IMPROVEMENTS IN TIT PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hesketh Hughes and William Thomas
Denham, both of Cottage Place, City Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TIT
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hesketh Hughes
and William Thomas Denham at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 2nd June 1853.
We, HESKETH HUGHES and WILLIAM THOMAS DENHAM, both of
Cottage Place, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING" to be as follows:-
Our weft or shuttle carrier consists of a ring, with a space cut out,
driven by means of toothed wheels, and supported upon friction rollers;
one of the open ends of the ring carries a bobbin, and lays the weft
thread between the warp threads every time the carrier is made to
travel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hesketh Hughes and William Thomas Denham
in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 2nd December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
HESKETH HUGHES and WILLIAM THOMAS DENHAM, both of Cottage
Place, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Hesketh Hughes and William Thomas
Denham, Her special licence that we, the said Hesketh Hughes and
William Thomas Denham, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Hesketh Hughes and William Thomas
Denham, our 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Hesketh Hughes and William Thomas Den-
ham, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
scals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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 we, the said Hesketh Hughes and William
Thomas Denham, do hereby declare the nature of our 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:
Our Invention consists in making the weft or shuttle carrier of

page_text: circular weaving machines for weaving warp and weft fabrics in the
form of a ring, with a space cut out of it to allow of the shifting of the
sheds. This ring is driven by toothed wheels, the outer circumference
of the ring having teeth cut upon it, into which the toothed wheels gear,
the ring being supported upon friction wheels. One of the open ends
of the ring carries a bobbin, and lays the weft thread between the warp
threads every time the carrier is caused to revolve. Figure 1, of the
Drawings hereunto annexed represents an elevation, partly in section,
of a circular weaving machine constructed according to our said Inven-
tion. A, A, is the framework of the machine; B, is a central shaft
which is driven by the bevil gearing C, C', from the main shaft D;
E, E, are the warp threads which are caused to cross and recross one
another so as to open the sheds for the passage of the weft bobbin by
being passed through heddles pierced through levers F, F, which are
acted upon by suitable cams G, G, fixed to and revolving with the
shaft B. This means of opening the warp threads may, however, be
arranged in the same manner as set forth in the Specification of a
Patent granted to us, the said Hesketh Hughes and William Thomas
Denham, and bearing date the Seventh day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three. H, H, is the circular ring of metal,
which has a portion of it cut away, as represented in the plan of the
ring shewn detached in Figure 2, in order to admit of the warp threads
being crossed and recrossed at that point. This ring has teeth cut
upon it's outer circumference, into which the teeth of the spur wheels I, I,
gear for the purpose of causing it to revolve, the ring being supported
in its position by the friction wheels K, K, Figure 2; and revolving
between the sheds of the warp threads L, L, are bevil wheels driven by
the shaft D, for giving motion to the spur wheels I, I. M, is the weft
bobbin carrier which is attached to one end of the split ring E, and
serves to lay the weft thread between the warps as the ring revolves.
N, is a friction wheel which is attached to the ring E, and revolves
with it so as to act as the ordinary sleigh to press up the work. O, is a
conical disc upon which the work is formed; and P, a roller for gathering
the work as it is produced.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim
the laying of the weft thread or threads in circular weaving machines
by means of a ring, having a space cut out of it for the crossing and
recrossing of the warp threads, all as herein-before described and
represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Hesketh Hughes and William
Thomas Denham, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Second day of December, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.
HESKETH HUGHES. (L.s.)
W THOS DENHAM.
(L.S.)