IMPROVING THE RUNNING BOARDS OF POWER LOOMS AND FIXINGS THERETO
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
DANIEL STANDRING INGHAM Machine and Doffing Plate Maker Clover Works
Wakefield Road Dewsbury Yorks do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVING THE RUNNING BOARDS OF POWER LOOMS AND FIXINGS THERETO
to be as follows:--
This invention has reference to the running Board of a Power Loom (viz, the
Board on which the shuttle runs or slides, This Board has previously been made
of wood, and the top part on which the shuttle runs has been covered with leather,
or a composition or hard wood, These coverings have worn out very rapidly by
the action of the shuttle in its constant passage over the surface, thus entailing
considerable cost in their repair and also of the shuttles.
My invention consists in applying a steel, glass, china, pot, or other metal plate,
to the top part of the running Board instead of either wood, leather, or composition,
These plates being of a hard smooth substance do not wear away so quickly and
facilitate the passage of the shuttle thus causing a considerable saving in the wear
and tear of the Loom, and the shuttles may be used without wheels.
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page_text: I DANIEL STANDRING INGHAM of No 2 Highgate Terrace and Clover Works
Wakefield Rd Dewsbury in the County of York, Machine and Doffing Plate
Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVING THE RUNNING
OR SLAY BOARD OF A POWER LOOм and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
The running or Blay board of the Power Loom is made of wood, and has hitherto
been covered or faced on the top where the shuttle runs with leather, composition,
or a strip of hard wood. These coverings have always entailed considerable cost in
the repair of the Loom and Shuttles, and have to be constantly renewed to prevent
damage to the fabric when being woven. The passage of the wheeled shuttle
-accross the Running Board, making groves in the leather or other covering often
causes the shuttle to fly out, or cause a trap.
My Invention consists in applying a highly burnished steel plate to the face of
the Running Board, instead of leather or wood. By the adoption of this plate
which is made specially hard, and rolled exactly to the width required the wheels
of the shuttle can be dispensed with, thus causing a considerable saving in the cost
of the shuttle and the repair of the Loom. The steel plates are hammered straight
the edges being made round and highly burnished and the grain so arranged as not
to wear when the warp passes it.
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
1 The application of a hard highly burnished steel plate to the running Board
of the power Loom.
2 The plate for the purpose described with the edges made round and also
highly burnished, and not left square and rough on the edge as in the case of other
metal plates, which cut the warp.
3 The steel plate for the purpose described rolled from a specially prepared hard
steel and exactly of the width required, and the whole full length of the running
Board, and not cut out of the sheet metal in short lengths, thus avoiding all
joints.
Dated this 31st day of December 1884