IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR ANDADA AGOR
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Schofield, of Rashcliffe, Lockwood, near
Huddersfield, in the County of York, Ironfounder and Machine Maker,
and George Harling, of Primrose Hill, in Almondbury, in the County
of York, Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
ANDADA AGOR
"
ed the 26th October 1858, and dated the 27th May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Schofield and
George Harling at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 27th May 1858.
We, JOSEPH SCHOFIELD, of Rashcliffe, Lockwood, near Huddersfield, in the
County of York, Ironfounder and Machine Maker, and GEORGE HARLING,
of Primrose Hill, in Almondbury, in the County of York, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING," to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to means of giving motion to shuttle boxes when a
series, say three or more of them, is used, so that any one of the series may,
when required, be brought correctly in position with the lay. For this purpose
the lever for lifting the series of boxes is connected to a lever or levers, each
of which is formed with a series of segmental surfaces of varying depths
capable of being operated by rollers or pulleys or other acting surfaces, and
adapted in number and depths to the distance of change of shuttle which may
be required, as from the first to the second, or third, or fourth, &c. &c., in either
direction; or in place of the variations of depths being in the segments of the
levers, they may be formed on the surfaces of the rollers or pulleys or other
parts acting on the levers.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Schofield and George Harling in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPHI
SCHOFIELD, of Rashcliffe, Lockwood, near. Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Ironfounder and Machine Maker, and GEORGE HARLING, of Primrose Hill,
in Almondbury, in the County of York, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Joseph Schofield and George Harling, Her special licence that we, the
said Joseph Schofield and George Harling, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Schofield and George
Harling, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Joseph Schofield and George Harling, 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 them, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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 calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Schofield and George Harling,
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:-
The improvements relate to means of giving motion to shuttle boxes when a
series, say three or more of them, is used, so that any one of the series may
when required, be brought correctly in position with the lay. For this purpose

page_text: an extent that by turning any of them end to end in the links m they will
then operate upon other surface (1) or (2) to what such had been acting upon.
In the adaptation which we have shown there are only three shuttle chambers,
consequently it will be necessary to raise only two heights and two surfaces
(1) and (2) on the lever k, with two positions, for the pulleys are sufficient;
but as will be readily understood, for other number of shuttle chambers, the
number of acting surfaces on the levers k, as well also the positions of the
pulleys or other surfaces acting with the segmental surfaces of the lever k, be
increased.
In place of the variations in the depths being in the segments of the levers
they may be formed upon the surfaces of the rollers or pulleys or other surfaces
acted upon by the segments of the lever k. p, q, are catch levers turning
upon centres p, q, and having teeth p, q, adapted to take under the studs 7,
projecting from the back of the series of shuttle boxes in order to support
them in position as raised thereto by the means referred to. These catch
levers p, q, are connected together so as to be acted upon simultaneously by
the rods, and they are constantly borne with a tendency towards the studs r,
by the spring t, whilst they are released to admit of the boxes falling, should
they previously have been raised, by the pulley or wheel ³, carried by the
lower end of the lever g coming against the projection & affixed to the framing
of the loom.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the means wo
adopt in carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the precise arrangements of parts shewn and described,
as these may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the
improvements; but what we do claim is the adaptation and combination of
means for giving motion to shuttle boxes, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Schofield and George Harling,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fifth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Witness,
E. L. HESP, Solicitor,
Huddersfield.
JOSEPH SCHOFIELD. (L.s.)
GEORGE HARLING.
(L.S.)