IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC- TION OF PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hatch, of Miles Platting, in the County
of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Sealed the 7th November 1873, and dated the 8th September 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hatch at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 8th September 1873.
I, RICHARD HATCH, of Miles Platting, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of that class of picker only
which is used in what are called "under pick" looms, which pickers
are ordinarily made of leather, but are sometimes also made of buffalo
or other hide.
Instead of making these pickers from two or more strips of leather or
hide of the width of the depth of the picker only as ordinarily practised,

page_text: I take a strip of leather or hide of three times the said width, say about
three inches or rather more, and I fold this in three, and then bringing
the two ends together I pass one end inside the folds of the other. I
then insert the piece which forms the inside of the body and foot, and
rivet the whole firmly together. The picker thus folded and formed is
then pressed and finished in the usual manner, and will be found to be
much stronger and more durable than those made of separate pieces or
strips as heretoforc, and the folded edge being outside the edges will be
found to be much smoother and slightly rounded.
·SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Hatch in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th March 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HATCH, of Miles Platting, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Hatch,
Her special license that I, the said Richard Hatch, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Hatch, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS USED IN LOOMS FOR
WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Hatch, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Hatch, 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):
This Invention relates to the construction of that class of pickers only
which is used in what are called "under pick " looms, which pickers are
ordinarily made of leather, but are sometimes also made of buffalo or
other hide.
Instead of making these pickers from two or more strips of leather or
more strips of leather or hide of the width of the depth of the picker
only as ordinarily practised, I take a strip of leather or hide of three times
the said width, say about three inches or rather more, and I fold this in
three, and then bringing the two ends together I pass one end inside the
folds of the other. I then insert the piece which forms the inside of the
body and foot, and rivet the whole firmly together. The picker thus
folded and formed is then pressed and finished in the usual manner, and
will be found to be much stronger and more durable than those made of
separate pieces or strips as heretofore, and the folded edge being outside
the edges will be found to be much smoother and slightly rounded.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention I will now
proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to
be or may be performed or carried into practical effect; and in order
that the same may be clearly understood I have annexed hereunto a
Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with
figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof:-
:
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing represents a piece of leather or hide of
about the form and size which I employ for an ordinary picker. I bevil
the inner edge slightly at a, a, and about an inch at b, b, as shown by
the vertical dotted lines. I then fold the piece in three along thẻ longi-
tudinal dotted lines, so that it assumes the form shown at Fig. 2. I then
slightly narrow the end b, b, as shown by the dotted lines, and bending
the folded strip so that the two ends come together I pass the end b, b,
about an inch into the end a, a, as shown at Fig. 3. I then insert the
body or foot, pass
ordinary pieces c, c, which form the inside of the
rivets or wires d, d, through the whole, and press and finish in the usual

page_text: manner, the result being a picker of the form shown at Figs. 4 and 5,
much stronger and firmer than pickers made in the ordinary way, and
being rounded at the corners and having no raw edges, it is much
smoother than those made from two or three strips as usually practised.
Having now described the nature and object of the said Invention
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I
claim as my Invention, the manufacture of pickers from folded picces
of leather or hide, substantially in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hatch, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.