Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Effecting and Controlling the Supply or Change of Filling or Yarn in Shuttles, and for Detecting" and Preventing Faulty Weaving in Looms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE DIEUIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Effecting and Controlling
the Supply or Change of Filling or Yarn in Shuttles, and for
Detecting" and Preventing Faulty Weaving in Looms.
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A communication from abroad by WILLIAM FRANKLIN DRAPER, of Hopedale,
County of Worcester, in the State of Massachusetts, one of the United
States of America, Manufacturer.
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of 55 and 56 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent 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 and has for its object to improve and simplify the class
of loom made the subject of Letters Patent No. 10633 June 23 1891, said loom
containing a hopper in which are placed, one against the other, a series of filling-
carriers, shewn as bobbins which are adapted to be acted upon by a pusher and
pushed into a self-threading shuttle in a shuttle box without stopping the loom, a
spent carrier being automatically ejected from one side of the shuttle by the action
of an incoming carrier.
In the loom referred to wherein the movement of the filling-carrier into position
under the pusher is dependent chiefly on gravity, difficulty is experienced in the
arrival of the carrier unerringly in exactly proper position under the pusher prior
to being put into the shuttle.
The loom hercin to be described is the first to contain apparatus by which it is
possible to bring positively under the pusher each filling-carrier of the series, the
said apparatus comprehending an intermittingly operated filling-feeder devised to
receive and support each filling-carrier independently, said feeder having a more-
ment preferably of rotation and being preferably so constructed as to hold both
the head and tip of the carrier, the feeder, when the loom is running regularly,
standing with a filling carrier directly in line with the pusher.
A guard or retainer having a throat is employed to partially surround one end of
said filling-feeder to prevent the escape of a filling-carrier, except at the proper
point.
The filling-feeder has also arranged close to it a stop against which acts each
filling-carrier as said fecder, in its rotation, brings one of the carriers in succession
under the pusher.
The disc at that end of the feeder which receives the tips of the filling-carriers,
of whatever form, has spring-like or yielding catches to hold said tips frictionally.
In the Patent referred to, the outer ends of the threads on the filling-carriers
were connected with a stud located outside the hopper, and as said carriers
descended therein, the filling was unwound therefrom, and means had to be
provided to take up and care for the slack therein to prevent the same from being
tangled.
To prevent unwinding and consequent tangling of the filling during the rotation
of the filling teeder, the said feeder has been provided with a filling-end holder
which rotates with it.
In the Patent referred to, the pusher acted only against the head of the filling-

page_text: carrier, and sometimes in the very rapid working of the loom, difficulty was
experienced because of the failure of the tip or small end of the filling-carrier
getting into the shuttle at the proper time, and also sometimes the tip or small end
struck against the side wall of the shuttle.
To overcome these possible difficulties, the pusher has been provided with a
lateral extension having a toe to push it from the feeder into the open chamber of
the shuttle, and during this operation, said toe acts on and dislodges the tip or
small end of the filling-carrier from the feeder.
The pusher has also been provided with a spring-supported finger to underlie the
tip or small end of the filling-carrier while being acted upon by the toe of the
pusher, said finger, in the descent of the pusher with a filling carrier, extending
over one side wall of and entering the chamber of the shuttle, the finger supporting
and guiding the tip or small end of the filling-carrier into the shuttle chamber.
The rotating filling-feeder has a connected ratchet actuated by a pawl on a pawl
carrier moved preferably by a stud or roll carried by the lay, a detent co-operating
with the ratchet to prevent retrograde motion thereof.
The movement of the pawl and pawl-carrier in the direction to turn the filling-
feeder forward, is effected by a spring.
The loom to be described has combined with it devices whereby, in case the
shuttle is not in correct position to receive a filling carrier, the pusher will not be
actuated.
This device consists essentially of a shuttle-feeler, which in case the shuttle is not
in proper position actuates the trip co-operating with the pusher, to put it into
such position that it cannot be struck by a bunter to operate the pusher.
The loom to be herein described has been provided with a chute mounted on a
pivoted support, adapted to be moved into and out of position by or through the
filling-fork mechanism, as will be described, so that said chute may be moved to
substantially meet the advancing lay at the time when the pusher is to act, or
is acting, to push one filling-carrier into and another filling-carrier out of the
shuttle.
In the loom represented in the Patent referred to, wherein a filling carrier is
supplied automatically to the shuttle to replace a filling-carrier from which the
filling has been exhausted, and wherein the filling of the newly supplied filling-
carrier is automatically threaded into the delivery eye of the shuttle, it sometimes
happens that the filling last inserted in the shuttle fails to be threaded into the
delivery-eye thereof at the first shot of the shuttle through the shed, and in such
event the filling-fork mechanism acts and causes the full filling carrier just put into
the shuttle to be ejected therefrom by the pusher before its thread has been at all
used, and the loon will continue to iun, and will, at every other pick, move the
pusher and take a filling-carrier from the hopper or other source of supply for
carriers and put it into the shuttle, this operation being continued until a filling
thread-carrier has been left in the shed in suitable position to tip the filling-fork,
and if the filling fork is not tipped by the filling, the operation will continue until
all of the filling-carriers have been taken from the hopper, and during such
operation no cloth will be woven.
So also the loom referred to will continue to run even after all the filling-carriers
bave been taken from the hopper, for the filling-fork mechanism, instead of acting
as in ordinary looms to effect the stopping of the loom when the filling fails in the
shed, is made instrumental only to determine the time at which the pusher shall be
actuated to put a filling-carrier into the shuttle.
In ordinary looms for weaving cotton cloth, whenever the filling fails, the filling-
fork is not tilted, and consequently the usual tail-piece of the filling-fork is caught
by the usual weft-hammer, and the weft-fork slide is moved outwardly or towards
the breast beam to effect the stopping of the loom through a knock-off lever
and usual controlling mechanism, of which there are many variations in use, all of
which operate in substantially the same manner, but in the Patent referred to the
filling fork performs an entirely different duty.

page_text: The loom to be herein described has been provided with appliances whereby the
filling fork mechanism not only controls the movement of the pusher, but also
effects, by its movements, the stopping of the loom under circumstances to be
hereinafter more fully described.
To effect this desirable result, a novel filling fork mechanism has been devised in
such manner that it is not made fully effective to stop the loom or operate the
knock-off lever thereof until after more than one action of the lay without filling
in the shed, the first failure of the filling-fork to be tilted by the pressure of the
filling against it, being utilized to effect a primary movement of the filling-fork,
sufficient however, to put into position certain parts upon which depend the
movement of the pusher.
In case however the filling should fail at one shot, and the filling-carrier should
be inserted into the shuttle and the filling from such carrier, when the shuttle is
thrown across a shed, should fail to be left opposite the filling-'ork, then the filling-
fork, for the second time will not be tilted, and the slide bar carrying the fork will
be given an additional or secondary movement sufficient to knock off or stop the
locm; but in case the filling from the newly supplied filling-carrier last inserted in
the shuttle should be presented in position to tilt the filling fork, then the move-
ment of the filling-hammer will restore the filling-fork mechanism into its normal
position and enable the loom to continue running.
To effect this result the filling fork slide has been provided with what is termed
a latch," said latch being adapted to be set at that outward movement of the
filling-fork slide which is affected by the absence of filling at the filling-fork, such
movement being used to indicate that the pusher must act to put another filling
carrier into the shuttle, and if the shuttle, it having received another filling
carrier, fails at the next shot to leave filling in front of the filling-fork, then said
latch effects the knocking off of the loom to stop the same; but if the shuttle, it
having received a fresh supply of filling,-leaves the filling to meet the filling fork,
then the said latch will be restored automatically into its normal position.
In this instance of my invention, the filling hammer is employed to restore the
latch to its normal position.
This invention, therefore, comprehends broadly, providing a loom having a
pusher to put a filling-carrier into a shuttle in a shuttle-box, with a stop motion,
whereby, when the shuttle is not in proper position in the shuttle-box to receive a
filling-carrier, the pusher cannot be operated.
One part of this invention consists in the use in a loom containing a lay, a
shuttle-box, a shuttle therein slotted for the passage into and through it of a filling
carrier by the action of a pusher, of a filling-feeder having means to engage and
positively hold both ends of a series of filling-carriers arranged substantially
parallel each to the other, said feeder being moved intermittingly to bring one after
another of the series of filling carriers contained therein into position between the
pusher and the shuttle in the shuttle-box, so that the pusher when moved is made
to transfer a filling-carrier from the feeder into the shuttle in the shuttle-box, the
incoming filling-carrier acting upon a filling-carrier then in the shuttle to eject the
same therefrom.
Also, in the use in a loom having a lay, a shuttle-box, and a pusher, of a filling
feeder having an intermitting rotary motion and adapted to place one filling
carrier after another carried by it between the said pusher and a shuttle in the said
shuttle-box.
Also, in the use in a loom, of a rotating filling feeder provided with pockets or
notches for the reception of the heads of a series of filling-carriers, said fee.ler
having co-operating with it a guard which serves to prevent the escape of filling-
carriers therefrom except at the proper point where the said guard is omitted.
Also in the use with a rotatable filling-feeder having a series of pockets or
notches to receive the heads of a series of filling-carriers, of a stop, against which
the filling-carrier next to be removed from the feeder rests.
Also in the use in a loom, of a rotating filling-feeder composed of a plate

page_text: having a series of pockets or notches to receive the heads of a series of filling
carriers, and a plate having a series of holders for the tips or small ends of said
filling-carriers.
Also in the use in a loom, of a circularly moving filling feeder adapted to receive
and hold both the heads and small or tip ends of a series of filling-carriers, of a
circularly moving filling end-support.
Also in the use in a loom of a circularly moving filling-feeder having appliances
to receive and hold both the heads and tips of a series of filling-carriers, of a pusher
adapted to act on the filling-carriers at or near both ends in ejecting the latter from
the filling feeder.
Also, in the use in a loom having a circularly moving filling-feeder, and a pusher
adapted to act upon the filling-carriers held therein at both ends to remove them
fiom said feeder, of a locking device co-operating with said feeder to restrain its
rotation during the time that the pusher is acting to remove a filling-carrier
therefrom.
Also, in the use in a loom having a sliding filling fork pivoted in a carrying-
slide, and a knock-off lever to release a shipper-handle, of a latch mounted on said
slide, a latch actuating device or wedge to act against and move the latch upon a
first failure of filling at the filling-fork, the said latch engaging the usual
knock-off lever, however, only after a second failure of the weft at the filling-
fork.
Also, in the use in a loom having a shipper-handle, a holding device therefor, a
filling tork, a carrying-slide on which the fork is pivoted, a latch pivoted on said
slide, of an independent actuating device or wedge to act against and lift the latch
upon a first failure of filling at the filling-fork, a knock-off lever adapted to be
turned by the action of the positioned latch on a second failure of filling at the
filling-fork, and a hammer device adapted to engage the filling-fork tail-piece when
not tilted to thus move the filling-fork carrying-slide, and to also act to restore the
latch to its first or normal position when the filling-fork is tilted by filling as the
hammer is being moved towards the breast-beam.
Also in the use in a loom adapted to automatically supply a shuttle with a filling-
carrier while the shuttle is in the shuttle-box, of the following instrumentalities
viz.a lay having a shuttle box provided with an opening for the discharge of a
filling carrier through it from the shuttle therein, the latter being slotted in such
manner as to let a filling-carrier be passed into it at one side and out at another
side, a pusher to push a filling-carrier into the shuttle from a suitable filling-feeder,
a trip device co-operating with the pusher and adapted to be struck by a buuter as
the lay is moving toward the breast-beam, a knock-off lever, a filling fork pivoted
upon a movable carrying slide, a latch also mounted on said slule and movable
therewith toward and from said knock-off lever, a device to positively move said
latch upon or with relation to said slide, a rock-shaft, and connecting devices
between said slide and said rock-shaft and between said rock-shaft and said trip,
whereby at the first outward movement of the filling-fork slide after the tailure of
the filling to tilt the filling fork, the said latch will be turned but will not cause
the knock-off lever to be moved to stop the loom, the said slide in its said movement
effecting, however, the rocking of the said rock shaft sufficiently to cause it by its
connection with said trip to put the latter in operative pos tion to be struck and
effect the movement of the pusher whereby at a second outward movement of
said filling-tork slide by the absence of filling, as stated, the said latch will be made
to act and move the knock-off lever to effect the release of the latter and the
stopping of the loom.
Also, in the use with a lay having a shuttle-box slotted for the passage of a
filling carrier through it from a shuttle, of a yielding spring-controlled chute
supported entirely independent of the lay, and devices to move said chute toward
the lay, to conduct a filling-carrier away from the shuttle-box.
Also, in the use with a lay having an open shuttle-box for the discharge through
it of a filling-carrier, of a rod under the control of a filling-fork; a chute, and

page_text: connecting devices between it and said rod, whereby when the filling fails, the
chute will be moved toward the lay and be put into position to conduct a filling-
carrier away from the shuttle-box.
Also, in the use with a lay having a shuttle box, open for the discharge of a
Silling-carrier, of a yielding chute supported independently of the lay and adapted
to be moved thereby for a part only of its forward stroke.
Also, in the use with a filling-feeder, and a co-operating pusher to transfer a
filling-carrier from said feeder into a shuttle in the shuttle-box of the lay, of
a yielding support or finger adapted to enter the shuttle-chamber and lie under and
guide the small or tip end of the filling carrier into position in the said shuttle-
chamber.
Al-o in the use in a loom having a lay provided with a shuttle-box slotted for
the
passage through it of a filling-carrier, and adapted to receive a shuttle slotted
also at two sides for the passage through it of a filling-carrier, of a pusher, a
bunter, a co-operating trip, and stop motion devices co-operating with said shuttle
to put said trip into its inoperative position when the shuttle to be supplied with a
filling-carrier is not in its proper position in the shuttle-box.
Also, in the use in a loom to automatically supply a shuttle with a filling carrier
while the shuttle is in the shuttle-box, of the following instrumentalities, viz. :-a
filling-fork, its slide, a pusher, a lay having a shuttle-box provided with a slot for
the passage outwardly therethrough of a filling carrier, a bunter, a trip interposed
between said pusher and bunter, and connecting devices between said trip and said
slide to ensure a movement or the pusher when the shuttle is in proper position in
the shuttle-box and filling is not presented to the filling-fork.
Also the use in a loom adapted to automatically supply a shuttle with filling, of
the following instrumentalities, viz. -a lay having a shuttle-box slotted for the
discharge of a filling-carrier, a shuttle therein slotted for the discharge through it
of a filling carrier, a pusher to push a filling carrier into said shuttle, a detector
mechanism operating in connection with the pusher to render the latter inoperative
when the shuttle is not in proper position to receive a filling-carrier.
Fig. 1 is a partial front elevation of a loom embodying the novel features of the
invention to be herein described, said loom being broken out centrally and also
broken away at its bottom to economise space upon the drawings.
Fig. 2 is a left-hand end elevation, with the filling end holder broken away to
better disclose the part of the filling-feeder beyond it, that portion of the filling
feeder which holds the tips or small end of the filling-carriers being also partially
broken away to represent some of the filling-carriers, together with the pusher, the
lay being in its extreme backward position.
Fig. 3, details in plan and end view of the pusher.
Fig. 4 is an inner side view of the guard co-operating with the filling-feeder.
Fig. 5 is an opposite side view of said guard, together with part of the mechanism
for effecting the step by step rotation of the filling-feeder.
Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section through the loo near the filling fork
mechanism.
Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of the filling-feeder, its support and guard.
Fig. 8 is a view looking down upon the pusher, said figure shewing part of the
filling-feeder and the guard referred to.
Fig. 9 is a detail shewing part of the lay, part of the pusher and shuttle-
feeler.
Fig. 9 is a detail shewing the parts represented in Fig. 9 as they will stand
when the lay is fully away from the breast-beam and the parts working properly.
Fig. 10, a similar view with the parts in a yet different position.
Fig. 11 is a top or plan view shewing the shuttle-box at one end with the shuttle
therein, said figure also shewing the shuttle feeler in the position it will occupy
when the lay is on its back stroke away from the fell, the figure also shewing the
pawl-carrier for moving the filling-feeder and part of the lay, and the chute
referred to.

page_text: and the finger for aiding in controlling the correct entrance of a filling-carrier into
the shuttle, the said devices being in different operative positions.
Fig. 15 is a vertical front elevation of the chute referred to said chute being
shewn in section in Fig. 12.
Fig. 16 is a detail of a slotted arm partially represented in Figs. 12 and 15.
Figs. 17 to 21 inclusive illustrate the filling-fork mechanism in different
positions.
Figs. 22 and 23 shew detached the opposite end plates of the bobbin-feeder on a
larger scale.
The framework A is and may be of any usual or suitable shape to support the
working parts, it having suitable bearings for a main or cam shaft A¹ rotated in
any suitable manner, said shaft having an attached gear A2 which engages a
gear A³ on and which rotates the usual crank shaft A', joined by suitable con-
necting rods A' with the lay A, said lay, in practice, having a suitable reed a, and
having at its opposite ends suitable shuttle-boxes provided with usual binders, one of
said shuttle-boxes having its bottom cut away or removed to form a passage for the
filling-carrier from the shuttle, said opening in the shuttle-box being, however, of
such size as not to permit the passage of the shuttle therethrough, substantially as
provided for in said Patent.
The shuttle S, shewn best in Figs. 1 and 11, is a self-threading shuttle,
substantially such as fully described in said Patent and designated by like letter, it
having a suitable slot leading to its delivery-eye, as herein provided for, whereby,
when a filling-carrier has been automatically put into a shuttle in a shuttle-box, the
shuttle, in its flight, will effect the automatic threading of the filling into the shuttle-
delivery eye.
The breast beam B of the lay has erected upon it a suitable stand B', having as
part of it, a guard plate B having a laterally extended flange B³, see Figs. 1 and 4
which serves to partially encircle the large or base ends, in this instance of this
invention, of the filling carriers said flange terminating, see Fig. 4, near a stop a',
against which normally rests, as best shewn in Fig. 2, that one of the series of
filling-carriers a³ which is next to be removed automatically from the filling-feeder
to be described, the flange and stop being so located as to leave a throat or passage
between them for the filling-carrier.
It is preferable that one side of this passage yield somewhat, and to effect this,
there is attached to the flange referred to, by bolts a', a spring aº, the end of which
projects slightly beyond the end of the flange to thus constitute a yielding support,
against which the filling-feeder acts in going out through the said throat.
The guard or upright circular plate B3 supports a stud B shewn best in Figs. 4,
5 and 7, said stud being held in place by the nut B³.
The stud B serves as a support for the bobbin-feeder, it having, as herein
represented, an intermitting rotary movement, and being composed essentially of
two heads or plates d, d*, see Figs. 7, 21 and 22 the plate il having a hollow
hub d' which near its outer end has a contracted sleeve-like extension portion d³,
a hollow hub portion of the disc or plate d fitting the extension d³ and being
secured thereto by a suitable set screw d².
The sleeve d² has attached to it a key do which enters an annular groove in the
stud B, said key preventing the bobbin feeder from sliding off the stud, but
permitting its rotation thereon freely.
The extension d³ supports the hub of a filling-end holder having preferably a
series of notches or shoulders, as best shewn in Fig. 2, over which is passed the
filling coming from a series of filling-carriers in the hopper, the free ends of the
filling being secured to a suitable button or device d' see Fig. 7 occupying a
position substantially at the centre of rotation of the filling-feeder, and it will be
seen that the filling-feeder may be rotated without in any way straining the filling
or unwinding the same, and consequently the ends of the filling cannot become
tangled together.

page_text: The line of section for Fig. 7 is shewn at r in Fig. 5.
My correspondent has for the first devised an apparatus for positively bringing
each filling-carrier under the pusher, said apparatus being designated as a
"filling
feeder," it receiving and supporting said filling-carriers independently and holding
them separately at one or both ends.
The plate d of the bobbin-feeder has in it a series of open notches d³, see Fig. 22
into which, as herein represented, enter loosely the large ends of the filling-carriers
represented as bobbins, said ends entering under the flange B of the plate B³ the
latter preventing their accidental escape except at the proper point, as before
described.
The plate also, see Fig. 23, has a series of notches into which fit loosely
the tip or small ends of the filling-carriers, and as herein shewn, each filling-carrier
is acted upon at that end frictionally by a suitable spring or other arm do held in
place by a suitable screw d", the notches in the two plates corresponding in
number and being substantially opposite, so that the filling-carriers are engaged
at or near each end separately, and are moved intermittingly forward without
friction or rubbing of one against the other, so that each one may be pushed
out of the filling-feeder without displacing the one behind it, the filling-carrier
behind the one taken from the filling feeder after the operation of the pusher,
being put against the stop a' by means of the spring a one end of which is fixe l
with relation to the stand B2 or the stud B', the other end serving to actuate the
pawl-carrier c provided with a spring pressed pawl which engages the ratchet
teeth cut onto a part of or attached to the plate d, said spring moving said
pawl-carrier in a direction to effect the rotation of the filling-feeder in the
direction of the arrows shewn in Figs. 2 and 5, or in its forward direction, the
paul carrier and pawl being moved in an opposite direction by contact with a
roller or other stud carried by the lay, and during the backward movement of
the lay away from the fell the pawl c¹ is clicked over the ratchet teeth referred
to, a spring-controlled detent c', shewn best in Fig. 5, preventing backward move-
ment of the filling feeder.
The stand B referred to has a suitable bearing D¹ for a stud B', which stud
is substantially the same as that represented in said Patent, except as to its length,
it serving as a pivotal support for the pusher B, slightly modified in construction
from the pusher shewn in the said Patent, one arm of the pusher having pivoted
upon it, at C, a suitable trip C¹ to be described.
The pusher B contains a heel e which contacts with the filling-carrier at or
near the plate d, and said pusher has a finger e¹, preferably notched at its end,
as best represented in Figs. 12 to 14, to embrace and act upon the tip or small end
of the filling-carrier, so that both ends of the filling-carrier are started in proper
manner from the position in which they are held in the filling-feeder.
The hub of the pusher, see Fig. 3, is surrounded see Fig. 8, by a suitable
spring e, one end of which is connected to the pusher arm, and the other eni is
fast to a collar suitably fixed to the stud B, said spring normally acting to keep
the pusher elevated.
The stud B has mounted upon its outer or free end an arm & having a suitable
bearing to receive a short shaft e7 on which is fixed the tip directing finger es,
said finger being normally held up in the position represented in Fig. 12 by means
of a spring e, shewn by dotted lines Fig. 8, and surrounding the shaft e².
When the pusher acts upon a filling-carrier held in the filling-feeder to push the
same therefrom into the open side of the shuttle S below it in the shuttle-box, the
filling-carrier will strike the finger es, as represented in Fig. 13, and, in the further
movement of the pusher, the finger will he tipped down by or through the action
of the filling-carrier against it, and will partially enter the shuttle, so that the
finger acts somewhat as a guide and aids in steadying and guiding the tip or small
end of the filling carrier into position in the shuttle.
After the filling carrier a gets into the shuttle cavity to be there held, as
provided for in said Patent, the pusher begins to rise and the lay begins to retira

page_text: from the breast-beam, the shuttle going with it and consequently being carried by
it bodily away from the end of the tip-supporting device, letting the latter rise
under the action of spring into its normal position shewn in Fig. 2 where it
will stop at or below the tip of the next filling-carrier to be taken from the
filling-feeder, the projection e¹ of the finger then meeting a suitable stop e¹ on the
arme.
As the filling-carrier, shewn in Fig. 13, enters the shuttle it acts against the
filling-carrier then in the shuttle and ejects the same through the shuttle at a
point opposite that at which it entered, the filling carrier so ejected passing on
through a slot or opening t, t, see Figs. 9 and 10, made for that purpose in the
shuttle-box.
When the filling-carrier is so discharged from the shuttle in the shuttle-box, it
is necessary to keep the filling carrier out of the path of movement of the picker-
stick, and to ensure this a chute f has been provided, it having given to it a
movement toward the advancing lay just before the pusher is operated, and the
lav thereafter, in its further forward movement, during the final ejection of a
filling carrier. carries the chute with it.
The chute, preferably of sheet metal, is shewn as bolted to an arm f¹ pivoted
on a stud suitably supported at the leom side, see Fig. 15, said arm having
co-operating with it a spiral spring f³ which acts normally to turn the upper end
of said chute toward the lay, the extent of the movement of the chute by said
spring being, however controlled by a finger f, which contacts with one edge of
an arm also mounted loosely on the study and having a cam slot f which
receives in it a pin or projection 8 extended from the arm f fast on the rock-
shaft d' common to said Patent, said pin or projection determining the extent of
movement of arm toward the lay.
Normally when the piu f is in the lower end of the slot f the upper end of the
chute, through the action of spring f³, stands sufficiently far in front of the lay when
the usual reed carried by the lay beats in the filling, but as soon as the weft fails
and the shaft d¹ is rocked by the outward movement of the weft fork slide, the
arm is moved slightly and the pin 8 at its end, moving in slot fo, turns the chute
toward the lay to be met and struck thereby as the latter is moving forward, the
chute with its edge resting against the lay just below the slot in the shuttle-box
retaining its contact with the lay as the latter continues its movement toward the
breast-beam, the arm carrying the chute, turning at such time on the stud f, the
spring yielding for that purpose.
It will therefore be understood that whenever a filling carrier is to be ejected from
the shuttle through the slot in the bottom thereof and through the slot in the
shuttle-box, said chute preparatory to the ejection of the filling-carrier will contact
with the lay and form a bridge below the shuttle-box on which the filling-carrier
may drop and be unerringly conducted away from the lay.
The lay as herein shewo, has attached to it at its front side a bunter C2 which
corresponds with the bunter marked with like letter in said Patent.
The trip C pivoted upon one arm of the pusher at C, is herein represented as
made in two parts, so that by means of a screw g it may be adjusted as to its length
by sliding one part on the other so as to control with greater accuracy just the
proper extent of throw for the pusher in the operation of putting the filling-carrier
into the shuttle, the object being to leave it in substantially central position in the
shuttle.
One part of this trip has pivotally connected to it a hollow sleeve g¹ which is free
to slide on or with relation to an arm 92, the hub of which is attached to a short
shaft extended through a suitable bearing in a stand 9', attached to the loom side,
said shaft having also connected to it an arm 9" having a depending portion gⓇ on which
is pivoted at g an arm 9, a suitable sliding rod or bolt g' surrounded by a spring g
being passed loosely through a hole in said arm g' and said depending portion g°,
the stress of the spring being controlled by a suitable nut 910 a socket of arm
receiving the shuttle-feeder 10.

page_text: The rock-shaft d', before referred to, has attached to it a suitable projection /¹
see Fig. 1 to which is connected a spring h² fixed in some suitable manner to the
loom, said spring normally acting to keep the arm f' down in the position shewn in
Fig. 2, and also to keep down an arm A, having a lateral pin or projection, which
is extended between the arm g' and the shuttle feeler 410, said projection normally
bearing against the rear side of the shuttle-feeler, as best represented in
Fig. 9A.
When the filling thread breaks, or is absent from the shed the filling fork will be
moved toward the front of the loom through connections to be described, and will
turn the rock shaft d¹ in a direction to raise the arm * from its position
Figs. 2 and 9 into the position Fig. 9, causing said arm to act on the arm g' and
turn it, and through the hub g turn the shaft g³, causing the arın 92, acting in the
sleeve g¹, to turn the trip from the position Fig. 1 into the position Fig. 9, so that
when the lay a moves forward toward the breast beam with the buuter C2 attached
thereto it will meet the trip, as in Fig. 9, and as the lay continues its movement
toward the breast beam, the pusher will be actuated to remove a filling-carrier fron
the filling-feeder into the shuttle.
In case, however, the shuttle should not be properly lodged in the shuttle-hox 80
that the opening therein is not located properly to receive the filling-carrier, then
the shuttle-feeler will meet the shuttle, as represented in Fig. 10, and said shuttle-
feeler will be pushed with the lay toward the breast beam and will turn the shaft g³
back in the opposite direction, causing the arm g' to quickly turn the trip down into
the position Fig. 10, and the pusher will not be operated; and during such move-
ment the arm g is arrested and the spring 98 is put under pressure, and thereafter,
when the filling fork operates properly, the arm is lowered from its position
Fig. 10, and the spring 98 operates to move the arm g³ into its normal position
Fig. 2.
The filling fork mechanism
peculiar and of novel construction, it being specially
adapted for use in a loom of the class described.
I have herein referred to the devices co-operating with the filling-fork, whereby
the pusher will not be actuated by the absence-for one beat of the lay-of the
filling from the shed, this part of my invention being shewn in Figs. 1, 6, and 17
to 21.
.At that side of the loom farthest from the pusher and nearest the usual shipper-
handle H, which in practice, may be the same as in the said Patent, and may,
through usual belt shipping mechanism, control the position of the driving belt H' and
keep the same either on the fast or loose pulleys L, L', as desired, there is pivoted
at m a knock off lever m', see Figs. 1, 17 and 18, said lever resting normally against
or close to the shipper-lever, its free end being located in such position as to be
acted upon by the filling fork mechanism when the shipper-handle is to be released
from the usual holding notch, in the usual notched plate m².
a
The breast beam B has mounted upon it by a screw m³ a stand m having
suitable guideway m* in which is adapted to be reciprocated a slide m' upon which
is pivoted at m a filling fork m', said fork having a tail-piece m³, represented as a
loop, which is adapted to be engaged by a hook m³ pivoted at m10 upon the upper
end of the filling hammer m" pivoted at m" and having attached to and forming
part of it au arm m, which, in practice, is acted upon at each beat of the lay by a
cam m, shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6, fast on the cam shaft A', said hook lying
loosely upon and sliding backward and forward horizontally on a rest me, and
whenever, by absence of filling in the shed the filling-fork is not tipped by the lay
in its forward movement toward the breast beam, the hook m³, as it is moved
positively backward by the cam m, is made to engage the tail-piece, and, through
the filling-fork move the slide m' upon which it is pivoted toward the front of
the loom.
'To prevent the filling-fork from jumping, it is preferred to employ with it a check
device, as mit being represented as a loop of metal pivoted at m on the slide m³,

page_text: said check normally keeping the depending arms of the filling-fork in operative
position.
At its outer end at the front of the loom the slide m³ has a projection m¹, against
which normally acts a lever mo pivoted at m² on the loom side, said lever being
herein shewn as joined by a link m with an arm m on the rock-shaft d¹ before
described, the normal condition of said lever m20 and said rock-shaft when the loom
is weaving regularly being as represented in Fig. 17, the spring h³ referred to' and
shown in Fig. 1, keeping the rock-shaft and the lever m20 in the positions shewn in
Fig. 17.
The filling-fork slide has pivoted upon it, at n, a latch n¹ having its under side a
Jump n², of cam shape, the free end of said latch being represented as turned
downwardly so that it may, when in its lowest position, meet and act upon the
lever m³, shown in section in Figs. 17 and 18, to move said lever and release the
shipper handle H.
The filling-fork slide m³ has a suitable space for the reception of a wedge n³, the
shape of which is best shewn in Fig. 19, it having a cam or lump to co-operate with
the cam or lump on the latch n.
The end of the wedge nearest the filling-hammer m¹ is represented as turned
upwardly while the opposite end of the wedge is turned downwardly, see Fig. 19,
the down turned end meeting, under conditions to be hereinafter described, a
shoulder n forming part of the stand m' said shoulder being projected upwardly
sufficiently to be engaged at its opposite side by a hook m¹ when the filling-fork
occupies its position farthest from the breast beam toward the lay, as shewn in
Fig. 19.
In practice, the filling-fork mechanism will normally stand in the position shown
in Fig. 17.
Now, if, in the operation of the loom, the filling is laid in the shed so as to meet
and tilt the filling-fork, the hook m³ connected with the filling hammer, will be
moved to the right, from the position Figs. 17 and 19, and back without engaging
the tail me of the filling-fork, and consequently the slide mo will not be pulled
outwardly with relation to the breast beam.
When the tail of the filling-fork is lifted it acts against the check, and when the
lay recedes from the breast beam the check puts the filling-fork in its normal
position.
In case the filling-fork is not tilted by the filling, as it will not be if the filling is
not in the shed opposite the fork when the lay is moved forward toward the breast
beam, then the hook m³ as it is moved toward the front of the loom will catch the
tail piece and draw the slide m³ with it, and the downturned end of the wedge n³
will meet the shoulder n of the stand, as in Fig. 19, thus stopping said wedge and
letting the cam lump of the latch n¹ pass the lump on the wedge, which will
permit the outer downturned end of the latch n' to drop, as shewn in Fig. 18, upon
the knock-off lever m¹.
During this first outward movement of the filling-fork slide, due to the absence of
filling opposite the filling-fork, the lever m20 will be turned into its position Fig. 18,
and the rock-shaft d will be rocked to elevate the arm , before described,
attached to its opposite end, from the position Fig. 2 into the position Fig. 9, to
effect the elevation of the trip C', causing, as hereinbefore stated, the pusher to be
actuated, to put a filling-carrier in the shuttle if in its proper position in the
shuttle-box.
Assuming that the shuttle has been autoinatically provided with a filling-carrier,
and that the same has been thrown through the shed and the filling left opposite
the filling-fork, then the lay in its next forward movement toward the breast beam
-the filling being present-will meet and tilt the filling-fork, and the filling-
hammer will be moved forward and back in usual manner, but the hook m',-the
filling-fork having been tilted, cannot engage the tail-piece m³, and as the upper
end of the filling-fork completes its movement toward the breast beam it will strike

page_text: the inner end of the wedge n' and move it from the position Fig. 20, longitudinally
toward the front of the loom, so that its lump, acting on the cam or lump of the
latch n', will move said latch into the position Fig. 17 and away from the lever m',
which is its normal position.
It will be remembered that when the slide me was given its first outward
movement, as before described, the latch n¹ was moved upon the knock-off lever m',
as in Fig. 18, and immediately thereafter as the upper end of the filling-hammer
was moved toward the centre of the loom, the spring referred to, co-operating
with the rock-shaft caused the lever mo to push the slide inwardly toward the lay
far enough to let the latch fall behind the knock off lever as in Fig. 20.
On the contrary, however, should the shuttle-it having been resupplied with the
filling-carrier, be thrown through the shed and not leave filling opposite the filling
fork when the latter is in the position Fig. 18, then the filling-fork will not be
tilted and the hook m' will first move forward and, as it comes back toward the
breast beam will engage the tail-piece of the filling-fork and will draw back with
it a second time the filling-fork slide, causing the down-turned end of the latch n',
which, during the forward movement of the hook, had dropped behind the knock-off
lever, as in Fig. 20 to act against said knock-off lever and move it in a direction to
push against the shipper-handle H and disengage it from the holding notch in the
plate m and effect the stopping of the loom in usual manner.
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. The combination and use in a loom containing a lay, a shuttle-box, a shuttle
therein slotted for the passage into and through it of a filling-carrier by the action
of a pusher, of a filling-feeder having means to engage and positively hold both
ends of a series of filling-carriers arranged substantially parallel each to the other,
said feeder being moved intermittingly to bring one after another of the series of
filling-carriers contained therein into position between the pusher and the shuttle
in the shuttle-box, so that the pusher when moved is made to transfer a filling-
carrier from the feeder into the shuttle in the shuttle-box, the incoming filling-
carrier acting upon a filling-carrier then in the shuttle to eject the same therefrom
substantially as set forth.
2. The combination and use in a loom having a lay, a shuttle-box, and a pusher, of
a filling-feeder having an intermitting rotary motion and adapted to place one
filling-carrier after another carried by it between the said pusher and a shuttle in
the said shuttle-box substantially as set forth.
3. The construction and use in a loom, of a rotating filling-feeder provided
with pockets or notches for the reception of the heads of a series of filling-carriers,
said feeder having co-operating with it a guard which serves to prevent the escape
of filling-carriers therefrom except at the proper point where the said guard is
omitted as set forth.
4. The use with a rotatable filling-feeder having a series of pockets or notches to
receive the heads of a series of filling-carriers, of a stop, against which the filling-
carrier next to be removed from the feeder rests as set forth.
5. The use in a loom, of a rotating filling-feeder composed of a plate having a
series of pockets or notches to receive the heads of a series of filling-carriers, and a
plate having a series of holders for the tips or small ends of said filling-carriers
substantially as set forth.
6. The use in a loom, of a circularly moving filling-feeder adapted to receive
and hold both the heads and small or tip ends of a series of filling-carriers, of a
circularly moving filling end-support substantially as set forth.
7. The use in a loom of a circularly moving filling-feeder having appliances to
receive and hold both the heads and tips of a series of filling carriers, of a pusher
adapter to act on the filling-carriers at or near both ends in ejecting the latter from
the filling-feeder substantially as set forth.

page_text: 8. The use in a loom having a circularly moving filling-feeder, and a pusher
adapted to act upon the filling-carriers held therein at both ends to remove them
from said feeder, of a locking device co-operating with said feeder to restrain its
rotation during the time that the pusher is acting to remove a filling-carrier there
from substantially as set forth.
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9. The use in a loom having a sliding filling-fork pivoted in a carrying slide,
and a knock-off lever to release a shipper-handle, of a latch mounted on said slide,
a latch actuating device or wedge to act against and move the latch upon a first
failure of filling at the filling-fork, the said latch engaging the usual knock-off
lever, however, only after a second failure of the weft at the filling-fork
substantially as set forth.
10. The combination and use in a loom having a shipper-handle, a holding
device therefor, a filling-fork, a carrying-slide on which the fork is pivoted, a
latch pivoted on said slide of an independent actuating device or wedge to act
against and lift the latch upon a first failure of filling at the filling-fork, a knock-
off lever adapted to be turned by the action of the positioned latch on a second
failure of filling at the filling-fork, and a hammer device adapted to engage the
filling-fork tail-piece when not tilted to thus move the filling-fork carrying-slide,
and to also act to restore the latch to its first or normal position when the filling-
fork is tilted by filling as the hammer is being moved towards the breast-beam
substantially as set forth.
11. The combination and use in a loom adapted to automatically supply a
shuttle with a filling-carrier while the shuttle is in the shuttle-box, of the following
instrumentalities, viz. ;-a lay having a shuttle-box provided with an opening for
the discharge of a filling-carrier through it from the shuttle therein, the latter
being slotted in such manner as to let a filling-carrier be passed into it at one
side and out at another side, a pusher to push a filling-carrier into the shuttle
from a suitable filling-feeder, a trip device co-operating with the pusher and
adapted to be struck by a bunter as the lay is moving toward the breast-beam, a
knock-off lever, a filling-fork pivoted upon a movable carrying slide, a latch also
mounted on said slide and movable therewith toward and from said knock-off
lever, a device to positively move said latch upon or with relation to said slide,
a rock-shaft, and connecting devices between said slide and said rock-shaft and
between said rock-shaft and said trip, whereby at the first outward movement of
the filling-fork slide after the failure of the filling to tilt the filling-fork, the said
latch will be turned but will not cause the knock-off lever to be moved to stop
the loom, the said slide in its said movement effecting, however, the rocking of the
said rock-shaft sufficiently to cause it by its connection with said trip to put the
latter in operative position to be struck and effect the movement of the pusher
whereby at a second outward movement of said filling-fork slide by the absence
of filling, as stated, the said latch will be made to act and move the knock-off
lever to effect the release of the latter and the stopping of the loom substantially
as set forth.
12. The combination and use with a lay having a shuttle-box slotted for the
yielding spring-
passage of a filling-carrier through it from a shuttle, of a
controlled chute supported entirely independent of the lay, and devices to move
said chute toward the lay, to conduct a filling-carrier away from the shuttle-box
substantially as set forth.
13. The combination and use with a lay having an open shuttle-box for the
discharge through it of a filling-carrier, of a rod under the control of a filling
fork, a chute, and connecting devices between it and said rod, whereby when the
filling fails, the chute will be moved toward the lay and be put into position to
conduct a filling-carrier away from the shuttle-box substantially as set forth.
14. The combination and use with a lay having a shuttle-box, open for the
discharge of a filling-carrier, of a yielding chute supported independently of the
lay and adapted to be moved thereby for a part only of its forward stroke
substantially as set forth.

page_text: 15. The combination and use with a filling-feeder, and a co-operating pusher to
transfer a filling-carrier from said feeder into a shuttle in the shuttle-box of the
lay, of a yielding support or finger adapted to enter the shuttle-chamber and lie
under and guide the small or tip end of the filling carrier into position in the
said shuttle-chamber substantially as set forth.
16. The combination and use in a loom having a lay provided with a shuttle-box
slotted for the passage through it of a filling-carrier, and adapted to receive a
shuttle slotted also at two sides for the passage through it of a filling-carrier, of
a pusher, a bunter, co-operating trip, and stop motion devices co-operating with
said shuttle to put said trip into its inoperative position when the shuttle to be
supplied with a filling-carrier is not in its proper position in the shuttle-box,
substantially as set forth.
17. The combination and use in a loom to automatically supply a shuttle with
a filling-carrier while the shuttle is in the shuttle-box, of the following instru-
mentalities, viz. ;-a filling-fork, its slide, a pusher, a lay having a shuttle-box
provided with a slot for the passage outwardly therethrough of a filling-carrier,
a bunter, a trip interposed between said pusher and bunter, and connecting
devices between said trip and said slide to ensure a movement of the pusher when
the shuttle is in proper position in the shuttle-box and filling is not presented to
the filling-fork substantially as set forth.
18. The combination and use in a loom adapted to automatically supply a
shuttle with filling, of the following instrumentalities, z. ;—a lay having a
shuttle-box slotted for the discharge of a filling-carrier, a shuttle therein slotted
for the discharge through it of a filling-carrier, a pusher to push a filling carrier
into said shuttle, a detector mechanism operating in connection with the pusher to
render the latter inoperative when the shuttle is not in proper position to receive
a filling-carrier substantially as set forth.
19. The construction arrangement or combination and use of parts of a loom
for weaving whereby each filling or thread carrier of the series is brought
positively under the pusher, each filling or thread carrier being received and
supported independently by an intermittently operated filling-feeder said feeder
having a movement and construction such that the head and tip of the carrier
shall be correctly held and so that when the loom is running regularly it shall
stand with a filling carrier directly in line with the pusher substantially as set
forth.
20. The construction arrangement and use in a loom for weaving of devices
whereby, in case the shuttle is not in correct position to receive a filling carrier
the pusher will not be actuated substantially as set forth.
21. The construction arrangement and use in a loom for weaving of appliances
whereby the filling fork mechanism not only controls the movement of the
pusher but also effects by its movement, the stopping of the loom when derange-
ment of the normal conditions requires it substantially as set forth.
22. The construction arrangement or combination and use in a loom for weaving
having a pusher to push a filling carrier into a shuttle in a shuttle box, with a
stop motion, whereby, when the shuttle is not in proper position in the shuttle box
to receive a filling carrier, the pusher cannot be operated substantially as shewn and
described.
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WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.