IMPROVEMENTS IN PICKERS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Dyson Rhodes, of Huddersfield, in the County of
York, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PICKERS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS
FOR WEAVING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Dyson Rhodes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th September 1880.
SAMUEL DYSON RHODES, of Huddersfield, in the County of York.
MENTS IN PICKERS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention relates to pickers employed in looms for weaving woollens or
other heavy goods, but is equally applicable to pickers employed in smaller looms.
The object is to dispense with the india rubber at present used in pickers.
My improvements consist in casting at one or both ends or sides a recess or
hollow part, into which is introduced through a slot a piece of buffalo hide or other
suitable material; the buffalo hide is oblong or of such a shape as to be introduced
through the slot into the recess, and after being partially turned around in the
recess it cannot fall out. When the piece of buffalo hide is used up or unfit for
further use, new pieces can easily be introduced. By this means a considerable
saving of india rubber is effected.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Samuel Dyson Rhodes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
March 1881.
SAMUEL DYSON RHODES, of Huddersfield, in the County of York.
MENTS IN PICKERS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention relates to pickers employed in looms for weaving woollens or
other heavy goods, but is equally applicable to pickers employed in smaller looms.
The object is to dispense with the india-rubber at present used in pickers.
My improvements consist in casting at one or both ends or sides a flange or
recess or hollow part, into which is introduced through a slot a piece of buffalo hide
or other suitable material; the buffalo hide is oblong or of such a shape as to be
introduced through the slot into the recess, and after being partially turned around
in the recess it cannot fall out.
When the pieco-of-buffalo hide is used up.or_unfit for further use, now pieces can
easily be introduced. By this means a considerable saving of india-rubber is
effected.
In order that the Invention may be better understood, we herein-give-reference-
-to-the-accompanying-Sheet-of-Drawings,-wherein Fig.1_is_elevation.;_Fig.2, plau_|
view, and Fig. 3, a cross section of my improved picker.
The end of the picker is divided by a partition a into two compartments,
being formed with a flange b to keep the pieces of buffalo hide or other material c
in their place. The pieces of buffalo hide, shewn in detail Fig. 4, are inserted
through the slots d, and after being partially turned around therein they cannot
work out. It will be observed that there are two pieces of hide in each compart-
ment, but one or more pieces will answer the purpose.
When the hide is worn away by contact with the shuttle, they can easily be
removed and fresh pieces introduced. The hide may be of various shapes, Fig. 5
illustrating another shape.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into
effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details
and arrangements of parts shewn and described, as these may be varied, but what
1 claim is,―
The formation of a picker having compartments therein, in combination with a
slot d for the introduction of buffalo hide or other material, substantially as shewn
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Dyson Rhodes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
S. D. RHODES. (L.S.)