Improvements in Beaming and Warping Machines, and in Making Ball and other Warps.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beaming and Warping Machines, and in Making
Ball and other Warps.
We, JOHN ASPDEN ORMEROD, Cashier, WILLIAM CROOK, Mechanic, and
JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Mechanic, all in the employment of Messieurs John Dugdale
and Sons, of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in machines employed in making warps and
one of the chief objects of our invention is to utilize the ordinary beam warping
machine instead of a circular or sectional warping machine for making ball warps
ready for the subsequent operations of dyeing and sizeing.
In carrrying our invention into effect we apply to an ordinary beam warping
machine an expanding wraith or other suitable device capable of dividing the ends
to enable the leash bands to be inserted; the wraith wires are each provided with
an eye at or near their centre and the yarn ends from the bobbins on the creel are
brought alternately one through an eye and the next through the space between
two wires. The wires in a suitable frame are arranged to be both raised above and
dropped below their working position, and after all the yarn ends have been drawn
through the wraith the latter is say dropped to its lowest position, and thereby the
ends in the eyes are lowered below those between the wires and the end and end
leash bands are then put between the divided ends; the wraith is now raised and
lifts the ends in the eyes and the leash bands are passed again through the ends
thus completing the end and, end leash. The wraith is now dropped half way, that
is to say, to its working position, and the beam warping machine is then set in
motion and run until the desired length of yarn for a warp is wound on the beam,
then the half beer or other leash bands are put in and for this purpose a comb or
other appliance may or may not be employed say to depress the alternate numbers
of ends forming the half beers or other desired numbers the full width of the beam.
After a short length of yarn has been wound on the beam fresh end for end leash
bands are passed through the warp as before described and the winding of the next
and subsequent warps is continued until the warper's beam is filled.
To combine several of these beams to form a warp, the beams are all prepared as
described and laid in a frame; the ends from the first beam are brought together
and laid in the same order as wound; similarly the ends from the second beam are
gathered and laid side by side with the ends of the first beam and so on with all the
beams. If the ends are to be formed into a ball warp the half beer leash bands
from all the beams are now connected together in their proper order and the ends
attached to a balling machine which is set in motion until one warp is balled, then
the-end and end leash bands from all the beams are tied together previous to
cutting off the balled warp and this proceeds until all the warp is made into balls.
If it be desired to make fancy warps or warps with fancy borders the coloured
yarn would be put in its desired position on any or all of the beams and the leash
bands put in as described. Instead of balling the warps the yarns from the different
beams can be gathered and wound upon a beam, the leash bands being tied together
respectively as before described.
Dated this 10th day of May 1893.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFIQUATION..
Improvements in Beaming and Warping Machines, and in. Making
Ball and other Warps.
We, JOHN ASPDEN ORMEROD, Cashier, WILLIAM CROOK, Cashier, and
JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Mechanic, all in the employment of Messieurs John Dugdale
and Sons, of 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 to improvements in machines employed in making warps
and one of the chief objects of our invention is to utilize the ordinary beam
warping machine instead of a circular or sectional warping machine for making ball
warps ready for the subsequent operations of dyeing and sizeing.
In carrying our invention into effect we apply to an ordinary beam warping
machine an expanding wraith or other suitable device capable of dividing the ends
to enable the leash bands to be inserted; the wraith wires are each provided with
an eye at or near their centre and the yarn ends from the bobbins on the creel are
brought alternately one through an eye and the next through the space between
two wires. The wires in a suitable frame are arranged to be both raised above and
dropped below their working position, and after all the yarn ends have been drawn
through the wraith the latter is say dropped to its lowest position, and thereby the
ends in the eyes are lowered below those between the wires and the end and end
leash bands are then put between the divided ends; the wraith is now raised and
lifts the ends in the eyes and the leash bauds are passed again through the ends
thus completing the end and end leash. The wraith is now dropped half way, that
is to say, to its working position, and the beam warping machine is then set in
motion and run until the desired length of yarn for a warp is wound on the beam,
then the half beer or other leash bands are put in and for this purpose a comb or
other appliance may or may not be employed say to depress the alternate numbers
of ends forming the half beers or other desired numbers the full width of the beam.
After a short length of yarn has been wound on the beam fresh end for end
leash bands are passed through the warp as before described and the winding of
the next and subsequent warps is continued until the warper's beam is filled.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a side view of part of a warp beaming machine
to which our improvements are applied.
a represents part of the frame of the machine and the driven drum for
The
transmitting motion by frictional contact to the warp beam c, see Fig. 2.
expanding wraith which we employ according to our improvements is mounted in a
framed as usual, but each wire e has an eye in it at about mid-length, and the
wraith in place of being fixed is mounted and arranged so as to be raised and
lowered; to effect this the lower rail is supported on two arms bent at their lower
end and connected by means of chains or equivalents g to pulleys h carried by the
machine frame; on the boss of each pulley h is secured a pinion i the teeth of which
are in gear with racks j secured upon a bar k fitted and free to move lengthwise on
the frame a. Near one end of the bar ke is a rack k' into which gears a pinion to
the boss or axle of which is secured a handle m and ratchet wheel n, the teeth of
which are engaged by a pawl o pivoted to the machine frame.
The drawings represent the wraith d in its normal working position, while in
Fig. 2 the ends of yarn p are shown coming from the creel (not shown) through
the wraith over a rod or guide y as usual to the warp beam e the yarn p is passed
alternately one end through an eye and the next between two wires e as
described, the dotted lines p' and pli, see Fig. 2, represent the extreme highest
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page_text: and lowest positions that the yarn in the eyes would take when the wraith is raised
or lowered.
To put an end and end leash band through the yarn or warp the wraith is
lowered by moving the handle upward after raising the pawl o so as to cause the
bar k to slide from right to left, the racks turning the pinions i and wheels h
which unwind the chains g and allow the wraith to descend; when this is done the
yarn p in the eyes assumes the position p', Fig. 2, and the end to end leash band is
put through the warp in front of the wraith near to the guide g; in order to
complete the leash the wraith is raised to its highest position by moving the
handle in the downward direction, this raises the threads p¹ to the position p
thus forming a new shed through which the leash band is again passed and the
leash completed after which the wraith is lowered to its working or central
position.
The warp is now drawn through the machine and tied to the beam c which is
now set in motion until the desired length of yarn for a warp is wound on when the
machine is stopped and the half beer or other leash bands are put in and for this
purpose a comb or other appliance may or may not be employed to depress the
alternate numbers of ends forming the half beers or other desired numbers the full
width of the beam. The machine is again started to wind on say twelve inches of
warp or any convenient length previous to putting in fresh end for end leash
bands which are passed through the warp as before described and the machine is
re-started and the winding of the next and subsequent warps is continued until the
beam c is filled.
To combine several of these beams to form a warp, the beams are all prepared
as described and laid in a frame; the ends from the first beam are brought together
and laid in the same order as wound; similarly the ends from the second beam are
gathered and laid side by side with the ends of the first beam and so on with all the
beams. If the ends are to be formed into a ball warp the half beer leash bands
from all the beams are now connected together in their proper order and the ends
attached to a balling machine which is set in motion until one warp is balled, then
the end and end leash bands from all the beams are tied together previous to
cutting off the balled warp and this proceeds until all the warp is made into balls.
If it be desired to make fancy warps or warps with fancy borders the coloured
yarn would be put in its desired position on any or all of the beams and the leash
bands put in as described. Instead of balling the warps the yarns from the different
beams can be gathered and wound upon a beam, the leash bands being tied together
respectively as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
In a beam warping machine-
1. The arrangement use and application of an expanding wraith or equivalent
device in which each dent or wire has au eye, the wraith being mounted so as to be
raised and lowered in order to form a shed for the leash bands to be passed through
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
2. The improvements substantially as herein shown and described whereby we
are enabled to utilize a beam warping machine instead of a circular or sectional
warping machine for making ball warps, fancy warps, and warps with coloured
borders.
Dated this 9th day of February 1894.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17. St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.