IMPROVEMENTS IN WARP MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTED AND TEXTILE FABRICS."
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Whiteley, of Stapleford, in the County
of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, (one of the firm of Messieurs
Whiteley, Ward, and Company, of Stapleford aforesaid, Lace
Manufacturers,) for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARP
MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTED AND TEXTILE FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Whiteley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, ou
the 5th May 1853.
I, JOHN WHITELEY, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WARP MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING ORNA-
MENTED AND TEXTILE FABRICS" to be as follows:-
In describing these Improvements A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K,
are parts well known, and in common use; and the improvements
which constitute this Invention consist in the use and application of
certain new mechanical arrangements; in combination with the above-
mentioned parts to produce the following construction: a, marks a bar
to which are screwed the leads b. b, the parts 1, 1, whereof retain and

page_text: guide a sliding bar c, c, to the lower end of which a pin or point d, is
attached by soldering, and there is a pin or stop 2, affixed to the upper
part of said bar to arrest its descent. J, J, are guide leads screwed on
bars which are attached to the vibrating framing K, K, the fulcrum
whereof is a pin at L. When the guide bars are below the needles I,
the pins or points d, are allowed to fall through the threads in front of
the guide J; when they move in this position the top bars J', slide
one needle sideways, (for example,) if there be ten needles to the inch
it slides one of them, and the pins or points d, being in the thread
during such time, cramps them in front of J, which will have the
effect of opening the fabric into holes; the guides J, rising above the
needles, the point d, keeping in the same position with them, and J, J,
being above the needles, the bottom J, slides one needle sideways,
and then a down motion being given laps the thread over the needle,
the top J', coming down between the same needles that it went up
between. And this movement having been performed, the framing K,
is now drawn from the end I, of the needle, when d, H, E, F, follow-
ing the framing, takes the thread under the beard of the needle, and
the presser H, coming into contact with the beard of the needle, presses
it into the eye of the needle, and holds it in that position to allow the
loop that was made the course before to come over it. The instru-
ments C, are raised out of the threads by a jacguard apparatus placed
above the machine, the strings of said jacguard being connected by
the hole 5, to the tops of the instruments C, a selection being made of
those points marked d, which are to be lifted out of the threads by the
said jacquard, the remainder of the points which are left in the threads
cramp and open the fabric into such patterns as may be selected ad
determined upon.
And when such seclection is made, and the points d
are in the threads, the bar J, being let down goes up in the front of
the needles I, and takes the fabric back, the framing K, and parts d
H, E, F, following it as before, when the machine is in a position to
And it is the combinations of the
repeat another similar movement.
parts employed to produce these movements that constitutes thi
Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Whiteley in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 5th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN WHITELEY, of Stapleford, in the County of Nottingham, Lace
Manufacturer (one of the firm of Messieurs Whiteley, Ward, and Com-
pany, Lace Manufacturers, of Stapleford, aforesaid), send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Whiteley, Her special licence
that I, the said John Whiteley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Whiteley, my exccutors,
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
WARP MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Whiteley, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, aud 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 John Whiteley, 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 (that is to say):
My Invention consists in certain new mechanical arrangements and
combinations of parts having for their object a more simple and efficient
mode of manufacturing textile fabrics than the machines as hitherto
constructed. And in order to explain my said Invention as completely

page_text: as possible, I now proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted
with for carrying my said Invention into practical effect, reference
being had to the illustrative Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
numeral figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively,
as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, is a transverse and vertical section of my said Improve-
ments. Figure 2, a front view of a portion thereof. Nos. 1, to 8,
inclusive are detached parts hereafter referred to. At Figures 1, and 2,
I employ similar letters of reference to denote corresponding parts, in
so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of the figures
respectively. At Figures 1, and 2, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, denote
parts well known and in common use in warp machines; and the
parts marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, are new and additional parts, which are
combined with the above-mentioned old parts in the following manner:
The bar 1, has leads 2, screwed on it with plates 2', cast in them,
one to each fixed needle i, in the frame to hold the droppers 3, which
have a point 4, soldered in the lower end of each of them, and a stop
pin 5, in the upper end thereof, which pin prevents the droppers 3,
falling too low. 6, is a bar having three needles soldered therein in
each breadth, and in the same line as the needles i; and said bar has a
sliding motion imparted thereto from right to left by the means herein-
after stated. And by leaving out seven of the needles i, an opening
will be left for the three needles on the bar 6, to traverse in, by which
an irregular or vandyke-shaped edge will be produced. The framing k,
is suspended from the axle 1, and caries the guide bars, j', j³, j³, j', j',
up and down.
DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVEMENTS.
When the guides are rising from bottom to top as at Figure 1,)
the point 4, in the dropper 3, will be through the threads, and have
cramned then one needle sideways, the threads being taken above the

page_text: are below the needles the bar 1, will rise up and lift the droppers 3,
out of the threads. The sinkers e, and vibrating framing k, will be
brought forward with the points 4, and presser h, and the point
bar f, and when the presser h, reaches the ends of the beards of the
needles it will sink down and force said beards into the eyes of the
needles. The bar f, will then be let down, the presser h, still.
holding down the beards until the sinkers e, reach them, to bring
the work over, and as soon as the said sinkers have forced the
loop thus made over the needle heads they will then rise out of the
needles for the needle bar 6, to traverse one needle sideways. The
bar f, now rises up, and the points thereof are thus placed between
the needle heads ready to take the work back. A jacquard engine or
apparatus is fixed above the frame, and strings from it are tied to a
hole at the top thereof, or otherwise connected to the droppers 8. A
selection is made, the jacquard lifting as many of the droppers 3, out
each course as the patterns may require, and the droppers that are not
lifted by the jacquard are let down by the bar 1, into the threads of the
bar j. The bar 1, will now slide one needle sideways, the points 4,
will cramp the threads one needle, which will have the effect of open-
ing the fabric. The bar f, sinkers e, droppers 3, and vibrating
framing k, are then all taken back; the sinkers e, which are now above.
the needles, will be lowered into them, and the guide bars j', &c., are
taken up to repeat another course. These guide bars are moved by the
wheels Nos. 1, to 8, inclusive, in the following order :-
The bar No. 1. is moved by the wheel No 1
8, is the racking wheel. The whole of these
wheels are fitted on a spindle situate at the end of the frame, and have
motion imparted thereto in the usual way, and the other motions are

page_text: effected by cams fixed on a shaft at the back of the frame; and in
this manner and by these means I effect the movements of the
machine.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be and may be performed, I desire it to be dis-
tinctly understood that I do not claim the exclusive use of any of the
separate parts above mentioned and referred to, except in so far as the
same may be employed in combination, and for the purposes of my said
Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in, and I claim as of my
Invention of "Improvements in Warp Machinery for the Manufacture
of Textile Fabrics," firstly, the use and application of the droppers 3, for
the purpose of opening the fabric into patterns; secondly, the use and
application of the additional needle bar marked 6, at Figures 1, and 2,
for the purpose of producing fabric with an irregular or scolloped
shaped edge, as herein-before particularly described, set forth, and
represented by the illustrative Drawing hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, J, the said John Whiteley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-threc.
JOHN WHITELEY. (L.S.)
Witness, GEORGE JONATHAN ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Middle Pavement,
Nottingham.