John Crowley and Co (Manchester)
Ironfounders, of 4, Cannon-street, Hanging Ditch, Manchester (1849)
116, Corporation Street, Manchester
Presumably unconnected with John Crowley and Co of Sheffield.
1849 'To Manufacturers.
JOHN CROWLEY AND CO., Licensed and SOLE MAKERS B. Woodcroft's PATENT SECTION TAPPET.
THE Patent Tappet possesses the following advantages:—The plates of the Section Tappet are parallel to each ether, whereby a less amount of friction is produced against them by the treadle studs and bowls, than the common plates. The jiggers, or parts in relief, which give motion to the bowls, are set out on a geometrical principle, so that the shafts rise and fall equal distances in equal times. By these means the blow of the reed is borne by each warp thread equally, whether the weft track be track home, with the shed open, shut, or crossed. The consequence is, that fewer threads are broken, and the healds are less worn.
This tappet will also weave weaker yarn than the ordinary one, and it is now generally applied to looms for weaving cotton, silk, linen, and woollen. One lappet of any number to the round, will weave all patterns capable of being woven by that numbers of picks.
Patent sections may had to weave the following numbers of picks, viz. 3, 4, 6, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12,14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 2G, 32. 36, 48, and 56; with suitable dwells for making twills, pillows, velveteens, satteens, jeanets, cords, tabbys, velvets, dimities, muslin spots, fancy silks, satins, linen and cotton drills, cantoons, gambroons, or any description of warp patterns.
J. Crowley and Co. have in their employment. Mr. Young, a pattern designer; manufacturers sending a piece of woven cloth, can have any number tappets sent, suitable for making the article required.
N.B. Every description of Tappet Wheels, Pinions, Jacks, Treadles, Bowls, and Bolts; Annealed Castings; Mule and Throstle Waines, &c.— 4, Cannon-street, Hanging Ditch, Manchester.' [1]
1853 Partnership change. '...the Copartnership formerly subsisting between us the undersigned, as Ironfounders, under the style of Crowley and Pearson, at Sheffield, and of John Crowley and Co., at Manchester, was dissolved by mutual consent, as and from the 30th day of June last, so far as regards Emanuel Pearson...[2]
1860 Mention of John Crowley and Co, Ironfounders, Manchester.[3]
1888 Sale Notice: 'ALL that Substantially-built WAREHOUSE, situate at the corner of Corporation-street and Hanover-street, Manchester, No. 116, Corporation-street, and lately in the occupationof Messrs. John Crowley and Co. The warehouse, which is four storeys high, has a frontage of 10 yards and 7 inches to Corporation-street, and 29 yards 2 inches to Hanover-street. The site contains 301 superficial sq yards'[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Bolton Chronicle - Saturday 29 September 1849
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:9 September 1853 Issue:21474 Page:2493
- ↑ Bolton Chronicle - Saturday 25 August 1860
- ↑ Manchester Courier, 27 October 1888