IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Shackleton, Overlooker, and John Peel,
Overlooker, both of Bradford, in the County of York, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Shackleton
and John Peel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 6th March 1875.
We, EDMUND SHACKLETON, Overlooker, and JOHN PEEL, Overlooker,
both of Bradford, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object the construction of pickers of looms
for weaving in such manner as to be more durable, and admitting of the
portion actually used for picking being reversed or renewed from time
to time. Also the arranging the picker spindles in connection with our
improved picker in such manner as to avoid the throwing of oil from

page_text: the spindles (by the action of the pickers) upon the "piece" being
woven.
We construct pickers by preference of malable iron, and in form
somewhat like a stirrup, and work them in the horizontal position. The
wider portion of the picker is pierced for the picker spindle, and its
other end is provided with a tongue, which is received and works with
a horizontal slot or groove. This end of the picker has also an eye,
within which the ends of strips of hide or other substance for acting on
the shuttle's tip are received and securely held by means of a set screw.
The hide or other picking substance is in the vertical position, and
extends below its holding frame so as to be in proper position within
the shuttle box for acting on and operating the shuttle.
When the picking face of the picker becomes worn the set screw is
to be slacked and the hide removed from its holding eye or frame; the
outer strip may then be reversed and the hide replaced and received as
before. When both sides or faces of the outer strip or layer are worn,
to renew the picking portion an outer layer only is required to renew in
effect the old picker.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edmund Shackleton and John Peel in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, EDMUND
SHACKLETON, Overlooker, and JOHN PEEL, Overlooker, both of Bradford.
in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in tho year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Edmund Shackleton and John Peel
Her special licence that we, the said Edmund Shackleton and John 3
Peel, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Edmund Shackleton and John Peel, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from

page_text: time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within tho
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edmund
Shackleton and John Peel, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edmund Shackleton and John
Peel, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:―
This Invention has for its object the construction of pickers of looms
for weaving in such manner as to be more durable, and admitting of the
portion actually used for picking being reversed or renewed from time
to time. Also the arranging the picker spindles in connection with our
improved picker in such manner as to avoid the throwing of oil from
the spindles (by the action of the pickers) upon the "piece" being
woven.
We construct pickers by preference of malleable iron, and in form
somewhat like a stirrup, and work them in the horizontal position. The
wider portion of the picker is pierced for the picker spindle, and its other
end is provided with a tongue, which is received and works within a
horizontal slot or groove. This end of the picker has also an eye, within
which the ends of strips of hide or other substance for acting on the
shuttlo's tip are received and securely held by means of a set screw.
The hide or other picking substance is in the vertical position, and
extends below its holding frame so as to be in proper position within the
shuttle box for acting on and operatin the shuttle.
When the picking face of the picker becomes worn the set screw is to
be slacked and the hide removed from its holding eye or frame; the
outer strip may then be reversed and the hide replaced and secured as
before. When both sides or faces of the outer strip or layer are worn,

page_text: to renew the picking portion an outer layer only is required to ronow in
effect the whole picker.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will
now proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the Inven-
tion may be understood we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings 5
illustrative thereof, and have marked the several views or figures with
figures and letters of reference, the same referring to the same part in
the several views.

page_text: Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of of this our
said Invention, we desire it to be understood that that the several parts of
the shuttle box shewn in the Drawings are explanatory of the application
of our Invention only, and do not form any part thereof, nor do we lay
any claim to pickers made of metal; what we do claim is, the con-
struction and use of pickers having a holding eye and holding screw as
and for the purpose described.
We also claim pickers as above claimed combined with picking spindle
and guide groove arranged in the manner and for the purpose described
and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edmund Shackleton and John
Peel, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
-EDMUND SHACKLETON. (L.S.)
JOHN PEEL.
Halifax & Blackburn.
(L.S.)