IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS ADDY LOADER ALSO BOR WEAVING FOR WEAVING LASTINGS AND SERDGE-DE-BERRIES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR WEAVING OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Peel, of the Firm of Bairstow, Brothers, and
Company, of Ovenden, near Halifax, in the County of York, Machine
Makers and Ironfounders, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS
ADDY LOADER ALSO BOR
WEAVING
Sealed the 15th November 1867, and dated the 17th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Peel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th May 1867.
I, HENRY PEEL, of the Firm of Bairstow, Brothers, and Company, of
3 Ovenden, near Halifax, in the County of York, Machine Makers and Iron-
founders; do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING LASTINGS AND SERDGE-DE-BERRIES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR
WEAVING OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates, firstly, to means or apparatus for working or
operating the healds or heddles in such looms, and consists in the employment
of treading tappets having side grooves and treading leavers with friction
pullies to run in the grooves; these levers are connected to ordinary jack

page_text: rods to which the top part of the healds or heddles are attached by usual
connecting rods, and are also connected with the bottom part of the healds or
heddles by other levers, by which means both up-and-down motion is given to
the healds, thus dispensing with the weights or springs now used.
Secondly, this Invention relates to the "taking-up" motion, and consists in
the application of a spiral-cone ratchet wheel which gears with the cloth
roller, and is operated by catches taking into the ratchet teeth, which catches
are caused to move from the small end of the cone towards the thick end by
means of a lever, one end of which rests or presses against the cloth on the
roller and the other is connected to the said catches, so that as the cloth
increases in diameter on the roller the catches are moved from the small end
towards the thick end of the cone wheel, thereby rendering looms self-adjusting
in the "take-up."
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Peel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
PEEL, of the Firm of Bairstow, Brothers, and Company, of Ovenden, near
Halifax, in the County of York, Machine Makers and Ironfounders, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Peel, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Peel, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Peel, my 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 LOOMS FOR
WEAVING LASTINGS AND SERDGE-DE-BERRIES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR WEAVING OTHER
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Peel,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
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page_text: 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 mouths next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Henry Peel, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to means or apparatus for working or operating the
healds or heddles in such looms, and consists in the employment of treading
tappets having side grooves and treading levers with friction pullies to run in
the grooves; these levers are connected to ordinary jack rods to which the
top parts of the healds or heddles are attached by usual connecting rods, and
are also connected with the bottom part of the healds or heddles. by other
levers, by which means both up-and-down motion is given to the healds, thus
dispensing with the weights or springs now used.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of an ordinary loom with my improvements
applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.
A are the treading tappets having side grooves A', as shewn at Figs. 3 and 4,
which tappets are fixed on the usual tappet shaft of the loom in suitable
arrangement according to the required working of the healds; B are the
treading levers which are hinged to the framework at B' in the usual manner,
and they each carry a friction pulley C, which fits so as to run freely in the
grooves of the tappets, one lever being attached to one tappet respectively;
these levers are connected by rods D to the ordinary jack rod levers E, as
usual, the segment levers E¹ being attached to the top parts of the healds or
heddles F by straps or bands F in the usual manner, and by which the said
healds or heddles are lifted; G are levers hinged to the framework at H, and
are connected by rods I to the bottom parts of the healds; these levers are
attached by adjustable shackles or links J to other shackles or link bars K,
attached to the treading levers B, by which motion is given for pulling the
healds or heddles downward.
It will now be observed that the healds or heddles are connected both at
top and bottom direct to the treading levers, whereby they are operated both
up and down, or raised and lowered by the direct action of the tappets without
the aid of weights or springs; and the tappets are so arranged and fixed on

page_text: the shaft as to produce the required opening and closing of the shed at
suitable times or in any désired order of working.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry- Peel, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Henry Peel,
in the presence of
ARTHUR B. CROSSLEY,
. Clerk to W. Tasker,
Patent Agent,
Halifax and Bradford.
HENRY PEEL. (L.S.)