A FURTHER IMPROVEMENT TO A MACHINE FOR THE WEAVING OF COTTON AND OTHER GOODS BY HAND, STEAM, WATER, OR OTHER POWER
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HORROCKS, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Cotton Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of May, in the forty-fifth year of
His said Majesty's reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Horrocks,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, that I, the
said William Horrocks, my executors, administrators, and assigns, deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and might make, use, exercise, and vend, my Invention of "A
FURTHER IMPROVEMENT TO A MACHINE FOR THE WEAVING OF COTTON AND OTHER
GOODS BY HAND, STEAM, WATER, OR OTHER POWER;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Horrocks,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Horricks, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
the Drawing and description hereunder set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Horrocks, have hereunto set
Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.
WILL. HORROCKS.
(L.B.)
A, the main shaft or crank by which the loom is worked. B, the pinion
wheel fixed on the above. C, a pinion wheel with twice the number of teeth
in that of B, fixed on D, a shaft on which are fixed E, E, E, E, E, E, tappets
which work on friction rollers fixed on F, F, F, F, F, F, treddles, the
greatest radii of the tappets being fixed transversely on the shaft D; the
treadles are depressed alternately. G, G, G, arms which connect the main
shaft or crank with H, H, H, H, H, the lathe. I, I, I, two levers
hanging on centers, the inner ends of which are heaviest, and are flush with
the inside of K, K, K, K, K, the boxes. L, L, L, L, two levers fixed on a
rod which runs from one to the other. M, M, two other levers fixed on the
same rod, and which are called the stops. N, N, N, a projecting picce on the
front of the lathe. If by any accident the shuttle should not come into the
box, the levers I would turn on their centers by the pressure of levers L
which would remain inert, the resistance of I being less. Now the stops M,
being fixed on the same rod as L, would remain inert also, and consequently
stop the loom when it, M, touched the projecting piece N, which would happen
before the reed come so near the cloth as to injure the webb; the shuttle
coming into the box prevents any action in I, which then raises levers L, and
consequently M, high enough to pass over the projecting piece N. 0, 0, 0, a
lever, to the end of which are tied P, P, P, P, P, P, cords fastened to
Q, Q, Q, sliding in boxes K. R, R, R, bearings for the yarn beam. S, S, the
cloth beam, on which is fixed T 3, a pinion wheel working into U 2, a lesser
pinion fastened on V 2, a ratchet wheel moving on a stud W 2, a catch to
prevent V from turning back. X, X, X, X, X, levers, at the end of which
are connected, by screws Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y, cords, or any other material
passing over Z, Z, Z, Z, Z, Z, Z, pullies or cranks. The cord goes completely
round the center one, to which it is fastened. To prevent its slipping it is
fixed on No. 1 a shaft; on the other end is fixed the lever O before mentioned.
2, 2, a pulley by which the loom is turned. 3, 3, 3, a loose pulley by which the
loom is taken out of gear. 4, 4, 4, a fly wheel. 5, a weight for winding up
the cloth as wove. a, a, a, a rod with a friction roller on each end. b, b, b, b, b, b

page_text: cords or other material fastened to (a), and working over c, a pulley or
crank, and fastened likewise to F, the treadles before described. The alter-
nate depression of these treadles moves (a) to the right and left. d, d, two
mitred or bevelled pieces fastened on the upper part of X, before described,
they (d) making an inclined plane when the rod (a) moves to a given side of
the loom. The motion of the lathe forcing the friction rollers (a), depress the
levers X, which consequently depresses the rod or cords working over the
pullies or cranks Z, which, turning the pulley (No. 1) gives the required motion
to the lever O, and throws the shuttle. e, e, a cross piece, to which is sus-
pended a weight (5), as distinctly seen in the Drawing. f,f, a picce fastened
on the lower part of the lathe; the motion of the lathe, acting on the lower
part of the cross piece raises the weight (5) to the upper part of this cross
piece; and working on a center is attached g, g, a rod turned square at one
end, which embraces the teeth of the ratchet wheel, and which, being forced
down, gains as many teeth as is necessary to wind up the proportion of the
cloth woven in one revolution of the loom.
N.B. The letters and figures refer to the same objects in all the Drawings,
and the italic letters shew the further improvement. Fig. 4 shews the form
of the tappets E to prevent confusion in Fig. 1.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixth day of September,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Horrocks came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that, case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of September, in the year above written.