CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Wilson, Joiner, in the Employ of Messieurs
Robert Gardner and Company, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturers and Spinners, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 15th November 1864, and dated the 20th May 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Wilson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th May 1864.
I, EDWARD WILSON, Joiner, in the Employ of Messieurs Robert Gardner and
Company, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers and
Spinners, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
My Invention is applicable to looms in which the lay or batten is provided
with a fast reed, and it consists in removing the stop rod from the lay, and
supporting it in moveable bearings connected to the framing of the loom; by
this means the weight of the lay is reduced, and consequently a greater speed
may be given to the loom with less power and vibration.
In performing my Invention the swell of the shuttle box acts on an elbow
lever, one arm of which depresses the catch lever or frog jointed to the stop

page_text: rod to allow the stop to pass over the catch or frog, but if the shuttle fails to
enter the shuttle box the stop strikes the catch lever or frog and throws the
driving shaft from the fast to the loose pulley as in looms of the usual con-
struction. The above details can be varied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
WILSON, Joiner, in the Employ of Messieurs Robert Gardner and Company,
of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers and Spinners, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward Wilson, Her special license that I, the said
Edward Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Wilson, 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward Wilson, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under ny, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Iuven-
tion, 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 Edward Wilson, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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-
My Invention is applicable to looms in which the lay or batten is provided
with a fast reed, and it consists in removing the stop rod from the lay and
supporting it in moveable bearings connected to the framing of the loom; by

page_text: this means the weight of the lay is reduced, and consequently a greater speed
may be given to the loom with less power and-vibration.
In performing my Invention the swell of the shuttle box act on an elbow
lever, one arm of which depresses the catch lever or frog jointedto the stop rod
to allow the stop to pass over the catch or frog, but if the shutle fails to enter
the shuttle box the stop strikes the catch lever or frog and throws the driving.
strap from the fast to the loose pulley as in looms of the ordinary construction.
The above details can be varied.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon. :
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a loom to which my improvements are applied;
Fig. 2 is a plan of part of the same.
a is the crank shaft; b, the connecting arms; c, the lay or batten furnished
with an ordinary fast reed; d, the lay swords; e, the breast beam; f, the
taking up roller; g, the cloth roller; h, the strap guide; and i, the spring
starting lever. All these parts and the others not shewn in the Drawing or not
particularly referred to hereafter are made in the usual manner; j is an elbow.
lever jointed to a stud fixed in a bracket, bolted to the under side of the lay,
the upright arm of this elbow lever is acted upon by the swell c' of the
shuttle box, to the horizontal arm of the elbow lever j is fixed an adjustable
piece k, which bears upon and depresses the catch lever or frog 1 fixed to the
stop rod m; the stop rod instead of being supported in brackets attached to
the lay is supported at one end in the bracket n' fixed to the loom side and
at the other end in the bracket n³, which is connected to the loom side, but
capable of receiving a slight lateral motion when the frog catches, as will be
described hereafter. To the bracket n² is fixed the stud n passing through a
hole in the loom side, the end of this stud comes against the end of the
spring o. To the spring starting lever i is attached by regulating nuts the
screw stud, the head of which comes close to the end of the stop rod m.
The stop p is fixed to one of the lay swords d, and to the catch lever or frog
is fixed the inclined projection, which as the lay is going back comes under
and acts upon the stop p to release the shuttle swell. To one of the connecting
armis bis fixed the bracket b', the end of which has a stud acting when the
lay is beating up on the finger fixed to the stop rod in to release the shuttle,
near the finger is the lever j¹ which has a piece k¹ to act on the finger
The Drawing represents the various parts in the positions they occupy when
the shuttle has boxed, and when the lay is approaching the breast beam, the
elbow lever j has now pressed down the end of the catch lever or frog 7, and the

page_text: stopp passes over or clear of the frog when the lay beats up, but when the
shuttle fails to box the elbow lever j holds the adjustable piece k above the
catch lever or frog 1, which is then slightly raised by the action of the spring n³
on the lever n' fixed to the stop rod m, and consequently when the lay arrives
a little nearer the breast beam, the stop p for acting on the frog causes the
stop rod to come in contact with the screw stud and releases the spring
starting lever i from its retaining notch; the strap guide h then moves the
driving strap from the fast to the loose pulley, and thus stops the loom.
By means of these improvements the weight of the lay or batten is reduced
by the weight of the stop rod, and the loom may be safely worked at a greater
speed than heretofore without vibration, the power is also economised. I
wish to remark that the details herein set forth may be varied or modified.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the manner
of performing the same, I declare that I claim supporting the stop rod in
moveable bearings when applied to a loom in which a fast reed is employed,
as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Wilson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.
EDWARD WILSON. (L.S.)