Im PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hodgson, of Bradford, in the County of
York, Loom Manufacturer, and James Broadley, of Heaton, near
the said Bradford, Overlooker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hodgson and
James Broadley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 20th June 1874.
We, GEORGE HODGSON, of Bradford, in the County of York, Loom
Manufacturer, and JAMES BROADLEY, of Heaton, near the said Bradford,
Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Im
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN WEAVING," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to afford facility for the regulation of
and the obtaining uniformity to the tension or weight to the healds in
weaving. For this purpose the lower parts of the healds are connected
to two levers, which are so connected that when the weight is most
required the whole of it is on, and when the least is required it is eased

page_text: to such a point as to keep the healds steady. These levers work on
centres or studs and against each other, and relieve each other when and
to the extent desired; or according to another arrangement a single
lever or two levers having an enlarged weighted end working on a centre
or stud may be employed, capable of being so regulated as to vary the
weight according to the weight required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Hodgson and James Broadley in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 19th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
HODGSON, of Bradford, in the County of York, Loom Manufacturer,
and JAMES BROADLEY, of Heaton, near the said Bradford, Overlooker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said George Hodgson and James Broadley, Her
special license that we, the said George Hodgson and James Broadley,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
George Hodgson and James Broadley, 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 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 APPARATUS EMPLOYED
IN WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
George Hodgson and James Broadley, 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 a
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.

page_text: whilst the outer end f¹ of one of these levers f is acted upon by the
pressure of a spring g, or it may be of other weight, and its inner end f
is formed into a fork or clip to embrace the shorter end for a projection
therefrom of the other lever f, by which corresponding pressure is
exerted on each of the cords c, c, and thence to the heald..
Figure 3 shows by another modification the weights w applied on or
forming parts of the levers; h, h, being the levers capable each of
turning on a common axis of motion a' carried by a portion of the
framing a, and each being connected by saparate cords c, c, up to the
heald.
The arrangement for the time selected to be used will be applied to
act on each of the healds for the time in use, and desired to be so
operated.
Having thus described our Invention, and means which we adopt in
carrying the same into effect, we would wish it to be understood that
what we claim is, the adaptation or combination of means or apparatus
employed in weaving for facilitating the regulation of and obtaining
uniformity to the tension or weight to the healds, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Hodgson and James
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