Improvements in Weavers' Shuttles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weavers' Shuttles.
I EMERY HAWORTH of Number Fifty One Stanley Street in Nelson in the County
of Lancaster Out of Business do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
In the construction of Weavers Shuttles I use a metallic cage or frame inserted
in grooves cut in the wood of the shuttle and fastened therein by a wood or metal
pin. The frame is of such a width that the heel of the shuttle peg will fit tightly
into it, the front portion of the underside of the heel resting upon a metal cross
piece of the cage and the back portion of the top side of the heel also fitting
against a similar cross piece; and the shuttle peg is then fixed in the frame and
the shuttle by the usual centre pin and resting upon the usual spring. The sides
of the frame may be made the same depth as the heel of the shuttle peg with
holes made for the centre pin of the peg to pass through or the sides of the frame
may be made sufficiently low so as to allow the centre pin of the peg to pass over
them. It will be seen that the force of the shuttle spring acting on the under
side of the peg heel keeps it pressed against both the top and bottom cross bars
of the frame and thus effectually prevents the point of the shuttle peg from ever
getting below its proper level and will thus enable a weaver to run off the whole
of the cop which is now subject to many breakages and so save material and time
to the manufacturer and weaver and the simplicity durability and cheapness of this
improvement must commend it to all users of Weavers Shuttles.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1889.
EMERY HAWORTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weavers' Shuttles.
I EMERY HAWORTH of Fifty One Stanley Street in Nelson in the county of
Lancaster Out of Business do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This my Invention relates to an improved method of preventing the point of the
peg of a Weaver's Shuttle from getting below its proper level position in the
shuttle and to avoid or mitigate the wearing of the centre hole of the peg or
the pin or axle thereof by removing a great portion of the pressure on the pin or
axle of the peg and also to prevent the peg from oscillating by maintaining a firmer
hold of it than has hitherto been devised. In order to accomplish which I use in
the construction of shuttles a frame made of cast or cast malleable or forged iron or
other mettallic or hard and durable substance, and which said frame, is composed of
two flat sides (which may be hollowed out) with one flat cross bar attached to the
said sides on the top and back portion of the frame and a semicircular cross bar
attached to the said sides on the bottom and front portion of the said frame and which
is particularly delineated and shewn in Figure 4 in the Drawings accompanying this
Specification.
I insert the said frame in a groove cut in each side of the wood of the shuttle
and fastened or held therein by the centre pin or axle of the peg pressing against
the inside edges of the back portion of the hollow sides of the frame and also by the
hollow portion or cavity made on the underside of the front part of the shuttle peg
heel resting fitting and pressing on the semicircular cross bar as, shewn in the said
Drawings in Figure 1 and marked C and also in Figure 2 and marked B and so
D.

page_text: keeps the frame firmly fixed in its proper position. I also use a shuttle peg which
has a semicircular cavity made in the front portion of the underside of the heel
thereof to correspond with and fit on to the said semicircular cross har.
The frame is of such, a width that the heel of the shuttle peg must just fit therein,
the front or cavity portion of the underside of the heel resting fitting and pressing
on the semicircular cross bar of the frame, and the back portion of the upper or top
side of the heel also fitting and pressing against the underside of the upper cross bar
of the said frame by the force of the shuttle spring acting upon the back portion of
the underside of the heel of the shuttle peg, and which said peg is fixed in the
frame and shuttle by the usual centre pin or axle, and rests upon the usual spring.
The cross har on the top of the frame is made somewhat narrower than the semi-
circular cross bar at the bottom so as to permit the shuttle peg to be raised
sufficiently high out of the shuttle for the purpose of placing cops or spools thereon.
It will be seen that the force of the shuttle spring acting on the back portion of
the underside of the heel of the shuttle peg keeps the heel of the peg tightly fixed
and pressed both against the top and bottom cross bars of the frame and effectually
prevents any tendency of the point of the peg from getting below its proper level,
and which pressure of the spring coupled with the fixedness of the heel of the peg
in the frame and the hollow or cavity part of the said heel fitting and pressing on
to the semicircular cross bar also precludes the possibility of any lateral or oscil-
lating motion of the peg thus enabling the whole of a cop or spool to be run off
and save the time and material now consumed and wasted in repairing the many
breakages of the weft.
It will also be obvious that the pressure hitherto exerted by the shuttle spring
upon a metallic or wood centre pin or axle of the peg caused the pivot hole of the
peg to he worn much larger, or the pin or axle itself to bo worn very much smaller
and consequently permit the shuttle peg to shake and oscillate and also depress the
point of the peg is now removed as the pressure of the shuttle, spring instead of
being wholly spent as heretofore upon the axle of the peg is now distributed between
the upper surface of the semicircular cross bar and the under surface of the top cross
bar of the frame thereby rendering it seldom neccessary to repair or renew either peg
or nixot
Figure 1. is an elevation in section of a shuttle with my Improvements attached.
Figure 2. is an enlarged elevation of the frame showing the pivot or axle of the
shuttle peg
Figure 3. is an enlarged plan of the frame.
Figure 4. is an enlarged isometric Drawing of the frame.
A is the shuttle peg pivotted at B.
B is the pivot or axle of the shuttle peg which also rests or presses against the
inside edges of both sides of the hollow of the frame at the back thereof and keeps the
frame in position.
C. is the lower or semicircular cross bar of the frame upon which the underside
of the front portion of the shuttle peg heel rests, the said peg having a semicircular
cavity to fit on the semicircular cross bar.
D is the upper cross bar of the frame against which the back portion of the top
side of the heel of the shuttle peg is pressed by the shuttle spring.
E is the spring of the shuttle."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;
Firstly. A frame and the combination of the several parts of a frame composed of
two flat sides (which may be hollowed out), one flat cross bar attached to the said
sides on the top thereof and one semicircular cross har attached to the said sides on

page_text: the bottom thereof as hereinbefore described, shewn, set forth and delineated in the
Drawing thereof in Figure 4 and which said frame may be made of cast, or cast
malleable or forged iron, or other metallic or hard and durable substance as herein
and in the said Drawings is more particularly described and delineated substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
Secondly. The combination of the said frame and the several parts thereof as a
whole with the wood of the shuttle, the peg of the shuttle and its centre pin or axle,
and the shuttle spring substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore and in the
said Drawings described, delineated, shewn and set forth.
Thirdly. The way, metliod and manner of retaining the said frame in its position
when fixed in the grooves made in the wood of the shuttle by causing the pin or axle
of the shuttle peg when insorted in its proper position in the peg and wood of the
shuttle to press against the back portion of the inside edges of the hollow sides of the
frame and so keep or assist in keeping the frame in its position as herein before
described and also delineated and shewn in the said Drawings in Figure 2. and
marked B.
Fourthly. The combination of causing a shuttle peg which has a semicircular cavity
on the underside of the front portion of the heel thereof to fit on to the semicircular
cross bar at the bottom of the frame by the force and action of the shuttle spring and
which peg being also held in its place by its axle being fixed in the wood of the
shuttle necessarily retains the frame in its proper position when fixed in the grooves
of the shuttle substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this Nineteenth day of June 1890.
EMERY HAWORTH.