IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING RIBBONS AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Newsome, of the City of Coventry, Ribbon
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
RIBBONS AND OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 9th July 1861, and dated the 10th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Newsome at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
January 1861.
I, CHARLES NEWSOME, of the City of Coventry, Ribbon Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LOOMS FOR WEAVING RIBBONS AND OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
It has heretofore been the practice in the construction and working of looms
for the weaving of ribbons and other fabrics for the batten to be movable, and
to be moved in striking up the shute or weft, which is an impediment to the
quick action of the shuttles, and requires considerable power.
Now, my Invention consists in constructing such looms with fixed' battens,
and in making the slays or reeds moveable, and moving the same for the
purpose of striking up the shute or weft, whereby a quicker motion of the
shuttles can be obtained, and a considerable saving of motive power is
effected.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Newsome in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
NEWSOME, of the City of Coventry, Ribbon Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of January in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Newsome, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Newsome, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Newsome, 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 LOOMS FOR
WEAVING RIBBONS AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Charles-Newsome, 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 Charles Newsome, 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 Drawings hereunto annexed, that is
to say:-
It has heretofore been the practice in the, construction and working of
looms for the weaving of ribbons and other fabrics for the batten to be
movable, and to be moved in striking up the shute or weft, which is an
impediment to the quick action of the shuttles, and requires considerable
power..
Now, my Invention consists, in constructing such looms with fixed battens,
and in making the slays or reeds movable, and moving the same for the pur-
pose of striking up the shute or weft, whereby a quicker motion of the shuttles
can be obtained, and a considerable saving of motive power is effected.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front, and Figure 2 a side

page_text: view of so much of a loom as will be necessary to illustrate the manner in
which I carry my Invention into effect. In Figure 1, A is the driving shaft
or axis on which "slay" arms B are fixed by set screws; each slay arm carries
at top the reeds or slays fixed in movable cradles or slay holders C; D is a
slotted rod upon the driving shaft or axis A fixed by a set screw; the rod D
is connected with the driving pulley E by the elbow rod G, whereby the
driving shaft or axis A performs part of a revolution, and then returns, thereby
giving an oscillatory motion to the slays, while the batten remains stationary ;
the parts D, E, and G, are more clearly shewn in Figure 2. The batten H
containing the shuttles and shuttle boxes does not require to be moved with
the slays.
In Figure 2, C is a side view of the slayholder or cradle; D is a side view
of the slotted rod fixed on the driving shaft or axis A; G is a side view of
the elbow rods connecting the slotted rod D to the driving pulley E; H is
the fixed batten lying in its bed K; M, M, M, M, is the frame of the loom.
When my Invention is applied to looms for the weaving of figured ribbons
requiring more than one tier of shuttles, the batten has not to be moved for
the purpose of striking up the shute or weft, but must be made to rise and fall
for bringing each tier of shuttles into use according to the method at present
adopted for obtaining such perpendicular motion.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ments in looms for weaving ribbons and other fabrics, the employment of
fixed battens and movable slays or reeds to strike up the shute or weft
substantially in manner and for the purposes herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Newsome, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of July, One thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named Charles Newsome, in
the presence of
THO. BROWETT,
Solicitor, Coventry.
CHARLES NEWSOME. (L.S.)