A CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENT IN WEAVING COTTON, LINEN, SILK, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, AND MOHAIR, AND EACH OF THEM, AND EVERY Two OR MORE OF THEM, BY LOOMS
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WILLIAMSON, of Knutsford, in the County of Chester, Weaver, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of De-
cember, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Williamson, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Williamson,
my exors, admiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as
I, the said Samuel Williamson, my exors, adññiors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times then
after during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or discovery of "A CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENT IN WEAVING COTTON, LINEN, SILK, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, AND MOHAIR, AND
EACH OF THEM, AND EVERY Two OR MORE OF THEM, BY LOOMS;" in which Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Samuel Williamson,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of and in compliance with the said
recited proviso, I, the said Samuel Williamson, do hereby declare that the nature
of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
is as herein-after mentioned :-
.
My Invention or discovery is applicable to the lathe of a loom, which is
constructed for weaving two pieces of cloth (made of cotton, linen, silk,
woollen, worsted, or mohair, or any two or more of them) at the same time,
and consists of the new-invented machinery which.. I. use for impelling the
shuttles from the shuttle box in the middle of the lathe to the shuttle boxes'
at each end of the lathe. The Drawing made in these Presents contains the
outlines of a common lathe, constructed for the weaving of two pieces of cloth
at the same time.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICULAR PARTS OF THE DRAWING.
Q, Q, the axis upon which the lathe moves. P, P, P, the uprights or
perpendicular parts of the lathe connecting the top of the lathe with its
bottom. R, R, R, the bottom of the lathe. S, S, the two reeds contained
in the lathe. T, T, the lathe hood, or that part of the lathe which holds the
upper sides of the reeds in their proper position. V, V, the two shuttles, one
in the middle box and the other in the end box on the right-hand side of the
lathe. D, C, F, A, are the four pickers used for picking the shuttle.
L, W, O, are the picking rods upon which the above pickers respectively
move, viz; the picker D moves upon the rod L, the pickers C & F move
upon the rod W, and the picker A moves upon the rod O. M & N are
two picking rods, which I usually make of iron, but which may be made of
any other metal which will answer the same purpose, and which I make about
two inches (or the breadth of one picker) shorter than the picking rod W.
I fix the rods M & N at each end to the lathe hood, as shewn in the Drawing,
leaving the rods between the points at which they are fixed at such a distance
from the lathe hood as to permit the runners E & B to move freely thereon.
These rods may also be fixed to an additional cross bar, or any substance to
hold them in a position near to the lathe hood, and parallel, or nearly parallel,
to the picking rod W. E & B are two runners which I make to. slide on
the two rods M & N respectively, and which I usually make of the same
materials with, and in the like form to, the tops of common shuttle pickers,
but which may be made of other materials and in other forms to answer the
same purpose. G, K, are two rods, which I usually make of wood about three
eighth parts of an inch in diameter, but which may be made of other mate-
rials and of other shapes to answer the same purpose. I use the rod G for
the purpose of connecting the runner E with the top of the picker F, and I

page_text: use the rod K for the purpose of connecting the runner B with the side of
the picker C, as shewn in the Plan. The rods G, K, may be fastened to the
pickers and runners either with strings or wire, or in any other practicable
manner. U, U; the dotted lines marked U, U, represent strings used to
connect the picker D with the runner E, and the picker A with the runner B.
X, X; the dotted lines X, X, represent strings used to connect the runners
E&B respectively with the handle H, which the weaver holds in one of
his hands, and with which he is enabled to pick both the shuttles at the same
time. I confine my Invention to the rods M & N, fixed or to be fixed as
before stated, and the runners thereon and the rods G & K connected with
such runners at one end thereof respectively, and with the pickers C and F
respectively at the other ends thereof respectively, as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Williamson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the First day of January, in the forty-seventh year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seven.