Improvements in Loom Take-up Mechanisms.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL DIBUITIGATION.
Improvements in Loom Take-up Mechanisms.
I, JOHN BENTLEY of 53 Carlisle Street Manningham, Bradford in the County
of York, Machinery Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows, that is to say :—
It relates to improvements in mechanisms known as loom-take-up motions and
consists of arranging and constructing the parts forming these mechanisms so that
they shall be less cumbersome than those heretofore employed and shall render the
parts beneath the loom more easy of access for the varied and well known purposes.
To attain this object I make use of the usual roughened iron or metal take-up
roller which I arrange to revolve in such a direction as enables me to mount
another or supplementary roller above it which is preferably also of metal so that
it may thus be made to occupy little space, while its surface is prepared, either by
being covered with cloth or the like, or merely left smooth so that it is suitable for
contact with the fabric or piece being woven.
The position in which the supplementary roller is situated relatively with the
take-up roller is such as will cause the fabric or piece being produced, to encircle
as much of the peripheral surface of the said take-up roller as is possible or as is
desired, by which means any required grip or drag thereon may be produced.
The position and arrangement of the supplementary roller also allow the
mounting or placing of another roller or beam in a position for receiving the
fabric as it is being taken up and as this beam has no other function to perform
than that of having the fabric or piece coiled or wound around it, it may be very
light and made of sheet metal or the like, while since it is only loosely held by its
bearings, it may at any time be lifted out of position and together with the woven
piece upon it, be bodily taken from the loom and that without the motion of said
loom being arrested or in any way interfered with.
In neither of the above arrangements is there any cumbersome piece beam or its
heavy and unwieldy counterbalancing weights required.
Dated this 24th day of May 1894.
JOHN BENTLEY,
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Loom Take-up Mechanisms.
I, JOHN BENTLEY of 53 Carlisle Street, Manningham, Bradford in the County
of York, Machinery Merchant, 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, that is to say:-
It relates to improvements in mechanisms known as loom-take-up motions
and consists of arranging and constructing the parts forming these mechanisms so
that they shall be less cumbersome than those heretofore employed and shall
render the parts beneath the loom more easy of access for the varied and well
known purposes.

page_text: In order that my said invention may be more readily understood I have hereunto
appended sheets of drawings illustrative thereof to which by figures and letters
reference is made in the following description ;-
Figs. 1 and 2 are sectional end and front elevations of a sufficient portion of a
loom to illustrate the application of my invention, and in these figures the piece-
beam is shown as arranged to be in front of the gripping rollers and extending
towards the front of the loom.
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2 but show the piece-beam as
being carried by bearings extending within the loom.
Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional end and front elevations of a modified arrangement
hereinafter described.
To attain the object of my invention I make use of the usual roughened iron, or
metal take-up roller a which I arrange to revolve (by the employment of any of
the well known driving gear at present in use, the same deriving its motion from
any motor part of the loom) in such a direction, as indicated by the arrows b and b¹,
as enables me to mount another or supplementary roller c to revolve in its
bearings above it, this being preferably also of metal so that it may thus be
made to occupy little space and yet be sufficiently strong to perform the functions
desired of it, while its surface is prepared either by being covered with cloth or
the like, or merely left smooth so that it is suitable for contact with the fabric or
piece d being woven.
The position in which the supplementary roller c is situated relatively with the
take-up roller a is such as will cause the fabric d to encircle as much of the
peripheral surface of the said roller a as is possible or as is desired by which means
any required grip or drag thereon may be thus produced, while if it is thought
desirable to press same against the periphery of the said roller a then it is mounted
in bearings f with springs k for performing such functions. The force of these
springs being increased or diminished by the screws m whenever desired.
The arrangement of the roller c in the position above described allows the
mounting or placing of another roller or beam g in a position for receiving the
fabric d as it is being taken-up or caused to move as indicated by the several
arrows, and as this beam g has no other function to perform than that of having
the fabric or piece d coiled or wound around it, it may be very light and even
made of sheet metal or the like, while since it is only loosely held by its bearings hh'
upon which it may revolve and slide in order that it may recede from the roller a
as it increases in diameter (its said diameter being shown in full lines in all the
drawings as of considerable magnitude, while its diameter at the commencement of
its actions, is shown in broken lines in Figs. 1 and 3) from which roller a it derives
its rotary motion by its frictional contact only, it may at any time be lifted out of
position and together with the woven piece d wound around it, be bodily taken
from the loom and that without the motion of said loom being arrested or in any
way interfered with.
In neither of the arrangements herein before described is there any cumbersome
piece beam or its heavy and unweildy depressing or counterbalancing weights
required.
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. The combination in loom take-up mechanism of the rollers a c and 9 and the
bearings for supporting these said rollers, the same being arranged substantially as
and for the purposes specified.
2. In loom-take-up mechanisms the combination of a rotary take-up roller having
a roughened peripheral surface, a supplementary roller mounted to rotate in
bearings situated relatively with the take-up roller as described, a piece beam
mounted to more on its bearings so that it may fall or press against the take-up
beam, and bearings for supporting said piece-beam constructed so as to allow this.

page_text: beam to recede from the take-up beam as it increases in diameter all these parts
being constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 26th day of W1906
JOHN BENTLEY,
Per Samuel Hey,
56 Low Street, Keighley, Agent.