IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Fielding and James Edward Fielding,
both of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Scaled the 16th April 1875, and dated the 17th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Fielding and
James Edward Fielding at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 17th October 1874.
We, THOMAS FIELDING and JAMES EDWARD FIELDING, both of
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS
FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the construction, application, and use
of improved "harness boards" employed on looms, and which said
boards were as heretofore constructed of wood, and perforations or holes
were bored or formed through nich boards, through which holes the
harness or "harness twine was passed and worked; as such twine
often passes & works through the perforations at an angle to the per-
"

page_text: forations the result is a considerable amount of friction, and wear and
tear of a necessity takes place. To reduce this to a minnimum is the
object of this Invention.
We construct harness boards of a slab or slabs of glazed porcelain, pot
glass, or metal, enamelled & perforated as required. The glazing or 5
enamelling provides a smoother, hard, and durable working surface, and
reduces the friction and wear and tear not only of the harness twine but
of the harness boards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Fielding and James Edward Fielding in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Thomas
FIELDING and JAMES EDWARD FIELDING, both of Blackburn, in the
County of Lancaster, Cotton Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her:
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, 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 succes-
sors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Fielding and James
Edward Fielding, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Fielding,
and James Edward Fielding, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Thomas Fielding and James Edward
Fielding, 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 LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Fielding and James Edward Fielding,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Fielding and James
Edward Fielding, 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 :-
"
This Invention has for its object the construction, application, and
use of improved "harness boards" employed on looms, and which said
boards were as heretofore constructed of wood, and perforations or holes
were bored or formed through such boards, through which holes the
harness or "harness twine was passed and worked; as such twine often
passes and works through the perforations at an angle to the perforations,
the result is a considerablo amount of friction, and wear and tear of
necessity takes place. To reduce this to a minimum is the object of this
Invention.
We construct harness boards of a slab or slabs of glazed porcelain, pot
glass, or metal, enamelled and perforated as required. The glazing or
enamelling provides a smooth, hard, and durable working surface, and
reduces the friction and wear and tear not only of the harness twine but
of the harness boards.
It will be understood that the glazing or enamelling heroin referred to
is that generally employed for glazing or enamelling earthenware,
porcelain, glass, or iron.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our
said Invention, we would have it understood that we lay no claim to the
use of metal, porcelain, or glass harness boards except when such are
glazed or enamelled, as and for the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Fielding and James
Edward Fielding, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.
MHAYIN
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