IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING OR SIZING WARP THREADS OB YARNS OF WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING OR SIZING WARP THREADS OB
YARNS OF WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS." -A com-
munication from abroad bo Louis Schönherr, of Chemnitz, in the
Kingdom of Saxony.
Scaled the 11th April 1871, and dated the 12th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas
Hughes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th October 1870.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son,
Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING OR SIZING
WARP THREADS OR YARNS OF WOOL, COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to dress or size warp threads or yarns
to be used for weaving more efficiently than has hitherto been attained
in the manufacture of cloth, woollen stuffs, and other fabrics.

page_text: I pass the width of warp, either entire or in part, between or over the
dressing rollers of the dressing machine, and then wind the warp in its
moist or sized state on a beam or roller, and this winding forms the chief
feature of my Invention. The object of winding the warp threads on the
beam is to distribute the size attached to the threads by their contact with
the dressing rollers or roller, and to supply it to those threads which are
still capable of absorption. By the action of winding the thread on the
beam the size is effectually incorporated into all the threads by their
mutual suction or absorption, and in many cases it is only necessary to
pass the threads in contact with the top dressing roller instead of between
the two as at present adopted.
By means of any ordinary apparatus for raising the size only one
dressing roller need be used, and if the same width of warp be always
operated upon it can be wound directly on a winding-on beam on the top
of the dressing roller, the beam being weighted or not as required, and
in all cases when the warps have to be dressed they must be unwound
for the purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents,
123, Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Thomas
Hughes, 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

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING OR SIZING WARP THREADS OR YARNS OF WOOL,
COTTON, AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," a communication to me from abroad
by Louis Schönherr, of Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of Saxony, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 Edward Thomas Hughes, 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
Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters
of reference marked thereon (that is to say) :-
:-
The object of this Invention is to dress or size warp threads or
yarns (to be used for weaving) more efficiently than has hitherto
been attained in the manufacture of cloth, woollen stuffs, and other
fabrics.
In one arrangement I pass the width of warp either entire or in part
between the sizing or dressing rollers of the dressing or sizing machine,
and then wind the warp in its moist or sized state on a beam or roller,
and this winding forms the chief feature of this Invention. The object
of winding the threads or yarns on the beam or roller is to distribute
the size attached to the threads by their contact with the rollers and to
supply it to those threads or yarns which are still capable of absorption,
and by the action of winding the size is effectually incorporated into all
the threads or yarns by their mutual suction or absorption, and in many
cases it is only necessary to pass the threads or yarns in contact with
the top dressing roller instead of between the two.
In another arrangement by employing any ordinary apparatus for
raising the size only one dressing roller need be used, and if the same
width of warp be operated upon it can be wound directly on a winding-
on beam on the top of the dressing roller, the beam being weighted or
not as required, and in all cases when the warps are to be dried they
must be unwound for the purpose.

page_text: On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figure 1 is a transverse
section in which a represents the size trough. A, B, two sizing or
dressing rollers of the dressing or sizing machine, and C the beam on
which the threads or yarns are wound after they are sized.
In the arrangement shewn in Fig. 1 the threads or yarns marked C
pass between the rollers A, B, to the beam C, or they pass over the top
roller A, as shewn by the dotted line d, e.
The arrangement in which the threads or yarns pass between the
bottom sizing roller and the winding-on beam is shewn in the transverse
section Figure 2, in which a represents the size trough; B, the bottom
roller; and C, the winding-on beam, the threads or yarns being
marked c.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said In-
vention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I
desire to be understood that I claim, the improvements in dressing or
sizing warp threads or yarns of wool, cotton, and other fibrous materials,
as all such improvements are herein described and illustrated on the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.