Improvements in Self Acting Temples for Looms.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self Acting Temples for Looms.
I, WILLIAM CHETHAM Loom Temple Manufacturer No. 17, Islington Street,
Salford, in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
And is applicable to all descriptions of Self Acting Side Temples, and consists in
the arrangment of a Bar, so arranged that the front edge, or, the edge that comes
next to the Reed of Loom, may be raised, or, lowered as desired without disturbing
the side temples that hold the cloth extended. I obtain this action by an arrang-
iment of the bar that extends from the side temples usualy placed over the cloth by
hinging the same at a distance from the front edge, by this means it forms a crank,
or, excentric motion, and can be raised, or, lowered as required, and secured in the
desired position by screws for this purpose upon the side temples.-In the application
of my improvment to what are known in the trade as bar under and over cloth side
temples I use a special section of bar with the space between the side temples
thrown below the level of the centre of the temple rollers, or, segment rings, or in
other words the front edge of the bar that comes next to the reed of Loom of
unequal depth, and not in a straight line as at present formed-the object of the
improvment is to keep the Cloth that is not held by the side temples steady and not
allow the same to vibrate, or, move with the action of the Loom whilst being woven.
Dated this third day of June 1886.
WILLIAM CHETHAM.

page_text: 1, WILLIAM CHETHAM Loom Temple Manufacturer No. 17 Islington Street
Salford 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:—
My Improvment refers to all description of Side Temples for Looms-and consists
of the arrangment of the side temple brackets in such a form as to carry a Bar in
addition to the Bar usually employed to hold the side temples extended, and secure
the same to the Loom Frame. This latter Bar as a rule is placed under the cloth that
is woven The Bar that I claim as my improvment is placed over the cloth, and is
arranged to be secured by screws to the side temples-This Bar in one modification is
cranked so as to come to the front edge of the cloth that is being woven, and by
being cranked it is capable of being raised, and lowered, as required and secured in
the desired position by screws for this purpose-so that the same may be more
clearly described—I show upon the drawings.
In Fig. 1. a Plan-Fig. 2-end elevation and Fig. 3. a section through Fig. 1
at A. B of a pair of single roller side temples but I do not confine myself to this
particular kind of side temple, the same may be with two, or, more rollers, or, they
may be what are known as segment or ring side temples, or, star side temples-Upon
the Drawings shown the bar-C-to hold the side temples extended is shown as a
round Bar this also may be of any of the usual kind employed for this purpose as flat,
or, angle bar D. and D 1. Fig. 1-represent the side temples D 1. is shown with
the cover removed from same-C is the usual extending Bar to which the side temples
are secured by the screws-C 1-E is my improved Bar cranked so that the front
edge of the side temples and the Bar-E-are all in one line at- 1-This Bar E-is
secured by the screws-E. 2.-in the desired position, and by this means the cloth
when being woven is kept from vibrating by the action of the healds, and there is less
risk of accidents with the shuttle and also more regularity in the cloth being woven.
Fig. 4. and Fig. 5, show another modification of my improvment, in this case the
bar F may be extended from the side temples as shown by dotted line F. 1.
Fig. 1. And upon this two small brackets-F 2-to carry a Bar F. 3. secured by
the screws F. 4. by this means I can raise, or, lower, the front Bar F. 3 and secure tho
same as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed-I declare that what I claim is―
1st. I claim as my invention the arrangment of the cranked Bar E and the mode of
fixing same, as shown in Figures 12 and 3 of the Drawings in combination with all
description of side temples for Looms.
2nd. The arrangment as shown in Figures 4 and 5 of Drawings in combination
with all description of side temples for Looms.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1887.
WILLIAM CHETHAM.