An Improved Apparatus for Winding Textile Fabrics in Looms.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1892--Accepted, 19th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Winding Textile Fabrics in Looms.
We, WILLIAM TURNER of the Cambrian Works, Engineer, MAURICE OWEN
of Pool Road, Engineer, and THEODORE SCOTT, Loom Tuner, all of Newtown,.
North Wales, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers to appliances for attaching to looms for drawing-on and
winding the fabrics evenly and regularly all through the piece, which may be of
any pattern, or any number of picks per inch in the fabric as required.
In carrying out our invention we take the motion from the sword or arm of the
loom, by a stud, on which a connecting rod works, which is attached to a lever
with a slot in one end so as to move another stud which carries one end of a
connecting rod adjustable for long or short strokes by means of the slot.
The other end of the lever works on a stud fastened to the framework of the
loom. Attached to the same lever is a small lever which works a ratchet wheel.
fitted with two stop levers.
The ratchet wheel works on a stud fastened to a plate bracket bolted to the end
of the loom. The same ratchet wheel carries a pinion or pinions of various sizes to
regulate the number of picks per inch required in the fabric.
The second wheel works on a stud which moves in a slot in the same plate as the
stud of the ratchet wheel. This second wheel carries a pinion or pinions which
work the third wheel fastened on the end of the roller for drawing-on the fabric,
the surface of which is made rough so as to draw on the fabric evenly.
The fabric is wound on a roller under the drawing-on roller on each end of which
weights are attached by a rope or chain working over a pulley for the purpose of
keeping the fabric tight to the drawing-on roller which adjusts itself to the quantity
of material wound on.
Dated this 18th day of January 1892.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Winding Textile Fabrics in Looms.
We, WILLIAM TURNER of Cambrian Works, Engineer, MAURICE OWEN of
Pool Road, Engineer, and THEODORE SCOTT, Loom Tuner, all of Newtown,
North Wales, 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 refers to appliances for winding up textile fabrics or piece goods,
such as cloths and the like, into rolls as they come from the loom; and is designed
to prevent any unevenness or irregularity occurring during the operation.
To effect this we construct the following apparatus, which we will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1. shows a front elevation, and Fig. II. a back elevation, of the mechanism
employed by us for this purpose.
The plate bracket a with its projecting arm bis attached to the frame of the
loom by means of bolts passed through the slots c c. At one end of the bracket a
is the slotted lever d, which is fulcrummed by a pin at d. It will be seen that the
bracket a has projecting lugs or ribs a¹ a² a³ as a and b¹. These projections bear

page_text: against the loom frame and leave space for nuts and spindle ends on the back of
the bracket.
In the arm is the slot in which is bolted the adjustable pin on which the
wheels h, rotate.
Motion is communicated to the lever d by means of the connecting rod e, one end
of which is attached to a stud or eccentric, on the driving shaft or sword arm of
the loom at e, while the other end of e, is adjustably pivotted to d at e².
It will be seen in Fig. I. that another rod f which terminates in a pawl f2 and
engages with the ratchet wheel 7, is also pivotted adjustably to the lever dat f¹.
When the lever d is thrust forward by the rod e the rod f pushes round the
wheel g.
On the side of y is removably fixed the pinion gl which conveys the motion to
the cogwheel with which g₁ engages. The pinion attached to h, similarly
drives the cogwheel which is attached to the axle of a wood roller around which
the cloth passes.
k is a double detent hook which prevents any back motion of the
wheel J.
The wheel
is so attached to the pinion g' as to allow of this pinion being
changed when required. Thus other pinions of varying size can be substituted, to
suit and if need be regulate the number of picks per inch required in the fabric.
The wood roller attached to the axle of the cogwheel i, is the "drawing-on
roller, and is made rough so as to draw on the fabric evenly.
The fabric after passing over the drawing-on roller passes down to and is wound
around another roller placed beneath it. On each end of this lower roller weights
are so attached by means of a rope or chain working over a pulley, that the fabric
is kept tight to the drawing-on roller above, which in its position, is allowed the
necessary amount of rise and fall to adjust it to the quantity of material wound on
the lower roller.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,
An apparatus for facilitating the winding-on of textile fabrics from the loom,
consisting of the plate-bracket a with arm b, the lever d, the connecting rod e, the
rod and pawl 2, the detent k, the ratchet wheel g and changeable pinion g', the
geared wheels and pinion, the whole operating the winding-on roller of
the loom attached to the axle of the wheel i, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 18th day of October 1892.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, Loudon, Patent Agent.