IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Simeon Colbeck and William Henry Colbeck, both
of Batley, in the West Riding of the County of York, Woollen Cloth
Manufacturers for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS."
Manufacturers for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS.”
Sealed the 9th March 1858, and dated the 11th September 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Simeon Colbeck and
William Henry Colbeck at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 11th September 1857.
We, SIMEON COLBECK and WILLIAM HENRY COLBECK, both of Batley, in the
West Riding of the County of York, Woolen Cloth Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS," to
be as follows (that is to say):-
Our Invention, which has reference to improvements in the construction of
looms for the production of woolen cloth or other fabrics, consists in inter-
posing between the beam or roller upon which the cloth or fabric is wound, as
it is finished, two or more bearing rollers, arranged horizontally below the
'breast beam, so as to convey the fabric to the cloth beam with greater uni-
'formity than hitherto, by causing it to pass round the lower and upper portions
of the peripheries of the said bearing rollers respectively, whereby greater
regularity is obtained in the thickness and texture of the cloth than hitherto
during the weaving of the fabric.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Simeon Colbeck and William Henry Colbeck in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SIMEON
COLBECK and WILLIAM HENRY COLBECK, both of Batley, in the West Riding
of the County of York, Woolen Cloth Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Simeon Colbeck and William Henry Colbeck, Her special licence that
we, the said Simeon Colbeck and William Henry Colbeck, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Simeon Colbeck
and William Henry Colbeck; our 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOOMS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Simeon Colbeck and William Henry Colbeck, our executors or administra-
tors, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Simeon Colbeck and William Henry
Colbeck, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, and the Drawings therein referred
to (that is to say) :-
Our Invention, which has reference to improvements in the construction of
looms for the production of woolen cloth or other fabrics, consists in employ-
ing, in place of the cloth beam or roller upon which the cloth or fabric is
usually wound, as it is finished, two or more bearing rollers, arranged horizon-
tally below the breast beam, the piece or cloth being caused to pass round the
lower and upper portions of the peripheries of the said bearing rollers respec-
tively, whereby greater regularity is obtained in the thickness and texture of
the cloth than hitherto during the weaving of the fabric.

page_text: But in order that our said Invention may be more fully understood, and
readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of our improvement in looms; Fig. 2,
an end or side elevation; Fig. 3, a top or plan view; and Fig. 4, a vertical
section taken through the dotted line in Fig. 3. In each Figure the same
letters of reference denote similar corresponding parts. A, A, frame or
standard; B. B, the yarn or thread beam; C, C, the yarn or thread; D, D,
roller, over which the same is conveyed to, the breast beam;; E, E, the cloth
or work; F, F, breast beam; G and G¹, rollers, round the lower and upper
portions of the peripheries of which the cloth or work is caused to pass; as in
manner shown; H, H, shafts or spindles on which the rollers work; I, I,
bearings for the same; J, J, spur wheel, keyed upon the shaft of the roller G;
K, K, pinion wheel, mounted upon the ratchet wheel L, L, with which it
revolves in gear with the spur wheel J, in connection with the roller G;
M and M, spur wheels for coupling the rollers G and G', and transmitting
motion from one to the other; N, N, link movement for taking into the teeth
of the ratchet, and giving motion: to the same; 0, 0, click, for preventing the
return of the rollers G and G¹; P, P, weighted tappet lever, by which the
link movement is actuated; Q, Q, stud bearing or fulcrum on which the lever
works; R, R, adjusting counterbalance weights; S, S, tappet for receiving
and giving motion to the lever through the intervention of the spur wheel and
pinion T and T', in connection with the fly wheel U, U, on the shaft of which
the pinion is keyed in such manner as to be driven by steam, machinery, or
other motive power through the medium of the fast and, loose pulley V and
V¹, or otherwise; W, W, plumber block bearings; X, X, nuts and bolts for
securing the frame to the flooring or otherwise.
In conclusion to the foregoing description, we would here briefly remark,
that we are enabled to effect a considerable saving of time and attention on
the part of the operator, and produce greater regularity in the texture of the
fabric than hitherto, by the employment of the drawing or bearing rollers
as above described, in place of the piece or cloth beam as at present in use,
so as to present at all times the same uniformity in the circumference or
thickness of the rollers, and admit of the cloth being slipped or passed on to
the ground without causing any variation in the tension or strain upon the
same; and we would further note, that the mode of drawing the cloth on to
the rollers, as described by us, is the same as at present employed for drawing
it on to the ordinary cloth beam; and furthermore, that the said rollers may

page_text: be cased or covered with any suitable material for increasing the surface
friction of the same, and preventing the slipping of the fabric.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried
into effect, we would have it clearly understood that we do not intend to con-
fine ourselves to the precise details herein before described, as the same may
be varied without departing from the general principle of these our said
improvements; but that which we do claim as new and of our said Invention
is, the employment of two or more rollers in place of the ordinary piece roller
or cloth beam, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Simeon Colbeck and William Henry
Colbeck, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Ninth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
SIMP UN.COLDE
(L.S.)
WILLIAM. HENRY COLBECK. (L.S.)
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