IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING LOOM SHUTTLES, AND AN IMPROVED METHOD IN FIXING AND DRIVING THE SAME.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lemster Stokes and William Stokes, both of
Derby, in the County of Derby, Elastic Web Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING LOOM SHUTTLES, AND
AN IMPROVED METHOD IN FIXING AND DRIVING THE SAME.'
"
Sealed the 16th July 1872, and dated the 18th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lemster Stokes and
William Stokes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 18th January 1872.
We, LEMSTER STOKES and WILLIAM STOKES, both of Derby, in the
County of Derby, Elastic Web Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING LOOM SHUTTLES,
AND AN IMPROVED METHOD IN FIXING AND DRIVING THE SAME," to be as
follows:-

page_text: shuttles or tongued planks and grooved shuttles, whereas heretofore the
shuttle has been worked horizontally at the front of the lathe. These
improvements will therefore allow of the employment of a smaller
shuttle and a larger quill, and by dispensing with some of the woodwork
will leave a larger opening for the quill, thereby carrying a quill which
is by preference three-fourths larger than the quill heretofore used. Less
stoppage is thus required and an increased quantity of work is produced
within the same period of time.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lemster Stokes and William Stokes in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LEMSTER
STOKES and WILLIAM STOKES, both of Derby, in the County of Derby,
Elastic Web Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Lemster Stokes and William Stokes,
Her special licence that we, the said Lemster Stokes and William
Stokes, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Lemster Stokes and William Stokes, our exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term thercin
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 WEAVING
LOOM SHUTTLES, AND AN IMPROVED METHOD IN FIXING AND DRIVING THE SAME,”
upon the condition, amongst others, that we, the said Lemster Stokes
and William Stokes, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, 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 we, the said Lemster Stokes and William
Stokes, 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, reference
being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon, that is to say :—
These improvements consist in the shuttle working either at the front
of the lathe or at the top of the lathe with grooved planks and tongued

page_text: shuttles or tongued planks and grooved shuttles, whereas heretofore
the shuttle has been worked horizontally at the front of the lathe.
These improvements will therefore allow of the employment of a smaller
shuttle and a larger quill, and by dispensing with some of the woodwork
will leave a larger opening for the quill, thereby carrying a quill which
is by preference three-fourths larger than the quill heretofore used. Less
stoppage is thus required and an increased quantity of work is produced
within the same quantity of time.

page_text: fully the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Sheet 1, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of our improved
arrangement of loom, drawn in this instance on a scale of one-third the
full size; Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same, and Figure 3 is a
plan of the same; Figure 4 represents a section of a carriage and
shuttle of the old or usual form heretofore used, wherein the carriage is
vertical and the shuttle moving between them as shewn%; Figure 5
exhibits a section of our improved carriage and shuttle wherein the
carriage is horizontal; Figure 6 represents another improved form of
carriage and shuttle. Figures 4, 5, and 6 are drawn on a full size
scale.
Sheet 2, Figures 7, 8, 9, and 10 represent full size views or plans of
the various shuttles employed, namely, Figure 7 represents the old
shuttlo moving in a vertical carriage; Figure 8 shows the improved
shuttle moving also in a vertical carriage; Figure 9 exhibits our new
improved shuttle moving in a horizontal carriage; Figure 10 presents
another form of our improved shuttle, moving also in a horizontal
carriage. The same letters of reference refer to all the Figures men-
tioned.
A is the beam, which forms the principal support of the apparatus ;
B represents the carriage or bars between which the shuttle moves;
B shows the supports for carriages; C represents our improved shuttle;
C¹ exhibits the front of our improved shuttle, through a hole in which
the bobbin or spole thread passes; D shews the sley or reeds through
which the warp thread passes, and D¹ and D³ support holding the
sleys D; E represents the back bar for moving the shuttle in one direc-
tion; H is the front bar for working the shuttle in the opposite direction;
I is the main or principal driving bar traversing to and fro and giving
motion alternately to both the bars E and H; M represents the carriage
bars of the old shuttle, and L the old shuttle; K represents our improved
shuttle shewn in plan on Sheet II., having double front but moving in a
vertical carriage as did the old shuttle.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, we would have it understood that what

page_text: we claim is, the improvements in weaving loom shuttles, and in the
method of fixing and driving the same, substantially as herein-before
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Lemster Stokes and William
Stokes, have hereunto set our hands and seals this Sixteenth 5
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two
LEMSTER STOKES.
(L.S.)
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM STOKES. (L.S.)