foreigner residing abroad.-Sealed 18th March-6 months for inrolment.

To William Weekes, of King Stanley, in the county or Gloucester, clothier, for his invention of improved machinery for cleansing, plaining, polishing, and dresssing woollen and other cloths.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

To Joseph Barker, of Southampton-street, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, for an improvement in the constructing of umbrellas and parasols. Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

To James Berrie and David Anderson, both of the city of Glasgow, in Scotland, manufacturers, for their invention of certain machinery for making a new or improved description of heddles or healds.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

To John Brunton, of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, engineer, for his invention of certain improvements in the construction of retorts for generating gas, for the purpose of illumination.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

To William Houstoun, of Fleet-street, in the city of London, printer, for his invention of certain improvements in tools, implements, or apparatus, which are either used in or subservient to the art of letter-press printing.-Sealed 25th March-6 months for inrolment.

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London

JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

AND

REPERTORY

OF

PATENT INVENTIONS.

CONJOINED SERIES.

No. XXXVII.

Recent Patents.

To JOHN RAMSBOTTOM, of Todmorden, in the county of Lancaster, mechanic, and RICHARD HOLT, of the same place, iron-founder, for their invention of certain improvements in the construction of power-looms for weaving cotton, and other fibrous materials, into cloth or

other fabrics.-[Sealed 12th July, 1834.]

THESE improvements in the construction of power looms for weaving cotton, and other fibrous materials, into cloth or other fabrics, consist in a peculiar and novel arrangement of the ordinary parts or pieces of mechanism appertaining to looms: by which arrangement the Patentees are enabled to weave two pieces of fabric at one time, through the agency of a rotary

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axle, by power derived from steam or water, or any other first mover, or by animal or manual labour.

This arrangement includes a new contrivance, by means of which the working parts of the loom are instantly stopped whenever the weft thread breaks, and also a novel apparatus, forming a pair of self-acting temples, for the purpose of keeping the work distended to the required width.

In this improved loom, instead of placing the warp threads horizontally, as in ordinary looms, they are placed vertically, in two ranges; the one range of warp threads extending from a roller or work beam below, toward a work beam at top, in front of the loom ; the other range of warp threads, extending in like manner at the back of the loom; and instead of giving to the double lathe in which the reeds are mounted pendulous vibratory movements, as in ordinary looms, the lathe is made to rise and fall in perpendicular directions, and the headles or healds, by which the sheds of the warps are opened, are moved to and fro horizontally by means of a vibrating lever.

This arrangement will be clearly perceived by reference to the accompanying drawings (see Plate IV.), in which fig. 1, represents the front of the loom in geometrical elevation; fig. 2, being a similar representation of the left hand end of the loom; and fig. 3, of the reverse or right hand; and fig. 4, is a vertical section, taken transversely through the loom, near the end toward the left hand, the same letters referring to corresponding parts in all the figures: A, A, A, is the standard or frame supporting the working parts of the loom; B, B, is the crank shaft, by which the loom is driven, having a fast and loose pulley affixed at its end, with a band passing from the rotary driving power.