IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR LOOMS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of N° 11 Wellington - Street,
Strand, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR LOOMS" a communication to him
from abroad by John. P. Thompson, of Phoenix, Maryland, United States of
America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William -Edward Gedge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th August 1883.
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WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of N° 11 Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR LOOMS
A. Communication to me from abroad by John P. Thompson, of Phoenix, Maryland,
United States of America,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William -Edward Gedge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th August 1883.
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WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of N° 11 Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR LOOMS
A. Communication to me from abroad by John P. Thompson, of Phoenix, Maryland,
United States of America,
This Invention relates to improvements in Shuttles employed in Looms for
Weaving.
The improved loom shuttle the subject of this Invention has an adjustable eye-
piece across its end with right angled passage for thread adjustment of eye-piece
regulating tension thread.
SPECIFICATION' in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Edward Gedge in the Patent Office on the 19th February
1884.
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WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of N° 11 Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR LOOMS
A Communication to me from abroad by John. P. Thompson of Phoenix, Maryland,
United States of America,
This Invention consists in a shuttle having improved means for regulating the
drag or tension of the thread, as will be more fully described hereinafter, and
afterward specifically pointed out in the claims.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing:
Figure 1. is a plan view of a loom-shuttle having my improvement_applied
thereto. Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same, partly broken away. Figure 3

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is a view of the screw-eye for producing "drag on the thread, and Figure 4 is a
similar view of the eye in a different position.
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A, represents the sides, and B the ends, of an ordinary loon-shuttle, having the
spindle C attached in any approved manner, upon which is placed the bobbin D.
All these parts are of any known construction, and form no part of this Invention.
The bobbin is wound with " filling or "woof" d, which is carried thence
through an eye near the end of the shuttle-body and caused to emerge at c. (sce
Figs: 1 and 2). In passing it through this eye I give a proper drag or tension to
the thread through the following instrumentalities.
A, is a metallic eye-piece, having a head, a¹, a cut-away portion, a², and a screw
threaded end, a. This eye-piece is bored longitudinally through the screw threaded
end, as at b, which opening is continued at substantially a right angle, until it
emerges at o through the cut away portion a. This eye-piece is placed in a hole
bored through the end of the shuttle-body, the openings c, and b, appearing as
shown in Figs 1 and 2. The filling d, passes into the eye piece through the
opening and emerges from it and the shuttle at c, as before stated. When the
eye-piece is turned so that the opening c, is upright, as in Fig: 1, there will be
little or no drag to it while passing through; but by turning the eye-piece, by
means of a screw-driver inserted in a notch in the end of the eye piece on the side
of the shuttle opposite to that on which the thread emerges, the thread is caused
to pass over a more or less abrupt angle to reach the opening c, thus causing any
desired, drag or tension
This device is very simple, very cheap, and very effective, and is adapted to any
kind of shuttle used to carry "weft" or filling.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention Communi-
cated to mo as aforesaid and in what manner the same is or may be performed,
what
I Claim as secured to me by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent is :—
Firstly A loom-shuttle provided with an adjustable eye-piece having
passages c and
for the thread formed theroin, whereby by the adjustment of said
eye-piece the tension of the thread passing through the same may be regulated, as
set forth.
Secondly-The combination, with the shuttle-body, of an eye-piece provided
with the passages c and e for the passage of the thread, said eye-piece being capable
of rotary adjustment, whereby the tension of the thread passing there-through may
be regulated, as set forth.
In witness whereof I the said William Edward Gedge have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and Eighty four.
WE GEDGE (is)