Improvements in Warping, Beaming, Warp-dressing, and Balling and like Machines, and in Machines for the Winding of Yarns and Threads.
Year: 1898

page_text: FROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Warping, Beaming, Warp-dressing, and Balling and
like Machines, and in Machines for the Winding of Yarns and
Threads.
We, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, Machine Maker, and JoHN HUMPIIRIES, Manager,
both of Wardleworth Iron Works, Whitworth Road, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in improvements in sectional warping and beaming machines,
machines similar to sectional warping and beaming machines and used in dressing
warps in sections, balling machines for use in the formation of balled warps from
yarns or threads and the winding into balls of yarns or threads in the form of
warps or portions of warps or other analogous forms, and machines for winding
yarns or threads.
The objects of the first part of our invention are to assure that all the yarns
or threads in the different sections formed by means of sectional warping and
beaming machines and machines similar to sectional warping and beaming machines
and used in dressing warps in sections and the balls formed in machines for
balling warps or yarns or threads for forming balled warps from yarns or threads
or forming yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps or other
analogous forms into balls shall all be of the lengths required or intended, and
also to enable the yarns or threads operated upon in such machines to be accurately
measured and to enable the requisite marking to be accurately performed in cases
in which lengths are to be marked thereon.
According to this part of our invention we cause the yarus or threads to be
operated upon in a sectional warping machine or other machine to which this part
of our invention is applied to be passed from the bobbins, beams, sections or balls
or other bodies or forms upon or into which they may have previously been wound,
between or between and around rollers which are covered with indiarubber so as
to bear upon all the yarns or threads passed between or around and between them
and prevent any of such yarns or threads from slipping past or failing to be
passed between or around and between such rollers at the same speed as the other
yarns or threads simultaneously passing between or between and around such
rollers. The said rollers covered with indiarubber may be made to serve instead
of any of the rollers hitherto used in the machines to which this part of our
invention relates or may be rollers specially provided for the purpose of this part
of our invention and may be connected to other mechanism such for instance as
mechanism for marking lengths upon the yarns or threads operated upon or may

page_text: each belt-fork or other part which it is requisite to move in order to stop the
machine or the part or parts thereof which it is requisite or desirable to stop when
a yarn or thread breaks or terminates. In any case in which it may be desirable
to so arrange them the plates between which the detector wires or hooks are
intended to fall in order to complete the electric circuit may be so arranged that
they are nearer together at their lower parts than at their upper parts and in any
such case the detector wires or hooks may or may not be made to taper in the
manner hereinbefore described as may be considered desirable.
In any case in which it may be desirable to do so we arrange the electric circuit
employed according to this part of our invention so that the breakage or termina-
tion of one yarn or thread and the consequent falling of one detector wire or hook
shall release or bring about the movement of two or more belt-forks or other
devices which by being moved or allowed to move will bring about the stoppage of
two or more machines or the stoppage of two or more parts of one machine or
parts of different machines.
In the application of this part of our invention to a machine for winding yarns
or threads two or more together on to bobbins, spools or tubes with or without
flanges or heads we provide an electro-magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets or
solenoids in conjunction with each winding drum by means of which the winding
of such yarns or threads is accomplished and we may either provide one box or
cavity such as we have hereinbefore described to act in conjunction with all the
winding drums employed in the machine or we may provide a separate box or cavity
in conjunction with each winding drum or in conjunction with each group of two
or more winding drums.
The third part of cur invention consists in improvements in mechanism for
traversing or guiding yarns or threads on to the tubes, spools or bobbins on which
they are to be wound in machines for winding yarns or threads on to tubes, spools
or bobbins and especially to machines for winding yarns or threads on to tubes,
bobbins or spools without heads and the object of this part of our invention is the
provision of mechanism for the said purpose which shall be efficient in securing the
winding of yarns or threads into a cylindrical form on the tubes, spools or bobbins
on which they may be wound and may if it be desirable be readily arranged or
constructed to permit yarns or threads to be wound into cylindrical bodies of
different lengths as may be requisite from time to time in the use of the machines
in which such mechanism may be employed, and shall not be liable to derangement.
This part of our invention is applicable to machines for winding yarns or threads
singly and to machines for winding yarns or threads two or more together.
According to this part of our invention we cause motion to be transmitted from
the shaft or one of the shafts should there be two or more on which the winding
drums in a machine to which this part of our invention may be applied are mounted
or a shaft which is made to revolve with a suitable angular velocity in relation
thereto to excentric toothed wheels arranged so that the one which receives motion
from the other is caused to transmit motion to a shaft or wheel or other revolving
part capable of being made to revolve by means of bevel wheels or other gearing
or means of any suitable kind so as to cause such shaft, wheel or part to revolve
once during each two revolutions of each of the excentric wheels. The said shaft,
wheel or part capable of being made to revolve is provided with a stud or crank-
pin preferably adjustable in position therein. The said stud or crank-pin is
connected to or arranged to transmit motion in any suitable manner to the traverse
rail or traverse rails on which the guides for the yarns or threads are mounted. In
any case in which it may be desirable to do so we may provide two or more traverse-
mechanisms such as we have herein before described.
11
P
1000
HOWARD CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicants.

page_text: at different times even before being subjected to wear and that in use they rapidly
wear and when worn are still less effective for the purposes for which they are
intended.
Coverings of indiarubber on the contrary are effective in acting equally upon
each yarn or thread to be operated upon and prove less liable to be cut or worn by
the yarns or threads operated upon than coverings of flannel or leather.
The second part of our invention consists in improvements in the apparatus
for stopping, sectional warping and beaming machines, machines similar to
sectional warping and beaming machines and used in dressing warps in sections,
balling machines for use in the formation of balled warps from yarns or threads and
the winding into balls of yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps
or other analogous forms, and machines for winding yarns or threads, when any of
the yarns or threads operated upon by such machines break or terminate and the
object of this part of our invention is the provision of means for the said
purpose which shall be simple, efficient, convenient capable of being readily adapted
to different arrangements of machines and not liable to derangement.
According to this part of our invention we provide for use in conjunction with
each yarn or thread to be wound in a machine to which this part of our invention is
applied a detector wire or hook adapted to be supported by the yarn or thread to
which it is applied so long as such yarn or thread remains intact and does not
come to an end but allowed to fall as soon as such yarn or thread breaks or
terminates. The detector wires or hooks may conveniently be made in the form of
loops made of wire tapering towards each end so that each hook shall have two
tapering points and a central portion somewhat thicker than its extremities. In
order that it may remain in the required position while suspended upon the yarn
or thread to which it is applied each detector wire or hook is placed in a groove or
channel or one of a number of grooves or channels formed between bars or ribs or
in any other suitable manner at the upper part of a box or cavity provided with a
door or lid to allow detector wires or hooks which fall into such box or cavity to
be removed therefrom. The lower part of the said box or cavity is formed with
metal plates each of which is ordinarily in connection with one pole or terminal of
a galvanic battery so that a detector wire or hook allowed to fall into the said
box or cavity and between the said plates being guided between the said plates by
the box or cavity being suitably shaped will complete the electric circuit of which
the said plates form part. One of the said plates is preferably secured upon the
door or lid of the said box or cavity and arranged so that when the box or cavity
is closed by means of such door or lid the said plate will be placed by means of
a spring or other contact-device in connection with the battery-pole or terminal
to which it is required to be connected and so that the electric circuit shall be
interrupted when the said door or lid is moved in order that the box or cavity
may be opened. The said door or lid is preferably arranged to be held closed by
means of spring-catches which may consist for instance of plates arranged to engage
with edges over or in contact with which they are arranged to pass when the
said door or lid is closed or opened. In the electrical circuit extending between the
poles or terminals of the galvanic battery aforesaid is arranged an electro-magnet
or solenoid which is arranged in conjunction with an armature or armatures so
that when excited on the completion of the said electric circuit it will move a lever
or catch and release a belt-fork capable of being moved by means of a weight or
spring or other suitable means or bring about the disengagement of any parts
by means of which motion is transmitted to any part or parts of the machine in
conjunction with which the said detector wires or hooks are employed which it may
be requisite or desirable to stop when a yarn or thread breaks or terminates or to
bring into engagement a pawl or catch or pinion or rack or other device which
being brought into engagement with any moving part provided to act in con-
junction with it may be employed to bring about the stoppage of the machine or
any desired part of the machine in conjunction with which the said detector wires
or hooks are employed.

page_text: spectively secured the cross-bar (d³) and a cover or box (f) adapted to cover the
solenoids (d) and fit against the arm (e¹). A second arm (e) of the bracket (e) is
provided with a stud (e) and with a striking part or catch-plate (6) and the third
arm (e) of such bracket (e) is formed with a boss (es) in which is a hole serving to
guide a rod (e) upon which is secured a cross-bar (e) to which the movable
armatures or cores (g) of the solenoids (d) are secured. Upon the stud (e) is
mounted a bell-crank-lever (h) which is capable of being oscillated thereon. One
arm (h) of the bell-crank-lever (h) is arranged to at times act upon and at times
be acted upon by a stud (i) secured in a rod () capable of being slidden in guides
provided upon the side-frames E and having mounted upon it the belt-fork (¹)
used to move from the fast pulley (2) to the loose pulley () and from the loose
pulley (3) to the fast pulley (2) the belt used to drive the sectional warping and
beaming machine. The other arm (2) of the bell-crank-lever (h) is provided with
a stud (3) on which is mounted a catch-lever (k), provided with jaws (2) to embrace
the rod (e) and with a catch (¹) which may when such lever (k) is in the position
in which it is indicated in Fig. 1 be made to engage with the striking part or
catch-plate (e). Collars are provided upon the rod (e") above and below the part at
which it is embraced by the jaws (3) so that at times the lever (h¹) may be moved
by the rod () and at other times the rod (1) may be moved by the lever (h). From
the stud (3) is suspended a weight (h) which when the catch-lever (k) is disengaged
from the striking part or catch-plate (e) will turn the bell-crank-lever (h) in the
direction indicated by the arrow F and thereby move the rod (j) and belt-fork (j¹)
in the direction indicated by the arrow G and bring about the transfer of the belt
from the fast pulley (P) to the loose pulley () and bring about the stoppage of
the sectional warping and beaming machine. Beneath the plates (c¹) (c²) is placed
a trough (m) which at its ends is secured to the end-frames 1) and serves to receive
the detector wires when having fallen between the plates (c¹) (c²) they are released
therefrom by the opening of the lid or cover (63). When the apparatus is in use
and the lid or cover (63) and rod (), bell-crank-lever (h) and catch-lever (k) have
been placed in the positions in which they are indicated in Fig. 1 the sectional
warping and beaming machine will be driven by the belt upon the pulley (3)
so long as the yarns or threads supporting the detector wires or hooks inserted in
the grooves or channels C remain intact but should any one of the yarns or threads.
break or terminate the detector wire or hook previously carried thereby will be
allowed to fall through the groove or channel C into which it was inserted to the
bottom of the chamber (b) and pass and become fixed between the plates (e) (c²)
thereby placing them in electric connection and completing the circuit formed by
the wires (c) (d) and (c³) and solenoids (d) will excite the solenoids and raise the
cores or armatures (g) and the rod (e) thereby turning the catch-lever (k) about
the stud (3) so as to disengage such catch-lever (k) from the striking plate or
catch-plate (e) and allowing the weight (h) to turn the bell-crank-lever (h) and
move the belt from the fast pulley () to the loose pulley (13) and stop the sectional
warping and beaming machine. In order to set the sectional warping and beaming
machine in motion again the attendant in charge of such machine opening the lid
or cover (63) allows the fallen detector wire to drop from between the plates (c¹) (2)
into the trough (m) thereby breaking the electric circuit and permitting the cores
or armatures (g) to descend to the position in which they are indicated in Fig. 1
and then closes the door or lid (63) and after "piecing" the broken or terminated
yarn or thread and placing a detector wire or hook upon the pieced yarn or thread
and in one or other of the channels or grooves C moves the belt-fork (¹) by any
suitable means in the direction opposite to that indicated by the arrow G and placing
the belt upon the fast pulley (2) sets the sectional warping and beaming machine
again in operation and causing the stud (i) to act upon the bell-crank-lever (h)
raises the catch-lever (k) again into engagement with the striking plate or catch-
part (e). It
obvious that if at any time while the catch-lever (k) is engaged
with the striking plate or catch-part (e) the attendant requires to stop the sectional
warping and beaming machine the rod (1) may be moved to transfer the belt from

page_text: Fig. 1 is provided with a door (63) and plates (c¹) (c²) connected by means of wires
with a galvanic battery (2) and with the solenoid (d) so that when a detector wire
or hook is allowed to drop into the box or cavity (b) and put the plates (c¹) (c²) in
electric connection with each other, the solenoid (d) shall lift the armature or
core (g) and thereby raise the cradle or frame (9) so that the surface of the yarns
or threads upon the bobbin, spool or tube (y) therein shall be raised out of contact
with the drum (8) and into contact with a brake which is omitted from Fig. 4.
The apparatus provided according to this part of our invention in machines for
winding yarns or threads, is simple, efficient, convenient, capable of being readily
adapted to different arrangements of machines and not liable to derangement.
The third part of our invention consists in improvements in mechanism for
traversing or guiding yarns or threads on to bobbins tubes, spools or bobbins on
which they are to be wound in machines for winding yarns or threads on to tubes,
spools or bobbins and especially to machines for winding yarns or threads on to
tubes, bobbins or spools without heads and the object of this part of our invention
is the provision of mechanism for the said purpose which shall be efficient in
securing the winding of yarns or threads into a cylindrical form on the tubes,
spools or bobbins on which they may be wound and may if it be desirable be
readily arranged or constructed to permit yarns or threads to be wound into
cylindrical bodies of different lengths as may be requisite from time to time in the
use of the machines in which such mechanism may be employed and shall not be
liable to derangement. This part of our invention is applicable to machines for
winding warns or threads singly and to machines for winding yarns or threads
two or more together.
According to this part of our invention we cause motion to be transmitted from
the shaft or one of the shafts should there be two or more on which the winding
drums in a machine to which this part of our invention may be applied are mounted
or a shaft which is made to revolve with a suitable angular velocity in relation
thereto to excentric toothed wheels arranged so that the one which receives motion
from the other is caused to transmit motion to a shaft or wheel or other revolving
part capable of being made to revolve by means of bevel wheels or other gearing or
means of any suitable kind so as to cause such shaft, wheel or part to revolve once
during each two revolutions of each of the excentric wheels. The said shaft, wheel
or part capable of being made to revolve is provided with a stud or crank-pin
preferably adjustable in position therein. The said stud or crank-pin is connected
to or arranged to transmit motion in any suitable manner to the traverse-rail or
traverse-rails on which the guides for the yarns or threads are mounted. In any
case in which it may be desirable to do so we may provide two or more traverse
mechanisms such as we have herein before described.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 5 is a front elevation, Fig. 6 a side
elevation and Fig. 7 a plan of so much of the mechanism which is applied to a
machine for winding yarns or threads singly or two or more together into a
cylindrical form on to tubes, spools or bobbins in accordance with this part of our
invention as is requisite for the illustration of this part of our invention and
the manner of carrying it into effect. In Fig. 7 (p) is a toothed-wheel which is
arranged to receive motion by means of a toothed-wheel in any suitable manner from
the shaft or one of the shafts if there should be two or more, on which the winding
drums employed in the said machine are mounted. The wheel (p) is mounted fast
upon a shaft (p¹) mounted so as to be capable of being revolved in bearings
formed in brackets (72) secured upon a plate (r) mounted fast upon one end-frame
of the machine of which end-frame only part is shown. Fast upon the shaft (p¹)
is an excentric toothed wheel (7) gearing into another excentric toothed wheel (s)
which is mounted fast upon a shaft (s) which is capable of being revolved in
bearings formed in brackets (52) secured upon the plate (r). Fast upon the
shaft (s) is mounted a bevel-wheel (t) which gears into a bevel-wheel (¹) which
is mounted fast upon a shaft (2) capable of being revolved in bearings formed in
brackets (13) mounted fast upon the end-frame aforesaid.
Fast upon

page_text: act in conjunction with an armature or armatures so that when the said electro-
magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets or solenoids is or are excited a lever or
catch shall be moved to release or bring about the movement of a belt-fork or other-
wise bring about the stoppage of the part or parts the movement of which is then
required to cease, all arranged, employed and operating for the purposes and
substantially as herein before described.
3. The combination with each winding drum in a machine for winding yarns or
threads two or more together, of a box or cavity provided at its upper part with a
groove or channel or grooves or channels to hold in position a detector wire or hook
upon each of the two or more yarns or threads passing over such box or cavity and
with metal plates in connection with the poles or terminals of a galvanic battery so
that a detector wire or hook allowed to fall into the said box or cavity shall
complete the electric circuit of which the said plates form part and thereby cause
to be excited an electro-magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets or solenoids arranged
in the said electric circuit and arranged to act in conjunction with an armature or
armatures so that when the said electro-magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets or
solenoids is or are excited a lever or catch or other part shall be moved to bring
about the cessation of the winding of yarn or thread by means of the said
winding drum, all substantially as hereinbefore described.
4. In a machine for winding yarns or threads on to tubes, spools or bobbins, the
combination with a traverse-rail or traverse-rails of excentric toothed-wheels and
wheels or other means to impart motion from such excentric toothed-wheels to a
shaft, wheel or part so that such shaft, wheel or part shall revolve once during each
two revolutions of the said excentric toothed-wheels, all arranged, employed and
operating for the purposes and substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of November 1898.
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicants.