Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for "Balling" Certain Warps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for "Balling" 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 "balling" warps from
the beam or from bobbins as for instance section warps preparatory to dyeing.
For this purpose I guide the warp from the beam or bobbins by means of a
suitable roller or rollers (one of which is preferably a measuring roller) and guides
The warp is then
to an eye preferably placed overhead to economize space.
passed down to an eye on the carriage of a balling head below. The carriage of
the balling head is mounted upon suitable guides and is traversed from side to side
by a pinion which alternately engages the teeth of two racks formed on the parallel
sides of a recess beneath the carriage. These two racks are conuected by teeth
formed on the semi-circular ends of the recess and a suitable guide piece is fixed
mid-way between the racks to engage the end of the pinion shaft and is adapted
to keep the pinion in contact with the racks and guide it round the semi-circular
ends from one rack to the other. The pinion shaft is mounted in a fixed slot at
the upper end and in a footstep below formed so as to allow the shaft to vibrate
sufficiently to pass from one rack to the other. The said pinion is preferably
driven from a shaft driven by a pair of conical pulleys connected by a belt which
may be shifted either automatically or by hand along the said pulleys to reduce
the speed of the traverse of the carriage as the "ball" is built up.
The "ball" is driven or rotated by means of a rotating cylinder upon which it
rests. And in case the warp is wound off a beam said beam is rotated by another
cylinder or cylinders connected to the first cylinder and driven at the same or
almost the same peripherical speed.
Dated this 8th der of May 1896.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for "Balling" Certain
Warps.
I, JOSEPH RHODES, of 32, Crossley Street, Great Horton near Bradford, in
che 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 aud by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for "balling" warps from
the beam or from bobbins or their equivalent as for instance section warps
neaparator to dreing

page_text: 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 side view of a machine constructed in accordance with my
improvements for balling warps from the beam.
Figure 2, is a plan view and Figure 3, an end view of the same.
Figures 4, to 7 are separate views of details on a larger scale.
The beam A holding the warp to be balled is mounted upon the letting off
rollers B, B with the warp resting directly upon the said rollers and is supported in
this position by the arms C, C pivoted to the side frames D and D 2. The warp
represented by the broken lines W passes from the beam over the guide roller D3,
beneath the measuring roller E and up through a guide eye located sufficiently far
away to allow all the warp threads to be brought together and be passed through
one eye without subjecting them to undue strain. In this case to economise floor
space the guide eye is fixed above and on leaving the eye the warp is brought
down and under the guide roller D4 through the guide D5 on to the balling
bobbin or beam F mounted by its spindle 2 in the vertical slots F3 in the
standards F 4, F 4 fixed on the top cross stays F 5 and F 6 of the machine. The
warp is wound on to the bobbin or beam F to form the ball W 2 by means of the
roller G upon which it rests and as the diameter of the ball increases the spindle F 2
rises in the slots F 3. The rollers B are driven by straps and pulleys or their
equivalent at the same surface or peripheral speed as the roller G."
The guide roller D4 and guide D5 are fixed to the carriage D6 supported
by but free to slide between the cross stays F6 and F 7. Figure 4 represents
a back view of a portion of the cross rails with the carriage between them.
Figure 5, is a plan view of the same. Figure 6, is a section on the line a, b
Figure 4; and Figure 7, is a view of the underside of the carriage.
The carriage is reciprocated by the pinion H engaging the teeth H2 of a
recess H 3 formed in the underside of the carriage. This recess has a guide rib H 4
to engage the top of the pinion shaft H 5 and keep the teeth of the pinion in gear
with the teeth of the rack and guide it round the semicircular ends from one side of
the rack to the other in order to reverse the motion of the carriage. The shaft H 5
has a conical bottom H 6 which rests in the foot-step bearing H 7 and it is supported
above in the slot H 8 formed in the plate F 8 secured to hangers F 9, F 9 fixed to
the stays F6, F 7. The shaft H 5 is driven by the bevel wheel H 9 engaging the
bevel wheel J on the shaft J 2 driven from the cone K by the strap K 2. The
cone K is driven by the strap K 3 from the cone K 4 and any ordinary appliance is
provided to enable the position of the strap K 3 upon the cone to be adjusted in
order to reduce the speed at which the carriage is reciprocated, as the ball increases
in size. The cone K4 is mounted on the driving shaft O of the machine. And
the roller G is driven from this shaft by the belt G 2 connecting the pulleys G 3
and O 2. These are omitted in Figure 1.
The measuring roller E is made exactly say 18 inches in diameter and an
appliance or "clock" L (Figure 1) is provided for recording the number of
revolutions and thereby indicating the length of warp passed under said roller.
The clock is driven by the vertical shaft E2 connected to the shaft E3 of the
roller E by the bevel wheels E 4.
It is obvious that the warp balling appliance may be used for balling
warps from bobbins or from a warping mill or other like apparatus instead of
from the beam.
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
-laim is :
1. The general arrangement of the warp balling machine herein shown and
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. In the warp balling machine the general construction and arrangement of
mechanism for reciprocating the carriage, substantially as herein shown and
described.
Dahman 1907
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.