IMPROVEMENTS IN POWER LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Hindle, of Ramsbottom, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN POWER LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 3rd May 1854, and dated the 3rd November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Hindle at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd November 1853.
I, PETER HINDLE, of Ramsbottom, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN POWER LOOMS FOR WEAVING " to be as follows:-
This Invention relates solely to that particular part of power looms
known as the "taking up motion," that is, the mechanism required for
taking up the cloth as it is produced, and thus enabling it to be
properly wound upon the cloth or work roller. This motion has
hitherto been of an uniform and regularly progressive character, and
commonly performed by the action of a pall or click upon a ratchet
or toothed wheel; whereas my Invention consists in a double or inter-
rupted taking up motion, having a slow and quick taking up action at

page_text: any required intervals of space, the effect of which will be to produce
thin and thick cloth alternately, and thus effect the weaving of trans-
verse stripes in the cloth by the operation of a single shuttle, and of
the same quality of weft thread throughout, instead of such patterns
being produced by two shuttles, each containing a different quality of
weft thread, namely, fine and coarse, as hitherto practised. This double
taking up.motion. is. effected by. having an additional taking up wheel
connected by a toothed pinion and wheel to the ordinary taking up
wheel, such additional taking up wheel being furnished with teeth and
blank spaces on its rim, so that-the-taking-up-ratchet-or-click-may act
upon the teeth and slip or pass over the blank or smooth part of its
periphery as the weaving of the stripe or pattern may require. This
double taking up" motion may be attached to the loom in any con-
venient manner, and may be actuated either from the "slay" or other
suitable moving part of the power loom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Peter Hindle in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
PETER HINDLE, of Ramsbottom, in the County of Lancaster, Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of November,, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Peter Hindle, Her: special licence
that I,. the said Peter Hindle, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Hindle, my.executors, ad-
ministrators, 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 POWER

page_text: LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I; the
said Peter Hindle, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 ca-
lendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent...
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Hindle, do hereby declare
the nature of my said. Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and 'ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):
My Invention relates solely to that particular part of power looms
known as the "taking up motion," that is, the mechanism required for
taking up the cloth as it is produced, and thus enabling it to be pro-
perly wound upon the cloth or work roller. This. motion has hitherto
been of an uniform and regularly progressive character, and commonly
performed by the action of a pall or click upon a ratchet or toothed
wheel; whereas my Invention consists in a double interrupted or vary-
ing taking up motion, having a slow and quick taking up action at any
required intervals of space, the effect of which will be to produce thin
and thick cloth alternately, and thus accomplish the weaving of trans-
verse stripes in the cloth by the operation of a single shuttle, and of the.
same quality of weft thread throughout, instead of such patterns being
produced by two shuttles, each. containing a different quality of weft
thread, namely, fine and coarse, as hitherto practised. This double
taking up motion is effected by having an additional taking up wheel
connected by a toothed pinion and wheel to the ordinary taking up
wheel, such additional taking up wheel being furnished with teeth.and:
blank spaces on its rim, so that the taking up ratchet or click may act
upon the teeth and slip or pass over the blank or smooth part of its
periphery as the weaving of the stripe or pattern may require, as
well as a raised edge or rim of less circumference than the wheel acted.
upon in a similar manner by a second. pall or click, and perfecting a
more concise and distinctive production of the said stripe or pattern.:
Such is the general description of my Invention, but in order that it

page_text: may be more readily explained. in detail. I have attached to these pre-
sents a Sheet of Drawings, 'upon: a scale of about two inches to the
foot, and representing, clearly, the substantial features of my Invention,
similar letters of reference being marked upon corresponding parts
of the apparatus in all the Figures.
Fig. 2, represents a side elevation of a part of the framing of
a power loom with my Invention attached. Fig. 1, a front view
of the same. Fig. 3, a plan or top view shewing the fabric wound
upon a roller. Fig. 4, represents a section of my double or varying
action wheel and ratchets in one casting as it may be found expedient
to cast them for their more ready application or adjustment to the
loom. On reference to Fig. 2, in the accompanying Drawing it
will be seen that motion is communicated by the vibratory action
of the lathe or slay. The lathe sword a bears a pin b rivetted or
otherwise fastened or fixed to it through the two fittings and d,
each of which revolve upon a fixed axis connected with the framing
at their upper ends, the pin operates, playing freely in their re-
spective slots c', d', and communicating motion to the ratchet wheel e
through the click f. When the wheel e has made such part of a revo-
lution as will cause the click f to rest upon the smooth surface of the
plate or. blank space g, the motion will be continued (although at a
slower rate) by the old taking up motion, shown more plainly in Figs. 1
and 3, by the click h acting on the ratchet wheel j, in connection with
the pinion, and wheel 1, until the ratchet wheel e shall be again
brought into action. It will be observed that there are three distinct
varying motions; first, the old taking up motion shown by the click h,
the ratchet wheel j, and pinion k, worked or acted upon by the pin b,
and fitting d, and in connection with the cloth roller by suitable gear.
Supposing the click f to be in the position shown in Fig. 2, and the
loom in motion, the revolution of the pinion k, gearing into the wheel l,
would cause the plate g to be traversed by the click f, and again pre-
sent itself ready to relieve the pinion k of its slow motion (the effect of
which has been, in consequence of the very gradual rolling on of the
fabric to the drum or roller, the more frequent travelling of the shuttle
over a less space of the warp than if a quicker taking up motion had

page_text: been in operation, and necessarily producing a closer weft, and so form-
ing a stripe or pattern); but just before the click f is brought into
re-action a lower click m catches into a notch n, and by reason of the
arc o being larger that the arc o, (shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 2,)
and the circumference of the rim or band p being less than the
periphery of the ratchet wheel e, the space traversed will be necessarily
greater, and the taking up motion proportionately accelerated, thereby
obtaining a marked and concise distinction in the stripe or pattern. It
will be observed now that whilst the click f is out of gear or traversing
the plate g, that the wheel e is dependent on the pinion k, but so
quickly as the motion is transferred by the click m the pinion k
becomes in its turn dependent for its motion on the wheel e, until the
click again commences to traverse the wheel e, and so the various
motions are attained and pattern elaborated accordingly.
Having thus described my Invention of improvements in power looms,
I wish it to be distinctly understood that I claim a double interrupted
or varying taking up motion, having a slow and quick taking up action
at any required intervals of space, the effect of which will be to pro-
duce thin and thick cloth alternately, and thus accomplish the weaving
of transverse stripes in the cloth by the operation of a single shuttle,
and of one and the same quality of weft thread throughout, without in
any manner being limited or confined to the particular mode of applica-
tion, or the dimensions or proportions of the apparatus exhibited in the
accompanying Drawings, or to any particular arrangement of the parts
of such mechanism; nor is it necessary that it should be actuated by th
slay," as it may be put in motion by any other suitable moving part
of the power loom.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Hindle, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
PETER HINDLE. (L.S.)