Improvements in Warp Sizing Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Warp Sizing Machines.
We, JOSEPH HENRY KAYE and HENRY ASHWORTH CROWTHER, of Broad-
field Mills, Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Manufacturers, do hereby.
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers to warp sizing machines, and consists of an improved
arrangement and construction of the size troughs, and in the method of and means
for supplying and regulating the supply of size to the trough through which the
warp passes, our object therein being to simplify and reduce the cost of the machine,
to minimise the waste of size, and to maintain the heat thereof without the use of
steam.
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In order to carry out our invention we dispense with one size trough together
with its corresponding pair of nipping rollers and parts connected therewith,
and in lieu of the remaining troughs we employ a shallow
supply trough, placed across the front of the machine, having sliding or
hinged lids or covers for sealing same. Such reserve trough is provided with a
valve and lever arrangement for controlling the supply of size passing through
a pipe from the above mentioned trough to a second trough capable of
receiving the roller under which the warp is caused to pass to receive the size.
This second trough is preferably U shaped, and is made only slightly larger
than the roller working therein, so that only a small quantity of size is required to
fill it, the quantity therein being maintained by supplies from the reserve or supply
trough as before mentioned, so that as the size is absorbed or taken up by the warp
it is replaced by a supply from the reserve trough.
By covering the reserve trough with sliding lids, the heat of the size therein is
maintained without the aid of steam pipes, which may therefore be dispensed with,
an additional advantage derived from our improvements being that in a high
temperature, the size will keep better and will not so soon become offensive.
A pair of nipping rollers work in connection with the U shaped trough, the
lower roller being partially surrounded by a channel or trough forming part of or
attached to the U shaped trough, which said channel receives the size squeezed out
of the warp and running from the roller, which returns to the U shaped trough by
means of a pipe, thereby preventing waste and keeping the roller clean.
Dated this 13th day of February 1891.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Warp Sizing Machines.
We, JOSEPH HENRY KAYE, and HENRY ASHWORTH CROWTHER, of Broad-
field Mills, Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention refers to warp sizing machines, and consists of an improved
arrangement and construction of the size troughs, and in the method of and means,
for supplying and regulating the supply of size to the trough, through which the warp
passes, our object therein being to simplify and reduce the cost of the machine, to

page_text: minimise the waste of size, and to maintain the heat thereof without the use of
steam.
In order to carry out our invention we dispense with one size trough together
with its corresponding pair of nipping rollers and parts connected therewith, and in
lieu of the remaining troughs we employ a shallow reserve or supply trough
placed across the front of the machine, having sliding or hinged lids or covers for
sealing same. This reserve trough is provided with a valve and lever arrangement
for controlling the supply of size passing through a pipe from the above mentioned
trough to a second trough capable of receiving the roller under which the warp is
caused to pass to receive the size.. This second trough is preferably shaped,
and is made only slightly larger than the rollers working therein, so that only a
small quantity of size is required to fill it, the quantity therein being maintained
by supplies from the reserve or supply trough as before mentioned, so that as the
size is absorbed or taken up by the warp it. is. replaced by a supply from the
reserve trough.
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By covering the reserve trough with sliding lids, the beat of the size therein, is
maintained without the aid of steam pipes, which may therefore be dispensed with,
an additional advantage derived from our improvements being that in a high
temperature, the size will keep better and will not so soon become offensive.
A pair of nipping rollers. work in connection with the U shaped trough, the
lower roller being partially surrounded by a channel or trough forming part of or
attached to the U shaped trough, which said channel receives the size squeezed
out of the warp.
In order that our invention may be better understood we will now refer to the
accompanying drawings illustrative thereof, wherein Fig. 1 is sectional elevation of
such parts of a warp sizing machine as is necessary to illustrate the application of
our improvements thereto and Fig. 2 is front elevation of the same. A represents
the framework of the machine, which supports two troughs B and C, the former
being the reserve trough, which supplies sizing to the trough C wherein the warp
is sized. The reserve trough B extends full width of the machine and as the
quantity of size in the trough C diminishes, the workman operates the rod D in the
direction of the arrow, withdrawing the plug E from valve F thereby permitting a
supply of size to pass from the reserve trough into the sizing trough C and this
goes on from time to time as required. Both the troughs are lined with copper,
and instead of the sizing trough C being made as shewn in dark lines in the
drawings, it may be divided as shewn in dotted lines at G. The reserve trough B
is provided with either hinged or sliding lids H for maintaining the heat of the
size contained therein, which enters through pipe I. The temperature of the
sizing trough can be maintained by means of steam pipes J arranged underneath
the said trough.
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
Firstly. In a warp sizing machine, the combination of a reserve trough with a
sizing trough, arranged in the manner herein shown and described.
Secondly. In a warp sizing machine, the. employment of a sizing trough and
a reserve trough, the latter provided with a valve arrangement for purposes
described.
Dated this 30th day of September 1801
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax and Huddersfield, Agents.