IMPROVE- .MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, DRESSING, AND WINDING COTTON, WOOLLEN, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER WARPS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the. Invention of "IMPROVE-
.MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, DRESSING, AND WINDING COTTON,
WOOLLEN, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER WARPS."-A communication from abroad
by Pierre François Dacheux and Gustave Lefebvre, both of St. Quentin,
France.
Sealed the 10th November 1863, and dated the 12th May 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th May 1868.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, DRESSING, AND WINDING COTTON,
WOOLLEN, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER WARPS," to be as follows:-
The warps of thread intended for weaving are generally dressed and wound
upon a warp beam which is taken to the loom. Hitherto the dressing has
required three operations, the taking the threads from the bobbins, the dressing,
and the warping or winding on the warp beam. The object of the machinery,
the subject of the present Invention, is to effect the three operations in one
machine.
At one end of the machine I arrange parallel to each other, say, four racks
or nests; in which the bobbins holding the threads are placed. Each nest
contains, say, ten rows of bobbins, with, say, 30 bobbins in each row, but
the number of-nests, rows, and bobbins may be varied, and when the machine
is double, similar nests may be placed at both ends. Between every three

page_text: bobbins in each row I fit an upright plate, and the threads from the three
bobbins to which the plate belongs are passed through three separate holes
made in the plates; all the threads in each row are carried on and passed
through a plate at one end of the rows, pierced with thirty holes, as each row
contains thirty bobbins. Say there are ten rows, there would be ten such
pierced plates. The three hundred threads from the ten pierced plates, and
supposing four nests, each of ten rows, then the twelve hundred threads from
the four nests are passed through holes in one gathering plate at the head of
the dressing part of the machine. I employ a break common to all the
bobbins to regulate the tension of the threads. On issuing from the gathering
plate the threads are led through a separator, next between two dressing
cylinders, which are clothed with cloth. The lower cylinder revolves in a
trough containing the dressing, with which it impregnates the threads to the
extent required by the greater or lesser pressure exerted by the upper cylinder
upon the threads, which pressure is regulated by a weighted lever. The
threads are then drawn between two other pressing cylinders, the object of
which is not only to draw on the threads themselves, being driven by some
prime mover, but also to speed the dressing evenly over and penetrate the
threads. The threads are then drawn on, passing under one and over another
roller, after which they are subjected to the action of a revolving brush;
spaces are left between the bunches or tufts of hair, of which the brush is com-
posed, to produce an intermittent action upon the threads. The threads are
still passed on and through first. one and then another bridge perforated with
holes; between two bridges they are subjected to the action of a fan, made
to propel cold or heated air. The threads next pass through a comb, then
over a revolving frame, under a roller, and on to a warp bean. The various
parts receive their respective motions from a prime mover through ordinary
gear. The combined machine before described may be employed in its entirety
for the warping and the dressing of threads, or the machine may be used for
rolling off the threads. and winding the warps on to the warp, roller without
the dressing parts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN,, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Arrent send greeting

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord Onė
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her 'special licence that. I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Broomian, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PREPARING, DRESSING,
AND WINDING COTTON, WOOLLEN, FLAX, SILK, AND OTHER WARPS," (communicated
to me from abroad by Pierre François Dacheux and Gustave Lefebvre, both
of St. Quentin, France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I; the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause-the-same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
The warps' of thread intended for weaving are generally dressed and wound'
upon à warp beam which is taken to the loom. Hitherto the dressing. has
required three operations, the taking the threads from the bobbin, the dressing,-
and the warping or winding on the warp beam. The object of the machinery,
the subject of the present Invention, is to effect the three operations in one
machine, which is represented in longitudinal section in the accompanying
Drawing.
At one end of the machine I arrange parallel to each other, say, four racks
or nests A, in which the bobbins B holding the threads are placed: Each.
nest.contains, say, ten rows of bobbins, with; say, thirty bobbins in each row,
but the number of. nests, rows, and bobbins may be varied, and when the
machine-is double, similar nests may be placed at both ends. - Between every!
three bobbins in each row I fit an upright plate C, and the threads from the

page_text: three bobbins, to which the plate belongs, are passed through three separate
holes made in the plates; all the threads in each row are carried on and
passed through a plate D at one end of the rows pierced with thirty holes, as
each row contains thirty bobbins. Say there are ten rows, there would be ten
such pierced plates. The three hundred threads from the ten pierced plates D,
and supposing four nests, each of ten rows, then the twelve hundred threads
from the four nests are passed through holes in one gathering plate E at the
head of the dressing part of the machine. I employ a break common to all
the bobbins to regulate the tension of the threads. On issuing from the
gathering plate, the threads are led through a separator G, next between two
dressing cylinders H, H', which are clothed with cloth. The lower cylinder
H revolves in a trough I containing the dressing, with which it impregnatės
the threads to the extent required by the greater or lesser pressure exerted by
the upper cylinder H upon the threads, which pressure is regulated by a
weighted lever J. The threads are then drawn between two other pressing
cylinders K, K', the object of which is not only to draw on the threads them-
selves, being driven by some prime mover, but also to spread the dressing
evenly over and penetrate the threads. The threads are then drawn on,
passing under one roller L, and over another roller M, after which they are'
subjected to the action of a revolving brush N; spaces are left between the
bunches or tufts of hair, of which the brush is composed, to produce an. inter-
mittent action upon the threads. The threads are still passed on, and through
first one bridge O then another bridge P, both perforated with holes; between
the the two bridges they are subjected to the action of a fan R, made to propel
cold or heated air. The threads next pass through a comb S, then over a
revolving frame T, under a roller U, and on to a warp beam V. The various
parts receive their respective motions from a prime mover through ordinary
gear. The combined machine before described may be employed in its
entirety for the warping and the dressing of threads; or the machinė may be
used for rolling off the threads and winding the warps on to the warp roller
without the dressing parts.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that the characteristic features
of the Invention are, first, the carrying on in one machine of the three opera-
tions of taking the threads from the bobbin, dressing, and warping or winding
on the
warp beam; second, the particular arrangement of the racks or nests
with pierced plates for guiding the threads, and a break common to all the
bobbins; third, the gathering plate; fourth, the arrangement of the dressing
cylinders with variable pressure; fifth, the arrangement of the revolving brush

page_text: with intermittent action; and, sixth, the drying or fanning of the threads
between two bridges perforated with holes.
I claim constructing machinery for preparing, dressing, and winding cotton,
woollen, flax, silk, and other warps, substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.s.)