IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS AND IN APPLIANCES USED THEREIN to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I OSWALD WILKINSON of Arcade Chambers in the city of Manchester County
of Lancaster Analytical and Consulting Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS AND IN APPLIANCES USED
THEREIN to be as follows:-
"
My Invention relates to looms or parts of looms and to certain appliances used
therein and has for its principal object to prevent the injury of the cloth or to
lessen the tendency to injury arising from the contact of the damp warp and cloth
with iron whereby stains result from the oxidation of the said metal. To prevent
the staining of the cloth or warp I nickel plate the parts of the loom over which
the warp and cloth pass or I protect the surfaces of such parts with an electro
deposit of brass or of a suitable metal or alloy which will not oxidise or will not
cause stains on the cloth. The principal parts so plated are the back rail or back
rest over which the warp passes from the beam and the front or breast rail over
which the cloth passes. In cases wherein the warp beam or the cloth beam is of
iron I protect the same with an electro deposit and I also electro plate the flanges
of the warp beam. In the cases of healds having metal eyes I electro plate such
eyes with nickel or with a hard metal which will not wear so rapidly as brass or
iron and will not stain the warp and in all cases I prefer to employ a metal or
alloy which will impart hard wearing surfaces to the indicated parts of the loom.
In order to render the coating smooth and dense I roll burnish compress or harden
the coating preparatory to the application to or the use in the loom.
EDWARD K. DUTTON,
Agent

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I OSWALD WILKINSON of Arcade Chambers in the City of Manchester, County
of Lancaster, Analytical and Consulting Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS AND IN APPLIANCES USED
THEREIN " and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to looms or parts of looms and to certain appliances used
therein and has for its principal object to prevent the injury of the cloth or to
lessen the tendency to injury arising from the contact of the damp warp and cloth
with iron whereby stains result from the oxidation of the said metal. To prevent
the staining of the warp or cloth I nickel plate the parts of the loom over which
the warp and cloth pass or I protect the surfaces of such parts with an electro
deposit of brass or of a suitable metal or alloy which will not oxidise or will not
cause stains on the cloth. The principal parts so plated are the back rail or back
rest over which the warp passes from the beam and the front or breast rail over
which the cloth passes. In cases wherein the warp beam or the cloth beam is of
iron I protect the same with an electro deposit and I also electro plate the flanges
of the warp beam and parts of temples. In the cases of healds having metal eyes
I electro plate such eyes with nickel or with a hard metal which will not wear so
rapidly as brass or iron and will not stain the warp and in all cases I prefer to
employ a metal or alloy which will impart hard wearing surfaces to the indicated
parts of the loom. In order to render the coating smooth and dense I roll burnish,
compress or harden the coating preparatory to the application to or the use in the
loom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
Nickel- or electro-plating the indicated parts of a loom for the purpose set forth.