AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING A METAL HEALD OR HEALDS FOR THE WEAVING OF SILK, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, COTTEN, OR ANY OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1835

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
OSBALDESTON, of Blackburn, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Weaver,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-five, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Osbaldeston, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John.
Osbaldeston, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Osbaldeston, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING A METAL HEALD OR HEALDS
FOR THE WEAVING OF SILK, WOOLLEN, WORSTED, COTTEN, OR ANY OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the
said John Osbaldeston, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,

page_text: as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Osbaldeston, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully set forth, represented,
and specified in the Drawings in the margin hereof, and in the following
explanation of the same, that is to say :-
Instead of making a metal heald for the purposes aforesaid of a flat slip of
steel or other metal, with the eyehole drilled therein, the necessarily sharp edges
of which eyehole has the effect of cutting more or less the threads passed
through it, I make the heald of fine brass wire, so twisted together that by
the manner of the twisting thereof an eyehole is left in the middle, equally
efficient with the eyehole drilled in the slip of metal as aforesaid, while from
the roundness of the wire no injury is done to the cotton, silk, or other thread
passed through the said eye, by which advantageous substitution of wire for
slips of metal a great saving in expence is also effected. To form my improved
metallic wire heald I first take a piece of brass wire of any given length, as
Figure 1, and make a common loop a in the middle thereof, as shewn in
Figure 2. I then turn back the half of the said wire marked b, and drawing
.it through the loop a on the reverse side, form it into three equal or nearly
equal, but continuous threads or strands, as shewn in Figure 3. I next do
the same by the other half of the said wire marked c; and, finally, I twist the
three folds of each half together, making them fast. by bringing the end of the
third fold round the ends of the two other folds and knotting it thereon, as
shewn in Figure 4, which represents one of my improved metallic heads in its
complete state. The centre loop a, being by this manner of twisting left
permanently open, so that it cannot by any degree of tension be drawn close,
forms the eye of the heald, while the two loops e, e, left at the ends, serve to
hang the heald to the reeds in the usual manner.
And having now particularly described the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that though
I prefer brass wire as the most suitable for the purpose, I do not limit myself
thereto, but that my said improved heald may be also made of steel, copper,
iron, or any other metallic wire. And I declare that what I claim as my
Invention is the metal heald, and the mode of making the same out of any
given length of brass or other wire, represented in the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and herein-before particularly described; and such my Invention
being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before
used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain

page_text: and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same,
and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all
respects, fully and without reserve and disguise, with the proviso in the said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained, wherefore I do hereby
claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Osbaldeston, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
thousand night hundred and thirts aire