IMPROVED SELF-ACTING TEMPLES USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Smith, of Soyland, in the County of York,
Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVED SELF-ACTING TEMPLES USED
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 28th June 1872, and dated the 1st January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st January 1872.
I, JOHN SMITH, of Soyland, in the County of York, Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED SELF-
ACTING TEMPLES USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in improved arrangements of temples for
enabling heavy, medium, and light fabrics to be woven at a uniform
width.
In one arrangement I place in the temple stock at each side of the
loom a series of rollers in line with each other, cach roller having in its
periphery one, two, or more circles or rows of pointed pins or teeth
working in slots or grooves in a frame fixed to the breast beam or loom

page_text: side, and the cloth or fabric in its passage to the cloth or winding-on
beam is held firm by the pins and slotted frame; and as the slots prevent
the pins from moving inwards and also assist the grip the cloth or fabric
is always of a uniform width.
In another arrangement instead of the rollers I employ an endless
chain or chains at each side of the loom, the chains being mounted with
pins or teeth working in slots in a stationary frame; and this arrange-
ment also keeps the cloth or fabric at a uniform width during the process
of weaving in consequence of the slots preventing the pins from moving
inwards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SMITH, of Soyland, in the County of York, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Smith, Her special licence that
I, the said John Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Smith, 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 SELF-ACTING TEMPLES USED
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition, amongst others, that I,
the said John Smith, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Smith, 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, reference being had to the Figures on the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings and to the letters of reference marked
thereon (that is to say):
This Invention consists in improved arrangements of self-acting
temples for enabling heavy, medium, and light fabrics to be woven
uniformly at the required width from one end of the piece to the other.
In one arrangement I place in the temple, head or stock at each side
of the loom one or more rollers, each having in its periphery one, two,
or more circles or rows of pointed pins, prods, or teeth working in
grooves formed in the bottom part or frame of the temple, which is held
to the breast beam in the usual manner. The cloth or fabric in its
passage to tho taking-up roller or winding-on beam is held firm trans-
versely by the pins or teeth and grooved frame; and as the grooves
prevent the pins or teeth from moving towards the centre of the loom
and also assist the grip the cloth or fabric is always of a uniform width
from one end of the piece to the other.
In another arrangement instead of the toothed rollers I employ an
endless chain or chains at each side of the loom, the chains being
mounted with pins or teeth working in grooves in the bottom part of
the temple; and this arrangement also keeps the cloth or fabric at a
uniform width during the process of weaving in consequence of the
grooves preventing the pins from moving inwards towards the centre of
the loom.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Fig. 1 is a longitudinal
elevation, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of one of my improved self-
acting temples with three toothed rollers; Fig. 3 a plan of the same
Fig. 4a plan of the grooved frame forming the lower part of the temple;
Figs. 5 and 6 are sections, and Fig. 7 a plan of a temple with two toothed
rollers; Figs. 8 and 9 are sections of a temple with one toothed roller;
Fig. 10 a plan of the grooved frame of the same; and Fig. 11 is a
longitudinal section, and Fig. 12 a plan of a temple having an endless
chain mounted with pins or teeth working in grooves.
The toothed rollers a work on pins 6 screwed in the head stock c,
which is held to the grooved frame d by the screws e, the frame d being

page_text: fastened to the spring rod ƒ in connection with the breast beam or the
tie bar of the loom. The toothed chain traverses on rollers / working on
pins h in the head stock c held by the screws e to the grooved frame d
fixed to the rod f. The rollers and chains have each two or more rows
of pins or teeth working in the grooves k of the grooved frames, the
teeth going through the selvage of the cloth not more than necessary,
and the head stock is held by the screws so as to allow the cloth / to pass
freely towards the cloth beam during the process of weaving, but at the
same time cause the edges of the grooves to grip the cloth and thereby
assist the pins, prods, or teeth in preventing it from shrinking inwards,
and thus enable the stoutest cloth to be woven at a uniform width from
one end of the piece to the other without any injury to the teeth as they
are safely protected by the grooves.
The teeth are made of any required strength or fineness, and the
rollers of any required dimensions and numbers of rows of teeth, in order
to adapt them to all descriptions and strengths of cloth.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim the grooves in the bottom parts or frames of the
temples for the pins, prods, or teeth of the rollers or chains to work in:
and thereby prevent them from moving towards the centre of the loom,
and at the same time assist the grip of the cloth or fabric, as such
improvements are herein described and illustrated on the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
before-named John Smith, in the
presence of
G. SEPTIMUS Hughes,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JOHN SMITH. (L.S.)