IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INTRODUCING THE PILE WIRES USED IN WEAVING BRUSSELS CARPETS AND OTHER PILED FABRICS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Brook Hodgson and John Carter, of Halifax, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
INTRODUCING THE PILE WIRES USED IN WEAVING BRUSSELS CARPETS AND OTHER
PILED FABRICS."
Scaled the 17th July 1857, and dated the 2nd February 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Brook Hodgson and John
Carter at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 2nd February 1857.
We, BROOK HODGSON and JOHN CARTER, of Halifax, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOB INTRODUCING THE PILE WIRES USED IN WEAVING BRUSSELS CARPETS AND OTHER
PILED FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for introducing
the pile wires used in weaving Brussels carpets and other piled fabrics. For
these purposes the looms may be arranged to have any desired number of pile
wires in the fabrics, and the peculiarity of the apparatus consists in the appli-
cation of a screw motion to introduce the wires, and also a screw motion to
withdraw the wires. The motion for introducing the wires into the fabric is
preferred to be faster than the screw motion which withdraws the wires from
the fabric. The screw apparatus is arranged at one of its ends to take hold of
and securely hold the end of the wires, each of which is made with a suitable
enlargement for that purpose. The screw apparatus having placed a wire in

page_text: the open shed, releases itself from that wire, and by the working of the loom
the screw apparatus is moved forward and comes into position for drawing out
a wire from the fabric by taking hold of the head of such wire, and by
receding from the selvage of the fabric; the screw apparatus is then moved
back by the working of the loom, so as to bring the wire into position to be
introduced into the open shed when the screw apparatus by its rotation is
moved towards the selvage. of the fabric, and thus, introduces the wire into the
open shed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Brook Hodgson and John Carter in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st August 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, BROOK
HODGSON and JOHN CARTER, of Halifax, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing. date the Second day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Brook Hodgson and John Carter, Her special licence that we, the said
Brook Hodgson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said and John Carter, 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 terin 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR INTRODUCING THE PILE WIRES USED IN
WEAVING BRUSSELS CARPETS AND OTHER PILED FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Brook Hodgson and John Carter, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or, their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of, one of us or them, 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 Brook: Hodgson and John Carter,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for introducing
the pile-wires used in weaving Brussels carpets and other piled fabrics. For
these purposes the looms may be arranged to have any desired number of pile.
wires in the fabrics, and the peculiarity of the apparatus consists in the appli-
cation of a screw motion to introduce the wires, and also a screw motion to
withdraw the wires. The motion for introducing the wires into the fabric is.
preferred to be faster than the screw motion which.withdraws the wires from
the fabric. The screw apparatus is arranged at one of its ends to take hold.
of and securely hold the end of the wires, each of which is made with a
suitable enlargement for that purpose. The screw apparatus having placed a
wire in the open shed, releases itself from that wire, and by the working of the
loom the screw apparatus is moved forward and comes into position for drawing
out a wire from the fabric by taking hold of the head of such wire, and by
receding from the salvage of the fabric; the screw apparatus is then moved
back by the working of the loom, so as to bring the wire into position to be
introduced into the open shed, when the screw apparatus by its rotation is
moved towards the selvage of the fabric, and thus introduces the wire into the
open shed.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the same.
.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows part of an end view, and Figure 2 shows part of a front:
view of a loom according to our Invention.
a, a, is the main frame; bis a bevil toothed wheel on the crank shaft for
driving the shaft c, which gives motion to the screw x. The screw x is cut in
two directions, the one thread crossing the other. One of the threads is more
inclined to the axis than the other, the quick motion being for inserting the
wire, the slower motion being for withdrawing the wire, The screw a is
actuated or driven constantly in the same direction, and it gives motion to the
slide d, by means of a projection which enters in succession into the grooves
around the screw shaft which gives motion to the carriage e, which runs on
the bar f. The wire. n is held by its end by one end of the carriage e, when
putting in and withdrawing the wire, and the carriage or apparatus put in
motion by the screw may be arranged with suitable apparatus for connecting
and disconnecting it with the wire as has heretofore been the case with other
than screw apparatus.

page_text: .:The bar g works in a groove at the ends of the frame, which groove acts as
guides to the bar, and keeps it in its proper position. The bar g is moved up
and down by means of the cam h, which gives motion to the levers and
axis i, 2, which are connected to the rods j, j, which are pin-jointed to the
bar gat k, k. When the bar 9 is raised, the projection 7, on the slide d, enters
the groove of the screw for inserting a wire, and when the wire is run in by
the screw x, and screw apparatus working therewith, the wire is dropped by
the screw apparatus in the shed, and the screw apparatus is moved, and takes
hold of another wire; then the bar g is brought down by the action of the
cam h, and the projection m of the slide d falls into the groove of the finer
pitch, which carries the 'slide d with the wire n attached thereto out of the
fabric, to be ready for inserting again at the time required.
Figure 3 is a detached view of the end of the screw a, and the screw appa-
ratus, consisting of the slide d on the bar g, also showing the joint at k. The
bar is supported at the ends by the standard f.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we wish it to be understood that we do not confine our-
selves to the details herein described, nor do we claim any of the parts
separately; and we would state that we are aware that screws and screw
apparatus have before been proposed to be used for actuating the terry wires
of looms, we do not therefore claim generally to use screw and screw appa-
ratus for such purposes. But what we claim is, the combining of a screw with
different speeds of pitch with suitable screw apparatus, for the purpose of
inserting and withdrawing the wires used in looms for weaving Brussels carpets
and other piled fabrics.
In witness whereof, we, the said Brook Hodgson and John Carter, have
'hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-eighth day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
JAMES WADE,
Halifax.
BROOK HODGSON. (L.S.)
JOHN CARTER.
(L.S.)