Improvements in Hecks and Reeds for Use in, or in Conjunction with, Warping and Beaming Machines, Sectional Warping and Beaming Machines, Warp Balling Machines, Machines for Chaining or Linking Warps, and other Machines Used in the Formation or Treatment of Warps and Portions of Warps.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hecks and Reeds for Use in, or in Conjunction
with, Warping and Beaming Machines, Sectional Warping and
Beaming Machines, Warp Balling Machines, Machines for
Chaining or Linking Warps, and other Machines Used in the
Formation or Treatment of Warps and Portions of Warps.
I, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, of Wardleworth Iron Works, Rochdale in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to becks and reeds for use in or in conjunction with warping
and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling
machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used in the
formation or treatment of warps and portions of warps.
The first part of my invention relates to hecks and reeds used in leasing or
separating the yarns or threads being formed into warps or forming warps being
operated upon in warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming
machines, warp-balling machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and other
machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps and
has for its object to facilitate the leasing or separation into individual yarns or
threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads as may be necessary or
desirable from time to time of the yarns or threads being formed into or forming
warps or portions of warps being formed or operated upon by means of warping
and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling
machines and machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines
used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps and also to
render unnecessary the unthreading and re-threading of the V reeds used in con-
junction with sectional warping and beaming machines which has hitherto been
necessary when it has been requisite to make changes in the leasing or separation
of the yarns or threads being formed into " sections" in such machines.
This part of my invention consists in improvements by means of which it is
made possible to readily lease or separate by means of a heck or reed into
individual yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads
the yarns or threads passing through the heck or reed used in or in conjunction
with a warping or beaming machine or a sectional warping and beaming machine
or other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or portions
of warps.
In constructing a heck or reed according to this part of my invention I provide
a suitable number of eyes which may be formed so that yarns or threads may be
threaded into them or so that the yarns or threads to be passed through such eyes
may be inserted through the sides or other suitable parts of such eyes and mount
such eyes in a suitable guide or holder or suitable guides or holders which may be
arranged or provided with any suitable means for ensuring that the said eyes shall
be in any required position when in their lowest position in relation to such guide
or holder or guides or holders. The said eyes may be provided with square stems
or stems of other suitable form passing through square or other suitable holes or
guided in any other suitable manner. In conjunction with the said eyes I provide

page_text: two barrels or axles capable of being turned into and retained in different positions
in bearings in which they are mounted which bearings are formed in frames or
brackets capable of being raised and lowered by means of pinions and racks or
levers or links capable of being moved by means of suitable handles or other means
which I provide for the purpose of raising and lowering the said barrels or axles.
Upon each of the said barrels or axles I mount or form a suitable number of
notched blades or plates or rows of projections which are so formed or arranged
that when one of the said barrels cr axles is raised when in one position in
the bearings in which it is mounted each alternate one of the said eyes will be
raised and when the said barrel or axle is in another position and is raised in such
position every alternate two or every alternate three or four or five or six or more
of the said eyes will be raised according to the position in which the said barrel
or axle may be when raised and so that by the other barrel or axle being raised in
the several positions in which it may be turned and retained it will cause every
alternate eye or every alternate two or every alternate three or four or five or six
or more of the said eyes to be raised and thus by either or both of the said barrels
or axles being turned into different positions as may be necessary or desirable from
time to time and raised separately or together as may be necessary or desirable
from time to time the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads passed through
cr into the said eyes may be effected in any manner which may be desirable from
time to time. Each of the said barrels or axles may be provided with any
desirable number of the said blades or plates or rows of projections and when
blades or plates are employed they may be arranged so as to be readily replaced by
other and different blades or plates whenever it may be necessary or desirable to
make a change in the manner of leasing or separating the yarns or threads passed
through or into the said eyes. I may provide any suitable means by which the
said barrels or axles may be retained in their raised positions and 1 may provide
any suitable means by which when any one of the said barrels or axles is turned
the other of such barrels or axles shall be turned in a corresponding manner and I
prefer to so arrange the said barrels or axles that they may be turned independently
of each other whenever it may be necessary or desirable.
The said blades or plates or projections may be caused to act upon the said eyes
in order to move them either directly or by means of any suitable intermediate
devices.
In some
cases instead of causing the said barrels or axles to be raised
in order to raise the said eyes I arrange that such barrels or axles shall
be moved in other directions as may be desirable in different cases and in such
cases provide any suitable devices to enable the blades or plates or projections
upon the said barrels or axles to act upon the eyes above described in a suitable
manner.
The barrels or axles above described and the blades or plates thereon may be
made to extend throughout the width of the heck or reed in which they are employed
or they may be each made in sections of any suitable length supported and if it be
necessary connected t gether in any suitable manner.
In some cases instead of the barrels or axles above described I employ any other
suitable parts on which the blades or plates or rows of projections may be mounted
or formed.
In some cases the blades or plates or rows of projections above described may be
formed as or upon links of chains made to pass around suitable rollers or guides
serving as equivalents for the barrels or axles above described.
In some cases I may employ only one of the said barrels or axles or other parts on
or around which the blades or plates or rows of projections may be mounted or
formed or made to pass.
The second part of my invention also relates to hecks and reeds used in leasing
or separating the yarns or threads being formed into warps or forming warps being
operated upon in warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming
machines, warp-balling machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and

page_text: other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions
of warps and has for its object to facilitate the leasing or separation into
individual yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads
as may be necessary or desirable from time to time of the yarns or threads
being formed into or forming warps or portions of warps being formed or operated
upon by means of warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming
machines, warp-balling machines and machines for chaining or linking warps and
other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions
of warps and also to render unnecessary the unthreading and re-threading of
the V reeds used in conjunction with sectional warping and beaming machines
which has hitherto been necessary when it has been requisite to make changes in
the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads being formed into "sections
in such machines.
"
This part of my invention also consists in improvements by means of which it is
made possible to readily lease or separate by means of a heck or reed into individual
yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads the yarns or
threads passing through the heck or reed used in or in conjunction with a warping
or beaming machine or a sectional warping and beaming machine or other machine
used in the formation or treatment of warps or portions of warps.
In constructing a heck or reed according to this part of my invention I provide
a suitable number of eyes which may be formed so that yarns or threads may be
threaded into them or so that the yarns or threads to be passed through such eyes
may be passed or inserted into them through the sides or other suitable parts of
such eyes and mount such eyes in a suitable guide or holder or guides or holders
and I may provide any suitable means of ensuring that the said eyes shall be in
any required position when in the lowest position in regard to the said guides or
holders. In conjunction with the said eyes I provide a plate or plates provided
with holes or with projections or other equivalent devices or a barrel or barrels
provided with projections so that by the said plate or plates being adjusted into
different positions as may be necessary or desirable from time to time and moved
in such positions or by such barrel or barrels being turned such plate or plates or
barrel or barrels may be caused to act upon some of such eyes either directly or
by means of any suitable intermediate devices so as to cause some of such eyes to
be raised and allow others to remain unlifted so that by the said plate or plates or
barrel or barrels being placed and moved in or turned into different positions the
alternate individual eyes or every alternate two or three or four or five or six or
more of such eyes may be raised. The said plate or plates or barrel or barrels is
or are preferably so arranged that by being moved first or turned in or into one
position and then in or into another and preferably in or into the next position the
eyes which may remain unlifted when the said plate or plates or barrel or barrels
is or are moved or turned in or into the first position will be lifted when such plates
or plates or barrel or barrels is or are moved or turned in or into the second
position. I provide any suitable means to enable the said plate or plates to be
placed and retained in different positions and to be moved in such different
positions or to enable the said barrel or barrels to be turned and to retain the
lifted eyes in the raised positions until they are required to return to their lowest
position. I may provide means by which when two plates or two barrels are
provided any change of the position of the one shall cause a corresponding change
in the position of the other but I prefer to provide for the said plates or barrels
being moved independently of each other whenever it may be desirable to so move
them.
The plate or plates or barrel or barrels above described may be made to extend
throughout the width of the heck or reed in which it is or they are employed or
it or each of them may be made in sections of any suitable length supported and
if it be necessary connected together in any suitable manner.
My invention relates thirdly to the reeds ordinarily termed ✓ reeds which are
used for the purpose of adjusting the width occupied by the yarns or threads

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being formed into warps or sections or balls in warping and beaming and sectional
warping and beaming machines, or machines similar to sectional warping and
beaming machines and used in the dressing of warps in sections and such warp-
balling machines as are employed to form balled warps from bobbins placed in
creels, or to assemble yarns or threads into warps and form them into balls in one
operation, or other machine employed in the formation of warps or the treatment
of yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps and also to the lease-
reeds or hecks used in machines of any of the said kinds for the purpose of "taking
the lease" in the warps or portions of warps being operated upon whether such
lease-reeds or hecks are employed in leasing the yarns or threads in "half beers
or other divisions or groups of yarns or threads or "end and end" that is to say
by separating each yarn or thread from its neighbour. This part of my invention
consists in improvements by which I enable the yarns or threads or half-beers or
other divisions or groups into which it is or may at any time be necessary or
desirable that the warp or section of a warp being formed or being formed
into a ball in a warping mill or sectional warping or beaming machine or warp-
balling machine or operated upon in any other of the machines above referred
to shall be divided by means of a V reed or lease-reed or heck to be passed into
dents or compartments of the V reed or lease-reed or heck employed in or in con-
junction with such machine more quickly and with much greater ease and with less
damage to the yarns or threads than has been the case with V reeds and lease-
reeds or hecks as hitherto constructed.
"
According to one form of this part of my invention I form the dents or
compartments of a ✓ reed or lease reed or heck of wires or pins each of which is
secured at one end in a bar or one or two or more bars forming part of the
framework of the V reed or lease reed or heck and I furnish each or any required
number of such wires or pins with hooks or projections so formed that the yarns
or threads or half beers or other divisions of the warps or portions of warps to
be passed into the dents or compartments of the V reed or lease reed or he-k shall
be retained therein and be incapable of escaping therefrom by any movement which
they are liable to make while being passed through such V reed or lease-reed or heck.
To hold the said wires or pins in proper position after the yarns or threads or the "half
beers or other divisions of the warp or portion of a warp being operated upon have
been passed into the dents or compartments of the V reed or lease-reed or heck
provide another bar or other bars which may also form part or parts of the frame
of the reed or heck into engagement with which bar or one of which bars may be
placed the other ends of the said wires or pins which are inserted at one end into
the bar or one of the bars above mentioned. The hooks or projections upon the
said wires or pins may be arranged and directed in any manner which may be
suitable according to the machine and circumstances in which the V reed or lease-
reed or heck is to be employed and the number and form of the said hooks or
projections will require to be adapted to the purposes for which the V reeds and
lease-reeds or hecks to which this part of my invention is applied may be employed.
The said hooks or projections may be formed by the said wires or pins being bent
in a suitable manner and the bent portions being soldered or brazed if it be
necessary or desirable so as to be secured in proper form or by portions being
soldered or brazed or otherwise secured on the said wires or pins or in any other
suitable manner. In some cases the wires or pins employed in a V reed or leasing
reed or heck to which this part of my invention is applied may be secured together
in pairs at certain parts in their length by being soldered or brazed or in any
other suitable manner.
According to another form of this part of my invention which is particularly
applicable to hecks or reeds constructed according to the above described first
and second parts of my invention I form each eye of the heck or reed of two
wires or prougs which may be united into a single stem or connected or secured
together in any other suitable manner and provide either or each of such wires or
prongs with a hook or projection or hooks or projections formed and arranged in

page_text: a manner analogous to that in which the hooks or projections formed upon the
wires or pins above described are described as being formed and arranged.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of November 1895.
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.
MI
Improvements in Hecks and Reeds for Use in, or in Conjunction
with, Warping and Beaming Machines, Sectional Warping and
Beaming Machines, Warp Balling Machines, Machines for
Chaining or Linking Warps, and other Machines Used in the
Formation or Treatment of Warps and Portions of Warps.
I, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, of Wardleworth Iron Works, Rochdale, in the
County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, 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 :-
My invention relates to hecks and reeds for use in or in conjunction with warping
and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling
machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used in the
formation or treatment of warps and portions of warps.
The first part of my invention relates to hecks and reeds used in leasing or
separating the yarns or threads being formed into warps or forming warps being
operated upon in warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming
machines, warp-balling machines, machines for chaining or linking warps and
other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of
warps and has for its object to facilitate the leasing or separation into individual
yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads as may be
necessary or desirable from time to time of the yarns or threads being formed into
or forming warps or portions of warps being formed or operated upon by means of
warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-
balling machines and machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines
used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps, and also to
render unnecessary the unthreading and re-threading of the V reeds used in
conjunction with sectional warping and beaming machines which have hitherto
been necessary when it has been requisite to make changes in the leasing or
separation of the yarns or threads being formed into "sections" in such
machines.
This part of my invention consists in improvements by means of which it is
made possible to readily lease or separate by means of a heck or reed into
individual yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads, the
yarns or threads passing through the heck or reed used in or in conjunction with
a warping or beaming machine or a sectional warping and beaming machine
or other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or portions
of warps.
In constructing a heck or reed according to this part of my invention I provide
a suitable number of eyes which may be formed so that yarns or threads may be
threaded into them or so that the yarns or threads to be passed through such eyes
may be inserted through the sides or other suitable parts of such eyes and mount
such eyes in a suitable guide or holder or suitable guides or holders which may be
arranged or provided with any suitable means for ensuring that the said eyes
shall be in any required position when in their lowest position in relation to such

page_text: guide or holder or guides or holders. The said eyes may be provided with square
stems or stems of other suitable form passing through square or other suitable holes
or guided in any other suitable manner. In conjunction with the said eyes I
provide two barrels or axles capable of being turned into and retained in different
positions in bearings in which they are mounted which bearings are formed in
frames or brackets capable of being raised and lowered by means of pinions and
racks or levers or links capable of being moved by means of suitable handles or
other means which I provide for the purpose of raising and lowering the said
barrels or axles. Upon each of the said barrels or axles I mount or form a
suitable number of notched blades or plates or rows of projections which are so
formed or arranged that when one of the said barrels or axles is raised when in one
position in the bearings in which it is mounted each alternate one of the said eyes
will be raised and when the said barrel or axle is in another position and is raised
, in such position every alternate two or every alternate three or four or five or six
or more of the said eyes will be raised according to the position in which the said
barrel or axle may be when raised and so that by the other barrel or axle being
raised in the several positions in which it may be turned and retained it will cause
every alternate eye or every alternate two or every alternate three or four or five
or six or more of the said eyes to be raised and thus by either or both of the said
barrels or axles being turned into different positions as may be necessary or
desirable from time to time and raised separately or together as may be necessary
or desirable from time to time, the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads
passed through or into the said eyes may be effected in any manner which may be
desirable from time to time. Each of the said barrels or axles may be provided
with any desirable number of the said blades or plates or rows of projections and
when blades or plates are employed they may be arranged so as to be readily
replaced by other and different blades or plates whenever it may be necessary or
desirable to make a change in the manner of leasing or separating the yarns or
threads passed through or into the said eyes. I may provide any suitable means
by which the said barrels or axles may be retained in their raised positions and
I may provide any suitable means by which when any one of the said barrels or
axles is turned the other of such barrels or axles shall be turned in a corre-
sponding manner and I prefer to so arrange the said barrels or axles that they
may be turned independently of each other whenever it may be necessary or
-desirable.
The said blades or plates or projections may be caused to act upon the said eyes
in order to move them either directly or by means of any suitable intermediate
.devices.
In some cases instead of causing the said barrels or axles to be raised in order
to raise the said eyes I arrange that such barrels or axles shall be moved in other
directions as may be desirable in different cases and in such cases I provide any
suitable devices to enable the blades or plates or projections upon the said barrels
or axles to act upon the eyes above described in a suitable manner.
The barrels or axles above described and the blades or plates thereon may be
made to extend throughout the width of the heck or reed in which they are
employed or they may be each made in sections of any suitable length supported
and if it be necessary connected together in any suitable manner.
In some cases the blades or plates or rows of projections above described may be
formed as or upon links of chains made to pass around suitable rollers or guides
serving as equivalents for the barrels or axles above described.
In some cases I may employ only one of the said barrels or axles or other parts
on or around which the blades or plates or rows of projections may be mounted or
formed or made to pass.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan of so much of a heck as is
requisite for the illustration of one mode of carrying this part of my invention into
effect, the central portions of the heck being omitted in order that the parts shown

page_text: may be drawn upon a larger scale than would otherwise be possible, and Fig. 3 is
in part a side elevation and in part a section of the heck which is illustrated in
Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation, Fig. a side elevation and Fig. 6 a horizontal section.
taken on the plane indicated by the line A. A of Figs. 4 and 5, showing one form
of eye which may be employed in the heck illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and
Fig. 7 is a front elevation, Fig. 8 a side elevation and Fig. 9 a horizontal section
taken on the plaue indicated by the line B B of Figs. 7 and 8 showing another
form of eye which may be employed in the heck illustrated by Figs. 1, 2
and 3.
The same letters of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts
throughout Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
In the heck illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the eyes (a) of which only a certain
number are indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 are mounted in holes formed in bars (b) (b)
provided at their ends with screw-threads and secured by means of nuts in side-
frames (c) provided with flanges which are secured by bolts upon a plate (c') which
is provided with a central rib or ridge (2) on which the lower ends of the stems of
the eyes (a) may rest when such eyes (a) are in their lowest position. The upper
bar (b) is formed in two parts screwed together so that the eyes (a) which are
provided with projecting parts to be hereinafter further mentioned may be placed
in position therein. The screws employed to secure together the two parts of the
upper bar (b) are for convenience omitted from the accompanying drawings. The
eyes (a) employed in the heck illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 may be provided with
stems either of the form illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 which show an eye with a
stem formed in one piece with the projecting parts with which it requires to be
provided for the purposes to be hereinafter fully explained, or of the form illustrated
in Figs. 7, 8 and 9 which show an eye formed with a stem in which is inserted a
cross bar, the projecting ends of which form the projecting parts required for the
said purposes which are to be hereinafter fully explained. The stems of the
eyes (a) and the holes formed in the bars (b) to receive them are formed square, so
that the eyes (a) are prevented from being turned in the holes in which they are
respectively mounted. Upon each of the side-frames (c) are mounted two
racks (d) (d). In conjunction with one of the racks (d) mounted upon each of the
side-frames (c) and the corresponding rack (d) mounted upon the other side-frame (c)
I provide toothed wheels (e) (e) which are mounted fast upon a shaft (e) which
is capable of being oscillated in bearings provided in the side-frames (c) and is
provided with a handle (e 2) by means of which it may be oscillated so as to cause
the racks (d) in conjunction with which it is employed to be raised and lowered.
In conjunction with each shaft (e¹) I provide a pawl (f) mounted upon a stud
secured in one of the side frames (c) and serving when brought into engagement.
with the adjacent toothed wheel (e) upon the shaft (e') to hold such shaft (e¹).
in any position into which it may be oscillated. In conjunction with the other
racks (d) mounted upon the side frames (c) I provide other toothed wheels (e) which
are mounted fast upon a shaft (el) which is capable of being oscillated in bearings.
provided in the side frames (c) and is provided with a handle (e 2) by means of
which it may be oscillated so as to cause the racks (d) in conjunction with which it
is employed to be raised and lowered and in conjunction with such shaft (e') there is
provided a pawl (f) mounted upon a stud secured in one of the side frames (c) and
serving when brought into engagement with the adjacent toothed wheel (e) upon
such shaft (e) to hold such shaft (e¹) in any position into which it may be turned..
Each of the racks (d) is provided with a slot through which passes a stud (d')'
serving along with the central shaft of the barrel or axle (g) to be hereinafter
mentioned to keep the said rack (d) in proper position while being moved upon the
side frame (c). In one of the racks (d) upon one of the side frames (c) and the
corresponding rack upon the other side-frame (c) is mounted a barrel or axle (g)
and in the other racks mounted upon the said side-frames (c) is mounted another

page_text: barrel or axle (9). Each of the said barrels or axles (9) is provided with six
notched plates or blades (g') secured to discs mounted fast upon a shaft. The
notched blades or plates (¹) of each axle or barrel (g) are so formed that when
one of such blades or plates (g') is presented to the projecting parts upon the
stems of the eyes (a) in the raising of the racks (d) in which such barrel or axle (g)
is mounted every alternate one of such eyes (a) will be raised and when another of
the said blades or plates (9') is presented to the said projecting parts when the
racks (d) in which such barrel or axle (g) is mounted are raised every alternate
two of the said eyes (a) will be raised, and when a third of the said blades or
plates (g) is presented to the said projecting parts in the raising of the said racks (d)
every alternate three of the said eyes (a) will be raised while in a similar manner
the presentation of the fourth, fifth, or sixth of the blades or plates (9') of the said
barrel or axle (g) to the said projecting parts in the raising of the racks (d) in which
such barrel or axle (9) is mounted will cause every alternate four or five or six of
the eyes (a) to he raised. In a similar manner the blades or plates (g) of the other
axle or barrel (g) are so formed that by one or other of the said blades or plates (9¹)
being presented to the projecting parts upon the stems of the eyes (a) every
alternate one, every alternate two, every alternate three, every alternate four, every
alternate five or every alternate six of the said eyes (a) may be raised. The blades
or plates (g) of the barrels or axles (9) are also so formed that when each of such
barrels or axles (g) is placed in position to raise every alternate one, or two or
three or four or five or six of the eyes (a) as may be desirable at any time the
raising of either barrel or axle (g) caused by the raising of the racks (d) in which
it is mounted will raise those eyes (a) which were left unraised in the raising of
the racks (d) in which the other barrel or axle (g) is mounted. In conjunction
with each barrel or axle (g) is provided a pawl (h) which acting in conjunction
with a ratchet wheel (92) provided upon the barrel or axle (g) in conjunction with
which it is employed serves to retain the said barrel or axle (g) in any position into
which it may be turned. Each of the axles or barrels (g) is provided with a
hexagonal plate (93) bearing numbers which in conjunction with the adjacent point
of the pawl (h) employed in conjunction with the said barrel or axle (g) indicate
the number of eyes (a) in each of the groups of eyes (a) which would be raised
by the raising of the said barrel or axle (g) in the position which it may occupy
at any time. The side frames (c) are provided with slots to allow of the raising
and lowering of the barrels or axles (9), the central shafts of which also serve to
assist in keeping the racks (d) in which they are respectively mounted in proper
position in relation to each other.
It is obvious that in Figs. 1 and 2 the two ends only of the heck are shown, and
that hecks constructed according to this part of my invention may be made of any
suitable length.
Besides the side-frames (c) there is or are provided in a wide heck, an intermediate
frame or intermediate frames substantially similar to the side-frames (c), and upon
such intermediate frame or intermediate frames there is or are provided a rack or
racks similar to the racks (d) and in conjunction with such rack or racks is or are
provided a toothed wheel or toothed wheels similar to the toothed wheels (e) and
mounted fast upon the shaft (e¹).
Although only six plates (91) are shown as being provided in each of the
barrels (g) illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 it is obvious that any other required
number of such plates or blades (g¹) may be provided in each of the barrels (g)
and that the plates (93) will in such cases be made of an appropriate shape and
the ratchet wheels (g) will be provided with an appropriate number of teeth.
Hecks made according to this part of my invention may be mounted in any
suitable manner in or near the machines in conjunction with which they are to be
employed.
The employment of a beck constructed according to this part of my invention
enables changes in the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads passed

page_text: through such heck to be readily made whenever desirable without any unthreading
or re-threading of such heck or any other heck or V reed or other reed used
therewith.
The second part of my invention also relates to hecks and reeds used in leasing
or separating the yarns or threads being formed into warps or forming warps
being operated upon in warping and beaming machines, sectional warping and
beaming machines, warp-balling machines, machines for chaining or linking warps
and other machines used in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of
warps and has for its object to facilitate the leasing or separation into individual
yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads as may be necessary
or desirable from time to time of the yarns or threads being formed into or forming
warps or portions of warps being formed or operated upon by means of warping
and beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines, warp-balling
machines and machines for chaining or linking warps and other machines used
in the formation and treatment of warps and portions of warps and also to render
unnecessary the un-threading and re-threading of the V reeds used in conjunction
with sectional warping and beaming machines which have hitherto been necessary
when it has been requisite to make changes in the leasing or separation of the
yarns or threads being formed into "sections" in such machines.
This part of my invention also consists in improvements by means of which
it is made possible to readily lease or separate by means of a heck or reed into
individual yarns or threads or into groups of two or more yarns or threads the
yarns or threads passing through the heck or reed used in or in conjunction with
a warping or beaming machine or a sectional warping and beaming machine or
other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or portions of warps.
In constructing a heck or reed according to this part of my invention I provide
a suitable number of eyes which may be formed so that yarns or threads may be
threaded into them or so that the yarns or threads to be passed through such eyes
may be passed or inserted into them through the sides or other suitable parts of
such eyes and mount such eyes in a suitable guide or holder or guides or holders
and I may provide any suitable means of ensuring that the said eyes shall be in
any required position when in their lowest position in regard to the said guides or
holders. In conjunction with the said eyes I provide a plate or plates provided
with holes or with projections or other equivalent devices or a barrel or barrels
provided with projections so that by the said plate or plates being adjusted into
different positions as may be necessary or desirable from time to time and moved
in such positions or by such barrel or barrels being turned such plate or plates or
barrel or barrels may be caused to act upon some of such eyes either directly or
by means of any suitable intermediate devices so as to cause some of such eyes to
be raised and allow others to remain unlifted so that by the said plate or plates or
barrel or barrels being placed and moved in or turned into different positions the
alternate individual eyes or every alternate two or three or four or five or six or
more of such eyes may be raised. The said plate or plates or barrel or barrels
is or are preferably so arranged that by being moved or turned first in or into one
position and then in or into another and preferably in or into the next position
the eyes which may remain unlifted when the said plate or plates or barrel or
barrels is or are moved or turned in or into the first position will be lifted when
such plate or plates or barrel or barrels is or are moved or turned in or into the
second position. I provide any suitable means to enable the said plate or plates
to be placed and retained in different positions and to be moved in such different
positions or to enable the said barrel or barrels to be turned and to retain the
lifted eyes in the raised positions until they are required to return to their lowest
position. I may provide means by which when two plates or two barrels are
provided any change of the position of the one shall cause a corresponding change
in the position of the other, but I prefer to provide for the said plates or barrels
being moved independently of each other whenever it may be desirable to so move
them.

page_text: The plate or plates or barrel or barrels above described may be made to extend
throughout the width of the heck or reed in which it is or they are employed or
it or each of them may be made in sections of any suitable length supported and
it be necessary connected together in any suitable manner.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 10 is a front elevation and Fig. 11 a plan
of one form of heck constructed according to this part of my invention, the
central portions of the heck being omitted in each of the figures in order that the
parts shown may be drawn upon a larger scale than would otherwise be possible.
Fig. 12 is a section of the said heck taken on the plane indicated by the
line D D of Fig. 11.
The same letters of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts
throughout Figs. 10, 11 and 12.
The eyes (a) of the heck illustrated in Figs. 10, 11 and 12 are similar to the
eyes (a) of the heck illustrated in the Figs. 1, 2 and 3 herein before described and
are mounted in square holes formed in bars (i) provided at their ends with screw-
threads and secured by nuts in side frames (j) which besides being connected
together by such bars (i) (i) are secured by bolts to a cross frame or plate (k).
The upper bar () is formed in two parts in order that the eyes (a) may be placed
in position and the two parts of such bar (2) are secured together by screws which
are for convenience omitted from Figs. 10, 11 and 12. The lower bar (i) serves
to limit the downward movement of the eyes (a), projections being formed upon
the stems of the eyes (a) to rest upon the lower bar (i). Upon each of the side-
frames (j) is mounted a slide (m) which is capable of being slidden upwards and
downwards upon the side-frame on which it is mounted. The slides (m) are kept
in proper position by means of transverse bars extending between and connected
to them but for convenience omitted from Figs. 10 11 and 12 but any other
suitable method of ensuring the proper guiding of the slides (m) may be adopted.
Each of the slides (m) is provided with a screw (n) provided with a hand-
wheel (n). Each of the screws (") is capable of being revolved but incapable of
being moved longitudinally in bearings (m²) provided to receive it in the slide (m)
upon which it is mounted. Upon the screws (n) is mounted a plate (o) which is
provided with two nuts (o¹) into the screw-threads of each of which is screwed the
screw-thread of one of the screws (n). By the hand-wheels (n¹) being turned in
one direction or the other the plate (0) may be moved either in the direction
indicated by the arrow (E) or in the opposite direction. In the side-frames (j)
are formed bearings in which is mounted a shaft (p) which is provided with hand-
wheels (pl) and is capable of being revolved but incapable of being moved longi-
tudinally in the bearings in which it is mounted. Upon the shaft (p) are mounted
toothed wheels (p 2). Upon each of the slides (m) is formed a rack (m¹) and into
the teeth of the rack (m¹) upon each of the slides (m) gears or engages one of the
two toothed wheels (2) mounted upon the shaft (p), so that by the shaft (p)
being turned in one direction or the other the slides (m) and the plate (o) may be
raised or lowered. Pawls (q) mounted fast upon a shaft (9') capable of being
oscillated but incapable of being moved longitudinally in the side-frames (j) are
capable of being placed in engagement with the toothed wheels (p2) so as to
secure the slides (m) and plate (o) in any position into which they may be moved.
In the plate (o) are formed rows of holes (o 2) any of which rows of holes (o 2)
may by the screws (n) being turned in a suitable direction and to a suitable
extent, be brought beneath the lower ends of the stems of the eyes (a) of the heck
so that when the plate (o) is raised by the hand-wheels (pl) or either of them being
turned, some of the eyes (a) will be raised while others will he left unraised. Two
of the rows of holes (2) in the plate (o) are so arranged that when either of them
is brought beneath the lower ends of the stems of the eyes (a) of the heck and the
plate (o) is raised, every alternate one of the eyes (a) will be raised and so that
when either of such two rows is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a) and the
plate (o) is raised the eyes (a) raised are those which are left unraised when the
other of such two rows of holes (02) is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a)

page_text: and the plate (o) is raised. Of the other rows of holes (02) in the plate (o) two
are so arranged that when either of them is brought beneath the lower ends of the
stems of the eyes (a) of the heck and the plate (o) is raised every alternate two of
the eyes (a) will be raised and so that when either of such two rows of holes (o 2)
is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a) and the plate (o) is raised the eyes (a)
raised will be those left unraised when the other of such two rows of holes (o 2) is
brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a) and the plate (o) is raised. Of the
other rows of holes (o 2) in the plate (o) two are so arranged that when either of
them is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a) and the plate (o) is raised
every alternate three of the eyes (a) will be raised and so that when either of such
two rows of holes (02) is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a) and the
plate (o) is raised the eyes (a) raised will be those left unraised when the other of
such two rows of holes (o 2) is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a) and the
plate (o) is raised. The other two rows of holes (o 2) in the plate (o) are so
arranged that when either of them is brought beneath the stems of the eyes (a)
and the plate (o) is raised every alternate four of the eyes (a) will be raised and
so that when either of such two rows of holes (o 2) is brought beneath the stems
of the eyes (a) and the plate (o) is raised the eyes (a) raised will be those left
unraised when the other of such two rows of holes (o 2) is brought beneath the
stems of the eyes (a) and the plate (o) is raised.
It is obvious that in Figs. 10 and 11 the two ends only of the heck are shown
and that hecks constructed according to this part of my invention may be made of
any suitable length.
Besides the side-frames () there is or are provided in a wide heck if it be
considered necessary or desirable an intermediate frame or intermediate frames
substantially similar to the side frames (j) and upon each side of such inter-
mediate frame or each of such intermediate frames there is provided a slide and
screw similar and mounted similarly to the slides (m) and screws (n) or a slide
carrying two such screws and each such screw is made to support one end of one
of the two or more sections into which in such cases the plate (o) is divided and
upon the slide or each of the slides upon such intermediate frame or frames is
formed a rack into which a corresponding toothed wheel similar to the toothed
wheels (p2) and mounted fast upon the shaft (p) is made to gear.
Although the plate (o) is only shown as being provided with eight rows of
holes (2) arranged in four different series it is obvious that any desired number
of different series of holes (o 2) may be formed in such plate (o).
It is obvious that in the employment according to this part of my invention of
a barrel provided with projections to act upon the eyes of a heck and capable of
being turned in order that the projections on such barrel may move the said eyes
the projections must be shaped so that in the turning of the said barrel they will
act as cams and move the eyes of the heck in the manner requisite.
It is obvious that when two plates or barrels are employed according to this
part of my invention the stems of the eyes of the heck in which such plates or
barrels are employed must be so formed that there may be room for each of such
plates or barrels to be moved or turned.
A heck constructed according to any form of this part of my invention may be
supported in any suitable manner in or near any machine in conjunction with which
it may be required to be employed.
The employment of a heck constructed according to this part of my invention
enables changes in the leasing or separation of the yarns or threads passed
through such heck to be readily made whenever desirable without any unthreading
or rethreading of such heck or any other heck or V reed or other reed used
therewith.
My invention relates thirdly to the reeds which are used for the purpose of
adjusting the width occupied by the yarns or threads being formed into warps or
sections or balls in warping and beaming and sectional warping and beaming
machines or machines similar to sectional warping and beaming machines and used

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in the dressing of warps in sections and such warp-balling machines as are
employed to form balled warps from bobbins placed in creels or to assemble yarns
or threads into warps and form them into balls in one operation, or other machines
employed in the formation of warps or the treatment of yarns or threads in the
form of warps or portions of warps and also to the lease-reeds or hecks used in
machines of any of the said kinds for the purpose of "taking the lease" in the
warps or portions of warps being operated upon whether such lease-reeds or hecks
are employed in leasing the yarns or threads in "half-beers" or other divisions or
groups of yarns or threads or "end and end that is to say by separating each
yarn or thread from its neighbour. This part of my invention consists in improve-
ments by which I enable the yarns or threads or half beers or other divisions or
groups into which it is or may at any time be necessary or desirable that the warp
or section of a warp being formed or being formed into a ball in a warping mill or
sectional warping or beaming machine or warp-balling machine or operated upon
in any other of the machines above referred to shall be divided by means of a
V reed or lease-reed or heck to be passed into dents or compartments of the
V reed or lease-reed or herk employed in or in conjunction with such machine
more quickly and with much greater ease and with less damage to the yarns or
threads than has been the case with V reeds and lease-reeds or hecks as hitherto
constructed.
According to one form of this part of my invention I form the dents or com-
partments of a V reed or lease-reed or heck of wires or pins each of which is
secured at one end in a bar or one of two or more bars forming part of the
framework of the V reed or lease-reed or heck and I furnish each or any
required number of such wires or pins with hooks or projections so formed that
the yarns or threads or half-beers or other divisions of the warps or portions of
warps to be passed into the dents or compartments of the V reed or lease-reed or
heck shall be retained therein and be incapable of escaping therefrom by any
movement which they are liable to make while being passed through such V reed
or lease-reed or beck. To hold the said wires or pins in proper position after
the yarns or threads or the "half-beers" or other divisions of the warp or
portion of a warp being operated upon have been passed into the dents or com-
partments of the V reed or lease-reed or heck I provide another bar or other
bars which may also form part or parts of the frame of the reed or beck into
engagement with which bar or one of which bars may be placed the other ends of
the said wires or pins which are inserted at one end into the bar or one of the
bars above mentioned. The hooks or projections upon the said wires or pins
may be arranged and directed in any manner which may be suitable according to
the machine and circumstances in which the V reed or lease-reed or heck is to
be employed and the number and form of the said hooks or projections will
require to be adapted to the purposes for which the V reeds and lease-reeds or
hecks to which this part of my invention is applied may be employed. The said
looks or projections may be formed by the said wires or pins being bent in a
suitable manner and the bent portions being soldered or brazed if it be necessary
or desirable so as to be secured in proper form or by portions being soldered or
brazed or otherwise secured on the said wires or pins or in any other suitable
manner. In some cases the wires or pins employed in a V reed or leasing reed or
beck to which this part of my invention is applied may be secured together in
pairs at certain parts in their length by being soldered or brazed or in any other
suitable manner.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 13 is a front elevation of a V reed con-
structed according to this part of my invention and Fig. 14 is a plan of such
V reed with the upper bar of the frame thereof removed. The wires or
pins (r) (r) of the Vreed shown in Figs. 13 and 14 are shown as connected in
pairs by transverse bars (2) serving to limit the downward movement of the
alternate yarns or threads or half-beers or other divisions into which it may be
desirable to divide the warps or sections of warp which it may be requisite to

page_text: pass through the V reed, and each of the wires or pins (r) is shown as being formed
with a hook (3) directed towards and overlapping the wire or pin (¹) to which it
is connected by means of the transverse bar (2) attached to it, the hooks (r 3)
thus serving to limit the upward movement of the said alternate yarns or threads
or half-beers or other divisions. Each of the wires (r) (¹) is at its lower end
inserted into one or other of two bars (s) (s) connected together by means of a
hinge or pivot (s) and upon the upper ends of each of the wires (r) (¹) is placed one
or other of two bars (t) (t) which are connected together by means of a binge or
pivot (¹). One end of each bar (t) is inserted into one of two bars (u) into which
is inserted the corresponding end of the corresponding bar (s) and the bars (u) are
secured to the bars (s) and (t) by means of pins (v) so that although when such
pins (t) are in position the frame consisting of the bars (s) (t) (u) shall be
sufficiently rigid and hold the pins or wires (r) (¹) in proper position the bars (t)
may when the pins (v) are removed from the bars (u) be readily removed from the
upper ends of the wires (r) (r³) so that the yarns or threads or half-beers or other
divisions into which it may be necessary to divide a warp or section of a warp
to be passed through the V reed may be readily inserted into the spaces between
the wires (r) (1) from the upper ends of such spaces in the manner desired without
requiring to be threaded through such spaces.
When the bars (t) are in position in the bars (u) and upon the wires or
pins (r) () the yarns or threads or groups of yarns or threads placed in such of
the dents or divisions formed by the wires or pins (r) (¹) as are without
hooks (3) will be prevented by such bars (t) from being displaced from such
dents or divisions when raised for leasing or separation.
When the bars (t) are removed from the wires (r) (¹) the yarns or threads or
groups of yarns or threads passed through the V reed can be readily passed out of
and replaced in the dents or divisions formed by the wires (r) (1) as may be
requisite and thus changes in the grouping of such yarns or threads can be made
very readily and without any cutting or breaking and subsequent tying or piecing
of the yarns or threads such as have been requisite when any change has been
made in the grouping of yarns or threads passed through V reeds of the kinds
hitherto employed.
A heck or reed constructed according to this form of this part of my invention
may be made of any length and may be supported in any suitable manner in
or near to the machine in conjunction with which it may be required to be
employed.
According to another form of this part of my invention which is particularly
applicable to hecks or reeds constructed according to the above described first and
second parts of my invention I form each eye of the heck or reed of two wires or
prongs which may be united into a single stem or connected or secured together in
any other suitable manner and provide either or each of such wires or prongs with
a hook or projection or books or projections formed and arranged in a manner
analogous to that in which the hooks or projections formed upon the wires or pins
above described are described as being formed and arranged.
This form of this part of my invention may be readily understood and carried
into effect without being specially illustrated in the accompanying drawings, if it
be observed that if each eye of a heck or reed constructed according to this form
of this part of my invention closely resembles or is equivalent to a pair of wires or
pins (r) (1) similar to those illustrated in Figs. 13 and 14 hereinbefore described,
but united at their lower ends or attached to a single stem similar to the stems of
the eyes (a) illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 herein before described or of
other forms according to the purposes for which the hecks or reeds in which such
eyes are to be employed are intended.
A heck or reed constructed according to this form of this part of my invention
may be made of any length and may be supported in any suitable manner in
or near to the machine in conjunction with which it may be required to be
employed.

page_text: Hecks or reeds constructed according to this part of my invention enable
changes in the grouping or arrangement of the yarns or threads passed through
them to be made very readily and without any cutting or breaking and subsequent
joining of such yarns or threads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what i
-claim is :-
1. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed into
warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming machine,
sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine for chaining
or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or
portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and lowered and
blades or plates or rows of projections mounted or formed upon axles or barrels
capable of being raised and lowered or moved in other directions and raising
different eyes or groups of eyes according to the position into which the said
barrels or axles may be turned before being raised or otherwise moved, all arranged,
employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
2. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed into
warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming machine,
sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine for chaining
or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or
portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and lowered and
blades or plates or rows of projections mounted or formed upon a barrel or axle,
capable of being raised and lowered or moved in other directions and raising
different eyes or groups of eyes according to the position into which the said barrel
or axle may be turned before being raised or otherwise moved, all arranged,
employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
3. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed into
warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming machine,
sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine for chaining
or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or
portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and lowered, and
blades or plates or rows of projections formed as or upon links of chains made to
pass around rollers and made capable of being raised and lowered or moved in
other directions and raising different eyes or groups of eyes according to the
position into which they may be turned before being raised or otherwise moved, all
arranged employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner
herein before described.
4. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed
into warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming
machine, sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine
for chaining or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment
of warps or portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and
lowered and blades or plates or rows of projections formed as or upon the links of
a chain made to pass around a roller and made capable of being raised and lowered
or moved in other directions and raising different eyes or groups of eyes according
to the position into which it may be turned before being raised or otherwise
moved, all arranged, employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in
the manner hereinbefore described.
5. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed
into warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming
machine, sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine
for chaining or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment
of warps or portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and

page_text: lowered and a plate provided with holes or projections or other equivalent devices.
and capable of being adjusted into different positions and moved in such different.
positions so as to act in each of such different positions upon some of the said eyes
and raise different eyes or groups of eyes according to the position into which such
plate is adjusted before being moved to raise such eyes, all arranged, employed
and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein before.
described.
6. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed
into warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming
machine, sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine
for chaining or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment.
of warps or portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and
lowered and plates provided with holes or projections or other equivalent devices.
and capable of being adjusted into different positions and moved in such different
positions so as to act in each of such different positions upon some of the said eyes
and raise different eyes or groups of eyes according to the positions into which
such plates are adjusted before being moved to raise such eyes, all arranged,.
employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
7. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed
into warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping or beaming
machine, sectional warping or beaming machine warp-balling machine, machine for
chaining or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment of
warps or portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and
lowered and a barrel provided with projections and arranged to be turned and act
upon such eyes as it is turned and raise different eyes or groups of eyes according
to the position into which it is turned, all arranged, employed and operating for
the purposes and substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
8. In a heck or reed for leasing or separating yarns or threads being formed
into warps or forming warps being operated upon in a warping and beaming
machine, sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine
for chaining or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment
of warps or portions of warps, the combination of eyes capable of being raised and
lowered and barrels provided with projections and arranged to be turned and act.
upon such eyes as they are turned and raise different eyes or groups of eyes.
according to the position into which they are turned, all arranged, employed
and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein before
described.
9. In a reed or heck for use in or in conjunction with a warping or beaming.
machine, sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine for
chaining or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment of
warps or portions of warps, dents or compartments formed by means of wires or
pins each of which is secured at one end in a bar or one of two or more bars.
forming part of the framework of the reed or heck, and any required number of
which wires or pins are formed with hooks or projections so formed that the yarns
or threads or half-beers or other divisions of the warps or portions of warps to be
passed into the dents or compartments of the reed or heck may be passed therein
and be retained therein so as to be incapable of escaping therefrom by any
movement which they are liable to make while being passed through such
reed or heck, all substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
10. In a reed or heck for use in or in conjunction with a warping machine,
sectional warping or beaming machine, warp-balling machine, machine for chaining
or linking warps or other machine used in the formation or treatment of warps or
portions of warps, eyes each formed for the purposes and substantially in the
manner bereinbefore described of two wires or prongs united into a single stem or
connected together in any other suitable manner and either or each provided with

page_text: a hook or projection or books or projections, so formed that the yarns or threads or
other divisions of the warps or portions of warps to be passed through the reed or
heck may be passed therein and be retained therein, so as to be incapable of
escaping therefrom by any movement which they are liable to make while being
passed through such reed or heck.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of August 1896.
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.