IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONTING TEMPLES FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Blezard, James Blezard, the younger, John
Blezard, and Norman Blezard, all of Padiham, in the County of Lan-
caster, Machinists, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Blezard, James
Blezard, the younger, John Blezard, and Norman Blezard at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th May 1866.
We, THOMAS BLEZARD, JAMES BLEZARD, the younger, JOHN BLEZARD, and
NORMAN BLEZARD, all of Padiham, in the County of Lancaster, Machinists,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SELF-ACTING TEMPLES FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
We fix a bar or rod made of wrought iron or other suitable metal or
material on the top surface of the cloth or fabric between the temple rollers
and the reed by which means the cloth or fabric is kept steady and prevented
from rising and falling, whereby the shuttle acts more certainly from the
fact of the cloth and warp being held in almost a rigid condition.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Blezard, James Blezard, the younger, John Blezard,
and Norman Blezard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd Novem-
ber 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
BLEZARD, JAMES BLEZARD, the younger, JOHN BLEZARD, and NORMAN BLEZARD,
all of Padiham, in the County of Lancaster, Machinists, séud greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Thomas Blezard, James Blezard, the younger, John Blezard, and Norman
Blezard, Her special license that we, the said Thomas Blezard, James Blezard,
the younger,
John Blezard, and Norman Blezard, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Blezard, James Blezard,
the younger, John Blezard, and Norman Blezard, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING TEMPLES FOR LOOMS FOR
WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas
Blezard, James Blezard, the younger, John Blezard, and Norman Blezard,
our executors or administrators, by an instruments 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Blezard, James Blezard, the
younger, John Blezard, and Norman Blezard, do hereby declare 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) :-
:-
We place a bar or rod made of wrought iron or other suitable metal or
material in close contact with the top surface of the cloth or fabric between
the temple rollers and the reed, by which means the cloth or fabric is kept
steady and prevented from rising and falling, whereby the shuttle acts more
certainly from the fact of the cloth and warp being held nearly in a rigid
position.
This Invention will be clearly understood by referring to the figures and
letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan of
a pair of temples with our additional bar a in a longitudinal position. The
roller boxes b, b, are secured to the temple rod c, to which are attached
moveable brackets d, d, by which the temples are fixed to the loom in any
suitable way. Fig. 2 is an end view of our additional bar a, and Fig. 3 ar

page_text: end view of Fig. 1, also shewing the warp f, f, through the reed g, and the
passage of the cloth or fabric e under the bar a through the roller box 6 and
over the rollers h, h. Heretofore the cloth or fabric e and warp f, f, have
only been stayed between the roller or rollers h, h, and the reed g on the
under side of the cloth, and on the top side only to the extent of the temple
boxes b, b, Fig. 1, thus leaving the top side of the cloth or fabric e and
warp f, f, between the temple boxes b, b, without any stay, whereas our
additional bar extends entirely across the cloth and prevents the rising and
falling of the cloth in a very effectual manner.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be
understood that we do not claim any particular mode of fixing, but what
we do claim as our Invention, and which to the best of our knowledge and
belief has not been hitherto used within the realm is, the employment of a
bar or rod made of wrought iron or other suitable metal or material pressing
on the top surface of the cloth or fabric between the temple roller or rollers
and the reed, as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Blezard, the younger, for and on
behalf of myself and the said Thomas Blezard, John Biezard, and
Norman Blezard, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
third day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named James Blezard, the
younger, in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JAMES BLEZARD, JUR. (L.S.)