Improved Means of Fixing or Securing the "Ruffles" or Brake Pulleys upon Loom Warp Beams.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1895-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1836
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Fixing or Securing the "Ruffles" or Brake
Pulleys upon Loom Warp Beams.
I JAMES WILCOCK of 2 Charles Street Littleborough, in the County of
Lancaster, Pattern Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to means of fixing or securing the "ruffles" or brake
pulleys upon the warp beams of looms for weaving, the object being principally to
dispense with the use of the ordinary wooden wedges, the application of which is
a tedious process.
For this purpose I employ two, or a series of three or more curved segments
arranged around the beam to which the ruffle or brake-pulley is to be applied, and
each provided transversely with a groove or grooves of suitable width, the bottom
of which is suitably inclined from one end to the other.
The ruffle or brake pulley is made without a boss but with a web or internal
flange at one side having a central hole or opening therein of such a diameter as
to leave a suitable space (say half an inch) either all round or at intervals round
the beain.
The segments above described are cut away at the side where the inclined
groove is highest to fit loosely between the beam and the web or internal flange of
the ruffle or brake pulley; and the latter is formed upon its inner periphery with
transverse guides or grooves corresponding in number and width with those on the
segments.
In these grooves between the ruffle or pulley and the segments I fit a series of
wedges which I drive in tight, thereby holding the segments fast upon the beam,
and I fix the wedges in position by bolts or screws each passing through the web
and into a hole tapped in the narrower end of one of the wedges; and thus the
ruffle or pulley will be most securely and quickly fixed upon the warp beam.
At the shallow sides of the segments I form snugs or studs upon the inner face
thereof, the snugs or studs fitted in suitable recesses in the warp beam, in order to
assist in keeping the segments in place.
* Dated this 1st day of April 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Fixing or Securing the "Ruffles" or Brake
Pulleys upon Loom Warp Beams.
I JAMES WILCOCK of 2 Charles Street, Littleborough, in the County of
Lancaster, Pattern Maker, 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 means of fixing or securing the ruffles or brake-pulleys

page_text: upon the warp beams of looms for weaving the object being principally to dispense
with the use of ordinary wooden wedges, the application of which is a tedious
process.
The invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
drawings and from the following description thereof.
Fig. 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 an edge view both partly in section of a ruffle
or brake pulley secured to a warp beam according to my invention.
Fig. 1 is an end view of one of the wedges detached.
I employ two, or a series of three or more curved segments a arranged around
the beam to which the ruffle or brake-pulley c is to be applied, and each provided
transversely with a groove at or grooves of suitable width the bottom of which is
suitably inclined from one end to the other, as seen in section at Fig. 2.
The ruffle or brake pulley is made without a boss but with a web or internal
flange c' at one side leaving a central hole or opening c² therein of such a diameter
as to leave a suitable space (say half an inch) either all round or at intervals
-round the beam b.
The segments a above described are cut away at the side where the inclined
groove is highest (see Fig. 2) to fit loosely between the beain b and the web or
internal flange c¹ of the ruffle or brake pulley; and the latter is formed upon its
inner periphery with transverse guides or grooves c+ corresponding in number and
width with those on the segments.
In these grooves between the ruffle or pulley at c+ and the segments at a+ I fit a
series of wedges d which I drive in tight thereby holding the segments fast upon
the beam and I fix the wedges in position by bolts or screws e each passing through
the web c¹ and into a hole tapped in the narrower end of one of the wedges d;
and thus the ruffle or pulley c will be most securely and quickly fixed upon the
warp beam b.
The narrow end of the wedge may be formed as seen at Figs. 1
strengthen the same for the tapped hole.
and 2 to
At the shallow side of the segments a 1 form snugs or studs al upon the inner
face thereof the snugs or studs fitted in suitable recesses in the warp beam b
as shewn in order to assist in keeping the segments in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means for fixing or securing ruffles or brake pulleys upon warp
beams substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of December 1895
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.