IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS FOR LOOMS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Fielden and Thomas Fielden both of Walsden
in the County of Lancaster, Picker Manufacturers for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS FOR LOOMS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Fielden and Thomas
Fielden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th February
1883.
ROBERT FIELDEN and THOMAS FIELDEN both of Walsden in the County of
Lancaster, Picker. Manufacturers "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PICKERS FOR LOOMS
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Our invention consists in certain improvements upon the invention for which
former Letters Patent were granted to us on the 22nd January 1870 N° 197 and
the object of our Invention is to secure the loose strip of buffalo hide or skin
which forms part of the foot of a picker by the outside covering piece of the
picker.
Our present improvements consist in so constructing a picker that after coiling
or folding up the piece of hide or skin into shape we insert a mandrel within it and
after the hide has been pressed this mandrel is drawn out and leaves a hole through
the folded piece of hide or skin. The partly formed picker is then bent to bring
both ends together and the loose strip of bide or skin above mentioned is inserted
into the holes in the ends and held by wires or otherwise.
This strip of bide is cut narrower where doubled in order to form the foot and
the outside covering of the picker is sliced down at the ends and then brought over
it and pressed in at the shoulder to prevent the piece of hide coming loose and the
ends of the covering piece are drawn up tight by pliers or otherwise.
We thus make a picker with a foot without cutting after it has been formed and
pressed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Robert Fielden and Thomas Fielden in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th August 1883.
ROBERT FIELDEN and THOMAS FIELDEN both of Walsden in the County of
Lancaster, Picker Manufacturers. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PICKERS FOR LOOMS
"
"
Our invention consists in certain improvements upon the Invention for which
former Letters Patent were granted to us on the 22nd January 1870. No 197 and
the object of our Invention is to secure the loose strip of buffalo hide or skin
which forms part of the foot of a picker by the outside covering piece of the 1
picker.
Our present improvements consist in so constructing a picker that after coiling
or folding up the piece of hido or skin into shape, we insert a mandrel within it and
after the hide has been pressed this mandrel is drawn out and leaves a hole through
the folded piece of hide or skin.
The partly formed picker is then bent to bring both ends together and the loose
strip of hide or skin above mentioned is inserted into the holes in the ends and held
by wires or otherwise.
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This strip of hide is cut narrower where doubled in order to form the foot and
the outside covering of the picker is sliced down at the ends and then brought over
it and pressed-in-at the shoulder to prevent the piece of hide coming loose and the
ends of the covering piece are drawn up tight by pliers or otherwise.
We thus make a picker with a foot without cutting after it has been formed and
pressed.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings reference
being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 represents a plan and Fig. 2 a side view of a mandrel. Fig. 3 is a plan.
and Fig. 4 a side view of the piece of hide or skin after it has been folded and the
mandrel inserted. Figs. 5 and 6 are detached views of the loose strip of hide or
skin which forms the foot of the picker. Figs. 7 and 8 represent the piece of hide
or skin partially bent into shape and with the strip of hide or skin inserted.
Figs. 9 and 10 show the piece of hide or skin after the ends have been drawn up
tightly. Figs. 11 and 12 represent the partially formed picker after the ends have
been pressed in at the shoulder to prevent the strip of hide or skin coming loose.
Fig. 13 is an end view. Fig. 14 a plan and Fig. 15 a side view of a finished picker
made according to our Improvements.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
The mode of operation is as follows:-
The piece of hide or skin a which forms the outside covering of the picker is
pared or sliced down at the ends a¹ before being coiled or folded up. When coiled
or folded up the mandrel b, shown in Figa 1 and 2 is inserted and the hide or skin a
subjected to pressure and the overlapping sides are fastened together by studs or
nails a. The mandrel b is then withdrawn leaving the piece of hide or skin a in
the form of a tube as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The tube a is then bent so as to
bring both ends together and the previously prepared strip c, cut narrower where
doubled as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, is inserted into the open ends of the tube as-
shown in Figs. 7 and 8. The ends a' of the piece of hide or skin a are then drawn
up tight by pliers or otherwise as shown in Figs. 9 and 10 and pressed in at the
shoulder and tightly down over the strip c forming the foot of the picker as shown

page_text: in Figs 11 and 12. The partially formed picker is then pressed into the required
form and finished as shown in Figs. 13, 14 and 15 and the strip o secured to the
tube a by wires d or otherwise
We thus make a picker without cutting the foot after it has been formed and
pressed.
The machinery for effecting these operations forms no part of our present
Invention.
Having stated the nature of our Invention and described the manner of performing
the same
We declare that we claim
The improvements in the construction of pickers for looms particularly the
mode of forming the foot of the picker substantially as herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Fielden for myself and on behalf of the
said Robert Fielden have hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day of August
in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
THOMAS FIELDEN (L.S.)