A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF LETTING OFF THE WORSTED OR YARN FROM THE BOBBINS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING CARPETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS, IN WHICH BOBBINS ARE EMPLOYED DURING THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wright Garside, of Vicar Street, Kidderminster, in
the County of Worcester, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED
METHOD OF LETTING OFF THE WORSTED OR YARN FROM THE BOBBINS EMPLOYED
IN WEAVING CARPETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS, IN WHICH BOBBINS ARE
EMPLOYED DURING THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF."
Sealed the 1st November 1856, and dated the 3rd May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wright Garside at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd May 1856.
I, WRIGHT GARSIDE, of Vicar Street, Kidderminster, in the County of
Worcester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
AND IMPROVED METHOD OF LETTING OFF THE WORSTED OR YARN FROM THE BOBBINS
EMPLOYED IN WEAVING CARPETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS, IN WHICH BOBBINS
ARE EMPLOYED DURING THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF," to as follows:-
This Invention is designed for obtaining in a simple and efficient manner an
uniform amount of tension upon the worsted or yarn as it is drawn off the.
bobbin, and consists in the use and employment for that purpose of mechanism
of the following construction:-
Upon a horizontal cross bar two upright slides or pieces of round or square
metal are fixed, and adjusted by set screws to the width of the bobbin. There

page_text: is a moveable bar, over which the worsted or yarn passes from the bobbin; said
bar works on the aforesaid slides, so as to fall thereon or therewith as the
worsted diminishes on the bobbin, and by these means keeps the worsted or
yarn at a regular tension during its removal from off the bobbin.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Wright Garside in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WRIGHT
GARSIDE, of Vicar Street, Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Wright Garside, Her special licence that I, the said Wright Garside, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Wright
Garside, my 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 "A NEW AND IMPROVED MODE OF
LETTING OFF THE WORSTED OR YARN FROM THE BOBBINS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING
CARPETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS, IN WHICH BOBBINS ARE EMPLOYED DURING THE
MANUFACTURE THEREOF," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Wright Garside, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of 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 I, the said Wright Garside, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to a new and improved method of letting off the

page_text: worsted or yarn from the bobbins employed in weaving carpets, and other
similar fabrics in which bobbins are employed, during the manufacture thereof,
and consists in the use and employment for that purpose of certain mechanism
designed for the purpose of obtaining, in a simple and efficient manner, an
uniform amount of tension on the worsted or yarn as it is drawn off the bobbin.
The means by which this is to be and may be effected are as follows:-Upon a
horizontal cross bar two upright slides or pieces of round or square metal are
fixed, and adjusted by set screws to the width of the bobbin. There is a
moveable bar over which the worsted or yarn passes from the bobbin ; said
bar works on the aforesaid slides, so as to fall thereon or therewith as the
worsted diminishes on the bobbin, and by these means the worsted or yarn is
kept at a regular tension during its removal from off the bobbin.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked

page_text: I now proceed to describe the mechanism exhibited at Figures 3 and 4.
A is the bobbin containing worsted; B, B, bars fixed across the framing of
the loom; C, C', curved wires, placed perpendicularly, and securely fixed into
the bar B; E, moveable bar over which the worsted passes from the bobbin ;
said bar slides upon the parts C¹, C₁, of the wires. I would here observe, that
in adapting the moveable cross bar E to the guide bars C, C', care should be
taken to so form the holes in the bosses c, c, thereof as that the bar E slides
freely thereon, during the drawing of the worsted from off the bobbins.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention of "A
New and Improved Mode of Letting off the Worsted or Yarn from the
Bobbins Employed in Weaving Carpets, and other similar Fabrics, in which
Bobbins are Employed during the Manufacture thereof," together with the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim as my Invention, intended to
be secured to me by the above in part recited Letters Patent, is, the mechanism
above described and represented, which I employ for the purpose of causing
an uniform amount of tension on the worsted or yarn as it is drawn off the
bobbins during the weaving of carpets and other similar fabrics, as above
stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wright Garside, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
GEORGE FOWLER,
Leswell, Kidderminster.
WRIGHT GARSIDE. (L.S.)