IMPROVEMENTS IN TEMPLES FOR LOOMS to bo as follows:-
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ALEXANDER MCNAB, of the firm of Renison MoNab and Company of Bodeit
Street Weaving Factory, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TEMPLES
FOR LOOMS to bo as follows:-
"
My said Invention comprises an improved combination of parts forming a temple
for looms and designed to act more satisfactorily than existing temples and
especially upon some kinds of woven fabrics.
The kind of temple known as the Swiss temple and which consists of a number
of conical brass rings armed with steel points and placed obliquely so as to turn
freely on oblique bosses upon a horizontal or nearly horizontal spindle, tends to
keep the selvedge of the fabric out to the proper width; but is imperfect in action
because its sizo, necessitated by its construction, prevents it from acting on the
fabric sufficiently closely to the recd (that is to the position of the reed when
forward or beating-up).
My Invention consists in combining with the Swiss templo a small pointed roller
which may be like a kind used in what is known as a flat temple, and which being
placed at the inner side of the Swiss part acts on the fabric as closely as possible to
the reed. The cap or cover of the temple and which guides the fabric so as to
make it pass closely over the pointed roller and rings is shaped to extend over both
and has a part descending into the valley-like part between them. As each
increment of the fabric moves forward it first engages with the points of the small
roller which prevents the selvedge from shrinking inwards, and it then passes on
to the Swiss or oblique rings and is by them kept or taken out to the proper width..
The small roller may be made out of a solid piece of iron with the points raised on
it, but I prefer to make it of bronze or brass and to fix steel points in it. To admit
of the steel points being easily and securely fixed the roller may be made up
of sections of ring-like or stave-like or other convenient form, such suctions being
fixed on a central spindle after the steel points have been fixed from the inner-sides
in holes drilled for the purpose.
1004
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: I, ALEXANDER MCNAB of the firm of Renison McNab and Company, of Boden
Street Weaving Factory, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the naturo of my said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TEMPLES FOR LOOMS" 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 :—
My said Invention comprises an improved combination of parts forming a temple
for looms, and designed to act more satisfactorily than oxisting temples, and
especially upon some kinds of woven fabrics.
The kind of temple known as the Swiss temple and which consists of a number
of conical brass rings armed, with steel points and placed obliquely so as to turn
freely on oblique. bosses upon a horizontal or nearly horizontal spindle, tends to
keep the selvedge of the fabric out to the proper width; but is imperfect in
action because its size, necessitated by its construction, prevents it from acting on
the fabric sufficiently closely to the reed (that is to the position of the reed when
forward or beating-up). My Invention consists in combining with the ordinary
Swiss temple a small pointed roller which may be like a kind used in what is
known as a flat temple, and which being placed at the inner side of the Swiss part
acts on the fabric as closely as possible to the reed. The added roller may be made
up of sections of ring-like or stave-like or other convenient form; or it may be
inado more or less like the Swiss temple but of smaller size, such smaller roller, of
whatever construction, whilst not satisfactorily effective by itself being of great
advantage when used in combination with the larger Swiss temple.
A temple as constructed according to my Invention is shown on the accompanying
sheet of explanatory drawings, figure, 1, being a plan of the temple with the cover
removed, whilst figure, 2, represents the temple and cover in vertical section parallel
to the side of the loom, and figure, 3, is a plan of the cover.
The temple shown in the drawings is the one for the right-hand side of the loom,
and the working parts of it aro carried by a small open frame, A, carried on a
rod, B, which extends across the loom, and is itself carried on long studs, of which
one, C, is shown, fixed to tho breast beam, D. A spring, E, on each of the studs, C,
presses the rod, B, inwards against an adjustable nut, F, on the inner end of the
stud, but allows the rod to move forwards when acted upon by any excess of
pressure. The temple frame, A, can be adjusted on the rod, B, to suit the width of
fabric which is being woven, and when adjusted is fixed by the pinching screw, G.
The details so far described are substantially the same as in existing looms.
A Swiss temple spindle, H, fitted with the usual steel-pointed obliquely-placed
loose conical rings, J, is fixed to the temple frame, A, by means of a nut, K, screwed
on the end of a reduced part of the spindle which projects through the frame; and
at the inner side of the Swiss temple spindle there is placed a small steel-pointed
roller, L, in a position close up to which the reed approaches when beating up.
This small roller, L, which is shown as consisting of two separate lengths and which
may consist of one or more lengths is carried loosely on a spindle, M, one end of
which is entered into a bearing in the outer part of the temple frame, A, whilst the
other end lies in a groove in the other end of the frame. When in use the
temple spindle, H, J, and the small roller, L, have fixed over them a cover, N,
which is jointed to the outer part of the temple frame, A, and is secured in
its closed position by a thumb screw or button, P. This cover, N, has its under
side shaped so as to descend into the valley-like part between the rollers, L,

page_text: and H, J, so as to make the woven fabric pass closely in contact with those
rollors. As the small roller, L, takes hold of the fabric at or close to the fell,
its points tend to prevent the solvedge of the fabric from shrinking inwards, and
thereby renders the immediately subsequent breadthening action of the oblique
pointod rings, J, of the Swiss temple more effective. The small roller L, may be
made out of a solid piece or tube of iron with the points raised on it; but I
prefer to make it of bronze or brass and to fix steel points in it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same. is to be performed I declare that. what
I claim, is:
The combination of a small pointed roller with a Swiss temple the said small
roller being placed as near the fell of the cloth as possible substantially as hercin-
before described.
Datod hath doT
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.