IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD AND OTHER PATTERN LOOMS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Neild, of the firm of Neild, Sutcliffe, and
Company, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Spinners and
Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD AND
OTHER PATTERN LOOMS."-A communication.
Sealed the 24th December 1856, and dated the 15th July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Neild at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
July 1856.
I, ARTHUR NEILD, of the firm of Neild, Sutcliffe, and Company, of Man-
chester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN JACQUARD AND OTHER PATTERN Looмs," communicated to me by a foreigner
residing abroad, to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in certain arrangements of machinery or apparatus
in looms connected with the jacquard or other pattern apparatus for arresting
or retarding the taking-up motion, so as to cause a greater number of picks to
be driven in at any required part of the cloth.
In the annexed Drawing we shew the machinery or apparatus we employ.
A, is a rack wheel; B, holding catch; C, a push catch, worked by the
motion of the lathe in the usual manner, and so fixed that when the heavy end
is raised it ceases to act on the rack wheel, and stops the taking .up till it is
allowed to act again by the weight falling; D, is a catch, intended to take up,
all at once, part of the teeth on the rack wheel, which have not been taken up
while the catch C has been stopped; E, is a weight, attached to the lever D"
and catch D, to bring them back to their position again. When a thick weft

page_text: stripe is wanted, the jacquard or other pattern apparatus pulls up a string or
chain attached to the heavy end of the catch C, and keeps it from causing the
rack wheel to revolve till a certain quantity of picks have been put in the
cloth. The apparatus then allows the catch to fall, and another catch D is
made to take up, all at once, by a motion of the jacquard or other pattern
apparatus, the teeth that have been lost through the non-action of C.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Neild in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th
January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
NEILD, of the firm of Neild, Sutcliffe, and Company, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Spinners and Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Arthur Neild, Her special licence that I, the said Arthur Neild, my]
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur
Neild, 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 JACQUARD
AND OTHER PATTERN LOOMS," (communicated to me by a foreigner residing
abroad,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arthur
Neild, 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 Arthur Neild, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to
to say :-

page_text: This Invention consists in certain arrangements of machinery or apparatus
in looms connected with the jacquard or other pattern apparatus for arresting
or retarding the taking-up motion, so as to cause a greater or less number of
picks to be driven in at any required part of the cloth.
In the annexed Drawing I have shewn machinery or apparatus constructed
according to the present improvements, exemplifying the manner of carrying
the Invention into effect, the Figure shewing a side elevation.
A is a rack wheel; B, holding catch; C, a push catch, worked by the
motion of the lathe in the usual manner, and so fixed that when the weighted
end is raised it ceases to act on the rack wheel, and stops the taking up till it
is allowed to act again by the weighted end of the catch C falling; D is a
catch, intended to take up, all at once, the whole or part of the teeth on the
rack wheel, which have not been taken up while the catch C has been stopped;
E, is a weight attached to the lever D" and catch D, to bring them back to
their position again. When a thick weft stripe is wanted, the jacquard or
other pattern apparatus, pulls up a string or chain attached to the heavy end
of the catch C, and keeps it from causing the rack wheel to revolve, till a
certain quantity of picks have been put in the cloth. The apparatus then
allows the catch C to commence taking up the teeth in rack wheel A, and
another catch D is made to take up, all at once, by a motion of the jacquard or
other pattern apparatus, the whole or part of the teeth that have been lost
through the non-action of C.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, as the improve-
ments constituting the said Invention, the arrangements of machinery or
apparatus, herein-before described and represented in the annexed Drawings,
connected with jacquard and other pattern looms for arresting or retarding the
taking-up motion for the purpose explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Neild, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven.