CERTAIN IM- PROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Holding, of Wheelton, near Chorley, in the
County of Lancaster, Overlooker, for the lavention of "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 28th February 1865, and dated the 10th September 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Holding at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
September 1864.
I, JOSEPH HOLDING, of Wheelton, near Chorley, in the County of Lancaster,
Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that portion of the power loom termed the "stay,"
and to that part thereof over which the shuttle traverses and the warp threads
pass.
The improvements consist in the employment, use, and adaptation of a plate
or strip of glass or smooth vitreous substance inserted in the upper surface of
the slay, such strip being secured thereto by adhesive cement. The employment
of glass instead of the ordinary surface of wood creates less friction between
the shuttle and the "slay," and also between the "slay" and the warp passing
over it, whereby considerable economy is effected in shuttles and in the power
required to drive them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Holding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
March 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HOLDING, of Wheelton, near Chorley, in the County of Lancaster, Overlooker,
sond greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Holding, Her special license that 1, the said Joseph
Holding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, tho
said Joseph Holding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the
said Joseph Holding, 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
dato of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Joseph Holding, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statoment and accompanying Drawings (that is to say).:-
My Invention relates to that portion of the power loom termed the slay;
and to that part thereof over. which the shuttle traverses and the warp.threads
pass..
The improvements consist in the employment, use, and adaptation of a plate
or strip of glass or smooth vitreous substance inserted in the upper surfaco of
the slay, such strip being secured. thereto by adhesive cement. The employment
of glass instead of the ordinary surface of wood creates less friction between
the shuttle and the slay, and also botween the slay and the warp passing over
it, whereby considerable economy is effoetod in shuttles and in the power
required to drive them.

page_text: In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings, Fig. being made upon a
scale of about three inches to the foot, similar letters of reference being marked
upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents a longitudinal plan view of the slay with the strip or
plate of glass inserted, over which the shuttle passes from one box to the other;
Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same; & Fig. 3 represents the dovetail
bracket secured to the slay which fixes or retains the ends of the strip or plate
of glass.
In Figs. 1, 2, and 8, a, a, is the slay of the loom, on the top surface of
which is inserted the plate or strip of glass 6, which is securod thereto by the
cement and the dovetailed brackets c, c, such brackets being first secured to the
slay, firmly hold down and retain in position the strip of glass when bedded
upon the cement.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the application and use of a surface of glass or other
simooth vitreous substance inserted in the upper surface of the slay over which
the shuttle passes on its course from box to box, as herein-before described, set
forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Holding, have hereunto set my
mark and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JOSEPH HOLDING. + (L.S.)
mark.
The same having been first distinctly read over and fully explained by me
to the above-named Joseph Holding, who seemed perfectly to understand the
same, and who set his mark thereto in my pressence.