Improvements in and relating to Shuttles for Smallware Looms.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Shuttles for Smallware Looms.
I, WILLIAM HASSALL Brookfield Leek Staffordshire Silk Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows-
This invention relates to certain improvements 'in shuttles for smallware looms, for
weaving silk & cotton bindings and other trimmings the object being to so arrange
and shape the shuttle as to enable moro thread to be carried upon the spool than
is usual!
The cotton or thread is wound & carried upon a spool which is carried in the
shuttle which is cut away so as to give more capacity to same part of the groove
in the shuttle being formed of a removable metal plate which carries the regulating
mechanism of any well known construction such as a pivoted lever or arm controlled
by a spring said arm bearing upon the reel or spool of cotton.
Dated this 24th day of December 1896.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in and relating to Shuttles for Smallware Looms.
I, WILLIAM HASSALL Brookfield Leek Staffordshire Silk Manager, 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 certain improvements in shuttles for looms the object being
to so arrange and shape the shuttle as to enable more thread to be carried upon the
spool than is usual:
The cotton or thread is wound or carried upon a spool which is carried in the shuttle
which is cut away so as to give more capacity to same, part of the groove in the
shuttle being formed of a removable metal plate which carries the regulating mechanism
of any well known construction.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now refer to the annexed
drawings in which :-
Figure 1. is a side elevation of the shuttle.
Figure 2. end elevation of same.
Figure 3. plan view of plate carrying the spring regulator.
a is the spool which carries the cotton or thread; 6 being the spindle which carries
the spool a, said spindle being carried in the shuttle c. the shuttle is cut away at d
and the plate e which carries the spring regulator f & forms a bearing surface for
the slide which engages in the groove g. The plate e carries the spring regulator h
which bears upon the spool a and this plate e is secured to the shuttle e by any
convenient means such as screws shown by the dotted lines in Figures 1.& 2.
By this arrangement more cotton may be wound upon the spool a thun in the

page_text: ordinary way as the plate e is thinner than the ordinary wood part of the groove g.
The pivoted or hinged arm j is acted upon by the spring. k so as to bear upon the
spool a as the thread is unwound from same. The plate e may be readily removed
from the shuttle when required.
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 improved construction of shuttle substantially as described and illustrated
herein:
2. In shuttles of the class herein described, the use of a removable metal plate.
carrying the regulator mechanism for the purpose of giving greater capacity to. the
shuttle said removable metal plate being secured in position by screws or such suitable
meaus & forming part of the bearing surface or sides of a groove in said shuttle,
substantially as described and illustrated herein.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Con
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.