An Improved Shuttle Guard:
Year: 1897

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"An Improved Shuttle Guard:"
We, THOMAS IVERS, Director of the firm of Thomas Barnes and Company Limited,
Spinners and Manufacturers, and JOHN GLADSTONE IVERS, Mill Manager, both of
Farnworth Cotton Mills, Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, Do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the guards used for preventing shuttles from flying.
from their races and injuring weavers or other attendants in a weaving shed.
The invention consists of a flexible strap cord or band of leather, india rubber,
or other suitable material or woven fabric, or more than one such strap cord or
band, tightly stretched across the loom between two brackets carried by the slay
cap or hand rail.
The brackets may be adjustable on the slay cap or may carry adjustable parts
to which the ends of the flexible strap cord or band are fixed, so that the latter
can be fixed and kept in suitable tension and in a suitable position over the top
of the shuttle race.
The brackets may if desired be in the form of, or provided with, springs.
Should the shuttle from any cause rise and begin to fly from the race, or
of warp, the flexible band will arrest its deviation.
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In the case of a very wide loom suitable supports may be arranged between the
two brackets above described to support the flexible band strap or cord if required.
Dated this 10th. Day of February 1897.
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GEO. DAVIES & SON
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Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
We THOMAS IVERS, Director of the firm of Thomas Barnes and Company Limited,
Spinners and Manufacturers, and JOIN GLADSTONE IVERS, Mill Manager, both of
Farnworth Cotton Mills, Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, 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:-
This invention relates to the "guards" applied to looms for weaving and used
for preventing shuttles from flying out of their races and injuring weavers or
other attendants in a weaving shed.
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The nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to be

page_text: performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
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Fig. 1 on the drawing is a front elevation of the "slay-cap" or "hand-rail'
of a loom with our improved "shuttle-guard" shown as applied thereto, and
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.";
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The invention consists of a flexible but inelastic cord or tape a or other suitable
narrow woven fabric (or more than one of such cords or tapes) tightly stretched
across the loom between two brackets b carried by the "slay-cap " or "hand-
rail"
c of the loom.
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The cord or tape a although light and flexible is not too much so, as to render
it useless for the prevention of the shuttles flying out.
This guard forms no obstruction to either wooden or "Patent" temples, and can
easily be held out of the way by the weaver when "piecing-up."
The brackets may be adjustable on the "slay-cap" c, or may carry adjustable
parts to which the ends of the flexible cord or tape a are attached, so that the
latter can be fixed and kept in suitable tension, and in a suitable position over
the top of the "shuttle-race".
The brackets may, if desired, be made in the form of, or be provided with,
springs, and in the case of a very wide loom suitable supports may be arranged
between the two brackets 6 above described so as to support the flexible cord or
tape a if required.
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Should the shuttle, from any cause, rise and begin to fly from the "
"shed" of warp, the flexible cord or band a being practically inelastic will arrest
its deviation and throw the shuttle back into its place on the slay.
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: -
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The improved "shuttle-guard for looms consisting of a flexible cord, tape or
other suitable narrow woven fabric (or two or more of the same) tightly stretched
across the loom above the "shuttle-race between two adjustable brackets carried
by the "
slay-cap" or 'hand-rail" of the loom, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the drawing annexed.
Dated this 29th day of October 1897
GEO. DAVIES & SON
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.