IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ,PICKERS FOR USE IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING AND IN THE MATERIAL TO BE USED THEREFOR
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Keil Tullis of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
,PICKERS FOR USE IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING AND IN THE MATERIAL TO BE
USED THEREFOR
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Keil Tullis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th July 1883.
JOHN KEIL TULLIS of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North Britain
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS FOR USE IN LOOMS FOR
WEAVING AND IN THE MATERIAL TO BE USED THEREFOR,"
This Invention which relates to improvements in the construction of pickers for
use in looms for weaving, has for its object to construct the said pickers either of
cotton canvas fabric, solid cotton woven fabric, camel-hair woven fabric, or fabric
of linen, hemp or jute, either in plies or solid woven or of fabric of woollen, hair,
textile or animal fibres, or of tough grass with gutta percha or gum or india-
rubber; or the said pickers may be composed of india-rubber and cloth or india-
rubber with cloth and leather, or felted material or paper and cloth.-In constructing
a picker according to this Invention any of the hereinbefore mentioned fabrics
either singly or mixed with any one or more of the others herein before mentioned
are or may be further treated by being soaked in boiled linseed oil or other
equivalent material.-The fabrics may either be worked up in strips into the
required shape or they may be of tubular form and compressed into the said shape
and they may be so formed either in one thick ply or of several plies sewn together
with thread of cotton or other equivalent material or they may be sewn with
metallic wire or held together with studs of metal or other suitable material.—
After the pickers have been constructed in or to the required form, a block or
blocks of leather or its equivalent is or are fitted into the eyes of the pickers and is
or are secured therein by means of rivets passing through the fabric and leather or
by any other equivalent means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Keil Tullis in the Patent Office on the 23rd January 1884.
JOHN KEIL TULLIS of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS FOR USE IN LOOMS FOR
WEAVING AND IN THE MATERIAL TO BE USED THEREFOR
My said Invention relates to Improvements in the construction of pickers for
use in looms for weaving of the fabrics and in the manner hereinafter described.
These fabrics may either be worked up in strips into the required shape or they
may be of tubular form and compressed into the said shape and they may be so
formed either in one thick ply or of several plies sewn together with thread of
cotton or other equivalent material or they may be sewn with metallic wire or
held together with studs of metal or other suitable material. After the pickers
have been constructed in or to the required form, a block or blocks of leather or its
equivalent is or are fitted into the eyes of the pickers and is or are secured therein
by means of rivets passing through the fabric and leather or by any other
equivalent means.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I now
proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode or manner in or under
which the same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and Figures marked thereon,
that is to say:-
Figure 1, is an end elevation of a picker constructed according to and constituting
my present Invention.
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the same.
. Figures 3, 4 and 5 are respectively a transverse section, a plan and a longitudinal
section of the same.
"
" cotton
In carrying my present Invention into practice, I, construct. the pickers (as
represented on the accompanying drawings) either of what are known as
canvas fabric ""solid cotton woven fabric" "camel-hair woven fabric
or fabric
of linen, hemp or jute, either in plies or solid woven or of fabric of woollen, hair,
textile or animal fibres, or of tough grass with gutta percha or gum or india-rubber,
or the said pickers may be composed of india-rubber and cloth or india-rubber
with cloth and leather, or-felted material or paper and cloth. In constructing
picker according to my present Invention I may further treat any of the herein-
before mentioned fabrics either singly or mixed, that. is to say constructed of any
combination of the fibres composing the said fabrics separately, by soaking the
same in boiled linseed oil or other oil having equivalent properties. The fabrics
may either be (as shewn on the accompanying drawings) worked up in strip a,
into the required shape, or the said fabrics may be worked up into tubular form,
that is to say they may be so worked into tubular form either in one thick ply or
built up of several concentric thin plies surrounding each other and then sewn
together by thread of cotton or flax or their equivalent; or they may be sewn
with metallic wire or held together with studs of metal or other suitable material.
After the fabric portion a, of the pickers has been constructed in or to the required
form, a block or the blocks b, and c at opposite ends thereof of leather or equivalent
material is or are fitted into the opposite ends of the eyes d, of the said pickers and
is or are secured therein by means of the rivets e, passing through the fabric and
leather or by any other equivalent means.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and the system mode or manner in or under which the same is or may

page_text: be used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what
I consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured
to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is :-
Pickers constructed of either "cotton canvas fabric" "solid cotton woven fabric "
"camel-hair woven fabric" or fabric of linen hemp or jute either in plies or solid
woven or of woollen, hair, textile or animal fibres, or of tough grass with gutta-
percha or gum or india-rubber; or the said pickers may be composed of india-
rubber and cloth or india rubber with cloth and leather or felted material or paper
and cloth substantially as herein before set forth with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
In Witness Whereof I the said John Keil Tullis have hereunto set my hand and
seal this seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty four.
JOHN KEIL TULLIS (L.S.)