IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAID AND THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Walker and William Bestwick, of
Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Braid Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAID, AND
Sealed the 20th April 1853, and dated the 22nd November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Walker
and William Bestwick at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd November 1852.
We, BENJAMIN WALKER and WILLIAM BESTWICK, of Salford, in
the County of Lancaster, Braid Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF BRAID AND THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN" to be as
follows:
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We adopt six, seven or more holes in the rose in conjunction with
four or more carriers and two or more guides, by which arrangement
we are enabled to manufacture a variety of patterns of braid, which
cannot be manufactured by the machines now in ordinary use.
The number of guides willbe in proportion to the number of carriers,

page_text: but they are not essentially necessary, as we can dispense with them
altogether, if found desirable in practice.
The principle of our Invention will be clearly understood by the
accompanying sketch, or outline Drawing, in which a, represents
the holes in the rose, 6 the carriers, and c, the guides; but we wish
it to be distinctly understood that this is merely an outline de-
scription of our Invention, which we will more fully explain in
our complete Specification.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Walker and William Bestwick in
the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 20th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
BENJAMIN WALKER and WILLIAM BESTWICK, of Salford, in the County
of Lancaster, Braid Manufacturers send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty second day of Novem-
ber, in the sixteenth year of Her reign, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty two, did, for Herself, Her heirs,
and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Benjamin Walker
and William Bestwick, Her especial license that we, the said Benjamin
Walker and William Bestwick, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Benjamin Walker and William
Bestwick, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
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, our Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRAID AND THE MACHINERY OR AP-
PARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that
the said Benjamin Walker and William Bestwick, by an instru-
ment 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 our said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
we,

page_text: 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 we, the said Benjamin Walker and William
Bestwick, do hereby declare that the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is
to say):
Our Invention relates to improvements in the construction,
arrangement, and combination of the several parts of mechanism
constituting a machine for the manufacture of flat braids, and consists
of adopting six and seven holes in the rose in conjunction with four
or more carriers and two or more guides. By this combination and
arrangement we are enabled to adopt the number of spindles 13, 19,
25, 31, and so on, encreasing by six, which makes a much firmer
braid than has hitherto been made by the ordinary machines, giving
it a twill on the surface, and preventing that elasticity or weakness in
substance which the ordinary braids possess. The principle of this
our Invention will be more clearly understood by reference to
the accompanying sheet of Drawings, in which the same letters of
reference are used to represent similar parts where different views
or diagrams are shown. Fig. 1, is a front elevation of our improved
braiding machine; Fig. 2, an end view of the same; and Fig. 3, a
plan thereof. a, represents the frame; b, the driving pulley; c, bevil
wheels, giving motion to the spur wheels shewn by the dotted lines
at d, turning the carriers or driving spindles e, to which are fixed
the roses f, carrying the braiding spindles g.
Having thus described the nature and particulars of our said
Invention, we desire it to be distinctly understood that we do not
claim any of the above parts taken separately, as such have been
already used in different kinds of braiding machines, neither do we
bind ourselves to the use of two or more guides, as we can work our
said machine without the use of guides at all, though in some cases
for certain patterns we prefer them; but we claim as new, and of our
Invention, and which, to the best of our knowledge and belief, has

page_text: not been hitherto used within this realm, the arrangement and com-
bination of the six and seven hole rose in conjunction with four or
more carriers and two or more guides, where necessary, as herein
described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Walker and William
Bestwick, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Nine-
teenth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty
BENJAMIN WALKER. (L.S.)
WILLIAM BESTWICK. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by both the said Parties hereto, in
the presence of