Ix- PROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Loughborough
Park, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "Ix-
PROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."-A communication from abroad
by Henry Benninger, Jacques Benninger, and Ulrick Benninger,
residing at Niedrutzwyl, Canton of St. Gall, Switzerland..
aled the 1st May 1866, and dated the 24th January 1866.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Tomlinson
Bousfield at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition and Declaration, on the 24th January 1866, pursuant to the
9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSPIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton, in the County
of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," communicated to me from abroad
by Henry Benninger, Jacques Benninger, and Ulrich Benninger, persons
resident at Niedrutzwyl, Canton of St. Gall, Switzerland), and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in looms for weaving.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed a loom is shewn having the improvements

page_text: apped thereto; rigme I is a front view of the room, and Figure 2 a side
view.
The loom resembles an ordinary power loom which has added to it a
the shuttle carriers with two change shuttle boxes, one on each side,
together with the following additions, 1, supports for the shuttle carriers ;
2, guides fixed to them for guiding the change shuttle boxes 3, each for
two shuttles; 4, stops for controlling the movement of the shuttle driver
or picker; 5, horizontal rods below the shuttle carriers and connected
with the stops; 6, a spiral spring for giving the necessary elasticity to the
stops; 7, a triangle for pushing aside the stop rods No. 5, which are below
the shuttle carrier; 8, springs placed in the change shuttle boxes to secure
the working of the shuttles; 9, a plate serving as a guide to the shuttle
drivers; 10, a guide for the shuttles; 11, apparatus placed on each side of
the shuttle carriers for stopping the loom should a thread break; 12, a
pawl working on the wheel to prevent it turning back; b, apparatus for
raising the change shuttle boxes; 13; eccentrics on the two extremities of
the main axis for raising the change, shuttle, boxes; 14, rollers of the
horizontal levers, at the end of which a connecting rod 15 descends, which
is guided by pins 16; 17, horizontal: lever forming, the principal piece of
the apparatus for lifting the change shuttle boxes; 18, vertical levers of
the change shuttle boxes connected with forked levers 19, which retain the
two ends of the change shuttle boxes; 20, pins upon which the lever No.
17, turns; c, combination for the batten apparatus, by means of which two
shuttles follow each other successively from each side; 21, toothed wheel
fixed on the main axis; 22, toothed wheel fixed on the axis of the gearing
eccentrics; 23, axis of the gearing eccentrics; 24; bearings of the axis 23;
25, cross framing for supporting the bearings; 26, axis of lateral displace-
ment for setting free the battens; 27, gearing eccentrics for giving motion
to the above axis; 28, roller carried by the axis of lateral displacement;
29, axis of the double battens 30; 31, forks for putting the battens in and
out of gear; d, mechanism connecting the loom with the jacquard
apparatus; 32, crank on the crank axis carrying a stud 33 serving as an
axis for a connecting rod 34 which moves the jacquard apparatus; 35,
horizontal lever transmitting an increase of the movement of the con-
necting rod to the jacquard apparatus; 36, support with a pin carrying the
lever above-mentioned; 37, rod working vertically, connected with the
jacquard apparatus; 38, apparatus to throw out of action the jacquard
apparatus; 39, apparatus for moving the jacquard cards at the time of
throwing the jacquard apparatus out of gear, that is to say, for turning the

page_text: jacquard cylinder in one or other direction; this power loom when
connected with the jacquard apparatus makes on an average 110 picks a
minute, and is capable of producing in any pattern curtains and similar
articles. The same loom can also be worked without the jacquard for
colored fabrics, and works in this case with two or more treadles. This
loom works quietly and with certainty even when the main shaft is driven
unevenly.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
GEO. T. BOUSFIELD. (L.s.)