CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Alford Clegg, of Shore Mills, Little-
borough, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and Abraham
Hoyle, of the same Place, Manager, for the Invention of “CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 14th July 1874, and dated the 20th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Alford Clegg
and Abraham Hoyle at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 20th February 1874.
We, EDWARD ALFORD CLEGG, of Shore Mills, Littleborough, in the
5 County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and ABRAHAM HOYLE, of the
same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVing,” to be as
follows:-
Our improvements consist in applying a pair of compressing rollers to
act upon the fabric when woven, which rollers are placed in any
convenient position between the fell of the fabric and the cloth beam.

page_text: The fabric is taken by preference under the lower compressing roller,
then between the compressing rollers, and then over the upper
compressing roller from whence it is drawn forward by the taking-up
roller or cloth beam, and the tension on the fabric causes the compressing
rollers to impart a smoothing or mangling finish to the fabric, thereby
improving its appearance,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Alford Clegg and Abraham Hoyle in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
ALFORD CLEGG, of Shore Mills, Littleborough, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturer, and ABRAHAM HOYLE, of the same Place,
Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Edward Alford Clegg and
Abraham Hoyle, Her special licence that we, the said Edward Alford
Clegg and Abraham Hoyle, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Edward Alford Clegg and Abraham
Hoyle, 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
* CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Edward Alford Clegg and Abraham
Hoyle, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of our or 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.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of our Invention and described a
convenient manner of performing the same, we wish it to be understood
that we do not intend to limit ourselves to the details given as the
number and arrangement of the compressing rollers may be varied, and
they may be placed in any convenient position between the fell of the
fabric and the cloth beam; we claim the use of compressing rollers
when applied to looms in the manner and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Alford Clegg and
Abraham Hoyle, have hereto set my hand and seal,. this Twelfth
day of August, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
EDWARD ALFORD CLEGG. (L.S.)
ABRAHAM HOYLE.
(L.S).