Improvements in Wire Mails and Healds.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Mails and Healds.
I, JOHN ASPINALL GREENWOOD, of 21, Swaine Street, Bradford, in the
County of York, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in wire mails and healds employed in the
healds and harness of looms and its object is to modify the form of the central eye
in a simple and efficient manner so as to prevent the warp catching or wedging in
the angles formed by the wire meeting at the top and bottom of such eye.
My said improvements consist in arranging the wire to bridge over the sharp
angles at the bottom and top of the central eye of ordinary wire healds or mails.
For this purpose one strand of the double wire from which the heald is twisted is
formed into a complete coil round the eye, the other strand being bent in the
ordinary form, by this means the angles at the top and bottom are crossed by
the said coil and thus prevent the warp catching or wedging therein. Eyes thus
formed may afterwards be pressed to make them as compact as possible and they
may be tinned, soldered or galvanised to keep them from being distorted.
Dated this 13th day of July 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
I, JOHN ASPINALL GREENWOOD, of 21, Swaine Street, Bradford, in the
County of York, Agent, 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 improvements in wire mails and healds employed in the
healds and harness of looms, and its object is to modify the form of the central eye
in a simple and efficient manner so as to prevent the warp catching or wedging
in the angles formed by the wire meeting at the top and bottom of such ere.
My said improvements consist in arranging the wire to bridge over the sharp
angles at the bottom and top of the central eye of ordinary wire healds or mails.
For this purpose one strand of the double wire from which the heald is
twisted is formed into a complete coil round the eye, the other strand being bent in
the ordinary form, by this means the angles at the top and bottom are crossed by the
said coil and the warp is prevented from catching or wedging therein. Eyes thus
formed may afterwards be pressed to make them as compact as possible and they
may be tinned, soldered or galvanised to keep them from being distorted.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part
of this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a front view of a wire heald made in accordance with my
invention. The wire from which it is made is represented to be stouter than I
usually employ for the purpose of more clearly illustrating the improvements.
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page_text: Figure 2, represents a view on a larger scale of the central portion of the
heald.
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Figure 3, represents a side view of the same.
The heald is made of two strands of wire A and B. The strand A is bent in
the ordinary way along one side of the central eye C but the other strand B is
coiled completely round the central eye as well as being bent along the opposite
side to A. The end eyes D, D are formed in any ordinary way and the
complete heald wire is preferably "tinned" to preserve them and keep the strands
together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A wire mail or heald in which one strand of the wire from which it is made is
coiled completely round the central eye, substantially as herein shown and described
and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 12th da..
SA 100%
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.