Improvements in Warping Mille, Beaming Machines, Sectional Warping and Beaming Machines, Machines similar to Sectional Warping and Beaming Machines and used in Dressing Warps in Sections, Balling Machines for Forming Balled Warps from Yarns or Threads and for Forming Balls from Yarns or Threads in the form of Warps or Portions of Warps or other analagous forms and certain Machinery or Apparatus for Winding Yarns or Threads.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1900-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1900
Improvements in Warping Mille, Beaming Machines, Sectional
Warping and Beaming Machines, Machines similar to Sectional
Warping and Beaming Machines and used in Dressing Warps
in Sections, Balling Machines for Forming Balled Warps from
Yarns or Threads and for Forming Balls from Yarns or Threads
in the form of Warps or Portions of Warps or other analagous
forms and certain Machinery or Apparatus for Winding Yarns
or Threads.
I, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, of Wardleworth Iron Works, Whitworth Road, Roch-
dale, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in improvements in warping mills beaming machines
sectional warping and beaming machines, machines similar to sectional warping
and beaming machines and used in dressing warps in sections balling machines
for forming balled warps from yarns or threads and for forming balls from yarns
or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps or other analogous forms and
certain machinery or apparatus for winding yarns or threads.
The first part of my invention consists in improvements in apparatus for stopping
or rendering inoperative warping mills either of the ordinary kind with swifts
revolving about vertical axes or of the kind known as Scotch or horizontal warping
mills in which the swifts revolve about horizontal axes, beaming machines sec-
tional warping and beaming machines machines similar to sectional warping and
beaming machines and used in dressing warps in sections, balling
machines for forming balled warps from yarns or threads and for forming
balls from yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps or other
analogous forms and machinery or apparatus for winding yarns or threads two or
more together on to bobbins spools or tubes or other objects; when yarns or
threads break or terminate and relates to apparatus of the kind in which each
yarn or thread being operated upon is so long as it remains unbroken or does
not terminate made to support a wire or hook hung upon it and on the breakage
or termination of a yarn or thread the wire or hook previously supported upon it
is allowed to fall between plates forming part of the circuit of a battery or dynamo-
electric machine or other suitable electric circuit so that as soon as such wire or
hook falls between such plates the electric circuit is completed and by the action
of an electro-magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets or solenoids the machine or
the portion of mechanism in conjunction with which such electro-magnet or
solenoid or electro-magnets or solenoids is or are employed is stopped or rendered
inoperative. In apparatus of the said kind as hitherto constructed it has been
requisite for the plates between which a wire or hook has fallen to be separated
by an attendant to liberate such wire or hook and interrupt the electric circuit
before the machine or portion of mechanism which was stopped by the fall of such

page_text: wire or hook could be again set in action. The object of the first part of my
invention is to enable the plates between which in an apparatus of the said kind
a wire or hook is allowed to fall on the breakage or termination of a yarn or
thread to be separated by the action of mechanism provided in the machine in or
in conjunction with which the said apparatus is employed. According to this
part of my invention I connect to the lever or other suitable part which in an
apparatus of the said kind is released by the action of the electro-magnet or
solenoid or electro-magnets or solenoids in order to stop or render inoperative the
machine or portion of mechanism with which such electro-magnet or solenoid or
electro-magnets or solenoids is or are employed or another lever or other part
released by the action of the said electro-magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets
or solenoids or by the action of an electro-magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets
or solenoids provided for the purpose, a chain, wire, cord, shaft or other suitable
connecting device which is arranged to act by tension or thrust or by being turned
or oscillated as may be considered desirable in the construction of the apparatus
and is connected in any suitable way to or arranged to act in any suitable way
upon one or both of the plates or one or both of the plates forming each pair
should there be more than one pair, employed in conjunction with the said electro-
magnet or solenoid or electro-magnets or solenoids, so that when a wire or hook
falling between the said plates causes the said lever or other part aforesaid to be
released one or both of the said plates, according to the arrangement employed
shall be moved so as to allow the said wire or hook to fall from between such
plates. A weight or spring or any other suitable device or weights or springs or
other suitable devices may be connected to or arranged to act in any suitable way
upon the movable plate or movable plates so as to move or aid in moving such
plate or plates back to its or their usual position or positions after a wire or hook
has fallen between them and been allowed to fall from between them.
The second part of my invention consists in improvements in mechanism. for
imparting motion to the spindles of such balling machines for forming balled
warps from yarns or threads and for forming balls from yarns or threads in the
form of warps or portions of warps or other analogous forms, as are provided with
spindles and flyers and the object of this part of my invention is principally to
enable the spindle of a balling machine of the said kind to be driven at a slower
speed in one direction than the other so that the yarns or threads operated upon
shall not be wound more tightly when the flyer and spindle are revolving in
opposite directions than when they are revolving in the same direction and also
to provide toothed-wheels simpler to make and stronger than the "mangle-wheels "
hitherto ordinarily employed in balling machines of the said kind.
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According to this part of my invention instead of employing a "mangle-wheel"
of the form hitherto ordinarily employed in a balling machine of the said kind
I provide a toothed-wheel or plate with two sets of teeth extending around the said
plate to suitable extents and formed at a suitable distance apart and arranged so
That the teeth of one set are directed outwards from the axis of the said wheel or
plate while the teeth of the other set are directed inwards towards the said axis.
In conjunction with the said wheel or plate I employ a pinion which is revolved
and movable towards and away from the axis of the said wheel or plate like the
pinion usually employed in a balling machine of the said kind with a mangle-
wheel" of ordinary construction. The pinion employed in conjunction with the
said disc or plate is arranged so that it shall impart motion to such disc or plate
first by one of the said sets of teeth and then by the other and in order to
cause such pinion to gear into or engage first with one set of teeth and then with
the other I cause the said pinion or the shaft on which it is mounted to be guided
by a groove or grooves or plate or rib or plates or ribs of suitable form provided in
or upon the said wheel or plate and teeth arranged in suitable curved or other
lines may be provided in order that the said pinion may be more readily made
to move in the manner requisite into gear with each of the aforesaid sets of teeth.
According to a modification of the arrangement above described in reference to

page_text: this part of my invention instead of one pinion being arranged to engage with
the inwardly directed teeth and also with the outwardly directed teeth, the
inwardly directed teeth may be placed in one plane and the outwardly directed
teeth may be placed in another plane and distinct pinions of the same size or of
suitably different sizes may be provided to engage with the sets of teeth and any
suitable means for bringing such pinions into engagement alternately may be
employed.
According to further modifications of this part of my invention I may employ
instead of the "mangle-wheel" ordinarily employed in imparting motion to the
spindle of a balling machine of the said kind and the pinion and mechanism
employed to impart motion to such "mangle-wheel" any other form of gearing or
mechanism by means of which the said spindle may be made to turn at one speed
in one direction and at another speed in the opposite direction.
The third part of my invention relates to means for imparting to and fro move-
ments to the traversing, oscillating or reciprocating guides employed in guiding
the yarns or threads being operated upon in some warping machines with swifts
arranged to revolve about horizontal axes, in some beaming machines, in some
balling machines for forming balled warps from yarns or threads or forming balls
from yarns or threads in the form of warps or portions of warps or other analogous
forms, in machines for winding yarns or threads on to bobbins or spools with
heads or flanges and in machines for winding yarns or threads on to bobbins,
spools or tubes or other objects without heads or flanges and this part of my
invention consists in the application as means for imparting to and fro movements
at different speeds to the said reciprocating guides, of wheels or plates similar
to those hereinbefore described in reference to the second part of my invention.
According to this part of my invention the wheel or plate employed and the
pinion employed to impart motion to it are arranged in any suitable manner
according to the machine in which they are to be employed and I cause the said
plate or wheel to impart motion to the guide or guides with which it is employed
by any suitable means as for instance by means of teeth upon such wheel or
plate and a rack or racks connected to or arranged to move or carry the said
guide or guides in any suitable way or by means of a crank-pin or stud and con-
necting rod or connecting rods or by means of a band, cord, or chain connected to
or arranged to move or carry the said guide or guides and passing around or guided
by pulleys or guided in any other suitable way.
The fourth part of my invention relates to such balling machines for forming
balled warps from yarns or threads and for forming balls from yarns or threads
in the form of warps or portions of warps or other analogous forms as are provided
with spindles and flyers and the object of this part of my invention is to enable
the yarns or threads being wound into balls in such machines to be laid or wound
into balls upon the spindles of such machines in a flatter form and with less
tension than is possible with the use of the eyes or guides which have hitherto
been employed upon the flyers of such balling machines as the means of guiding
the yarns or threads in their passage from the flyers to the spindles.
According to this part of my invention I provide in conjunction with the usual
grooved roller which is mounted near the lower extremity of the arm of the flyer
used to guide the yarns or threads in a balling machine of the said kind and is
arranged with its axis in a plane transverse to the axis of the flyer, a second roller
mounted upon the said arm and of a cylindrical form or approximately cylindrical
or other suitable form and with its axis parallel or approximately parallel to the
axis of the flyer. In some cases instead of the second roller I may employ a simple
stud or guide-rod.
A
FT
HOWARD
CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Warping Mills, Beaming Machines, Sectional
Warping and Beaming Machines, Machines similar to Sectional
Warping and Beaming Machines and used in Dressing Warps
in Sections, Balling Machines for Forming Balled Warps from
Yarns or Threads and for Forming Balls from Yarns or Threads
in the form of Warps or Portions of Warps or other analogous
forms and certain Machinery or Apparatus for Winding Yarns
or Threads.
:
I, JOHN HOWARD STOTT, of Wardleworth Iron Works, Whitworth Road, Roch-
dale, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, 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:-
My invention consists in improvements in warping mills, beaming machines,
sectional warping and beaming machines, machines similar to sectional warping
and beaming machines and used in dressing warps in sections, balling machines for
forming balled warps from yarns or threads and for forming balls from yarns or
threads in the form of warps or portions of warps and other analogous forms and
certain machinery or apparatus for winding yarns and threads, which machines are
hereinafter referred to as. balling or similar machines.
In such balling or similar machines it has long been customary to hang upon
or suspend from each of the yarns or threads, a small metallic hook or the like,
which, in the event of the yarn breaking or ending, falls between two metallic
plates and completes an electrical circuit. Upon the completion of the circuit an
electro-magnetic, device has been operated to stop the machine, so that the yarn
could be pieced or a fresh one put in place. With the ordinary arrangement it
has always been possible for the operative to leave a hook between the plates for
some time, as, for example, all night when a hook has fallen just before the time
for stopping the machine, with the result that the battery has run down by the
time work is resumed. According to one part of my invention I obviate this risk
by providing a device by means of which the metallic plates are separated as
the machine stops so that the hook may fall clear away into a suitable receptacle.
The plates may then be returned to their initial positions by means of springs or
the like, or when the machine is re-started.
I also provide in a balling machine means or devices by which a flatter ball may
be wound upon the spindle. To do this the yarn is flattened before it reaches
the spindle. At the present time a grooved or. flanged roller is mounted near the
lower extremity of the flyer arm and the yarn passes over this roller on its way
to the spindle. The axis of this roller is in a plane at right angles to the axis
of the flyer. For ensuring the flattening of the yarn I provide a second roller
also mounted upon the arm of the flyer but with its axis at right angles to the axis
of the first roller. The yarn passes over both rollers.
Another part of my invention relates to apparatus for imparting motions in
different directions at different speeds. to the spindles of a balling machine..
In order that my improvements may be more readily understood I. have appended
hereto a sheet of drawings which illustrate them and to which I will hereinafter
refer.
Figure 1 shows in elevation the arrangement of the plates which are adapted to
receive a hook or the like falling from a broken or run out end of yarn.
A and B
are two plates of any suitable metal arranged at an angle to each other and nearly
touching at their lower edges. They are connected respectively to the negative

page_text: and positive poles of a galvanic battery, dynamo, or the like, the circuit being
normally open. When a metallic hook such as C falls from an end of yarn it
drops between the two plates and wedges between them, thus putting them in
electrical communication with each other. The circuit is thus closed and an
electro-magnetic device is energised to stop the machine in any well known
manner, as for example by moving the strap fork. The plate B is hinged or
pivotted as shown at D and one edge of it is connected, as by a rod E, with
the strap fork or with any other suitable part which is operated to stop the machine.
As the machine is stopped, therefore, the plate B is tilted to the position shown in
dotted lines and its lower edge is separate sufficiently from the lower edge of the
plate A to allow the hook C to fall clear away. The means of connection may be
so arranged that the plates are not opened until the stopping device has com-
pleted its traverse. The electro-magnetic device may, if desired, operate directly
upon the movable plate. In a modified form both plates may be hinged and be
similarly operated, a bell crank lever or the like being interposed to give them
motion in opposite directions. The plates may be returned when the stopping
device is moved to restart the machine.
Figures 2 and 3 show in elevation and at right angles to each other two views
of the flyer fitted with the improved devices for flattening the yarn. As will be
seen the arm F of the flyer is provided with two brackets or shafts G, H, upon
each of which is mounted a flanged or grooved roller J or K. The first roller to
which the yarn L is delivered is mounted with its axis at right angles to the
axis of the flyer, and the second roller K is mounted with its axis at right angles
to the first roller. The yarn passes around or partly around the first roller,
thence around or partly around the second roller, and is then wound upon the
spindle. In place of the second roller a stud or pin with its axis similarly arranged
may be employed.
Figure 4 illustrates partly in plan and partly in section the apparatus for
enabling the spindles in a balling machine to be rotated at one speed in one
direction and at a different speed in the other, so that twist put into the yarn
while the spindle is rotating in one direction is taken out or neutralised while the
spindle is rotating in the other direction, the flyer rotating constantly in one
direction. This is accomplished by mounting each spindle S upon or attaching it
to a toothed wheel W or plate having two sets of teeth extending around it to the
desired extent. These sets of teeth are formed at a suitable distance apart and are
so disposed and arranged that the teeth T of one set are directed outwards from
the axis of the wheel while the teeth T¹ of the other set are directed inwards
towards the axis. The wheel is driven by a pinion P which is movable towards or
away from the axis of the wheel, as is usual in the pinion of an ordinary "mangle-
wheel" motion. The pinion P is caused to engage first with one set of teeth and
then with the other by means of guiding grooves 0, or flanges or the like formed
upon the wheel. According to a modification of this arrangement, instead of one
pinion being employed to engage with both sets of teeth, the inwardly directed
teeth may be placed in one plane and the outwardly directed teeth may be placed
in another plane, and distinct pinions of the same size or of suitably different
sizes may be provided to engage with the sets of teeth and any suitable means for
bringing such pinions into engagement alternately may be employed.
A similarly toothed and formed wheel may be employed to impart reciprocating
motion at different speeds to the thread guides employed in balling and similar
machines, the motion of the wheel being transmitted to the guides by means
of a connecting rod, or a band, cord, chain or the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
1. In a balling or similar machine, an electrical stop motion one or both of

page_text: the plates of which is or are movable to permit of the escape of the fallen hook
when the machine is stopped, constructed and arranged substantially as herein-
before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In a balling machine, the combination with a spindle of a wheel formed with
a set of inwardly directed teeth and with a set of outwardly directed teeth by means
of which the spindle may be rotated at one speed in one direction and at a different
speed in the other direction, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. In a balling machine, the combination with the arm of the flyer of two
rollers or a roller and a stud or pin, substantially as and in the manner and for the
purpose herein before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of August A.D. 1900.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.