IMPROVED HEALDS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon, and Samuel
Yeadon, all of Stockport, in the County of Chester, and John Yeadon,
of Leeds, in the County of York, Reed Makers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED HEALDS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 16th October 1863, and dated the 21st April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hudson Yeadon, Edwin
Yeadon, Samuel Yeadon, and John Yeadon at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st April 1863.
We, HUDSON YEADON, EDWIN YEADON, and SAMUEL YEADON, all of Stock-
port, in the County of Chester, and JOHN YEADON, of Leeds, in the County of
York, Reed Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED HEALDS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
Our improved healds are made of steel, iron, brass, zinc, or other substance,
such healds, also termed eyelets, consisting of bars or rods such as this
10
these eyelets or healds being made with one, two'
three, or more holes, or of any shape of an eye required. The healds we
call eyelets, are arranged in or on frames of cast iron or other substance, and
the extremities secured on steel wires drawn tight by screws at each end, thus
the eyelets facilitate the weaver's tying the threads with ease, and securo
facility of passing the threads of the warp.
Instead of making the eyelet as before mentioned, it may be made
thus
× the part marked × being set between slips of wood

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon, Samuel Yeadon, and John
Yeadon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HUDSON
YEADON, EDWIN YEADON, and SAMUEL YEADON, of Stockport, in the County of
Chester, and JOHN YEADON, of Leeds, in the County of York, Reed Makers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, er heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon, Samuel Yeadon, and John Yeadon, Her
special licence that we, the said Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon, Samuel
Yeadon, and John Yeadon, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon, Samuel Yeadon, and
John Yeadon, 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 "IMPROVED HEALDS
FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon, Samuel Yeadon, John Yeadon, our exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 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 Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon,
Samuel Yeadon, and John Yeadon, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
(Part No. I.)-These improved healds are made of steel, iron, brass, zinc,
or other suitable substance, such healds, also termed eyelets, consisting of

page_text: bars, strips, or pieces, such, for instance, as are hereafter described and shewn
by the accompanying Drawing, the said eyelets or healds being made with
one, two, three, or more holes or orifices through the same, with any form of
eye, whether circular, square, or otherwise, as may be desired. These healds
or eyelet pieces are arranged in or on frames of cast iron or other substance,
their ends being secured on steel or other wires or rods, which are fastened
and tightened by means (as we prefer, though we do not confine ourselves
thereto,) of the threads on the ends of the said wires or rods, provided with
nuts correspondingly threaded, and these healds or eyelets will facilitate tho
weaver in tying the threads with ease, and secure facility of passing of the
threads of the warp.
Instead of making the healds or eyelet picces in the manner before
mentioned, they may be made with one of the ends of each placed between
pieces of wood or other suitable material secured together, and thus fastening
the healds or eyelet pieces in position by pitch or such like adhesive and
cohesive material, holes being provided in the middle of the pieces. Healds
or eyelets made in manner last mentioned will not requiro the frame used with
the first-mentioned healds or eyelets, but may be otherwise suitably secured
to the loom or weaving machine. We do not, however, recommend this
last-mentioned arrangement, as it would require a separate heald for each
"count."
(Part No. II.) Having thus described the nature of the said Invention,
we now proceed to describe in what manner the same is to be performed, which
we shall do by reference to the Drawings accompanying this Specification, by
the words, figures, and letters following, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, front elevation of frame, with healds or eyelets of the character first
herein-before described; Fig. 2, end view, in section, of Fig. 1. In the said
Figs. 1 and 2, A denotes the frame for the heald; B, healds or eyelet pieces, of
which there may be any convenient number, having holes or orifices B* through
them and through the holes or orifices at the top, and at the bottom of which
healds or eyelet pieces the wires or rods C pass, the ends of these wires or
rods being threaded, and having screw nuts D correspondingly threaded
(internally), whereby the tightening up may be effected, and although four of
these rods or wires are shewn, two could be used with one row of healds only;
in fact, we do not confine ourselves to any particular number thereof. The
top and bottom of this frame, shewn by the Drawings, are made of wood, and
the ends of iron or other suitable metal.

page_text: (Part No. III.)-Having now particularly described and ascertained the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
we declare that we wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves
to the precise arrangements or form of the frames herein-before described,
inasmuch as the same are susceptible of considerable modification without the
essential character thereof being changed; likewise we do not confine our-
selves to the substance the eyelets are made of, so long as the general
character of our Invention is retained; what we claim being bealds or eyelets
or eyelet pieces of the character herein-before set forth (commencing where
marked at Part No. I., and terminating at Part No. II.)
In witness whereof, we, the said Hudson Yeadon, Edwin Yeadon,
Samuel and John Yeadon, havo hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
HUDSON YEADON.
(L.S.)
EDWIN YEADON.
(L.S.)
SAMUEL YEADON.
(L.S.)
JOHN YEADON.
(L.S.)
HUDSON YEADON. (L.B.)
EDWIN YEADON.
(L.S.)
SAMUEL YEADON. (L.S.)
JOHN YEADON.
(L.S.)