AN. IMPROVED LUBRICATOR: POD LOOKS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adam Bullough, of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN. IMPROVED LUBRICATOR:
POD LOOKS "
Sealed the 30th May 1856, and dated 5th December 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adam Bullough at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
December 1855.
I, ADAM BULLOUGH, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
LUBRICATOR FOR Looms" to be as follows:-.
I propose to fix to the breast beam of the loom a small vessel or apparatus.
to extend to the spindle in the shuttle box; the said vessel or apparatus to
contain the lubricating matter, the flow of which is so regulated as to allow it
to fall or drop on the spindle at tho required intervals, and thus avoid the
necessity and loss of time of the weaver oiling or lubricating by hand.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Adam Bullough in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADAM
BULLOUGH, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Adam Bullough, Her special licence that I, the said Adam Bullough,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, tho said Adam
Bullough, 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 "AN IMPROVED LUBRICATOR FOR
Looms," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Adam Bullough,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Royal Letters Patent.
1.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said. Adam Bullough, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 (that is to say):-
My Invention consists of a self-acting lubricator for the spindles of the
shuttle boxes, of looms, and which is also applicable to the picking and
treading tappets, by which the spindles are kept constantly lubricated with the
exact amount of lubricating matter required, without the inconvenience and
trouble of the operator using the oil can, and, as it frequently happens, putting
on more oil or lubricating matter than is really necessary, thus causing it
often to run or drop on the cloth or material in the loom and spoil it. The
spindles, &c., also being kept regularly and constantly lubricated cannot
become heated to the extent now so generally complained of. I accomplish
the said desirable improvements by fixing at each side of the frame of the
loom near the breast beam, or in any other convenient position, a bracket or

page_text: similar apparatus, on each of which I place or fix a small can or vessel with a
projecting tube. In this small can or vessel I put the lubricating matter, and
pass through the said projecting tube some absorbent conducting material, one
end of which must be in contact with the lubricating matter in the can or
vessel, and the other end projecting a little out of the end of the said tube. I
arrange the length of the said tube so that at every forward movement of
the slay the conducting material projecting from the end of the tube will
touch or come in contact with the shuttle-box spindle, and the conducting
or attractive power of the material always ensuring to it a supply of
the lubricating matter at the extreme point which touches the spindle,
every forward motion of the slay gives a small but sufficient quantity to
lubricate the spindle, and keep it cool. There are many kinds of materials
that will answer the purpose of attracting and conducting the lubricating
matter from the can or vessel through the tube to the spindle, but what I
recommend as the cheapest, simplest, and most effective is a piece of common
or ordinary worsted which will always be found to contain sufficient moisture
or portion of the lubricating matter, without having a dropping effect, which
dropping, however small, must create waste, and perhaps injure the material in
the loom. The thickness of the said conducting material, and the consequent
diameter or size of the tube, may be regulated or calculated according to tho
quantity of lubricating matter required, which may vary according to circum-
stances; for example, although I have herein shewn a method of lubricating
the spindle at every forward movement of the slay, I can perform the same
operation at every turn or revolution of the cloth beam by fixing the said can
or vessel so that it shall not touch the spindle every movement of the slay, but
only when it is pressed down by a lever fixed to the cloth beam, which lever
will come in contact with the tube of the can or vessel every revolution of the
cloth beam, in which case more lubricating matter will be required than if
supplied at every movement of the slay. It is also evident that the said appa-
ratus may be fixed on the picker, so as to lubricate the spindle every motion or
alternate motion of the picker, which, although practicable, is not so good
or economical as the plan herein described. To lubricate the tappets as before
mentioned, the apparatus may be fixed to the loom frame in any convenient
position. Another advantage to be gained by my said Invention will be in econo-
mizing the wear and tear of the pickers, which every practical man knows to
be very heavy, the heating of the spindles melting the buffalo-hide pickers.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I desire it to be dis-
tinctly understood that 1 do not confine myself to the exact details herein set

page_text: forth, either, as to the exact position of the vessel containing the lubricating
matter, the shape or dimensions thereof, or the material of which the conduct-
ing agent is made, as such may be varied or modified without. departing from
the principle thereof; but I claim as my Invention, and which, to the best of
my knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within this realm, the use
and application of small vessels, with projecting tubes containing an attracting
material or agent to conduct the lubricating matter to the spindles of shuttle
boxes, constituting a self-acting lubricator, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adam. Bullough, have hereunto set. my
hand and scal, this Third day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six..
ADAM BULLOUGH.. (L.S.)'
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-named
Adam Bullough in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,.
Manchester.