MENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING.
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Almond at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th March 1878.
JOHN ALMOND, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Manager.
MENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING.".
"IMPROVE-
This Invention relates to an improvement in taking up beams and rollers, and to
an improved arrangement of dobby, so as to facilitate the application and use of
duplicate set of jacks..
According to this my Invention I construct the taking-up beams of sheet metal,
and form along the length of the roller a groove, within which I introduce dove-
tailed strip or strips of wood, so that on the outer roughed or perforated metal
covering being applied the outer edges thereof may be secured to the wood strip
by nails or screws, so dispensing with the soldering heretofore necessary for securing
the outer covering to the beam or roller.
The jacks are supported by adjustable brackets attached to the dobby, and so
arranged as that one set of jacks or jack levers may be above or over another set,
the lap and wires being arranged conveniently to the position occupied by the jacks,
that the additional jacks do not necessitate more space being occupied by or required
for the complete dobby.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Almond in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th September
1878.
JOHN ALMOND, of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster, Manager.
MENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention relates to improvements in taking-up beams or rollers.
According to this my Invention I construct the taking-up beam of sheet or cast
metal, and form along the length of the roller a groove, within which I introduce
dovotailed strip or strips of wood, so that on the outer roughed or perforated metal
covering being applied the outer edges thereof may be secured to the wood strip by
nails or screws, so dispensing with the soldering heretofore necessary for securing
the outer covering to the beam or roller.
Such being the nature of the said Invention, I will now proceed to describe the
particulars of the same in detail; and in order that the Invention may be fully
understood I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrating the same, and
have marked the same with figures and letters of reference, the same letter referring
to the same part in the various views or Figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal elevation of a roller or beam according to my Invention;
Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same.
Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are cross sections, shewing various forms of grooves for holding
the wooden strips.
A is the beam or roller; B, the groove; C, the strip or strips of wood, to which
the outer covering D is to be secured by nails or screws to the strip C, so dispensing
with the use of solder for securing the outer metallic coverings.
In the Drawings.various forms of grooves are shewn, and I would have it under-
stood that I do not limit or confine the Invention to any particular form or shape
of groove, as such inay be varied infinitely, inasmuch as whatever the form of groove,
on the outer covering being nailed or screwed to the strip. contained within the
groove the outer covering is secure.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would have it understood that I claim as my Invention the
application and use of the strips C, as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Almond, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
TATU
Witness,
EDWARD CHARNLEY,
Rose Hill Foundry,
Blackburn.
JOHN ALMOND. (L.S.)