be as follows) :—
This Invention relates,―
First, to the stop motion for stopping the machine when a thread is
broken or absent. The threads pass through drop wires formed as
slotted pins or staples placed in slots or grooves, in a bar extending
longitudinally at the front of the machine, and below this bar there is
a vibrating box open at the top and bottom, the vibration being caused
by rods and levers worked by a cam on the drum shaft of the machine.
A little below the vibrating box there is a plate or bar connected to
arms on a shaft having at one end an inclined lever behind the spring
handle used for stopping and setting on the machine, and at each side
of the plate there is one or more notches or ledges extending the entire
length of the plate. When the machine is at work and all the threads
arc entire the vibrating box vibrates below the drop wires or pins, and
clear of the notched plate, but when there is a breakage or absence of
thread its corresponding drop wire or pin falls into one of the notclics
so that when the box vibrates it shall take the notched plate with it,
and thereby give such motion to the inclined lever that it shall push
the spring handle out of its detent and stop the machine, and when this
takes place the plate passes the space at the bottom of the box to allow
the drop wire or pin to fall into a trough or receptacle. When the
broken or absent thread or end is pieced and the samo or another
drop wire or pin placed on it the spring handle is moved to set on the
machine and at the same time the inclined lever is acted upon by the
handle so as to return the notched plate to its original position to act
as before when a drop wire or pin falls on account of the breakage or
absence of a thread, the inclined lever being kept up to the handle by
a spring on the shaft carrying the notched plate.
The next part of this Invention relates to the motion for stopping
the machine when the warp beam is full of warp, and consists in giving
the ordinary lever which acts on the spring handle a horizontal motion,
in addition to its ordinary vertical one, for the purpose of enabling the
machine to be set on without any action being required at the back
end of the lever. Instead of making the indent in the boss of the
measuring wheel perpendicular it is made inclined, and in the boss
there is a worm or screw in which the back end of the lever works.

page_text: When the beam is full the back end of the lever falls and causes its
front end to knock the spring handle out of its detent and stop the
machine, in the usual manner, but at the same time the inclined indent
moves the lever sideways, so that its front end is removed from the
handle when the machine is set on, but by the time another warp beam
is filled and the machine is to be stopped the worm has moved the
front end of the lever behind the spring handle to act upon it as before.
Another improvement relates to the catch wheel used for quickly
stopping the drum when the machine is to be stopped, and consists in
holding the said catch wheel to the drum shaft by friction, so that it
can be regulated as required. The catch wheel is loose on the drum
shaft and has an internal recess to receive a circular sheet or pad of
leather, cardboard, or other friction material, and on the shaft there is
a plate or disc held by a key so that it can revolve with the shaft and
at the same time be tightened more or less to the friction material by
a screw and nuts, and this arrangement is for the purpose of preventing
the machinery from being stopped so suddenly as to cause breakage.
The next improvement relates to the drum on the driving shaft, and
consists in improved modes of giving it its ordinary fast motion, and
also a slow motion when the faller rods are being raised by the tension
of the threads. At the driving end of the drum shaft is fixed an
external friction cone for turning the drum, when an internal cone in
the driving pulley is in close contact with the external one, and this
contact is produced by means of levers worked by a treddle at the front
of the drum, and afterwards held fast by a catch and small spring,
and as long as the contact is maintained the driving pulley, the concs,
and drum all turn together, at their usual fast speed. When the
machine is stopped the spring handle overcomes the small spring, and
takes off the catch to enable two spiral springs to move the levers and
separate the cones so that the revolution of the pulley shall have no
effect on the driving shaft and drum. In order to give the slow
motion to the drum before the spring handle is set on we fix to the
boss of the pulley a pinion gearing into a toothed wheel on a counter
shaft having a fixed clutch, which can be clutched into another clutch
fixed to a pinion loose on the shaft, which pinion gears into a toothed
wheel fixed to the drum shaft, so that when the clutches are clutched
the driving pulley by means of the gearing gives the drum a slow
revolving motion.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas Entwistle in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GRIMSHAW
HEYES and THOMAS ENTWISTLE, of Accrington, in the County of
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventy day of April, 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,
give and grant unto us, the said Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas Entwistle,
Her special license that we, the said Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas
Entwistle, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas Entwistle, our exccutors,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WARPING OR BEAMING MACHINES," being the result partly of a com-
munication to us from abroad by Edwin H. Cummings, of Lewiston,
County of Androscoggin, State of Maine, United States of America,
and partly of Invention and discovery made by ourselves, upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Grimshaw Heyes and
Thomas Entwistle, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of our or 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas
Entwistle, 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 statement (that is to say): :-
This Invention relates to that class of warping or beaming machines
in which self-acting arrangements cause the stoppage of the machine
when there is breakage or absence of thread, and consists,―

page_text: First. In certain improvements in the motion for stopping the machine
when a thread is broken or absent.
Secondly. In improved arrangements for stopping the machine at the
end of each wrap of warp.
Thirdly. In certain improvements in connection with the catch whicel
used for quickly stopping the drum when the machine is to be stopped.
And, fourthly. In an improved mode of giving the drum its fast
motion when the beam is winding on, and its slow motion when the
faller rods are being raised by the tension of the threads.
The manner in which this Invention is to be performed will be clearly
understood by the following particular description thereof, reference
being had to the figures and letters on the accompanying two Sheets of
Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front clevation with part in section; Figs. 2
and 3 end and top views, and Fig. 4 a transverse section of a warping or
beaming machine provided with our improvements, and Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, are detached views of parts of the same, Figs. 1,
2, 3, 4, and 5 being drawn to a scale of two inches to the foot, and the
other Figures about full size, and in all the Figures similar letters refer
to similar parts.
In Sheet 1 a represents the frame sides of the machine; b, the drum;
c, the drum shaft; d, the warp beam; e, f, the faller rods or rollers;
g, the back or measuring roller; h, the warp threads; i, the back comb
through which the threads pass from the crcel; k, the front rced or
comb, and 7 the spring handle.
In the first part of our improvements we pass the threads through
drop wires m, Figs. 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, each having a space o,
Figs. 6 and 7, for enabling it to be placed on the thread. The drop wires
when supported by the threads are placed in slots or grooves p in a
bar q extending across the front part of the machine, and below this
bar there is a vec-shaped box " open at the top and bottom and having
at its ends pivots placed in bearings in the side frames a, there being at
one side of the box a projecting arm or levers connected to one end of
the rod t which has at its other end a bowl placed in the groove of the
cam u fixed to the drum shaft so that when the machine is at work
the box vibrates to and fro on its pivots. A little below the vibrating
box there is a bar connected to arms w fixed to the shaft æ, having
at one end an inclined lever y behind the spring handle 7, aud in the

page_text: entire length of the bar there is a ledge or indent 10³. When the
machine is at work, and all the threads are entire, the drop wires are
supported by them, and the vibrating box vibrates below the drop wires
clear of the notched bar v, but when a thread breaks or is absent its
corresponding drop wire falls on the bar between the notch and one of
the inner sides of the box, as shewn in Fig. 9, so that at the next
vibrating imovement of the box it shall take the notched bar with it,
and thereby give such motion to the inclined lever y that it shall push
the spring handle out of its detent to cause the stoppage of the machine,
and when this takes place the bar passes beyond the space at the
bottom of the box, as shewn in Fig. 10, to allow the drop wire to fall
into the trough z, the coiled spring a¹ at the end of the shaft x giving
the extra motion, and the incline of the lever y allowing it to do so.
When the broken or new thread or end is pieced and the same or
another drop wire placed on it the spring handle is moved outwards to
enable the machine to be set on, and at the same time the inclined
lever is so acted upon by the handle as to return the notched bar to its
original position ready to act as before when a drop wire falls if the
thread breaks or is absent, the inclined lever being kept up to the
handle by the coiled spring a².
In another arrangement we connect each end of the vec-shaped box
to an arm fixed to a vibrating shaft, the bottom of the box vibrating
just above the [notched bar, the vibrating movement of the shaft and
box being obtained by a lever and rod in connection with a cam on
the drum shaft. This modification is shewn in Fig. 11, in which b
represents the box, c¹ the arms connected to it, d¹ the shaft to which
the arms are fixed, and e¹, f¹, the lever and rod in connection with the
cam on the drum shaft.
It is evident that the action of each of these arrangements can be
reversed, that is, that the vee-shaped box can be stationary until there
is a breakage or absence of weft, and that the notched bar can be made
to vibrate by means of a lever and rod in connection with a cam on the
drum shaft. In this case the inclined lever behind the spring handle is
connected to the pivot or shaft at one end of the box, and when a thread
breaks or is absent the notched bar moves the box and inclined lever,
so as to shift the handle from its detent and stop the machine, there
being a spring to carry the box pass the notch to allow the drop wire to
fall into a trough, and the return of the spring handle to its working

page_text: position places the box in its original position ready for a similar
operation when there is another breakage or absence of thread.
•
In the second part of this Invention relating to the motion for
stopping the machine at the end of each wrap of warp, we give the
ordinary lever g¹, Figs. 2 and 3, which acts on the spring handle, a hori-
zontal motion in addition to its ordinary vertical one, for the purpose of
enabling the machine to be set on without any action being required at
the back end of the lever. Instead of making the indent in the boss /¹
of the measuring wheel Z¹ perpendicular, it is made inclined as shewn
in Fig. 13. And in the periphery of the boss there is a screw thread or
worm, in which the back end of the lever g' works. At the end of
each wrap of warp the back end of the lever falls into the indent, and
causes its front end to knock the spring handle out of its detent and
stop the machine in the usual manner, but at the same time the inclined
indent moves the lever sideways so that its front end shall immediately
leave the handle to allow the machine to be set on, but by the time
another wrap is wound on and the machine is to be stopped the worm
has moved the front end of the lever behind the spring handle to act
as before described. When it is considered desirable to make it incum-
bent for the operative to shift the lever by hand in order to call attention
to the necessity of marking the wrap, we make the indent of the
ordinary shape, but use in connection with it the screw thread or worm
as shewn in Fig. 14.
The third part of our improvements consists in holding the catch
wheel to the drum shaft by friction, so that it can be regulated as
required. The catch wheel marked m², Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is loose on the
shaft c, and has at one side a recess to receive a circular sheet or pad of
leather, cardboard, or other friction material, and on the shaft there is
a plate or disc n' held by a key or feather, so that it can revolve with
the shaft and at the same time be tightened more or less to the friction
material by a screw and nut, there being a set nut to prevent shifting
after the adjustment, and it is evident that by tempering the friction
that the machine can be prevented from being stopped so suddenly as to
cause breakage.
In the fourth part of our Invention, consisting of an improved mode
of giving the drum its fast motion when the warp beam is winding on,
and the slow motion when the faller rods are being raised by the tension

page_text: of the threads, we fix at the driving end of the drum shaft an external
friction cone p², Figs. 1 and 3, corresponding with an internal cone q¹
in the strap pulley ¹, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, which revolves loose on the
drum shaft when the machine is not at work. The boss of the pulley
is acted upon by a clutch lever s³ connected at one end to the lever on 5
the shaft u¹ to which are fixed the arms v³, each connected to a spring w¹
and carrying the treddle board ³, and for giving the slow motion to
the drum when required we fix to the boss of the pulley ¹a pinion a²
gearing into a toothed wheel be on a countershaft c² having a clutch d³
which can be clutched into another clutch e³ fixed to a pinion f³ loose 1
on the countershaft, the pinion gearing into a toothed wheel
the drum shaft.
fixed to
of the catch lever being opposite
When the spring handle springs
absence of thread or other cause
When the machine is to be set to work to wind on the operative
lowers the treddle to bring forward the lever and cause the clutch
lever to press the internal cone in close contact with the external one, 1
and thereby enable the pulley 1 to turn the external cone, shaft, and
drum, and this contact of the cones is maintained by the catch lever /²
acted upon by a spring , the upper end
a rod k fixed to the spring handle 1.
inwards on account of the breakage or
the rod acts on the top of the catch lever so as to overcome the
spring and remove the catch from the arm v', and then the springs 10¹
raise the arms v¹, turn back the lever and clutch lever s¹ to remove
the internal cone from the external one to enable the pulley ¹ to run
loose and have no effect on the drum shaft, and at the same instant the
arm on the spring handle moves out of contact with the catch m² to
allow it to fall into gear. with the teeth of the catch wheel m¹ and
quickly stop the machine. As long as the cones are out of contact
and the clutches d, e, on the countershaft unclutched the drum is
stationary, but the instant the clutches are clutched by the handle p² the
pulley running loose on the shaft gives by means of the gearing a
slow motion to the drum and warp beam.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to
be understood that in warping or beaming machines having self-stopping
motions we claim,―
First. The oscillating vec-shaped box for the reception and passage of
11. duon wires when there is breakage or absence of thread, and also the

page_text: indented bar below the box and the inclined lever behind the spring
handle for stopping the machine when the bar is moved by the vec box.
Secondly. The mode of reversing the operation by having a vibrating
indented bar and a vee box with an inclined lever which are stationary
until there is breakage or absence of thread.
Thirdly. The application of a friction break to the catch wheel for
preventing too sudden stoppages.
Fourthly. The clutch lever and clutches for acting on the gearing
which gives the slow motion to the drum shaft when the faller rods are
being raised.
And, fifthly. The inclined indent in the boss of the measuring wheel
for shifting the wrap motion lever horizontally in one direction, and the
worm in the periphery of the boss for moving the lever in the opposite
direction, as all such improvements are herein described and illustrated
in the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Grimshaw Heyes and Thomas
Entwistle, or one of us, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord Onc
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Grimshaw
Heyes and Thomas Entwistle
in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
GRIMSHAW HEYES. (L.S.)
THOMAS ENTWISTLE. (L.S.)