Year: 1886

page_text: bag moon Attachments oI
Fancy Looms.
We, CHARLES EDWARD MIDDLETON, FRANCIS PHILIP MIDDLETON and ARTHUR
THOMAS MIDDLETON, Manufs and ANDREW JACK, Manager, all of Adlington,
near Chorley in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
It consists in certain improvements upon the Invention described in Specification
N° 14,126 for which Letters Patent were granted to us dated the 25th of October
1884.
Instead of using as therein described two levers, we despense with the second
lever and all its adjunts and use in the stead thereof a short horizontal rod, of
suitable length and strength, one end of which rests against the endless chain upon
the drum, and the other is so connected with the shaft which works the stirrup and
chain, that upon the end of the rod being held outward by the large links of the
chain it holds the stirrup and chain ontwards, thus stopping its motion until it
is again released by a smaller link of the chain allowing it to swing back.
We thus obtain the same motion with a much more certainty and fewer working
parts.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
Agent to Applicants.

page_text: Fancy Looms.
We, CHARLES EDWARD MIDDLETON, FRANCIS PHILIP MIDDLETON and ARTHUR
THOMAS MIDDLETON, Manufacturers, and ANDREW JACK, Manager, all of Adlington
in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
It consists in certain improvements upon the Invention described in Specification
No. 14,126 for which Letters Patent were granted to us dated the 25th of October
1884. Instead of using as therein described two levers, we dispense with the
second lever and all its adjuncts, using in the stead thereof, a short horizontal rod
of suitable length and strength, supported by a suitable bracket slide about the
centre, one end of which rests against the endless chain upon the drum, and the
other end is pivoted to a projection or crank upon the shaft which carries the main
lever of the loom and the stirrup and chain, so that upon the end of the rod resting
upon the endless chain being held outwards by the larger links of the endless chain
it holds the stirrup and chain outwards, thus stopping its motion until it is again
released by a smaller link of the endless chain allowing it to swing back. We thus
obtain the same motion with much more certainty and fewer working parts.
In order that the foregoing may be better understood, we send herewith as sheet
of Drawings in which is shown a side elevation of the improvements a indicating
the short horizontal rod, supported by the bracket slide b, resting by one end c
against the endless chain upon the drum e, the other end fis pivoted to the
projection or crank g upon the shaft h which carries the nain lever i and the
stirrup and chain k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
1st. The improved apparatus, substantially as described and shewn herein before,
and in the accompanying drawing for the purpose set-forth.
Dated his 19th J. of Cantonbon 1986
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
Agent to Applicants.