IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING STUFF AND OTHER GOODS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Amos Holt and Jabez Bentley, of Cardigan Mill,
East Ardsley, near Wakefield, in the County of York, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING STUFF AND OTHER GOODS"
Sealed the 5th May 1857, and dated the 7th November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Amos Holt and Jabez
Bentley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 7th November 1856.
We, AMOS HOLT and JABEZ BENTLEY, of Cardigan Mill, East Ardsley, near
Wakefield, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING STUFF AND OTHER
GooDs," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain new and improved mechanism to be
adapted to and constituting part of a loom to be employed for weaving "stuff"
and other goods, and the principal features of novelty in these improvements
consist :-
Firstly, in lifting the stop rod of the loom by the action of the picker.
Secondly, in an improved mode of working the cylinder by means of an
eccentric placed on the cam shaft for that purpose.
Thirdly, in an improved mode of working the shuttle boxes, and especially
the causing of such said boxes to move as near as may be in a straight line,
or horizontally from back to front of the loom instead of moving them in a

page_text: curved line as heretofore practised in looms in which more than one shuttlo
box is employed.
The above improved machinery, or part thereof, may be worked by a
jacquard machine, or it may be worked direct from the loom as may be found
most desirable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Amos Holt and Jabez Bentley in the Great Seal Patent
Offico on the 7th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, AMOS
HOLT and JABEZ BENTLEY, of Cardigan Mill, East Ardsley, near Wakefield, in
the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, 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 us, the said Amos
Holt and Jabez Holt, Her special licence that we, the said Amos Holt
and Jabez Bentley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Amos Holt and Jabez Bentley, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING STUPP AND OTHER GOODS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Amos Holt and Jabez Bentley,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, or them, 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 immedi-
ately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Amos Holt and Jabez Bentley, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
Eame is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention relates to certain new and improved mechanism to be adapted
to and constituting part of a loom to be employed for weaving "stuff" and

page_text: other goods, and the principal features of novelty of our said improvements
consist :-
Firstly, in lifting the stop rod of the loom by the action of the "picker."
Secondly, in an improved mode of working the cylinder by means of an
eccentric placed on the picking shaft of the loom for that purpose.
Thirdly, in an improved mode of working the shuttle boxes, and especially
the causing of such said boxes to move as near as may be in a straight line, or
horizontally from back to front of the loom, instead of moving them in a
curved line as heretofore practised in looms in which more than one shuttle
box is employed.
The above improved mechanism, or part thereof, may be worked by a
jacquard machine, or it may be worked direct from the loom as may be found
most desirable.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon respectively as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a loom shewing our improvements adapted
thereto; Figure 2 is an end view thereof at A, Figure 1; Figures 3 and 4 are
detached parts drawn to an enlarged scale, and herein-after referred to. At
each of the foregoing Figures we employ similar letters of reference to denote
corresponding parts in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of
such said figures respectively. At Figures 1 and 2, A is the framing of the
loom, to which is attached the several ordinary working parts thereof, and in
addition to these, the following new and improved parts distinguished from the
other parts by blue and red color. B is the motion which we employ for
lifting the stop rod of the loom by the action of the picker; C, the cylinder for
imparting motion to the catches D, which are connected to the framing at 1, 1,
by a pin or stud on which they vibrate; E, E, are springs for lifting the afore-
said catches; G is a cranked piece for working the shuttle boxes at H; I is a
spring for holding the crank G in proper position; K is the mechanism that
we employ for effecting the horizontal movement of the shuttle boxes from
back to front of the loom; L is an eccentric fixed upon the picking shaft of
the loom, and employed for lifting the cylinder C, by which the catches are
worked at the proper time in accordance with the other movements of the

page_text: loom, which being well known, it is unnecessary here to enter into any
description of.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention of
"Improvements in Machinery for Weaving Stuff and other Goods," together
with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, we would remark in conclusion, that we hereby declare our
Invention to consist in, and we claim, the mechanical arrangements or con-
trivances above described and represented by bluo .and red color for effecting
the several operations of lifting the stop rod of the loom by the picker, for
working the cylinder C and the shuttle boxes, whereby such said boxes are
caused to move horizontally from back to front of the loom as above stated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Amos Holt and Jabez Bentley, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-soven.
Witness,
HENRY MIRFIELD,
Holme Lane, Bradford.
AMOS HOLT.
(L.9.)
JABEZ BENTLEY. (L.s.)