IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Hennah Martin, of Buttershaw,. near
Bradford, in the County of York, Mechanic, in the Employ of Messrs.
S. Bottomley, Bros., of the same Place, Spinners and Manufacturers, for
Sealed the 19th December 1862, and dated the 27th June 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Hennah Martin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the,
27th June 1862.
I, ALEXANDER HENNAH MARTIN, of Buttershaw, near Bradford, in the
County of York, Mechanic, in the Employ of Messrs. S. Bottomley, Bros., of
the same Place, Spinners and Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN
WEAVING," to be as follows:-
The object of the improvements is to obtain increased uniformity or even-
ness in the winding on or taking up of the cloth. For this purpose the work
beam is borne with the surface of the cloth thereon to the surface of the work
beam or first drawing roller by weighted or other suitable pressure, and the
two beams are geared together by frictional gear adapted to admit of slip as
the diameter of the cloth beam increases by the quantity of cloth wound

page_text: thereon; and to compensate for the consequent difference of distance of the
axes of these two rollers or beams we form the teeth of the gear of length to
admit of such increase of distance without the teeth of the respective wheels
separating one from the other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexander Hennah Martin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th December 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
HENNAH MARTIN, of Buttershaw, near Bradford, in the County of York,
Mechanic, in the Employ of Messrs. S. Bottomley, Bros., of the same Place,
Spinners and Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alexander Hennah Martin, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander
Hennah Martin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Alexander Hennah Martin, 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 MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander Hennah Martin, 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 per-
formed, 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 Alexander Hennah Martin, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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, that is to say:
The object of the improvements is to obtain increased uniformity or even-

page_text: ness in the winding on or taking up of the cloth. For this purpose the work
beam is borne with the surface of the cloth thereon to the surface of the top
beam or first drawing roller by weighted or other suitable pressure, and the
two beams are geared together by frictional gear adapted to admit of slip as
the diameter of the cloth beam increases by the quantity of cloth wound
thereon; and to compensate for the consequent difference of distance of the
axes of these two rollers or beams I form the teeth of the gear of length to
admit of such increase of distance without the teeth of the respective wheels
separating one from the other.
But that the improvements may be better understood I will, by the aid of
the accompanying Drawings pescend to doonnike manne hell T
Figure 1 shows a front view of some of the parts of a loom with adaptations
according to my Invention; Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, show parts separately
full size.
a, a, is the main framing of the loom; bis the work beam- upon which the
cloth produced is wound; and c is the top beam or first drawing roller, which
has motion given to it by toothed gear, whilst the beam or roller b is borne
with the surface of the cloth rolled thereon to the surface of the beam or
roller c by weighted lever or other suitable means, as is well understood.
Upon one end of the beam or roller c is affixed the toothed wheel d, the teeth
of which take into the teeth of the whcel e applied to the beam or roller b, but
so as, except when otherwise retained, to be capable of freely revolving on
that axis without moving the beam or roller b. The wheel e is applied to the
beam 6 between two discs or plates f and g, and the disc or plate f is affixed
to the beam b, whilst the disc or plate g is capable of sliding thereon so as to
be pressed against the side of the toothed wheel e, with more or less force, by
means of the spring lever h, the ends of which are embraced by the projec-
tions g' on the plate g, and are provided with set screws h¹, h¹, by which the
amount of pressure of the spring lever / may be regulated, and friction thereby
caused between the plate f and wheel e to the extent desired. The teeth of
the wheels d and e are formed of length sufficient to admit of the greatest
extent of separation of the beams b, c, required for the amount of cloth accu-
mulated on the beam 6 without their separating one set from the other.
Having thus described the nature of the improvements and means which
I find to answer in carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood

page_text: that I do not confine myself to the precise details shown and described, as
these may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the
improvements explained
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Hennah Martin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of December, in the year of 5
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Hennah Martin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of December, in the year of 5
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ALEXANDER HENNAH MARTIN. (L.S.).
Witness,
JOHN MYERS,
Buttershaw Mills,
nr. Bradford, Yorks.