CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZEING AND BALLING YARNS AND THREADS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Seville, of Lecs, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZEING AND BALLING YARNS AND
THREADS."
Scaled the 30th June 1868, and dated the 13th February 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Samuel Seville at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th February 1868.
I, SAMUEL SEVILLE, of Lees, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZEING AND BALLING YARNS
AND THREADS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of dispensing with the
process of "beaming" warps or yarns when they are required to be
formed into "balls" subsequently to the process of sizeing.
The improvements consist in combining or applying a machine, such
as is now used for forming such balls to the delivery end of such
machines as "tape legs," "slashers," or other suitable apparatus used

page_text: for sizeing yarns so as to constitute a sizeing and balling machine to
accomplish both objects at one continuous operation. In order to adapt
the said machines to each other, and to obviate manual labor, a bar or
rod having "dents," pegs, or teeth may be applied between the sizeing
and balling machine, which pegs divide the width of yarn;
divisions or hanks, in which subdivided state it is formed into separate
balls.
Hitherto yarns have been sized and wound on a "beam" or roller
at the delivery end of the sizeing machine, which "beam" is then
removed to a balling machine, and as the yarn, unwinds from the
"beam" it is divided into hanks by hand and formed into balls, and
by the improved adaptation of apparatus the process of beaming and
its cost and loss of time is avoided.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Samuel Seville in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th August 1868. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SEVILLE, of Lees, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, tho said Samuel Seville, Her special license,
that I, the said Samuel Seville, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Seville, 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. "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN, MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIZEING AND
BALLING YARNS AND THREADS," upon the condition (amongst others) that:
I, the said Samuel Seville, 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

page_text: 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 Samuel Seville, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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):-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of dispensing with the
process of "beaming" warps or yarns when they are required to be
formed into "balls" subsequently to the process of sizcing.
The improvements consist in combining or applying to the delivery
end of such machines as "tape legs," "slashers," or other suitable
apparatus used for sizeing yarns, a peculiar construction of balling
machines, so as to constitute a sizcing and balling machine combined to
accomplish both objects at one continuous operation. In order to adapt
the 'said machines to each other, and to obviate manual labor, a bar or
rod having "dents," pegs, or teeth may be applied to the sizeing and
balling machine, which pegs divide the width of yarn into divisions or
tapes, in which subdivided state it is formed into separate balls.
"
Hitherto yarns have been sized and wound on a "bcam" or roller at
the delivery end of the sizeing machine, which beam is then removed
to a balling machine, and as the yarn unwinds from the beam it is
divided into tapes by hand and formed into balls, and by this improved
adaptation of apparatus the process of beaming, and its cost and loss
of time is avoided.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, made upon a
scale of about one inch and a half to the foot, similar letters of reference
being marked upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents that end of a "tape leg" or "slasher" which usually
contains the beam, upon which is received the sized yarn when being
prepared for the loom; this view represents that portion of the machine
supplied with an adaptation of mechanism to be employed for forming
the continuous length of sized or prepared tapes into balls of yarn;
Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 a front elevation.
of the peculiar "reed" or "wraith," and also the healds employed. for

page_text: subdividing the ends of warp or yarn under operation of sizcing into
tapes" of a given number of ends.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the yarn under operation of sizeing after being
subdivided into tapes (having a given number of ends) by the peculiar
construction of healds and "reeds," shewn in Fig. 3, passes over the
dryeing cylinder and guide pulley b, from whence it is delivered through
the guide bar c on to the revolving cones d, the combined motion of the
guides c and concs, hercin-after more particulary described, gives to
cach continuous tape of yarn as it is received by the revolving cone
shaft da spherical or ball-like shape in contradistinction to such yarn
being received and wound on to a "beam" in the ordinary manner, the
yarn when passing through the guides c receive a differential lateral
traversing motion, the extent of which is equal to the ball of yarn under
formation, the differential traverse, imparted to the guides c, and also
the compensatory speed given to the cone shaft d receiving the yarn
are derived through the following arrangement of mechanism :-The
guides c through which the tapes are delivered on to the cones d¹ traverse
during the formation of the ball a distance equal to the width of ball
under formation, the guides c are all adjusted and secured upon the
sliding bar e, the guides corresponding in number to the number of balls
undor formation, one side of the bar e is connected by means of the
rod with the disc 9 which derives its motion from the driving shaft a¹
through the medium of gearing and cones i, the revolving of which
gives a to-and-fro traverse to the guides c, the length of such traverse
being regulated by adjusting the end of the connecting rod f in the
slot of the disc g in order to impart a variable speed to the guides for
the purpose of turning in the outer edges and making a solid and
uniform ball, the guides in their to-and-fro action are caused to move
quicker at their turning or reversing point than when passing over the
"ball, this motion is obtained through the medium of the eccentric
wheels driving the disc g, motion being imparted thereto by the
concs i driven by the traversing band, the said traverse being given
to the strap through the screw and guide strap fork actuated in the
ordinary manner by the ratchet and pawls and tappets m. The cones i
giving motion to the guides c, and the bottom cones n giving motion to
the shaft d, upon which the balls are formed are employed for the
purpose of varying the speed of the guides and ball shaft according
to the size of the ball in order to compensate for the increasing size or
.diameter of the balls.

page_text: Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together
with the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to
be distinctly understood, that I claim,-
First. The novel and peculiar arrangement and construction of
"reeds" and healds for sub-dividing the warp threads into a given
number of ends forming a tape, as seen in Fig. 3.
Secondly. The novel adaptation, employment, and use of a balling
machine to the end of "tape legs" or "slashers," as herein-before
described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Seville, have hereunto sct
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.