IMPROVE- MENTS IN LOOMS."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Field Stead and John Littlewood, both
of Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOOMS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Field Stead and
John Littlewood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 24th July 1875.
We, JOSEPH FIELD STEAD and JOHN LITTLEWOOD, both of Leeds, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS," to be as follows .-
Our improvements have reference to the "drag motion" for what is
known as the "yarn or warp beam,” and are as follows:-
:-
By our Invention we dispense with the weights, levers, ropes, and
other incumberances which have hitherto been employed for breaking

page_text: or putting the required drag on the "yarn or warp beam" or roller, the
object of this drag being to give the required tension to the warp during
the weaving operation, and for this purpose we provide a friction clip,
which works in a groove on the yarn or warp beam, or on a suitable
friction pulley in connection with the drag beam.
We provide the clip with an adjusting screw, whereby it can be
drawn to any degree of tightness, and by an increased or reduced
friction more or less retard the motion of the "
roller.
warp beam"
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Field Stead and John Littlewood in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPи
FIELD STEAD and JOHN LITTLEWOOD, both of Leeds, in the County of
York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Field Stead and
John Littlewood, Her special licence that we, the said Joseph
Field Stead and John Littlewood, our exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph Field Stead and John
Littlewood, our exccutors, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOoms," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Field Stead and John

page_text: Littlewood, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Joseph Field Stead and John
Littlewood, 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 in writing, and on
reference to the accompanying Drawings forming a part of this
Specification :-
Our improvements have reference to the drag motion for what is
known as the "yarn or warp beam,” and are as follows:-
By our Invention we dispense with the weights, levers, ropes, and
other incumbrances which have hitherto been employed for breaking
or putting the required drag on the "yarn or warp beam" or roller, tho
object of this drag being to give the required tension to the warp during
the weaving operation, and for this purpose we provide a friction clip,
which works in a groove on the yarn or warp beam, or on a suitable
friction pulley in connection with the drag beam
We provide the clip with an adjusting screw, whereby it can be
drawn to any degree of tightness, and by an increased or reduced
friction more or less retard the motion of the "
roller
warp beam” or
We provide on the machine in a suitable position a stop, which
prevents the clip from rotating.
And in order that our Invention may be more completely understood,
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page_text: application of the friction clip 6 and parts connected therewith, sub-
stantially as and for purposes hercin set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Tuttlewood, for myself, and
on behalf of the said Joseph Field Stead, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.