AN IMPROVED MODE OF WAXING WARPS IN THE PROCESS OF WEAVING
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Stephenson, George Balme Stephenson,
and Benjamin Stephenson, all of Bradford, in the County of York, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF WAXING WARPS IN THE PROCESS
OF WEAVING."
Sealed the 2nd June 1868, and dated the 4th December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Stephenson,
George Balme Stephenson, and Benjamin Stephenson, at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th December
1867.
We, THOMAS STEPHENSON, GEORGE BALME STEPHENSON, and BENJAMIN
STEPHENSON, all of Bradford, in the County of York, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF WAXING WARPS IN
THE PROCESS OF WEAVING," to be as follows:-
It is well known that in the process of weaving it is customary for the.
attendant to wax the threads of the warp manually, the object of waxing
being to smoth and strengthen tender warps and to lay any loose fibres.
The fact of the process being manual will at once show that it is irregular..
To obviate this defect we employ a roller made of wax of any convenient
diameter and of sufficient breadth to cross the loom. This roller we place in

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Stephenson, George Balme Stephenson, and
Benjamin Stephenson, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th June
1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
STEPHENSON, GEORGE BALME STEPHENSON, and BENJAMIN STEPHENSON, all of
Bradford, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Stephenson, George Balme Stephenson, and Benjamin Stephenson,
Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Stephenson, George Balme
Stephenson, and Benjamin Stephenson, our executors, administrators, and.
assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Stephenson, George Balme
Stephenson, and Benjamin Stephenson, 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
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF WAXING WARPS IN THE PROCESS OF WEAVING," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Stephenson, George
Balme Stephenson, and Benjamin Stephenson, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us or thom, should particularly describe and
áscertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the sanie
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 Thomas Stephenson, George Balme
Stephenson, and Benjamin Stephenson, 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:-

page_text: It is well known that in the process of weaving it is customary for the
attendant to wax the threads of the warp manually, the object of waxing
being to smooth and strengthen tender warps and to lay any loose fibres.
The fact of the process of being manual will at once show that it is objectionable.
To obviate this defect we employ a roller made of wax of any convenient
diameter and of sufficient breadth to cross the loom beam. This roller we
place in the back part of the loom in such a position horizontally that all the
threads of the warp pass over it and consequently are uniformly waxed. The
position we prefer to place the rod in is to rest upon the warp as it unfolds
from the beam, and thus by its own gravity to effect the desired effect.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Stephenson, George Balme
Stephenson, & Benjamin Stephenson, have hereunto set our hands
and seals, this Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
THOMAS STEPHENSON.
(L.B.)
GEORGE BALME STEPHENSON. (L.s.)
BENJAMIN STEPHENSON.
(L.S.)