IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR USE IN WEAVING
Year: 1884

page_text: H CHUCOS TOT UNO H
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes & Son of 55 Chancery
Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES
FOR USE IN WEAVING, which invention has been communicated to me from abroad
by Charles Gustavo Henry Solomon Petzold of Lawrence in the State of
Massachusetts one of the United States of America Overseer of Weaving to be
as follows:
The small ends or tops of wooden bobbins such as commonly used in loom
shuttles are frequently chipped, nicked, split, or broken out so that they become
worthless, for the filling, especially fine filling, is broken as it strikes the broken or
chipped portions of the bobbin as the said filling is being drawn therefrom in the
usual manner.
This loss of bobbins and filling resulting from the breakage of bobbins as
described is a very serious evil which it is the object of this invention to remedy.
In accordance with this invention the shuttle spindle is provided with a thread
guiding disk or head which is of as great and preferably of greater diameter than
the diameter of the small or delivery end of the bobbin, the said disk being
arranged close to the end of the bobbin so that the filling drawn from it will travel
about the periphery of the said disk and need not touch the small end of the
bobbin, and hence bobbins which are chipped, notched, or broken and unfit for use
in ordinary shuttles without the disk herein described, may be used as well as new
and unbroken bobbins.
The hended spindle is provided with a notch or groove near its inner end and is
engaged by a pin on the shuttle body, and inserted into a tubular or sleeve like
spindle holder, a part of which enters the bore at the head of the bobbin a collar
on the holder when the latter and the spindle are turned into the shuttle in
working position resting on a part of the shuttle, the holder being preferably made
of two different diameters externally to receive and hold bobbins of different
length, the bore of the larger bobbins being a little larger than of the shorter
bobbins.

page_text: The body of this improved shuttle and the bobbin, are as usual. The heel of the
spindle pivoted at its end, and acted upon by a spring has a socket for the
reception of the inner end of the spindle slabbed off at one side to pass the pivot,
crosses the space in the said socket, the spindle being thus restained from rotation.
The spindle near where it is slabbed off is notched to fit over a spindle holding pin
fixed in the body of the shuttle, and the heel is also cut away opposite the said
notch so as to engage the said pin, when the spindle is shut down into the shuttle,
the pin, locking the spindle in the heel and preventing longitudinal movement
thereof.
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The spindle has at its outer end a disk of a diameter as great as and preferably
in excess of the diameter of the small or left hand end of the bobbin, and the said
disk after the spindle is passed through the bobbin from its small end and locked
in the heel rests close to the end of the bobbin forming a thread guide or race
about which the filling travels as it is drawn from the bobbin in usual manner in
weaving.
The said disk being as large as if not larger than the small end of the bobbin the
filling thread is compelled to travel about it and cannot touch the small end of the
bobbin, hence the same may be ever so much chipped, nicked, or broken, and
yet not interfere with. the proper delivery of the filling or break or strain
the same.
This invention enables mill owners to use large quantities of bobbins which by
careless handling or by blows, or by the use of spindles which act expansively
to engage the small end of the bobbin, have become chipped or broken at their
small ends.
Besides the advantages mentioned the disk is advantageous in that it acts to
slightly lift radially from the mass of filling on the bobbin the layer of filling
being unwound from the bobbin so that the same is not subjected to so much strain
as when pulled off from the bobbin over its sinall end, the filling touching the end
of the bobbin.
The heel or spindle head constituting a socket to receive the headed spindle is
made as a hollow sleeve and is provided with a flange, in advance of which are
two hubs of different diameters, which receive the bobbin, the one part, receiving
a bobbin of one. length while the other part receives a bobbin of a shorter length.
These two cylindrical parts of the spindle holder are extended into the base of
the bobbin and hold the same steadily.
Dated this 4th dose as N 100%

page_text: Improvements in Shuttles for Use in Weaving.
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes & Son of 55 Chancery
Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES
FOR USE IN WEAVING and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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The small ends or tops of wooden- bobbins such as commonly used in loom
shuttles are frequently chipped, nicked, split, or broken out so that they become
worthless, for the filling, especially fine filling, is broken as it strikes the broken or
chipped portions of the bobbin as the said filling is being drawn therefrom in the
usual manner.
This loss of bobbins and filling resulting from the breakage of bobbins as
described is a very serious evil which it is the object of this invention to remedy.
In accordance with this invention the shuttle spindle is provided with a thread
guiding disc or head which is of as great and preferably of greater diameter than
the diameter of the small or delivery end of the bobbin, the said disc being
arranged close to the end of the bobbin so that the filling drawn from it will travel
about the periphery of the said disc and need not touch the small end of the
bobbin, and hence bobbins which are chipped, notched, or broken and unfit for use
in ordinary shuttles without the disc herein described, may be used as well as new
and unbroken bobbins.
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The headed spindle is provided with a notch or groove near its inner end and
is engaged by a pin on the shuttle body, and inserted into a tubular or sleeve like
spindle holder, a part of which enters the bore at the head of the bobbin, a collar
on the holder when the latter and the spindle are turned into the shuttle in
working position resting on a part of the shuttle, the holder being preferably made
of two different diameters externally to receive and hold bobbins of different
length, the bore of the larger bobbins being a little larger than of the shorter
bobbins.
Figure 1, is a top view of a loom shuttle embodying my invention, and
Figure 2, a longitudinal section thereof, with a bobbin added, the dotted lines
showing the spindle turned out of the shuttle body as it will be to have a bobbin
applied to it, or to have a bobbin removed from it.
The body a of this improved shuttle and the bobbin g, are as usual. The heel b
of the spindle pivoted at c and acted upon by the spring d has a socket for the
reception of the inner end of the spindle e slabbed off at one side to pass the
pivot c, part of which as is shown in Figure 2, crosses the space in the said socket,
the spindle being thus restrained from rotation. The spindle near where it is
slabbed off is notched to fit over a spindle holding pin m tixed in the body of the
shuttle, and the heel b is also cut away opposite the said notch so as to engage the
said pin as in Figure 1, when the spindle is shut down into the shuttle, the pin m,
locking the spindle e in the heel b and preventing longitudinal movement thereof.
The spindle has at its outer end a disc f of a diameter as great as and preferably
in excess of the diameter of the small or left hand end of the bobbin Figure 2,
and the said disc after the spindle is passed through the bobbin from its small end

page_text: and locked in the heel b rests close to the end of the bobbin forming a thread guido
or race about which the filling travels as it is drawn from the bobbin in usual
manner in weaving.
The said disc being as large as if not larger than the small end of the bobbin
the filling thread is compelled to travel about it and cannot touch the small end
of the bobbin, hence the same may be ever so much chipped, nicked, or broken
and yet not interfere with the proper. delivery of the filling or break or strain
the same.
This invention enables mill owners to use large quantities of bobbins which by
careless handling or by blows, or by the use of spindles which act expansively
to engage the small end of the bobbin, have become chipped or broken at their
small ends.
Besides the advantages mentioned the disc f is advantageous in that it acts to
slightly lift radially from the mass of filling on the bobbin the layer of filling
being unwound from the bobbin so that the same is not subjected to so much strain
as when pulled off from the bobbin over its small end, the filling touching the end
of the bobbin.
The heel or spindle head b constituting a socket to receive the headed spindle is
made as a hollow sleeve and is provided with a flange b', in advance of which are
two hubs of different diameters as shown at 62 and b³, which receive the bobbin,
the part b², receiving a bobbin of one length while the part 63 receives a bobbin of
a shorter length.
The cylindrical parts 62, 63, of the spindle holder are extended into the base of
the bobbin and hold the same steadily.
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
1. The loom shuttle, and its pivoted spindle and attached disc for guiding the
filling as it is being drawn from the small end of the bobbin, the said disc being of
as great if not greater diameter than the small end of the bobbin, and being
located close to the small end of the bobbin, whereby bobbins chipped, nicked, or
split at their smaller ends may be employed in loom shuttles, substantially as
described.
2. The shuttle spindle head, provided with the flange and cylindrical portion b³,
beyond it, and grooved for the entrance of the pin, combined with the detached
spindle provided at its end with a disc and grooved transversely to meet the pin,
substantially as described.
3. The shuttle body, and pivoted spindle head, provided with a flange and with
hubs 63, 63, of different diameter to enter the bobbin, at different distances,
substantially as described.
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TL 100K