IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Andrew Naudain, James Peacock,
and William Henry Walton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st July 1862.
We, ANDREW NAUDAIN, of the Town of West Farms, County of Westchester,
and State of New York, JAMES PEACOCK, of the Town of Morrisania, County
of Westchester and State of New York, and WILLIAM HENRY WALTON, of
the City, County, and State of New York, in the United States of America,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LOOMS FOR WEAVING ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The nature of our Invention consists in weaving fabrics in a circle or any
part of a circle, and in using a plurality of shuttles passing through a warp or
web at the same time, and in carrying the shuttle or shuttles through the
warp by means of friction rollers, pullies, or belt or their equivalent, and by
beating up the weft or filling-in sections.
Now in order that others skilled in the art may use the Invention, we will
proceed to describe the construction and operation.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of one half the diameter of the loom, which is
circular, showing the principal working parts, while, Fig. 2 is a horizontal
section, partly on line 5, 5, Fig. 1, showing the direction of the shuttle or
shuttles, and partly on line 6, 6. Fig. 1, showing the position and direction of
the "beddles."

page_text: A represents a fixed central column supporting the frame, and standing in
the centre of the machine, with counter frames to hold any part of the
machinery required for the operation; B, B, the driving shaft, whereby
the motion is communicated to the machine; C, C, two bevel gears, one for
the shaft B, and the other on the counter shaft D. On the shaft D there
is a small gear E, which works in the teeth F, which is fixed or cast on
the table G. The table is made so as to revolve on its axis on the flanges
cast on the main column A, or any suitable bearings necessary in the con-
struction of the machine; the notion being given to the shaft D gives
motion to the table G by means of the gears E, F, which cause it to revolve at
any given speed or direction required. On the table G is fixed one, two, or
more arrangements of pullies or rollers H, H, for carrying one, two, or more
shuttles round the outer circumference of the revolving table; attached to
each of these pullies or rollers H, H, is a small friction pulley or pinion
gear I; this pulley or pinion gear I is so arranged that when the table G is
in motion it is made to revolve by being pressed against the surface of the
flange J. This flange J is fixed stationary on a frame from the column, or
if a pinion is used, by working into teeth on the flange J; the pullies H, H;
are so arranged as to press when in motion against two small pullies L, L,
the small pullies L, L, being attached to the shuttles K, K, by this means the
shuttles are carried around the circumference of the loom between the shore
or warp. At the same time the pullies H, H, on the revolving table, and the
pullies L, L, on the shuttles are made to revolve by the motion given the pulley I,
and the pullies L, L, and K, K, draw or take the warp in an opposite direction
to the direction of the shuttle; by this means the warp is relieved from the
friction of the shuttle. In order to support the shuttle as it is running through
the warp, the shuttle is constructed with three or four small pullies M, M,
fastened on the top, as shown on Fig. 1; these pullies M, M, bear up the
shuttles, and bear on the ring or flange N on the outer side, and on the ring
or flange J on the inner side; the pullies M, M, force the warp against the
ring when passing over it. The blue lines inside the shuttles represent the
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cop or filling the outer blue lines represent the warp. The filling is
laid from the shuttle at the letter O, ready to be beat up to its proper place.
In order to beat up the filling after it is thus laid in the warp there is an
arm S, which has a reed comb on the front, end protruding into the warp.
To this arm S is connected a small rod R; the rod R is connected with a
joint on the arm S on one end, and on the other end is attached a small pulley.
This pulley is arranged to move in a groove in the cam P; the cam P is attached
to the rotary table G, so that when the table G is in motion the groove in

page_text: the cam P gives motion to the rod R, by this means the arm S is made to
oscillate at such periods as is required to beat up the warp, either in front of
or after the shuttle, or both, as may be necessary for the weaving of the fabric
We do not confine ourselves to the precise manner of the
details here described for beating-up in sections, as we can beat up in sections
by a reed acting from above the shuttle. In order to move the warp for the
passage of the shuttle the "heddles" are fixed on the rollers T, T; these are
made to move in sections round the circle of the machine; the motion is
given to them by means of the cam U. The cam U is fixed on the rotary
table G, and is made in such a form that when the table G moves round the
cam U comes in connection with the stud V, which causes the heddles to move
to and from the position required.