Improvements in the Preparation, Packing, and Transport of Yarns for Weaving, and in Warp Beams for that Purpose.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Preparation, Packing, and Transport of Yarns
for Weaving, and in Warp Beams for that Purpose.
We, JAMES HENRY LEES-MILNE, of Crompton Hall, Shaw, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, and FREDERICK STERNBERG, of 72 Princess Street,
in the City of Manchester, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
When hard spun cotton and such like yarns, intended for weaving purposes, are
packed as they usually are, in crude condition in bundles of hanks, the unwinding,
straining, sizing, winding temporarily on reels or bobbins, and finally winding on
warp beams and shuttle pirns, involve a great expenditure of time and labour, and
often a serious loss of material. The yarns frequently have to pass through several
hands, and the operations above mentioned have often to be prefaced by washing
and drying.
As all the necessary operations can be done more cheaply and rapidly on the
large scale in factories, where there are suitable appliances for effecting them, it is
the object of this invention to arrange the preparation, packing and transport of
the yarn in such a manner that when it reaches its destination it is at once ready
for use in the loom.
For this purpose, the yarn, instead of being packed in crude condition, is fully
prepared and sized in the factory. The yarn intended for warp is wound on light
warp beams, which are flanged tubes made of paper, wood or other light and cheap
material, and preferably of length suited to the width of the comparatively narrow
looms in which these yarns are usually woven.
The beams thus wound with warp are packed and transported, and the weaver
who receives them has only to fix one of these beams on a permanent spindle
which is provided in the loom and is furnished with suitable tightening gear. For
loon's of greater width, two or more of the light beams may be fixed on the spindle.
The yarn intended for weft is likewise prepared ready for use and wound on light
bobbins or merely, by cross winding, on a small paper or wooden core, in which
form the material is packed and transported, so that, when it reaches its destination,
the weaver has only to reel it on to his shuttle pirns.
Dated this 18th day of April 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Preparation, Packing, and Transport of Yarns
for Weaving, and in Warp Beams for that Purpose.
We, JAMES HENRY LEES-MILNE, of Crompton Hall, Shaw, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner and FREDERICK STERNBERG, of 72 Princess Street,
in the City of Manchester, Merchant, 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 :-
When hard spun cotton and such like yarns, intended for weaving purposes, are

page_text: packed as they usually are, in crude condition in bundles of hanks, the unwinding,
straining, sizing, winding temporarily on reels or bobbins, and finally winding on
warp beams and shuttle pirns, involve a great expenditure of time and labour, and
often a serious loss of material. The yarns frequently have to pass through several
hands, and the operations above mentioned have often to be prefaced by washing
and drying.
As all the necessary operations can be done more cheaply and rapidly on the large
scale in factories, where there are suitable appliances for effecting them, it is the
object of this invention to arrange the preparation, packing and transport of the
yarn in such a manner that, when it reaches its destination, it is at once ready for
use in the loom.
For this purpose, the yarn, instead of being packed in crude condition, is fully
prepared and sized in the factory. The yarn intended for warp is wound on light
warp beams, such as are shewn in Fig. 1, partly in section, partly in elevation, which
are tubes A with flanges B made of paper, wood or other light and cheap material,
and preferably of length suited to the width of the comparatively narrow loons in
which these yarns are usually woven.
The beams thus wound with warp W are packed and transported, and the weaver
who receives them has only to fix one of these beams, which has end ferrules C, on
a permanent spindle which is provided in the loom and is furnished with suitable
tightening gear.
For looms of greater width, two or more of the light beams may be fixed
on the spindle. The yarn intended for weft is likewise prepared ready for use
and wound on light bobbins or merely by cross winding, on a small paper or wooden
core D as shewn in side and end views Figs. 2 and 3 in which form the material is
packed and transported, so that, when it reaches its destination, the weaver has
only to reel it on to his shuttle pirns.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The herein described method of preparing for transport yarns intended for
weaving, by preparing the yarns ready for weaving, winding the warp yarn on light
beams such as can be used in the looms, and winding the weft yarns on bobbins or
light cores ready for winding on shuttle pirns.
Dated this 17th day of January 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.