IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING ELASTIC FABRICS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Luke Turner, of Leicester, Elastic Web Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
ELASTIC FABRICS."
Sealed the 15th May 1874, and dated the 8th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Luke Turner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th December 1873.
I, LUKE TURNER, of Leicester, Elastic Web Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR
WEAVING ELASTIC FABRICS," to be as follows:
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In the ordinary looms for weaving elastic fabrics the fabric at every
beat up of the slay is driven forward over the breast beam, and on the
return of the slay the fabric rebounds, so that there is a jumping or
reciprocating motion constantly going on during the weaving operation
in that part of the fabric which is between the slay and the taking-up

page_text: roller, and this jumping motion is apt to produce an irregular face on the
fabric.
The object of the present Invention is to prevent this jumping motion
from extending beyond the breast beam to the taking-up roller as is now
the case, and this is effected by placing on the top of the breast or
taking-up roller a weighted roller, which by pressing on the fabric will
prevent it from jumping on the breast or taking-up roller, to which an
uniform taking-up motion is communicated in the ordinary manner, so
that that part of the fabric which is beyond the pressing roller will have
only a simple intermittent motion in one direction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Luke Turner in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 8th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LUKE
TURNER, of Leicester, Elastic Web Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Luke Turner, Her special licence,
that I, the said Luke Turner, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Luke Turner, my executors, 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
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 LOOMS FOR WEAVING ELASTIC FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Luke Turner, 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

page_text: Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Luke Turner, 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say) :—
In the ordinary looms for weaving elastic fabrics the fabric at every
beat up of the slay is driven forward over the breast beam, and on the
return of the slay the fabric rebounds, so that there is a jumping or
reciprocating motion constantly going on during the weaving operation
in that part of the fabric which is between the slay and the taking-up
roller, and this jumping motion is apt to produce an irregular face on the
fabric.
The object of the present Invention is to prevent this jumping
motion from extending beyond the breast beam to the taking-up roller,
as is now the case, and this is effected by placing on the top of the
breast or taking-up roller a weighted roller, which by pressing on the
fabric will prevent it from jumping on the breast or taking-up roller, to
which an uniform taking-up motion is communicated in the ordinary
manner, so that that part of the fabric which is beyond the pressing
roller will have only a simple intermittent motion in one direction.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a
sectional side elevation of so much of a gusset loom as is necessary to
explain the nature of my Invention. The woven fabric a as it passes
from the slay is carried forward over the breast roller 6 and under the
top pressure roller c which rests thereon, and being weighted as shown
in the Drawing presses on the fabric and prevents it from jumping. The
fabric then passes under the breast roller and is kept in contact therewith
by means of an under pressing roller d, which by means of its weighted
lever is made to press upwards. The fabric as it is woven is drawn
forward in a uniform manner by the taking-up or breast roller b, which
is actuated by a snail 6', taking into a worm wheel 6 on the axle of the
roller b. The snail is on a shaft, which is driven by the slay or other
moving part of the loom in the ordinary or in any other convenient manner.

page_text: The work beam is not shewn in the Drawing, but is hung in suitable
bearings below, just as in ordinary looms.
It will now be understood that upon the slay beating up and moving
- forward the fabric the top pressure roller c will move with it, but will
not allow the fabric to jump back, as is now the case, but will cause the
breast or taking-up roller 6 to carry foward the work in a uniform
manner.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in Looms for
Weaving Elastic Fabrics," and having explained the manner of carrying
the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters
Patent as aforesaid adapting to the breast beam of looms for weaving
elastic fabrics a weighted or pressure roller in combination with a breast
or taking-up roller, which will carry forward the fabric, the whole being
so arranged that the woven fabric being nipped between the pressure
roller and the breast or taking-up roller will be prevented from jumping
on the latter, but will be carried forward with a regular intermittent
motion in one direction, as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Luke Turner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Eighth, day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.