Improvements Connected with the Machines known as Warp- balling Machines
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept.,
1889
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements Connected with the Machines known as Warp-
balling Machines."
I JOHN HOWARD STOTT of Baron Street Works, Baron Street, Rochdale in the
county of Lancaster Machine Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
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My invention relates to "balling" warps by means of the machine known as a
warp-balling machine and consists in arrangements by means of which I am
enabled to make a warp into a "ball" without the warp being subjected to the injurious
amount of strain to which it has hitherto been subjected when being made into a
"ball "by means of a "balling" machine.
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According to the first arrangement of my invention I provide the "warp-balling
machine with a disc or plate which drives a friction bowl or roller which by means
of a shaft communicates motion. to rollers which I employ to draw off the yarn or
ог "beams
warp from the "beam"
"section block "section blocks" or
"warping mill" and deliver such yarn or warp to the "warp balling machine."
the size of the "ball" formed by the "warp-balling machine increases I cause the
friction bowl or roller to be traversed across the surface of the disc or plate by which
it is driven so that the speed of the rollers by which the yarn or warp is delivered to
the warp-balling machine" will be increased so that such rollers will deliver the
yarn or warp to the "warp-balling machine" at an increased speed as the size of the
ball" increases. To traverse the friction bowl or roller across the face of the disc
or plate by which it is driven 1 employ a click or clicks and toothed wheels and a
screw or toothed wheels and a screw or any other suitable means and so arrange such
click or clicks and toothed wheels and screw or toothed wheels and screw or other
suitable means that the rate of traverse of the friction bowl or roller above
mentioned may be varied in accordance with the thickness of yarn or of the warp to
be formed into a ball." I also propose in some cases to cause the click or clicks,
toothed wheels and screw or toothed wheels and screw or other suitable means
above mentioned to actuate a lever provided with a slot in which is a block provided
with a projecting part which passes into a slot in a lever which by means of a fork
acts upon the friction bowl or roller. By moving the block above mentioned longi-
tudinally in the slot in the lever by which it is carried so that the part projecting from
such block will be caused to act upon the lever acting upon the friction bowl or roller,
so that the friction bowl or roller before mentioned will be traversed across the plate
or disc by which it is driven, at a greater or less speed according to the thickness of
the yarn or warp being formed into a "ball."
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According to a further part of my invention I cause the tension of the yarn or warp
to regulate the speed of the rollers wbich deliver the yarn or warp to the "
warp-
balling machine" and in order to accomplish this part of my invention I cause the
แ warp-
yarn or warp during its passage from the rollers above mentioned to the
balling machine" to support a pulley or roller mounted upon a lever and I so connect
the lever above referred to by ineans of rods and levers to the friction bowl or roller
by means of which rotary motion is communicated to the rollers by which the yarn
or warp is delivered to the " warp balling machine" that by the increase or decrease
of the tension of the yarn or warp the friction bowl or roller will be caused to move
or remain stationary upon the disc or plate by which the friction bowl or roller is
driven. The lever above mentioned acted upon by the yarn or warp may traverse
the friction bowl or roller across the face of the disc or plate by means of rods and
levers or I may employ such lever to bring a vibrating click or pawl into or out of
gear with a ratchet wheel which by means of wheels or other suitable means controls,

page_text: regulates or varies the movement of the friction bowl or roller upon the disc or plate
from which it receives rotary motion.
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A further part of my invention consists in arrangements by which I cause the
yarn or warp to be drawn off the "beam or "beams or section block" or
"section blocks" or warping mill at an uniform or nearly uniform speed. In order
to accomplish this I impart rotary motion to the "warp-balling machine" by means
of a disc or plate and a friction bowl or roller and I cause the said friction bowl or
roller to be traversed upon the surface of the disc or plate by means of a suitable
screw which may be turned by wheels or by a vibrating click and wheels or in any
other convenient manner or I cause the said screw to act upon a lever which by means
of a pin or stud passing into a slot formed in a lever moves such lever and so moves
the friction bowl or roller upon the disc or plate by which it is driven. By altering
the position of the pin or stud in the levers aforesaid I am enabled to adjust the speed
of the "warp-balling machine in accordance with the thickness of the yarn or warp
being formed into a "ball," and to enable the position of the said pin or stud in the
levers above mentioned to be altered I provide either or each of such levers with a
block which may be moved by means of a screw or by any other suitable means.
Dated this Seventh day of November 1888.
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements Connected with the Machines known as
Balling Machines."
" Warp-
I JOHN HOWARD STOTT of Baron Street Works, Baron Street, Rochdale in the
County of Lancaster, Machine 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:-
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My Invention relates to "balling" warps by means of the machine known as a
warp balling machine" and consists in arrangements by means of which I am
enabled to make a warp into a "ball without the warp being subjected to the
injurious amount of strain to which it has hitherto been subjected when being made
into a
"ball" by means of a "balling machine."
According to one part of my invention I cause the tension of the yarn or warp to
regulate the speed of the rollers which deliver the yarn or warp to the "
machine" and in order to accomplish this part of my invention I cause the yarn or
warp balling
warp during its passage from the rollers above mentioned to the "
warp balling
machine" to support a lever and I so connect the lever above referred to by means
of rods and levers to the "friction bowl " or roller by means of which rotary motion
is communicated to the rollers by which the yarn or warp is delivered to the " warp
balling machine" that by the increase or decrease of the tension of the yarn or warp
the "friction bowl" or roller will be caused to move or remain stationary upon the
disc or plate by which the "friction bowl" or roller is driven. The lever above
mentioned acted upon by the yarn or warp may traverse the "friction bowl" or
roller across the face of the disc or plate by means of rods and levers or I may
employ such lever to bring a vibrating click or pawl into or out of gear with a
ratchet wheel which by means of wheels or other suitable means controls, regulates
or varies the movement of the friction bowl or roller upon the disc or plate from
which it receives rotary motion.
Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing illustrate this part of my invention.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of that which is shown in Fig. 1.
a a are end-framings secured together by cross framings b, b1, b2 Secured to
the end-framings a a are brackets c which support the axles of a pair of rollers & d'
which axles are capable of being turned in the brackets c. The rollers d d are
pressed together by means of springs d². Fast upon the axle of the roller d' is a

page_text: bevel wheel e which gears into a bevel-wheel e¹ fast upon one end of a short shaft f
one end of which is supported by and capable of being turned in a bracket 7 secured
to the end frame a¹. The end of the shaft is supported by and free to be rotated
in a bracket formed or mounted upon one end of a short shaft supported by and
capable of being turned in a bracket secured to the end framing a.
Fast upon
the short shaft is a lever h² to the end h³ of which is secured one end of a spring j
the other end of which is secured to a pin fast upon the cross-framing b.
Mounted upon and free to be moved longitudinally upon the shaft is a "friction
bowl or roller k. The "friction bowl" or roller is prevented from being turned
upon the shaft by means of a key and groove. Around the boss k¹ of the "friction
bowl" or roller k is formed a groove into which passes a bar carried by and
jointed to an arm m fast upon a shaft m' the opposite ends of which are capable of
being turned in brackets secured to the end-framings a, a'. Fast upon the shaft m¹
is an arm m² the end of which is provided with an eye m³. Secured to the end-
framing a are brackets which support. so that it is free to be rotated therein, a shaft n.
Fast upon the shaft n is mounted a disc or plate o against the surface o' of which the
circumference of the "friction bowl or roller is forced by the spring j. Fast upon
the shaft n is a pulley pand upon the said shaft n are also mounted the fast pulley q
and loose pulley q'.
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A is a " warp balling machine" of ordinary construction. The "
machine "A at times receives motion from the pulley by means of the strap p² and
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the pulley on the ordinary driving shaft s of the
"ball" is conducted from the beam
warp B to be made into a
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"section block" or "section blocks" or warping mill between the rollers d d', then
through the eye m³ then over the guide roller t of the "warp balling machino " A
and then to the guide roller u of the flyer vand is secured to the spindle w of the
warp balling machine" A. The strap C by which the shaft n is at times driven is
then transferred from the loose pulley to the fast pulley 7 and the disc or plate o
will be caused to rotate in the direction indicated by the arrow D and will by means
of the "friction bowl" or roller k, shaft f, and bevel wheels e¹, e cause the rollers d, d
to rotate in the directions indicated by the arrows E, E¹ and deliver the warp B to
the " balling machine A. The rotation of the shaft n will by means of the
pulley p, strap pl and pulley r cause the flyer to be rotated so as to wind
the warp B into a "ball" upon the spindle w. The speed of the disc or plate o
must be such that when the arm m² and "friction bowl or roller are in
the positions in which they are indicated by the dotted lines F of Fig. 1 of the
accompanying drawings tlie rollers d, d' shall deliver the warp B to the warp
balling machine A at the speed at which is required for being wound upon
the spindle w by the flyer when a ball of warp is being commenced upon the
spindle w. As the winding of the warp B upon the spindle w proceeds and the coil
of warp upon the spindle w increases in size the revolutions of the flyer v will wind
the warp upon the spindle w at an increased rate and will increase the tension upon
the warp
B between the rollers d, d' and guide pulley and the increase of tension
will raise the eye m³ and cause the arm m² and shaft m to be turned in the direction
indicated by the arrow G. Such movement of the arm m2 will turn the arm m in
the direction indicated by the arrow G and thus traverse the "friction bowl" or
roller & further from the axis of the disc or plate o and cause the "friction bowl" or
roller to be driven at a greater speed so that the rollers d, d' will be caused to
revolve with a greater velocity and deliver warp to the "balling machine "A more
rapidly. As the size of the "ball" upon the spindle w of the balling machine A
increases the armı m² will be raised by each increase of the tension of the warp B and
will cause the "friction bowl" or roller k to be driven by a larger diameter
disc or plate o so that the rollers d, d¹ will be caused to deliver the warp B to the
balling machine A more rapidly. If the rollers d, d' should at any time deliver
more warp to the balling machine A than will be taken, up by the "balling
inachine "A the tension upon the warp B between the rollers d, d and the guide
pulley t of the "balling machine" A will be reduced and the arin m2 will be allowed
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page_text: to descend and turn the arm m in a direction opposite to that indicated by the
arrow G so that the friction bowl or roller & will be traversed nearer to the axis of
the disc or plate o and thus the speed of the rollers d, d¹ being reduced warp will
be delivered less rapidly to the "warp balling machine" A.
When the "balling" of a warp upon the spindle we is being commenced or com-
pleted or at other times it may be necessary to rotate the flyer in the direction for
winding warp upon the spindle w without turning the disc or plate o and rollers d, d¹.
To enable such turning of the flyer v to be accomplished I mount fast upon the
shafts of the "warp balling machine" A one part of a clutch box a the other
part 2 of which is fast with the pulley which is mounted loose upon the shaft s.
The two parts, 2 of the clutch box are held together by means of a spring 3.
The yielding of the spring of the clutch box a will allow the flyer e to be turned
when required in the direction for winding warp upon the spindle w.
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A further part of my Invention consists in arrangements by which cause the
yarn or warp to be drawn off the "beam or beams or section block"
"section blocks or warping mill at an uniform or nearly uniform speed. In order
to accomplish this I impart rotary motion to the " warp balling machine" by means
of a disc or plate and a "friction bowl" or roller and I cause the said "friction bowl"
or roller to be traversed upon the surface of the disc or plate. Figs. 3 and 4 of the
accompanying drawings illustrate one arrangement of apparatus by which I
accomplish this portion of my invention, Fig. 3 being an elevation and Fig. 4 a plan
of that which is shown in Fig. 3. y, are end frames secured together by cross
frames z, z¹². Secured to the end-frames y, y' are brackets 1 which support the
axles of rollers 2, 2". Fast upon the axle of the lower roller 2" is a plate or disc 3.
Mounted upon the axle of the lower roller 2 are a fast pulley 4 and a loose pulley 4.
By means of the fast pulley 4 the roller 2 at times receives rotary motion.
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rollers 2, 2ª ate pressed together by means of springs 2. Secured to the end-
frame y is a bracket 5 which carries one end of a shaft 6 supported at its other
end in a bearing 7 formed in the upper end of a lever 7 carried by and capable of
being turned upon a stud 8 secured to the cross frame. To the lower end of the
lever 7 is connected one end of a spring 9 secured at its other end to a stud 95
secured to the cross frame 2. Mounted upon the shaft 6 is a "friction bowl" or
roller 10 which is capable of being slidden longitudinally upon the shaft 6 but is pre-
vented from turning thereon by a groove and key. The circumference of the
"friction bowl" or roller 10 is pressed against the surface 3ª of the disc or plate 3
by the tension of the spring 9. Fast upon the shaft 6 is a bevel wheel 6 which gears
into a bevel wheel 11" fast upon a shaft 11 supported by and capable of being rotated
in brackets 12 secured to the end frame y'. '13 is a shaft supported by and capable
of being rotated in brackets 14 secured to the end frames y, y'. Fast upon the
shaft 13 is an arm 13" to which is jointed a bar 15 passing into a groove 16 formed
in a boss of the "friction bowl" or roller 10. Fast upon
the shaft 13 is an arm or
lever 17 to the end of which is secured an eye 17. J is a
warp balling machine
of ordinary construction upon the driving shaft 18 of which and free to be turned
thereon is mounted a pulley 19 upon which pulley 19 is formed one part 20 of a
clutch 20 which at times engages with the other part 20° of the clutch 20 which
part 20 of the clutch 20 is fast upon the shaft 18. The two parts 20", 20° of the
clutch 20 are kept engaged with each other by means of a spring 20°. Around
the pulley 19 and a pulley 11' fast upon the shaft II passes an endless strap or
belt K by means of which the balling machine J is at times driven. The yarn
or warp L from the "beam"
or beams "section block" ог "section blocks *
or warping mill is passed between the rollers 2, 2", then through the eye 17ª,
over the guide pulley 21 of the "balling machine" J and then through the guide
pulley 22 of the flyer 23 and is secured to the spindle 24 of the " " balling
machine J. The strap M is then placed upon the fast pulley 4 so that rotary
motion will be imparted to the pulley 4 so that the rollers 2, 2ª will be rotated
at an uniform or nearly uniform speed in the directions indicated by the arrows N N'.
The rotation of the disc or plate 3 will by means of the "friction bowl" or
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page_text: roller 10, shaft 6, bevel wheels 6, 11" and pulley 11b, strap K and pulley 19,
impart rotary motion to the flyer 23 of the "balling machine" J. The pulleys 11, 19,
bevel wheels 6, 11 and the diameter of the roller 2 must be so proportioned
that when the winding of a "ball" upon the spindle 24 is commenced the eye 17ª
on the arm or lever 17 will be in its lowest position as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4.
So long as the flyer 23 of the "balling machine" J winds the yarn or warp L
upon the spindle 24 at the same speed as such yarn or warp is delivered by the
rollers 2, 2 the arm or lever 17 will remain in the position in which it is shown
in Figs. 3 and 4 but upon the "ball," upon the spindle 24 increasing in size the
tension imparted to the yarn or warp Ĺ will raise the arm or lever 17 in the
direction indicated by the arrow o and by means of the arm or lever 17, shaft 13,
arın 13 and bar 15 will cause the "friction bowl" or roller 10 to be moved nearer
to the axis of the dise or plate 3 and so cause the flyer 23 to perform a less
number of revolutions in a given time. As the size of the "ball" of yarn or
warp being wound upon the spindle 24 increases the "friction bowl" or roller 10
will be moved nearer to the axis of the disc or plate 3 thus causing the rate of the
rotation of the flyer 23 to be reduced and so maintain an uniform or nearly
uniform tension upon the yarn or warp L between the rollers 2, 2ª and the
flyer 23.
When the winding of a ball upon the spindle 24 is being commenced or completed
and at other times, it is necessary to turn the flyer 23 without imparting rotary
motion to the rollers 2, 2ª. When the flyer 23 is turned in the direction for winding
yarn or warp upon the spindle 24 the teeth of one part of the clutch 20 will be
slidden over the teeth of the other part of the clutch 20, the spring 20 allowing
such movement.
Although I have hereinbefore only shown and described a plate or disc and a
"friction bowl" or roller as being used for the purpose of varying the speed of the
rollers or flyer as above described I would have it understood that other incchanical
equivalents for the disc or plate or "friction bow!" or roller such as cono pulleys
and straps may be employed without my invention being departed from.
By my invention I am enabled to form yarn or warp into a
"ball " from a
"beam "*
or "beams," "section block
or "section blocks or warping mill without
subjecting the yarn or warp to any undue or injurious amount of strain.
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My invention prevents the revolution of the spindle of the "balling machine'
alternately in one direction and in the opposite direction from causing an undue
tension to be put upon the yarn or warp being wound into a "ball" upon the spindle
of the "balling machine."
By my invention I am enabled to draw off when desirable the yarn to form the
"ball" direct from bobbins placed in a "creel" instead of winding such yarn upon
Д "beam
"beams" or "
section block" or "section blocks and afterwards
forming it into a ball.
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When the yarn for forming a "ball" is being wound from "section blocks"
I prefer to conduct such yarn by means of guides to the rollers by means of which
it is delivered to the "balling machine." One arrangement of guides to be used to
conduct the yarn from the section blocks" to the rollers by means of which it is
delivered to the "balling machine" is shown by Figs. 5, 6, and 7 of the accom-
panying drawings, Fig. 5 being an elevation, Fig. 6 a plan of that which is shown in
Fig. 5 and Fig. 7 a vertical section. 25, 26 are the rollers which deliver warp or yarn
to the " balling machine secured to the framing 27 which supports the said
rollers 25, 26 is a bracket 28. Through the part 28 of the bracket 28 is formed a
slot 28. 29 29 are guides the stem 29" of each of which passes through a boss 30
to which it is secured by means of a thumbscrew 31. Each of the bosses 30 is
secured to the bracket 28 by a nut 32 a part 30 of each of the bosses 30 passing
through the slot 28°. I employ as many guides 29 as there are "section blocks
from which yarn is to be wound; as shown in Fig. 6 which illustrates a case in
which yarn is being wound from the "section blocks" 33, 33" 35°, 33, 33ª. By
placing the central guides 29 higher than the outside guides 29 as shown in Fig. 5

page_text: I prevent the yarn proceeding from the "section blocks" 33, 33" near the ends of the
series of "section blocks" from being subjected to a greater strain than those
proceeding from the "section blocks" situate nearer the centre of such series of
section blocks."
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 :-
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1. For use in connection with a warp balling machine' an arrangement by
means of which yarn or warp is caused to be delivered to tho "
warp balling machine
more rapidly as the "ball" being wound increases in size.
2. For use in connection with a warp balling machine" an arrangement by
means of which the flyer of the " warp balling machine" is caused to revolve more
slowly as the "ball" being wound increases in size.
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3. The herein before described arrangements illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the
accompanying drawings and constructed, arranged and operating substantially as
herein before described and for the purpose of causing yarn or thread to be delivered
more rapidly to the "warp balling machine"
as the ball" being wound increases
in size.
4. The herein before described arrangements illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the
accompanying drawings and constructed, arranged and operating substantially as
hereinbefore described and for the purpose of causing the flyer of the "
warp balling
machine" to revolve more slowly as the "ball" being wound increases in size.
Dated this Seventh day of August 1889
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.