IMPROVEMENTS IN WEFT WINDING MACHINES and IN THE SHUTTLES FOR CARRYING THE COPS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of the Firm of A. C.
Henderson and Company, British and Foreign Patent Agents, of
No. 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEFT WINDING MACHINES and
IN THE SHUTTLES FOR CARRYING THE COPS." -A communication from
abroad by Paul Louis Welle, Armorer, and Amédée Pierre Eugène
Tincinsan hath of Paris Trance
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles
Henderson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 22nd June 1874.
:
I, ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of the Firm of A. C. Henderson
5 and Company, British and Foreign Patent Agents, of No. 6, Southampton
Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the

page_text: nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEFT WINDING
MACHINES AND IN THE SHUTTLES FOR CARRYING THE COPS," a communication
to me from abroad by Paul Louis Welle, Armorer, and Amedée Pierre
Eugène Tabutiaux, Engineer, both of Paris, France, to be as follows -
The first part of the Invention consists in a helical distribution or
winding of the shoot or weft threads in forming the cops or bobbins for
the shuttles.
The second part of the Invention relates to the shuttles for carrying
the cops, which latter by reason of the helical superposition of one
thread on the other (effected by the winding) the unspooling takes place
from the centre. By this means a much greater quantity of thread can
be placed in the shuttle than hitherto, the carrying capacity of the
shuttle being greatly increased, as the use of an axis to the cop and
adjuncts is dispensed with, with the advantages of prevention of rupture
or snarling of the thread, and without an increase in the dimensions or
weight of the shuttle.
The machine consists of a frame disposed and adapted in accordance
with the number of cops or bobbins to be produced at the same time,
and supports the governing shaft and its pullies on pedestals. Conical
gear wheels actuate similar pinions which are mounted on the shaft of
two plates, which by aid of two small shafts transform their circular
movement to a rectilinear up-and-down motion on two rods or bars
sliding in guides and supporting the ends of a cross bar bearing the
thread guide. The bars alluded to are furnished with slots which admit
of varying the height of the cross bar, the approach and withdrawal of
which is also capable of regulation, and the course of the bars may be
varied to a certain extent by displacing the heads of the two small
shafts in the apertures of the two plates above mentioned. On the
governing shaft a loose pulley is keyed which by a crossed band or strap
imparts motion to the vertical pulley, the axis of which is pierced with
a rectangular aperture for the passage of a shaft of the same section
surmounted by a knob to facilitate its adjustment and removal; this
latter shaft serves as axis to a special piece of hard tough wood sup-
plied with cavities for insuring the drawing of the thread to form the
cop, it turns and is maintained in a species of funnel fixed to the frame.
Thus the helical distribution of th thread in forming the cops is pro-

page_text: duced by the combined action of an up-and-down movement imparted
to the thread guide, and a rotary motion given to the wooden piece above
referred to.
The shuttles which are closed by a lid of a concave section trans.
versely coincide with the form of the cop, which latter is held in position
lengthwise by a projecton in which a glass plate is set, acting as guide
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
CHARLES HENDERSON, of the Firm of A. C. Henderson and Company,
British and Foreign Patent Agents, of No. 6, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, Her special
licence that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur Charles
Henderson, my executors, 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 WEFT WINDING MACHINES AND IN THE SHUTTLES
FOR CARRYING THE COPS," a communication to me from abroad by Paul
Louis Welle, Armorer, and Amedée Pierre Eugéne Tabutiaux, Engineer,
both of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Arthur Charles Henderson, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly-describe and ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said 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 relates to weft winding or cop winding machines and
to the shuttles for carrying the cops. The cop thread, silk, wool, cotton,
or otherwise, is distributed by this machine in a helical manner, in
suchwise that the unwinding is effected from the centre; this important
result admits of placing more thread in the shuttles without increasing
their weight and dimensions than thitherto by the ordinary process, with
the advantage of effecting the unwinding without fear of rupture or
snarling of the thread which is due to the manner of forming the cops.
In the accompanying Drawings Figs. 1, 2, and 3 represent a cop
winding machine of this description, shown in front elevation, profile
and plan, for the simultaneous formation of 20 cops; Fig. 4 shows the
manner in which the thread distributes itself; and Figures 5, 6, and 7
are details of the cop and shuttle.
Description of the Machine.-A frame a disposed and constructed for
a machine to produce a certain number of cops (20, more or less)
supports on pedestals the governing shaft with its pullies c, c, and
drum d, which is between the sides of the machine extending its whole
length. This drum actuates by the cords or straps e', e', the grooved
pullies e cast in a piece with a cylindrical upper part pierced like the
axes of the pullics, with a rectangular hole in which shafts n of the
same rectangular section slide. The shaft n serves as axis to a special
piece o of hard wood furnished with recesses destined to insure the
drawing of the thread f which should form the cop. The piece or
cone o is the core or guide of the cop; it turns and is maintained in the
space existing between the three rollers p, inclined on their axis and
sustained by a common support m bolted at the top of the frame. The
inclination and profile of the rollers p concur in forming a sort of funnel

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in which the cone plays with the least possible friction. The supports m
are pierced in the centre with a hole for the passage of the shafts n which
terminate above in a head to facilitate the removal and replacing of the
shafts. Outside the frame a and opposite the pullies c, c, the
shaft permanently receives the eccentric which governs the end of
the lever h, pivoting on the axis which supports it. Thic rotatory move-
ment of the eccentric g is thus transformed on the lever / into an
oscillatory motion from right to left, and vice versa. At a distance
(whichis variable) from the axis of the lever h, this latter is solid with
the piccc i the ends of which join with the shafts j; these shafts are
keyed to horizontal axes which rest in supports bolted at each end of the
frame. In this manner the levers fixed on these same axes are worked
by the shafts, the levers rising when the shafts descend. The levers k
bear a rod guide to the thread before it reaches the cones o and which
receives the thread from the bobbins arranged on the skewers of the
bar a fixed at the lower part of the frame. The fixed rod leads the
thread forward to conduct it in good condition to the rod 7. The alternato
or reciprocating motion of the piece i imparted by the lever is commu-
nicated to the shafts j which produce the up-and-down movement of the
rods . The connections of the organs g, h, i, and j admit of varying and
regulating at will the course of each.
Working of the Machine.-In building the cop, that is to say, in dis-
tributing the thread from the bobbins of the bar a, the thread is passed
to the cone o, allowing it to rest on the rods 1, 1; the machine is started
and the distribution commences as shown by the Fig. 4. The up-and-
down motion of the guides combined with the rotatory movement of
the cones o effect a helicoidal distribution of the thread on the cones,
commencing from the point to the base and returning to the point to
recommence to mount, and so on successively until the building is
sufficiently advanced to gradually raise the cones and their axes n; the
machine continuing in motion the shafts » liberate themselves from the
cylindrical part of the pullies e; at this moment the cones o become
fixed and the cops are formed and present the appearance shown by
Fig. 6. The cones and their spindles or axes are removed to liberate
them from the cops, and are then replaced to recommence.
Description of the Shuttle.-The manner in which the distribution is
effected will make it understood, that the unwinding is naturally effected

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from the centre, and on account of the helicoidal superposition of one
thread on another no entanglement can occur.
tion of the cop no axis and accessories are required, and the shuttle
being thus simplified can contain a greater quantity of thread than those
at present in use.
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 7 a plan (minus the lid) of
the improved shuttle. A metallic lid I of concave section in a
transverse sense opens on the axis s, a spring" maintains it in position
when the weft thread is thrown.
The form of the shuttle is made to coincide with that of the cop,
which latter is held in its place by the projection t, in which a glass
plate is set, which acts as guide to the thread before passing through
the eye to pass outside. This system is applicable to all kinds of
looms, and to all machines making cops, bobbins, or wefts; and its
special application to self-actors obviates the use of the paper tubes and
economizes the time required to arrange the tubes on the spindles. The
copping on the spindles is independent one of the other, and the cutting
of the thread the result of negligence of the attendants is provided
against with an economy in waste.
Having thus described the Invention, what I claim and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is, the cop winding machine herein described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, considering as my In-
vention, without restriction to the form, material of construction, or
dimensions of the several parts, which would vary in accordance with
the number of cops to be produced simultaneously :-
1st. The helicoidal winding of the thread for forming the cop, pro-
duced by the co-operation, first, of the up-and-down motion imparted to
the thread guide; and secondly, the rotatory movement given to the
piece forming the heart of distribution.
2nd. The unwinding from the centre, the result of the mode of forming a
the cop.
3d. The improved shuttle, admitting of the reception of a larger
quantity of thread than hitherto.
The impossibility of entanglement of the thread in unwinding, the
size of the cops, and the absence of deterioration of the colours however a

page_text: delicate, combined with the prevention of heating of the thread, are
characteristic and advantageous features of the Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.