IMPROVEMENTS IN WARP MA- CHINERY EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PURLED AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Herbert (of the firm of Thomas
Herbert and Company, of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manu-
facturers,) and Edward Whitaker, of the Town of Nottingham,
Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARP MA-
CHINERY EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PURLED AND OTHER
FABRICS."
Sealed the 28th November 1858, and dated the 23rd August 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Herbert
and Edward Whitaker at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd August 1858.
We, THOMAS HERBERT and EDWARD WHITAKER, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARP MACHI-
NERY EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PURLED AND OTHER FABRICS" to
be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain new mechanical arrangements and
combinations of parts for producing warp lace fabrics with a scolloped
traversed weft purled edge, or a scolloped traversed edge without a
purl, or a straight weft and warp purled edge, or a straight weft and

page_text: warp edge without a purl, and in producing the same with any number
of warp threads between the needles. In order to explain the nature
of this Invention more completely I will proceed to describe the
illustrative Sheets of Drawings hereunto annexed explanatory thereof,
as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS: ..
At Sheet 1, Figure 1, exhibits an end view of the machine with certain
wheels marked 1, 2, 3, tinted in red colour, which wheels are caused to
revolve as required by means of a notched wheel 4, and thereby cause
the bolts B, B, shewn at Fig. 2, to be moved so as to slide the guide
bars 3, 4, 5, to the right or left for the purpose of forming the scollop.
Fig. 2, is a front view of one fourth part of the entire length of the
machine, exposing to view certain net wheels 1, 2, 3, which are arranged
and disposed at the opposite end to the scollop wheels; the wheels 1, 2, 3,
nove the bolts B2, B3, which move the guide bars 1, 2, 6. A,-is the
driving shaft, carrying a wheel which turns. A', and A, in the saine shaft,
which gearing-into A², turns the cam shaft 2. The cams employed on
this shaft being the same as those usually employed in warp machines, and
from which the movements are derived, do not require to be described.
The warps or threads are passed up and over the rollers a, b, c, d, e, f,
through the sley h, which is supported by the sley bar g, and through
the guides on the bars, as shewn. Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, mark several
warp beams upon which the warps or threads are wound, and pass from
thence upwards in the following order, that is to say-The threads
from the beam No 1, are passed over the roller a, and through the
guides on the bar 1, which bar is moved by the wheel 1. The threads
from No 2, beam are passed over the roller b, and through the guides
on the bar 2, which is moved by the wheel 2; No 3, pass over the
roller c, through. guides on bar 3, moved by 1; N° 4, pass over the
roller d, through guides on bar 4, moved by 2; N° 5, pass over the
roller e, through guides on bar 5, moved by 3. The threads from
the 9 beams marked severally No 6, are all passed over the roller f
through guides on bar 6, moved by 3. At Sheet, Fig. 3, exhibits a
transverse and vertical section of one of the guide bars, shewn full

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size, working upon the pins M, N, and the relative positions of the
rollers a, b, c, d, e, f, over which the warp threads are passed, as shown.
The parts of guide bars 1, below show the numbers and arrangements
of the guides to an inch on the several guide bars. The several sets
of wheels, which are new as regards their shape and application to the
purposes of this Invention, are numbered as follows:-N° 1, set of
6 bars, the wheels marked and shewn in the machine at Fig 1, 2, 3,
4, 5; N° 1, wheel moves the bar which carries the connecting or
draw thread; N° 2, moves the bar which carries the net thread; Nos 1,.
and 2, move the bars which carry the traversed warp threads; N° 3,
moves the bar which carrics the traversed purled weft threads; N° 2,
set is the same as N° 1, except that the wheel 3, is taken away, and,
the wheel marked N° 3, at Fig. 7, is substituted in its place, and is
ployed to move the bar which carries the traversed weft threads; N° 8.:
set has seven bars, sec Fig. 6; N° 2, wheel moves the bars which carry
the purled weft threads. The wheels Nos 3, 4, 5, 6, move the bars.
which carry the warp threads; and N° 7, moves the bar which carries
the connecting threads; N° 4, set has 5 bars; N° 2, wheel moves,
the bar which carries the weft threads. The wheels N° 3, and 4,:
move the bars which carry the warp threads; and N° 5, moves the
bar which carries the connecting threads. The wheels marked N° 4,
at Fig. 4, No 3, 4, 5, at Fig. 5, and Nos 1, and 8, at Fig. 6, and
No 1, at Fig. 7, are not new; N° 1, set of wheels makes a scolloped
traversed weft and warp purled edge; N° 2, set of wheels makes a
scolloped traversed weft and warp edge without purl; N° 8, set makes
a traversed weft and warp purled edge; N° 4, set makes a traversed
weft and warp straight edge. It is to be observed that as this Inven-
tion consists in moving the guide bars so as to produce the desired
effect, the mode set forth is only an example of the manner in which
the said movements may be effected, as other mechanical movements.
may be employed to produce the same results as the wheels above
mentioned.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Herbert and Edward Whitaker in the
Great Seal Patent Oflice on the 23rd February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
THOMAS HERBERT, of the firm of Thomas Herbert and Company, of the
Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers,
and EDWARD WHITAKER, also of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Herbert and Edward
Whitaker, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Herbert and
Edward Whitaker, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Herbert and Edward Whitaker, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter luring the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
HENTS IN WARP MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PURLED AND
OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Thomas Herbert and Edward Whitaker, or one of us, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Herbert, one of the
parties hereto, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:

page_text: Our Invention consists in certain new mechanical arrangements and s
combinations of parts constituting improved warp machinery, which we
propose to employ for manufacturing fabrics, either with a scolloped
traversed weft purled edge, or a scolloped traversed edge without a purl,
or a straight weft and warp purled edge, or a straight weft and warp
edge without a purl, and in producing the same with any number of
warp threads between the needles. And in order to explain our said
Invention as completely as possible we now proceed to describe the
best incans we are acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
eflect, reference being had to the illustrative Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
At Sheet 1, Figure 1, is an end view of the above-mentioned
machine, with certain wheels marked 1, 2, 3, and shewn one fourth
of full size at Figure 4, of Sheet 2, which wheels are caused to revolve
as required by means of a notched wheel 4, and thereby cause the
bolts B, and B', shewn at Figure 2, to be moved so as to slide the
guide bars 3, 4, 5, to the right or left for the purpose of forming
the scollop. Figure 2, is a front view of one fourth part of the entire
length of the machine, exposing to view certain net wheels 1, 2, 3,
(shewn detached full size at Figure 5, of Sheet 3,) which are arranged
and disposed at the opposite end to the scollop wheels. The wheels
1, 2, 3, move the bolts B2, B3, which move the guide bars 1-, 2-, 6-.
A, is the driving shaft carrying a wheel which turns A¹, and A2, on the
same shaft, which gearing into A2, turns the cam shaft 2. The cams
employed on this last-mentioned shaft being the same as those usually
employed in warp machines, and from which the movements are
derived, do not therefore require to be described. The warps or
threads are passed up and over the rollers a, b, c, d, e, f, through the
sley h, which is supported by the sley bar g, and through the guides
on the bars, as shewn. Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, mark several warp beams,
upon which the warps or threads are wound, and pass from thence
upwards in the following order, that is to say:-The threads from the

page_text: beam marked.No 1, are passed over the roller a, and through the
guides on the bar 1, (shewn detached drawn full size at Sheet 2,)
which bar is moved by the wheel 1. The threads from the beam No 2,
are passed over the roller b, and through the guides on the bar 2
which bar is moved by the wheel 2, shewn at Figure 6, of Sheet 3;
N° 3, threads pass over the roller c; through guides on bar 31, moved
by the wheel 1; N° 4, threads pass over the roller d, through guides
on bar 4, moved by the wheel 2; No.5, threads pass over the roller e,
through guides on bar 5-, moved. by wheel 3. The threads from the
nine beams marked severally N° 6, are all passed over the roller f,
through guides on bars 6, moved by wheel 3. At Sheet 2, Figure 3, is
a transverse and vertical section of one of the guide bars shewn drawn
full size, working upon the pins M, and N, and the relative positions of
the rollers a, b, c, d, e, f, over which the warp threads are passed, as
shewn. The parts of guide bars hereafter mentioned and exhibited at
Sheets 2, 3, and 4, shew the number and arrangement of the guides to
an inch on the several guide bars. The several sets of wheels which
we employ for the purposes of our said Invention, and which are new
as regards their application to the said purposes thereof, are numbered
as follows: And first, as regards N° 1, set of six bars, the wheels shewn
by the Drawings at Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Nº 1, wheel moves the bar
which carries the connecting or draw thread; N° 2, moves the bar
which carries the net threads; Nos 1, and 2, move the bars which
carry the traversed warp threads; N° 3', moves the bar which carries
the traversed purled weft threads. And as regards No 2, set, it is the
same as No 1, except that the wheel 3, is taken away, and the wheel
marked N° 3, at Figure 7, of Sheet 4, is substituted in its place, and
is employed to move the bar which carries. the traversed weft threads.
No 3, set has seven bars (see Figure 6, of Sheet.3); N° 2, wheel moves the
bar which carries the purled weft threads. The wheels No 3, 4, 5, 6,
move the bars which carry the warp threads; and N° 7, moves the bar
which carries the connecting threads. No 4, set has five bars;
N° 2, wheel noves the bar. which carries .the.weft threads. Thes
wheels N3, and 4, move the bars which carry the warp threads;
and No 5, moves the bar which carries the connecting threads. The

page_text: wheels marked No 4, at Figure 4. Sheet 2, No.3, 4, 5, at Figure 5,
Sheet 3, and No 1, and 8, at Figure 6, of same Sheet, and N° 1,
Figure 7, of Sheet 4, are not new.. N° 1, set of wheels makes a
scolloped traversed weft and warp purled edge; No. 2, set makes
a scolloped traversed weft and warp edge. without purl; N° 3, set
makes a traversed weft and warp purled edge; No 4, set makes a
traversed weft and warp straight edge. We would here remark, that
as this Invention consists in actuating the guide bars so as to produce
the desired effect, the mode set forth is only given as an example of the
manner in which the said movements may be effected, without limiting
or confining ourselves to this precise mode, as other mechanical move-
ments may be employed to produce the same results as the wheels
above mentioned. At Sheet 4, Figure 8, represents a sectional view
of the machine drawn to a scale of one sixth of the full size, the
etched parts representing bars running through the machine from end
to end. a, is the needle bar carrying the needles ; c, is the sinker
bar carrying the sinker hooks d; e, is the tickler bar having one or
more ticklers, as required, soldered to it at the edge, or otherwise, of
each breadth. This bar works on the axles g, h, by means of the
cams B, C, on the cam shaft. A, which corresponds with that marked 2.
in Figure 1, Sheet 1. The cam B, working against the pulley B,
gives to the bar e, a rocking motion; and the cam C, working against
C, gives the bar e, an up and down motion. f, are the thread or warp
rollers. Figure 9, shows the sinker hook drawn full size, which is
worked by the sinker cam shown at Figure 1. Figure 10, shews one
of the needles drawn full size. And we would here remark, that we
prefer for the purposes of our said Invention using needles known in
the trade as Townsend's Patent Needles, but we do not confine our-
selves to the use of such said needles. Figure 11, shews a tickler drawn
full size. At Sheet 5, Figure 12, is a front view of the above machine.
At this Figure the same letters of reference are employed as those
which are employed at Figure 8. Figure 13, shows the wheel
employed for traversing the tickler bar drawn full size. Figure 14,
shews the relative position of the several parts at the time the tickler
is carrying the loop from one needle to another. No 5, set of wheels,

page_text: marked severally Figures 15, 16, 17, are drawn full size, and are
employed to produce a spotted fabric.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be and may be performed so as to effect
improvements in the manufacture of purled and other fabrics, we
hereby declare our Invention to consist in, and we claim as "Improve-
ments in Warp Machinery employed in the Manufacture of Purled and
other Fabrics," the application of ticklers soldered to a bar traversing by
means of a jacquard or wheels over one or more needles at a time, and
as many ticklers as required to make the vandyke or scolloped edge,
and the wheels, Figures 15, 16, 17, working separately or jointly at
one end of the machine to make a spotted fabric, as herein-before
more particularly described, set forth, and represented by the illustra-
tive Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Herbert, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
THOMAS HERBERT,
of the firm of
(L.S.)
Thomas Herbert & Co.