IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANTRACTURE OF PRAY FABRICS.
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Christopher Nickels, of the Albany Road, in the
County of Surrey, and James Hobson, of Leicester, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANTRACTURE OF PRAY FABRICS.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Christopher Nickels and
James Hobson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 18th-December: 1855.
- We, CHRISTOPHER NICKELS, of the Albany Road, in the County of Surrey,
and JAMES HOBSON, of Leicester, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILE FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of pile
fabrics, and consists, first, in producing pile fabrics when chenile is used, either
longitudinally or transversely in the fabrics, by employing' warp laće machinery
and twist lace machinery in place of looms heretofore used when chenile has
been employed' whether transversely or longitudinally in the fabrics; and,
secondly, this Invention consists of improvements in the first part of an
Invention described by us in the Specification enrolled to a Patent granted to
us on or about the Twenty-sixth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-nine; and these improvements are as follows:-In place of a weft
being introduced at each time of beating up, the shuttle or shuttles employed
are stopped during two beats up of the batten, in order that the cutters described

page_text: may make their cut, and that the instruments which uphold the pile yarns
may come out, and again enter the warps with greater advantage than
heretofore. And in place of the cutters making an inclined cut, they are caused
to rise into a vertical position immediately before making the cut; and we
apply a weft-stopping apparatus on each side of the loom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Christopher Nickels and James Hobson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wе, CHRIS-
TOPHER NICKELS, of the Albany Road, in the County of Surrey, and JAMES
HOBSON, of Leicester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for- Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Christopher Nickels and James Hobson, Her special licence that we,
the said Christopher Nickels and James Hobson, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Christopher Nickels and James
Hobson, 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 THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF PILE FABRICS, upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Christopher Nickels and James Hobson, 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 per-
formed, 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 I, the said Christopher Nickels, on behalf of myself
and the said James Hobson, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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: bearings formed on the lever arms g fixed on the spindle bar g, which is
supported in bearings on the side framing of the machine; g³ is a 'cam, fixed
on the cam shaft or axis g, which acts on trucks or rollers carried by the lever
arms gs, fixed on the spindle bar g, by which an up and down movement.is
given to the spindle bar:g, and parts connected thereto; his the fork of one
of the, weft stoppers, which is of the ordinary construction, and therefore will
not require any further description.
....Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it: understood that we do not claim any
of the parts separately, nor do we confine ourselves to the details; but what: we
claim is, the mode herein described of combining apparatus in looms, in order
to stay, the throwing of the shuttles and for working the cutting apparatus.
Ing witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Nickels, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
CHRISTOPHER NICKELS. (L.S.)
Witness,
B. GOBEY,
4; Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.