Improvements in Looms for Automatically Feeding (without Stopping the Loom) a Fresh Supply of Weft to Shuttles when the Weft is Exhausted.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Looms for Automatically Feeding (without
Stopping the Loom) a Fresh Supply of Weft to Shuttles when
the Weft is Exhausted.
I, EDWARD HOLLINGWORTH, of the Firm of Hutchinson, Hollingworth, &
Company, Limited, of Dobcross, in the County of York, Power Loom Makers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which has been communicated to
me by Randolph Crompton and Horace Wyman, of the Crompton Knowles Loom
Works, Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States of America, Power Loom
Makers) to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a magazine loom, and has for its object to
improve that class of looms employing shifting shuttle boxes, whereby when the
filling is exhausted or broken a fresh supply of filling will be automatically
inserted in the shuttle and the filling carrier previously in the shuttle will be
ejected.
We have effected this object by providing the usual lay having a plurality of
shuttle boxes, and actuating mechanism therefor, with a feeder to contain a
series of filling carriers, a transferrer, and means to actuate it to cause the trans-
ferrer to take a filling carrier from the filling feeder and put it into the shuttle
in which the fault in the filling occurred.
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Our filling feeder may consist of a circularly movable device having holders to
retain the filling carriers at their ends, and the filling carriers are arranged in
groups each group containing filling carriers having differing filling, corresponding
however with the filling used in the series of shuttles, and the feeder is moved
positively and in unison with each change of position of the shuttle boxes to thus
place and keep opposite the transferrer a filling carrier having a filling correspond-
ing with the filling in the shuttle being then put through the shed, and in case of
failure of filling in the shuttle so that a filling carrier has to be put into the
shuttle, the feeder, after the filling carrier has been put from it into the shuttle,
is given automatically a movement sufficient to bring into operative position a
new group of filling carriers and place opposite the transferrer that one of the
said filling carriers in the new group which has a filling corresponding with
the filling just removed from the feeder and put it into the shuttle.
The filling feeiler has thus imparted to it differential movements as to distances
and it is both oscillated, and rotated, as necessity requires, and its oscillations
are made positive and in unison with the shifting shuttle box, so that a shuttle
containing filling of the required color having been put into the shuttle box cell,
and filling carriers having filling of corresponding color having been put into the
filling feeder in groups after the order of the arrangement of colors in the shifting
boxes, the feeder will be moved in unison with the shifting shuttle boxes so as to
always present a filling carrier opposite or in line with the shuttle then in use
as it reaches the end of its flight from the cell of the shifting shuttle box, so that

page_text: in case of failure of the filling in the shuttle the latter will be supplied automati-
cally with a new and proper filling carrier.
In the operation of the loom in case of a fault in the filling whereby it is not
laid in front of the reed preparatory to the forward beat of the lay, the filling fork
is not actuated but is left in position to be acted upon by the usual knock-off
hammer, which hammer gives to the filling fork slide a partial movement, a
movement sufficient, however, to, through suitable mechanism actuate a stop
rod, causing it not only to throw out of operative position the take-up pawl but
also to render inoperative the devices employed for moving the pattern surface,
this being necessary because the transferrer is not actuated until the second beat of
the lay following that in which the fault in the filling occurs, and the shuttle in
which the fault of the filling occurred is again in position opposite the transferrer
and the filling feeder.
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The filling fork slide, is provided with a catch, which, at the first backward
movement of the slide engages the hook, which hook is moved at the second
forward beat of the lay by means of a second cam and devices actuated by it to
complete the backward movement of the filling fork slide and impart further
additional movement to the so-called stop-rod putting a finger thereon in front of
a bunter connected to the lay so that said bunter will strike the finger and cause
the latter, acting on an arm of the transferrer to actuate the transferrer and put
a filling carrier in the shuttle, knocking the filling carrier then in the shuttle
out.
Dated this 28th day of February 1898
Improvements in Looms for Automatically Feeding (without
Stopping the Loom) a Fresh Supply of Weft to Shuttles when
the Weft is Exhausted.
I, EDWARD HOLLINGWORTH, of the firm of Hutchinson, Hollingworth &
Company, Limited, of Dobcross, in the County of York, Power Loom Makers,
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 reference to a magazine loom and has for its object to
improve that class of looms employing shifting shuttle boxes, whereby when the
filling is exhausted or broken a fresh supply of filling will be automatically
inserted in the shuttle and the filling carrier previously in the shuttle will be
ejected.
We have effected this object in the manner in which we have herein chosen to
illustrate our invention by providing the usual lay having a plurality of shuttle
boxes, and actuating mechanism therefor, with a feeder to contain a series of
filling carriers, a transferrer, and means to actuate it to cause the transferrer to
take a filling carrier from the filling feeder and put into the shuttle in which
the fault in the filling occurred.
Our filling feeder is shown as a circularly movable device having holders to retain
the filling carriers at their ends, and the filling carriers are arranged in groups
each group containing filling carriers having differing filling, corresponding
however with the filling used in the series of shuttles, and the feeder is moved

page_text: positively and in unison with each change of position of the shuttle boxes to thus
place and keep opposite the transferrer a filling carrier having a filling correspond-
ing with the filling in the shuttle being then put through the shed, and in case of
failure of filling in the shuttle so that a filling carrier has to be put into the
shuttle, the feeder, after the filling carrier has been put from it into the shuttle
is given automatically a movement sufficient to bring into operative position
new group of filling carriers and place opposite the transferrer that one of the
said filling carriers in the new group which has a filling corresponding with
the filling just removed from the feeder and put it into the shuttle.
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The filling feeder has thus imparted to it differential movements as to distances,
and it is both oscillated, and rotated, as necessity requires, and its oscillations
are made positive and in unison with the shifting shuttle box, so that a shuttle
containing filling of the required color having been put into the shuttle box cell,
and filling carriers having filling of corresponding color having been put into the
filling feeder in groups after the order of the arrangement of colors in the shifting
boxes, the feeder will be moved in unison with the shifting shuttle boxes so as to
always present a filling carrier opposite or in line with the shuttle then in use
as it reaches the end of its flight from the cell of the shifting shuttle box, so that
in case of failure of the filling in the shuttle the latter will be supplied automati-
cally with a new and proper filling carrier.
In the operation of the loom in case of a fault in the filling whereby it is not
laid in front of the reed preparatory to the forward beat of the lay, the filling fork
is not actuated but is left in position to be acted upon by the usual knock-off
hammer, which hammer gives to the filling fork slide a partial movement, a
movement sufficient, however, to, through suitable mechanism, actuate a stop
rod, causing it not only to throw out of operative position the take-up pawl but
also to render inoperative the devices employed for moving the pattern surface,
this being necessary in the manner in which we have herein illustrated our inven-
tion, because the transferrer is not actuated until the second beat of the lay
following that in which the fault in the filling occurs, and the shuttle in which
the fault of the filling occurred is again in position opposite the transferrer and
the filling feeder.
The filling fork slide, as we have illustrated our invention, is provided with
a catch, which, at the first backward movement of the slide engages the hook,
which hook is moved at the second forward beat of the lay by means of a second
cam and devices actuated by it to complete the backward movement of the filling
fork slide and impart further additional movement to the so-called stop-rod
putting a finger thereon in front of a bunter connected to the lay, so that said
bunter will strike the finger and cause the latter, acting on an arm of the trans-
ferrer to actuate the transferrer and put a filling carrier in the shuttle, knocking
the filling carrier then in the shuttle out.
Prior to our invention we believe the work we have aimed herein to accomplish
was never before effected or even attempted, and we, therefore, do not intend to
limit our invention to the exact mechanism or means herein shown for doing
this work, as it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various mechanical
devices might be devised without the exercise of invention for bringing the filling
carriers into position to be used when needed, and for transferring said carriers
into the shuttle, nor is this invention limited to the particular shifting shuttle
box mechanism herein shown, for instead of it we might use any other usual or
well known shifting shuttle box mechanism containing two or more or any desired
or usual number of cells. We believe that we are the first to use in a loom
containing a series of shuttles under the control of a pattern surface to present
at the shed a shuttle having the desired differing filling, an apparatus by which
to provide said shuttles automatically with like filling to thus avoid stopping the
loom when filling is to be supplied to a shuttle; and we also believe ourselves
to be the first, by or through a pattern surface and suitable devices, to move posi-
tively a filling feeder having filling of different colors, so that a filling of the

page_text: desired color may be put, at the call of the pattern surface, in position to be
removed from the feeder and put into a shuttle then in place to receive it.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1, in front elevation, represents a sufficient portion of a loom to illustrate
our invention, the central part of the loom and its driving pulleys being omitted
from the crank shaft, together with the shed forming mechanism.
Fig. 2 is a section in the liner Fig. 1, looking to the right, showing the parts
at that end of the loom, together with the pattern surface.
Fig. 2 shows the opposite end of the pattern cylinder shaft and part of the
device for moving it
Fig. 3, is a section in the line a, Fig. 1, showing the filling feeder provided
with filling, the means for operating it and the transferrer or pusher as it is
sometimes called.
Fig. 4 is a partial plan view of the right hand end of the loon with the filling
feeder partially broken away.
Fig. 5 is a detail of the filling fork mechanism.
Fig. 6 is a detail of the catch.
Fig. 7 is a detail showing part of the filling fork slide.
Fig. 7 (Sheet 7) is a detail showing the filling feeder in perspective.
Fig. 8 is a section taken through the gears on the stud 32.
Fig. 9 is a detail relating to the filling fork mechanism.
Fig. 10 is a plan view of a self threading shuttle.
Fig. 11 shows one of the holders 28 detached.
Fig. 12 is a modification to be referred to.
c and d
The loom frame A, the crank shaft Chaving a gear C₁ engaging a gear C² on
the lower or cam shaft B, the latter having an arm provided with a stud a
engaging intermittingly with slots in the master wheel D, the pinions
actuated intermittingly by the teeth of the master gear, the shaft c² and d² on
which the said pinions are splined, the said gears being fast on the shafts and
having co-operating with them movable teeth which derive their motion through
leverse operatively connected by rods e³, g, with suitable fingers e resting upon
a pattern surface or chain e, the lay H actuated from the crank shaft by suitable
connective rods H', the shuttle box rod n having at its upper end a series of, as
herein shown, shuttle boxes presenting three cells, and the shuttle box lever E
suitably connected, as by a rod n2, having a slip joint attached to the shuttle rod,
are all employed but form no part of the present invention.
The pattern surface surrounds a pattern shaft 3 having at its inner end a ratchet
wheel which is engaged by a pawl h pivoted on a pawl carrier he having an
attached rod jointed to the end of an elbow lever h8 pivoted at h and provided at
its upper end with a latch 10 which lies on a rest h¹ thus keeping the shoulder 13
of the latch elevated so that it will not strike the shoulder his of the guide 15 so
long as the loom is working regularly, and the cam 16 is to move the pattern
cylinder.
In case the filling fails the sliding rod H5, to be described, will be moved to the
right, and by its flexible connection h attached to the lever 18 carrying the
rest 2 will lower the rest and permit said shoulder h¹³ to meet the shoulder h
which will prevent the forward sliding movement of said latch and leave the
lever at the outward limit of its stroke under the action of its cam.
The lever is normally held toward its actuating cam by a spring h²º connected
to it and to a lever 21 pivoted at hº, said lever hi having a slip connection h29,
which engages a pin on the lever h8, but whenever the latch is permitted to
engage the stop 4, the movement of the lever 8 and the pattern surface for the
shuttle-box mechanism is stopped and the cam h¹6 continues to rotate and move
the lever 21, the slip device he then slipping on the pin 3, thus preventing the
breaking of the parts and allowing the pattern surface to stand still, this stopping
of the pattern surface being effected preparatory to operating the pusher, so that
the pattern surface will remain in proper relation to the other working parts.

page_text: Our invention does not relate particularly to the shuttle box mechanism, and as
we have said instead of the particular mechanism referred to, we may employ any
other well known or suitable shuttle box mechanism.
The shuttle box lever E in this illustration of our invention has been chosen as
the device of the shuttle box mechanism with which we make the connection to
actuate the filling carrier to be described, said lever being under the control of a
pattern surface.
The frame of the loom is provided with suitable brackets G which receive a rock
shaft G1, having two arms G2, G3, the arm G being connected by link G' with the
shuttle box lever E.
The arm G3 of the rock shaft has connected to it a rack bar G5, the said link,
rock shaft, arms and rack constituting means for actuating a system of epicycloidal
gearing for moving the filling carrier feeder Ge backwards and forwards in unison
with the rising and falling movements of the shuttle box.
The filling feeder G6, see Fig. 7, where the same is shown detached, as herein
represented, consists of a substantially circular cage composed of a hollow hub G6,
provided at one end with a circular head 20, having extended horizontally from it
parallel to said hub, a series of arms or fins 25, said arms or fins at their end
farthest from said head being connected to and supporting the toothed ring 24.
The hollow hub G of the filling feeder is supported on a stud G extended
horizontally from one side of a stand Gs fixed on the breast-beam A' of the loony
frame, the said hub being prolonged outside the head 20 by a second sleeve G
connected to the outer side of said head, and to the said sleeve G is connected a
filling end support G and a filling end holder G2, the filling feeder being kept
on the said stud by a suitable bolt G¹³, see Fig. 1.
The head 20 of the filling feeder, has a series of radial notches, in which are
located suitable springs 21, one for each notch and against which springs the tip
of a filling carrier 22 will be placed, while the large or base end of each filling
carrier will be inserted in a pocket 23 of the toothed ring 24.
The series of horizontal arms or fins 25, as herein shown, divide the feeder into
compartments.
The internal diameter of the toothed ring 24 is such that the acting end of the
transferrer 26, to be hereinafter described, may enter and be moved freely therein,
said transferrer when made to descend striking the filling carrier 22 then under it
and ejecting said filling carrier from the feeder into the shuttle 27 then in the
shuttle box below the feeder, this action taking place whenever a fault occurs in
the filling carrier then in the shuttle, but after such shuttle has arrived in the
shuttle-box which is located under the said feeder, said shuttle box being fixed to
that end of the lay farthest from the shifting shuttle boxes.
The shuttle 27, Fig. 10, is of that variety wherein there is a passage through it
from one side to the other side, in order that the filling carrier put into it at one
side may be ejected from it at the opposite side, the said shuttle having suitable
filling carrier holders 28 of such shape as to receive rings or projections 29 of the
filling carriers 22, the shuttle also having a self or automatic threading con-
trivance comprehending a slot 20 and a horn 30 which may be of any of the usual
forms of construction, so that when a filling carrier in the filling carrier feeder,
said filling carrier having the end of its thread connected with the holder G12, is
put by the transferrer or pusher into the shuttle, that movement ejecting the
filling carrier then in the shuttle through the shuttle and out from the bottom of
the lay, the thread of said filling carrier, as the shuttle is thrown through the shed,
will be automatically threaded into the slot 20 and delivery eye of the self
threading contrivance of the shuttle, so that the shuttle will correctly deliver the
filling from it into the shed.
The filling carriers are arranged in the filling feeder in groups, and, inasmuch
as we have herein represented a shifting shuttle box with three cells the groups
of filling carriers are made of three each, each group of filling carriers being
provided with differing filling or filling of different colors, as for instance, red,

page_text: white and blue, and these groups are repeated, as herein shown, six times; and the
shuttles in the cells of the shifting shuttle boxes have, on starting of the loom,
filling carriers having filling of the colors red, white and blue.
The teeth of the toothed ring 24 of the filling feeder are engaged by the teeth
of a gear 31, mounted loosely on a stud 32, the said gear having, however, peculiar
movements as we will now describe.
The gear 31 has connected to it a stud 33 on which is loosely mounted a bevel
pinion 34, the said bevel pinion being engaged by the bevel teeth of a gear 35
loose on the stud 32 and engaged by the teeth of the said gear 35 before described
said bevel pinion 34 also engaging the bevel teeth of and moving a gear 36 also
loose on said stud, the bevel pinion 34 connecting the said two gears 35 and 36.
The teeth of the loose gear 36 are in mesh with a gear 32* having an attached
ratchet wheel 33* which may be moved intermittingly in one direction only by a
pawl 34*.
The
gear 31
may therefore, be moved from two sources, that is, it may be
oscillated by the rack G5, gear 35, bevel pinion 34, the gear 36 being then held
fast, or it may be rotated from the gear 32, as will be described the rack and
gear 35 being then held fast.
The pawl 34 is attached to a pawl carrier 35, mounted on a stud 36%, the pawl
carrier having connected to its lower end a rod 37 attached to a lever 38 having
its fulcrum at 39 and acted upon by a cam 40 on the lower cam shaft B, the said
pawl thus having a constant motion, but the pawl cannot engage the ratchet wheel
except when a filling carrier is to be ejected from the shuttle and a new one put
into the said shuttle."
Let it be supposed that a shuttle-box having a red filling is in position at the
level of the race of the lay and is working, and in such position the red filling
in a group of filling carriers is stopped immediately below the end of the pusher,
and so long as that red filling goes in and the shuttle boxes are not shifted the
red filling carrier stands in that position, and the rack G³ stands still but if the
second shuttle from the red filling shuttle, viz.: the one containing blue should
be brought into position by shifting the shuttle boxes then that movement of the
shuttle box-lever through the operative mechanism connecting it with the rack G³,
moves the said rack and effects the turning of the filling feeder far enough to skip
over the white filling carrier therein and bring the blue carrier in position below
the pusher, and then in case the white shuttle, between the red and the blue were
to be put into position and the shuttle box shifted for that purpose one step, the
movement of the said shuttle-box lever through the connections described would
reverse the movement of the filling feeder and bring the white filling located between
the red and the blue underneath the transferrer, so that it will be understood that
the filling feeder has an oscillating motion in extent dependent upon the motion
of the shifting shuttle boxes, and whatever the movement of the shuttle boxes the
filling feeder has a corresponding movement so as to always preserve the proper
relative arrangement of colors.
Now in case of a fault in a filling carrier in the shuttle the transferrer will be
operated, as will be described, and it will descend and push out from the filling
feeder, a filling carrier having a filling of a color corresponding with that in the
shuttle in which new filling is to be placed, and then thereafter comes in the new
or second movement of the filling feeder.
One filling carrier having been exhausted from a group of filling carriers another
group of filling carriers must be instantly brought into position wherein all the
colors are represented, in order that should the same color be next required to be
taken from the filling carrier feeder that there would be under the transferrer a
filling carrier having a filling of the proper color.
The second motion referred to constitutes what we designate as the rotary motion
of the filling feeder.
To effect this rotary motion of the filling feeder, we let come into play the
pawl 34 and in the following manner, viz:-The outer end of the pawl 34*, see

page_text: Fig. 4, attached to the elbow lever 35*, pivoted on a stud lies normally on and
is reciprocated backwards and forwards over a pawl lifter 41, and a pawl rest 40*,
but normally the pawl is not moved off from the said rest and it cannot conse-
quently engage the teeth of the ratchet 33* to turn it.
The pawl lifter 41 is pivotally mounted upon the pawl rest 40%, shown as a
second elbow lever mounted upon the stud 36 outside the lever 35*, one arm of
said pawl rest being shown as provided with an adjustable stud 42 which is
embraced by the slotted end of a pawl rest controller 43, shown as a lever having
its fulcrum on a stud 44 projected from the stand G8, the opposite end of said
controller being also shown as forked, see Fig. 3, and as embracing a pin 45 carried
by the transferrer 26.
The transferrer carrying arm is mounted upon a stud 47 secured to the fixed
stand G, and said arm is offset near its free end, as shown at 20b, to thus enable it
to pass through the gear 23 and support its acting end or portion which acts on the
filling carriers, above the said carriers.
The stud 47 has wound about it a suitable strong spiral spring 48, the free end of
which engages the transfer carrying arm, while the opposite end of said spring
is fixed with relation to the stud, the said spring normally keeping the transferrer 26
elevated, so that the filling carriers held in the feeder in the movement of the latter
may readily pass under the acting end of the transferrer.
The transferrer has a short arm 26, see Fig. 3, and the lay beam has an attached
bunter H³, and whenever a finger H attached to a sliding rod Hs having suitable
bearings under the breast beam, is moved, in this instance of our invention, to
the right, Fig. 1, far enough to put said finger in the path of the bunter, the lay,
as it comes forward, causes the bunter to act on the finger and give the latter a
quick movement causing the finger to act on the arm. 26* and move the trans-
ferrer carrying arm and cause the connected transferrer to act on and push the
filling carrier, then under it from the filling feeder into the shuttle then in the
stationary box, the incoming filling carrier meeting and ejecting the spent filling
carrier from the shuttle.
In order that the gear 32 may not be moved further than required we have
provided a suitable locking lever 49, see Fig. 3, having a roll shown in that fig.
by dotted lines, which enters notches in a notched wheel 50, also shown by dotted
lines.
While the transferrer is descending to act upon and remove a filling carrier
from the filling feeder the lever 43 is moved sufficiently to turn the pawl rest 40*
a little to the right, so that as the pawl 34* is again, moved forward it slips over
the end of the said rest, drops into engagement with a tooth of the ratchet
wheel 33* and gives it a quick movement, the said movement taking place, how-
ever, after the transferrer has effected its work, the movement being sufficient to
move the filling feeder for a distance equal to the space occupied by one group of
filling, so that a filling carrier of the same color may be brought into operative
position under the transferrer after a filling carrier has been ejected from the
feeder, or in other words the filling carrier which is brought by the movement of
the feeder due to the ratchet referred to, in position under the transferrer, will
always be of the same color as that on the filling carrier which was just removed
from the feeder by the transferrer.
In practise the gears 36 and 32 will be in such proportion as to size, and the
ratchet teeth of the gear 32* will be in such number as to give to the filling feeder
the desired extent of movement, that depending upon the number of colors used
in the filling feeder and the number of shuttle boxes employed at the opposite
end of the loom.
This proportion may be varied at will according to the number of colors and the
work to be done.
The pawl 34 having reached the end of its back stroke, it having moved the
ratchet, again starts forward in the regular movement of the pawl, and the finger
projecting from the pawl strikes the free end of the pivoted pawl lifter 41*, said

page_text: end being downturned, so that it catches under and lifts the pawl from engage-
ment with the ratchet and enables it to slide back and forth on the pawl rest 40*
until the transferrer is again operated.
The movement of the transferrer is dependent upon, as herein shown, the failure
of the filling, and the filling fork is made instrumental in starting it.
The filling fork 50c is pivoted at 51 on a slide 52, which is adapted to be
reciprocated in a stand 53 fixed to the breast beam, the filling fork having at its
inner end the usual projection 54, see Fig. 5, which drops when the filling is
absent from in front of the filling fork as the lay beats forward, so that said end 54
is caught by the upper end of the filling hammer 55, it being shown as a lever
pivoted at 56 and having an arm 57 which is acted upon by a suitable cam 58 on
the shaft B all in usual manner and clearly shewn in Fig. 9.
The filling fork slide has a notch 59, as herein shown, at its side which receives
one end of an elbow lever 54*, pivoted at 55%, and when the filling fork slide is
pushed back by the filling fork hammer it moves the elbow lever so that its outer
end acts on a finger 56* attached to the slide rod H³, and slides the said rod far
enough to cause a projection H shown as having a beveled or cam shaped end to
act upon the upper end of a lever H7 and turn it to lift the take-up pawl H8 from
engagement with the ratchet wheel H of the take-up mechanism, which may be of
any suitable or usual construction this being done before operating the transferrer
to immediately suspend the operation the take-up until after the filling change
shall have been effected.
This rod is normally pulled, as herein shown, to the left by a spring 59 attached
to it and the loom frame, and the said rod having jointed to it the suitable flexible
connections before described to at the same time effect the stopping of the
pattern surface or chain.
The filling fork is actuated by the filling hammer after the failure of the filling,
immediately as the shuttle goes in the right hand box and while the lay is moving
forward, and as the lay next goes back the shuttle in which there is a fault is
thrown back into the shifting shuttle box from which it came and the filling ham-
mer is retracted, but the filling fork slide does not follow the lay for it is locked
by a locking device 64, shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, it consisting essentially of a
catch pivoted on a stand 64* of the breast beam, said locking device having an
incline 70 which is acted upon by a projection 65 extended from a finger 66
pivoted upon the top of the weft fork slide between ears 67, the said projection.
slightly lifting said catch and the latter then drops with its shoulder 70 behind the
said projection, thus preventing the return of the filling fork with the lay.
The filling fork slide has pivoted to it on its left hand side a latch 60, which,
as the said slide is carried back, as described, by the hammer 55, drops behind the
upper end of the lever 61, pivoted at 56, see Fig. 9 the said upper end being then
in its position farthest from the breast-beam and the lay completing its back
stroke, and the shuttle in which the filling was broken or absent is at such times
thrown back into the shifting shuttle-box.
The lay is then again started forward a second time and is returned back again,
and on its back stroke the shuttle having the exhausted filling is again thrown into
the shuttle box under the feeder, and the lay again starts forward for the third
time, and at this stroke, the shuttle being in condition to be replenished with a new
filling carrier, the upper end of the lever 61 is moved forward by the cam 62
and engaging the latch 60 imparts to the filling fork slide its additional or full
movement.
This additional or full movement of the filling fork slide causes the lever 54*
to be further moved to slide the rod H³ far enough to put the finger H+ carried
thereby between the transferrer end 26* and the bunter, so that the latter, as the
lay reaches its forward position, hits the said finger H4 and moves it, so that said
finger meeting the end 26.r actuates the transferrer to take a filling carrier from
the filling carrier feeder and put it into the shuttle then in the shuttle box, the lay

page_text: then going back again, the filling fork slide resuming its original or normal
position.
As the filling fork slide is given its additional or further movement outwardly,
as described, to accomplish the movement of the transferrer as referred to, the pro-
jection 65 on the pivoted finger 66 passes under and beyond the locking device
or catch 64, and the transferrer having been moved to put a filling carrier into the
shuttle, the upper end of the lever 61 engaging the latch 60 is permitted by its
cam to move backwardly away from the breast beam, and the filling fork slide,
under the stress of the spring 59 is moved forwardly and the finger 56 strikes the
top of the catch at the downturned outer end and slides over the catch and drops
back of the incline 70*.
As the upper end of the lever 61 moves away from the breast beam, after having
effected the operation of the pusher, as described, the latch 60 and slide bar 52
move with the lever until the short arm 60% of the latch meets the stop s, see Fig. 5,
when the said latch is turned to free its notched end from the lever 61, said stop s
thereafter keeping the hooked end of the latch elevated above the path of move-
ment of the said lever 61. until the filling again breaks and the filling fork slide is
again moved, as before.
From the foregoing description it will be understood that the position of the
filling fork slide determines the time of operation of the transferrer, and should
the said slide be put into its farthest outward position at that forward beat of the
lay at which the absence of the filling was detected, the shuttle would not then be in
the box under the feeder, but would probably be in the shifting shuttle box, hence
the full outward movement of the slide is effected only at a subsequent beat of the
lay after the shuttle to be supplied with filling has surely returned into the shuttle
box under the feeder.
We may employ any other usual form of self-threading shuttle of which there
are many examples.
The open ring-like inner end of the filling feeder having the teeth to be engaged
by the pinion 31, is supported by arms or fins 25, the said fins, as herein shown,
forming compartments large enough to receive three filling carriers corresponding
with the shuttle-box, but all the said fins are not needed, and it is not essential
to separate the filling carriers at any particular spot.
The lever E, controlled by the pattern chains e, determines by its movement
not only the position of a shuttle having filling of a particular color, but it also
determines independently by or through the shaft G, the particular color of the
filling on the filling carriers to stand under the transferrer, and we might therefore
dispense with the movable shuttle box, and employ the usual shuttle box fixed to
the lay, and we might then use the lever to move the feeder at stated intervals
according to the requirements of the pattern chain, that is to say, we may move
the feeder and permit the transferrer or pusher to take from it a filling carrier,
and use that color for a determined number of picks, and then change the position
of the feeder and actuate the transferrer or pusher to put a filling carrier having
a filling of a different color into the shuttle, it remaining therein for a determined
number of picks.
To do this, is is only necessary to add to the filling fork slide an arm 100, and
provide the rack carrying rod with three cam projections 101, the said cams acting
when the rod is shifted to push the filling fork slide back in its guiding stand
and effect the movement of the pusher as has been described, the filling on the
carrier ejected from the shuttle being broken off as it is pushed out, but when the
change shuttle boxes are used the arm 100 will be removed.
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;-
1. In a loom, a filling carrier feeder and filling carriers arranged therein in
groups each group having a plurality of differing fillings, combined with means

page_text: to actuate said feeder positively for a distance equal to the distance apart of like
fillings in the different groups, substantially as described.
2. A filling carrier feeder having a series of groups of filling carriers, the carriers
of each group having differing fillings, combined with means to positively move
said feeder back and forth from one to the other of the filling carriers of each
group, and also to move said feeder over a distance equal to the distance between
a filling carrier in one group to a filling carrier having like filling in another group
of filling carriers, substantially as described.
3. A filling feeder having a series of filling carriers, arranged in groups to present
two or more differing fillings, combined with actuating devices to rotate said
feeder intermittingly at the desired times, to bring one group of filling carriers
after another into operative position, substantially as described.
4. A filling feeder provided with a series of filling carriers arranged in groups
to present differing fillings a plurality of differing fillings in each group, combined
with means to operate said feeder from the actuating position of one of the filling
carriers of the one group, to any one of the filling carriers in an adjacent group,
substantially as described.
5. A filling carrier feeder having attached gear teeth, and provided with a
series of filling carriers, arranged in groups to present filling of different colors,
combined with a toothed gear, and means not only to move said feeder to change
the position of the individual carriers of the same group, but also to rotate said
feeder for a distance equal to the distance between a filling carrier of a certain
color in one group to a filling carrier of another group, but having the same colored
filling, substantially as described.
6. A loom containing the following instrumentalities, viz:-a filling carrier
feeder having filling carriers arranged in groups, each group having differing
filling, a shuttle box to receive a shuttle, a transferrer, and means to actuate said
feeder for a distance equal to the distance apart of the threads of like filling in the
different groups, and suitable means to actuate ine transferrer, for the purposes set
forth.
7. A loom containing the following instrumentalities, viz.:-a transferrer,
means to actuate it, and a filling carrier feeder having filling carriers arranged
in groups, each group having differing filling, a shuttle box to receive a shuttle,
means to actuate said feeder for a distance equal to the distance apart of like
filling in the different groups, and to also move said feeder back and forth to
place in operative position in connection with said shuttle box and transferrer, the
different carriers of each group, substantially as described.
8. A filling carrier feeder provided with filling carriers arranged in groups, each
group presenting differing yarns, means to move said feeder for a distance equal to
the distance between like yarns in the different grouns, combined with a trans-
ferrer, and means to operate it on the failure of the filling, the movement of the
transferrer determining the time of action of the means for actuating said feeder,
as described.
9. A filling feeder having gear teeth, a toothed gear in connection therewith,
means to oscillate said toothed gear and feeder, combined with independent
means to partially rotate said gear, a transferrer, and means to operate it on the
failure of the filling, the movement of the transferrer determining the time of
action of the means for partially rotating the said gear substantially as described.
10. A loom containing the following instrumentalities, viz:-a lay, a shifting
shuttle box arranged at one end thereof, a series of shuttles co-operating therewith,
and adapted each to receive a filling carrier having differing yarns, means to
actuate said shifting shuttle boxes, a filling feeder at the opposite end of the lay
presenting filling corresponding with that in said shuttle boxes, and means to
actuate said filling feeder in unison with said shuttle boxes, whereby the filling
feeder is moved when said shifting shuttle boxes are moved to always keep
opposite the end of the lay next said feeder, a filling carrier having a filling corre
sponding with that in the shuttle being then used, substantially as described.

page_text: 11, A loom containing the following instrumentalities, viz:-a lay, shifting
shuttle box mechanism, a filling carrier feeder, a series of self-threading shuttles,
a transferrer to automatically remove a filling carrier from the feeder and put it
into the shuttle, means to actuate the said transferrer, and means to actuate the
feeder in unison with the shuttle box, whereby a filling carrier having a yarn like
that contained in the shuttle then being used may be kept in position to be acted
upon by the transferrer, to operate, substantially as described.
12. A series of shuttle boxes, means to operate the same to bring one shuttle
after another into working position, a filling feeder provided with filling carriers
having differing threads and arranged in groups, a series of self-threading shuttles,
a transferrer to automatically transfer a carrier from said feeder into a shuttle,
combined with means to both move said feeder back and forth as the said shuttle
boxes are moved to thus always keep in operative position with relation to said
transferrer a filling carrier having a thread like that employed in the shuttle
then being used, and also to move said feeder for a distance equal to the distance
between filling carriers having like yarns in different groups, substantially as
described.
13. A series of shuttle boxes, actuating means therefor, a filling carrier feeder
provided with a series of filling carriers arranged in groups to present fillings of
different colors, combined with connections between the shuttle box operative
parts and said feeder to oscillate said feeder back and forth to correspond with the
changing positions of the said shuttle box, substantially as described.
14. A series of shuttle boxes, actuating means therefor, a filling carrier feeder
provided with a series of filling carriers arranged in groups to present fillings of
different colors, combined with connections between the shuttle box operative parts
and said feeder to rotate said feeder for a distance equal to the distance between
filling carriers of the same color in the different groups, substantially as described.
15. A series of shuttle boxes, actuating means therefor, a filling carrier feeder
provided with a series of filling carriers arranged in groups to present fillings of
different colors, combined with connections between the shuttle box operative
parts and said feeder to oscillate said feeder back and forth to correspond with the
changing positions of the said shuttle box, and means to also effect the rotation of
said feeder for a distance equal to the distance between filling carriers of the
same color in the different groups, substantially as described.
16. A filling carrier feeder having filling carriers arranged in groups, each group
presenting filling differing in color, a shuttle box to receive a shuttle to be
provided with filling, and a transferrer, combined with means to positively move
said filling feeder back and forth to thus keep between the transferrer and the
shuttle a filling carrier having filling of the desired color, substantially as
described.
17. A lay, a series of shifting shuttle boxes, a shuttle box lever, means to actuate
it, and a filling carrier feeder having a series of filling carriers provided with
filling of different color arranged in a plurality of groups, and a transferrer, com-
bined with means to operatively connect the said shuttle box lever and the said
filling feeder, whereby a filling carrier having a filling of the color contained in
the shuttle then being used may be kept in position to be acted upon by the said
transferrer in case the filling fails, and also to move said filling feeder, after a
filling carrier has been taken from it, for a sufficient distance to place opposite
said transferrer and between it and the shuttle box a second group of filling
carriers and present in position a filling carrier having filling of the color just
removed from another group, substantially as described.
18. A series of shuttle boxes, actuating means therefor, and a filling carrier
feeder having a series of filling carriers, combined with means to operatively
connect said shuttle box actuating mechanism and said filling feeder, whereby
the said shuttle boxes and filling feeder may move in unison while the loom is
running and effecting the changes of the shuttle box, and a transferrer and actuat-
ing means therefor, substantially as described.

page_text: 19. A series of shuttle boxes, a shuttle box lever, means to actuate it, and a
filling carrier feeder and a series of filling carriers provided with filling of different
color, the said series arranged in groups in said feeder, and a transferrer to act on
said filling carriers, combined with means to operatively connect said shuttle box
lever and said feeder to oscillate it in unison with the shuttle boxes during the
regular motions of the loom, the shuttles being supplied with unbroken filling,
and means to after failure of the filling actuate said transferrer and thereafter
turn the said filling feeder from one to the next group of filling carriers, sub-
stantially as described.
20. A lay, having a shuttle box containing a shuttle, a filling feeder provided
with a series of masses of wound filling and co-operating with said shuttle box,
said feeder having gear teeth, a toothed gear to engage said teeth, and means to
oscillate said toothed gear, causing it to oscillate the feeder, combined with a
transferrer and actuating means therefor, to act on said masses of wound filling
and remove them from the feeder into said shuttle, substantially as described.
21. In a loom, the following instrumentalities, viza lay, a series of shifting
shuttle boxes, means to actuate the same, a pattern surface to control the order
of movement of said shuttle boxes, means to move said pattern surface, a trans-
ferrer, a filling fork, its slide, a slide rod having a finger, means between the said
filling fork slide and said slide rod to actuate the latter, a bunter carried by the
lay, and a filling carrier feeder, whereby said slide rod when moved by the filling
fork slide after failure of the filling acts to suspend the action of the pattern
surface and to put said finger into position to be struck by the said bunter to
actuate the transferrer, the said pattern surface being thrown out of operation
in advance of the operation of the transferrer, substantially as described.
22. In a loom, the following instrumentalities viz:-a lay having a shuttle
box, and a bunter; a filling carrier feeder; a transferrer; a filling fork; a filling
fork slide on which it is mounted; a slide rod having a flange; means between
said filling fork and said slide rod to actuate the latter when the filling is absent
to put said finger between said bunter and transferrer; a pattern surface, means
to actuate it, and means between the said slide rod and the means for actuating
the said pattern surface, to temporarily suspend the action of the said pattern
surface after said slide rod has been moved by the movement of the filling fork,
due to the absence of the filling, substantially as described.
23. In a loom the following instrumentalities, viz.:a lay having a shuttle box
adapted to receive a self-threading shuttle provided with a filling carrier, a filling
carrier feeder having differing filling, arranged in different groups, means to move
the said filling feeder back and forth positively, a bunter, and a transferrer, com-
bined with a filling fork, its slide, and means actuated thereby, adapted upon the
failure of the filling to cause the bunter to actuate the transferrer, substantially
as described.
24. A filling fork, a filling fork slide having a connected pivoted latch, and a
filling fork hammer to engage the tail of the filling fork and move the slide and
latch, combined with an additional lever and cam to move it to engage said latch,
and impart an additional movement to the said slide, substantially as described.
25. A filling carrier feeder, a filling fork, its slide, means to actuate said slide,
a slide rod having a finger, means between the said filling fork slide and the said
slide rod, and a transferrer to act on and remove the filling carrier from said
feeder, combined with the lay and a connected bunter, whereby when the filling
fork slide is actuated by the absence of the filling, the finger of the slide rod will
be put between the transferrer and the bunter in order that the latter, as the lay
comes forward, may actuate the transferrer to operate, substantially as described.
26. A lay having a shuttle box, and a filling feeder co-operating with said
shuttle box, said feeder having gear teeth and provided with a series of filling
carriers, a toothed gear to engage the teeth of said filling feeder, and means to
rotate the said gear and operate the feeder at the proper times, substantially as
described.

page_text: 27. In a loom, the following instrumentalities, viz: a lay, a series of shifting
shuttle boxes, means to actuate the same, a take-up ratchet wheel a transferrer,
a filling fork, its slide, a slide rod having two fingers, means between the said
filling fork slide and said slide rod to actuate the latter, a bunter carried by the
lay, and a filling carrier feeder, whereby said slide rod when moved by the filling
fork slide, after failure of the filling, causes one of said fingers to suspend the
action of the take-up ratchet wheel, and then puts the other of said fingers into
position to be struck by the said bunter to actuate the transferrer, the said take-up
being thrown out of operation in advance of the operation of the transferrer,
substantially as described.
28. In a loom for automatically supplying a shuttle in shuttle box with a new
filling carrier, a rotatable filling feeder made as a cage entirely open at its inner
end, and a transferrer having its acting end bent to enter said open end of the
feeder, combined with means to actuate said feeder and transferrer, substantially
as described.
29. In a loom for automatically supplying a shuttle in a shuttle box with a new
filling carrier, a rotatable filling feeder made as a cage entirely open at its inner
end, a central pivot for the outer end of said cage, and a transferrer having its
acting end bent to enter the open end of said feeder, combined with means to
actuate said feeder and transferrer, substantially as described.
30. A rotatable filling feeder having gear teeth, a pinion engaging said gear
teeth, means to rotate said pinion, and a transferrer to act on the filling carriers
in said feeder, combined with means controlled by said transferrer while acting
to remove a filling carrier to set into operation the devices for rotating said feeder
after the removal of a filling carrier, substantially as described.
31. A filling feeder adapted to receive and carry a series of filling carriers; a
transferrer, and means to operate it to transfer the said filling carriers from
said feeder, a pattern surface, a lever, means to move said lever for varying
distances, according to the demands of said pattern surface, and connections
between said lever and said feeder to oscillate the latter for variable distances, to
place any one of the series of filling carriers under said tranferrer, substantially
as described.
32. A lay, having a shuttle box, a filling carrier feeder co-operating therewith
and adapted to receive and support a series of filling carriers provided with
differing filling, a transferrer, and means to actuate it to transfer a filling carrier
from said feeder into a shuttle in said shuttle box, a pattern surface, and means
intermediate it and said feeder to move the latter, whereby said feeder may be
moved back and forth to keep in working position with relation to said transferrer,
a filling carrier having the desired filling, substantially as described.
33. The lay, its attached bunter, a transferrer having an arm 263, a slide rod
having a finger, means to put the said finger between the arm of said transferrer
and said bunter on the failure of the filling, a filling feeder carrier, a pawl rest,
a pawl rest controller actuated by said transferrer a pawl controlled by said pawl
rest, means to actuate said pawl, a ratchet wheel actuated by said pawl, and toothed
gearing intermediate said ratchet wheel and said filling carrier feeder to operate the
latter, substantially as described.
34. A pivotally mounted filling carrier feeder having gear teeth and provided
with a series of filling, carriers, a toothed gear 31 engaging the teeth of said
feeder, said toothed gear carrying a beveled pinion 34, two loose gears, one
located at each side of said toothed gear 34, two loose gears, one located at each
side of said toothed gear 31 and engaged by the said beveled pinion, com-
bined with a slide rack, means to operate it, and a transferrer and actuating
means therefor, to operate, substantially as described.
35. A pivotally mounted filling carrier feeder having geared teeth and provided
with a series of filling carriers, a toothed gear 31 engaging the teeth of said feeder,
said toothed gear carrying a beveled pinion 34, two loose gears, one located at each
side of said toothed gear 31 and engaged by the said beveled pinion combined with

page_text: a toothed gear 32*, a ratchet and pawl, means to move the said pawl to actuate
the said ratchet and gear 32 and rotate the said feeder, combined with a trans-
ferrer and means to operate said transferrer, substantially as described.
36. In a loom, the following instrumentalities, viz:-a lay having a shuttle box,
a filling carrier feeder, a transferrer to transfer a filling carrier from said feeder into
a shuttle in said shuttle box, means to actuate said feeder positively back and forth,
a filling fork, means to operate it on the failure of the filling, to actuate the trans-
ferrer, and means intermediate said transferrer and means for rotating said feeder,
to move the latter after the transferrer has been operated, substantially as
described.
37. In a loom, the following instrumentalities, viza lay provided with a
shuttle box, and a bunter, a filling carrier feeder located at the shuttle box end of
the lay and having a series of filling carriers, a transferrer co-operating therewith
to transfer the said filling carrier from said feeder into the shuttle in said shuttle
box, a pattern surface, means to actuate it, a slide rod operatively connected with
the means for actuating said pattern surface, said slide rod having a finger, a
filling fork, its slide, and means between said filling fork slide and actuated by
the filling fork slide on the absence of the filling to move the said slide rod and
effect the stopping of the pattern surface, and also to put said finger of the slide
rod between said bunter and transferrer, the automatic movement of the slide rod
in the reverse direction after the transferrer has transferred a filling carrier fromí
the feeder into a shuttle in the shuttle box, restarting the pattern surface, substan-
tially as described.
38. In a loom the following instrumentalities, viz.:-a transferrer, a filling
carrier feeder having a series of filling carriers provided with filling of different
colors, a pattern surface, and means co-operating with said filling carrier feeder,
and under the control of the said pattern surface, to positively move said feeder
and put in position opposite the transferrer a filling carrier having a filling of the
color called for by said pattern surface, substantially as described.
39. In a loom the following instrumentalities, viza transferrer, a shuttle
a filling carrier feeder having a series of filling carriers provided with filling of
different colors, a pattern surface, and means co-operating with said filling carrier
feeder and under the control of the said pattern surface, to positively move said
feeder and put in position opposite the transferrer a filling carrier having a filling
of the color called for by said pattern surface, and means to actuate said transferrer
to transfer a carrier from the feeder into the shuttle on the lay, substantially as
described.
40. A lay carrying at one end a shuttle box, a filling feeder arranged at the
same end of the lay and having gear teeth and provided with a series of wound
masses of filling, a toothed gear to engage the teeth of said feeder, and means to
oscillate said gear and feeder, combined with a transferrer and means to actuate
it to remove said wound masses of filling from said feeder, substantially as
described.
41. A lay having a shuttle box, a shuttle carried by said lay, a filling feeder
located at the end of the lay and having a series of filling carriers, a transferrer,
and means to actuate it to transfer said filling carriers from said feeder into a
shuttle in said shuttle box, a pattern surface, a lever, and connections between
said lever and said feeder to move the latter for variable distances, to place any one
of the series of carriers under said transferrer, substantially as described.
42. A filling carrier feeder containing a series of filling carriers having differing
filling and arranged in groups, of two or more, combined with a system of eipcy-
cloidal gearing to move the said feeder from any one of the filling carriers in one
group to any one of the filling carriers in an adjacent group, substantially as
described.
43. A lay having a shuttle box, a shuttle carried by the lay, a filling carrier
feeder containing a series of filling carriers having differing yarns and provided
with gear teeth, and a system of epicycloidal gearing to positively move the said

page_text: feeder over varying distances, combined with a transferrer, and means to actuate
it to transfer a carrier having the desired yarn from said feeder into said shuttle,
substantially as described.
Doted this 20th day of March 1898
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents, Huddersfield,