AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE LOOM OR MACHINE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF WEAVING OR MANUFACTURING OF TAPE AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES TO WHICH THE SAID LOOM OR MACHINE MAY BE APPLICABLE
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WORTHINGTON the younger, and JOHN MULLINER, both of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Small Ware Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of June, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Thomas Worthington and John Mulliner, our exors, admors, and assigns,
His special license and authority, that we, the said Thomas Worthington
and John Mulliner, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of us and
them, by ourselves or themselves, or by our or their deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as we, the said Thomas Worthington and John
Mullinar, our exors, adññors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend our Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE LOOM OR MACHINE
USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF WEAVING OR MANUFACTURING OF TAPE AND SUCH OTHER
ARTICLES TO WHICH THE SAID LOOM OR MACHINE MAY BE APPLICABLE," within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Majesty's Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to us, the said Thomas Worthington and John Mulliner, our
exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any or either of us or them, should in our or

page_text: their discretion seem meet; and in the said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso directing us, the said Thomas Worthington and John Mulliner, or
one of us, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
tho said recited Letters Patent. *. *
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Thomas Worthington and John Mulliner, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is
described and ascertained in and by the annexed Sheet of Drawings or Plans,
and in the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
Figure 1 is an end elevation of the loom. Figure 2 represents a section of
the side view, and Figure 3 a section of the front view of the loom; the letters
and numbers in all the three Figures respectively being applied to the same
parts of the machine. In Figure 1, A, A, A, is the framework of the loom.
B represents the crank shaft, one end of which is fixed on the pulley C, C,
which communicates with the drum or driving shaft D by means of a strap,
thus giving motion to the machine. Upon the other end of the shaft B are
fixed the necessary wheels for the purpose of giving motion to the tappet
shaft E, and thus working the healds and shuttles in the same manner as is
practised in the tape looms now in general use. Upon the end of the tappet
shaft E is affixed a spiral screw or worm F, which works into the teeth of the
wheel G, fixed upon the-end.of the shaft H, which is affixed to the frame. At,
the other end of this shaft II is affixed another wheel I, which works into a
larger wheel K, K, K, K, giving motion to the rollers L, L, (Figures 1
and 3,) which are all fixed upon the same shaft. Upon the rollers L, L, is a
corresponding number of other rollers M, M, (Figures 1 and 3,) each having
a separate axis, and the axis of one working against or in a line with each
other, so as to preserve them in a regular line; and to each of these rollers M, M,
is suspended a weight a, as in Figure 3, for the purpose of pressing upon and
keeping the rollers M, M, in contact with the rollers L, L. At the back of
the frame a lever N is attached, moving upon a pivot or joint at one end,
affixed to the frame so as to admit of its being raised or lowered. At the
other end of the lever N is suspended a weight b, for the purpose herein-after
mentioned. To this lever N a string 0, 0, (Figures 1 and 2,) is attached,
which passes over the pulley C, as in Figure 2; and after passing round the
grooves d, d, in the beam or bobbin P, P, (as in Figures 1 and 2,) for the

page_text: purpose of resisting the revolution of the beam or bobbin P, P, it is affixed to
the frame by the staple e, e, (Figures 1 and 2). The course of the warp is as
follows, and is also described in Figure 1, by the course of the arrows there
represented:-Being first wound upon the beams or bobbins P, P, it passes over
the pullies f and g, which are affixed to the frame, and thence descends through
an aperture in the lever N under the pulley h, to which a weight or weights Q, Q,
is or are attached, for the purpose. herein-after mentioned. After passing under
the pulley h, the warp ascends through another aperture in the lever N, and
is passed again over the double pulley 9 (Figures 1 and 2), and thence under
the roller or cylinder R, from whence it passes in the usual manner through
the healds and the reed to the shuttles which shoot the weft, and the tape or
cloth is manufactured. The tape or cloth, then passing from the shuttles i, i,
through apertures in the frame, goes under the rollers M, M, and thenco
returns between the rollers L, L, and the rollers M, M, and over the last-
mentioned rollers, whence it descends to the beams S, S, as in Figure 3, having
each a separate axis supported by the upright armis k, k, and upon these
beams S, S, the cloth is finally wound. See Figures 1 and 3. These beams S, S,
are connected with the roller or cylinder T, T, (Figures 1 and 4,) and receive
their motion by means of strings or bands 1, 1, passing over grooves in the
side of the beams S, S, and round the aforesaid roller or cylinder T, T, which
is turned by a bevel wheel U, connected with the spiral wheel or screw F by
means of a shaft and pinions V, V, V, and these strings 1, l, are fixed
sufficiently tight for the purpose of giving motion to the beams S, S, but still
not so as to prevent their giving way when these beams would otherwise break
the cloth by moving round with too great a velocity. The purpose and .opera-
tion of the lever N, and of the weights b, Q, Q, is the following (see Figures 1
and 2):-The weight b occasions the lever N to rest upon the pulley h, and
therefore, as the cloth is manufactured, and the warp consequently drawn up,
the lever N is raised by means of the pulley h, and the string O, O, being thus
slackened, and the resistance which thereby given to the revolution of the
beams or bobbins P, P, lessened in proportion, these beams or bobbins turn
round, so as to allow the warp to be drawn from them exactly as required by
the progress of the work.
The parts of the machine above mentioned and described which are
claimed as new Inventions, and to which the above-mentioned Patent is
intended to extend, are, in the first place, the manner in which the warp is
made to draw itself off the beams or bobbins P, P, by the operation of the
pulley h, with the weight or weights Q, Q, suspended from it, upon the lever N,
and the effect produced upon the beams or bobbins P, P, by the action of the

page_text: string 0, 0, passing round them along the grooves d, d; and, in the second
place, the operation and use of the rollers L, L, and M, M, and the beams
S, S, and the manner in which by means of these several rollers and
beams, and of the strings connecting the last-mentioned beams S, S, with the
roller or cylinder T, T, as above described. The tape or cloth as it is woven
is rolled or wound upon the said last-mentioned beams by the application of
the same power by means of which the other parts of the machine are worked
with respect to such parts of the machine above mentioned as are not herein-
before mentioned or described and stated respectively as new Inventions, or
essential to the operation thereof respectively, the same are or may be con-
structed upon the principle and in the manner hitherto used and employed in
the making of the tape looms which have been for some years in general use.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Worthington and John Mulliner,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid Thomas Worthington the younger 2
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged tho
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
nx OTIVE
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand cight hundred and twenty-nve.