Improvements in Means for Fastening Loom Ploking Bands • to Pickers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Fastening Loom Ploking Bands
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to Pickers.
We, JOSEPH VAUGHAN, of Whiteacre Road, Spinning-master, and JOHN
VAUGHAN, of 260, King Street, Hurst, Manager, both of Ashton-u.-Lyne, in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide means, which will selfactingly fasten
and retain the picking band in position upon the picker and which permit a more
ready adjustment of the respective end of the picking band than heretofore has
been the case.
To this end we suitably attach to the picker a clip or guide adapted to receive
a wedge or taper key the end of the picking band being placed between the latter
and the picker. The said clip or guide is so formed and positioned that on a pull
being exerted upon the picking band the said wedge or taper key is caused to
slide home in the clip or guide and thus selfactingly secure the picking band in
position upon the picker. The said wedging action may also be obtained by a
roller or rollers mounted eccentrically in the said clip or guide and to assist the
action of the said wedge or taper key or that of the roller or rollers they may be
furnished with a tooth or teeth or a lip may be formed on the wedge or taper key
adapted to engage the picking band.
Dated this 13th day of Anril 1894
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.
Improvements in Means for Fastening Loom Picking Bands
to Pickers.
We, JOSEPH VAUGHAN, of Whiteacre Road, Spinning-master, and JOHN
VAUGHAN, of 260, King Street, Hurst, Manager, both of Ashton-u.-Lyne, 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 has for its object to provide means, which will selfactingly fasten
and retain the picking band in position upon the picker and which permit a more
ready adjustment of the respective end of the picking band upon the picker than
heretofore has been the case.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 a sectional side view, Fig. 3 a plan and Fig. 4 an
end view of a picker and fastener constructed in accordance with one form of my
invention and shown applied to a picker.
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Figs. 5, 7 & 8 are sectional side views and Fig. 6 an end view of Fig. 5 showing
some other forms in which our invention may be carried out.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, we suitably attach to the picker a a clip or
guide the lower portion of which is adapted to grip or be placed on the picker a

page_text: and the upper portion to receive a wedge or taper key c the end of the picking
band d being placed between the latter and the picker a. The wedge or taper
key c, see Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4, at its front end is formed with a lip c' to facilitate its
adjustment upon the picker strap by hand and each side adapted to engage and
move in a groove b¹, see Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4, formed in the upper part of the clip or
guide b (by bending the same over) or in a slot formed in each side of the clip
or guide b.
After the picking band d has been placed upon the picker a and the wedge or
taper key cupon the picking band & the wedge or taper key c is slid home and
secures selfactingly the picking band upon the picker the moment a pull is
exerted onto the picking band by the picking stick owing to the picking band
drawing the wedge or taper key c still further home.
The wedging action described may also be obtained by a roller c, or rollers, see
Fig. 7, mounted eccentrically in the clip or guide b, or by a roller c adapted to
slide in inclined slots ³, see Fig. 8, formed in the sides of the clip or guide b.
To assist the action of the wedge or taper key c or that of the roller or rollers c
they may be furnished with a tooth or teeth c³, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7 & 8, or a
lip may be formed on the wedge or taper key c, which tooth, teeth, or lip engages
the picking band d.
It will be understood that the invention described may be varied in details such
as the shape of the clip or guide, wedge, taper key or roller and number or
adaptation thereof without departing from the nature of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is―
"In means for fastening looms picking bands to pickers."
1st. The use of a wedge, key or roller, or their equivalents-suitably carried
upon the picker and adapted to secure selfactingly the picking band in position on
the picker when the picking band is subjected to a pull, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
2nd. A fastener as specified in the preceding claim, consisting of a clip or guide b
and of a wedge, key or roller or their equivalents, the clip or guide being adapted
to grip or be placed on the picker a and receive the said wedge, key, roller or their
equivalents, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3rd. The general construction and combination of parts constituting our improve-
ments operating substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 13th day of June 1894
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.