IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING WEFT
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ursurer Joseph Brasseur, of 40, Rue de Hambourg,
Paris, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING
WEFT." A communication from Theodore Clovis Lefevre and Joseph
Victor Muloteaux, of Paris.
Sealed the 26th February 1856, and dated the 21st September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ursurer Joseph Brasseur
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st September 1855.
I, URSURER JOSEPH BRASSEUR, of 40, Rue de Hambourg, Paris, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
WINDING WEFT" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for winding
weft. For this purpose the machinery may according to the Invention be
arranged to wind numerous yarns of weft at the same time, also to measure
the length of yarns wound, and to stop the machine and give notice by a bell
when the quantity desired has been wound. The machine is arranged as
follows:-At the lower part, by preference, of the framing are spindles or pins
to receive the cops of yarn. From each cop the yarn is conducted up and
passed through the eye of a fixed guide, then around a grooved pulley or roller

page_text: which turns freely on its axis; then the yarn is passed through the eye of
another fixed guide, and is then conducted to and is passed through the eye
of a moveable guide, and by it the yarn is laid or wound on the receiving cone,
which constantly rotates. For which purpose the moveable guide has a to and
fro motion given to it by the machine, as well also as an advancing motion in
a direction from the base to the apex of the cone, by which the winding of the
yarn commences at the larger diameter of the cone, and the winding proceeds
for some distance along the cone; then the guide is moved back and the wind-
ing is for a time in a direction towards the larger end of the cone, but the
guide does not go back so far as where it first commenced, such motion being
by a screw or curved projection and a rack. Then again the guide is moved
towards the smaller end of the cone, and the winding of the yarn side by side
around the cone is in that direction, and this winding is continued beyond the
distance to which it previously moved. The guide is again caused to move
back, but again to a less distance than previously, and this advancing and
returning and again advancing of the guide is continued till the desired quantity
is wound on each of the several cones placed in the machine. The cones are
placed on spindles, which receive motion by endless bands driven by a cylinder,
from the axis of which, motion (by suitable gearing) is transmitted to a counting
apparatus, which indicates the quantity wound, and there is a communication
therefrom to the hammer of a bell, which is caused to strike when the desired
quantity of yarn is wound, and at the same time the further winding is stopped
by suitable stop apparatus. The machine may be put into action by hand or
by power.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 2
by the said Ursurer Joseph Brasseur in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, URSURER
JOSEPH BRASSEUR, of 40, Rue de Hambourg, Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters s
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Ursurer Joseph Brasseur, Her special licence that I, the said Ursurer
Joseph Brasseur, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as s

page_text: I, the said Ursurer Joseph Brasseur, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WINDING WEFT," (a communication from
Theodore Clovis Lefevre and Joseph Victor Muloteaux, of Paris,) upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Ursurer Joseph Brasseur, 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 per-
formed, 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 Ursurer Joseph Brasseur, 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 thereof, that is to say:--
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for winding
weft. For this purpose the machinery may according to the Invention be
arranged to wind numerous yarns of weft at the same time, also to measure
the length of yarns wound, and to stop the machine and give notice by a bell
when the quantity desired has been wound. The machine is arranged as
follows: At the lower part, by preference, of the framing are spindles or pins
to receive the cops of yarn. From each cop the yarn is conducted up and
passed through the eye of a fixed guide, then around a grooved pulley or roller
which turns freely on its axis, then the yarn is conducted to and is passed
through the eye of a moveable guide, and by it the yarn is laid or wound on
the receiving cone, which constantly rotates. For which purpose the moveable
guide has a to and fro motion given to it by the machine, as well also as an
advancing motion in a direction from the base to the apex of the cone, by
which the winding of the yarn commences at the larger diameter of the cone,
and the winding proceeds for some distances along the cone; then the guide is
moved back, and the winding is for a time in a direction towards the larger
end of the cone, but the guide does not go back so far as where it first com-
menced, such motion being by a screw or curved projection and a rack. Then
again the guide is moved towards the smaller end of the cone, and the winding
of the yarn side by side around the cone is in that direction, and this winding

page_text: is continued beyond the distance to which it previously moved. The guide is
again caused to move back, but again to a less distance than previously, and
this advancing and returning and again advancing of the guide is continued till
the desired quantity is wound on each of the several cones placed in the
machine. The cones are placed on spindles, which receive motion by endless
bands driven by a cylinder, from the axis of which, motion (by suitable gearing)
is transmitted to a counting apparatus, which indicates the quantity wound,
and there is a communication therefrom to the hammer of a bell, which is
caused to strike when the desired quantity of yarn is wound, and at the same
time the further winding is stopped by suitable stop apparatus. The machine
may be put into action by hand or by power.
And in order that the said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a vertical section, Figure 2 a front view, and Figure 3 a plan,
of a machine arranged according to the Invention. A is a crank handle,
which may be turned by hand; B, C, D, E, F, is a train of wheels giving
motion to the drum G; H, H, are bands passing over the drum G and the
pulleys on the spindles I, I, I, I, are spindles, which turn in bearings J, J,
supported by the framing; K, K, are bobbins or cones of wood, one of which
is shewn separately at Figure 4; L is a ratchet wheel and click on the same
axis as the crank handle A, and which prevent the handle from being turned
in the wrong direction; M is a bevilled pinion on the same axis as the crank
handle A; N is a bevilled pinion, and it works at one end of the horizontal
axis with pinion M; P is another bevilled pinion at the other end of the
axis O; Q is a pinion working with the pinion P; R is an axis passing
the whole length of the machine, carrying at one end the pinion K.; S is a
screw on the axis R, which gives motion to the pinion T, in connection with
a counting apparatus of an ordinary description, for registering the quantity of
yarn wound, and it also causes an alarm to sound when the proper length is
wound on the bobbins; U is a horizontal axis, receiving motion from the axis
R, and carrying at its extremity the screw V, which consists of about one turn
and a half of a spiral metal spring, connected at each end to a metal bar, the
distance between which bars can be adjusted by screws: (this instrument is
shewn separately at Figure 5.) X is an upright projection, in contact with the
screw V, and attached to the carriage Y, which slides on the framing; thus

page_text: the carriage Y is propelled by the screw V. Racks are attached to the carriage
Y at each side of the machine; they work with the tooth pinions Z, on the ends
of the axis a. The object of these racks and pinions is to cause the carriage Y
to slide correctly in'its guides, and there is a spring attached to the carriage Y,
and to a fixed point of the framing, which brings the carriage back when the
projection X has come to the end of the screw V. 6 is a pinion on the axis R;
c, c, are three studs on the circumference of the pinion b; d is a small lever,
which comes in contact with the studs c, and by a hook lifts the rod e at inter-
vals; e is a rod, which turns on an axis attached to and extending the whole
length of the carriage Y; f is a cam on the axis of a pinion, which is driven
by the pinion 6; this cam acts on the rod e, and regulates the winding of the
yarn, as will be hereafter described. 9 is the axis of the rod e, on which the
guides h, h, are fixed; i is an axis on which the small rollers j are mounted;
the yarns while winding pass round these rollers, and thus have a sufficient
degree of tension put upon them. k, k, are supports for the axis i; is a plat-
form carrying spindles, on which the cops to be wound are mounted; m is
frame carrying the reels n, on which skeins are mounted when skeins are to
be wound; 0, 0, are rollers to put tension on the thread, similar to the rollers j,
already described. The apparatus works in the following manner :--The yarn
passes from the cops or skeins over and round the rollers ; or o, through fixed
guides to the guides h, which are carried backwards and forwards by the car-
riage Y, and distribute the yarn on the spindles, which are revolving rapidly.
The cam f gradually moves the guides forward independent of the to and fro
movement communicated by the carriage, and at intervals the studs e on the
pinion & come in contact with the lever d, and cause the guide to jump sud-
denly forward, and thus lay the yarn diagonally, as is shown by Figure 4,
which prevents the layer of yarn from slipping on the bobbin; when a sufficient
quantity of yarn is wound on the bobbins the bell sounds, and the machine is
stopped either by its own action or by the attendant.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the exact details described; but what I claim is, the method herein described
of arranging machinery for winding weft, and particularly the method of giving
motion to the carriage Y by the adjustable screws V; also, the giving the
guides a forward movement independent of the carriage Y by means of the
cam f, and the causing the guides to move rapidly at intervals, so as to lay
yarn diagonally, as described, by means of the studs c and the lever d.
I also claim the use of counting alarm apparatus in combination with
the

page_text: machines for winding weft, for registering the quantity wound, and indicating
when a sufficient quantity has been wound on to the bobbins; also, the manner
of giving the necessary tension to the yarns, by causing them to pass round the
rollers or 0.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ursurer Joseph Brasseur, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
A. CARPMAEL.
BRASSEUR. (L.S.)