IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING
Year: 1884

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, WILLIAM LANDELL, of the firm of William Gibson & Co., of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Shuttle Maker do hereby declare tlio nature of
the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING to be as
follows:-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in shuttles for weaving, has
reference to the rollers or wheels of the same, and has for its object to facilitate
the remounting of the said rollers. or wheels when this becomes necessary through
wear without damage to the body or wood portion of the shuttle.
The improvements consist in binding the bush plates, which carry the axles of
the rollers or wheels, to the sides of the shuttle by bolts in lieu of the ordinary
wood screws which have hitherto been passed through holes in the plates and
screwed within the wood of the shuttle, tho said bolts being formed with heads at
one end and a screwed portion at the opposito end, so that after the said bolts have
been passed through holes made through the whole width of the shuttle, the heads
at the one side of the shuttle are caused, by screwing up nuts, preferably socket
nuts, upon the opposite ends of the bolts, to secure both bush plates in position
at the sides of the shuttle. The bush plates may be of the ordinary construction
and secured by a bolt at each end of the plate. By my improvements when the
bearings of the rollers or wheels of the shuttle become worn, the bush plates can
be renewed by merely slackening off the nuts at 'the one side of the shuttle in licu
of the present system of damaging the wood or body of the shuttle by the frequent
screwing in and out of the wood screws.
Dated this Tenth day of 1984

page_text: I, WILLIAM LANDELL, of the firm of William Gibson & Co., of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Shuttle Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
iny Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING" and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :--
This Invention which relates to improvements in shuttles for weaving, has
reference to the rollers or wheels of the same, and has for its object to facilitate
the remounting of the said rollers or wheels, when this becomes necessary through
wear, without damage to the body or wood portion of the shuttle.
The improvements consist in binding the bush plates, which carry the axles of
the rollers or wheels, to the sides of the shuttle, by bolts in lieu of the ordinary
wood screws which have hitherto been passed through holes in the plates and
screwed within the wood of the shuttle, the said bolts being formed with heads at
one end and screwed portions at the opposite end, so that, after the said bolts have
been passed through. holes made through the whole width of the shuttle, the
heads, at the one side of the shuttle, are caused, by screwing up nuts (proferably
socket nuts) upon the opposite ends of the bolts, to secure both bush plates in
position at the sides of the shuttle.-The bush plates may be of the ordinary
construction and secured by a bolt at each end of the plate.--By my improvements,
when the bearings of the rollers or wheels, of tho shuttle, become worn, the bush
plates can be renewed by merely slackening off the nuts at the one side of the
shuttle, in lieu of the present system of damaging the wood or body of the shuttle
by the frequent screwing in and out of the wood screws.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figures 1, and 2, are side clevations of a shuttle constructed according to my
Invention taken at respectively opposite sides of the same.
Figure 3, is a plan of the underside of the same.
Figure 4, is an end elevation of the same.
Figures 5, and 6, are transverse sections of the same taken rospectively on the
lines A, B, and C, D, Figures 1, 2, and 3.
In carrying out my present improvements, the bush plates a, which carry the
axles b, of the rollers or wheels c, are bound to the sides of the shuttle d, by means
of the bolts c, in lieu of the wood screws which have hitherto been employed for
such purpose, and which have heen ordinarily passed through holes in the plates a,
and screwed into the wood of the shuttle d. The bolts e, are formed with the
countersunk heads f, so that when the said bolts have been passed through the
holes g, and tightened therein, the said heads may not project out beyond
the surface of the plates a.-The nuts g', preferably of the forin represented upon
the annexed Drawings, are screwed upon the bolts 6, and when tightened thereon,
cause the plates a, at both sides of the shuttle d, to be drawn into the recesses
formed for their reception at the sides thereof.-The bush plates a, may be of the
ordinary construction secured by a bolt e, at each end as represented upon the
annexed Drawings. By my present improvements, when the bearings of the rollers
or wheels c, become worn, the bush plates a, can be romoved by unscrewing the

page_text: nuts g¹, from off the ends of the bolts e, which are then free to be withdrawn from
tho shuttle. The plates a, may then be taken off and now unworn bush plates
substituted therefor.-For preventing the bolts e, from becoming loosened by tho
jarring to which they are subjected, I provide the plates h, which fit over the
nuts g', and prevent their turning upon the bolts e; the bolts being provided with
squared portions fitting into correspondingly squared holes in the plates a, adjacent
to the heads f, of the said bolts. The plates h, are retained in position by the
plate i, represented at Figures 3, to 6, inclusivo and as represented by the dotted
lines at i, Figure 1.-This plato extends along the sido of the shuttle and is secured
thereto by screws fitting into the holes j.
The method of securing the bush plates a, by the bolts e, and nuts g', dispenses
with the necessity of withdrawing screws from the body or wood portion d, of the
shuttle as has been hitherto practised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what
I claim is:-
:-
The securing of bush plates a, to shuttles by means of bolts e, and nuts g,
instead of by wood screws as hitherto used, substantially as heroinbefore set forth
with reference to the annexed Drawings.
Dated this Ninth day of Santember 1991