IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR HAND AND POWER LOOM WEAVING, AND ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO WEAVING FIGURED, FANCY, AND CHECKED GOODS WITH ANY NUMBER OF PICKS BY JACQUARD ENGINES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bottomley, of North Bierley, in the
Parish of Bradford, in the County of York, Designer and Pattern
Card Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR
HAND AND POWER LOOM WEAVING, AND ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO
WEAVING FIGURED, FANCY, AND CHECKED GOODS WITH ANY NUMBER
OF PICKS BY JACQUARD ENGINES."
Sealed the 25th April 1854, and dated the 25th October 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Bottomley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 25th October 1853.
I, WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR HAND AND POWER LOOM WEAV-
ING, AND ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO WEAVING FIGURED, FANCY, AND CHECKED
GOODS WITH ANY NUMBER OF PICKS BY JACQUARD ENGINES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the use and application of catchers to the
rising boxes of the weaving loom, said catchers being. connected by

page_text: means of cords acting on wheels situated at the end of the loom, and
also near the centre of the harness board, which cords are connected
with the jacquard engine. The effect of this arrangement is as follows:
-The operations of the perforated pattern cards upon the wires in the
jacquard engine causes, by means of the before-mentioned cord wheels
and catchers, a rising or falling motion in the shuttle boxes, according
as the patterns on the cards may require, and thereby produces the same
pattern on the materials passing through the loom as that on the
pattern cards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Bottomley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY, of North Bierley, in the Parish of Bradford, in
the County of York, Designer and Pattern Card Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria; by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said William Bottomley, Her special
licence that I, the said William Bottomley, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns,, or such others as I, the said. William Bottomley,
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 "IMPROVED MACHINERY
FOR HAND AND POWER LOOM WEAVING, AND ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO WEAV
ING FIGURED, FANCY, AND CHECKED GOODS WITH ANY NUMBER OF PICKS BY
JACQUARD ENGINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Bottomley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and 'ascertain the nature of the said

page_text: 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 William Bottomley, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same:
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof.(that is to say):
My Invention relates to a certain novel arrangement of: niechanism
attached or connected. to the rising shuttle boxes of fancy looms, which
said mechanism is actuated or put in motion by means of cords: con-
nected thereto, and to needles in the jacquard engine or machine, so.as
to bring one or other of the shuttles opposite to or.ón a level with the.
"shuttle race," as required according to the pattern which is punched:
or formed upon the cards. The arrangement of mechanismi by means.
of which I effect; this object is constructed as follows:-To the front
part of the lathe or. slay a bracket is attached which carries a.bell
crank lever; to one arm of the said lever a T shaped piece of metal.
is connected, upon the upper surface of which the moveable or rising.
shuttle boxes" rest, and, to the other arm of the said lever an hori-
zontal catch is connected. There is another bracket (attached to the
lathe or slay) in which another lever is mounted, to the lower end of
which an horizontal catch is connected, and the upper end of the said
lever acts against an inclined plane attached to a bolt which secures or
releases the rising boxes as the pattern may.require. The horizontal.
catches above mentioned are each connected by means of a cord to a
needle in the jacquard machine, the: said cords passing around'ipullies
attached to the harness board of the loon.. These cords are for the purpose.
of raising the horizontal catches.out of the way of a pin or stud attached
to the framing of: the loom, and they are held in that position (when
raised) by means of two vertical catches acted upón by spiral or other.
springs. The horizontal catches are provided with inclined planes
which act upon the vertical.catches so as to withdraw them each time
the slay beats up. In order more clearly to illustrate the practical con

page_text: struction and application of my improvements, and to describe the same
more in detail, I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustra-
tive thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters of
reference corresponding with those in the following explanation thereof.
And I would here remark that although I have represented my improved
apparatus as applied to one side of a loom only, yet it will be evident
that the same may be applied at both sides of the loom, if required, and
may be employed to work any desired number of rising shuttle boxes.
Figure 1, in the Drawing represents an elevation of part of the framing
and lathe of a power loom with my Invention shewn as applied thereto,
the end of the shuttle box being removed in order more clearly to illus-
trate the same; Figure 2, is a plan view of the apparatus; and Figure
3, is a vertical section of the same, taken through about the line A, B,
representing a front elevation of the vertical catches. These Figures
are drawn to a scale of about four inches to a foot, and similar letters of
reference are marked upon corresponding parts of the mechanism in so
far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of the said Figures respec-
tively. a, a, represents part of the framing of the loom, and b, b, part of
the lathe or slay. The rising shuttle boxes are shewn at c,
d, d, is
a bracket attached to the lathe, and carrying a bell crank lever e, e. To
the horizontal arm of this lever a T shaped piece of metal f. f, is hinged,
and to the vertical arm of the same the horizontal catch g, g, is con-
nected. h, h, is another bracket carrying a lever i, i, the lower end of
which is attached to the horizontal catch ke, k, and the upper end acts
against an inclined plane 1, 1, attached to the sliding bolt m, m. The
lower end of the lever i, i, is also furnished with a retaining spring n,n.
The sliding bolt m, m, is furnished with two vertical pieces which act
against the projecting pieces o, o, attached to the back of the rising
boxes c, c. p, p, is a pin (attached to the framing a, a), against which
the catches g, g, and k, k, act. 9, 7, are the vertical catches for retain-
ing the catches g and k, when raised. These catches 7, 9, are mounted
upon studs 1, 1, and are provided with spiral retaining springs s, s.
t, t, are inclined planes attached to the catches ġ, g, and k, k, and acting
against the upper part of the catches q, q.. u, u, are cords attached to

page_text: the catches g, g, and h, k, and connecting them to two needles in the
jacquard machine. These cords pass around pullies mounted on the
harness board of the loom. v, v, are guides in which the catches g, 'g,"
and k, k, work. w, w, (see Figure 2,) is a finger attached to the rising
boxes which lifts the thread belonging to the upper shuttle out of the
way, when the lower shuttle is brought into action. It will be seen
upon referring to the Drawing that the lower shuttle box c* is repre-
sented as on a level with the shuttle race, and the catch &, on the point
of being released and falling, unless retained by its corresponding cord u.
When it is desired to bring the upper shuttle box c, to a level with the
shuttle race, the catch g, g, is raised, and the catch h, k, is allowed to
remain down, which as the slay beats up causes the lever i, i, to act
upon the inclined plane 7, 1, and withdraw the bolt m, m, from below-
the projecting pieces 0, 0, and allow the shuttle boxes to fall on to the
piece ff, thus bringing the shuttle box c, to the required level. When
it is required to raise the boxes to their original position again the
catch, k, must be raised, and the catch g, g, allowed to fall. As the
lathe beats up the pin p will act upon the catch g, g, causing it to lift
the shuttle boxes c, c, by means of the piece f, f, and the catch k, k,
being out of action allows the spiral spring a, a, (see Figure 2,) to
draw the bolt m, m, under the projecting pieces 0, 0, and thus retain
the boxes in the said elevated position until again released. The needles
in the jacquard engine or machine, which are connected to the cords
u, u, in order to affect the necessary raising of the catches g, g, and
k, k, are acted upon by the end of the ordinary perforated pattern
cards which are employed to raise the warp threads and are in all
respects constructed and actuated in a similar manner to the ordinary
needles.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention
of improved machinery for hand and power loom weaving, together
with the manner in which the same may be and is to be performed, I
declare my Invention to consist in and I claim actuating the rising
shuttle boxes in fancy looms by means of the jacquard engine, and
more especially the novel and peculiar arrangement of mechanism above

page_text: described, and; exhibited in the annexed Drawing, or any modification
thereof, for the purpose, of connecting the rising shuttle boxes to the
jacquard engine.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bottomley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALFRED MAY HOOPER,
Clerk to Messrs. Bentley & Wood,
Solicitors, Bradford.