CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Brooks, of the Union Iron Works, West
Gorton, near the City of Manchester, Machine Maker, for the Inven-
tion of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR
WEAVING."
Sealed the 15th August 1865, and dated the 2nd March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Brooks at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
March 1865.
I, SAMUEL BROOKS, of the Union Iron Works, West Gorton, near the City
of Manchester, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR
WEAVING," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the fixings of the apparatus employed for distending
the fabric in the loom commonly called the "temples," and it consists in an
improved mode of connecting the rod to which the temples are secured to
the breast beam or other convenient part of the framing of the loom; so as to
enable the temples to be set at any required distance apart to suit the width

page_text: of the fabric that is being woven. The rod to which the temples are secured
is a plain bar of round or other shaped iron instead of being forged with eyes
as heretofore customary, and this rod is supported in two sliding blocks, to
which the bar is secured by bolts with V heads; the blocks are placed at any
convenient distance apart to suit the width of the fabric, and they are held by
studs bolted to the breast beam, or they may be connected to springs
attached to a cross rail.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Brooks in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
BROOKS, of the Union Iron Works, West Gorton, near the City of Man-
chester, Machine Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Brooks, Her special license that I, the said Samuel
Brooks, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Samuel Brooks, 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 IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Brooks, 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 date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Brooks, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to the fixings of the apparatus employed for

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distending the fabric in the loom commonly called the temples," and it
consists in an improved mode of connecting the rod to which the temples are
-secured to the breast beam or other convenient part of the framing of the
loom, so as to enable the temples to be set at any required distance apart to
suit the width of the fabric that is being woven. The rod to which the
temples are secured is a plain bar of round or other shaped iron instead of
being forged with eyes as heretofore customary, and this rod is supported in
two sliding blocks, to which the bar is secured by bolts with V heads; the
blocks are placed at any convenient distance apart to suit the width of the
fabric, and they are held by studs bolted to the breast beam, or they may be
connected to springs attached to a cross rail.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 an elevation, partly in section, of a pair
of temples supported in my improved bearings or fixings. a is the breast
beam, to which are bolted the usual adjustable brackets b, b; to each bracket
is cast or fixed a stud 61, around which is coiled a spring c; these springs abut
against the brackets b, and hold the sliding blocks d, d, against the shoulders e,
which are fixed as usual to the ends of the studs 6. The sliding blocks d are
cast with recesses to receive the bar f, which instead of being forged with eyes
to fit on the studs b', as heretofore customary, is now a plain bar of round or
other shaped iron. The barf is secured to the blocks d by the bolts g, the
heads of which are V-shaped on one side, and lap partly over the bar without
projecting above it, thus allowing the bar to support the cloth. Near the
outer extremities of the bar fare fixed the temple boxes h; these temple
boxes are also connected to the barf by bolts with V heads, similar to those
marked g. By this arrangement the temple boxes can be shifted with ease to
any part of the bar f, according to the width of the fabric in the loom, and the
sliding blocks d can also be secured to any part of the bar, which in temples
of the ordinary construction is not the case owing to the eyes for the studs b¹
being usually forged on the bar f, thus enabling the temples to be set to suit
any width of fabric that may be woven in the loom.
Figure 3 represents a modification of my Invention. In this view the
blocks d are attached to the upper ends of the springs i, the lower ends of
which are secured to a cross rail.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described a convenient
mode of carrying the same into operation, I declare that I claim the means
described or any equivalent means for connecting the temples to the loom, so

page_text: as to vary the distance between them, according to the width of the fabric that
is being woven.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Brooks, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five."
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