Improvements in Picker Spindle Holders or Brackets, and in Picker Buffers of Looms for Weaving.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picker Spindle Holders or Brackets, and in Picker
Buffers of Looms for Weaving.
We, WILLIAM GOODFELLOW of Wood End, Barkisland, Loom Tuner, and
JOSEPH BARRON of Blackburn House, Barkisland Loom Tuner, both in the
County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as
follows:-
Our improvements relate in the first place to the picker spindle, holder, bracket
or stud, and in the construction of picker buffer employed in looms for weaving.
We preferably construct our improved spindle holder or bracket at one end of
the shuttle box, with a loose boss or holder having a screwed shank or neck which
passes through the bracket and is secured in position by nut and washer or by
other suitable meaus, by this means the spindle holders can easily be renewed when
worn out, without interfering with the bracket.
At the other end of the shuttle box, we employ an improved construction of
picker buffer consisting of a block of indiarubber or other similar elastic material
of any suitable section preferably dovetailed upon one side for attaching to a
suitable carrier upon the loom sword.
By using this buffer the noise arising from the working of the loom is greatly
lessened, besides causing great saving in the wear and tear of pickers, picking
straps, and the like, connected with the picking motion.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of January 1895.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Picker Spindle Holders or Brackets, and in Picker
Buffers of Looms for Weaving.
We WILLIAM GOODFELLOW of Wood End Barkisland, Loom Tuner and
JOSEPH BARRON of Blackburn House, Barkisland Loom Tuner, both in the
County of York, 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 :-
Our improvements relate in the first place to the picker spindle holder bracket
or stud, and in the second to an improved construction of picker buffer employed
in looms for weaving.

page_text: Fig. 5 is a front view of our improved picker buffer attached to the sley sword.'
Fig. 6 is a plan of Fig. 5.
We preferably construct or fix our improved spindle holder or bracket A see
Figs. 1. 3 and 4 at one end of the shuttle box H with a loose boss or holder B,
having a screwed shank or neck C which passes through the bracket and is secured
in position by nut and washer 'D, or by other suitable means; a slot E in the
bracket is for adjustment of the said bracket according to the position of the
picker.
By this means the spindle holders can be easily and readily renewed, when worn
out, without interfering with the bracket.
At the other end of the shuttle 'box H we employ an improved construction of
picker buffer, consisting of a block of india-rubber F or other similar elastic
material, of any suitable section, preferably round upon the face side, and dove-
tailed upon one side G for attaching or fitting within a similar recess within a
suitable carrier or bracket 'K, secured to the loom sword L, by nut and washer M.
The dovetail of the buffer (being longer than the recess in the bracket K)
projects from the said recess forming a space N between the head of the buffer
and the bracket which gives greater elasticity to the buffer and lessens the wear
and tear.
By using this buffer, the noise arising from the working of the loom is greatly
lessened, besides causing a great saving in the wear and tear of pickers, picking
straps, and the like connected with the picking motion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. Constructing the picker spindle holders of looms, with a loose .boss or holder B,
secured to the bracket A, in the manner and for the purposes, substantially as
shown and described.
2. Forming picker buffers of 'looms of a block of indiarubber or other elastic
material F, within a dovetailed or other recess J in a bracket or holder K, secured
to the sley sword in the manner and for the purposes substantially as shown and
described.
Dated, •
o September 1095.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicants.