Improvements in Apparatus for Winding Certain Warps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1897-Accepted, Eth Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Winding Certain Warps.
I, JOSEPH RHODES, of 32, Crossley Street, Great Horton, near Bradford, in the
County of York, Warp Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for winding "cuttled" or like:
warps particularly applicable for re-winding dyed section warps as for instance pre-
paratory to sizing.
For this purpose I guide the warp from the cuttle or bale by means of suitable
guide and tension devices to a reed placed in front of a guide or measuring roller.
mounted above the front of the beam on which the warp is to be wound. The said.
beam is driven by a "dog" or its equivalent from a driving spindle supporting one
end of the beam and this spindle is driven by friction discs or a friction clutch,
arranged to be held "in gear" by a treadle or its equivalent placed in front of and
below the beam or in a convenient position for the attendant to operate it. The
friction clutch is driven by step cones, or other means may be employed to vary
the speed.
The tension rollers or main tension device is preferably located over the beam
within reach of the attendant in order to facilitate pulling the warp back to take up
a broken "end" or the like.
Dated this 2nd day of May 1896
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE
CIFIC TION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Winding Certain Warps.
I, JOSEPH RHODES, of 82, Crossley Street, Great Horton, near Bradford, in the
County of York, Warp 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 "cuttled" or like
warps particularly applicable for re-winding on to beams dyed section warps as for
instance preparatory to sizing.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet of
drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference"
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a front elevation of a winding machine constructed in,
accordance with my improvements.
Figure 2, represents a plan, and Figure 3, a side view of the same.
The standards A, A 2 and A 3' are fixed in any convenient manner so as to be
sufficiently rigid. The tension rollers B and B 2 and the tension bar B 3 are mounted
between the standards A and A 2. The tension bar B 3 is fitted with a tension
twizzle B 4 through which.the warp.is passed and also with a number of guide rods B 5
t

page_text: to keep the coils of warp passed round the rollers B and B 2 from over-lapping each
other.
Brake straps B6 (Figure 3) supporting weights B7 are passed over the
rollers B and B 2.
The reed C, the guide or measuring roller D, the beam E and the treadle F are
also mounted between and are supported by the standards A and A 2. The beam E is
of the usual construction and is mounted in the usual way by its shaft or arbor E 2
supported at one end in the bracket E3 and the other end is supported in a centre hole
in the short shaft G revolving in bearings formed in the bracket H fixed to the
standards A 2 and A 3. The beam E is rotated by the dog E4 fixed on its shaft
engaging the arm or catch piace G 2 on the shaft G. The shaft G has a friction
disc G3 rigidly fixed to it and is driven by the friction disc G4 on the face of the step-
cone pulley G 5 loosely mounted on the shaft G. The pulley. G 5 is driven from the
step cone H 2 on the counter shaft. H 3 mounted above between the standards A 2
and A 3.
The discs G3 and G4 are shown disengaged in the position they occupy when the
beam E is stationary and to put the beam in motion provision is made to bring the
two discs together with sufficient pressure to communicate the motion of the cone G 5
to the disc & 8.
The mechanism provided for bringing the two discs together consists of a bell
crank lever J pivoted on a stnd J 2 fixed to the bracket H. The lever J is forked at
the top J 3 and the forked ends have slots J 4 which engage studs G 6 fixed in the
collar G 7 mounted on the cone G 5 in such a manner that the latter may be thereby
moved laterally along the shaft G without interfering with the rotation of the cone.
The end J 5 of the lever J is loosely connected to the treadle F therefore when the
latter is depressed by the foot of the person attending to the machine the friction
dises are brought together and the beam is rotated. A balance weight F 2 is fixed to
the treadle for the purpose of raising it to disengage the friction disc when the
pressure of the attendant's foot is removed.
The warp W Figures 1 and 3 is drawn from a bale or cuttle (not shown but which
may be placed in any position conveniently adjacent) and passes in the direction of
the arrows round the tension rollers and from thence to a guide pulley located a
suitable distance away behind. The warp then passes from this guide pulley to the
reed C by which it is spread out to the width between the flanges E7 of the beam E
and then over the guide roller D down to the beam upon which it is wound in the
usual way.
The guide roller D may be used to measure the length of warp wound on the beam.
For this purpose it is made, say, exactly 9 inches in circumference and is fitted
with a bevel wheel D 2 at one end to drive the vertical shaft D 3 which drives the
"clock" or length indicator D 4.
The principal advantages of this construction of machine is that the warp passing
on to the tension device is conveniently within reach of the attendant so that it may
be readily pulled back when required, as for instance: to join a broken
Furthermore the beam E, guide roller D and reed C are so situated that the attendant
can conveniently reach over them to join the broken end and it is consequently rarely
necessary to go round to the back of the machine.
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:
The general arrangement of the parts of the machine herein described for the
purpose specified.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.