Improved Means for Connecting the Belt of Picker Drivers to the Picker of Power Looms.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1895
. Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Connecting the Belt of Picker Drivers to the
Picker of Power Looms.
I, JULIUS WESSER, partner of the Firm of Wesser & Co. of Barmen,
27 Schönebeckerstrasse, Germany, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved means for connecting and fixing the belt
of picker drivers of power looms to the picker. It consists of a sort of a buckle
into or through which the belt is slung, and held fast by a hookshaped pin, said
buckle allowing easy and convenient attaching to the picker in the following
manner A flat plate of the width of the picker is provided in the middle with a
projecting piece fitting into the central slot of the upper stay of the picker, said
projecting piece having female screw thread cut into it to receive a set screw with
a broad head, which holds the picker and the plate firmly together. At oue side
of the plate it is provided with a strap standing out verticaly to it, and to the
upper cross stay of this strap is attached a pin, bent in two directions, to form a
hook, so that the picker belt can be stuck through the opening of the said strap
and hung with its holes to the double bent pin, thus completing the connection of
the picker driver with the picker.
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JULIUS WESSER,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.
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Improved Means for Connecting the Belt of Picker Drivers to the
Picker of Power Looms.
I, JULIUS WESSER, partner of the Firm of Wesser & Co., of Barmen,
27, Schönebeckerstrasse, Germany, Manufacturer, 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 an improved means for connecting and fixing the belt
of picker-drivers of power-looms to the picker. It consists of a sort of a buckle
into or
through which the belt is slung and held fast by a hook shaped pin, said
buckle allowing easy and convenient attaching to the picker in the following
manners: Three forms of execution of my invention may be cited, all of which
showing the before mentioned buckle with a hook-shaped pin, and differing only
in the way in which they are fixed to the picker; they are represented in the
accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a picker provided with the belt-attaching buckle and
book-shaped pin directed outwards, and a part of the belt shown slung into it.
Fig. 2 is partly a vertical section of the picker and the attaching screw of the
buckle, with a part of the belt slung therein..
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page_text: Fig. 4 is a front view of a modification of the buckle with hook-pin directed
inwards.
Fig. 5 is partly a vertical section; partly side-view of Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a top view of Fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is another modification of the buckle, attached to a picker, in front
view.
Fig. 8 is a top-view of Fig. 7.
Fig. 9 is partly a section of a picker with a buckle according to Fig. 7 and 8,
attached in another position.
A flat plate A, Fig. 2, of the width of the picker aud partly bent over the side
of the picker's upper stay in its middle part a, is provided in the middle with a
projecting piece fitting into the central slot of the upper stay of the picker, said:
projecting picce having female screw thread cut into it to receive a set-screw D
with a broad head and a washer S which holds the picker and the plate firmly
together. At one side the plate A is provided with a strap E standing out
vertically to it, and to the upper cross-stay of this strap is attached a pin F,
bent in two directions, to form a hook ending sideways in a horizontal branch G,
so that the picker belt can be stuck through the opening of the said strap and
hung with its holes to the double bent pin F, thus completing the connection of
the picker-driver with the picker. The belt H may be slung through the buckle
from either side; the belt in Fig. 3 is shown in two positions H and H¹, the latter
in dot-and-dash lines, which it may take during its work in driving the picker;
either of these positions show the attachment of the end of the belt in the hook-
pin F, being in a very favorable position for avoiding undue strain of the belt;
the belt position J, indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, shows the possibility of
driving the picker also from the other side, the belt passing then over the
picker.
A modification of the buckle is shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6; here the hook-
shaped pin F is projecting from the upper cross-stay of the buckle inwardly over
the attaching screw; the upward bent part a of the plate A in Figs. 1 and 2 is
omitted here, so that the plate A' has besides the strap E¹ only the middle-
projection C with the female screw-thread to receive the attaching-screw D.
Another modification of the belt-attaching device is shown Figs. 7 and 8, the
plate a¹ with a projecting piece C' preferably of square section fitting into the slot
of the upper cross-stay of the picker, is carrying on top of the square C¹ a screwed
pin d¹ over which the buckle e¹ is stuck with its flat foot-plate e³, resting on the top
of the picker's upper stay, and fixed firmly to it by tightening a nut over pin d¹.
The square projection and the screw dare shown standing excentrically on plate a¹ ;
this is to allow the position of the buckle to be altered in case of necessity, to the
right or to the left of the vertical centre of the picker.
In Fig. 9 is shown another way of attaching the buckle e' by a foot-plate e³ to
the picker, allowing to swivel the buckle round pin d' of plate al and fixing it by
the nut and screw of the latter so, that the belt, when coming from a picker-
driver in the direction of the path of the picker, may be slung into the buckle e².
The fixing hook-pin 1 for the belt, in this form of execution of my invention
is projecting upwards from the cross-stay of the buckle e', and its end g¹ stands
parallel to said cross stay.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
.
1. A belt-fastener for pickers of power-looms, serving to connect the belts of
the picker-drivers to the pickers, and consisting of a plate A with or without an
upwardly bent part a embracing the picker's stay; said plate A carrying on one
side an upright strap E, the top cross-stay of which has at its middle part a pin
with a double bent to form a hook F with a nose G directed inwards over the
picker or outwards from the picker, whilst at the middle part of the
face of
upper

page_text: plate A is a projecting part C with female screw thread, taking up a fixing
screw D with a washer S in order to hold securely the buckle strap E to the
picker.
2. A modified form of the belt-fastener for pickers consisting in a buckle-
shaped strap el with foot plate & stuck over a screw d¹ projecting, through a slot in
the picker's upper stay from a plate a¹ with square c' and fixed on the picker by
a nut and screw d' above plate e and free to be swivelled before its fastening into
the desired position, whilst a hook-shaped pin f¹ 9' is projecting from the middle
part of the upper stay of buckle e¹ to be stuck through the belt to secure it to the
picker when slung through the buckle.
Dated this 4th da of Anvil 1906
JULIUS WESSER,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.