IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLACING OR FILLING IN WOOL OR WORSTED YARNS OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES UPON 'SHADE,' 'SAMPLE,' OR PATTERN »
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Greenwood of Halifax in the County of York
Gold Printer and Pattern Card Maker for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLACING OR FILLING IN WOOL OR WORSTED
YARNS OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES UPON 'SHADE,' 'SAMPLE,' OR PATTERN
»
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Greenwood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th July 1882.
WILLIAM GREENWOOD of Halifax in the County of York, Gold Printer and
Pattern Card Maker "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLACING
OR FILLING IN WOOL OR WORSTED YARNS OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES UPON
'SHADE,' 'SAMPLE,' OR PATTERN CARDS."
The object of this invention is to greatly facilitate the manufacture of sample
or pattern cards used or employed for the exhibition of the colors, shades and
quality of wool or worsted yarns or other fibrous substances as and when arranged
in strips or lengths thereon; and to make the cost of such cards very much less
than heretofore.
In order to carry out my invention I construct a machine so that the paper or
material upon which the wool or worsted yarns or fibrous substances are to be
placed and arranged in suitable manner is drawn off from a flat surface or wound
off from a roller or rollers in continuous lengths, connected gearing and guides
being suitably arranged to bring the material into suitable position to receive the
said yarns or fibrous substances direct from either the bobbins, hanks, or skeins
according as the different circumstances of such arrangement of the yarns to be
employed exists or is convenient and in order that the wool or worsted yarns or
fibrous substances may be properly and evenly disposed upon the aforesaid paper
or material as received from the roller or rollers or flat surface before mentioned I
cause them to pass through or between a reed or a series of wires or pins either
fixed or adjustable and arranged upon either a flat or cylindrical surface which I
employ for the purpose. After the wool or worsted yarns or fibrous substances
have been thus properly laid or disposed upon the paper or material by the above
means I then proceed to divide the paper or material into the requisite lengths or
sections and to secure the ends thus severed by gum, paste, glue or other adhesive
substance or matter.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Greenwood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th January
1883.
WILLIAM GREENWOOD of Halifax in the County of York, Gold Printer and
Pattern Card Maker 'IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PLACING
OR FILLING IN' WOOL OR WORSTED YARNS OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES UPON
i
SHADE SAMPLE' OR PATTERN CARDS."
In order that my Invention may be more clearly understood I have hereunto
annexed two sheets of Drawings illustrative of the same and have marked them
with FIGS' and letters of reference the same letter refering to the same part in
the various views or Figures.
FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a machine constructed according to my invention.
FIG. 2 is a front view or end elevation of the same. FIG. 3 is a plan view and
FIG. 4 is a sectional detail of a portion of the machine hereafter described.
A is the frame of machine. B is a roller which receives the card or paper and
the yarn or fibrous substances to be placed thereon and in this roller B I cut
longitudinally on its periphery a groove C the object of which is that when the
machine is not in actual operation of filling the cards or papers with yarn that by
placing in the groove a holding strip D the ends of the yarn may be securely held
in position ready for delivering to the card or paper employed, the holder or
strip D is not however removed during the action of filling the cards or paper
for the groove C is so formed that it will admit of the strip D being level with
the periphery of the roller B and at the same time securely holding the yarn
'taut' and in proper position as delivered through a 'raddle' or suitable guide E
which being held or adjusted by spring holders F is raised as the circumference
of the roller increases by the quantity of card or paper wound thereon and filled.
in in proper manner by the yarn or fibrous substances. The yarn G is received
from a series of bobbins H placed in the frame or creel J and passes through the
guide rods K and thence between the tension rods L to the reed M from which it
is then conveyed to the 'raddle' or guide E which is so arranged and divided
according to the distance or width of the yarn to be delivered to the cards, paper
or suitable material a circular surface being best adapted but a flat or inclined
surface could also be filled with the yarns by my machine or segments of a circle
could also be used but I prefer the circular surface as it is the quickest and best.
Motion is imparted to the roller B by means of the worm N and wheel O the
latter is secured on the shaft of the roller by means of the 'set' screw P.
The action of the machine may briefly be described as follows:-The card,
paper, or material to be filled with the yarn or fibrous substances as samples is
first 'gummed' or 'pasted' at proper or required intervals or distances apart at
the commencing or feeding end, then it is placed on the table Q'and under the
yarn G close to the groove C and holder strip D the handle R is then turned
which causes the worm N and wheel O to give motion to the roller B which may
thus be filled with any sufficient quantity or length of the paper, card or series of
cards (S shewn at FIG 4). The Yarn is then cut the roller B removed from its
bearings and if another roller should be required to be so filled the worm wheel O
may then be removed from the axle of the roller B and placed upon the axle of
the roller to be filled and so repeat as required.
It will be obvious to all who are Conversant with the heretofore employed
means of filling in' sample cards by hand labor that by my invention I am
enabled to reduce the cost very considerably and that by it I can accomplish more

page_text: in one day than could by mere manual labor heretofore have been accomplished in
a Year.
Having thus described and shown by drawings how my invention may be
carried into practise I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the precise details of construction as herein shewn and described as modifications
in the means adopted in the conducting of the yarn or fibrous substances from the .
creel and bobbins to the 'raddle' E may be employed but what I claim as my
invention and believe to be new is the filling in of sample or pattern Cards with
Yarns or fibrous substances by means of the method and machinery or apparatus
substantially as shewn and described by the drawings and description of
the same.
"
In Witness whereof I the said William Greenwood have hereunto set my
hand and seal this First day of January in the Year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and Eighty-Three.
Witness
WILLIAM HENRY GREENWOOD,
Gold Printer,
Halifax.
WILLIAM GREEN WOOD. (L.S.)