A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-ACTING TEMPLE FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Neil Kennedy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
June 1873.
I, NEIL KENNEDY, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-ACTING TEMPLE FOR LOOMS FOR
WEAVING," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This said Invention has reference to a more simple construction of and
efficiently acting temple for keeping the cloth to the full width while
being woven in power or other looms than those heretofore in use.
The nature of this Invention or construction and arrangement of the
parts of this new or improved temple consist of a small truncated
conical pulley or roller with annular rows of short projecting stenter
pins or stretching and holding sharp steel needles or other metal points
inserted over its surface, the longer and sharper row being at the largest
and slightly cylindrical part of the cone, which revolves loosely on a
lateral stud on an oscillating arm on a small crank-shaped bracket
secured in position one at each side, and selvage of the cloth near the

page_text: "fell" by an eye and two pinching screws to a rod for the purpose
passed across below the woven cloth in front of the breast beam of the
loom. This crank arm also carries a small lateral hollow semi-conical
case fixed to it below the selvage of the cloth and the conical breadthening
roller, into which it works when folded down (on its oscillating pin and
arm working parallelly and close to the carrying crank arm and selvage
of the cloth), so that the pins enter the fabric while the body of the
roller presses the cloth down into the hollow half cone below it, and
thus keeps the two selvages of the cloth tightly on the stenter pins and
roller, so that as the cloth is carried forward by the taking-up beam,
it carries round this temple or stretching cone pulley at each selvage
which turns round automatically, and tightens out the cloth to its full
width as it comes forward into the case under it, by the turning conical
and spiral action of the sharp pins set in rows in a spiral direction
over the conical surface as well as annularly, as described. The conical
pulleys are held down by a thumbscrew and a slot in each oscillating
lever, which has an ear or other equivalent for raising it by when the
thumbscrew is released, and this temple can be set close up to the
"fell," which is a great advantage, and renders it more effective in its
action. The pins in the conical surface need not be sharp pointed, and
the roller itself may be made of hard wood, brass, or other material
strong enough to hold the stenter needle points, and the carrying crank
brackets are preferably made of hard wood or cast iron, but they might
also be made of other strong material.
The conical roller might also be made of steel, and while soft have
sharp teeth cut and set up out of the surface (in the same manner that
the teeth of rasps and other forms of temple rollers are) and then
tempered, instead of making the teeth of steel or other metal wire or
points as herein-before described.