Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Chenille or Chenille Fur.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1891--Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Chenille or
Chenille Fur.
We, JoHN BRINTON AND COMPANY LIMITED, of Kidderminster, in the County
of Worcester, Carpet Manufacturers, EDWIN BEDFORD of 102 Lea Street,
Kidderminster, aforesaid, Spinning Manager, and HARRY FERDINAND PEARSE
of Franche, Kidderminster aforesaid, Spinning Manager, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In a certain class of machinery for the manufacture of chenille or chenille fur
such as is used in making some kinds of fringes, curtains, rugs, carpets and other
goods, the threads of material (linen, cotton, woollen, silk, jute, worsted &c.) pass
between rollers, being cut while passing, and from these rollers they are led to
hooks on a machine mounted on rails, and which, as it travels backwards, puts the
twist into the threads. The space required for the travel of this machine is very
considerable and the twist obtained is irregular inasmuch as it varies according to
the continually changing position of the machine. A further disadvantage is that
the chenille is obtained in short lengths limited by the extent to which the machine
can travel.
Now according to the present invention the chenille is obtained in continuous
lengths of equal twist throughout and becomes wound on bobbins.
We employ rollers as before between which the threads pass, being cut while
passing. From these rollers the threads pass between drawing rollers and thence
through a divider or guide to the spindles and flyers of bobbins which may be
mounted on a rail as in a spinning frame. The requisite twist is thus given to the
threads and is equal throughout while the finished chenille or fur becomes wound
on the bobbins in continuous lengths whereby frequent joins are obviated. As no
part of the machinery has to travel much space is saved."
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Chenille or
Chenille Fur.
We, JOHN BRIXTON AND COMPANY LIMITED, of Kidderminster, in the County
of Worcester, Carpet Manufacturers, EDWIN Bedford, of 102 Lea Street
Kidderminster, aforesaid Spinning Manager, and HARRY FERDINAND PEARSE,
of Franche, Kidderminster aforesaid, Spinning Manager, 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 :-
In a certain class of machinery for the manufacture of chenille or chenille fur
such as is used in making some kinds of fringes, curtains, rugs, carpets and other
goods, the threads of material, (linen, cotton, woollen, silk, jute, worsted &c.) pass
between rollers, being cut while passing, and from these rollers they are led to
hooks on a machine mounted on rails and which as it travels backwards puts the
twist into the threads. The space required for the travel of this machine is very
considerable and the twist obtained is irregular, inasmuch as it varies according to
the continually changing position of the machine. A further disadvantage is that
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page_text: the chenille is obtained in short lengths limited by the extent to which the machine
can travel.
Now according to the present invention the chenille is obtained in continuous
lengths of equal twist throughout and becomes wound on bobbins.
As before, we employ rollers between which the threads pass being cut while
passing. From these rollers the threads pass between drawing rollers and thence
through a divider or guide to the spindles and flyers of bobbins which may be
mounted on a rail as in a spinning frame. The requisite twist is thus given to the
chenille and is equal throughout, while the finished chenille or fur becomes wound
on the bobbins in continuous lengths, whereby frequent joins are obviated.
As no part of the machinery has to travel much space is saved.
The manner in which our invention can be carried into effect will be fully under-
stood on reference to the annexed drawings. In these drawings,.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a front elevation, of our improved
machinery.
Figure 3 is a vertical section and Figure 4 a plan, both on a larger scale, of the
rollers between which the threads pass while being cut and of the drawing rollers
and adjacent parts. The upper roller against which the material is cut by the
cutting roller is partly broken away to allow the cutting roller to be seen.
Figure 5 is a plan of a portion of the divider or guide through which the
material or ends "pass on their way to the spindles and flyers and
Figure 6 is a vertical longitudinal section of this guide taken through the centre
of one of the tubes that receive the "ends."
a, Figures 1 and 2, is a tube fastened to the bottom rail by a collar and nut. e is
another tube surrounding the tube a and driven by means of a pulley d and band
(not shown). e is a fork screwed onto the tube a and kept rigid by a lock nut f
the lower part of which is conical and is adjusted to the top of the tube c so as to
keep this from contact with the tube a. The fork e has spikes yg leading to near
the two ends of the cutting roller h. ii are cops of the worsted, silk, jute, linen
or other material of which the chenille is to be formed. The worsted or other
material passes from these cops through eyes in a plate or collar fixed to the
tube c, the said plate or collar revolving in contact with three or other number of
anti-friction rollers k which serve to steady the top of the tube as it rotates.
From the eyes in the plate j the worsted is guided by guides to a position
opposite to the spikes g, the guides being attached to the tube c so as to revolve
therewith. m m are bobbins carrying the threads for forming the selvage. These
threads pass up the tube a and are guided up the two arms of the fork e from
which they go outside the spikes g g to the cutting roller over which they pass,
being received outside the end cutter of same at each end of the roller. The
roller will have as many cutters as there are "ends" of chenille less one, that is
to say 15 cutters for 16 "ends" for example. The worsted that is guided by the
guides to a position opposite to the spikes yg becomes wound round these spikes
and round the selvage threads owing to the rotation of the tube c and is gradually
carried by the travel or onward movement of the selvage threads past the points
of the spikes and on to the cutter roller h. All the parts of the drawings thus far
explained are of well known construction and action. n is one of the ordinary
frame of bobbins from which warp threads pass through guides and over the
cutting roller and p is the other ordinary frame of bobbins from which warp
threads pass through guides p' and over the upper roller r. warp
thread from
the frame n with one warp thread from frame p constitutes an end," but the two
outside "ends," that is, those next the ends of the cutting roller are each
constituted by a selvage thread from one of the bobbins and a warp thread
from the frame p. The upper roller has narrow and shallow circumferential
grooves for the warp threads to work in, and we prefer to surround it with
roughened or serrated copper bands at intervals between the grooves, see Figure 4,
so as to give it a grip on the worsted, silk or other material for making the chenille.
The worsted is cut as it passes between the rollers and into as many lengths as
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there are "ends" and the "ends" with the cut material then pass over the grooved
rollers to the drawing rollers tt which are driven at the same circumferential
speed as the rollers r The lower drawing roller is plain, but the upper one is
covered with vulcanized india rubber or other suitable material which will render
it flexible and allow ends "of different thickness to pass; or the upper roller may
be plain and the lower one covered with rubber or both may be so covered.
the drawing rollers the ends pass through the guide or divider u which has as
many guide tubes as there are "ends.". These tubes are made to revolve and this
can be effected by means of toothed gearing as shown, so as to assist in giving the
required twist to the chenille. From the guide u the separate "ends" pass to the
flyers of spindles which carry bobbins te mounted on a rail having an up and
down movement as in a spinning frame. It will be readily understood that the
Ayers put in the requisite twist, the twist beginning before the "ends" reach the
guide or divider which carries it back from the flyers to the rollers tt, and that
this twist will be equal or uniform throughout while the finished chenille or fur
becomes wound on the bobbins w in continuous lengths.
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 :-
:-
1. In machinery for the manufacture of chenille or chenille fur, the combination
with the rollers to which the chenille material and the necessary warp threads are
supplied and by which the chenille material is cut, of spindles, flyers and bobbins
and of devices for conducting the "ends" from the said cutting rollers to the said
spindles, flyers and bobbins, whereby a uniform twist is given to the "ends" and
the chenille is wound on the bobbins, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In machinery for the manufacture of chenille or chenille fur, the combination
with the rollers to which the chenille material and the necessary warp threads are
supplied and by which the chenille material is cut, of drawing rollers for taking
the ends" from the said cutting rollers, a guide or divider through which the
"ends" pass from the said drawing rollers, and spindles, flyers and bobbins, which
receive the ends from the said guide or divider, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
3. The combination or arrangement of parts, substantially as hereinbefore
described and represented in the annexed drawings, constituting an improved
machine for the manufacture of chenille or chenille fur.
Dated this 31st day of December 1891.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.