A LOOM FOR THE PURPOSE OF WARPING, DRESSING, WEAVING, AND PIECING OF SILK, COTTON, WOLLEN, OR ANY OTHER YARN
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FODEN, of the City and County of Coventry, Cotton Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of November, in the fortieth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Foden, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my
and their deputies or deputy, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Foden, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should agree with,
and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, and
vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A LOOM FOR THE PURPOSE OF WARPING, DRESSING, WEAVING, AND PIECING
OF SILK, COTTON, WOLLEN, OR ANY OTHER YARN," in such manner as to me, the
said Thomas Foden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Thomas
Foden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, during

page_text: the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, power, privileges, and advantages therein-before "granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Foden, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Foden, by an instru-
ment 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
one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Foden, do declare that my said Invention comprises,-
A diagonal loom, which stands in nearly one half less room than any other
now in use, and consists of two upright posts in front, and marked in the Plan
or Drawing thereof, hereunto annexed, with the Letter A, of about six feet
each in heighth, and two other posts marked B, of about three feet each in
heighth, at the back thereof, united together by several nails, two of which
are placed in a diagonal line C, which serve as stays to the loom. The breast
beam D, and knee roll E, are placed as in other looms, but the warp beam F
is placed on the top of the front posts A, and the warp G is extended from
thence, in an oblique direction, round a roller H, opposite the breast beam. By s
this means one half of the strain is taken off the warp, which makes every
thread bear an equal strain, and thereby renders them less liable to break.
The sloping and extended direction in which the warp lies in the loom, and its
vibration (not being stayed) makes strong cloth, and enables the weaver to
have a dressing always in hand to remove a blemished thread and twirl in the
broken ends without knots. The mode of dressing the yarn in this loom is
directly opposite to the practice hitherto used; for by being dressed down the
inclined plain of the warp, the hoose of the yarn is laid the same way as the
weft, and thereby binds it in the texture of the cloth, so as to prevent it from
rising again in bleaching. On each side of the loom is placed a frame or s
creel containing a number of small bobbins filled with yarn, the number
of which in both creels are to be equal to the number of threads in a
warp, twenty of which bobbins are to be placed on a wire throughout
the frame, and to form half a bier, which are to be brought through bent

page_text: wires fixed on the diagonal rails of the loom. The weaver can draw the
half biers from each side the loom through a wreath, and by this means can
bring it to the roll without warping.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Foden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the fortieth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-nine..
E. R. D. PLOMER.
DAVID EVANS.
AND RE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirtieth day of
November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Foden came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation 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.
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November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Foden came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation 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.