Improvements in and relating to Wire Cloth and Carpet Looms.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July 1887
Complete Left, 3rd Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 4th May, 1888
Improvements in and relating to Wire Cloth and Carpet Looms.
I, ADAM KNOX, of 47 Crownpoint Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows :-
This Invention has reference to improved fittings connected with the oscillating
and carrying centres of the swinging swords of the hanging reed lathes of looms
used for weaving wire cloth and carpets, and which will give the more easy, and
accurate adjustment required, in these looms, with great strength and less liability to
vibration than has heretofore been the case.
And the nature and novelty of the invention consist in forming and planing a
vertical recessed block,-on the outer top end of each sword or rocking shaft
attached thereto, and fitting therein vertical slide blocks, or centre carrying and
oscillating blocks, planed to the same exact projecting V shape to fit into the said
grooves, but flat on the outer vertical surface, with slotted holes for screw pins or
bolts passing through and securing these centre blocks to the recessed blocks on the
swords or lathes in any position they are set to, to adjust the height of the lathe and
reod. The lower ends of these adjusting blocks are preferably made angled with
sharp edges of tempered steel, to fit and oscillate in corresponding angled shaped
grooves in a steel bed plate secured on the top of the side frames of the loom, so that
the lathe may be shifted to hang by its centre blocks in any suitable set of the
recesses in the bed plates which are adjustable by pinching screws to set the lathe and
reed to the finest adjustment transversely across the loom; while vertical adjustable
pinching screws with steel centres are fitted through strong lateral projecting snugs
on the top of each side of the swords or recessed blocks over the vertical carrying
shifting blocks, so as to adjust the height of the lathe and reed horizontally across
the loom to the greatest accuracy, to give great strength and the least possible
vibration.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Wire Cloth and Carpet Looms.
I, ADAM KNOX, of 47 Crownpoint Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
My said Invention has reference to improved fittings connected with the oscillating
and carrying centres of the swinging swords of the hanging reed lathes of looms used
for weaving wire cloth and carpets, and which will give the more easy and accurate
adjustment required in these looms, with great strength and less liability to vibration
than has heretofore been the case.
And in order that my said Invention, and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory Sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are
used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figures 1 and 2 are a side and a front elevation respectively, both broken away,
of the front part of a wire-cloth or carpet loom frame A and lathe and reed B, B',
respectively, and fitted with my improved mechanism, for adjusting the oscillating
reed B and lathe B. Figures 3 and 4 show a sido and a front edge elevation
respectively, corresponding to Figures 1 and 2, but to an enlarged scale, of the
adjusting mechanism. And Figure 5 is a sectional plan view as taken on the
line 11 of Figure 4.
Referring to these Drawings:-The nature and novelty of the invention consist
in forming and planing a vertical V- or equivalent shaped recessed bed guide block or
blocks a on the outer top end or projecting part or bracket a formed or secured on
the upper part of each sword B, B, of the lathe, or it might be of the rocking
shaft Battached thereto of the lathe, and in fitting therein vertical slide blocks or
centre carrying and oscillating blocks b, b, planed to the same exact projecting
V-shape at to fit into the said groove, in the blocks a, but preferably flat on the
outer vertical surface with slotted holes at 2, 62, for screw bolts or pins 6 passing
through and securing these centre blocks b, to the recessed blocks a on the upper
part of the swords or lathes B, B, in any position they are set to, to adjust the
height of the lathe and reed. The lower ends of these adjusting blocks b, b', are
preferably made angled or V-shaped with sharp edges, of tempered steel at b³, to fit
and oscillate in corresponding shallow angled wider shaped grooves e, in a steel bed
plate e secured on the top A¹ of the side frames A of the loom, so that the lathe and
reed B, B, will be hung by the centre blocks b, b', and shifted to any suitable set
of the recesses c, e, in the bed plates c', c', which are adjustable by the screws and
nuts at to set the lathe and reed to the finest adjustment of the wire cloth trans-
versely across the loom; and stops c" are formed at the ends of the grooves c to

page_text: prevent the lathe from shifting end ways.
While vertical adjustable pinching
screws a² with steel points and jam nut a" are fitted through strong lateral pro-
jecting snugs a³ formed on the top a¹ a', of the slides a of the swords B and over
the vertical carrying shifting blocks 6, 61, so as to adjust the height of the lathe B
and reed B¹ horizontally across the loom to the greatest accuracy, to give great strength
and the least possible vibration. And the parts b, c of these steel working centres
of the swords or lathes B, B, are tempered to resist the wear and maintain accuracy.
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
First. The construction, or arrangement and combination of the parts of wire-
cloth and carpet looms having adjusting blocks and fittings connected with the
oscillating and carrying centres of the swinging swords of their hanging reed lathes,
substantially as and for the advantages herein described, in reference to and shown
in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. In wire-cloth and carpet looms, the use of a vertical recessed bed guide
block or blocks a, a', formed or secured on the upper end of each sword B or
rocking shaft B³, with vertical slide or oscillating blocks b, 61, fitted therein, for the
purpose of adjusting the lathe and reed vertically and horizontally, substantially as
and in the manner herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.