Apparatus for Use in Imparting Motion to and Mechanism for Stopping Warp Linking Machines, Beaming Machines, Sectional Warping and Beaming Machines, and other Machines for Forming Warps or Portions of Warps, or Winding Yarns or Threads in the Form of Warps or Portions of Warps, or other Analogous Forms.
Year: 1898

page_text: Apparatus for Use in Imparting Motion to and Mechanism for
Stopping Warp Linking Machines, Beaming Machines, Sectional
Warping and Beaming Machines, and other Machines for Forming
Warps or Portions of Warps, or Winding Yarns or Threads in
the Form of Warps or Portions of Warps, or other Analogous
Forms.
I, ALFRED LEACH, of Hamer Hall, Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in improvements in apparatus for measuring and indi-
cating the length of yarn or thread in and stopping at requisite intervals and
apparatus for use in imparting motion to and mechanism for stopping warp-
linking machines, beaming machines, sectional warping and beaming machines
and other machines for forming warps or portions of warps or winding yarns
or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps, or other analogous forms.
The most efficient devices hitherto provided for measuring and indicating lengths
of yarn or thread in and stopping at required intervals machines of the kinds
above mentioned have been defective in that when employed to stop such machines
at the ends of comparatively short intervals as when lease-bands or dividing
devices are to be inserted in or applied to yarns or threads at such intervals as
at the ends of lengths of five hundred yards they have required to be re-set or
turned or wound back to the starting points after the insertion of lease-bands or
other dividing means so that there is much danger of mistake and if at all
capable of indicating the sum of the lengths of the several divisions so formed
in the yarns or threads operated upon have only been capable of doing so to a
very limited extent.
The principal objects of the first part of my invention are to provide for use
with machines of the said kind and especially for use with warp-linking machines
means for measuring and indicating lengths of yarn or thread which shall be
simple and efficient and of great capacity or range of indication and to ensure
that yarns or threads shall be accurately measured and have when requisite
lease-bands or marks or other dividing or length indicating means applied to
them at the ends of any required intervals and also to render it easy to ascertain
with certainty the total length of yarn or thread which has been operated upon
[Price 81.

page_text: after or at the ends of any number of intervals or lengths such as those aforesaid
and the further length requiring to be operated upon before the completion of
the whole length upon which it may be requisite to operate in any case.
According to one form of this part of my invention I provide two discs or
plates caused to revolve in suitable different times and each provided with two
sets of graduations and numbers and with notches to receive at times in the
revolutions of such discs or plates a finger capable of being turned at times
about an axis or slidden in a guide or guides by its own weight or by means of
a weight or spring. The said finger is arranged so that when allowed to enter
a notch or notches in one or both of the discs or plates aforesaid it will release
a lever or rod or other means which being arranged to operate by means of a
spring or weight or otherwise will when released bring about the stoppage of
the machine to which the apparatus is applied either by disengaging a clutch
or moving a belt from a fast pulley or enabling a friction-driving device to be
put out of action or otherwise. The said finger and the notches in the said dises
or plates are formed and arranged as may be requisite from time to time in the
use of the apparatus either so that the entry of the said finger into a notch
in either disc or plate can only occur when the other disc or plate also presents
a notch for it to enter or so that the entry of the said finger into a notch of
one disc or plate can occur independently of its entry into a notch of the other
disc or plate. The graduations and numbers on the discs or plates aforesaid are
so arranged that each set of graduations and numbers on the one disc or plate
shall when read in conjunction with one set of the graduations and numbers on
the other disc or plate at the place and time at which the finger above mentioned
is in engagement with a notch in each disc or plate, indicate either the length
of yarn or thread which has been operated upon or the length still requiring
to be operated upon to make up the total length intended to be operated upon in
any particular operation. The sets of graduations and numbers on the two discs
or plates which are intended to be used together may conveniently be dis-
tinguished by being formed with corresponding characters or arranged on corre-
sponding parts of the disc or plate on which they are respectively formed.
Ordinarily the finger aforesaid is arranged so as to require to enter a notch
in each disc or plate in order to be able to enter a notch in either so that its
entries into notches depend upon the relative times of rotation of the said discs
or plates as well as upon the position and number of the notches therein. In
order to permit of further variations in the time of entry of the finger aforesaid
into notches, one or either or each disc may be provided with notches of different
sizes and one finger in different positions or provided with parts adjustable in
position or different fingers of different sizes and adjustable in position or otherwise,
may be employed and in order to permit still further variations in the times of
entry of the finger employed with notches of discs or plates I may arrange that
the discs or plates employed may be replaced by others and arrange that corre-
sponding changes may be made in the gearing employed to impart motion to the
discs or plates.
In order to cause the discs or plates aforesaid to revolve in suitably different
times any suitable arrangement of gearing which may be readily engaged and
disengaged as may be necessary from time to time for the setting or adjustment
of the apparatus for different purposes may be employed. In one arrangement
of gearing which may be employed to impart motion to the discs or plates afore-
said two worm-wheels driven by one worm and ordinarily held in gear therewith
by means of a spring and each provided upon or connected to one of the said
discs or plates are employed and one of such worm-wheels is provided with one
or more teeth less than the other according to the rate at which it is desired that
one disc or plate shall move in advance of the other in rotating. The said worm
is arranged to receive motion by means of gearing or in any other suitable manner
from a roller in contact with the yarns or threads being operated upon in the
machine to which the apparatus is applied.

page_text: In conjunction with the gearing employed to impart motion to the discs or
plates aforesaid I provide a ratchet-wheel or ratchet-wheels and pawl or pawls
or any other equivalent device or devices enabling such gearing to be turned in
one direction only or in either direction as may be desirable independently of
the movement of the machine with which the apparatus is employed and so
facilitate the making of slight or other changes which may be requisite or desir-
able from time to time in the lengths of yarn or thread to be measured off and
to facilitate the use of the apparatus I prefer to so arrange the gearing and the
roller from which it receives motion that the numbers and graduations on the
discs or plates shall have a simple relation to each other and to the measure used
as a unit of length in the operation to be performed by the machine in which
the apparatus is employed. In some cases numbers may be used without gradua-
tions.
The discs or plates aforesaid may be arranged with their axes horizontal or
vertical or inclined as may be considered desirable in the construction of the
apparatus.
The principal objects of the second part of my invention which relates to
apparatus for use in imparting motion to machines of the kinds above mentioned
are to facilitate the gradual setting in motion of such machines after stoppages
and to enable such machines to be stopped gradually whenever it may be desirable
to so stop them and to be driven slowly whenever it may be desirable to so drive
them.
According to one form of this part of my invention which I will describe by
way of illustration I provide in conjunction with a machine to which this part
of my invention is to be applied two belt-pulleys both of which are capable of
being turned in relation to the shaft or stud on which they are mounted and
provide upon or secure to one of such pulleys one part of a clutch-box the other
part of which is arranged to be moved by means of a fork and groove or other
suitable device actuated by a cam mounted so that it may be turned by means
of a shaft which is also arranged to move a belt-fork or guide provided in order
to move upon the pulleys aforesaid the belt employed therewith.
.
The cam above mentioned is so formed that when the part of the clutch-box
which is moved thereby has been brought into engagement with the other part
of such clutch-box the said cam may be turned for some distance without im-
parting further movement to the part of the clutch which it is arranged to actuate.
The shaft aforesaid is connected to the belt-fork above mentioned by means of
an arm and link so arranged that the said arm shall in moving the belt-fork in
one direction move it more in the latter part of the turning movement imparted
to such arm than in the earlier part of such turning movement.
The means by
which as aforesaid the said cam is arranged to actuate the part of the clutch-box
arranged to be moved thereby and the means by which the belt-fork aforesaid is
moved are so arranged that in the turning in one direction of the shaft by which
the said cam and belt-fork are moved the said part of the clutch-box shall be
brought into engagement or be just or very nearly ready to pass into engagement
with the part of the clutch-box upon or secured to the pulley, as aforesaid when
the belt used therewith commences to be moved on to the said pulley and so that
when the one part of the clutch-box is in engagement with the other part thereof
the belt-fork may be moved to bring the belt further on the said pulley and so
that when the said belt has been moved fully on to the said pulley it may be
moved almost or entirely off such pulley before the one part of the clutch-box is
disengaged from the other part thereof. In order to turn the said shaft used
as means of turning the cam aforesaid and moving the belt-fork above mentioned
I may employ a handle or a rod attached to an arm upon a shaft or any other
suitable means.
In any case in which it may be desirable I may employ a sliding or other
suitable cam instead of a cam arranged to be turned and in any such case I

page_text: connect such cam to the belt-fork employed in any manner equivalent to that
herein before described.
The third part of my invention relates to such machines of the kinds to which
my invention relates as are provided with or used in conjunction with stop-motions
in which wires allowed to fall between revolving rollers when any of the yarns
or threads being operated upon break or terminate, bring about the release of
rods or other means arranged in conjunction with springs or weights and so stop
the said machines and the object of this part of my invention is to enable such
machines to be more readily turned by the attendants for the finding and piecing
of broken or terminated yarns or threads, and also to facilitate without interference
with the proper action of the stop-motions the gradual setting in motion of such
machines after stoppages and enable them to be stopped gradually or to be driven
slowly whenever it may be desirable to so stop or drive them. According to this
part of my invention I employ in conjunction with any machine to which this
part of my invention may be applied mechanism such as I have herein before
described in reference to the second part of my invention and provide upon or
connect to the pulley connected to the one part of the clutch or to the said part
of the clutch, a pulley or chain-wheel or teeth or other means by which it may
be enabled to transmit motion by means of a belt or chain or toothed-wheels or
other means to the rollers of the stop-motion used in or in conjunction with the
said machine and arrange the belt-fork employed as herein before described in
reference to the second part of my invention so that it may be moved by means of
the rod or other means released by the movement of the movable roller of the
stop-motion and be capable of being used to move the belt. off the pulley formed
with or connected to the one part of the clutch independently of the movement
of the rod or other means released by the movement of the said movable
roller when such rod or other means is held in one position by means of a
pivotted catch or spring-catch or other suitable device. In one form
apparatus which I may employ I mount the belt-fork upon a plate or bar itself
mounted upon a rod moved by the movement of the movable roller of the stop-
motion and to enable the said rod to move the said plate or bar, provide a pro-
jection or stud upon the one and arrange it to project into or pass through a
groove or slot of suitable length in the other.
of
The principal object of the fourth part of my invention which relates to stop-
motions which are to be used in conjunction with machines of the kinds to which
my invention relates and are arranged to operate so that on the breakage or
termination of any yarns or threads wires are dropped between rollers. According.
to this part of my invention I mount one of the rollers of a stop-motion of the
said kind in the usual way so that it is only capable of rotation but instead of
mounting the movable roller used therewith in long arms depending from a
transverse shaft or mounted on separate studs in the way hitherto usual I mount
it in short arms which are mounted fast upon a shaft so that a slight lateral
movement of the said movable roller shall with centainty cause all parts of the
said shaft to turn. One of the arms in which the said movable roller is mounted
is made to extend from the shaft on which it is mounted or another arm mounted
upon the said shaft may be provided to disengage a catch of any suitable kind
arranged to hold a rod or other device in position to permit the machine in or
in conjunction with which the stop-motion is applied to be driven.
Dated this Tranty fifth dow of October 1808

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring and Indicating the Length
of Yaru or Thread in and Stopping at Requisite Intervals, and
Apparatus for Use in Imparting Motion to and Mechanism for
Stopping Warp Linking Machines, Beaming Machines, Sectional
Warping and Beaming Machines, and other Machines for Forming
Warps or Portions of Warps, or Winding Yarns or Threads in
the Form of Warps or Portions of Warps, or other Analogous
Forms.
I, ALFRED LEACH, of Hamer Hall, Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster,
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:-
My invention consists in improvements in apparatus for measuring and indi-
cating the length of yarn or thread in and stopping at requisite intervals and
apparatus for use in imparting motion to and mechanism for stopping warp-
linking machines beaming machines, sectional-warping and beaming machines
and other machines for forming warps or portions of warps or winding yarns
or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps, or other analogous forms.
The most efficient devices hitherto provided for measuring and indicating lengths
of yarn or thread in, and stopping, at required intervals, machines of the kinds
above mentioned, have been defective in that when employed to stop such machines
at the ends of comparatively short intervals as when lease-bands or dividing
devices are to be inserted in or applied to yarns or threads at such intervals as
at the ends of lengths of five hundred yards they have required to be re-set or
turned or wound back to the starting points after the insertion of lease-bands or
other dividing means so that there is much danger of mistake and if at all
capable of indicating the sum of the lengths of the several divisions so formed
in the yarns or threads operated upon have only been capable of doing so to a
very limited extent.
The principal objects of the first part of my invention are to provide for use
with machines of the said kind and especially for use with warp-linking machines
means for measuring and indicating lengths of yarn or thread which shall be
simple and efficient and of great capacity or range of indication and to ensure
that yarns or threads shall be accurately measured and have when requisite
lease-bands or marks or other dividing or length indicating means applied to
them at the ends of any required intervals and also to render it easy to ascertain
with certainty the total length of yarn or thread which has been operated upon
after or at the ends of any number of intervals or lengths such as those aforesaid
and the further length requiring to be operated upon before the completion of
the whole length upon which it may be requisite to operate in any case.
According to one form of this part of my invention I provide two discs or
plates caused to revolve in suitable different times and each provided with two
sets of graduations and numbers and with notches to receive at times in the
revolution of such discs or plates, a finger capable of being turned at times
about an axis or slidden in a guide or guides by its own weight or by means of
a weight or spring. The said finger is arranged so that when allowed to enter
a notch or notches in one or both of the discs or plates aforesaid it will release.
a lever or rod or other means which being arranged to operate by means of a

page_text: spring or weight or otherwise will when released bring about the stoppage of
the machine to which the apparatus is applied, either by disengaging a clutch
or moving a belt from a fast pulley or enabling a friction-driving device to be
put out of action or otherwise. The said finger and the notches in the said discs
or plates are formed and arranged as may be requisite from time to time in the
use of the apparatus either so that the entry of the said finger into a notch
in either disc or plate can only occur when the other disc or plate also presents
a notch for it to enter or so that the entry of the said finger into a notch of
one disc or plate can occur independently of its entry into a notch of the other
disc or plate. The graduations and numbers on the discs or plates aforesaid are
so arranged that the two sets of graduations and numbers on the one disc or
plate shall when read in conjunction with the corresponding sets of graduations
and numbers on the other disc or plate at the place and time at which the finger
above mentioned is in engagement with a notch in each disc or plate, indicate
both the length of yarn or thread which has been operated upon and the length
still requiring to be operated upon to make up the total length intended to be
operated upon in any particular operation. The sets of graduations and numbers
on the two discs or plates which are intended to be used together may conveniently
be distinguished by being formed with corresponding characters or arranged on
corresponding parts of the disc or plate on which they are respectively formed.
Ordinarily the finger aforesaid is arranged so as to require to enter a notch
in each disc or plate in order to be able to enter a notch in either so that its
entries into notches depend upon the relative times of rotation of the said discs
or plates as well as upon the position and number of the notches therein. In
order to permit of further variations in the time of entry of the finger aforesaid
into notches, one or either or each disc may be provided with notches of different
sizes and one finger in different positions or provided with parts adjustable in
position or different fingers of different sizes and adjustable in position or otherwise
may be employed and in order to permit still further variations in the times of
entry of the finger employed with notches of discs or plates I may arrange that
the discs or plates employed may be replaced by others and arrange that corre-
sponding changes may be made in the gearing employed to impart motion to the
discs or plates.
In order to cause the discs or plates aforesaid to revolve in suitably different
times any suitable arrangement of gearing which may be readily engaged and
disengaged as may be necessary from time to time for the setting or adjustment
of the apparatus for different purposes may be employed. In one arrangement
of gearing which may be employed to impart motion to the discs or plates afore-
said two worm-wheels driven by one worm and ordinarily held in gear therewith
by means of a spring and each provided upon or connected to one of the said
discs or plates are employed and one of such worm-wheels is provided with one
or more teeth less than the other according to the rate at which it is desired that
one disc or plate shall move in advance of the other in rotating. The said worm
is arranged to receive motion by means of gearing or in any other suitable manner
from a roller in contact with the yarns or threads being operated upon in the
machine to which the apparatus is applied.
In conjunction with the gearing employed to impart motion to the discs or
plates aforesaid I provide a ratchet wheel or ratchet-wheels and pawl or pawls
or any other equivalent device or devices enabling such gearing to be turned in
one direction independently of the movement of the machine with which
the apparatus is employed and SO facilitate the making of slight or
other changes which may be requisite or desirable from time to time
in the lengths of yarn or thread to be measured off and to facilitate the
use of the apparatus I prefer to so arrange the gearing and the roller from
which it receives motion that the numbers and graduations on the discs
or plates shall have a simple relation to each other and to the measure used
as a unit of length in the operation to be performed by the machine in which

page_text: the apparatus is employed. In some cases numbers may be used without gradua-
tions.
The discs or plates aforesaid may be arranged with their axes horizontal or
vertical or inclined as may be considered desirable in the construction of the
apparatus.
In the accompanying drawings in all the figures of which the same letters of
reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts, the first part of my
invention is illustrated by Figs. 1, 14, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Fig. 1
serving also in part for the illustration of the second third, and fourth parts of
my invention, and Fig. 2 serving also in part for the illustration of the second
and third parts of my invention. Fig. 1 is a side elevation in part a longitudinal
section of so much of a warp-beaming machine with my invention applied thereto
as is requisite for the illustration of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of a portion
of the machine illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan partly in horizontal section
of part of the mechanism shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a plan upon a larger
scale of a part of the mechanism shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and Figs. 5, 7, and 9
are side elevations and Figs. 6 and 8 and 10 are plans of parts detached. Fig. 1^
is a front elevation partly in vertical section showing parts detached.
arm
In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, a and b are the two discs or plates provided in accordance
with this part of my invention. The discs or plates a bare supported by a
bracket c bolted to one of the side-frames of the beaming machine that is to say
to the side-frame d. The bracket c is formed in part as a box with a projecting
As is clearly indicated in Fig. 3 which is a plan partly in horizontal
section through the discs or plates ab and the bracket by which they are
supported, the disc or plate a is provided with a sleeve and mounted so as to
be capable of being revolved upon a stud f secured in the bracket c and the disc
or plate 6 which is also provided with a sleeve is mounted so as to be capable
of being revolved upon or of having revolved within it the sleeve of the disc or
plate a. Fast upon the sleeve of the disc or plate b is mounted a worm-wheel h
and fast upon the sleeve of the disc or plate a, which extends through the sleeve
of the disc or plate b, is mounted a worm-wheel g.
The two worm-wheels g h are both arranged to receive motion from a worm i
mounted fast upon a shaft revoluble in the bracket c. The stud f is provided
with a collar against which bears one end of a spiral spring which ordinarily
keeps the worm-wheels g h in gear with the worm i but permits the attendant
in charge of the machine to disengage them from such worm as may be necessary
from time to time as will be hereinafter explained. The shaft is provided with
a skew-gear-wheel k into which gears another skew-gear-wheel m mounted fast
upon the axle of a measuring roller n which receives motion from the yarns or
threads being operated upon and may be revolved in bearings provided in the
side-frames of the machine. The wheel k is not fast upon the shaft i but is
provided with ratchet teeth into which may engage one end of a coiled spring
surrounding the shaft and bearing at the other end against ratchet teeth formed
on a collar fast upon the shaft so that the shaft may be moved by the wheel k
in the direction indicated by the arrow A and also be turned in such direction
without turning the wheel k. In the projecting arm of the bracket e is secured
a stud upon which may be oscillated a lever o provided with a lateral projection o¹
which may be made to engage with and hold a lateral projection p upon one
arm of a lever capable of being oscillated upon a stud p² secured in the side-
frame d and capable of bringing about the stoppage of the beaming machine as
soon as the lateral projection o¹ upon the lever o is allowed to release the lateral
projection pl upon the lever p. So far as this part of my invention is concerned
the lever may be arranged in the way which will be hereinafter explained or
in any other suitable manner. The lever is also provided with a boss provided
with a socket to receive a finger 7 which is secured by means of a set-screw so
as to be readily detachable for the substitution of another on occasion arising.
The finger y ordinarily rests upon the circumferences of the discs or plates a b
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page_text: and thus holds the lever o in position to keep the lateral projection o¹ of the
lever o beneath the lateral projection of the lever p so as to permit the driving
of the beaming machine to continue. The discs or plates a bare provided with
notches which in the revolution of the discs or plates a b will be brought beneath
the finger and from time to time allow such finger to drop so that the lateral
projection o¹ of the lever o will be removed from beneath the lateral projection pl
of the lever p. The roller n may conveniently have a circumference of one half-
yard and for convenience of description I will assume that such is the case, and
that the yarns or threads operated upon are ordinarily to have lease-bands or other
separating or marking devices attached or applied at the ends of lengths of five
hundred yards. The wheel has twice as many teeth as the wheel m the worm-
wheel has one hundred teeth, the worm wheel g has one hundred and one
teeth and the circumference of the disc or plate b is marked with graduations
dividing it into one hundred equal parts and the circumference of the disc or
plate a is marked with graduations dividing it into one hundred and one equal
parts. On the disc or plate 6 are arranged two series of numbers each reading
by units or otherwise to one hundred, the two series of numbers being
arranged to start or read in opposite directions around the disc or plate so
that if the two series be read in one direction one forms an ascending
series and the other a descending series, the hundred of the one series being
placed opposite to the same graduation as the hundred of the other series and
each hundred mark serving also as the zero or starting point of the series in
which it occurs. Each of the two numbers one-hundred on the plate or disc b
is expressed simply by two noughts partly because it also serves as the zero of
the series in which it occurs but chiefly in order that as will be hereinafter
explained the numbers on the disc a may be at times read as prefixed to the said
numbers on the disc or plate b. The disc or plate a is also marked with two
series of numbers each reading by units or otherwise to one hundred and arranged
similarly to those on the disc or plate except in so far as each one-hundred is
expressed as 100, and in so far as the one-hundred in each series is distant by
the length of one division from the zero or starting point of such series. The
disc or plate b is provided with a notch at the graduation opposite to the one-
hundred and zero marks of each scale or series of numbers on such disc or
plate and the disc or plate a is provided with notches at the graduations opposite
to the zero and one-hundred marks of the two scales and at every fifth inter-
mediate graduation. The length of each of the notches in the discs or plates a b
and the width of the finger q which is shown detached in Figs. 7 and 8 are made
such that only when the two discs or plates ab simultaneously present notches
beneath the end of the finger q can such finger 7 be moved by the weight of the
lever o so that such lever o may remove the lateral projection o¹ from beneath
the lateral projection of the lever p. From the arrangement of the wheels
and discs or plates a bit follows that when the zero of the series of graduations
of the cylindrical circumference on each of such discs or plates ab has been
brought beneath the end of the finger y and the machine is set in motion the discs
or plates ab will prevent the finger from again passing into notches until the
worm has performed five hundred revolutions that is to say until five hundred
yards of yarn or thread have passed in contact with the roller n and then when
the finger g is again lifted out of the notches into which it has dropped a further
five hundred yards of yarn or thread may be measured off and so on until ten
thousand yards have passed in contact with the roller n at which time it will
be necessary to disengage the wheels g h from the worm i and turn the disc or
plate a forward one graduation so as to bring the notch which is at the zero or
starting point of the series of numbers on the cylindrical circumference of the
disc or plate a beneath the finger q instead of the notch which is at the graduation
marked one hundred on the said cylindrical circumference and then in a similar
manner the beaming of yarns or threads may proceed until another length of
ten thousand yards has passed in contact with the roller n.
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page_text: As soon
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as the two discs ab simultaneously present notches beneath the
extremity of the finger g the said finger q dropping into such notches will release
the lever p and bring about the stoppage of the machine. The finger q being
curved on its lower face is lifted from the notches into which it falls by the
revolution of the discs ab either while the machine is being stopped or as
soon as such machine is again set in motion. If instead of a length of five
hundred yards intervening before the finger q is allowed to pass into the notches
of the discs or plates, it be desired that a less length of yarns or threads shall
pass over the roller n before the said finger 7 passes into notches in the discs or
plates ab the shaft is turned in relation to the wheel k the shaft being
provided with a handle 2 so that it may be easily turned, or the worm-wheels
are disengaged from the worm i and turned by the attendant into suitable posi-
tions. Except in so far as the attendant in charge of the machine introduces
variations by turning the handle or disengaging the worm-wheels g h from the
worm and reengaging them therewith in different positions the graduations and
numbers on the cylindrical circumference of the disc b opposite to the finger q
indicate in all positions of such disc b the number of yards which have actually
passed over the roller since the notch in such disc or plate 6 last passed the
finger g and whenever the notch in the disc or plate 6 is opposite to the finger q
the number on the cylindrical circumference of the disc or plate a opposite to
the graduation on the disc or plate a then opposite to the end of the finger q,
prefixed to the number that is to say to the two noughts opposite to the notch
in the disc or plate b indicates the total length up to ten thousand yards which
has passed over the roller n since the two zeros or starting points of the series of
numbers on the cylindrical surfaces of the two discs or plates ab were together
opposite to the end of the finger 7. In a corresponding manner when the notch
of the disc or plate b is opposite to the finger g the number on the conical
circumference of the disc or plate a opposite to the finger 7 prefixed to the
number that is to say the two noughts on the conical circumference of the disc
or plate then opposite to the finger g, indicates the length of yarn which will
have to pass in contact with the roller before the notches at the divisions marked
one hundred on the cylindrical circumferences of the two discs or plates a b
arrive together opposite to the finger q so as to indicate that subject to interference
with the handle upon the axle or the position of the worm-wheels g h in
relation to the worm i ten thousand yards of yarn or thread have passed in contact
with the roller n.
While the notch of the disc or plate is above the horizontal plane passing
through the axis of the disc or plate such notch may be used as a pointer to
indicate approximately by means of the numbers on the disc or plate a the length
of yarn or thread which has passed over the roller n, subject to interference with
the position of the handle or with the position of the worm-wheels g h in relation
to the worm i.
When the finger 7 is raised from the discs or plate a, b the lateral projec-
tion o of the lever is moved from beneath the lateral projection p¹ of the
lever and except when the finger q is resting upon the circumferences of the
dises or plates ab without passing into any of the notches thereof the beaming
machine is incapable of continuing in motion if started and thus there is no
opportunity for the attendant to set the machine in motion after a stoppage
brought about either by the stop-motion or detector-apparatus brought into action
by the breakage or termination of a yarn or thread or by the mechanism provided
according to this part of my invention unless the finger q be supported in a proper
position by the discs or plates a band thus the breakage or termination of a yarn
or thread just when a lease band, or other dividing or marking means should
be applied to the yarns or threads is prevented from causing as has sometimes
happened with the forms of length-measuring and indicating appliances hitherto
employed, the attendant to neglect the insertion or application of the lease-band
or other separating or marking means by thinking that the stoppage has been

page_text: brought about simply by the termination or breakage of a yarn or thread and not
by the more or less simultaneous action of the length measuring apparatus. From
this it also follows that mistakes on the part of the attendant as to the length
of yarn or thread operated upon are greatly guarded against as whenever the
length measuring mechanism stops the machine the attendant must ascertain that
the projection 2 is bearing properly upon the projection o¹ before the machine
can be again set in motion.
If, instead of a finger q only capable of entering into notches when both of the
discs or plates ab present notches for it to enter, a finger q such as is illustrated
in Figs. 5 and 6 capable of entering simply into the notches of the disc or plate
be employed, lengths of one hundred yards of yarn or thread may be measured
off and with the use of the handle or the setting of the 'worm-wheels g h in
relation to the worm i any lengths less than one hundred yards may be readily
measured off. If on the other hand a finger 7 capable of only entering into the
notches of the disc or plate a be employed lengths of five yards or with the use of
the handle or the adjustment of the worm-wheel -g in relation to the worm i
lengths of four, three or two yards or one yard may be readily measured, off it
being in such case requisite to move the disc or plate a forward one division at
the end of each hundred so that the graduations thereon opposite to the finger q
employed may indicate the true length measured off or passed in contact with the
roller n.
In a similar manner if the notch at the hundredth division of the disc or plate <<
be made of greater length than the other notches therein and a finger q such as is
illustrated by Figs. 9 and 10 wider than will enter the other notches of the disc
or plate a when opposite to the notch of the disc or plate b be employed a length
ten thousand yards or any less length determined by the turning of
the handle or the adjustment of the worm-wheels g h in relation to the worm i
may be measured off without the entry of the finger q into the notches bringing
about the stoppage of the machine until the whole of such length has been
measured off.
In a like manner by other variations being made in the position, number and
length of the notches in the discs or plates a band the size and position of the
finger employed in conjunction with the discs or plates ab any other desirable
variations in the lengths measured off by means of the roller n between the suc-
cessive stoppages of the machine may be readily arranged for. In a similar
manner also by the use of worm-wheels g h of more or less teeth and of different
relative proportions in combination with discs or plates ab graduated and num-
bered and notched in a suitable manner arrangements may be made for the
measuring off of other desired lengths between the successive stoppages of the
machine in any cases in which it may be desirable to do so but the arrangement
illustrated in the accompanying drawings and hereinbefore described is found to
serve for all ordinary requirements. In any case in which the worm-wheels
employed differ from each other by more than a very small number of teeth the
thread of the worm i must be made to extend through only one complete turn so
that such worm i may readily engage with both the worm-wheels gh.
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It is also obvious that the numbers and graduations on the conical part of the
circumference of the disc or plate b may in some cases be dispensed with.
The arrangements hereinbefore described in reference to this part of my inven-
tion are simple and efficient and of great capacity or range of indication and
ensure that yarns or threads shall be accurately measured and have lease-bands
or marks or other dividing or length indicating means applied to them at the
places requisite and also render it easy to ascertain with certainty the total length
of yarn or thread which has been operated upon and the further length required
to be operated upon in order to complete the total length required to be operated
upon in any case.
The length-measuring and indicating apparatus provided according to this part
of my invention is specially convenient and efficient for use with warp-linking

page_text: machines but may also be applied with advantage to warp-beaming machines,
sectional-warping and beaming machines, and other machines for forming warps
or portions of warps or winding yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions
of warps and other analogous forms.
The principal objects of the second part of my invention which relates to
apparatus for use in imparting motion to machines of the kinds above mentioned
are to facilitate the gradual setting in motion of such machines after stoppages
and to enable such machines to be stopped gradually whenever it may be desirable
to so stop them and to be driven slowly whenever it may be desirable to so drive
them.
According to one form of this part of my invention which I will describe by
way of illustration I provide in conjunction with a machine to which this part of
my invention is to be applied two belt-pulleys both of which are capable of
being turned in relation to the shaft or stud on which they are mounted and
provide upon or secure to one of such pulleys one part of a clutch-box the other
part of which is arranged to be moved by means of a fork and groove or other
suitable device actuated by a cam mounted so that it may be turned by means
of a shaft which is also arranged to move a belt-fork or guide provided in order
to move upon the pulleys aforesaid the belt employed therewith.
The cam above mentioned is so formed that when the part of the clutch box
which is moved thereby has been brought into engagement with the other part
of such clutch-box the said can may be turned for some considerable distance
without imparting further movement to the part of the clutch which it is arranged
to actuate. The shaft aforesaid is connected to the belt-fork above mentioned by
means of an arm and link so arranged that the said arm shall in moving the belt-
fork in one one direction move it more in the latter part of the turning movement
imparted to such arm than in the earlier part of such turning movement. The
means by which as aforesaid the said cam is arranged to actuate the part of the
clutch-box arranged to be moved thereby and the means by which the belt-fork
aforesaid is moved are so arranged that in the turning in one direction of the'
shaft by which the said cam and belt-fork are moved the said part of the clutch-
box shall be brought into engagement or be just or very nearly ready to pass
into engagement with the part of the clutch-box upon or secured to the pulley
as aforesaid when the belt used therewith commences to be moved on to the said
pulley and so that when the one part of the clutch-box is in engagement with the
other part thereof the belt-fork may be moved to bring the belt further on the
said pulley and so that when the said belt has been moved fully on to the said
pulley it may he moved almost or entirely off such pulley before the one part of
the clutch-box is disengaged from the other part thereof. In order to turn the
said shaft used as means of turning the cam aforesaid and moving the belt-fork
above mentioned I may employ a handle or rod attached to an arm upon a shaft
or any other suitable means.
In any case in which it may be desirable I may employ a sliding or other suit-
able cam instead of a cam arranged to be turned and in any such case I connect
such cam to the belt-fork employed in any manner equivalent to that hereinbefore
described.
This part of my invention is illustrated by Figs. 1, 11, 12 and 13 of the accom-.
panying drawings.
Fig. 11 is a front elevation partly a transverse section of a portion of the
machine illustrated in Fig. 1 and serves also for the illustration of the fourth.
part. of my invention. Fig. 12 is a plan partly in horizontal section of a portion
of the machine illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. Fig. 13 is a front elevation of a
portion of a warp-beaming machine and serves also for the illustration of the
third and fourth parts of my invention.
r, s, are the two belt-pulleys employed in accordance with this part of my inven-
tion and capable of being turned upon the shaft on which they are mounted which
in this case is the shaft or axle t of the friction-drum u of the warp-beaming

page_text: machine. The pulley is intended to serve as the loose pulley on to which the driv-
ing belt is moved when the machine is to remain at rest. The pulleys which is
intended for the driving of the machine is provided with a friction surface w',
arranged to act in conjunction with a friction-surface 2 upon a disc or plate w formed
with a collar v capable of being slidden lengthwise of the shaft and connected to it.
by means of a key so that at times it may impart motion thereto, the two friction-
surfaces ww together forming a clutch-box. The collar is formed with a
groove into which pins projecting from arms formed upon a boss mounted
fast upon a shaft capable of being oscillated in brackets secured to the side-
framed of the beaming machine. Fast upon the shaft is an arm extending
into a curved groove y formed in a plate or flange y fast upon a shaft z capable
of being oscillated in brackets secured to the side-frame and supported by a
collar resting upon one of the brackets in which such shaft z is mounted.
Upon the shaft is mounted an arm shown only in Fig. 11 weighted so as
to tend to move the friction-surface w away from the friction-surface w¹. The
sides of the groove y¹ in the collar, plate or flange y act as a cam to move the
arm a² and so to move the disc or plate w into contact with and away from the
friction-surface w¹ on the pulley s. The groove y' is made of such shape that in
the first part of the turning of the disc or plate y in the direction indicated by the
arrow 13 the plate or disc w will be brought into contact with the friction-surface w
on the pulley
s so as to be able to receive motion therefrom and then in the
further turning of the plate or disc y no further movement shall be imparted to
the arm Fast upon the shaft is an arm 2 to which is connected a link 3
which is connected to a projection upon a bar 4 capable of being slidden in guides
formed in a bracket 5 secured to the side-frame d. The bar 4 carries a belt-
fork serving to guide on to the loose-pulley r or driving pulleys the belt
employed therewith.
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In the case of a machine in which there is no stop-motion to stop the machine
on the breakage or termination of one of the yarns or threads being operated
upon the clutch and belt-fork operated by means of the shaft z may be the sole
means of starting and stopping the machine but as will be hereinafter explained
in reference to the third part of my invention, the bar 4 is arranged to be moved
by a bar 18 moved by the spring 19 of a stop-motion to stop the machine when a
yarn or thread breaks and is consequently also arranged to move the said bar 18
in the direction opposite to that in which it is moved by the said spring 19 so
that it may be held by a catch-lever 21 in position to permit the driving of the
machine. The arm 2 and link 3 enable the belt-fork 6 to be moved more in the
latter part of the turning of the shaft z in the direction indicated by the arrow B
than in the carlier part of the turning of such shaft in the said direction The
shaft is provided with an arm 7 to which is connected a rod 8 attached at its
other end to an arm 9 similar to the arm 7 and mounted upon a shaft 10 supported
and capable of being oscillated in bearings provided upon the other side-frame
of the beaming machine. The bar 8 enables the attendant to turn the shaft z
from either side or the central part of the machine as may be requisite from time
to time.
By turning the shaft z in the direction indicated by the arrow B the attendant
in charge of the machine first brings the plate w into contact with the friction-
surface w of the pulleys and so places the pulleys in connection with the shaft t
before the driving belt begins to be moved on to the driving pulleys and then
by a further turning of the shaft z in tho said direction the driving-belt can be
brought partially or entirely on to the pulleys as gradually as may be requisite
and thus the starting of the machine may be made as gradual as may be requisite
so that the breakage of the yarns or threads being operated upon may be avoided.
The shaft z may be allowed to remain in position to hold the driving-belt only
partially upon the driving-pulleys at any time at which it is desirable that the
machine shall be slowly driven.
If the machine is to be started after a stoppage brought about by the disengage-

page_text: ment of the catch-lever 21 from the bar 18, the shaft zis first turned quickly in
the direction indicated by the arrow B so as to bring the bar 18 into position to
be engaged by the catch-lever 21 before the belt guided by the belt-fork 6 has
moved far in consequence of the movement of such belt-fork and then the shaft =
is turned back in the direction opposite to that indicated by the arrow B and may
then be turned as gradually as desirable or to any desired extent in the direction
indicated by the arrow B.
The driving belt may be transferred from the driving pulleys to the loose
pulley by the shaft being turned in the direction opposite to that indicated by
the arrow B the belt being moved entirely off the driving pulley s before the disc
or plate is moved out of contact with the friction-surface w¹ on the pulley s.
The removal of the belt from the pulleys and thus the stoppage of the machine
may be made as gradual as may be desirable.
The chain-wheel 11 upon the collar serves to transmit motion by means
of a chain 12 to a chain-wheel 13 fast upon the axle of one of the nip-rollers of
the stop-motion.
In Fig. 13 is shown another form of clutch which may be employed in conjunc-
tion with the shaft z carrying the plate or disc y which forms a cam and the
arms 2 and 7. In the form of clutch illustrated in Fig. 13 the portion of the
clutch which is connected with the pulley s is provided with teeth with which
may engage corresponding teeth formed on the part moved by means of the
shaft z and cam y. The part of the clutch is provided with a recess to receive
a block secured to the axle t by means of a key and provided with notches with
which engage projections formed upon the interior of the part of the clutch,
the said block constituting a key to connect the part of the clutch to the
shaft t. In the use of the form of clutch illustrated in Fig. 13 it is preferable to
arrange the arm 2, link 3 and bar 4 so that the driving-belt shall be brought on
to the edge of the loose-driving-pulley s so as to just slightly drive it before the
teeth of the part of the clutch are brought into engagement with the teeth of
the other part as by so doing the teeth of the part of the clutch are prevented
from striking the teeth of the other part of the clutch in such a way as to prevent
the part of the clutch, from being moved properly into engagement...
As the friction-surface 2 of the plate or disc w can only be brought into
engagement with the friction-surface w¹ of the pulley s in the right way the
arrangement of clutch illustrated in Figs. 1, 11, and 12 is to be preferred to that
illustrated in Fig. 13.
In another modification of this part of my invention the clutch may be arranged
generally as illustrated in Fig. 1 but instead of the teeth upon the part of the
clutch and the part connected to the driving pulley s, friction-surfaces may be
used.
As already explained this part of my invention enables the gradual starting
and gradual stopping and any requisite variations in the speed of driving of
machines of the class to which this part of my invention relates to be readily
effected.
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The provision of the clutch in conjunction with the driving pulley also
enables the machines to be stopped more rapidly than is possible by the simple
transfer of a belt from a driving pulley to a loose-pulley whenever a rapid stop-
page of the machine is requisite as for instance upon the breakage or termination
of a yarn or thread whether such stoppage be brought about by the attendant
or by the action of a stop-motion if a stop-motion be provided.
The third part of my invention relates to such machines of the kinds to which
my invention relates as are provided with or used in conjunction with stop-
motions in which wires allowed to fall between revolving rollers when any of the
yarns or threads being operated upon break or terminate, bring about the release
of rods or other means arranged in conjunction with springs or weights and so
stop the said machines, and the object of this part of my invention is to enable

page_text: such machines to be more readily turned by the attendants for the finding and
piecing of broken or terminated yarns or threads, and also to facilitate without
interference with the proper action of the stop-motions the gradual setting in
motion of such machines after stoppages and enable them to be stopped gradually
or to be driven slowly whenever it may be desirable to so stop or drive them.
According to this part of my invention I employ in conjunction with any machine
to which this part of my invention may be applied mechanism such as I have
herein before described in reference to the second part of my invention and provide
upon or connect to the pulley connected to the one part of the clutch or to the said
part of the clutch a pulley or chain-wheel or teeth or other means by which it may
be enabled to transmit motion by means of a belt or chain or toothed wheels or other
means to the rollers of the stop-motion used in or in conjunction with the said
machine and arrange the belt-fork employed as hereinbefore described in reference to
the second part of my invention so that it may be moved by means of the rod or other
means released by the movement of the movable roller of the stop-motion and be
capable of being used to move the belt off the pulley formed with or connected to
the one part of the clutch independently of the movement of the rod or other
means released by the movement of the said movable roller when such rod or
other means is held in one position by means of a pivotted catch or spring-catch
or other suitable device. In one form of apparatus which I may employ I mount
the belt-fork upon a plate or bar itself mounted upon a rod moved by the move-
ment of the movable roller of the stop-motion and to enable the said rod to move
the said plate or bar, provide a projection or stud upon the one and arrange it to
project into or pass through a groove or slot of suitable length in the other.
This part of my invention is illustrated in Fig. 13 of the accompanying draw-
ings and also in part by Figs. 1, 2, 11, and 12 of the accompanying drawings, the
mechanism employed in the machine illustrated in Fig. 13 being in great part
identical with the mechanism employed in the machine illustrated in Figs. 1, 2,
11, and 12. Fig. 14 shows detached a part of the mechanism shown in Figs. 1, 2,
11, and 13. In Fig. 13, 25 is a chain-wheel fast upon the part of the clutch which
is connected to the driving wheel s. The chain-wheel 25 gears into a chain 26
which passes over and gears into a chain-wheel 27 mounted fast upon the axle
of one of the nip-rollers 14-15 of the stop-motion that is to say upon the axle
of the roller 14. When the part of the clutch which is moved by means of the
shaft z is disengaged from the part which is connected to the driving-wheels the
axle t of the friction-drum is obviously disconnected from the chain-wheel 25 and
thus the attendant in charge of the machine can turn the friction-drum u in
order to find and piece broken or terminated yarns or threads on the beam resting
on such friction-drum u without having to turn the rollers 14-15 of the stop-
motion as well as the friction-drum u. The bar 4 above mentioned described as
employed to support the belt-fork 6 is provided with a slot 16 into which projects
a projection 17 formed on a bar 18 capable of being slidden lengthwise in the
bracket 5. Upon one end of the bar 18 bears a spring 19 secured to the side-
frame and serving as will be further described to move the bar 18 in the direc-
tion indicated by the arrow C. The projection 17 is so placed and the slot 16 in
the bar 4 is made of such length that though the bar 4 may be moved in the
direction indicated by the arrow C in relation to the bar 18 the spring 19 in moving
the bar 18 in the direction indicated by the arrow C will move the bar 4 and the
belt-fork 6 and transfer the driving belt from the driving pulleys to the loose-
pulley rand that in being moved in the direction opposite to that indicated by
the arrow C to bring the driving belt on to the driving-pulleys the bar 4 will
move the bar 18 into such position that a notch 20 formed in it will be brought
beneath a catch-lever 21 mounted upon a stud in the side-frame and weighted
so as to tend to pass into engagement with the notch 20 in the bar 18 as indicated
in Fig. 14. A finger 22 connected to one of the arms which as will be herein-
after described in reference to the fourth part of my invention, carry the movable
nip-roller 15 of the stop-motion projects behind the catch-lever 21 so that when a
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page_text: drop-wire falls between the nip-rollers 14 15 the catch-lever 21 will be disengaged
from the bar 18 so that the spring 19 may move such bar 18 and move the driving
belt from the driving pulleys to the loose-pulley r One end of the lever p
herein before described in reference to the first part of my invention also projects
behind the catch-lever 21 so that the catch-lever 21 can be disengaged from the
bar 18 when the lever is released by the lever o hereinbefore described.
The employment of the part of the clutch which is connected to the pulley s
as part of the means employed to drive the nip-roller 14 enables the friction-
drum to be turned independently of the nip-roller 14 when broken or terminated
yarns or threads on the beam resting on such drum are to be pieced and so more
easily than if the nip-rollers had then to be also turned. Further the nip-rollers
being at rest when the friction-drum is being turned by the attendant the falling
of any drop-wire of the stop-motion caused by the breakage or termination of a
yarn or thread during the said turning will cause the nip-rollers to be separated
as soon as an attempt is made to start the machine and frustrating such attempt
prevent the attendant from omitting to notice the breakage or termination of a
yarn or thread which may occur while the said friction-drum u is being turned
by hand.
The combination of the clutch herein before described in reference to the
second part of my invention with the chain-wheel 25 as means for transmitting
motion to the nip-rollers of the stop-motion and the use therewith of the herein-
before described means for moving the driving-belt enables the machine to be
stopped quickly by the stop-motion or slowly by the attendant and also permits
the gradual starting and driving at a slow speed of the machine whenever
desirable.
The principal object of the fourth part of my invention which relates to stop-
motions which are to be used in conjunction with machines of the kinds to which
my invention relates and are arranged to operate so that on the breakage or
termination of any yarns or threads wires are dropped between rollers. According
to this part of my invention I mount one of the rollers of a stop-motion of the said
kind in the usual way so that it is only capable of rotation but instead of mount-
ing the movable roller used therewith in long arms depending from a transverse
shaft or mounted on separate studs in the way hitherto usual I mount it in short
arms which are mounted fast upon a shaft so that a slight lateral movement of
the said movable roller shall with certainty cause all parts of the said shaft to
turn. One of the arms in which the said movable roller is mounted is made to
extend from the shaft on which it is mounted, or another arm mounted upon the
said shaft may be provided, to disengage a catch of any suitable kind arranged to
hold a rod or other device in position to permit the machine in or in conjunction
with which the stop-motion is applied to be driven.
This part of my invention is illustrated by Figs. 1, 11, and 13 of the accompany-
ing drawings. 23 23 are the short arms in which the movable nip-roller 15 of
the stop-motion is mounted and 24 is a shaft fast upon which the arms 23 are
mounted. The shaft 24 is capable of being oscillated in bearings provided in the
side-frames of the machine. One of the arms 23 is prolonged below the shaft 24
and to it is secured the finger 22 which as already mentioned projects behind the
catch-lever 21. When a drop-wire falls between the rollers 14 15 the roller 15
will be forced away from the roller 14 and the arms 23 being short, the shaft 24
will necessarily be oscillated whether the one arm 23 or the other be nearest to
the drop-wire the falling of which causes the separation of the roller 15 from the
roller 14 and so whatever may be the position in the length of the nip-rollers 14 15
at which a drop-wire falls between them the movement of the roller 15 must
disengage the catch-lever 21 from the bar 18 and bring about the stoppage of the
machine.
It is obvious although the several parts of my invention are illustrated in the
accompanying drawings as employed in conjunction with one another, that the
first, second and fourth parts of my invention may be applied independently of

page_text: one another and that the second and third parts of my invention may be employed
without the first and fourth parts of my invention.
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. For use in or with a warp-linking machine, beaming-machine, sectional-
warping and beaming-machine or other machine for forming warps or portions
of warps or winding yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps
or other analogous forms, the hereinbefore described improvements in apparatus
for measuring and indicating the length of yarn or thread in such machine and
stopping such machine at requisite intervals and consisting in the combination
of two discs or plates furnished with notches and arranged to revolve in suitable
different times and graduated and numbered or graduated or numbered and of a
finger employed in conjunction with the said discs or plates all arranged employed
and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described.
2. For use in or with a warping-linking machine, beaming-machine, sectional-
warping and beaming-machine, or other machine for forming warps or portions
of warps or winding yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps
or other analogous forms, the hereinbefore described improvements in apparatus
for measuring and indicating the length of yarn or thread in such machine and
stopping such machine at requisite intervals and consisting in the combination
of two discs or plates furnished with notches and arranged to revolve in suitable
different times and graduated and numbered or graduated or numbered and
of a finger employed in conjunction with the said discs or plates and connected to
a lever with a projection normally engaged with a projection upon a second lever,
all arranged employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in the
manner hereinbefore described.
3. For use in or with a warp-linking machine, beaming-machine, sectional-
warping and beaming-machine, or other machine for forming warps or portions
of warps or winding yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps
or other analogous forms, the herein before described improvements in apparatus
for measuring and indicating the length of yarn or thread in such machine and
stopping such machine at requisite intervals and consisting in the combination
of two discs or plates furnished with notches and arranged to be revolved in suit-
able different times by being connected to suitable different worm-wheels
ordinarily held in gear by means of a spring with, and receiving motion by means
of, a worm revolved by a roller driven by the yarns or threads to be measured
and of a finger employed in conjunction with the said discs or plates all arranged
employed and operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
4. For use in a warp-linking machine, beaming-machine, sectional-warping and
beaming machine or other machine for forming warps or portions of warps or
winding yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps or other
analogous forms, the combination of two pulleys both loose upon the shaft on
which they are mounted, of a clutch one part of which is connected to or
formed on one of the said pulleys and another part of which is connected to the
said shaft, of a belt-fork and a shaft provided with a cam to operate one part of
the said clutch and with an arm connected by a link to the said belt-fork, all
arranged and employed for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
5. For use in a warp-linking machine, beaming machine sectional-warping and
beaming machine or other machine for forming warps or portions of
warps
or winding yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions
of warps or other analogous forms, which is provided with or used
conjunction with a stop-motion in which wires are allowed to
fall between revolving rollers when any of the yarns or threads being operated
in

page_text: upon break or terminate, the combination of two pulleys both loose upon the
shaft on which they are mounted, of a clutch one part of which is connected to
or formed upon one of the said pulleys and another part of which is connected to
the said shaft of a belt fork, of a shaft provided with a cam to operate one part
of the said clutch, and with an arm connected by a link to the said belt-fork, and
of a chain-wheel, pulley, teeth or other means of transmitting motion which
being mounted or provided upon the part of the clutch aforesaid connected to or
formed upon the pulley aforesaid or being mounted upon the said pulley is or
are arranged to transmit motion to one of the rollers of the said stop-motion, all
arranged and employed for the purposes and substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
or
6. In a stop-motion which is intended for use with a warp-linking machine,
sectional-warping and beaming-machine or other machine for forming warps or
portions of warps or winding yarns or threads in the form of warps
portions of warps or other analogous forms and is provided with rollers between
which wires are allowed to fall when any of the yarns or threads being operated
upon break or terminate, the combination with the one of such rollers which is
movable in relation to the other, of a shaft fast upon which are short arms sup-
porting the movable roller and arranged, employed and operating for the purpose
and substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of August 1899.
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.