Improvements in Loom Shuttles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr.. 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1897
Improvements in Loom Shuttles.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to loom shuttles and consists in a tongue or spindle of special
construction which may be substituted for the ordinary tongue or spindle.
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A shuttle spindle constructed according to these improvements consists of a straight
rod screwed at one end into a rectangular or square part corresponding with the butt
end of an ordinary shuttle tongue. This butt end has a hole pierced through it by
means of which it may be secured in the shuttle by a pin in the usual manner.
convenient part in the length of the rod there is a collar or fixed abutment, and
between this and the butt there is a spiral spring. Between this spring and the butt
there is a buffer which may consist of a rubber ring, a separate spiral spring, or a
prolongation of the before mentioned spiral spring. Over the rod there may be
arranged a conical tube of sheet metal or other suitable material at the lower end of
which there is a flange interposed between the buffer and the spiral spring.
Some of the advantages following from the use of this special construction of
spindle or tongue are :-The shocks which the shuttle receives are not fully transmitted
to the weft therein. The collapse and breaking up of the cop are avoided. The cops
are easily drawn upon the conical tube and it follows that less risk of injury to it and
the cop tubes, where they are used, results. Less waste is made.
twist may be employed so as to produce a better covered cloth. And, a superior
production is obtained.
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WILLIAM E. HEYS.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, 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 loom shuttles and consists in the construction and in the
arrangement in the shuttle of an improved tongue in substitution for the ordinary
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page_text: I will describe my said invention, as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan;
Figure 2, a partial plan, shewing a modification; and
Figure 3, a sectional plan.
The basis of the improved tongue consists of a straight spindle B, screwed or
otherwise secured into the rectangular part B' which corresponds with the butt end of
an ordinary shuttle tongue. Through this butt end a hole is pierced through which
the tongue may be secured in the shuttle by a pin, in the usual manner. At a
convenient part of the spindle there is fixed a collar E or equivalent abutment
between which and the part B' there is arranged a spiral spring D. But there is
interposed, a washer A and a buffer which may consist of a rubber ring C,
"Figures 1 and 3, a separate spiral spring G, Figure 2, or a prolongation of the
spring D. Upon the washer A, and over the spindle B there is arranged a conical
tube T, constructed of tin plate, thin sheet metal or other suitable material, upon
which the cop or pirn is pushed when the shuttle is in use. The tube and washer
are integrally connected, so that the former is firmly held upon the spindle by the
spring Ď. The buffer C or G, prevents the transmission of sudden shocks to the
tongue proper, that is to say to the tube, and permits to it a certain freedom of
motion in a longitudinal direction.
Some of the advantages arising from the use of the special construction of shuttle
tongue are That the shocks endured by the shuttle are not fully transmitted to
the weft. That the collapse or breaking up of the cop is avoided. That the cops
may be easily drawn or pushed upon the tongue without torsion, whence it follows
'that there is less risk of injury. That weft having less twist may be employed thus
producing a better covered cloth. That finally less waste is made and a better
product is secured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A shuttle tongue constructed and arranged substantially as herein before described
and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
WILLIAM E. HEYS.