LOOKS FOR WBAKING
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of 16, Castle
Street, Holborn, (City), London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
LOOKS FOR WBAKING" A communication
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux
Bellford at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd May 1854.
I, AUGUSTE EDOUARD LORADOUX BELLFORD, of 16, Castle Street, Holborn
(City), London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of an arrangement which effects the mechanical
working of the temple, applicable to all kinds of looms for weaving, and bears
principally upon the application to the toothed wheel of a gudgeon, which,
besides giving more solidity and accuracy to its progress, is also a guarantee
against the inevitable wear and tear in the old arrangements of the temple;
also, upon the application of the temple upon the cloth with gudgeons
sufficiently long to give firmness to the apparatus, which affords the facility of
raising or lowering the harness according to the articles desired to be made,
giving every facility for regulating the same; also upon the application of a
finger regulator so placed, that the work may be raised a little, to present

page_text: itself flat to the points of the toothed wheel, and thus become pierced by
advancing on the points; it becomes disengaged again by the rotatory move-
ment of the said points. From this there results an always equal degree of
tension on the work, which effects at the same time a perfect regularity in the
tissue.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by
the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTE
EDOUARD LORADOUX BELLFORD, of 16, Castle Street, Holborn (City), London,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
ine, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, Her special licence that
I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux
Bellford, my 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," a communication, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford,
do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 consists of an arrangement which effects the mechanical

page_text: working of the temple, which arrangement is applicable to all kinds of looms
for weaving, and bears principally upon the application to the toothed wheel or
roller of a gudgeon, which, besides giving more solidity and accuracy in
working, is also a guarantee against the wear and tear, unavoidable in the old
arrangements of the temple; also, upon the application of the temple, per-
pendicularly or nearly so, and also above the cloth, the temple roller having
a sufficiently long axle pin or pivot, to allow raising or lowering the shuttle-
race, according to the articles desired to be made, thus giving every facility
for regulating; also, upon the application of a finger regulator, so placed,
that the work may be raised a little, to present itself flat to the points
of the toothed wheel or roller, and thus become pierced by advancing on
the points; it becomes disengaged again by the rotary motion of the said
points about the axis of the roller. From this results an always equal
degree of tension on the work, which effects at the same time a perfect
regularity in the weaving.
The improved temple consists chiefly of three principal parts, as represented
on the annexed Drawing, viz., the temple roller and slide, shewn in Fig.
1, 2, and 3; a spring clip, as represented, Figs. 4, 5, and 6; and a bracket fixed
to the loom frame and carrying the whole templing apparatus. I shall now
give a list of the different Figures of the annexed Drawing, by naming the
different views according to the positions occupied by the parts when fixed on
the loom; also the same letters stand for like parts in all the Figures.
Fig. 1 is an under plan of the right-hand temple with slide.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, as viewed from the outside of the work.
Fig. 3 is a top plan of the same.
Fig. 4 is a transversal elevation of the right or left-hand clip with slide.
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal clevation of the same without the slide.
Fig. 6 is a plan of the same without the slide.
Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the templing apparatus complete, as fixed on
the loom.
Fig. 8 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 9 is a right-side elevation of the same.

page_text: kept running or working at a constant elevation by being kept by a ferrule g,
fixed on the axis of the roller by a steadying pin; h is a small hole in the
bottom of the box d, for watching the work of the temple, and seing that the
roller pricks the cloth in the proper places; i, cast-iron cliss, to which is fixed
the spring k, which keeps the slide a in its proper place without preventing it
from sliding when the necessary force is applied; 1, slotted bracket for carrying
the temple; m, nut for fixing the spring on the clip d, and also fixing this
clip on the bracket l; n, n, pins on which the slide a rests; o, o, is the breast
beam, carrying the temples, which are mounted on the brackets 1, 1, the said
brackets being fixed by means of bolts p, p, on the breast beam. 1, Fig. 9, is
the shuttle race; s; one of the lathe swords; and t, the recd. The line x, y,
shews the direction in which the cloth travels. Thus it will be seen that it
passes between the regulating finger c and the edge of the box d, standing up
a little, for hooking itself on the points of the roller as they come round in
rotation, the selvage thus advancing by the working of the loom progressively
leaves the points that held it, and is pricked into continuously by the following
ones. The slots of the brackets allow the shifting of the templing apparatus
in the direction of the breast beam's length without shifting said brackets,
and the length of these slots has to be adapted according to the range of cloth
desired to be woven with one and the same templing apparatus. The temples
being thus fixed on the loom, at a suitable distance from each other, the work
proceeds in the following manner-The selvage on each side of the cloth is
made to pass between the flange of the box d and the regulating finger c, which
is so placed as to lift up the border of the cloth a little, so as to cause it to come
perpendicular to the points of the roller on which it hooks whilst moving.
The selvages always moving along the lines x, y, it will be obvious that they
leave the rollers whilst new parts of the selvages get hooked on, thus keeping
the successive portions of the cloth always at an equal tension, and producing
the same quality of cloth throughout.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the way in which
the same is or may be best carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that
I claim as novel, and secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent, without regard to details, which may be varied without departing from
the principle of the Invention, is,-
First, the use and application of two toothed templing rollers or toothed
discs b, whose pivots or axes have a suitable length, and are perpendicular, or
nearly so, to the general surface of the cloth or fabric, woven in such manner
that the points at the circumference of said rollers pierce and stretch the cloth,

page_text: whose edge or selvage is caused to stand up by a moveable regulating finger c,
as described.
Second, the use and application of temples upon and above the cloth, or on
the side opposite to the shuttle-race, so as to allow the slay-cap or race
to be fixed and worked at any height required, or as near to the work as is
desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Edouard Laradoux Bellford, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord 1854.
A. E. LORADOUX BELLFORD. (L.S.)
A. E. LORADOUX BELLFORD. (L.S.)