IMPROVENETO TV TACOWARD MACHINERY " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Aaron Mosley, of No. 37, Southey Street, in the
Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Mechanic, for the
Invention of 66 IMPROVENETO TV TACOWARD MACHINERY "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left. by the said Aaron Mosley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd December 1872.
I, AARON MOSLEY, of No. 37, Southey Street, in the Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham, Mechanic, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD MACHINERY,"
to be as follows:
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My improvements refer to the employment at pleasure of either the
cards which produce the repeat portion of a design, or the cards which
produce the bottom border, and so doing away with the usual tying on
and off of the different packs of cards.
Secondly. To the employment of two cylinders in the jacquard, which

page_text: The object is to employ at pleasure either the cards which produce
the repeat portion of the design, or the cards which produce the bottom
border of any article, when the border differs in design from the other
portion thereof.
My method enables me to work the repeat portion of the design any
number of times, or half, or any other portion, and to follow on with
the bottom border without the necessity of tying, as is now done, the
pack of cards making the border to the pack which makes the repeat.
In my method I employ a jacquard with two cylinders, having two
scts of selecting needles and one set of lifting needles.
To make the design I employ perforated cards, which being pressed
upon the selecting needles by the cylinder, select the upright needles.
These are lifted in the usual way by what is known as the lift of the
jacquard, and causes them to actuate upon the threads. On a shaft I
fix a double-ended lever, which has a to-and-fro motion given to it by a
crank, eccentric, or cam. Near the end of this double-ended lever is
fixed a pin. On the slide rods of the cylinder is attached an axle, on
which is placed a link, and near the end of this link is a notch fitted
upon the pin near the upper end of the double-ended lever. The to-
and-fro motion of the double-ended lever gives by means of this link the
necessary backwards and forwards movement to one of the cylinders.
On the slide rods of the other cylinder is attached an axle, which axle
is attached by a link by means of a pin to the other end of the
double-ended lever, which gives the necessary backwards and forwards
movement to the other cylinder..
.
The means employed to use either of the cylinders at pleasure are
as follows:-On each end of a shaft which runs through the jacquard
is fixed a one-ended lever, which has near its end a bowl or truck
moving on a pin. On the same shaft is fixed another one-ended lever
acted upon by a catch or stop, which moves on a pin fixed on the
jacquard. Near the end of this catch or stop is fixed a pin on which
acts a selecting needle. On a pin fixed to the jacquard is placed a
double lever, one end being acted upon by a selecting needle. The
other end of the lever acts as a catch to hold the pin fixed to a slide.
On another pin, which is also fixed to the jacquard, is an elbow lever,
one end being acted upon by a selecting needle, the other end acting
upon a pin fixed to a slide, which slide has another pin fixed near the

page_text: lower end, which acts upon the clawker of the cylinder working the
border cards. This clawker moves upon a pin fixed to the jacquard.
The slide works in bearings fixed to the jacquard. To bring the catches
and levers home I employ springs.
Having described most of the appliances used by me in my method,
I will now show how I am enabled to employ at pleasure either the
cards which produce the repeat portion of the design, or the cards
necessary to produce the bottom border. It will be better illustrated
by supposing that for the production of an article with a bottom border
I require to use the repeat portion of the design three times, as compared
with the cards needful to make the bottom border of the design once.
The last card needful to produce the border presses the needle, which
acts upon the stop or catch, and pushes away the stop or catch, and lets
fall the levers attached on the shaft which runs through the jacquard,
thereby letting the links attached to the slide rods of the cylinder fall
on the pin which is fixed near the upper end of the double-ended lever.
The forward movement of the. double-ended lever allows its pin to get
into the notch near the end of the link, and brings the repeat portion
of the cards into work again. The first card in the border is pressed
against the needle which acts on one end of the elbow lever, and by
means of a pin causes the other end to lift the slide, and allows the
catch or stop of the double lever to get on to the pin, and holds the slide
in the position that the elbow lever has lifted it. This slide has another
pin fixed near its lower end. When the slide is lifted by the elbow
lever it lifts the clawker of the border cards out of work. The border
cards have now ceased working, having worked round once, and the
repeat cards have commenced..
I will now describe how I work these cards round three times before
the border cards begin again. The last or the required card in the
repeat portion of the design presses the needle which acts by means of
a pin on one end of the double lever and causes the catch end to move
away from the pin on the slide, which falls and allows the clawker of the
border cards to rack on one of the border cards, which card is pressed
against the needle acting by means of a pin on one end of the elbow
lever, and by means of another pin causes the other end to lift the slide
and allows the catch or stop of the double lever to get home, and holds
the slide in the position that the elbow lever has lifted it. This slide
has another pin fixed near its lower end. When the slide is lifted by

page_text: the elbow lever it lifts the clawker of the border cards out of work.
The border cards are now out of work. This movement is repeated,
and at the third time round of the repeat its last or required card presses
off the catch as before described, and allows the clawker to rack over
the cards.
The border cards are punched so as not to act on the elbow lever,
but on the needle which acts on the upright needle working on, a pin
on the lever which is acted upon by the stop or catch.
The card having
pressed the needle it causes the upright needle to come into contact
with the lift of the jacquard, which lifts it and allows the stop or catch
to get home or to prop up the one-ended lever. The backward move-
ment of the double-ended lever causes the bottom side of the link, which
is attached to the slide rods of the cylinder, to press against the bowls
near the ends of the one-ended levers, and so lifts the links out of
work. The repeat cards have now ceased working, and the border cards
have commenced, having now worked the repeat portion of the design
three times, and the border cards once, an operation that may, go on con-
tinuously.
The selecting needles employed are the usual needles of a jacquard,
whilst the lifting needles are of special shape. To each row of upright
needles I employ a wire running through the jacquard. The upright,
needles are acted upon in the usual way by the selecting needles. The
wires act as centres to the upright needles, and when the border cards
are pressed upon the bottom set of selecting needles the upper ends of
the upright needles are caused to move in an opposite direction. When
thus pressed the lift of the jacquard lifts without them. Or I can use
needles with hooks near their centres which rest on the wires running
through the jacquard, and effect a similar result. The bottom ends of
the upright needles work in slots.
For the sake of illustration I have explained my principle by reference
to a design which repeats itself three times, as compared with the border
once, but I would have it understood that the three times is only an
illustration number, and that I can employ at pleasure either the cards
which produce the repeat, or any portion of the repeat of the design, or
the cards necessary to produce the bottom border portion thereof.
In the production of some articles it will be useful to be able to make
a bottom border and any number of repeats and part of a repeat, and

page_text: this I effect by the following means and in the following way :-It will
be best illustrated by supposing the pattern desired to be produced
requires 100 cards for the bottom border, and 100 for the repeat, and I
will suppose for illustration I require to produce an article containing
one bottom border and three repeats and a half. The 100 cards needful
to produce the bottom border work round one of the cylinders, and the
100 cards needful to produce the repeat work round the other cylinder;
and when three repeats are required these of course work round three
times. To produce the half repeat I attach to the 100 cards needful to
produce the bottom border 50 cards representing the half of the repeat
which I wish to produce. The last of these cards presses upon the
needle which acts upon the stop. or catch, and brings into work, as
already described, the 100 cards needful to produce the repeat portion of
the design. The bottom border of the design is now made, and half the
repeat, and the pack of cards needful to produce the repeat is brought
into operation, and when worked round three times the bottom border
and three repeats and a half are made.
It must be understood the 50 cards attached to the bottom border
cards are extra cards, and are duplicates of the cards needful to produce.
that portion of the repeat.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Aaron Mosley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AARON
MOSLEY, of 37, Southey Street, in the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Aaron Mosley, Her special
licence that I, the said Aaron Mosley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Aaron Mosley, 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

page_text: 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
JACQUARD MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Aaron Mosley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, 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 I, the said Aaron Mosley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say :-
My improvements refer to the employment at pleasure of either the
cards which produce the repeat portion of a design, or the cards which
produce the bottom border, and so doing away with the usual tying on
and off of the different packs of cards.
Secondly. To the employment of two cylinders in the jacquard, which
has the power within itself of stopping one cylinder and starting the
other.
The object is to employ at pleasure either the cards which produce
the repeat portion of the design, or the cards which produce the bottom
border of any article when the border differs in design from the other
portion thereof.
My method enables me to work the repeat portion of the design any
number of times, or half, or any other portion, and to follow on with the
bottom border without the necessity of tying, as is now done, the pack
of cards making the border to the pack which makes the repeat.
In my method I employ a jacquard with two cylinders, having two
sets of selecting needles and one set of lifting needles.
To make the design I employ perforated cards, which being pressed
upon the selecting needles by the cylinder, select the upright needles.
These are lifted in the usual way by what is known as the lift of the
jacquard, and causes them to actuate upon the threads.

page_text: The Invention will be well understood by referring to the accom-
panying Drawings, of which Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved
jacquard. On a shaft A I fix a double-ended lever B which has a
to-and-fro motion given to it by a crank, eccentric, or cam. Near the
end of this double-ended lever is fixed a pin C. On the slide rods of the
cylinder is attached an axle D, on which is placed a link E, and near
the end of this link is a notch which fits upon the pin C near the end
of the double-ended lever. The to-and-fro motion of the double-ended
lever B gives by means of the link E the necessary backwards and
forwards movement to the cylinder F. On the slide rods of the other
cylinder G is attached an axle H, which axle is attached by a link I by
means of a pin J to the other end of the double-ended lever B, which
gives the necessary backwards and forwards movement to the other
cylinder G.
The means employed to use either of the cylinders at pleasure are as
follows: On each end of a shaft K which runs through the jacquard
is fixed a one-ended lever L, which has near its end a bowl or truck
moving on a pin M. On the same shaft K is fixed another one-ended
lever N which is acted upon by a catch or stop O which moves on a
pin P fixed on the jacquard. Near the end of this catch or stop is fixed
a pin Q, as shown in Figure 2, on which acts a selecting needle R. On
a pin S which is fixed to the jacquard, as shown in Figure 2, is placed
a double lever T, one end of which is acted upon by a selecting
needle U. The other end of the lever T acts as a catch to hold the
pin V fixed to the slide W. On another pin X, which is also fixed to
the jacquard, is an elbow lever Y, one end being acted upon by a
selecting needle Z, the other end acting upon a pin No. 1 fixed to the
slide W, which slide W has another pin 2 fixed near the lower end,
which acts upon the clawker 3 of the cylinder G working the border
cards. This clawker 3 moves upon a pin 4 fixed to the jacquard. The
slide W works in bearings 5 fixed to the jacquard. To bring the catches
and levers home I employ springs.
Having described most of the appliances used by me in my method,
I will now show how I am enabled to employ at pleasure either the
cards which produce the repeat portion of the design, or the cards
necessary to produce the bottom border. It will be better illustrated by
supposing that for the production of an article with a bottom border I
require to use the repeat portion of the design three times, as compared

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with the cards needful to make the bottom border of the design once.
The last card needful to produce the bottom border presses the needle R
which acts upon the stop or catch O, and pushes it away, and lets fall
tlic levers L and N attached on the shaft K which runs through the
jacquard, thereby letting the links E attached to the slide rods of the
cylinder F fall on the pin C, which is fixed near the upper end of
the double-ended lever B. The forward movement of the double-
ended lever B allows its pin C to get into the notch near the end of
the link E, and brings the repeat portion of the cards into work again,
as shewn in Figure 1. The first card in the bottom border is pressed
against the needle Z which acts on one end of the elbow lever Y, and
by means of a pin No. 1 causes the other end to lift the slide W, and
allows the catch or stop of the double lever T to get on to the pin V,
and holds the slide W in the position that the elbow lever Y has lifted
it. This slide W has another pin No. 2 fixed near its lower end. When
the slide W is lifted by the elbow lever Y it lifts the clawker No. 3
of the border cards out of work. The border cards have now ceased
working, having worked round once, and the repeat cards have com-
menced, and I will now describe how I work these round three times
before the border cards begin again. The last or the required card in
the repeat portion of the design presses the needle U, which acts by
means of a pin 6 on one end of the double lever T, and causes the catch
end to move away from the pin V on the slide W, which falls and allows
the clawker No. 3 of the border cards to rack on one border card, which
card is pressed against the needle Z, which acts by means of a pin 7 on
one end of the elbow lever Y, and by means of another pin No. 1 causes
the other end to lift the slide W, and allows the catch or stop of the
double lever T to get home, and holds the slide W in the position that
the elbow lever Y has lifted it. This slide W has another pin No. 2
fixed near its lower end. When the slide W is lifted by the elbow
lever Y it lifts the clawker No. 3 of the border cards out of work. The
border cards are now out of work. This movement is repeated, and at
the third time round of the repeat its last or required card presses
off the catch T, as before described, and allows the clawker No. 3 to rack
over the cards.
The border cards are punched so as not to act on the elbow lever Y,
but act on the needle 8 which acts on the upright needle 9 which works
on a pin 10 on the lever N, which is acted upon by the stop or catch O.
The needle S is not visible in the Drawing, it being in a line with

page_text: needle Z. The card having pressed the needle 8 it causes the upright
needle 9 to come into contact with the lift of the jacquard, which lifts
it and allows the stop or catch O to get home, or to prop up the.
one-ended lever N. The backward movement of the double-ended
lever B causes the bottom side of the links E, which are attached to.
the slide rods of the cylinder, to press against the bowls near the ends
of the one-ended levers L, and so lift the links E out of work, as shown
in Figure 2. The repeat cards have now ceased working, and the border
cards have commenced, having now worked the repeat portion of the
design 3 times, and the border cards once, an operation that may go on¹
continuously..
The selecting needles employed are the usual needles of a jacquard,.
whilst the lifting needles 11 are of the shape as shown in Drawing No. 1.
To each row of upright needles 11 I employ a wire 12 running
through the jacquard. The upright needles 11 are acted upon in the
usual way by the selecting needles 13. The wires 12 act as centres to
the upright needles 11, and when the border cards are pressed upon the
bottom set of selecting needles 13 it causes the upper ends of the upright
needles 11 to move in an opposite direction. When thus pressed the
lift of the jacquard lifts without them. Or I can use needles 14 with
books near their centres which rest on the wires 12 running through the.
jacquard, and effect a similar result. The bottom ends of the upright
needles 11 or 14 work in slots.*
For the sake of illustration, I have explained my principle by reference
to a design which repeats itself three times, as compared with the border
once, but I would have it understood the three times is only an
illustration number, and that I can employ at pleasure either the cards.
which produce the repeat, or any portion of the repeat of the design, or.
the cards necessary to produce the bottom border portion thereof.
In the production of some articles it will be useful to be able to make a
bottom border and any number of repeats and part of a repeat, and this
I effect by the following means and in the following way :-It will be best
illustrated by supposing the pattern desired to be produced requires 100
cards for the bottom border and 100 for the repeat, and I will suppose
for illustration I require to produce an article containing one bottom
border and three repeats and a half. The 100 cards needful to produce
the bottom border work round the cylinder G, and the 100 cards needful
to produce the repeat work round the other cylinder F, and when three

page_text: repeats are required, these of course work round three times. To produce
the half repeat I attach to the 100 cards needful to produce the border 50
cards representing the half of the repeat which I wish to produce. The
last of these cards presses upon the needle R which acts upon the stop
or catch O, and brings into work, as already described, the 100 cards
needful to produce the repeat portion of the design. The bottom border
of the design is now made and half the repeat and the pack of cards
needful to produce the repeat is brought into operation, and when worked
round three times the bottom border and three repeats and a half are
made.
It must be understood the 50 cards attached to the bottom border
cards are extra cards, and are duplicates of the cards needful to produce
that portion of the repeat.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do
not confine,myself to the precise details herein-before described and
shown so long as the peculiar character of my Invention be retained;
but what I do claim is,-
Firstly. The foregoing arrangement of mechanism or apparatus for
employing at pleasure either the cards which produce the repeat portion
of a design, or the cards which produce the bottom border, whereby the
usual tying on and off of the different packs of cards is dispensed with,
substantially as described and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. I claim the employment of a jacquard with two cylinders,
which in the jacquard has the power within itself of stopping one
cylinder and starting the other, substantially as herein-before described
and represented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Aaron Mosley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of June One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.