Improvements in Loom Temples.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
Improvements in Loom Temples.
We, SAMUEL COOK. Machinist, and JAMES CHAMBERS, Loom Temple Maker.
both of the Victoria Works, Spring Street, Bury, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
This invention relates to that class of loom temples known as "ring" temples.
Such temples as ordinarily made are, owing to the method of construction unless
very accurately finished, liable to fray the cloth during the process of weaving and
when employed on fabrics of the kind known to the trade as "fringes" (in weaving
which it is necessary from time to time to draw forward the warp from three to
four inches without putting in any weft) they are found troublesome through
allowing the warp threads to get down and become fast in the spaces between the
rings and their adjoining "segments" or washers thereby causing breakage and loss
of time in piecing up the broken ends or threads.
One object of our invention is to overcome these defects and to this end we form
the segments of a novel shape and recess or hollow them out on each side so as to
allow the rings to be embedded in or partially covered by the recesses leaving only
a narrow opening between the segments through which the pins or needle points
on the rings may project. We also hollow out in a concave form the peripheries of
the rings so as to give the warp threads a tendency to work inwardly or centrally
towards the pins instead of outwardly towards the spaces between the rings and the
segments as is the ordinary practice.
Another feature of our invention consists in providing the underside of the cap
or cover of a ring temple with ribs standing over the segments so arranged that the
points of the pins may not come in contact with the cover and thereby become
blunted and at the same time may press down the woven cloth and fix it firmly upon
the pins.
In order that our said invention may be better understood we annex a sheet of
drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan and
Fig. 2 a horizontal sectional plan view of a loom temple embodying the first part
of our improvements.
Fig. 3 is a back view of a similar temple showing partly in section the cap
or cover having curved ribs on its underside as above mentioned; and
Fig. 4 is a sectional end view of the temple shewn in plan view at Fig. 1 the
section being taken between one of the segments and its adjoining ring in a diagonal
direction.
a a are the rings; bb the segments recessed on each side and 6' 6' end segments
recessed on only one side. cc are fingers projecting from the back of the
segments 6 b these segments resting on the horizontal bar or arm d projecting from
the lower side of the temple arm or stock e. f is a continuation piece of the usual
kind which along with the segments bb is mounted on the spindle in the form
of a screw bolt g. The rings a a are mounted so as to be capable of rotating
freely on the short studs hh (see Fig. 4) projecting at right angles from the
segments b b.
i is a temple cap or cover having the ribs ; ; of a suitable curvature and
arranged respectively between each pair of adjoining rings and over each of the

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In ring temples of looms for weaving making the "segments" with recesses or
annular hollow spaces substantially as above described and shewn in the drawings
for the purpose specified.
2. In ring temples of looms for weaving shaping the peripheries of the rings in a
hollow or concave form substantially as above described and shewn in the drawings
for the purpose specified..
3. In ring temples of looms for weaving providing the underside of the cap or
cover with ribs substantially as described and shewn in the drawings for the purpose
specified.
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4. The combination in a ring temple of a loom for weaving of a horizontal arm
such as d or its equivalent with fingers projecting from the backs of the "segments
substantially as described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 17th dow of Jul 1901
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.