CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Todd, of Wheelton, in the County of Lancaster,
Spinner and Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
1.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Todd at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th December'
1862.
I, PETER TODD, of Wheelton, in the County of Lancaster, Spinner and
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to the "pickers" employed in power looms to strike
the shuttle across the loom, and consists in the combination of wood and
leather to form such pickers. The leather is the portion arranged to strike
the shuttle, and the wood is used as a foundation upon which to fix the
leather by means of wire or cement, by which combination the "leather tips"
may be renewed when required, the wood being more durable than leather,
thus the whole "picker" is not destroyed when the striking portion is worn
away, as in most instances. This arrangement also enables "scrap leather
to be employed in the formation of the picker ends.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Todd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
TODD, of Wheelton, in the County of Lancaster, Spinner and Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Peter Todd, Her special license that I, the said Peter
Todd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Peter Todd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Todd, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Todd, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
The Invention relates to the "pickers" employed in power looms to strike
the shuttle across the loom, and consists in the combination of wood and
leather to form such pickers. The leather is the portion arranged to strike
the shuttle, and the wood is used as a foundation upon which to fix the leather
by means of wire or cement, by which combination the "leather tips" may be
renewed when required, the wood being more durable than leather, thus the
whole "picker" is not destroyed when the striking portion is worn away, as
in most instances. This arrangement also enables "scrap leather" to be
employed in the formation of the picker ends.

page_text: In order that the Invention may be better understood, and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made about the
full size.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the "picker," shewing the junction and
combination of the wood with the leather; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of
the same; and Fig. 3 is a plan view.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the portion of the picker which is formed of wood, and
which is connected with the picking rod; and b, b, is the part made of leather,
and employed to strike the shuttle, such leather portion being firmly attached
to the foot, as shewn in Fig. 3, or they may be cemented together.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the novel use and combination of wood and leather in
the formation of pickers for looms for weaving, as herein-before described, set.
forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Todd, have hereunto set my.
hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.