Improvements in Sizing, Beaming, and like Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sizing, Beaming, and like Machines.
We, JOHN ASPDEN ORMEROD, Cashier, WILLIAM CROOK, Mechanic, and
ROBERT CROSSLEY, Mechanic, all in the employ of Messrs. John Dugdale and
Sons, of Soho Foundry, Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates particularly to machines for sizing and beaming warps and
also to machines for other analogous purposes and the object of our invention is to
improve the presser mechanism for laying the warp threads firmly and evenly on
the beam from one flange to the other.
In carrying our invention into effect we form the presser roller in two parts
which are supported near each end upon a pair of antifriction bowls, preferably
one straight and one conical, all the bowls being. supported in the swing arm or
arms mounted upon the weighted presser shaft. The two portions which form
the presser roller may be connected together near the middle by a stud which
forms a guide and by clutch teeth say several inches long on one part engaging
corresponding recesses on the other part thus forming a complete presser roller
capable of expanding lengthwise. In place of having clutch teeth the adjoining
ends of the pieces forming the presser roller might be otherwise suitably shaped to
admit of a lengthwise expansion.
In operation the warp beam rotates in its bearings, while the presser roller is
supported upon the antifriction bowls and is pressed against the yarn on the beam
which causes it to rotate by frictional contact whilst the bowls cause the presser
to open in the centre and bring its ends up to the flanges of the beam, any
irregularity in the flanges causing the presser to be pressed together in the centre
or to be expanded by the bowls as the case may be.
In place of having the presser roller placed below the warp beam it might be
placed above.
Dated this 8th day of January 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Sizing, Beaming, and like Machines.
We, JOHN ASPDEN ORMEROD, Cashier, WILLIAM CROOK, Mechanic, and
ROBERT CROSSLEY, Mechanic, all in the employ of Messrs. John Dugdale and
Sons, of Soho Foundry, Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, 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:-
Our invention relates particularly to machines for sizing and beaming warps and
also to machines for other analogous purposes and the object of our invention is to

page_text: improve the presser mechanism for laying the warp threads firmly and evenly on
the beam from one flange to the other.
In carrying our invention into effect we form the presser roller in two parts
which are supported near each end upon a pair of antifriction bowls, preferably
one straight and one conical, all the bowls being supported in the swing arm or
arms mounted upon the weighted presser shaft. The two portions which form the
presser roller may be connected together near the middle by a stud which forms a
guide and by clutch teeth say several inches long on one part engaging corre-
sponding recesses on the other part thus forming a complete presser roller capable
of expanding lengthwise. In place of having clutch teeth the adjoining ends of
the pieces forming the presser roller might be otherwise suitably shaped to admit
of a lengthwise expansion.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will describe the accompanying two sheets of drawings reference
being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 an end view of part of a
sizing or beaming machine to which our improvements are applied.
Fig. 4 is a sectional view of part of à presser roller made according to our
invention.
In the drawings,-
,-a is part of the frame of the machine which carries a warp
beam 6 the axle 6 of which is supported at one end, say the right hand end, in a
sleeve c fitted adjustably in a bearing a¹ in the frame and at the other end in a
driving plate d formed with or fixed on a shaft d' fitted in bearings a² in the frame.
On the shaft d¹ is the usual driven spur wheel e and friction plates f by which the
warp beam bis driven at varying speeds as now customary. A square shaft g,
known as the presser roller shaft, is fitted in bearings a³ on the frame and to one
end of this shaft is secured a lever hand adjustable weight and also a bracket i
which carries an arm j upon which the usual swing arm is mounted; at opposite
ends of the swing arm are mounted pairs of antifriction bowls, by preference one k
in each pair with a straight face and the other k¹ with a conical face; each pair of
bowls partially supports one half of a presser the adjoining ends of which have
long clutch teeth and the two parts of the presser roller are connected together
by a stud m which is secured in one half of the roller and projects into the other
half and forms a guide for it as shown in Fig. 4.
In operation the warp beam 6 rotates in its bearings while the presser roller is
supported upon the antifriction bowls and is pressed against the yarn as it is wound
upon the beam 6 by the weighted lever h; the frictional contact with the
yarn causes the roller to rotate while the conical bowls in each pair of antifriction
bowls on which the parts of the roller rest cause the roller to expand to the extent
required and follow any irregularities of the flanges 62 of the warp beam thereby
causing the presser to be pressed together in the centre or expanded by the bowls
as the case may be.
Instead of the clutch teeth the adjoining ends of the presser roller might be
bevelled or otherwise suitably shaped to admit of a lengthwise expansion and yet
maintain a practically continuous bearing surface; again, the conical bowls might
be dispensed with by arranging a compressed spring around the stud m so as to
bear upon the solid ends of the parts forming the presser roller and press them
outward against the flanges of the warp beam; also instead of having the presser
roller placed below the warp beam it might be placed above.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
In a sizing, beaming and like machine—
1. A presser roller formed of two parts connected together by clutch teeth as
shown or otherwise suitably formed. and supported by antifriction bowls two or

page_text: and maintaining its ends in close contact with the flanges of the warp or other
beam upon which the yarn or other material is being wound substantially as and
for the purposes herein set forth.
2. A presser roller formed of two parts so arranged that a compressed spring
placed between the parts tends to force them apart substantially as and for the
purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 4th day of October 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.