IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE BAD WEAVINGAC OF⚫ TIPS' FOR
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Kirk, of Snig Brook, Blackburn, in
the County of Lancaster, Shuttle Maker, for the Invention of
" IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
BAD WEAVING "
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Sealed the 10th July 1874, and dated the 14th January 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Kirk at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th January 1874.
I, WILLIAM KIRK, of Snig Brook, Blackburn, in the County of Lan-
caster, Shuttle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ⚫ TIPS' FOR SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of tips for shuttles in
such manner and by such mechanism as to relieve the operatives from
the exhaustive labour of forging such tips. It is necessary the metal
from which the tips are made should be condensed as much as possible,
and the practise is to do this work by forging and beating the tips with
heavy hand hammers. This labour is such that the operatives have
commonly to be seated from exhaustion between the "heats."

page_text: I employ "swages" formed according to the shape and size of tips
required. One portion or part thereof is secured to or forms part of the
anvil; the corresponding part is secured to a steam hammer arranged so
as to be controlled by a lever worked by the foot of the operative, leaving
both hands at liberty to work the bar or rod from which the tip is being
orged.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Kirk in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
KIRK, of Snig Brook, Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Shuttle
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Kirk, Her special
licence that I, the said William Kirk, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Kirk, 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 MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF 'TIPS' FOR SHUTTLES
FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Kirk, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Kirk, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings, (that is to
say) :-
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of tips for shuttles in
such manner and by such mechanism as to relieve the operatives from
the exhaustive labour of forging such tips. It is necessary the metal
from which the tips are made should be condensed as much as possible,
and the practice is to do this work by forging and beating the tips with
heavy hand hammers. This labour is most exhausting.
I employ "swages" formed according to the shape and size of tip
required. One portion or part thereof is secured to or forms part of the
anvil; the corresponding part is secured to a steam hammer arranged so
as to be controlled by a lever worked by the foot of the operative, leaving
both hands at liberty to work the bar or rod from which the tip is being
forged.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood I have
hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings, of which Fig. 1 represents a
side elevation of an ordinary steam hammer having my improvements
attached; and Figs. 2 and 3 are views of swages and tip in the course
of formation.
A and B are the swages secured to the anvil C and hammer D. At E
is a lever worked by the foot of the operative, which by means of the
rod F works the valve G, so controlling the motion of the hammer, and
leaving the operative both hands at liberty.
In witness whereof I, the said William Kirk, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
J. W. TASKER,
Clerk to Tasker & Brierley,
Patent Agents,
Halifax & Bradford.
WILLIAM KIRK. (L.S.)