IMPROVED FLAT BUFFER TO F ON SPIND SHUTTLE BOXES ON
Year: 1885

page_text: DOXES OF LOOms.
WILLIAM ATHERTON Stansfield Road, Todmorden, Yorkshire, Leather Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for an IMPROVED FLAT BUFFER TO
BE FIXED ON THE SPINDLES OF SHUTTLE BOXES ON LOOMS, to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce an improved flat buffer to be fixed on
the spindles of shuttle boxes on looms" for the use of textile manufacturers, by
which a less quantity of material is used in its production & at the same time a
more effecient buffer is produced. The flat buffers in general use, which are often
called "picker savers" are made about 4 inches in length, & 1 inches in depth,
and consist of three or four layers of leather after the top layer of leather is worn
out by the action of the picker, the buffer or saver is discarded being of no further
In my invention, I make the buffer of a different shape, about 2 inches in
length & 1 inches in depth & I employ six or seven layers of leather, fixed together
in such a manner, that when the first layer is work through by the picker, the
second layer then comes into use, the picker acting upon it, until it is also worn
through.
use.
This process goes on until four or five of the layers have been acted upon.
Thus
my invention will do four or five times as much work, as those in ordinary use.
My improved buffer, owing to its peculiar construction, also acts as an effecient
shuttle guard.
WILLIAM ATHERTON,
Leather Merchant,
Stansfield Road, Todmorden,
Yorkshire.

page_text: Improved Flat Buffer to be Fixed on the Spindles of Shuttle
Boxes on Looms.
WILLIAM ATHERTON, Stansfield Road, Todmorden, Yorkshire, Leather Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for an "IMPROVED FLAT BUFFER
TO BE FIXED ON THE SPINDLES OF SHUTTLE BOXES ON LOOMS," and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:——
The object of my invention is to produce an "improved flat buffer to be fixed on
the spindles of shuttle boxes on looms," for the use of Textile Manufacturers by
which a less quantity of material is used in its construction, and at the same time a
more efficient buffer is produced.
The flat buffers in general use are made about 4 inches in length and 11 inches
in depth, and consist of three or four layers of leather.
After the top layer of leather is worn through by the action of the picker, the
buffer is discarded as being of no further use. In my invention I make the flat
buffer of a different shape, about 24 inches in length and 11 inches in depth, and
I employ 6 or 7 layers of leather fixed together in such a manner that when the
first layer is worn through by the action of the picker, the second layer then comes
into use, the picker acting upon it, until it is also worn through.
This process goes on until four or five of the layers have been acted upon. Thus
my invention will do four or five times as much work as those in ordinary use.
My improved buffer owing to its peculiar construction also acts as an effecient
shuttle guard.
I will now describe the nature of my invention in detail, and in order that it
may be clearly understood, I annex drawings of the "flat buffers."
Figure 1. is an illustration of a flat buffer as ordinarily used, A, being the spindle
hole. B the slot for the strap. When this flat buffer is at work, the action of the
picker is against the layer of leather C. which after being worn through is discarded
as being of no further use, as the layer C being broken, the inside portions become
loose and consequently of no use.
Figure 2. is a drawing of my improved flat buffer. D being the spindle bole
E. being the surface acted upon by the picker, and F. G. H. I. J. K. L the layers
of leather each about inch thick, of which the buffer is constructed. When in
work the picker acts upon the surface E. of the layer F..and after this is worn
through it then commences upon the surface of the layer G. and continues this
action until the layers H. and I have been worn through consequently the
buffer will wear four or five times as long as the ordinary buffer Figure 1.
The buffer is put upon the spindle of the shuttle box in the ordinary manner, &
it works in the same manner.

page_text: 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
The peculiar construction of a flat buffer as illustrated in Figure 2. by having
several layers of leather or similar material, fixed together in the manner described,
that when the picker acts upon it, and a layer of leather is worn through, the
layer next in order comes into use, and is also worn through, the process continuing
until four or five of the layers are worn away.