Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1888
Complete Left, 5th June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th July, 1888
We JAMES PICKUP and EDWARD PICKUP Manufacturers, and JOHN PICKUP,
Manager, all of Isle of Man Mills, Newchurch in Rossendale in the County of
Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to shuttles for weaving bobbin weft or yarn wound upon
bobbins or pirns. The bobbins or pirns are ordinarily held in their position upon the
shuttle tongue by means of a wire or pin inserted into the side of the shuttle across
the slot below the bobbin or pirn and in front of its flange. In order to obtain
sufficient hold, this pin is placed near to the barrel of the bobbin or pirn, and
whenever a change is made and ordinary or pin cops are used instead of pirns, the
pin is in the way of the cop and the shuttle tongue cannot be turned down without the
yarn being compressed and waste being made, or else the pin has to be taken out and
reinserted when a change back again is made to weaving from pirns.
These pins also often work loose or come partly out and injure the reed. The
object of our improvement is to obviate these drawbacks.
On the sheet of drawings appended hereunto,
Fig. 1 shews our improved shuttle in plan with a pirn or bobbin without yarn upon
it in position.
Fig. 2, shews a longitudinal section, with the shuttle tongue removed.
Our improvement consists in forming the slot in the shuttle as shewn on the
drawings narrowed in front of the flange a of the pirn b or with projections c and d
at this place on each side of the slot, which will prevent the pirn from moving on the
shuttle tongue e towards its end, and hold it on both sides. Being arranged on each
side, these projections secure the pirn sufficiently without approaching the barrel b of
the pirn closely, and leave sufficient space so that a pin cop can be placed upon the
tongue e in the ordinary way without the cop bottom coming into contact with said
projections when the tongue is turned down, and the change from pincops to pirns
or bobbins and vice versa can be effected without trouble.
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Loom Shuttles.
We JAMES PICKUP and EDWARD PICKUP, Manufacturers, and JOHN PICK UP,
Manager, all of Isle of Man Mills, Newchurch in Rossendale, in the County of
Lancaster 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 :-
Our invention relates to shuttles for weaving bobbin weft or yarn wound upon
bobbins or pirns. The bobbins or pirns are ordinarily held in their position upon the
shuttle tongue by means of a wire or pin inserted into the sides of the shuttle across
the slot below the bobbin or pirn and in front of its flange. In order to obtain
sufficient hold, this pin is placed near to the barrel of the bobbin or pirn, and
whenever a change is made and ordinary or pin cops are used instead of pirns, the
pin is in the way of the cop and the shuttle tongue cannot be turned down without
the yarn being compressed and waste being made, or else the pin has to be taken out
and reinserted when a change back again is made to weaving from pirns. These pins
also often work loose or come partly out and injure the reed. The object of our
improvement is to obviate these drawbacks.
On the sheet of drawings left with the provisional specification
Fig. 1 shews our improved shuttle in plan with a pirn or bobbin without yarn upon
it in position.
Fig. 2 shews a longitudinal section, with the shuttle tongue removed.
Our improvement consists in forming the slot in the shuttle as shewn on the drawings
narrowed in front of the flange a of the pirn bor with projections c and d at this
place on each side of the slot, which will prevent the pirn from moving on the
shuttle tongue e towards its end, and hold it on both sides. Being arranged on each
side, these projections secure the pirn sufficiently without approaching the barrel b of
the pirn closely, and leave sufficient space so that a pin cop can be placed upon the
tongue e in the ordinary way without the cop bottom coming into contact with said
projections when the tongue is turned down, and the change from pincops to pirns or
bobbins or vice versa can be effected without trouble.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is,
Forming shuttles with lateral projections in the slot substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 4th day of June 1888.
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.