Improvements in Weaving Shuttles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Weaving Shuttles.
We, HENRY INGHAM, JOHN HENRY INGHAM and JONAS INGHAM, of Victoria Works,
Dudley Hill, near Bradford, in the County of York, Shuttle Makers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in that type of weaving shuttle fitted with
a loose or detachable peg or tongue in which the peg rests within a spring seat or clip
generally made of sheet metal folded and bent to form, and its object is to more
securely fix this class of seat to the body of the shuttle.
For this purpose instead of fixing the spring seat by cross pins or rivets, we form
the lower side Tee shaped, that is to say: we form a projection on each, side by
which the seat may be secured by countersunk screws, to the under-side of the
shuttle. The under-side of the shuttle is slightly recessed so that the Tee shaped
end does not project below the bottom of the shuttle.
As a modification the seat may be made in two pieces and be divided down the
middle of the Tee or other convenient part each piece being separately secured to the
under-side of the shuttle.
Or instead of the under-side of the seat being bent to both sides in the form of a
Tee it may be bent to one side only and be secured to the bottom of the shuttle
along one side.
Dated this 24th day of December 1906
DRACUP & NOWELL
Patent Agents, Bradford.
We, HENRY INGHAM, JOHN HENRY INGHAM and JONAS INGHAM, of Victoria Works,
Dudley Hill, near Bradford, in the County of York, Shuttle Makers, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in that type of weaving shuttle fitted with
a loose or detachable peg or tongue in which the peg rests within a spring seat or
clip generally made of sheet metal folded and bent to form, and its object is to more
Becurely fix this class of seat to the body of the shuttle.
For this purpose instead of fixing the spring seat by crossipins or rivets, we form
the lower side Tee shaped, that is to say: we form a projection on each side by which
the seat may be secured by counter-sunk sorews, to the under side of the shuttle. The

page_text: under-side of the shuttle. is slightly recessed so that the Tee shaped end does not
project below the bottom of the shuttle.
To more fully describe our invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a plan view of a shuttle fitted with our improvements.
Figure 2, is a longitudinal section of the same.
Figure 3, is a cross section of the same on the broken line a, b.
Figure 4, is an end view on a larger scale of our improved spring seat.
Figure 5, is a plan view of the same.
Figure 6 to 8 are mofifications hereinafter referred to.
The shuttle A is of the usual construction excepting that the spring seat B in which
the peg C rest is made Tee shaped at the bottom as clearly shown in figures 3, 4 and 5.
By this means a projection B2 is formed on each side by which the seat may be
secured to the shuttle by screws D passed' through the holes B³.
Besides affording a more convenient and reliable way of securing the seat to the
shuttle the projections B2 increase the springiness of the sides of the seat.
As a modification the seat may be made "L" shaped at the bottom as shown in
figure 6, that is to say: it may be made with only one projection B2 instead of two
and be secured by this projection to the shuttle. As a further modification the two
sides or halves of the seat may be made separate as shown in figure 7 which represents
one of the sides of the seat on a larger scale. These halves are separately fixed to
the shuttle by screws D, or their equivalent, as shown in figure 8. We however prefer
the Tee form first described.
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:
A spring seat or clip for a shuttle peg having a "Tee" shaped or "L" shaped
base by which it can be secured to the shuttle, substantially as herein shown and
described.