Improvements in the Construction of Warp, Take-up, and Cloth Beams used in Looms for Weaving.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Warp, Take-up, and Cloth
Beams used in Looms for Weaving.
I, RICHARD LONGDEN HATTERSLEY, of North Brook Works, Keighley, in
the County of York, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
It relates to improvements in warp, take up, and cloth beams used in looms for
weaving, the object of the invention being to construct these beams lighter than
the beanis now employed, and also to construct beams that will not warp or twist
out of shape, which now often happens in the case of beams constructed of wood.
In order to effect this object I construct such beams of thin corrugated metal,
such as thin steel, tinned iron or the like, in the following manner :
I take a tube of the thin metal sufficiently long to form the barrel, or tubular
portion, of the beam, and which may either be corrugated before or after it is
inade into tube form. The corrugations of the tube may run either circumferentially
or lengthwise, or may run in both directions.
In the case of warp beams, wherein flanges are required, these are made
separately, and fitted onto the tubular part, either to be moveable thereon longi-
tudinally, or fixed. The corrugations on the tubular portion may be made spirally
around same, and by this means the flanges screwed onto the beam, and fixed in
any desired position according to the width of the warp.
The beam is attached to a spindle, or the ends may be strengthened so that the
beam can rest and revolve in the usual cup bearings without any spindle.
In order that the periphery of any beam, formed of corrugated sheet metal, may
have a perfectly even surface, the corrugations may be filled up with papier maché,
or other means adopted for making the surface quite even and level for the
reception of warp or cloth.
Dated this 13th day of November 1894.
J. SIDNEY CRITCHLEY,
27 Kirkgate, Bradford, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Construction of Warp, Take-up, and Cloth
Beams used in Looms for Weaving.
I, RICHARD LONGDEN HATTERSLEY, of North Brook Works, Keighley, in
the County of York, 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 :-
It relates to improvements in warp, take-up, and cloth beams used in looms for
weaving, the object of the invention being to construct these beams lighter than
the beams now employed, and also to construct beams that will not warp or twist
out of shape, which now often happens in the case of beams constructed of wood.

page_text: In order to effect this object, I construct such beams of thin corrugated metal
such as thin steel, tinned iron, or the like, in the following manner:
I take a tube of the thin metal sufficiently long to form the barrel or tubular
portion of the beam, and which may either be corrugated before or after it is made
into tube form. The corrugations of the tube may run either circumferentially or
lengthwise, or may run in both directions.
In the case of warp beams wherein flanges are required, these are made
separately and fitted onto the tubular part, either to be movable thereon
longitudinally, or fixed.
The beam is attached to a spindle, or the ends may be strengthened so that the
beam can rest and revolve in the usual cup bearings without any spindle.
In order that the periphery of any beam formed of corrugated sheet metal may
have a perfectly even surface, the corrugations may be filled up with papier maché,
or other means adopted for making the surface quite even and level for the
reception of warp or cloth.
In order to more fully explain my invention, I append hereto a sheet of drawings,
showing unflanged corrugated tubes, made of thin sheet metal, forming warp, take-up,
and cloth beams for looms.
Figs. 1 and 2 of such drawings illustrate a beam with longitudinal corrugations,
Figs. 3 and 4 a beam with circular corrugations at right angles to the axis, and
Figs. 5 and 6 a beam with spiral corrugations, or corrugations not at right angles
to the axis of the beam.
The ends A, A, of the beams are left plain, and strengthened internally with
solid plugs, or other means, so that the beam may revolve in the usual cup bearings
provided for the usual form of beam.
The corrugated beam may also be arranged with a spindle B, as shown in Fig. 1,
such spindle being attached to the plugs whereby the plain ends are strengthened,
or, the spindle may be attached to the tube in any other convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
Corrugated sheet metal warp, take-up, and cloth beams, constructed as herein
shown and described.
Dated this 14th day of August 1895
J. SIDNEY CRITCHLEY,
27 Kirkgate, Bradford, Agent for the Applicant.