PRESERVING PICKERS AND PICKERSTICKS, AND FOR PREVENTING COPS BEING KNOCKED OFF THE SPINDLE IN THE SHUTTLE DURING THE PROCESS OF WEAVING IN THE POWER LOOM
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Helliwell, of Greenhirst Hay, near Tod-
morden, in the County of York, Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer, and
Joseph Barker, of Houghstone Mill, near Todmorden aforesaid, Manu-
facturer, for an Invention for "PRESERVING PICKERS AND PICKERSTICKS,
AND FOR PREVENTING COPS BEING KNOCKED OFF THE SPINDLE IN THE SHUTTLE
DURING THE PROCESS OF WEAVING IN THE POWER LOOM."
Sealed the 24th August 1855, and dated the 28th February 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Helliwell and
Joseph Barker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 28th February 1855.
We, THOMAS HELLIWELL and JOSEPII BARKER, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "PRESERVING PICKERS AND PICKERSTICKS, AND
FOR PREVENTING COPS BEING KNOCKED OFF THE SPINDLE IN THE SHUTTLE DURING THE
PROCESS OF WEAVING IN THE POWER LOOM," to be as follows:-
By the use of a spring from steel, wood, or whalebone affixed behind
the back guard of the shuttle box, and by such spring at each end being
attached to pickerpate or buffalo hide or leather, and the same pickerpate
or buffalo hide or leather being at the other end, by means of a hole
therein, put round the sirspindle of the shuttle box, by means thereof the
spring and pickerpate or buffalo hide or leather form a buffer, bringing the

page_text: shuttle gradually to a stop instead of an instant check, and prevent the picker
and shuttle going too far in the box, and assist in returning the shuttle and
give increased action thereto, and by means thereof great saving is effected.
and also by means thereof the pickers and pickersticks are preserved, and the
cops are also preserved from being knocked off the spindle, and greater economy
effected.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph Barker in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 24th August 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HELLIWELL, of Greenhirst Hay, near Todmorden, in the County of York,
Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer, and JOSEPH BARKER, of Houghstone Mill,
near Todmorden aforesaid, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph Barker, Her special licence that we, the
said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph Barker, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph Barker,
our 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 "PRESERVING PICKERS AND PICKER-
STICKS, AND FOR PREVENTING COPS BEING KNOCKED OFF THE SPINDLE IN THE SHUTTLE
DURING THE PROCESS OF WEAVING IN THE POWER LOOм," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph Barker,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph
Barker, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
By the use of a spring from steel, wood, or whalebone affixed behind the
back guard of the shuttle box, and by such spring at each end being attached
to pickerpate or buffalo hide or leather, and the same pickerpate or buffalo
hide or leather being at the other end, by means of a hole therein, put round
the sirspindle of the shuttle box, by means thereof the spring or pickerpate
or buffalo hide or leather form a buffer, bringing the shuttle gradually to a
stop instead of an instant check, and prevent the picker and shuttle going too
far in the box, and assist in returning the shuttle and give increased action
thereto, and by means thereof great saving is effected, and also by means
thereof the pickers and pickersticks are preserved, and the cops are also
preserved from being knocked off the spindle.
In witness whereof, wc, the said Thomas Helliwell and Joseph Barker,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-first day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
THOMAS HELLIWELL. (L.B.)
JOSEPH BARKER.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first duly
stamped) by the above-named Thomas
Helliwell in the presence of
Wx M. EASTWOOD.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named Joseph Barker in the presence of
W M. EASTWOOD,
Clerk to Mr. Eastwood, Sol",
Todmorden.
(L.B.)