Object Details
- inventor
- Thorp, Comfort B.
- Description
- Loom Shuttle Tongues Patent Model
- Patent No. 162, issued April 17, 1837
- Comfort B. Thorp of Smithfield, Rhode Island
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- model constructed
- before 1837-04-17
- patent date
- 1837-04-17
- ID Number
- TE.T11418.002
- catalog number
- T11418.002
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 162
- Object Name
- Loom Shuttle Tongues
- loom shuttle tongue patent model
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- associated place
- United States: Rhode Island, Smithfield
- Related Publication
- Janssen, Barbara Suit. Patent Models Index
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Patent Models, Textile Machinery
- Textiles
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- classified
- Patent Models
- Invention
- Record ID
- nmah_1069589
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2ba2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
