IMPROVED TAKING-UP APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Archibald Turner, of Leicester, Elastic Fabric
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED TAKING-UP APPARATUS
APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS."
Sealed the 26th February 1867, and dated the 26th October 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Archibald Turner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th October 1866.
I, ARCHIBALD TURNER, of Leicester, Elastic Fabric Manufacturer, do
bereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED TAKING-UP
APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention of improved taking-up apparatus is intended to be applied
to that class of machinery which is employed in the manufacture of elastic
braids.
The object of the Invention is so to take up the fabric (as it is produced) as
to relieve-it-from-tension-in-a-gradual and uniform manner, and to allow it to
contract very gradually plait by plait as it leaves the bearing surfaces of the

page_text: taking-up rollers and the fixed guide, so that it will be wound on to the work
beam or roller in a quiescent state; this is effected by increasing the extent
of the bearing or friction surfaces of the taking-up rollers so as to prevent
the fabric from slipping on them, so that when the fabric is wound on to the
work roller it will not be subjected to tension, and will present a uniform,
regular, and unchafed surface, much clearer and freer from cockles and
irregularities which are liable to be produced when the work in a state of
tension is taken up by roughened friction surfaces as is now the case. In the
ordinary taking-up apparatus the taking-up rollers are usually roughened
by covering them with sand paper, fish skin, or other rough surface, with
a view to prevent the work from slipping thereon. In order to prevent this
slipping of the fabric on the rollers it is wound tightly on the beam, and so
great an amount of tension is thereby put on the beam that when this tension
is slackened and the fabric is allowed to contract a considerable length of it
will contract at once, and will thereby produce a cockled and uneven
surface.
According to my Invention the use of roughened friction surfaces on the
taking-up rollers is avoided, and yet the liability of the work to slip on the
taking-up rollers is effectually prevented by increasing the extent of the bearing
surfaces.
In carrying out my Invention the fabric as it is completed is made to pass
from the machine through fixed guides, and from thence round one of a series
of friction pullies or rollers, from which it is conducted down and round a
small guide pulley which is set at an angle to the friction pulley or roller
above. From this guide pulley the fabric passes up and over another friction
pulley or roller of smaller diameter than the former one, then downwards and
round a second guide pulley, which is also set at an angle to the friction
pulleys. From this last pulley the fabric is conducted through another fixed
guide, then on to the work roller above. By this means the braid is allowed
to contract to a certain and limited extent between the first and second
friction pullies or taking-up rollers, the amount of contraction being governed
by and in proportion to the difference in diameter of the two taking-up
rollers. When the fabric has passed over the friction surfaces of the taking-
up rollers it is allowed to contract still further plait by plait at or near the
last fixed guide, so that when it has passed the same the braid will have
contracted to the full extent and will be in a quiescent state, in which state it
will be wound on to the work beam or roller..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Archibald Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARCHIBALD
TURNER, of Leicester, Elastic Fabric Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand. eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Archibald Turner, Her special licence that I, the said Archibald
Turner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Archibald Turner, 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
"IMPROVED TAKING-UP APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO MACHINERY FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF ELASTIC FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Archibald Turner, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 shid Archibald Turner, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):
My Invention of improved taking-up apparatus is intended to be applied
to that class of machinery which is employed in the manufacture of elastic
braids.
The object of the Invention is s. to take up the fabric (as it is produced) as
to relieve it from tension in a gradual and uniform manner, and to allow it to
contract very gradually plait by plait as it leaves the bearing surfaces of the
taking-up rollers-and-the fixed guide, so that it will be wound on to the work
beam inquiescent state this is effected by increasing the extent of the

page_text: bearing or friction surfaces of the taking-up rollers so as to prevent the fabric
from slipping on them, so that when the fabric is wound on to the work
roller it will not be subjected to tension, and will present a uniform, regular,
and unchafed surface, much clearer and freer from cockles and irregularities
which are liable to be produced when the work in a state of tension is taken
up by roughened friction surfaces as is now the case. In the ordinary taking-
up apparatus the taking-up rollers are usually roughened by covering them
with sand paper, fish skin, or other rough surface, with a view to prevent the
work from slipping thereon. In order to prevent this slipping of the fabric
on the rollers it is usually wound tightly on the beam, and so great an amount
of tension is thereby put on the fabric that when this tension is slackened and
the fabric is allowed to contract a considerable length of it will contract at
once, and will thereby produce a cockled and uneven surface.
According to my Invention the use of roughened friction surfaces on the
taking-up rollers is avoided, and yet the liability of the work to slip on
the taking-up rollers is effectually prevented by increasing the extent of the
bearing surfaces.
A convenient mode of and combination of apparatus for carrying out my
Invention is shewn in the accompanying Drawing, which is a diagram
representing an arrangement of the taking-up apparatus adapted to a braiding
machine.
a, a, a, a, a, are the hollow tubes from which the india-rubber strands are
supplied, and b, b, b, are braiding pipes which carry the covering threads or
yarns, which are braided round the elastic strands, as is well known. In the
Drawing I have not shown all the bobbins that are required to carry the
covering threads or yarns, as the manufacture of the braid or fabric forms no
part of my Invention.
The fabric as it is completed in the braiding machine passes from the
machine over a guide bar or through an eye c and through fixed guides c²,
and from thence round one of a series of friction pullies or rollers d, round
which it is conducted down to and round a small guide pulley e, which is set
at an angle to the friction pulley or roller d above; from this guide pulley •
the fabric passes up and over another friction pulley or roller d' of smaller
diameter than the former one d, then downwards and round a second guide
pulley e', which is also set at an angle to the friction pulleys d, d'; from this
last pulley the fabric is conducted through another fixed guide c³, then over a
fixed bar fon to the work roller g above; by this means the braid (shown by
red lines in the diagram) is allowed to contract to a certain and limited
extent between the first and second friction pullies or taking-up rollers & and

page_text: d, the amount of contraction being governed by and in proportion to the
difference in diameter of the two taking-up rollers & and d. When the
fabric has passed over the friction surfaces of the taking-up rollers d and d¹³ it
is allowed to contract still further plait by plait at or near the last fixed
guide, so that when it has passed the same the braid will have contracted
to the full extent and will be in a quiescent state, in which state it will be
wound on to the work beam or roller g above.
Having now described my Invention of "Improved Taking-up Apparatus
applicable to Machinery for the Manufacture of Elastic Fabrics," and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I claim as the Inven-
tion secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the use and combination of
the friction pullies or rollers d, d, the guide pullies e, e', and fixed guides c³, c²,
so as to increase the extent of the friction or bearing surface, and thereby
prevent the work from slipping thereon, and also to allow the work to
contract uniformly and completely before it is wound on to the work beam
roller.
In witness whereof, I, the said Archibald Turner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
A. TURNER. (L.S.)