AN IMPROVED WARPING MACHINE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of No. 6, South-
ampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED WARPING MACHINE."—A
communication from abroad by Oliver H. Moulton, of Lowell,
Massachusetts, Laura S. Damon, Administratrix of Alexander M.
Damon, formerly of Lowell, aforesaid, Israel L. G. Rice, of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Retire H. Parker, of Boston,
Massachusetts, all in the United States of America.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles
Henderson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 11th November 1875.
I, Arthur CharLES HENDERSON, of No. 6, Southampton Buildings,
3 Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED WARPING MACHINE,"
a communication to me from abroad by Oliver H. Moulton, of Lowell,

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Massachusetts, Laura S. Damon, administratrix of Alexander M.
Damon, formerly of Lowell, aforesaid, Israel L. G. Rice, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Retire H. Parker, of Boston, Massachusetts, all in
the United States of America, to be as follows:-
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The object of this Invention is to stop the beam and spools of a 5
warping machine simultaneously, by self-acting mechanism that is put
in motion by the breaking of a thread.
The advantage of stopping the beam and spools simultaneously is
that the threads from the spools to the beam are kept taut and snarls
prevented.
In the warping machines that are now commonly in use, this slack is
taken up by rolls that extend across the line of threads, and that are
made to rise or fall by automatically acting mechanism that is put in
motion by the breaking of a thread.
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The cause of the slack yarn between the spools and the beam is that 1
the momentum of the spools causes them to revolve after the beam has
stopped and thus the yarn is unwound and the slack produced.
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The features of novelty in the Invention are,―
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First. The combination with the thread carriers and stopping
mechanism of a warping machine, of a spool creel and warp beam 2
driving cylinder and friction mechanism adapted to operate upon the
spools and the driving cylinder, whereby when a thread breaks, the warp
beam and the spools are simultaneously stopped.
Second. The combination with the warp beam driving cylinder of a
warping machine of a belt shipping mechanism, controlled by the 2
thread carriers and a cam shaft, and intermediate mechanism for
controlling and operating it, which shaft is adapted through intermediate
friction brake devices to stop the beam and spools simultaneously.
Third. The combination in a warping machine of a belt shipping
mechanism, controlled by the thread carriers with friction brakes a
adapted to operate upon the spools and intermediate operating
mechanism, whereby the spools are stopped when a thread breaks.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
CHARLES HENDERSON, of No. 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in
the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Charles Henderson,
Her special licence that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Arthur Charles Henderson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED WARPING MACHINE," a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Oliver H. Moulton, of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts, Laura S. Damon, Administratrix of Alexander M. Damon,
formerly of Lowell, aforesaid, Israel L. G. Rice, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Retire H. Parker, of Boston, Massachusetts, all in
the United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six.calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention; and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is.
to say:

page_text: The object of this Invention is to stop the beam and spools of a
warping machine simultaneously, by self-acting mechanism that is put
in motion by the breaking of a thread.
The advantage of stopping the beam and spools simultaneously is
that the threads from the spools to the beam are kept taut and snarls
prevented.
In the warping machines that are now commonly in use this slack is
taken up by rolls that extend across the line of threads, and that are
made to rise or fall by automatically acting mechanism, that is put in
motion by the breaking of a thread.
The cause of the slack yarn between the spools and the beam is that
the momentum of the spools causes them to revolve after the beam has
stopped, and thus the yarn is unwound and the slack produced.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a plan view showing the
machine with its creel and drop box; Fig. 2 is a sectional view.
Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the warper with the drop box removed.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing the thread carriers and rocker
shaft; Fig. 5 is an end view of the same.
Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the warper.
A is the creel that holds the spools B, B; in the Drawing but few
spools are shown. In full sized machines there are usually three or four
hundred; C, C, are rods on which are fastened the brakes D, D, D, these
are made of thin spring steel and are faced with leather; E is the comb
through which the threads pass; F is the measuring roll; H, H, H, the
thread carriers in the drop box I; J is a guide roller; K, the beam; L,
the cylinder that drives the beam K; the beam rests upon the cylinder;
M is the pinion that is on the driving shaft of the machine, and meshes
into the gear that is on the shaft with the cylinder L; N is a rocker
that is moved by the cam O working the rocking arm P (see Figs. 4
and 5).
When a thread breaks the tension of the thread is removed from the
thread carrier H and it drops, and the projection on its long arm strikes
against the rocker N as the arm P continues to rock, the upper part P¹
of the arm P lifts up the catch Q out of the dent R¹, this is clearly.
shown in Figs 4 and 5. As the catch Q is lifted out of the dent R¹ in

page_text: the shipper R, the shipper is thrown back by means of the spring S, as
it goes back (sec Figs. 2 and 3) it strikes the spring x, one end. of which
is in a dent in the rod X (see Fig. 6); as the spring x is struck by the
shipper it flies out of the dent in the rod Y, and is forced down by the
spiral spring Z, this causes the lever a to push the rod b against the rod c
that is in the frame d, d, into the notch g that is in the gear W (see
Figs. 3 and 6); this gear is kept continuously in motion by means of
the gear V that is fast on the driving shaft of the machine. Now when
the pin centers into this gear W it causes the frame d to revolve, d being
fast upon the shaft f; W is loose on the same shaft. As d revolves it
revolves the cam shaft f, this causes the cam i to lift the lever 1, and
this acts upon the bent ends m, m, of the rcds n, n; the rods C, C, C,
being attached to the rods n, n, pull the brakes D, D, D, down upon the
spools B, B, B, thus stopping them, while at the same time the cam
pushes the brake against the cylinder L and stops it, and this being
stopped the beam K stops also. The cam lifts up the rod Y into its
former position, where it is held by the spring ; as Y moves up it
returns the lever a back to its former position, the spiral spring on the
rod 6 causes that to move back while the spring on the rod c forces it
out of the notch g in the gear W, so that it ceases to turn and makes
but a single revolution of the cam shaft ƒ:
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It may be impossible to stop each spool simultaneously with the
beam, but there is no difficulty in so setting the cams that for all
practical purposes the stoppage of the beam and spools is simultaneous.
Care must be taken to see that the beam is not allowed to continue in
motion after the spools stop, or breakage of the thread will ensue.
In running this warping machine at a high speed, it may be found.
that the measuring roll continues to turn after the beam stops. To
overcome this a brake should be applied to it operated by a cam on the
shaft f.
What is claimed as new and which is desired to be secured by Letters
Patent is,―
First. The combination with the thread carriers and stopping
mechanism of a warping machine of the spool creels and warp beam
driving cylinder and friction mechanism adapted to operate upon the
snools and the driving cylinder, whereby when a thread breaks the warp

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beam and the spools are simultaneously stopped, as and for the purposes
set forth.
Second. In combination with the warp beam driving cylinder of a
warping machine, and the belt shipping mechanism controlled by the
thread carriers, the cam shaft and intermediate mechanism substantially
as shown for controlling and operating it, which shaft is adapted through
intermediate friction brake devices to stop the beam and the spools
simultaneously, as and for the purposes set forth.
Third. In a warping machine, the combination of a belt shipping
mechanism controlled by the thread carriers with the friction brakes
adapted to operate upon the spools, and intermediate operating
mechanism substantially as described whereby the spools are stopped.
when a thread breaks, as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.