Improvements in or connected with Loom Pickers.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by XAVIER DEPIERRE, of 40, Rue Pascal, Paris,
France, Engineer.]
Improvements in or connected with Loom Pickers.
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 pickers for looms and it has for its objects to increase
the effectiveness and durability of the pickers and to permit a shorter picking strap
to be employed.
Pickers are constructed according to these Improvements, each of one single piece.
of buffalo hide or similar material, in the substance of which the eye of the picker is
formed. The picker is connected to the picking strap by means of a metallic wire
loop which passes through a small hole in the picker below the eye, and through the
picking strap. It is preferred to form the wire connecting loop of a single piece of
wire doubled at its middle; the middle or bent part occupies the hole in the picker, .
whilst the two ends of the wire are passed through a hole in the picking strap and
are bent at about right angles in opposite directions.
ad this 01.
of Fabra D 1889
WILLIAM E. HEYS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Loom Pickers.
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 pickers for looms and it has for its objects to increase
the effectiveness and durability of the pickers and to permit a shorter picking strap
to be used.
Pickers are constructed according to these Improvements each of one single piece
of buffalo hide or similar material, in the substance of which the eye is formed during
the process of manufacture. The picker is connected to the picking strap by means
of a metallic wire loop which passes through a small hole in the picker and through
the picking strap, or it may be connected directly to the strap.
It is preferred to form the wire connecting loop of a single piece of wire doubled
at its middle; whilst the two ends of the wire are passed through a hole in the
picking strap and are bent at about right angles in opposite directions.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner these Improvements may be
In these drawings,
carried into practical effect and will be hereinafter referred to.
Figs. 1 and are elevations of the picker and Fig. 3 is an end view. The devices
for connecting the picker to the picking strap are represented in each of the
Figures.
In constructing the picker, a blank is first cut to the form which will be deter-
mined by the finished shape and dimensions of the picker, and the blank is wetted
and moulded to the desired form in a similar manner to that adopted in
manufacturing ordinary folded or coiled pickers. The shape of the blank will be
such that in a picker having the form represented in the drawings, the wings of
the blank will be folded over so as to meet for example along the line A A, the
upper edges of the wings will then be as indicated by the lines B. B. The upper

page_text: part of the blank is then folded forward around a mandril so that its free edge
meets the upper edges of the folded wings along the line B. The size of the
mandril will be determined by that of the picker spindle and in moulding the
picker the mandril acts as a core and secures the forination of the eye without
subsequent boring. The mould used is preferably shaped so as to produce the
flanges CC one at each end of the eye but if desired the eye may be of uniform
thickness throughout. To give greater strength and security to the picker the
folded parts may be connected together in the neck by means of strong transverse
staples DD, one of which may be advantageously placed above the hole or opening
through which the connection with the picking strap is made.
The picking strap is connected by passing the end of the strap through a slot
formed in the neck of the picker just below and transversely to the eye as shown in
Fig. 1 or preferably, by means of a wire link or loop E. The wire loop is bent at
or about its middle where it passes transversely through a small hole in the neck of
the picker just below the centre of its length as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3. The upper
ends of the wires may be passed through a slit G cut in the end of the picking
strap and are turned outwards so as to prevent its slipping out of the slit, or they
may be otherwise connected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
1 claim is ;-
(1) Pickers for looms constructed from a single piece of hide and having the eye
formed therein during the process of manufacture; substantially as hereinbefore
described.
(2) In pickers for looms; the combination and arrangement with pickers con-
structed as herein before described of a wire loop passing transversely through a small
hole in the neck of the picker and connected to the end of the picking strap ;
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 16th day of December A.D. 1889.
WILLIAM E. HEYS.