Improvements in or connected with Reeds used in Looms for Weaving.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Reeds used in Looms for
Weaving.
I, DOUGLAS TOMLINSON of 21 Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale, near
Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Reed Maker, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows: :-
This invention relates to means for protecting or strengthening the extremities
of the ribs of reeds used in looms for weaving. The said ribs are usually made of
wood in two halves each being semi-circular in cross section the flat sides of the two
halves compressing between them the ends of the reed dents and holding them
securely in position by having thread wound tightly around the two semi-circular
halves of the rib. The extremities of the wood ribs so formed are found in
practice very liable to become damaged in transit and handling thereby causing
the thread forming the end wrapping to become loosened and the reed dents to fall
out of place. My invention consists in providing a metal plate or end piece having
a pair of parallel pointed fingers or nails projecting at right angles therefrom the
two nails being driven endwise into the two halves of the reed rib. Thus the end
piece serves to protect the extremity of the rib as for instance when dropped
endwise upon a hard floor-and the parallel fingers or nails serve to hold the said
plate and the two halves of the ribs in position. The metal plate or end piece is
preferably formed with an overhanging lip projecting in the same direction as the
nails to prevent the "reed ends" from accidentally dropping out of place.
Dated this 21st day of November 1892.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Reeds used in Looms for
Weaving.
I, DOUGLAS TOMLINSON, of 21, Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale, near
Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Reed Maker, 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 means for protecting or strengthening the extremities
of the ribs of reeds used in looms for weaving. The said ribs are usually made
of wood in two halves each being semi-circular in cross section the flat sides of
the two halves compressing between them the ends of the reed dents and holding
them securely in position by having thread wound tightly around the two semi-
circular halves of the rib. The extremities of the wood ribs so formed are
found in practice very liable to become damaged in transit and handling thereby
causing the thread forming the end wrapping to become loosened and the reed
dents to fall out of place. My invention consists in providing a metal plate or
end piece having a pair of parallel pointed fingers or nails projecting at right
angles therefrom the two nails being driven end wise into the two halves of the
reed rib. Thus the end piece serves to protect the extremity of the rib-as for
instance when dropped endwise upon a hard floor-and the parallel fingers or nails
serve to hold the said plate and the two halves of the ribs in position. The metal
plate or end piece is preferably formed with an overhanging lip projecting in the
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page_text: same direction as the nails to prevent the "reed ends" from accidentally dropping
out of place.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a front view of one end of a loom reed having my improved metal end
piece or protector a applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is an end view of a loom reed in which my improved protector is shewn
applied to the upper ribs bb but not to the lower ribs b¹¹.
Fig. 3 is a view of the protector detached.
c is the overhanging lip to prevent the reed end d from accidentally dropping out
of place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :--
Protecting or strengthening the extremities of the ribs of reeds used in looms
for weaving in manner substantially as herein described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of August 1893.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.