Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 25th May, 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
I, ANDREW PERCIVAL, of Fair View, Smithy-Bridge, near Rochdale, Picker
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved picker for use in over-pick looms for
weaving, and has for object the production of an over-pick picker which will,
for the purpose of attachment, enable one end of the picking strap to pass
underneath the picker spindle in an improved and effective manner hereinafter to
be described.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I make use of any ordinary
or other hide suitable for pickers, and so fold the same as to produce a picker of
the through and through type but with a tubular or hollow bridge across the
top part, and forming thereby a tunnel or sleeve through which the picker
spindle passes.
After the picker has been properly formed, pressed, rivetted,
steeped in oil. and otherwise prepared for use, the end of the picking strap may be
passed through the space formed below the tubular bridge described and the upright.
ends of the picker, and be fastened thereto in the ordinary or other suitable
manner. By this means the strap is caused to pull directly from the level of the
picker spindle, instead of from a position above the same, as in most cases with
pickers hitherto employed.
The tubular bridge may or may not be a completely closed tube, and may or
may not be continuous from one spindle hole or end of the picker to the other,
and further variations in detail may be made without departing from the peculiar
character of the invention.
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1000
I, ANDREW PERCIVAL, of Fair View, Smithy Bridge, near Rochdale, Picker
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:-
My invention relates to an improved picker for use in over-pick looms for
weaving, and has for object the production of an over-pick picker which will,
for the purpose of attachment enable one end of the picking strap to pass
underneath the picker spindle in an improved and effective manner hereinafter to
be described.

page_text: To accomplish this and to effect my improvements I make use of any ordinary
or other hide suitable for pickers, and so fold the same as to produce a picker of
the through and through type, but with a tubular or hollow bridge across the
top part and forming thereby a tunnel or sleeve through which the picker
spindle passes. Pickers of the through and through type are pickers which have
a clear opening passing through them from front to back but with a solid faced
foot, as is well known.
After the picker has been properly formed, pressed, rivetted, steeped in oil,
and otherwise prepared for use, the end of the picking strap may be passed
through the space formed below the tubular bridge described and between the up-
right ends of the picker, and be fastened thereto in the ordinary or other suitable
manner. By this means the strap is caused to pull directly from the level of the
picker spindle, instead of from a position above the same as in most cases with
pickers hitherto employed.
But that the improvements may be better understood I will, with the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a piece of hide which is cut and folded for the purpose of
forming a through and through picker according to my improvements. Fig. 2
is a front view of the picker so formed and finished with a raw edge thereto,
and Fig. 3 is an end view thereof; while Fig. 4 represents a piece of hide which
is cut and folded along the whole of its length for the purpose of forming a
picker of the character indicated but without a raw edge of hide showing at its
end surfaces.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
In Figs. 1 and 4 the dotted lines represent portions of the hide a before it is
folded over into the positions shown. The upper part of the hide is folded over
in a direction at right angles to the first folds referred to, until the said upper
part to some extent overlaps the edges X, Y, of such hide, in order to form the
top portion of the picker, when a hole or opening may be cut in the hide, as at b,
Fig. 2, and the hide thus folded, with the superfluous parts cut away, is placed in
a suitable press, which forces the edges of the hide above the opening b inwards
to form the sleeve d, thus squeezing the hide into a picker which is formed with
a clear opening 6 therein, and, by reason of the unbroken folded sides of the
lower part of the hide a, with a solid faced foot C, and also with a tunnel or
sleeved for the passage of the picker spindle therethrough. The picker may,
finally, he rivetted as at e, steeped in oil, and otherwise prepared for use,
in manner
well understood.
The tubular bridge may or may not be a completely closed tube, and may or
may not be continuous from one spindle hole or end of the picker to the other,
and further variations in detail may be made without departing from the peculiar
character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
A picker of the through and through type with a solid faced foot as indicated,
provided with a hollow bridge or sleeve, substantially in the manner as herein
shown and described.
1000
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.