CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Moseley, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, India-rubber Manufacturer, and Thomas Holbrook,
of the same Place, Book-keċper, for the Invention of "CERTAIN
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Sealed the 12th December 1873, and dated the 17th October 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Moseley and
Thomas Holbrook at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 17th October 1873.
We, JOSEPH MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
India-rubber Manufacturer, and Thomas HOLBROOK, of the same Place,
Book-keeper, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
“ CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING,” to be as follows :-
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The nature of our Invention consists in the application of a band of
india-rubber or any suitable material to the lay or batten of a loom to
prevent the shuttle flying out of the shed.
In performing our Invention we fix the ends of the band to opposite
ends of the lay or batten, or to the shuttle boxes, in such a position that

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the band is clear of the warps when the shed is open, so that the shuttle
may be prevented from rising and flying off, when owing to any defect
in the shed it may have a tendency to do so. By this means the
accidents which frequently occur owing to the shuttle escaping from
the loom are avoided, and the injury to the warp and to the shuttle are
also prevented.
Our Invention may be modified by making the ends of the band of
india-rubber and the centre part of woven fabric or other suitable
material, or the ends may be of woven fabric and the centre part of
india-rubber, or in some cases bands of leather or other suitable material
may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Moseley and Thomas Holbrook in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
MOBELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, India-rubber
Manufacturer, and THOMAS HOLBROOK, of the same Place, Book-keeper,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of 1
our Lord One thousand-eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Moseley and Thomas Holbrook,
Her special licence that we, the said Joseph Moseley and Thomas
Holbrook, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Joseph Moseley and Thomas Holbrook, 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, exercisc, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Joseph Moseley and Thomas Holbrook, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our
or their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain

page_text: 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 Joseph Moseley and Thomas
Holbrook, 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) :—
The nature of our Invention consists in the application of a band of
india-rubber or other suitable material to the lay or batten of a loom to
prevent the shuttle flying out of the shed.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is an end view, and Fig. 2 a front
view of a loom to which our improvements are applied. Fig. 3 is a plan
of the lay, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detached views drawn full size of one
end of our improved shuttle guard.
a is the lay bottom; b, the reed, and c, the hand top; d, d, are the
lay swords. All these parts and the other parts of the loom are made
in the usual manner. Near each end of the hand top or to any con-
venient part of the lay is fixed a bracket e, shewn full size in Figs. 4
and 5, and to each bracket is secured one end of the band of india-
rubber or other suitable material f.
We prefer to make an eyelet hole in each end of the band, which
eyelet hole fits on a pin in the bracket e, but the band may be secured
in any other convenient manner, providing the under side of the band is
clear of the warps when the shed is open.
When the loom is at work the to-and-fro motions of the lay cause the
band f to vibrate horizontally, as shewn by the dotted lines in Fig. 3,
and the shuttle traverses from one shuttle box to the other under the
bandf, but if owing to any defect in the shed or from other cause the
shuttle should attempt to fly off it is prevented from so doing and held
in the shed by the vibrating band f, thereby not only preventing injury
to the weavers but preventing also the injury to the warps and to the
shuttles.

page_text: In order to produce the best results, the band f must be in a state of
tension when secured to the lay.
Our Invention may be modified by making the ends of the band of
india-rubber and the centre part of woven fabric or other suitable
material, or the ends may be of woven fabric and the centre part of 5
india-rubber..
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, we declare that we claim, the appli-
cation of a band of india-rubber or other suitable material to the lay of a
loom to prevent the shuttle flying off, as shewn and described.
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In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Moseley and Thomas
Holbrook, have hereto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth
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day of April One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JOSEPH MOSELEY'