Improvements in Warp Sizing and Dressing Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1897
[Communicated from abroad by JULES CAQUELIN, of 19 Rue Cambon, Paris, in
the French Republic, Engineer.]
Improvements in Warp Sizing and Dressing Machines.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
In ordinary warp sizing and dressing machines, the yarn is supplied at one end
and is wound upon the loom beams at the opposite end. Because of the frequently
excessive length of such machines, the attendant who has to superintend the
passage of the warps into the sizing trough, cannot also superintend the beaming,
and an assistant is required for perfect control.
This invention consists in reconstructing and rearranging such machines in such
a manner that one single operative can attend to the whole machine. For this
purpose, I terminate the machine at the drying chamber or its equivalent, and
cause the sheet of warps to return below the sizing trough to the front end of the
machine, in advance of which the beaming mechanism is arranged, the warps
entering this part of the machine close to the point at which they first arrived.
Consequently the drying devices and the loom beam are at opposite ends of the
machine and the drying chamber does not intervene between the sizing trough and
the warping rollers and loom beam.
Improvements in Warp Sizing and Dressing Machines.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
In ordinary warp sizing and dressing machines, the yarn is supplied at one end
and is wound upon the loom beams at the other or opposite end. Because of the
frequently excessive length of such machines, the attendant who has to superintend
the passage of the warps to the sizing trough, cannot also superintend the beaming,
and an assistant is required for perfect control.
This invention consists in so reconstructing or re-arranging such machines that a
single operative is competent to attend to it fully. Such a reconstructed or
re-arranged machine is diagrammatically illustrated by the accompanying drawing,
to which reference is hereinafter made.

page_text: For the purpose of this invention, the machine terminates in one direction, at
the drying chamber C, whence the warps D, return, as indicated by the arrows,
below the sizing trough B, to the front end of the machine, where they are wound
upon the loom beam F. The warps being wound upon the beams at the front end
of the machine, instead of at the back of the drying chamber or its equivalent as
in existing machines, it is evident that the whole operation of the machine is under
more perfect control. The warping beams A A and the sizing trough B may be
constructed and arranged together with their accessories, as at present.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
In warp sizing and dressing machines, constructing and arranging the machine
in such a manner that the warps are beamed at the front of the machine instead
of at the back of the drying chamber, substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Elementh D
AD 1000
WILLIAM E. HEYS.