IMPROVEMENTS IN POWER LOOMS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTH FROM COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
NoTON, of Deanston Works, Deanston, in the County of Perth, in the Kingdom
of Scotland, Manager of Cotton Works, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-five, in the eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, er heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Noton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, Her special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Noton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said Thomas Noton, my exceutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the continuance of the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of Her said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN POWER LOOMS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
CLOTH FROM COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Thomas Noton, to
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same, is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court

page_text: of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Noton, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be fully described and set forth
in, and by the following statement and Specification thereof, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings, which I declare to belong to and form part
of such Specification, by the letters and numeral figures marked thereon, for
the purpose of such reference, that is to say:-
The
My said Invention consists in and has reference to the principles of con-
struction and the modes of arrangement of the mechanical parts, and also the
several combinations of the same, as such several matters are herein-after
described, and set forth, as regards my application of the same to the
objects set forth and referred to, in and by the title of the Letters Patent
granted unto me, the said Thomas Noton, as herein-beforo recited.
particular nature and intention of my said Invention I declare to consist in
constructing and arranging apparatus or machinery for the purpose of
improving the action and practical effect of power looms, and this in the
following particulars, that is to say, in an apparatus or machinery added or
applied thereto, by the means and operation of which the cloth is taken up and
wound: upon the cloth beam of such power looms by the application of parallel
plates thereto, which, when they are thrown together by pressure, act upon
cach other by the friction of contact, and so give motion to the cloth beam,
and give the required tention to the cloth under process of weaving. I describe
such said constructions, and their modes of their application and action, in
manner following, that is to say:-
In the Drawing, Figure 1 represents a front view or elevation of a power
loom having my aforesaid improvements affixed thereto; and Figure 2, a side
view or elevation of the same. In both these Figures the same parts are
marked respectively with the same and corresponding letters of reference, and
the parts constituting my aforesaid Invention have their letters of reference
also of red color as well as in black in both the said Figures, in order to their
being more distinctly marked and distinguished from the other parts of the
machine. W, W, W, W, in the Figure 1 shews the side standards or frame-
work of the loom; Y, Y, part of the binding framing, holding the side standards
together; Z, Z, the front cross beam, terminating at each extremity in the
forks or arms, whose ends are bolted to the opposite standards in order
to bind the framework together; G is the breast beam; N is the cloth beam;

page_text: M is the emery roller; X, X, shew the swords or swing bars of the lay; X*
shews the upper cross bar of the lay; A is a ratchet wheel, which is put in
action in the usual manner by a lever, oscillating by its connection with the
swords of the lay, and having a catch or pall falling into its teeth to hold it; B
shows a wheel set on the same spindle with the ratchet wheel A. The spur
wheel B gears with a second spur wheel c. On the spindle of the wheel c
is set a third spur wheel D, and the wheel D gears with a fourth wheel E.
which is set upon the spindle of the emery roller M. This fourth wheel E
gears into a fifth spur wheel F, which is set upon the pap or socket O, through
which the spindle of the cloth beam N works. G1, G2, shew the positions and
dimensions of two friction plates, one of which G¹ is fixed on the pap or
socket O, while the second G2 is fixed on the spindle of the cloth beam N;
the friction plate G thus being fixed on the spindle of the cloth beam N
revolves with that spindle. I, II, shew nuts which are screwed upon the
extremity of the spindle of the cloth beam N, and the nuts II, II, act by pressing
the friction plates together and bringing them into contact with each other.
The cloth beam N thus receives its motion, and on this the cloth is taken up
and wound as fast as it is delivered from the emery roller M, and the required
tension is given to the cloth during the operation of weaving. The operation
of the arrangement as herein described is thus the improved mode of taking
up and winding the cloth upon a beam in power loom, and at the same
operation of providing the necessary tension to the cloth during the process of
weaving.
Having now described the nature and intention of my said Invention, and
also the mode in which I carry the same into practical effect, I declare that
I claim, as of my Invention in the same, the mode of winding on of the cloth
upon the cloth beam N in power looms by the application and use of friction
plates or discs, as I have described and set forth the same in this Specification
and its accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Noten, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Thomas Noton, in presence of,
JOHN SHUND,
(L.S.) THOMAS NOTON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of March, in
the eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said Thomas
Noton came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-
fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-five.