1837 Thorp's Patent Model of a Loom Shuttle Tongue
date: label: model constructed
content: before 1837-04-17
label: patent date
content: 1837-04-17
name: label: inventor
content: Thorp, Comfort B.
notes: label: Description
content: Loom Shuttle Tongues Patent Model
label: Description
content: Patent No. 162, issued April 17, 1837
label: Description
content: Comfort B. Thorp of Smithfield, Rhode Island
label: Description
content: Comfort Thorp, the younger brother of textile machinery inventor John Thorp, worked for Thomas and William Fletcher in their mill near North Providence. His patent improved the method of securing and holding the cop, or yarn cylinder, on the common power loom shuttle, preventing slips that would waste yarn and cause imperfections in the woven cloth.
label: Description
content: The patent model he submitted contained two types of tongues. One used a common round tongue with wire spiraled around it. The other consisted of a tongue with ridges or notches similar to the teeth of a saw blade. The two loom shuttle tongues were neatly exhibited in a box, probably to keep them from being separated or lost in the cases at the Patent Office.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Rhode Island, Smithfield
topic: label: classified
content: Patent Models
label: classified
content: Invention
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Patent Models, Textile Machinery
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content: Textiles
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content: Patent Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Janssen, Barbara Suit. Patent Models Index
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11418.002
label: catalog number
content: T11418.002
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Loom Shuttle Tongues
label: Object Name
content: loom shuttle tongue patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)