IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY ACTING UPON AND IN CONNEXION WITH ROTARY SHUTTLE BOXES FOR WEAVING CHECKS, PLAIDS, FIGURED AND FANCY GOODS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley, and Thomas
Bottomley, all of Buttershaw, in the Township of North Bierley, in the
Parish of Bradford, in the County of York, Stuff Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY ACTING UPON AND IN CONNEXION
WITH ROTARY SHUTTLE BOXES FOR WEAVING CHECKS, PLAIDS, FIGURED AND
FANCY GOODS."
Sealed the 16th February 1858, and dated the 19th August 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Bottomley, James
Bottomley, and Thomas Bottomley at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 19th August 1857.
We, SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY, JAMES BOTTOMLEY, and THOMAS BOTTOMLEY, all of
Buttershaw, in the Township of North Bierley, in the Parish of Bradford, in
the County of York, Stuff Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY ACTING UPON AND IN CONNEXION
WITH ROTARY SHUTTLE BOXES FOR WEAVING CHECKS, PLAIDS, FIGURED AND FANCY
GOODS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a lever attached at one end to the hammer which
presses on the star wheel fastened to the axis of the rotary shuttle box, and

page_text: fastened in the centre to the frame of the loom, and having a spring at the
other end of such lever attached to the loom, and pressing upon the lever;
such lever is raised by another lever underneath the first-mentioned lever, and
fastened to the end of the loom, and having a pulley at the lower end thereof
pressing upon and propelled by a tappet fastened to the tappet shaft. The
lower lever presses upon a small pulley attached to the under side of the upper
lever, and the action of the tappet shaft upon the lower lever communicated
to the upper lever causes the hammer to fall, and the pressure being thereby
withdrawn from the rotary shuttle box, it is free to rotate on its axis as may
be required. The motion of the shuttle box is regulated by the thickness of
the cards on the card cylinder, and by the action of the semicircular plates and
pins, or studs and star wheel herein-after mentioned, each card being regulated
in thickness to produce the motion required by the rotary shuttle box, and
adapted to the figure or size of the check or plaid required to be produced on
the fabric in course of being woven; or cards, all of the same thickness, may be
used, but in that case the length of the pins, on which the cards press, must be
either increased or diminished according to the motion required in the rotary
shuttle box. In order to regulate the motion of the rotary shuttle box, there
is also a wheel attached to the tappet shaft, working into and propelling
another wheel attached to a small shaft running horizontal with the tappet
shaft, and to which two other wheels and two cross shafts, also having wheels,
are attached, and on which cross shafts plates of a nearly semicircular form,
each having pins or studs of different lengths, rotate into the spaces of a star
wheel placed in the centre of the cross shafts, and rotating on another cross
shaft fastened to a frame attached to the loom, and which star wheel has two
toothed wheels at one side thereof, which are kept in their place by a spring
attached to the cross shaft pressing on the star wheel, and which spring pre-
vents damage to the shuttle box. The last-mentioned spring, and the wheels
acting thereon, may be attached to any other part of the upright shaft herein-
after mentioned, or to the horizontal shaft underneath the shuttle box; there
is also a toothed wheel at one end of the cross shaft, working into another
toothed wheel attached to the lower end of an upright shaft. The upright
shaft is fastened to the sword of the loom, and has a toothed wheel at the top
end thereof, working into another toothed wheel fastened to a horizontal shaft
running underneath, and fastened to the outer side of the rotary shuttle box,
with a toothed wheel running into and propelling another toothed wheel
attached to the axis of the shuttle box. There are also two small shafts
attached to the connecting rods to regulate the motions of the semicircular

page_text: plates. The above improvements may be worked by jacquard engines, to
which the connecting rods must be attached by means of cords, wire, or
chains.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley, and Thomas Bottomley,
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th February 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
BOTTOMLEY, JAMES BOTTOMLEY, and THOMAS BOTTOMLEY, of Buttershaw Mills,
in the Township of North Bierley, in the Parish of Bradford, in the County of
York, Stuff Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley, and Thomas Bottomley, Her special
licence that we, the said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley, and Thomas
Bottomley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley, and Thomas Bottomley, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY ACTING UPON
AND IN CONNECTION WITH ROTARY SHUTTLE BOXES FOR WEAVING CHECKS, PLAIDS,
FIGURED AND FANCY GOODS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley, and Thomas Bottomley, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley,
and Thomas Bottomley, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly

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described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:-
Our Invention relates to looms constructed with rotary shuttle boxes, and
consists in adapting thereto certain new mechanical arrangements, combina-
tions, or contrivances for operating upon the rotary shuttle box in a more
effectual manner than heretofore practised for presenting one or other of the
shuttles therein, either in regular or in irregular succession or order, to the
action of the picker, according to the pattern, device, or figure which it is
desired to produce by weaving.
Our improved machinery is intended to be worked in two different ways;
first, in combination with certain improved mechanism forming the subject
of a Patent granted to one Frederick William Mowbray, bearing date the
Twenty-third day of June, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and
Numbered 1442, and this, in combination with the other ordinary parts of a
loom, and is designed for weaving checks and plaids; and, secondly, our
improved machinery is intended to be worked in combination with a jacquard
engine of the ordinary kind for weaving figured or fancy goods.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheets of
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the numeral Figures and letters of
reference marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
At Sheet No. 1, Figure 1 exhibits an elevation of the end framing of a
loom, shewing some of our improved machinery adapted thereto; Figure 2 is
a partial front elevation of certain parts of a loom, also shewing some of our
improved machinery adapted thereto; Figure 3 is a transverse and vertical
section through the lines A, B, at Figures 1 and 2, shewing the mode of con-
necting some of our said improved machinery with a rotary shuttle box, and
with some of the ordinary and principal working parts of a loom; Figure 4 is
a top plan view of Figure 3 as it would appear if divided through the lines
C, D, at Figure 3; Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, exhibit detached portions of some of our
said improved machinery, herein-after particularly described and referred to, for
weaving fancy goods, stripes, checks, and plaids; Figure 5 is a section taken
through the line E, F, at Figure 3; Figure 6, a section through the line
G, H, at Figure 3; Figure 7 is a section through the line I, K, at Figure 3;
and Figure 8 is a top plan view of the front portion of the mechanism

page_text: exhibited at Figure 4; Figures 1 to 4 inclusive are drawn to a scale of two
inches to one foot, and the remaining Figures at this Sheet are drawn to a
scale of one-third of their full size.
At Sheet 2, Figures 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14*, exhibit other detached
portions of our said improved machinery previously exhibited attached at
Sheet 1, but represented there drawn to a smaller scale; Figure 15, at
Sheet 2, exhibits improved machinery, which we propose to employ in a loom,
and in connection with a jacquard engine in combination with some of the
improved machinery before referred to, for weaving plaids, checks, figured and
fancy goods. Figures 16 and 17 respectively exhibit an end elevation and
top plan view of the mechanism exhibited at the lower part of Figure 15.
At Sheet 3, Figures 18 to 27 inclusive, exhibit detached portions and a side
elevation, drawn enlarged, of the mechanism before referred to, and exhibited
at Figures 15, 16, 17, of Sheet 2.
At each of the foregoing Figures of each Sheet of Drawings we employ
similar letters of reference to denote corresponding parts, in so far as such
parts appear or can be seen at each of such said Figures respectively. At
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, of Sheet 1, A is the end framing of
loom; B the
main driving shaft thereof; C the cam shaft; D one of the swords;
E the lathe or slay; a the axis of motion thereof; G, rotary shuttle box;
H, picker; I, the reed. To the above parts, which are common to all looms
of this class, we adapt our improved machinery in combination with.
Mowbray's patented improvements of the Twenty-third day of June, One-
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five aforesaid, and actuate the same.
in the following manner:-K is a spindle, supported at its lower end' by
a step fixed to or formed upon the ordinary rocking bar b, to which the
swords of the loom are attached. The upper part of the spindle. K has.
pieces c, c, of peculiar construction, hereafter described, and represented at
Figure 9, of Sheet 2, adapted thereto, which are supported by a piece d'fixed.
to one of the swords of the loom, as exhibited. e is a small bevil wheel, and
fa mitre wheel, fixed on the spindle K; the wheel f takes or gears into
another mitre wheel L, fixed on a spindle g, suitably supported by the
framing N, and the wheel e gears into a bevil wheel M fixed on the
spindle R. The wheels f and L are for the purpose of imparting rotary and
alternate circular motion to the shuttle box G through the agency of the
toothed wheels h and i, and the following mechanism, situated at the bottom
of the loom, as represented more particularly at Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Figures 3 and 4 represent the entire arrangement of the said mechanism, and

page_text: its adaptation to and connection with the rotary shuttle box, and with the
principal moving parts of the loom in connection therewith. O is an auxiliary
framing, securely connected to the framing A; P, O, Q, R, are four spindles
working in suitable bearings fixed to the framing A, said spindles carrying the
following mechanism :-k, k, are bevilled wheels keyed on the spindle P, upon
which is also keyed the spur wheel, which takes or gears into a corresponding
spur wheel m (shewn by dotted lines at Figure 3) keyed on the cam shaft C
of the loom, from whence the bevil wheels k, k, receive their rotary movement,
and impart the same to the small bevil wheels n, n, which are keyed on the
spindles Q, Q; o is a stud wheel, and p a cam, connected together and forming
one entire piece with the part r cast therewith (as at Figure 8); the part r
is formed with collars, between which a forked clutch lever s fits (as at
Figure 6); said clutch lever or levers, there being two, one to each of the
spindles Q, are fixed at their lower ends upon cross spindles S, T, (shewn at
Figures 3, 4, 6,) same being supported by and working in suitable bearings
t, t, fixed to the framing A (as at Figure 6).
The purpose of the aforesaid clutch levers s is to slide the stud wheel and
cam o and p along the spindles Q. A feather being let into said spindles, as
at Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, to ensure the rotary movement of said wheels and cams
with the spindles on which they slide. U is a star wheel (seen better at Figure
5), and W is a locking wheel or drum of peculiar construction (seen better at
Figure 7); these wheels are securely fixed on the spindle R, and move therewith.
It will be seen upon referring to Figures 3, 4, 5, 8, that the wheel o has stud
pins 1, 2, 3, connected thereto, said pins being formed of different lengths,
and employed for the purpose herein-after stated; u, w, are cranks or levers
fixed on the spindles S, T. The opposite end of each of said cranks or levers
has a rod a connected thereto, and the upper ends of said rods have pins 4*
fixed thereunto, which work through guides 5, fixed to the framing A of the
loom; these rods have pins 6, 7, 8, fixed thereunto, which are operated upon
by a jacquard cylinder at 9, Figure 14, the said cylinder forming the subject
of the before-mentioned Patent of the Twenty-third day of June 1855, granted
to Frederick William Mowbray. We would here remark that in order to
effect the turning of the shuttle box from 1 to 3 or 3 to 1, as the case may be,
we use cards of different thicknesses at 2*, or with different elevations on
them as at **, or we adapt three pins 6, 7, 8, to each of the rods a, and we
form the said pins of different lengths (as exhibited at Figures. 14 and 14* of
Sheet 2, in which we exhibit the three pins 6, 7, 8, attached under pressure
of a spring to the lever a*, which is lifted when the cards come in contact

page_text: with the pins, but the pins being acted upon by the spring, maintain at the
same time a vertical position). For example, we form the pin 6 of sufficient
length that when it is lifted (by the covered hole in the cards which pass
around the cylinder at 9), it shall move one or other of the crank arms u or w
and forks s sufficiently far to bring the stud pin 3 of the wheel o into contact
with the teeth of the star wheel U, and thus advance said wheel sufficiently
to move the rotary shuttle box one box in either a backward or forward
direction, and we form the pin 7 as much longer than the pin 6 as to admit of
the said star wheel being moved through twice as much space, so as to move
the shuttle box two boxes forward or backward, and in like manner we make
the pin 8 as much longer than the pin 7 as to admit of the star wheel U being
moved through three times as much space, so as to move the shuttle box three
boxes backward or forward; in other words, to move the shuttle box one
box backward or forward. The action of the pin 3 on the star wheel U will
alone be sufficient; but it requires the combined action of the pins 2 and 3 on
the said star wheel to move the shuttle boxes two boxes backward or forward,
and the combined action of the pins 3, 2, 1, on the star wheel to move the
said shuttle boxes three boxes backward or forward. For the purpose of
reversing the direction of motion of the aforesaid rotary shuttle box, we
employ a duplicate arrangement of mechanism, as exhibited at Figure 4 of
Sheet 1, each arrangement being separately acted upon at the proper time by
the rods x, and cranks u and w, as before stated. And we consider this to be
a new and improved mode of working rotary shuttle boxes, as it enables us to
bring up any color by simply moving the rotary shuttle box at most one-half
of an entire revolution either in a backward or forward direction. And
although we have only exhibited and described our improved machinery as
adapted to a rotary shuttle box, containing six shuttles, we do not intend to
limit or confine ourselves to this number, as the above mechanical arrangement
is equally well adapted for a shuttle box containing more than six shuttles, it
being simply necessary, when any other number of shuttle boxes are used, to
have as many pins in the rods x and wheels o as there are shuttle boxes.
· Another feature in our said Invention consists in adapting improved
machinery to looms for unlocking the rotary shuttle box and keeping it so
during the partial turning round of the same.
We employ for this purpose
mechanism of the construction exhibited at Figures 1 and 2 of Sheet 1, and
at Figures 12 and 13 of Sheet 2, drawn enlarged, that is to say:-On the
axis of the shuttle box we fix a star wheel y, and we adapt thereto a wedge-
shaped sliding hammer, the lower end whereof rests in a recess formed in

page_text: one end of a vibrating spring lever 11, and to the opposite end of said lever
and crosswise thereof we connect a small roller 12, which is acted upon by
a bell-crank lever 13 through the medium of a cam 14 fixed on the shaft C,
said cam and lever being so arranged as to lock the box whilst the loom is
"picking," and to unlock it immediately afterwards, that the box may turn
freely when it is required to bring up another color.
We now proceed to describe the combined mechanical movements of our
improved machinery, as above described and represented in connection with
Mowbray's Invention, and the ordinary working parts of a loom, as follows:→
At each rotation of the driving shaft B,the jacquard cylinder g and cards
thereon will be raised, and according as those holes in the cards which are
free or uncovered come opposite to one or other of the pins 6, 7, 8, in like
manner. the holes will pass over the said pins and have no effect thereon, but
upon the cards being advanced on the cylinder g, and a covered hole in said
cards, as shown, coming opposite to one or other of said pins (say, the pin 6),
one of the rods x and leyers u or w will then be raised and push one or other
of the stud wheels o forward, so as to bring a stud pin of corresponding length
to the pin 6 (say, the pin 3) into contact with the teeth of the star wheel U;
and as the spindles Q, Q, are continually rotating whilst the loom is in motion
the effect will be to cause the aforesaid stud pin to impart motion to the star
wheel U, and such motion will be transmitted to the rotary shuttle box by.
the wheels M, e, f, L, i, h, and cause the said shuttle box to be turned partly.
round the required distance in either direction, as before stated, and upon
the pressure being removed from the pin 6 a spring 10 will draw back the
wheel o. In order to keep the shuttle box steady whilst it is being locked
by the hammer, we cause the cam p (which is connected with the stud
wheel o) to revolve and slide in one of the curved portions of the drum W.
And we would here observe that this cam should be so arranged as not to
come into action with the said drum until immediately after the stud pin or
pins are out of gear with the star wheel U.
In connection with the above mechanism, as also that herein-before
described, we propose to employ certain improved mechanism of the con-
struction exhibited at Figures 9, 10, 11, of Sheet 2, to prevent injury to the
same in the event of the shuttle not landing properly in its respective box or
other obstruction, that is to say, instead of fixing the bevil f on to the
spindle K, we place it loosely thereon, and we form the contact surfaces of
the parts c, c', with V-shaped inclines; that marked c is cast with the wheel f,
and that piece marked c¹ has liberty of sliding upon a feather in the spindle.

page_text: K, the helical spring 15 being sufficiently strong (and capable of adjustment
by the nuts 16) to ensure the turning round or advancing of the wheel L and
parts connected therewith when there is no obstruction, but when any undue
strain or resistance is offered to the turning round of the shuttle box the
spring 15 then collapses by the inclines on the lowermost piece c¹ passing
over the inclines on the uppermost piece, as denoted by dotted lines at
Figure 9 of Sheet 2, the piece c¹ continuing to revolve without advancing the
piece c until the obstruction is removed, when the mitre wheels f and L and
shuttle box will be again advanced as before.
We now proceed to describe the improved machine exhibited at Figures 15
to 27 inclusive of Sheets 2 and 3, which we propose to employ in combination
with any ordinary jacquard engine, or with another description of jacquard
engines known as "witches," for weaving checks, 'plaids, figured and fancy
goods, as follows:-Upon the spindle P and in front of the wheel 7 we fix
a cam or two cams 17 and 18 connected together, as at Figure 19 of Sheet 3,
which said cams respectively operate upon the jointed levers 19, 19*, and
a curved lever 20, the construction of which said levers will be better under-
stood by reference to Figures 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, of Sheet 3, drawn enlarged.
The levers 19, 19*, have their axis of motion on a stud pin 21 attached to
the framing of the loom, and said levers are formed in two parts connected
together by a rivet at *, as shewn at Figure 21 of Sheet 3; said parts are
maintained in a straight line by pressure of the spring 22, except when the
said levers are required to bend for the purpose herein-after stated. 23, 23,
are rods or wires for connecting the levers 19, 19*, with the other levers 24.
These last-mentioned levers are operated upon by the jacquard engine, to
some of the needles of which said levers are connected by cords 25 of different
lengths, so as to answer the same purpose as the pins 6, 7, 8, at Figures 14,
14, of Sheet 2. The curved lever 20 works loosely upon the rod T, upon
which the crank or lever u is fixed.
We would here remark, that for the purpose of this present arrangement
we remove the cranks or levers u, w, from the outside of the loom, as exhi-
bited at Sheet 1, and place the same upon the opposite ends of the rods S
and T, as at Figure 15 of Sheet 2, and we connect said cranks to the levers
19, 19, as exhibited, so that they move therewith.
We now proceed to describe the movements of the above mechanism, which
are as follows:-Supposing the pattern cards in the jacquard to be suitable for
lifting one or other of the strings 25 of the levers 24 at the proper time for
turning the shuttle box, and supposing also the loom to be in motion, the

page_text: effect will be to raise one or other of the levers u, w, but since the action of
the jacquard upon such said levers may not take place at the precise period of
time at which it is required to lift such said levers, so as to slide one or other
of the stud wheels o into gear with the star wheel U (as before stated in
reference to the former arrangement), we attain this precision by so arranging
the cam 17, as that it presses upon the tappet piece × of the lever 19,
and thus keeps this part of the lever down until the said tappet escapes the
cam 17, and during this time of the cam's rotation the hinged part 19* of
the lever 19 will have been raised by the jacquard out of a straight line with
the other part of the said lever, as denoted by dotted lines at Figure 27 of
Sheet 3, and overcome the resistance offered by the spring 22. The effect
of thus raising the part 19* and keeping down the part 19 is as follows:-
When the lever 19, 19*, is raised, so that the tappet piece × comes into
contact with the cam 17, the levers u or w will only have been acted upon
sufficient to advance the stud wheel o near enough to the star wheel U for the
pins 1, 2, 3, of said stud wheel to revolve free of such said star wheel; but
when the pressure on the tappet piece of the lever 19, 19*, is released
from the cam 17, as above stated, the pressure of the spring 22 will then
straighten the compound lever 19, 19*, and by so doing lift that lever u or w
which is in connection therewith, as much higher as is necessary for bringing
one or other of the pins in the stud wheel o into action with the star wheel U
at the proper time for operating upon the shuttle box, as before stated; and
simultaneously with the above movement of the lever 19, 19*, the curved
lever 20 is allowed to come forward by the combined action of the cam 18
and spring 26 thereon, and the nose of one or other of the levers 19 or 19*
then falls on to one or other of the steps of the lever 20, said steps being
made of different heights; as exhibited, to accord with the different lengths of
the cords 25 and with the number of shuttle boxes to be turned, and the
cam 18 is so formed and adjusted to the cam 17 as to let the levers 19, 19*,
escape from the lever 20 at the proper time, the spring 10 drawing back the
forks and parts connected therewith, as before stated with reference to the
former arrangement. An important feature in this last arrangement consists in
its ceasing to perform its functions of turning round the shuttle box when a
wrong pattern card comes into action, the effect being then to lift one or other
of the levers 19, 19x, but also to let them fall before the tappet piece x
thereof has escaped from the cam 17, and consequently before the steps of
the curved lever 20 have been brought under the nose of the said lever for
supporting the same, as before stated.

page_text: Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our said
Invention of "Improvements in Machinery acting upon and in connection
with Rotary Shuttle Boxes for Weaving Checks, Plaids, Figured and Fancy
Goods," together with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, we would remark, in conclusion, that we do not
intend to limit or confine ourselves to the precise details of construction and
arrangement of the mechanism above described, and represented at the several
Sheets of Drawings hereunto annexed, so long as the spirit of our said
improvements be retained; and we hereby declare that what we claim as our
Invention, intended to be secured to us by the above in part recited Letters
Patent, is as follows:-
First, we claim the combined mechanical arrangements or machinery
represented at the several Figures of Sheets 1, 2, and 3, for the purpose
of imparting circular and alternate circular motion both in a backward
and forward direction to the rotatory shuttle boxes of looms employed for
weaving, whatever be the means employed for imparting motion to such
said machinery.
Secondly, we claim the machinery, as described under our first claim, in
combination with certain parts of Mowbray's Patent, of the 23rd day of June
1855, Numbered 1442, in connection with cards marked Z* and Z**, or
the pins marked 6, 7, 8, 6, 7, 8, in Figures 14 and *, of Sheet 2, for weaving
checks, plaids, figured and fancy goods, in looms working with rotary shuttle
boxes, whereby we are enabled to bring any one of the shuttles into a line
with the shuttle race of the loom by simply turning said shuttle box one-half
of an entire revolution.
Thirdly, we claim the machinery described under our first claim, in com-
bination with an ordinary jacquard engine, and also with the machinery repre-
sented at Figures 15, 16, 17, of Sheet 2, and Figures 18 to 27 inclusive of
Sheet 3, and marked 17, 18, 19, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, at such said
Figures, for weaving checks and plaids, and figured or fancy goods, in looms
working with rotary shuttle boxes.
Fourthly, we claim the combined machinery exhibited at Figures 1, 2, 12, 13,
of Sheets 1 and 2, and marked y, z, 11, 12, 13, 14, at such said Figures, for
the purpose of more effectually stopping the shuttle box in its proper place
than heretofore, and taking the pressure of the locking hammer z off the
rotary shuttle box, to enable the same to turn freely during the changing of
position of the shuttle boxes of looms working with rotary shuttle boxes.
Fifthly, we claim the mechanism exhibited at Figures 9, 10, 11, of Sheet 2,

page_text: for preventing injury to the mechanism of the loom, when the shuttle does not
land properly in the shuttle box, or when the said box meets with any other
obstruction to its turning on its axis.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Bottomley, James Bottomley,
and Thomas Bottomley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JOSEPH SWAIN,
Great Horton, n' Bradford,
Yorkshire.
SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY. (L.S.)
(L.S.)
JAMES BOTTOMLEY.
THOMAS BOTTOMLEY. (L.S.)