Improvements in Apparatus for Winding Yarn from the Warp.
Year: 1896

page_text: bis Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c., Act, 1883), as required by
the decision of the Chief Examiner of the 13th day of May 1897.
Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Winding Yarn from the Warp.
We, JAMES SENIOR, of 4, Garibaldi Street, Thornbury near Bradford, in the
County of York, Designer and LORD CORN WALLACE, of Alma Cottage,
Claremont. Halifax, in said county, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for winding yarn from the
'warp "that is to say for winding yarn prepared in the form of warp for the
purpose of using it as weft and for other purposes and its object is to enable a
whole warp to be dealt with at once and divided into sections each containing
about the number of "ends" that an ordinary winding frame will wind at once.
For this purpose we employ an ordinary warp dressing frame but instead of
the ordinary beam to receive the warp we employ a number of double ended
bobbins mounted side by side upon a driving shaft. This shaft is driven in any
convenient manner and is made with a longitudinal groove or key-way adapted to
receive internal keys or projections formed in the bobbin to ensure the latter
revolving with the said shaft. Other means may be employed to cause the bobbins
to revolve with the shaft.
The bobbins are each capable of holding a sufficient number of "ends'
accommodate all the spindles of an ordinary winding frame and sufficient bobbins
are used to receive the whole warp. When the bobbins are filled they are removed
from the said shaft and their contents are re-wound one at a time by the winding
frame.
Instead of mounting the bobbins on one shaft a double row of bobbins may be
employed. The bobbins in the first row are placed a suitable distance apart and.
the bobbins behind lic opposite the spaces between the front row. In this case
the bobbins may be independently driven.
The warp is preferably fed to the winding machine along the front and is guided
to the bobbins (or their equivalent) on the spindles by means of guide eyes (or
their equivalent) fixed to horizontal arms projecting from the lifter plate. Each
of these guide arms carry a number of eyes from which certain of the threads of
yarn branch off to the bobbins on the spindles whilst one or more of the eyes at
the outer ends of the arms are provided to guide the remainder of the threads on
to the next arms.
Eyes may be provided in addition to, or in place of, the ordinary "hooks" on

page_text: the lifter plate to guide the yarn frown the said horizontal arms to the bobbins on
the spindles.
Dated this 26th day of February 1896.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Apparatus for Winding Yarn from the Warp.
We, JAMES SENIOR, of 4, Garibaldi Street, Thornbury near Bradford, in the
County of York, Designer and LORD CORN WALLACE, of Alma Cottage,
Claremont, Halifax, in said county, Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in apparatus for winding yarn from the
"warp" that is to say for winding yarn prepared in the form of warp for the
purpose of using it ns weft and for other purposes; and its object is to enable a
whole warp to be dealt with at once and divided into section each containing
about the number of "cuds" that an ordinary winding frame will wind at once.
To clearly describe our invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar letters of reference
indiente corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a front elevation of a winding frame with our improvements
applied to it.
Figure 2, represents a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, represents a view on a smaller scale of the sectional benm we employ
to receive the warp to be wound. Figure 4, represents an end view of
the same.
To wind the warp we employ a warp dressing frame of the usual construction
but instead of the beam commonly used we employ a beam formed of a number of
sections or bobbins A mounted side by side upon the shaft A 2 placed in the same
position in the warp dressing machine as the ordinary beam. Flanges or discs A 3
are preferably provided on the shaft A2 one of which flanges is renovable to
allow the sections to be placed upon or taken off the shaft. The shaft A 2 has a
keyway A4 formed along it and the sections A each have an internal key or
projection fitting this keyway consequently all the sections revolve with the
shaft.
The sections A are of such a size that they each hold a sufficient number of
"ends" of warp to supply all the spindles B of the winding frame 132 and after
the sections are filled with warp in the dressing frame the shaft A 2 is removed
from the frame and the sections are placed one at a time on the barrel C of the
spindle C 2. The spindle C2 with the section upon it is placed in the bearings D
of the framework D2 fixed close to one end of the winding frame. The loose
ends of the yarn are then passed under the bar E between the guides E2 then
through the reed Ffixed to the end of the winding frame. A few of the ends
nearest the spindles are then passed directly to the spindles B to be wound whilst
the remainder are carried forward through the guide eyes G in the horizontal
arm II projecting from the lifter plate H 2.
Certain of the ends of yarn diverge from the eyes G to tho spindles B whilst
the remainder are carried along to the next arm 14 from which again a portion
branch off to the spindles. Similar guide arms are provided at intervals the whole
length of the frame and on leaving each arm a number of ends pass to the spindles.
In this way the whole of the ends are taken up.

page_text: Eyes K are preferably provided on the lifter plate H 2 as well as the guide
hooks L.
A brake strap M is passed round the barrel C to regulate the tension of
the ends.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we wish it to be understood
that we do not claim the combination with the lifter plate of a yarn winding
machine, of the horizontal guide arms projecting from the lifter plate as herein
shewn and described; but we declare that what we claim is:
1. A sectional beam adapted to be used with an ordinary warp dressing
frame constructed substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 18th day of September 1896
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.