IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SHUTTLES OF Looms
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Laycock, of Glusburn, in the County of
York, Overlooker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
SHUTTLES OF Looms."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Laycock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th October 1874.
I, ROBERT LAYCOCK, of Glusburn, in the County of York, Overlooker,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE SHUTTLES OF LOOMS," to be as follows:-
which
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the pins upon
the hinged pike of the shuttle is centred, and also the pin upon which
the same rests. Hitherto such pins have been made of iron or steel, and

page_text: in consequence have been subjected to frequent breakage and wearing
loose, thus causing damage to the reeds and warps. In place of iron
pins I use hard wood. The wear and tare with the ordinary iron or steel
pins is very great compared with that of shuttles fitted with my improve-
ment, both in the case of the hinge pin and bearer pin. The peg being
centred upon wood is not so liable to become loose, and when repairs
are necessary at this point or any other, the repairs are effected with
greater facility and prove to be a better job upon my improved method
than upon the one hitherto in common use.
filed by the said Robert Laycock in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th April 1975.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
LAYCOCK, of Glusburn, near Cross Hills, in the County of York, Over-
looker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Laycock, Her special
licence that I, the said Robert Laycock, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Laycock, my exccutors,
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 SHUTTLES OF LOOMS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Robert Laycock, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and

page_text: causo the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after tlie date of the said Letters.
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Laycock, 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 :—
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the pins upon which
the hinged pike of the shuttle is centred, and also the pin upon which
the same rests, and is equally applicable in the case of a fast peg or
pike. Hitherto such pins have been made of iron or stecl, and havo
in consequence been subjected to frequent breakage and wearing loose,
thus causing damage to the reeds and warps. In place of iron or stecl.
pins I use wood; hard wood is most suitable. The wear and tear with
the ordinary iron or steel pins is very great compared with that of
shuttles fitted with my improvement both in the case of the hinge pin
and the bearer pin. The peg or pike being centred upon wood is not
so liable to become loose, and when repairs are necessary at this point
or any other, such repairs are effected with greater facility and prove to
be a better job upon my improved method than upon the one hitherto
in common use

page_text: to rest peg E, and preventing the pike from moving during the process
of weaving; H is the common weft eye; J, the ordinary weft groove.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Laycock have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
ROBERT LAYCOCK. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered,
by the above-named Robert
Laycock, in the presence of.
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineer and Patent Agent,
Bradford.