IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Fell, Senior, of Blackburn, in the County
of Lancaster, and John Fell, Junior, of the same Place, Sley
Makers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 16th October 1874, and dated the 17th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Fell and
John Fell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 17th April 1874.
We, THOMAS FELL, Senior, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster,
and JOHN FELL, Junior, of the same Place, Sley Makers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR
WEAVING," to be as follows:-
The first part of our Invention consists of a spindle stud of cast or
wrought iron, through which we pass a square bodied bolt, securing it
to sley sword. This bolt we protect by a tempered steel plate inserted
in the bolt lole and in front of the bolt to arrest the wearing progress of

page_text: the spindle. On the face of the stud are two holes at equal distances
from each end, thus making the stud reversable and of double service.
This is applicable to either fast or loosc reed power looms by mercly
changing the bolt.
The second part of our Invention consists of a combined bush and cap
to overcome the shaking tendency of the rod in the bush when worn.
The cap is made of half circle shape to correspond with the half circle
of the sley sword, and is fastened with the ordinary bolt. The bush is
bored to receive the round part of the stop rod. These are likewise
applicable to fast and loose reed power looms.
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Fell and John Foll in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 17th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
FELL, Senior, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, and JOHN FELL,
Junior, of the same Place, Slay Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patont, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Fell and John Fell, Her
special licence that we, the said Thomas Fell and Jolin Fell, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Thomas Fell and John Fell, 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 vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Fell and John
Fell, 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

page_text: Second. The cap and bush combined and secured to its place by the
same bolt that secures the cap, substantialy as and for the purposes
herein-before set forth and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Fell, Senior, and John Fell;
Junior, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day 5
of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.
Witness,
JOHN LEWIS,
Engineer,
Preston,
Lancashire.
THOMAS FELL. (L.S.)
JOHN FELL.. . (L.S.)