IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD APPARATUS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick James Newton, of 23, Wollaton Street,
Nottingham, and John Mosley, of Elm Avenue, New Basford, near
the said Nottingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD
APPARATUS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick James Newton
and John Mosley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 21st July 1870.
We, FREDERICK JAMES NEWTON, of 23, Wollaton Street, Nottingham,
and JOHN MOSLEY, of Elm Avenue, New Basford, near the said
Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
.
In carrying out our improvements we employ two card cylinders
capable of acting on the same horizontal needles, and these horizontal
needles are brought into a normal state after being acted upon by the
cards of either cylinder without the ordinary spiral springs by the
flexibility of the vertical needles, such vertical needles passing through"

page_text: a sley or sleys a distance from the point of connection of the two sets of
needles that, will admit of the flexibility required. The griffs according
to one arrangement are formed with notches or openings or pieces
thereon acting with the same effect so that the catches to the upper
ends of the vertical needles may be moved by the horizontal needles to
catch or miss the parts of them. In this case the griffs are placed in a
line with the horizontal needles. The cylinders may be worked together
in opposite directions or they may be separately acted upon..
In operating in the manufacture of fabrics on twist lace machines one
cylinder may act for the selection for the front motions and the other for
the back motions, or each cylinder may be employed in working certain
portions of the pattern as may be most suitable to produce the design or
pattern. In this case the selection of the particular cylinder and of the
cards for the time to work will be by pattern or other suitable apparatus
in connection with the loom or machine to which the apparatus is
applied, or one cylinder may be employed to move the upper ends of the
vertical needles into position to be lifted by the griffs and the other
away therefrom, or the horizontal 'needles may be connected each at one
end to one end of a separate lever, the other end of which is connected to
a separate horizontal needle, so that each of such horizontal needles acting
ón a vertical needle will be operated at one end directly by the cards of
one cylinder and at the other end indirectly through the lever and separate
horizontal needle thereto by the cards of the other cylinder. Guide sleys
are used as required. By these means the various changes, selections,
and arrangements of the pattern cards may be entirely independent of
the workman in charge of the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick James Newton and John Mosley in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FREDERICK 3
JAMES NEWTON, of 23, Wollaton Street, Nottingham, and JOHN MOSLEY,
of Elm Avenue, New Basford, near the said Nottingham, send
greeting.
:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year 3

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of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
.fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Frederick James Newton and John Mosley,
Her special licence that we, the said Frederick James Newton and
5 John Mosley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Frederick James Newton and John Mosley, 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, exercise, and
O vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
JACQUARD APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Frederick James Newton and John Mosley, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said Frederick James Newton and John
Mosley, 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:
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The object of our Invention is to afford increased facilities in the
manufacture of certain classes of fabrics by the aid of jacquard
apparatus.
In carrying our improvements into effect we employ two card
cylinders, the cards of each of which are capable of acting on the same
horizontal needles for the required selections in producing the pattern of
the fabric. These horizontal needles are brought into a normal state
after being acted upon by the cards of either cylinder without the
ordinary spiral springs by the flexibility of the vertical needles, such
vertical needles passing through a sley or sleys or suitable guides a
distance from the point of their connection with the two sets of
horizontal needles sufficient to admit of the required flexibility to such
vertical needles. The griffs are formed with notches or openings or with
pieces thereon to act with a like effect, so that the catches to the upper

page_text: VA
спеат песures шау m the endway moion or the horizontal
needles be moved to catch or miss parts of them. In this case the
direction of the length of each griff is in a line with the horizontal
needles in place of being transverse thereto.
But that the Invention may be better understood we will by the aid
of the accompanying Drawings proceed to describe means pursued by us
in carrying, the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
c, c, are
Figure 1 shows by a sectional view so much of the parts of jacquard
apparatus as will serve to illustrate our improvements; Figures 2 and 3
show two slightly differing forms of horizontal needles; and Figures
4 and 5 show two views of one of the vertical needles. a and bare the
two jacquard cylinders for carrying the required jacquard cards, there
being no novelty in the use of two jacquard cylinders in the same
machine separately considered, and various means being in operation
and well known for supporting and actuating them so as to bring them
into operation at the respective times desired we have not thought it
necessary to enter into any details in relation to the same here, and they
may be worked together or may be separately acted upon.
horizontal needles, each of which by an eye or notch c¹ in it receives so
as to be capable of moving it one of the vertical needles d, d. These
vertical needles are each formed as shown at its lower portion so as to
be capable of sliding vertically in the sleys or guides e, e, and e¹, and of
retaining during such vertical motion a tendency for their upper ends
to remain in the same vertical position, and by their elasticity to return
to that position after being moved in either direction by the action of
either of the card cylinders on either end of their horizontal wires c, c ;
f shows one of the griffs, and Figure 6 an end section of one of them
with the hooked end d' of one of the vertical rods d thereon. According
to this arrangement, as shewn, the upper hooked ends d¹ of the
vertical wires d are in their normal state all in a position to be taken by
the rises f¹ of the griffs f to be thereby raised in the rising of those
griffs, and when it is desired that a vertical needle d should not be raised
in the rising of the griffs then the jacquard card of the cylinder in
operation will be formed with a blank opposite such horizontal needle so
as in giving endway motion to it to move the upper hooked end d' of
the vertical needle d operated thereby, so that such hooked part may for
the time rest over a notch or opening f' (as indicated by the dotted lines

page_text: in Figure 1) when such vertical bar or bars d will remain without being
lifted in the rising of the griffs, but this may be varied. 9 are stops to
regulate the distance of motion of the horizontal bars c if desired. In
some cases we form the lower looped ends' d² of the respective vertical
rods d to extend up to the upper sleys or guides e¹, and so that the
distance from such upper part to an eye or loop c¹ in a horizontal rod c
may be equal in all of them.
In employing jacquard apparatus according to our improvements in
the manufacture of fabrics in twist lace machines one cylinder with its
cards may act for the selection for the front motions and the other for
the back motions, or each cylinder may be employed in working certain
portions of the pattern as may be most suitable to produce the design
or pattern, and the cylinder for the time not operating may be turned in
either direction at will to alter the relation or position of certain of the
cards.
The selection of the particular cylinder with its cards for the time to
work will be effected by the cards of the respective. cylinders or by the
aid of other pattern or other suitable apparatus such as is well under-
stood in connection with the loom or machine to which such jacquard
apparatus is applied. If desired the cards of one cylinder .may be
employed to move the upper ends of the vertical needles in position to
be lifted by the rises or other projections on the griffs, and those of the
other for their being missed by such rises or other projections. In some
cases we adopt an arrangement of parts such as that shown by the
diagram, Figure 7, in which one end of each horizontal needle c is
connected by a link c² and pin joint h¹ to one end of a lever h. These
levers are capable of rocking on centres h², and at their other end h³
each is connected by pin joint to one end of a separate horizontal
needle k, and these needles are supported so as to be capable of endway
O motion in the guide 1, whilst their outer ends are in position to be acted
upon by the cards of a card cylinder A. By such an arrangement each
of the horizontal needles C acting on a vertical needle D is capable of
being operated upon at one end directly by the cards of one jacquard
cylinder B, and at the other end indirectly through a lever h and
separate needle by the cards of another cylinder. The vertical rods
may be formed as those last described to have a tendency to preserve
one position and to be moved into the other by the action as described
on the ends of the rods C or k, or these vertical rods may be of the

page_text: ordinary kind, when springs will be applied to act on the horizontal
bars C, as shown by the dotted lines c³. By these means the
various changes, selections, and arrangements of the pattern cards may
for the most part be independent of the workman in charge of the
machine.
Having thus described our improvements, and means which we adopt
in carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that what
we claim is, the arrangements and combinations of parts of jacquard
apparatus operating as described.
In witness whereof we, the said Frederick James Newton and
John Mosley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand.
eight hundred and seventy-one.
FREDERICK JAMES NEWTON. (L.S.)
JOHN MOSLEY.
(L.S.)