Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1898
I, PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON, of The Office for Patents, 6, Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in yarn-printing apparatus of that class
in which the printing mechanism proper, consisting of a color-box for containing
coloring material, and a distributing wheel rotating therein, is removably mounted
in a carriage adapted to reciprocate from end to end of a drum carrying the yarn,
and which carriage is provided with rubbing appliances, movable automatically
into and out of operative position alternately at opposite ends of the movement of
the carriage, for engaging the yarn and removing therefrom ridges formed between
two or more adjoining stripes of the same color applied thereto by the wheel.
The present invention relates more particularly to such rubbing appliances, and
to means for automatically moving them into and out of operative position at the
ends of the movement of the carriage in opposite directions, and to means for
retaining the rubbing appliances during movement of the carriage, in printing,
in the positions to which they are thus moved. It also relates to means for auto-
matically depressing slightly the operative rubber as it nears the drum, so as to
avoid liability of contact between it and the edge of the drum, or the edge of the
row of yarn wound thereon, & consequent injury to the rubber, or injury and dis-
arrangement of the yarn upon the drum.
The frame of the yarn-printing machine is provided with rails for supporting a
wheeled carriage provided with cables passing over pulleys connecting with a
suitable source of power for moving the carriage back and forth beneath the yarn
drum in the usual way. Hinged at one end of the carriage is a plate provided with
a central opening which registers with a similar opening beneath it in the carriage,
for receiving the removable color box containing the coloring material. On
opposite sides of the opening in it, the hinged plate is also provided with bearings
for the shaft of a distributing wheel immersed in the coloring material in the
color box, and which, during the movement of the carriage, engaging the yarn
upon the drum, applies stripes of colors thereto in the usual manner.
The hinged
plate is also provided with the usual pulley, clutched to the distributing wheel
shaft, and connected by a belt with a second pulley on one of the axles of the
carriage, for the purpose of turning the distributing wheel in the color box, as
the carriage moves under the drum, so as to ensure a supply thereon of coloring

page_text: material. The contact of the distributing wheel with the yarn drum is rendered
yielding by the provision of a spring secured to the carriage, and engaging the
underside of the hinged plate bearing said wheel; upward movement of the plate,
color box, and distributing wheel, by this spring, being limited by a nut on the
upper end of a bolt secured to the carriage, and projecting thro' an opening in the
free end of the hinged plate.
· Pivotted centrally in brackets secured to opposite sides of the carriage, is a
rocking frame provided at opposite ends with inwardly-curved brackets. Between
the brackets at each end of the rocking frame, is pivotted the curved bifurcated
arm of a rubbing appliance, or rubber," as it will be hereinafter termed.
"
Each
of said rubbers is supported from the rocking frame, so as to permit it to yield
when in contact with the yarn upon the drum, by a spring between the rubber
carrying arm and a bracket upon the rocking frame, and which encircles a pin
secured to said bracket, and passing through an opening in the rubber-carrying
arm.
As is well understood, rubbers such as described are used only on the application
to the yarn of the second or third of a series of adjoining stripes of the same color,
and it is essential that, during the application of the first stripe of a series, and
during the application of isolated stripes, both of the rubbers should be out of
operative position, as in such case, if either of the rubbers should contact with the
yarn, the color of one stripe would be forced thereby into the adjoining and
differently colored stripe, thus blurring the pattern. In the present case, therefore,
the rocking frame carrying the rubbers during the application of the first stripe
of a series of the same color, and during the application of isolated stripes to the
yarn, will occupy a horizontal position, in which position both of the rubbers are
out of operative position. The rocking frame is also capable of assuming an
inclined position, in either direction, in which position one or the other of the
rubbers, namely that which follows the distributing wheel, will be in operative
position. The rocking frame, with its rubbers, is retained in its horizontal position
by a spring centrally secured to the carriage, and engaging, the underside of the
frame on opposite sides of its pivotal connection to the carriage.
.
The rocking frame is adapted to be rocked from its horizontal position to one or
the other of its inclined positions, so as to render one of the rubbers operative, and
also to be rocked from one inclined position to another, to reverse the rubbers at
opposite ends of the movement of the carriage, by mechanism which will now be
described. For this purpose, the rocking frame is provided with a lever fulcrum med
in the carriage, and one end of which is provided with a cam slot embracing a pin
in the rocking frame, and the other, or free end of which, is provided with a laterally
projecting bowl, which is adapted to be engaged so as to trip, said lever by a pair
of cams, one at each end of the movement of the carriage. As the. bowl of said
lever is engaged by the cam at the end of the movement of the carriage in one
direction, the free end of the lever is moved upwardly, and its slotted end moved
downwardly, thus tilting the rocking frame, and elevating to operative position
the rubber, which will follow the carriage in its movement in the opposite direction,
and correspondingly lowering the rubber at the opposite end of the carriage, while,
when said bowl is engaged by the cam at the end of the movement of the carriage
in the opposite direction, the free end of said lever is lowered, and the frame rocked
in the reverse direction, the latter rubber being then elevated, and the former
rubber depressed. These movements of the rocking frame take place, whether, at
the time of the engagement of the bowl with the cams, the frame be in horizontal
position, and the rubbers both inoperative; or be in one of its inclined positions,
with one of the rubbers operative. The form of the slot in the lever, and its
position relatively to the pivot of said lever, are such, that the rocking frame will
not only be rocked thereby into its inclined positions, but locked in those positions,
so as to retain the rubbers, during the movement of the carriage in printing, in
the positions to which they have previously been moved thereby.
Mechanism is also provided, in the present case, for automatically restoring the

page_text: rocking frame from either of its inclined positions, to horizontal position, when the
first stripe of a series of adjoining stripes of the same color, or isolated stripes, are
to be applied to the yarn, so that neither of the rubbers will contact therewith, and
thus mar the pattern. The means for this purpose consists of a second pair of unlocking
cams at opposite ends of the movement of the carriage, and each of which is
adapted to engage the bowl of the slotted lever, and trip the latter slightly, so as
to disengage the pin on the rocking frame, from the end of the slot in said lever,
and thus unlock the rocking frame from the lever. As the frame is thus unlocked,
the spring beneath it will move it from its inclined position to its horizontal
position, in which both of its rubbers will be inoperative, and will retain the frame
and its rubbers in such position during the subsequent movements of the carriage
in printing the first one of a series of adjoining stripes of the same color, or in
printing isolated stripes.
The first-named pair of cams for rocking the frame to inclined position, so as to
render one rubber operative, and the other inoperative, are located, slightly in
advance of the unlocking or second pair of cams, which unlock the frame when in
inclined position, when it is desired to move it to horizontal position, so that when
in position themselves for tripping the lever, the first named cams prevent operative
engagement with said second pair of cams. In order, therefore, that the latter
cams may be rendered operative, the first-named cams are movably mounted in the
frame of the machine, so as to be adjustable to and from operative position at
the will of the operator. For this purpose, the arm of each of said cams is hinged
to the frame of the machine, and provided with a pin engaging a slot in arms
secured to a rock shaft mounted in suitable standards, and provided with an arm
connected by a link to one end of a bell-crank lever pivotted in a standard, and the
opposite end of which is provided with a pin entering a slot in a treadle pivotted
in a standard at one side of the machine. On depressing the treadle, said first-
named cams will be moved from operative position, into inoperative position, and,
when so moved, will permit the bowl of the slotted lever to pass without engage-
ment. Said bowl will then be engaged by one or other of the second pair of cams,
and the rocking frame unlocked from the carriage, and then moved by its spring
to a horizontal or inactive position, and both the rubbers rendered inoperative.
the release of the treadle (which remains depressed until the printing of successive
adjoining stripes of the same color is resumed, and the first or second stripe of the
series has been printed), the first-named cams will be restored automatically to
operative position, to tilt the rocking frame by a spring secured to the rock shaft, to
which said cams are connected, and to a stationary part of the machine.
On
As the rubber, following the distributing wheel in position to operate the yarn,
is sometimes liable to come in contact with the edge of the yarn drum, and thus be
injured, or to come in contact sidewise with the edge of the row of yarn upon the
drum, and thus injure or disturb it, it is desirable that means, should be provided
for slightly depressing the rubber as it nears the drum, and retaining it in that
position until it is beneath the drum, so that the rubber will move vertically into
contact with the yarn beneath it. Means are provided in this case for this purpose,
also, consisting of a third pair of cams, secured to the rails on which the carriage
runs at opposite ends of the yarn drum, and which are adapted to engage bowls on
the lower ends of rods secured to the arms of the rubbers, and passing through
guides in the ends of the rocking frame. Each of these cams is of such length,
and so positioned relatively to the drum, that as the rubber following the distribut-
ing wheel in operative position nears the drum, it will engage the bowl corre-
sponding to that rubber, and depress the rubber against the pressure of its
supporting spring, and retain it in depressed position until it is directly under the
drum, when said bowl will become disengaged from the cam, & the rubber be raised
by its supporting spring, into contact with the face of the yarn upon the drum.
When the rocking frame is in horizontal position, both the bowls of the
rubbers will be lowered to such an extent as to clear this third pair of cams.
rubbers are preferably double the width of the distributing wheel, and mounted
The

page_text: directly in line therewith, so that, when operating, they will embrace the two
ridges formed between three adjoining stripes.
Dated this 19th day of August. 1897.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Yarn Printing Apparatus.
I, PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON, of The Office for Patents, 6, Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in yarn-printing apparatus of that class
in which the printing mechanism proper, consisting of a color-box for containing
coloring material, and a distributing wheel rotating therein, is removably mounted
in a carriage adapted to reciprocate from end to end of a drum carrying the yarn,
and which carriage is provided with rubbing appliances movable automatically
into and out of operative position alternately at opposite ends of the movement of
the carriage, for engaging the yarn, and removing therefrom ridges formed between
two or more adjoining stripes of the same color applied thereto by the wheel.
The present invention relates more particularly to such rubbing appliances, and
to means for automatically moving them into and out of operative position at the
ends of the movement of the carriage in opposite directions, and to means for
retaining the rubbing appliances during movement of the carriage, in printing,
in the positions to which they are thus moved.
It also relates to means for automatically depressing slightly the operative
rubber as it nears the drum, so as to avoid liability of contact between it and the
edge of the drum, or the edge of the row of yarn wound thereon, and consequent
injury to the rubber, or injury and disarrangement of the yarn upon the drum.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a yarn-printing apparatus embodying the present
invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 is an end view, partly in section, looking toward the right of Figs. 1
and 2.
Fig. 4 is a similar view looking toward the left of said figures.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation, on a slightly enlarged scale, illustrating both of the
rubbing devices in inoperative positions; and
Fig. 6 is a detail, on the same scale, of one of the rubbing devices, illustrating
particularly the means for depressing it as it nears the yarn drum.
Referring to said drawings, the frame of the machine therein shown is provided
with rails 2, 3, for supporting a wheeled carriage 4, provided with cables 5, 6,
passing over pulleys 7, 8, connecting with a suitable source of power for moving
the carriage back and forth beneath the yarn drum 9 in the usual way. Hinged,
at 10, in the carriage 4, is a plate 11, provided with an opening 12, which registers
with a similar opening beneath it in the carriage, 4; for receiving the removable
color-box, 13, containing the coloring material. On opposite sides of the open-
ing 12, the plate 11 is also provided with bearings 14, 15, for the shaft, 16, of a
distributing wheel, 17, immersed in the coloring material in the color box, 13, and
which, during the movement of the carriage engaging the yarn upon the drum, 9,
applies stripes of colors thereto in the usual manner. The plate 11 is also provided

page_text: with the usual pulley, 18, clutched to shaft 16, and connected by belt 19 with a
second pulley, 20, on one of the axles of the carriage, 4, for the purpose of turning
the distributing wheel 17 in the color-box, as the carriage moves under the drum,
so as to ensure a supply thereon of coloring material.
The contact of the distributing wheel 17 with the yarn-drum 9 is rendered
yielding by the provision of a spring, 21, secured to the carriage, and engaging
the under side of the plate 11, upward movement of the plate, color-box, and dis-
tributing-wheel by the spring, 21, being limited by a nut, 22, on the upper end
of a bolt, 23, secured to the carriage 4, and projecting through an opening in the
free end of plate 11.
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of
Pivotted centrally in brackets, 24, secured to opposite sides of the carriage, 4,
is a rocking frame, 25, provided at opposite ends with inwardly curved brackets, 26.
Between the brackets 26, at one end of the frame 25, is pivotted the curved bifur-
cated arm 27 of a rubber 28, while to the brackets 26, at the other end, is similarly
pivotted a rubber, 29. Each of said rubbers is supported from the frame 25, so as
to permit it to yield when in tact with the yarn upon the drum 9, by a spring, 30,
between the arm 27 and a bracket 31 upon the frame 25, and which encircles a
pin 32, secured to said bracket, and passing through an opening in the arm 27.
As is well understood, rubbers such as described are used only on the application
to the yarn of the second and succeeding stripes of a series of adjoin-
ing stripes of the same color, and it is important that during
application of certain stripes, depending somewhat upon the width
the rubbers employed, and their position relatively to the distributing wheel,-
for instance, during the application of the first stripe of a series, and during the
application of isolated stripes, both of the rubbers should be out of operative
position, as in such case if either of the rubbers should contact with the yarn, the
color of one stripe would be forced thereby into the adjoining and differently-
colored stripe, thus blurring the pattern. In the present case, therefore, the
rocking frame, during the application of the first stripe of a series of the same color,
and during the application of isolated stripes to the yarn, will occupy a horizontal
position, as shown in Fig. 5, in which position both of the rubbers are out of
operative position. The rocking frame 25 is also capable of assuming an inclink.
position, as shown in Fig. 1, in either direction, in which position one or the other
of the rubbers, namely, that which follows the distributing wheel, will be in opera-
tive position.
The rocking frame 25, with its rubbers, is retained in its horizontal
position by a spring, 33, centrally secured to the carriage 4, and engaging the under
side of the frame on opposite sides of its pivotal connection to the carriage.
as,
The frame 25 is adapted to be rocked from its horizontal position to one or the
other of its inclined positions, so as to render one of the rubbers 28 or 29 operative,
and also to be rocked from one inclined position to another, to reverse the rubbers
at opposite ends of the movement of the carriage, by mechanism which will now be
described. For this purpose, the frame 25 is provided with a lever 34, fulcrumed
at 35, and one end of which is provided with a cam-slot 36, embracing a pin 37
in the rocking frame, and the other or free end of which is provided with a laterally-
projecting bowl 38, which is adapted to be engaged so as to trip the lever 34 by
cams 39, 40, at opposite ends of the movement of the carriage. As the bowl 38 is
engaged by the cam 39 at the end of the movement of the carriage toward the left,
Fig. 1, the free end of the lever 34 is moved upwardly, and its slotted end moved
downwardly, as shown in Fig. 1, thus tilting the frame 25, and elevating the
rubber 28 to operative position, and correspondingly lowering the rubber 29, while,
when the bowl 38 is engaged by the cam 40 at the end of the movement of the
carriage in the opposite direction, the free end of lever 34 is lowered, and the
frame 25 rocked in the reverse direction, the rubber 29 being thus elevated, and
the rubber 28 depressed. These movements of the rocking frame 25 take place
whether at the time of the engagement of the bowl 38 with the cams 39, 40, the
frame 25 be in horizontal position and the rubbers both inoperative, or be in one
of its inclined positions, with one of the rubbers operative. The form of the slot 36,

page_text: and its position relatively to the pivot of the lever 34, as will be observed, are such
that the frame 25 will not only be rocked thereby into its inclined position, but
locked in either of such positions, so as to retain the rubbers during the movement
of the carriage in printing in the positions to which they have previously been
moved thereby.
Mechanism is also provided in the present case for automatically restoring the
frame from either of its inclined positions to horizontal position, when desired,-
as, for instance, when the first or last stripe of a series of adjoining stripes of the
same color, or isolated stripes, are to be applied to the yarn, so that neither of the
rubbers will contact therewith, and thus mar the pattern. The means for this
purpose consists of cams 41, 42, at opposite ends of the movement of the carriage,
and each of which is adapted to engage the bowl 38, and trip the lever 34, so as
to disengage the pin 37 from the end of the slot 36, and thus unlock the frame 25
from the lever. When the frame has thus been unlocked, the small further move-
ment of the lever, aided by the spring 33, will move it from its inclined position,
to its horizontal position, in which both of its rubbers will be inoperative, and will
retain the frame and its rubbers in such position during the subsequent movement
of the carriage in printing the first one, or first two, if desired, of a series of
adjoining stripes of the same color, or in printing isolated stripes.
The cams 39, 40, are, as will be observed, located slightly in advance of the
cams 41, 42, so that when in position themselves for tripping the lever 34, they
prevent operative engagement therewith of the cams 41, 42. In order, therefore,
that the cams 41, 42, may be rendered operative, the cams 39, 40, are movably
mounted in the frame of the machine, so as to be adjustable to and from operative
position at the will of the operator. For this purpose, the arm of each of the
cams 39, 40, is hinged to the frame of the machine, and provided with a pin 43,
engaging a slot 44 in arms 45, secured to a rock-shaft 46, mounted in suitable
standards 47, and provided with an arm 48, connected by a link 49 to one end of
a bell-crank lever 50, pivoted in a standard 51, and the opposite end of which is
provided with a pin 52, entering a slot in a treadle 53, pivoted in a standard 54.
On depressing the treadle 53, the cams 39, 40, will be moved from operative posi-
tion, shown by full lines, into inoperative position, shown by dotted lines, Figs. 3
and 4, and when so moved, will permit the bowl 38 to pass without engagement.
The bowl 38 will then be engaged by one or the other of the cams 41, 42, and the
frame 25 unlocked from the carriage, and then moved by the lever and its spring 33
to a horizontal or inactive position, and both the rubbers rendered inoperative.
On the release of the treadle, which remains depressed until the printing of
successive adjoining stripes of the same color is resumed, and the first or second
stripe of the series has been printed, the cams 39, 40, will be restored automatically
to operative position, to tilt the frame 25 by a spring 55, secured to the rock-shaft 4€,
and to a stationary part of the machine.
As the rubber, following the distributing-wheel in position to operate upon the
yarn, is sometimes liable to come in contact with the edge of the yarn-drum, and
thus be injured, or to come in contact sidewise with the edge of the row of yarn
upon the drum, and thus injure or disturb it, it is desirable that means should be
provided for slightly depressing the rubber as it nears the drum, and retaining it
in that position until it is beneath the drum, so that the rubber will move vertically,
into contact with the yarn when beneath it. Means are provided, in this case, for
this purpose also, consisting of cams 56, 57, secured to the rails 2, 3, at opposite
ends of the drum 9, and which are adapted to engage bowls 58 on the lower ends
of rods 59, secured to the arms 27, of rubbers 28, 29, respectively, and passing
through guides 60 in the ends of the rocking frame 25. Each of the cams 56, 57,
is of such length, and so positioned relatively to the drum, that as the rubber
following the distributing-wheel in operative position nears the drum, it will engage
the bowl 58 corresponding to that rubber, and depress the rubber against the
pressure of its spring 30, and retain it in depressed position until it is directly
under the drum, when the bowl 58 will become disengaged from the cam, and the

page_text: rubber be raised by its spring. 30 into contact with the face of the yarn upon the
drum. When the rocking frame 25 is in horizontal position, both bowls 58 will
be lowered to such an extent as to clear the cams 56, 57.
The rubbers 28, 29, are shown as wider than the distributing-wheel, and mounted
directly in line therewith, but the width and arrangement of the rubbers forms
no part of the present invention, which may be used with rubbers of any desired
width and position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
from abroad, I declare that what I claim is;-
1. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of a pair
of reversely-movable connected rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, tripping
devices for effecting their engagement alternately with the drum, and other trip-
ping devices, operative when those first named are inoperative, for effecting their
movement to a position in which both are inoperative.
2. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing wheel, of a pair
of reversely-movable connected rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, tripping
devices for effecting their engagement alternately with the drum, means carried
by the carriage for locking the rubbers when in engagement, and other tripping
devices, operative when those first named are inoperative, for effecting the release
of the rubbers, and their movement to a position in which both are inoperative.
3. The combination with the drum carriage and distributing-wheel, of a pair
of rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, a rocking frame connecting the rubbers,
tripping devices adjustable into and out of operative position, for rocking the frame
into positions to effect the engagement of the rubbers alternately with the drum,
other tripping devices, operative when those first named are inoperative, for moving
the frame to an intermediate position, in which both rubbers are inoperative.
4. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of a pair
of rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, a rocking frame connecting the rubbers,
tripping devices, adjustable into and out of operative position, for rocking the frame
into position to effect the engagement of the rubbers alternately with the drum,
means carried by the carriage for locking the frame in such positions, and tripping
devices, operative when those first named are inoperative, for effecting the release
of the frame and its movement to an intermediate position, in which both rubbers
are inoperative.
5. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of a pair
of yieldingly-supported rubbers for alternately engaging the drum, and means
for temporarily depressing the operative rubber as it nears the drum.
6. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of a rocking
frame provided with a pair of rubbers yieldingly supported thereon, for alternately
engaging the drum, tripping devices for rocking the frame, and means for
temporarily depressing the operative rubber as it nears the drum.
7. The combination with the yarn-drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of
reversely movable connected rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, and tripping
devices for effecting their engagement alternately with the drum, and for effecting
the movement of the rubbers to a position in which both are inoperative, and
adjustable into and out of the position in which they effect the engagement of the
rubbers with the drum.
8. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of alter-
nately-operating rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, tripping devices adjustable
into and out of operative position, for effecting the movement of the rubbers to
operative position, and other tripping devices for effecting the movement of the
rubbers to a position in which both are inoperative.
9. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of alter-
nately-operating rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, and tripping devices for
effecting the movement of the rubbers to operative position, and to a position in

page_text: which both of the rubbers are inoperative, and adjustable into and out of the
position in which they effect the movement of the rubbers to operative position.
10. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of rubbers
on opposite sides of the wheel adapted to alternately engage the drum, means
carried by the carriage for locking the rubbers thereto and retaining them in
operative position, and tripping devices for effecting the movement of the rubbers
to operative position, and for unlocking the rubbers, and effecting the movement of
the rubbers from operative position to a position in which both are inoperative,
said tripping devices being adjustable into and out of the position in which they
effect the movement of the rubbers into operative position.
11. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of a
rocking frame provided with a pair of rubbers on opposite sides of the wheel, for
alternately engaging the drum, tripping devices for rocking the frame, locking
devices between the carriage and frame for. locking the frame when locked, other
tripping devices for releasing it, and spring mechanism between the carriage and
frame, tending to hold the latter in an intermediate position in which both rubbers
are inoperative.
12. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing wheel, of rocking
frame 25, rubbers 28, 29, movable cams 39, 40, means for moving said cams, and
stationary cams 41, 42.
13. The combination with the drum, carriage, and distributing-wheel, of rocking
frame 25, rubbers 28, 29, tripping devices therefor, and depressing-cams 56, 57.
14. The use of two rubbers at opposite sides of the distributing-wheel, with
rocking frame 25, and two tripping devices at each end of the machine for actuating
said frame.
15. A yarn printing apparatus, substantially as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1898.