CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT TO THE LOOK, WHEREBY A NEW AND CHEAP METHOD OF PERPETUALLY CONVEYING AWAY THE ARTICLES WOVE THEREIN, AS THEY ARE WOVEN, IS EFFECTED, WHICH I CONCEIVED WOULD BE OF GREAT PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HALL, of Mellor, in the Parish of Glossop, in the County of Derby, Weaver,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said James Hall, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present Majesty King George the Third, that I had, after
much labor, trouble, and expence, invented a "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT TO THE
LOOK, WHEREBY A NEW AND CHEAP METHOD OF PERPETUALLY CONVEYING AWAY
THE ARTICLES WOVE THEREIN, AS THEY ARE WOVEN, IS EFFECTED, WHICH I
CONCEIVED WOULD BE OF GREAT PUBLIC UTILITY;" that in regard I was the first
Inventor thereof, and that the same had never been made, used, or practised
by any other person or persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I
humbly prayed His Majesty to grant to me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the sole use, benefit, and advan-
tage of my said Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case maile and provided; and His said Majesty,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be
for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request,

page_text: and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster,
the Third day of August instant, of His special knowledge, certain grace, and
mere motion, did give and grant unto me, the said James Hall, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said James Hall, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves, or mine and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said James Hall, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the said term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, my said Invention, within that said part of His Majesty's said United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said James
Hall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our
discretions seeni meet; and that I, the said James Hall, my executors;
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole benefit and advantage from time to time arising by reason of the said
Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers and privileges and advantages
therein-before granted unto me, the said James Hall, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, for and during the term of fourteen years from the date
of the said Letters Patent next ensuing, according to the Statute in that case
made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisó that
if I, the said James Hall, should not particularly describe and-ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be perforined,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and. cause the sanie to
be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent thereby granted should utterly become void, as, upon reference
to the said Letters Patent, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Hall, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of iny said Invention,
and declare that the Plan thereof drawn upon the Paper hereunto annexed is
comprized of the following particulars, that is to say:
A, A, the frame of a common loom, as in Figures 1 and 2. B, B, in thè
front view, are the ends of the treadles, as in a common loom, marked with
the same letters in the same view. C, in the side view, the yarn beam.
D, D, a weighted lever, which, by means of a cord fastened to it, and
wrapt two or three times round the end of the yarn beam, and tied to a

page_text: weight, prevents the yarn from being delivered from the beam quicker-than
is proper. E, E, the lathe, as in a common loom, the improvement on which
consists of: F, F; a lever of iron, fastened at one end to the top of the lathe,
and to the other end of which the wire and chain G, G, aré fastened. H, H, an
iron frame or lever, to which the wire and chain G are fastened, having the
moveable catch I, I, let into it, which is lifted by overy stroke of the lathe one
tooth of the wheel. K, K, upon the axle of which is the worm L, in the side
view, which puts in motion the wheel M, M, fixed upon the end of the
beam N in the front view. 0, 0, a slip of common cord let into the beam N;
of which there are three in its circumference, and by which the cloth or
article woven is perpetually taken away as it is woven, and is received by the
beam P, over which latter beam the cloth first passes as it is drawn by the
cards upon the beam N, and the motion thereby given to the beam P thereby
rolls the cloth on to it, as the cloth is returned to the beam P, after having
gone round the beam N. N.B. The iron frame or lever H, and the moveable
catch I, as represented in the front view, are placed and worked on the oppo-
site side of the frame to that on which they are here drawn; but this shade of
them is given that a more accurate idea of their construction and form might
be had than could possibly be obtained from seeing them only in the side
view. The loom on which the above improvement is made is worked with
the fly shuttle and hand, as in a common loom, and the advantages derived
therefrom are: a saving of labour to the weaver, from his having no occasion
to stop and wind up every two or three inches of cloth as it is woven in the
old way of weaving; a more perfect cloth is also produced, as the weaver,
from the lathe always moving the same length, and of course every stroke
having the same effect, can make the cloth mathematically as even the weft
way as the warp way, and this circumstance is of great advantage to learners,
as young weavers, in the old way, are a long time in learning to make the cloth
And by this machinery the weaver can always regulate the number of
picks or shoots of weft he wishes to put into an inch of cloth by having a
change wheel at letter K.
even.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Hall, have hereunto set and
put my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of August, in the forty-
third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and three.
JAMES (L.s.) HALL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED; that on the same Twenty-third day of
August, in the year above written, the aforesaid James Hall came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification 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.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year above written.