An Improved Machine for Pegging and Repeating Loom Pattern Lags.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1892-Accepted, 11th June, 1892
PROVIDIUNALDI MUIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Pegging and Repeating Loom
Pattern Lags.
WILLIAM CARR 19 Peel Street Barnsley Mill Manager JAMES TAYLOR
43 Hope Street Barnsley Mechanic do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The improved invention comprises machines to substitute what is now done by
hand, namely, what is known as pegging loom pattern lags used on single and double
lift open shed shaft machines, or as sometimes termed dobbies, and also to repeat
from one set so pegged any number of sets, without going through the process of
fingering for each particular set, the same being an improvement on the machine
for which a Patent was granted to us, numbered 6438 and dated 15th April, 1891.
The machines can be constructed to suit any kind of lags by simply varying the
number of pipes and their respective distances from each other. The description
of machines is as follows:-The pegs are fed into small brass pipes, the top of these
pipes being fitted into a wooden head, the holes on the upper surface of which, are
well countersunk so that they will easily drop in the pegs are held up by means
of a spring connected to which is a wire passing in a horizontal position to a
Llever inside a box at front of machine; to the opposite part of this lever is
connected another wire in a vertical position, passing through the top of box, and
having a knob at the top or end of wire to be pressed upon by the fingers, so that
when a peg is required out of any particular pipe, the corresponding wire may be
pressed down and releasing a peg it drops upon a sliding plate, and when the whole
of pegs required have been released, the sliding plate is withdrawn to allow the
pegs to drop through directly upon the corresponding holes in the lag, then the
sliding plate is allowed to spring back into its original position, this time being over
the pegs now resting upon the lag, then by means of a cylinder containing eight
grooves into which they (the lags) fit, the whole is raised by eccentric cams and
the end of pegs coming into contact with the underside of sliding plate, are pressed
into their respective holes at one time and project from the lag exactly one length.
The process of repeating is accomplished by placing the first set of lags pegged (as
heretofore described) upon another cylinder fixed under the box containing the
L levers, so that when it is revolved each peg will strike pins attached to the
Llevers and release all the pegs simultaneously from the corresponding pipes over
their respective holes in the next set of lags on the pegging cylinder, which are
pressed into the lags in the same manner and by the same means as before.
The machines are fitted with a board upon which to place pegging plan, and is
constructed to hold any size of paper from its own dimensions downwards without
pins, by means of adjustable spring rods also an index plate to enable the operator
to refer more readily to the part he or she.may be engaged upon.
Dated this 11th day of November 1801
WILLIAM CARR.
JAMES TAYLOR.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Pegging and Repeating Loom
.
Pattern Lags.
WILLIAM CARR 19 Peel Street Barnsley Mill Manager JAMES TAYLOR
43 Hope Street Barnsley Mechanic 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 :-
The improved invention is a machine for pegging and repeating loom pattern
lags used on single and double lift open shed shaft machines, or as sometimes termed
dobbies, the aforesaid processes being accomplished in the following manner.
The pegs used for the lags are placed in the box A, Sheet No. 3, and are taken
from it to fill the pipes B, which are fitted into the head C, the pegs being inserted
at D. The pegging plan or design is placed upon the board E, being held by the
rods F, F, Sheet No. 2, these rods may be placed nearer together or further apart
by sliding them upon the shaft G, Sheet No. 2, according to the size of the plan or
design. The pegs in the pipes B are held up by the springs H, the pipes having a
slot or parting the full length to enable the person using the machines to see when
they are empty, these pipes can be fixed to suit any kind of lag according to the
number and distances apart, or pitch, of the holes in the lags to be pegged. The
grooves B, Sheet 1, are for the end of the springs H to catch or hold
the pegs, to these springs are connected the wires I, passing into the box J,
and connected to the levers K, to another point of these levers is connected
other wires L, which pass out of the box J, having the knobs M, on the top
or end, when a peg is required out of any particular pipe, the knob on the
wire connected to the spring on that pipe is pressed down, thus drawing the
spring H away from the groove B¹ in the pipe and allowing a peg to drop upon
the sliding plate N; when the whole of the pegs required have been thus released
and are resting upon the plate N, it (the plate) is then withdrawn by pulling the
knob O, the pegs then drop through upon the lag exactly on the corresponding
holes into which they are to be pressed, the lag fitting in the groove in the top part
of the cylinder P, the sliding plate N is then put into its original position this time
being over the pegs, the lever Q, Sheet 3, is then pulled down and by means of the
eccentric cams R on the same shaft working on the rollers S, Sheet 2, the cylinder P
is raised, the upper end of the pegs coming into contact with the underside of the
sliding plate N, Sheet 1, are pressed into their respective holes at one time and
project from the lag exactly one length. The lever Q is then returned into its
former position against the stop stud T, Sheet 3. The cylinder P is kept close to
the cams R by the spiral springs U & V Sheet 2 so as to ensure it being lowered at
the same time. The cylinder P is then turned by the lever W Sheet 4 and the
catch , to the next groove containing the next lag to be pegged, the end of the rod X
holding the cylinder in its proper position, the division plate Y with the same
number of studs in as there are grooves in the cylinder P, acting as a means of
adjustment and by the catch and the lever W, as a means of turning the cylinder P
to the next groove. The handle wheel A' is for turning the cylinder when the
catches are thrown back.
The process of repeating is accomplished by placing the first set of lags pegged
as heretofore described upon another cylinder a, Sheet 1 fixed under the box J, and
by raising the lever W Sheet 4 connected by the rod b, to the lever c¹ upon the
shaft d, actuating the tappit e Sheet 1 upon the rocking lever f, raises the cylinder a
thus bringing the pegs into contact with the connecting pressers g, they in their turn
actuating the levers K so as to release the corresponding pegs out of the pipes B,
all at one time, when they are dropped upon the holes in the blank set of lags
placed upon the pegging cylinder P and pressed in by the same means as the original
set previously described. Also by the act of raising the lever W Sheet 4 the

page_text: catch turns the cylinder P to the next lag to be pegged and in returning the
lever W to its former position the catch i Sheet 3 working upon the division plate /
adjusted by the presser m, turns the cylinder a, to the next lag to repeat from.
Should a right hand set of lags be required from a left hand set or contrarywise the
catch h Sheet 4 can be thrown back, and the catch n forward by means of an
arrangement on the lever W with two pegs on a plate working in a slot and
adjusted by the thumb screw p thus revolving the cylinder P in either direction
the repeating cylinder a always rotating in one direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,
That it comprises a method whereby machines in which pipes are fixed according
to the number and distance apart, or pitch, of the holes in the lags to be pegged
and used for the reception of the pegs, and that the pegs at the will of the operator
and according to the pegging plan or design can be released over any hole as stated
in the description, in the lag to be pegged and that when released are all upon the
top of a sliding plate, the withdrawal of which allows them to drop upon the holes
into which they are intended to be pressed, the plate is then placed in its previous
position thus acting as a face against which, when a cylinder in the grooves of which
the lags fit is raised by means of a lever and eccentric cams presses in the pegs at
one time and project from the lag one length; and that when one set of lags have
been pegged as described and another or any number of sets are required of the
same kind or pattern either right hand or left hand, the first set can be placed upon
a secondary cylinder which when raised by the means already described bring all
the pegs into contact with connecting pressers and release the whole of the pegs
from the pipes over the blank lags at one time and they are pressed in by the same
means and in the same manner as before.
Deted this 10th 2.
M
1000
WILLIAM CARR.
JAMES TAYLOR.