An Improvement in Loom Shuttles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Loom Shuttles.
I WILLIAM LORD of Rushbed House, Crawshaw Booth, in the County of
Lancaster, Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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My said invention relates to an improvement in the shuttles employed in looms
for weaving. At present the peg or shuttle tongue of such shuttles is very liable
to become loose and shaky, owing to the loosening of the pivot and the wearing of the
recess or socket on and within which the butt of the shuttle tongue works. The
consequence is that in time the shuttle tongue when in its proper position and
carrying the cop becomes liable to sidelong yielding and looseness which is apt to
prejudice the quality of the work. To obviate this defect I provide an easily
applied and secure metallic socket or rest shaped to fit the root of the tongue and
applied so as to give the required support and resistance to the sidelong movement
of the tongue. The said metallic rest or support is or may be formed from sheet
metal or it may be cast. A recess is cut in the wood of the shuttle to receive it
and an eye is formed on the rest through which a pin is driven from the side of the
shuttle. The support given by the material of the shuttle and by this pin render
the rest secure and not liable to become loose.
The tongue suppport comprising my invention can easily and at slight cost be
applied to existing shuttles. The rigidity and security given to the shuttle tongue
by my invention disposes of the defect which I have pointed out as at present
existing in ordinary shuttles.
Dated this 25th dow of February 1895
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5 John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Loom Shuttles.
I WILLIAM LORD of Rushbed House, Crawshaw Booth, in the County of
Lancaster, Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this 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:-
My said invention relates to an improvement in the shuttles employed in looms
for weaving. At present the peg or shuttle tongue of such shuttles is very liable to
become loose and shaky, owing to the loosening of the pivot and the wearing of the
recess or socket on and within which the butt of the shuttle tongue works.
The consequence is that in time the shuttle tongue when in its proper position
and carrying the cop becomes liable to sidelong yielding and looseness which is apt
to prejudice the quality of the work.
To obviate this defect. I provide an easily applied and secure metallic socket or
rest shaped to fit the root of the tongue and applied so as to give the required

page_text: support and resistance to the sidelong movement of the tongue. The said metallic
rest or support is or may be formed from sheet metal or it may be cast.
A recess
is cut in the wood of the shuttle to receive it and an eye is formed on the rest
through which a pin is driven from the side of the shuttle.
The support given by the material of the shuttle and by this pin render the rest
secure and not liable to become loose. The tongue support comprising my invention
can easily and at slight cost be applied to existing shuttles. The rigidity and
security given to the shuttle tongue by my invention dispose of the defect which
I have pointed out as at present existing in ordinary shuttles.
To render my invention more clear I have attached hereunto a sheet of
illustrative drawings to which I will now refer.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a portion of a shuttle to which my improvement is
shown applied.
Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the aforesaid metallic socket or support which
constitutes my invention; while
Figs. 4 and 5 are a plan and side views respectively of the same.
The shuttle is marked A, the shuttle tongue B, and the butt of the tongue B₁
The shuttle tongue B is pivotted in the usual manner at C and is furnished with
the usual controlling spring D. The metallic rest or support constituting my
invention is marked E.
It is preferably stamped or formed from sheet metal but it might be cast. The
upturned flange E¹ has formed in it a recess E2 intended to receive and steady the
root of the shuttle tongue. The support is also formed with an eye E³ which
receives the pin by which the support is fixed in the shuttle. Recesses are cut in
the shuttle into which the sides of the support E are pushed (see Fig. 2) and thus
the support is steadied and held immovable. After having been pushed into these
recesses a pin F is driven through the side of the shuttle into the eye E³ of the
support which is thus, by the united hold of the material of the shuttle and the pin,
maintained secure and free from any liability to become loose. When the shuttle
peg or tongue B is turned down into the position shown in the drawings, the root
of the peg occupies the recess E2 in the support and the butt B' also rests on the
part E so that a firm metallic support both beneath and at the sides is given to
the shuttle peg. Thus the tendency of the peg to become loose and shaky is
obviated.
My invention can be applied to existing shuttles at a comparatively slight
.cost.
Having now particularly described and
tion and in what manner the same is to
.claim is.
ascertained the nature of my inven-
be performed I declare that what I
1. The improved metallic rest or support E for application to shuttles with the
object and substantially as hereinbe!ore described and shown.
2. In combination with a shuttle and shuttle peg the support or rest E stamped
or cast from metal and applied so as to support and prevent the shuttle tongue from
becoming loose, substantially as herein before described and as illustrated.
Dated this 25th day of November 1895.