IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SIZING WARPS OR YARNS."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Hargreaves and Robert Holden, of Helm-
shore, in the County of Lancaster, and Henry Holt, of Newchurch, in
the said County, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR SIZING WARPS OR YARNS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Hargreaves and
Robert Holden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 4th June 1861.
We, STEPHEN HARGREAVES and ROBERT HOLDEN, of Helmshore, in the
County of Lancaster, and HENRY HOLT, of Newchurch, in the said County, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SIZING WARPS OR YARNS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improved self-acting arrangements for
stopping the machine when any of the warp threads break.
Instead of employing a fast reed, as at present, we use a loose reed having
upon it projections which can coure in contact with the stopping and starting
handles when the reed falls forward. When one or more of the warp threads
break, an entanglement takes place which cannot pass the reed, which is
consequently pressed forward, and coming in contact with the handles stops the
machine. The heald staves of the heald and the reed are connected together

page_text: by connecting links, so that if motion should be given to the heald, it will be
transmitted to the reed; and, therefore, if a breakage should take place between
the reed and the heald, the entanglement would press against the heald,
which, by means of the rods, would pull forward the reed, and act upon the
stopping handles, and stop the machine..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Stephen Hargreaves and Robert Holden in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 4th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, STEPHEN
HARGREAVES and ROBERT HOLDEN, of Helmshore, in the County of Lancaster,
and HENRY HOLT, of Newchurch, in the said County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden, and Henry Holt, Her special
licence that we, the said Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden, and Henry Holt,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden, and Henry Holt, our executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR SIZING
WARPS OR YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden, and Henry Holt, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, 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 Stephen Hargreaves, Robert Holden,
and Henry Holt, 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):-

page_text: This Invention consists in certain improved self-acting arrangements for
stopping the motion of the sizing machine or tape leg when any of the warp
threads break.
Instead of employing a fast reed, as at present, we use a loose reed having
upon it projections which can come in contact with the stopping and starting
handles when the reed falls forward. When one or more of the warp; threads
break an entanglement takes place that cannot pass the reed, which is con-
sequently pressed forward, so that the projections upon it give motion to the
handles and stop the machine. The heald staves of the heald and the reed
are connected together by cords or links, so that if motion should be given to
the heald, it will be transmitted to the reed; and, therefore, if a breakage should
take place between the reed and the heald, the entanglement would press
against the heald, which, by means of the cords or links, would pull forward
the reed, and act upon the stopping handles, and stop the machine.
These improvements will be clearly understood by referring to the figures
and letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents
a longitudinal elevation of part of a sizing machine, having our improved reed
and parts connected with it, a portion of one of the side frames being removed
in order to shew the bottom of the reed and heald; and Fig. 2, a plan of part
of the same. The loose reed is shewn at a, having fixed to it pins or centres b,
which fit holes or bearings in the side frame d, so that the reed can move
forwards when pressure is exerted upon it. To the lower staff of the heald e
there are hooks f, which carry a rod 9 extending across the machine, and
connected by cords or links h to the top of the reed. To the standards i are fixed
holders, cach consisting of a piece of metal turned inwards so as to hold
the reed and prevent its moving too far back; and to the top of the reed at
each end there are bars or projections 1 extending outwards so as to come in
contact with the stopping handles m when the reed moves forwards, there
being weights n to give the necessary force. When one or more of the warp
threads break at the back of the reed, an entanglement takes place, which
presses against the dents, and turns over the reed, so that the projections /
shift the handles and stop the machine; and when one or more threads break
between the heald and the reed, the entanglement presses forward the heald,
which pulls forward the reed, and causes the stoppage of the machine.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be understood
that we claim as our Invention the application to machinery or apparatus for
sizing warps or yarns of a loose reed having projections which come in contact
with, and give motion to the stopping handles when the reed falls forward, and

page_text: also the connecting together the heald and reed by cords or links, as such
improvements are herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Stephen Hargreaves and Henry Holt,
for and on behalf of ourselves and the said Robert Holden, have here-
unto set our hands and seals, this Second day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Stephen Har-
greaves and Henry Holt, in the
presence of
STEPHEN HARGREAVES. (L.8.)
HENRY HOLT.
(L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Stephen Har-
greaves and Henry Holt, in the
presence of
SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
17, Cross Street,
Manchester.
SILPHE. HA
HENRY HOLT.
LS. (L.8.)
(L.S.)