IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SIZING HAND-BEAMED WARPS FOR WEAVING.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th March 1882. A communication
from abroad by Pierre Victor Letellier of Sedan in the Republic of France.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of the firm of W. P. Thompson & Boult, Agents for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, of 323 High Holborn, London in the County of
Middlesex and 6 Lord Street Liverpool in County of Lancaster " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SIZING HAND-BEAMED WARPS FOR WEAVING. [A communi-
cation from abroad by Pierre Victor Letellier of Sedan in the Republic of France]
This apparatus or machine consists of a size-trough into which the warp is
introduced and from which it passes between two large pressing rollers mounted
in a slide and fitted with set screws. The set screws may each carry a small hand
wheel and be operated independently, or they may operated simultaneously and
in such case they will be fitted with worm-wheels, and an endless screw acting upon
these latter causes the rollers to approach or to separate.
Instead of the rollers, rings may be used.]
The warp on leaving the pressing rollers is divided into two parts each of which
is wound upon a small roller, the two small rollers being fixed at some distance
from the pressing rollers and obliquely thereto.
This oblique position of the small rollers allows the warp (roughly divided into
balvės) to be presented with great regularity to a dividing device.
A bar is then placed into the end of the warp, and it is introduced into the
rolling up device or reel.
A shoot ("cheminée") is placed behind a large reel and tangentially to the
circle described by the arms of said reel and bars or rods are placed in said shoot.
Each arm of the reel carries a stud or projection which extends outward viz
between the reel-arm and the frame, and these studs impinge against the arms of
a small cross attached to the shaft of a pulley. The shaft carrying this cross and
pulley can be shifted, so that the studs will not set it in motion and this will be
found convenient when the reel is to be rapidly rotated for the purpose of drying.
the warp.
A second pulley (whose diameter is smaller than that of the former) is mounted
at the lower end of the aforesaid shoot and receives motion from the first herein-
above mentioned pulley. Curved rails extend from the shoot to below the reel,

page_text: The shaft of the small pulley extends across the machine and has fingers or grippers
which, when the shaft revolves, carry the bars above referred to, to a point
where they are retained (by a spring for instance) till the arms of the rcel carry
them along the curved rails and along cords or bands stretched by a counter
weight so that the said bars separate the layers of thread as they are wound upon
the reel.
The dividing device hereinbefore mentioned is provided with a counterweight
and is operated by the tension of the threads, it rises, as the warp is rolled up
without requiring to be actuated by hand.
When the warp is rolled up several may be made to follow according to their
length and the capacity of the winding apparatus..
Shifting gear is provided and allows the speed of the reels to be varied.
This shifting gear consists of a bar hinged to a vertical lever which is free to
move in a suitable guide. The lever is keyed to a shaft which carries a forked
lever which shifts the driving belt to one of a series of pulleys producing different
speeds. Stopping and starting gear may also be provided.