AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHUTTLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents.
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-
man, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SHUTTLES." A communication from abroad by Paul Morin, of
Sebastien, Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 19th January 1864, and dated the 7th August 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th August 1863.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the
naturo of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SHUTTLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application of aluminium bronze to the
construction of shuttles in place of wood, which is the material usually
employed for that purpose, and which renders them costly by reason of the
labour required in their construction, so as to render them suitable for the
reception of the spindle for tho bobbin and also the necessary apparatus for
putting the requisite drag on the weft thread. Aluminium bronze shuttles,
differing little in weight from wooden shuttles, possess a marked superiority as
regards solidity and durability. They may also be employed as substitutes for
the steel shuttles used in sewing machines. The bronze employed for this
purpose may either be used in the form of rolled and wrought plates which
may be cut out, shaped, and welded. or soldered, in the same manner as any
other metal, or it may be cast at once into the required shape according to the

page_text: form desired to be given to the various parts of the shuttle, whether they be
intended to be driven by power or by hand. Shuttles constructed of this
material may if desired be provided with tips of polished iron in the same
manner as wooden shuttles, but it will be found that aluminium bronze may
be prepared with sufficient hardness for the purpose, and that therefore this
arming of the shuttles may be dispensed with.
Shuttles constructed of this material also possess another advantage, namely,
that they have an intrinsic value when worn out, which is not the case with
those constructed either of wood or steel; moreover they preserve their polish
(while steel shuttles readily oxidize), and thereby the working of them is
facilitated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th February 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special license that 1, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as,
I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHUTTLES," being a communication
from abroad by Paul Morin, of Ruo St. Sebastien, Paris, in the Empire
of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, 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 Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby de-
clare 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 (that is to say):-
This Invention, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent,
consists in the application of an alloy known as aluminium bronze (which is a
compound of copper and aluminium) to the construction of shuttles in place
of wood, the material usually employed in their manufacture. The employment
of wood renders the manufacture costly by reason of the labor required in
preparing them to receive the skewer or spindle which carries the cop or
bobbin, and also the apparatus for putting the requisite drag on the weft
thread. The bronze employed for this purpose may either be used in the form
of rolled and wrought plates, which may be cut out, shaped, and welded or
soldered, in the same manner as any other metal, or the shuttles may be cast
at once of the form and proportions desired to be given to them, which will
vary according to the use to which they are intended to be applied. Shuttles
constructed of this material may if desired be provided with tips of polished
iron in the same manner as wooden shuttles, but it will be found that
aluminium bronze may be prepared by the manufacturers of that material with
sufficient hardness to admit of this arming of the shuttles being dispensed with.
Aluminium bronze shuttles, differing little in weight from wooden shuttles,
possess a marked superiority as regards solidity and durability; they may
also be employed with advantage as substitutes for the steel shuttles used in
sewing machines.
Shuttles constructed of this material also possess another advantage, namely,
that they have an intrinsic value when worn out, which is not the case with
those constructed either of wood or steel, moreover they preserve their polish
(while steel shuttles readily oxidize), which is an important property as respects
the efficient working of shuttles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand sight hundred and ciste Cov
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)