IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING 'TEMPLES' AND 'HEALDS' EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Holding, of the Patent Heald Super-
seding Company, Limited, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING 'TEMPLES' AND
'HEALDS' EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 15th September 1871, and dated the 18th March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Holding at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th March 1871.
I, JOSEPH HOLDING, of the Patent Heald Superseding Company,
Limited, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-
ACTING TEMPLES' AND 'HEALDS' EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as
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page_text: temple roller, composed of wood and metal provided with hardened steel
or other metal pins; and the improvements consist in constructing the
interior portion of the roller surrounding the steel axis or pin of hard
wood or other suitable material, and covering the outside portion thereof
with brass or other metal tubing which is driven so as to fit tightly on
to the wood; holes or perforations are then formed in the brass coating
which slightly penetrate into the wood, into these holes conical or
taper pins are inserted, so as to allow the points of the same to protrude
at one uniform distance outside the metal coating; these points arc
then secured in the metal by compression through the medium of a
female punch, which when encircling the pin and forced against the
brass surrounding the pin causes the metal to close upon the same,
thereby firmly retaining it in its position in the temple.
Secondly, the Invention relates to an improved heald, and consists in
constructing the same of flat metal strips which are nicked or cut at the
center of their lengths so as to allow the portion so cut to be opened
or bent in opposite directions, so as to form the eyes through which
the yarns are passed; or the flat strips of metal composing the heald
may have two nicks or cuts in their central distance, the middle piece or
length left between the nicks are bent in one direction and the outside
edges in the opposite direction, the formation of which composes the
cycs; or the eyes in the metal strips may be composed by punching
holes in the central portion of the strip and passing through the same
wire or cord, the said wire or cord forming one side of the eye and the
strip of metal the other side. The strips of metal, top and bottom, arc
secured to the shafts or staves of the heald by a continuous spiral wire
or yarn band.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Holding in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
HOLDING, of the Patent Heald Superseding Company, Limited, of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Holding, Her special license that I,
the said Joseph Holding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the 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 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING TEMPLES
HEALDS' EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition
amongst others, that I, the said Joseph Holding, by an instrument 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.
AND
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Holding, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
The first part of my Invention relates to the "roller temples "
employed in looms for weaving, and consists in forming the said temples
with an outer surface of metal surrounding an inner core of wood. The
pins or points are inserted in holes formed partly in the metal covering
and partly in the said inner core, and are fixed therein by closing the
metal of the outer covering around the said pins by means of a hollow
punch or calking tool.
The second part of my Invention relates to the healds also employed
in looms for weaving, and consists of methods of forming the said healds
wholly or principally of flattened wire or of thin strips of metal.
According to one method a slit or slot of a suitable length is formed
at about the centre of the width of each strip of metal or length of
flattened wire, and the portions of metal on each side of the said slit
are bent in opposite directions to form the eye, or two slits are formed,

page_text: and the portion of metal between the said slits is bent in one direction,
and the portions between the said slits and the edges of the strip are
bent in an opposite direction.
According to another method two slots or perforations are formed in
the said strip at a distance apart about equal to the required length
of the eye, and a narrower strip of metal or a length of wire or yarn is
passed through the said slots or perforations, the portion of the broader
strip of metal extending between the said slots or perforations forming
one side of the eye, the narrower strip or the said wire or yarn forming
the other side of the said eye.
In order that my said Invention may be more fully explained and
better understood I will in this place refer to the Sheet of Drawings
accompanying the present Specification.
Fig. 1 of the said Drawings represents a cross section, and Fig. 2 a
longitudinal section of one of the improved temples.
In the said Figures a is the outer covering of metal, b is the inner
core of wood, and c is the axle. The said outer covering, by preference,
consists of a length of thin brass tubing, the inner core of wood being
turned to correspond in diameter with the bore of the said tube. The said
tube is forced upon the said core or the said core is forced into the said
tube. The said core, if hitherto solid, is now bored to receive the axle c,
and the said axle is driven into position within the said core as shewn in
the Drawing, or the said axle may be fixed within the said core before the
application of the outer covering as preferred or found to be most con-
venient. A suitable number of holes are drilled or pierced through the
metal a and into the core 6, and pins or points d, d, are inserted in
the said holes and are fixed therein by closing the metal around the
said pins or points by means of a tool similar to the one, the end of
which is shewn partly in section at e in Fig. 1.
The second part of the Invention is illustrated by the remaining
Figures.
Fig. 3 is a front view of a portion of a set of healds, and Fig. 4
is a side view of the same.
In the said Figures f, f, are the thin strips of metal or lengths of
flattened wire through each of which is punched a slot g. When the
metal on one side of the said slot has been bent in one direction,

page_text: and the metal on the other side thereof in a contrary direction, the
appearance of the eye thus formed will be as represented in Figure 3.
If preferred the top and bottom of the eye may be strengthened and
made more suitable to act upon the yarn by the application of a little
"solder." An end of yarn resting in the eye is shown at h.
A method of attaching the healds to the shafts is sufficiently indicated
in the Drawings.
Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of the above-described method of
forming the eye. In this example two slits. or narrow slots are made
in the strip, and the metal i between the said slits is bent in one
direction, and the narrow strips of metal k, k, in a contrary direction, the
appearance of the eye being as represented in Fig. 3.
Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate another method of forming the eye. In this
example two perforations or slots are punched in the strip of metal, as
indicated by Fig. 12, and a length of flat or flattened wire is passed
through the said slots or perforations, and the portion of the said wire
which extends between the slots or perforations is bent in one direction
and the corresponding portion of the broader strip in the contrary
direction, the appearance of the eye thus formed being as represented
in Fig. 6, or, if prefferred, the eye may be formed by bending either
the broad or the narrow strip or wire alone, in manner as indicated by
Fig. 13. The ends of wire / may be bent along with the ends of the
broader strip to form hooks for attachment to the shaft in manner as
shewn in Fig. 6, or the ends of the said wire may be passed through
slots or perforations formed near the ends of the broader strip, and
be secured in manner similarly as represented in Figs. 10 and 11. In
Figure 8 round wire and in Fig. 9 yarn is represented as being sub-
stituted for the flat wire l, but I consider the flat wire to be the most
durable and the best adapted for the purpose.
Having now fully described and illustrated the nature of my Inven-
tion and several methods of carrying the same into practical effect, I
would have it to be understood that I claim as secured to me by the
herein-before mentioned Letters Patent,—
First. The method of making loom "temples," substantially as
herein-before described, and as illustrated by the accompanying

page_text: And lastly. The methods of forming healds, substantially as described
and illustrated herein and in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Holding, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Signed and sealed by the said
Joseph Holding, in the
presence of
EDWARD K. DUTTON,
Agent for the Patentec,
3, Smithy Door,
Manchester.
JOSEPH HOLDING. (L.S.)