Improvements in Weaving Shuttles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weaving Shuttles.
We BENJAMIN HOLGATE ROBERTS of Norden in the County of Lancaster
Engineer and THOMAS CRABTREE of Woodhouse Mills, Norden aforesaid Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of this invention is to arrange an improved eye for the weaving
shuttle whereby the usual sucking through of the weft by the weaver is obviated
and the operation may be performed by hand and in less time to attain which we
construct our improved eye with two preferably circular holes one extending from
the bottom of the eye and the other joining the same at right angles at the top.
A groove or channel extends in spiral form from the bottom to the right angle
hole at the top of the eye and on the outside thereof. On one side of the bottom
part of the eye is a suitable lip. The said eye may be either circular in form to
suit a similar recess made for its reception in the shuttle or it may be partly round
and have flat sides or the sides may have dovetail projections arranged to fit in
corresponding dovetail recesses or grooves formed in the shuttle in which case it
may be firmly held in position.
The eye may be arranged to work either right or lefthanded.
The thread is conducted from the usual spindle or bobbin within the shuttle over
or round the lip before described and then it is conducted along the spiral groove
to its working position at the top of the eye.
It will be obvious that wire twisted to a spiral form may be used in place of the
groove aforesaid in order to obtain the same result.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Sheffield and Barnsley, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weaving Shuttles.
We BENJAMIN HOLGATE ROBERTS of Norden in the County of Lancaster
Engineer, and THOMAS CRABTREE of Woodhouse Mills Norden aforesaid Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
The object of this invention is to arrange an improved eye for the weaving
shuttle whereby the usual sucking through of the weft by the weaver is obviated
and the operation may be performed by hand and in less time than in the ordinary
way to attain which we construct our improved eye with two preferably circular
holes one extending from the bottom of the eye and the other joining the same
at right angles at the top.
A grove or channel extends in spiral form from the bottom to the right angle
hole at the top of eye and on the outside thereof. On one side of the bottom part.
of the eye is a suitable lip. The said eye may be either circular in form to suit a
similar recess made for its reception in the shuttle or it may be partly round and
have flat sides or the sides may have dovetail projections arranged to fit in corre-
sponding dovetail recesses or grooves formed in the shuttle in which case it may
be firmly held in position. The eye may be arranged to work either right or left.
handed.

page_text: The thread is conducted from the usual spindle or bobbin within the shuttle
over or round the lip before described and then it is conducted along the spiral
groove to its working position at the top of the eye. It will be obvious that wire
twisted to a spiral form may be used in place of the groove aforesaid in order to
obtain the same result. In order that our invention may be better understood
and so that it may the more readily carried into effect we hereunto attach a sheet
of drawing of which the following is a description.
Fig. 1 is a plan Fig. 2 is a side elevation Fig. 3 an end view of our improved
shuttle eye and Fig. 4 is a plan of a shuttle with our improved shuttle eye
'therein.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view.
The said improved eye E has two holes preferably circular one marked e' and
one marked e running at right angles thereto. A groove or channel extends in
spiral form from the end et to the hole e². Upon one side of the eye E is a lip e³.
The eye may either be circular in form to suit a similarly circular recess made for
its reception in the shuttle S or it may be partly round and have flat sides or the
sides may be tapered so as to fit in a dovetale fashion into a recess s¹ formed in the
shuttle S for its reception. A small lip L is screwed down on the eye E so as to
act as a drag as will be well understood.
It will be obvious that the eye may be arranged to work either right or left
handed. The thread T is conducted from the usual spindle or bobbin B over or
around the lip e and then along the spirally formed part e³ to its working position
at the top of the eye e³. Where preferred wire twisted to the spiral form shown at
Figs. 1 and 2 may be employed the central part of said coil forming the hole e' and
terminating into a twist to form the hole e.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1. Eyes for weaving shuttles formed with two holes e¹ and e² connected by a
spirally formed channel or space e substantially as described for attaining the
object herein stated.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Commercial Street, Sheffield, Agent.