Improvements in or connected with warping Yarns.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
Improvements in or connected with warping Yarns.
A communication by EMIL CLAVIEZ, of 1. Davidstrasse, Leipzig, in the Empire
of Germany, Director.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street Birmingham in
the County of Warwick and 31, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to the warping of yarns.
In the creels or banks hitherto employed each bobbin was braked by means of a
weight.
With such an arrangement it was very difficult to produce an even tension in all
the threads, and thereby an even warp, and this drawback was more particularly
apparent when several colour matchings were made side by side, which often caused
similar parts in the different matchings to turn out very unequal in appearance.
Moreover alteration of the threads was in this kind of braking very difficult, as
different weights had to be inserted all through.
In the improved bank or creel which forms the object of this invention, an even
braking and thereby an even warp is attained by each bobbin being wound by as
many threads as there are matchings of colours to be worked side by side, and by
the threads of the bobbins of one creel being passed round and between horizontal
bars in a suitable manner, and being weighted between such bars in common by a
weight, whilst the tension of the threads may be easily regulated by adjusting the
brake lever.
In this method of braking when a thread is once issued to form the warp, it cannot
again be drawn back so that the formation of the warp is very much facilitated.
Finally, this improved bank or creel in which instead of the ordinary rollers, cross
bobbins are utilised, requires very little room.
The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a side elevation; and
Figure 2, a plan view of a part of a creel with the brake mechanism.
A small frame formed of two long bars c¹ c² and two side pieces d' d is arranged
in front of each creel a with the cross bobbins b.
The whole of this small frame is revoluble on two pins el e² and may be fixed in
any desired position by means of any suitable clamping devices.
The threads of the various bobbins of a creel are, as shown, wound round the bars
of the small frame and weighted by weights f.
From the bars, the threads pass to the guide eyelets g from which they run
divided to the harness. It is evident from this that the threads of a creel may in
this manner be equally stretched, and that the tension may be easily altered to the
same extent for all the threads by suitably inclining the frame c c d d by the
brake lever.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the 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 :-
A bank or creel having as many threads wound on a cross bobbin as matchings

page_text: of threads are to be made side by side and having bars arranged in front of each
creel, the threads of each cross bobbin being passed in common in a suitable manner
round the said bars and weighted in common by weights between the bars, whereby
all the threads of a creel are subjected to an even braking action, which may be
easily adjusted by shifting a brake lever to the required extent, and a very even
warp is formed substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 13th day of February 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.