IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hugh Holden, of Preston, in the County Palatine
of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR
WEAVING."
Sealed the 6th May 1864, and dated the 12th November 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugh Holden at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th November 1863.
I, HUGH HOLDEN, of Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES
FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the shuttle skewer and skewer pin, and its object
is to prevent the injurious vibration of the skewer, and the splitting of the
shuttle.
According to this Invention it is proposed to attach the skewer to the
shuttle by a tapered pin or screw, which is screwed or chased at both ends,
the hole through the shuttle and skewer being tapered to correspond to the
taper of the pin or screw. On inserting the pin or screw, it is screwed firmly
into the wood of the shuttle on each side of the skewer, and thereby prevents
all tendency to splitting in the shuttle. Any vibration of the skewer can be
easily rectified, even by a child, it being simply requisite to tighten or turn
slightly the skewer, pin, or screw, which being tapered will tend to tighten
the skewer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hugh Holden in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th May 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HUGH
HOLDEN, of Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Hugh Holden, Her special license that I, the said Hugh Holden, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Hugh
Holden, my executors, administrators, or 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 SHUTTLES
FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Hugh
Holden, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, 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 Hugh Holden, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
My said Invention relates to the shuttle skewer and skewer pin, and its
object is to prevent the injurious vibration of the skewer, and the splitting of
the shuttle.
According to this Invention it is proposed to attach the skewer to the
shuttle by a tapered pin or screw, which is screwed or chased at both ends,
the holes through the shuttle and skewer being made to suit the outline of the
tapered pin or screw. On inserting the pin or screw it is screwed firmly into
the wood of the shuttle on each side of the skewer, and thereby prevent all
tendency to splitting in the shuttle. Any vibration of the skewer can be
easily rectified, even by a child, it being simply requisite to tighten or turn

page_text: slightly the skewer pin or screw, which being tapered will tend to tighten
the skewer.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Fig. 1 of the Drawings represents a side elevation of an ordinary shuttle
provided with my improved skewer and skewer pin; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan
showing the tapered skewer pin with the tapered hole in the head of the
skewer, and screwed into corresponding holes in the wood of the shuttle; and
Fig. 3 is a detailed elevation of the skewer pin.
A is the skewer pin, which is tapered in the middle portion, and screwed at
each end a and b respectively, the tapered portion fitting a tapered hole in the
head B of the skewer, whilst the screwed ends of the pin are screwed into the
wood C of the shuttle, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. In some cases I
propose
to caseharden these improved skewer pins or screws, whereby they will be
rendered more durable.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the application and use to and in
shuttles for weaving of the peculiar tapered skewer pin or screw in com-
bination with a tapered hole in the head of the skewer, substantially in the
manner and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hugh Holden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four.
HUGH HOLDEN. (L.B.)
HUGH HOLDEN. (L.B.)