CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN POWER LOOKS FOR WEAVING VARIOUS ARTICLES
Year: 1824

page_text: TETLOW'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,. I, JAMES
TETLOW, of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Weaver, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of October, in the fifth year of
His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Tetlow, His especial licence, that I, the said James Tetlow, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others or such others as I, the said James
Tetlow, my exors, admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of " CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN POWER LOOKS FOR WEAVING VARIOUS ARTICLES;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said James
Tetlow, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention; and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters. Patent (as
in and by the same), reference being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Tetlow, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):-

page_text: Fig. 1 is a front view of the loom weaving two pieces in one loom, one pieco
above the other. B, the plyers seizing the cloth. C, levers connected to the
plyers to remove the plyers upon the cloth when required. D, D, rollers over
which a strap runs to connect it to a projection to the rod E, E. F, a weight
suspended from the rod E, E, to assist the plyers B in stretching the cloth.
G, a trigger to receive a projection from the rod E, by means of which the
weight F is lifted. Fig. 2 is a right-hand view. H, a lever connected with
the trigger G. K, weights suspended from the levers L to retain the yarn on
the beam by assistance of the cog wheel N, by which means the weights K
drop upon the lever H, by which process the plyers B are removed upon the
cloth. Fig. 8 is a left-hand side view. O is a cog wheel, by which means
the levers P, P, are alternately lifted. Q is a roller over which a strap runs
connected with the levers P, to assist in working the cloth in the upper part of
the frame. Fig. 4 are the plyers with the machinery connected, as described
in Fig. 1, with the addition of two levers to assist in removing the plyers.
Fig. 5 is a form of the rod, as described in Fig. 1 and 4. Fig. 6 is the cog
wheel, levers, and weights, as described in Fig. 2. Fig. 7, R is a pair of
plyers in a different form in the act of stretching the cloth. S, S, is two levers
attached to the lath, working upon the plyers R, by which means the plyers
are enabled to open and shut and stretch the cloth every pick. T, T, a rod
with a lever connected with the lath to assist in removing the plyers upon the
cloth.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Tetlow, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
NADIN, Extra.
JAMES (L.B.) TETLOW.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1825, the aforesaid James Tetlow came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.