IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN SHUTTLES."-A communication.
Sealed the 6th February 1857, and dated the 28th August 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th August 1856.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES," (communicated to me by a foreigner residing.
abroad,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in forming shuttles in several parts, and in the
following manner:-The body or frame is formed of iron or other metal, to
which are screwed or otherwise affixed iron or other metal-pointed shoes or
ends, and the frame covered with gutta percha, vulcanized or hardened
caoutchouc, horn, or other similar smooth material. The friction rollers are
also formed of gutta percha, hardened india-rubber, horn, or other similar
substance, and are free to revolve upon spindles set in wooden blocks, one at
each end of the shuttle. In some cases the Inventor dispenses with the metal
frame, and forms the shuttle between the wooden blocks and metal shoes of
gutta percba, hardened caoutchouc, horn, or other like material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my 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 Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES," communicated to me by a foreigner
residing abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings annexed,
that is to say:-
This Invention consists in forming shuttles in several parts, and in the
following manner:-The body web or frame is formed of iron or other metal,
to which are screwed or otherwise affixed iron or other metal-pointed shoes
or ends, and the frame covered with gutta percha, vulcanised or hardened
caoutchouc, horn, or other similar smooth material. The friction rollers are
also formed of gutta percha, hardened india-rubber, horn, or other similar
substance, and are free to revolve upon spindles set in wooden blocks, one at
each end of the shuttle.

page_text: In some cases the Inventor dispenses with the metal frame, and forms the
shuttle between the wooden blocks and metal shoes of gutta percha, hardened
caoutchouc, horn, or other like material.
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 a side elevation, of a shuttle suitable for
French looms, and constructed according to this Invention; Figures 3 and 4
are respectively front and side views of one of the metal shoes; Figure 5 is a
plan of the frame, and Figure 6 a side view of the same. A, A¹, are the
shoes, which are fixed to plates B, B, fitted to wooden blocks C, D, in which
are mounted the friction rollers E, E; F, F, are plates or strips of gutta
percha, horn, or other smooth material, which cover the frame B, and are
connected to it by screws, pins, rivets, or otherwise.
The metal frame may be dispensed with, and the plates or strips F, F, fitted
directly on the blocks C, D, being supported at the ends by the bevilled parts of
the shoes A, A'. The wooden body C is hollowed or recessed at I to diminish
weight, and a roller II is fitted on this recessed part. J is the nipper or holder
for the reel, quill, or pirn.
Figures 7, 8, and 9 shew a shuttle suitable for English and Belgian looms.
The shuttle shewn in Figure 7 is without rollers; in other respects the parts
A, B, C, D, E, F, H, and I in these Figures refer to similar parts, as are
indicated by the same letters in Figures 1 to 6. J is a pin or spindle for a
bobbin pirn or quill Las used in Belgian and English shuttles, and which
may be drawn up (as shewn by the red lines, Figure 8,) when the quill or
pirn is to be taken out.
I do not confine myself to the constructing of shuttles of the particular
form shewn in the Drawing; but what I claim, is,-
First, the constructing of shuttles in several pieces, united together by a
metal web or frame, covered with plates or strips of caoutchouc or other
smooth material, or by a body, consisting of india-rubber or other smooth
material, the frame or body being provided with metal shoes or ends, and
either with or without friction rollers set in wooden blocks, all as herein-before
described.
Second, the employment of friction rollers made of vulcanized or hardened
india-rubber, horn, or other equivalent hard and plastic substance, as herein-
before described.
Third, the employment of metal shoes or pointed ends fixed to the inner
web and outer plates of the shuttle, as herein-before described.
Fourth, the covering of the body of the shuttle with pieces or plates of
wood, metal, india-rubber, or other smooth or plastic material fixed to the
body and ends, as herein-before described.

page_text: And, fifth, the particular construction and arrangement of shuttles, as
hercin-before described, and represented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
.
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.