Looms for Weaving.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date o Application, 17th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 18:9
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Mar., 1889
Looms for Weaving.
We, ELIJAH DIXON, of 112, Church Street, Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Woollen Merchant, and HENRY CLAYTON, of 4, Saint Georges Terrace, in the same
town, Waste Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
According to this invention the picker consists of a metal block faced on that end
which meets the shuttle with buffalo hide or other suitable material the metal block
being arranged to slide freely between two V shaped guides one above and the other
below it. In one arrangement the metal picker on that side facing the front of the
loom has a projecting part from which rises a pin or pivot carrying a slide block
fitting easily within a slot formed in the free end of a metal radial arm fastened at its
other end to the ordinary vertical picking shaft the slotted metal arm taking the place
of the ordinary picking stick and strap. In another arrangement the metal picker
running in guides as above described may be provided with an arm or hook carried
above the shuttle box which may be connected with and actuated by the ordinary
picking stick and strap in the same manner as obtains with an ordinary picker
mounted to slide to and fro on a horizontally arranged spindle or rod.
In lieu of the spiral spring or similar device usually employed for the purpose of
bringing the picker back to the outer end of the shuttle box after the throw of the
shuttle or pick
"has been effected we prefer to employ a fixed tapered spring
plate whose free end is arranged to press against the flat face of a bracket or arm
fastened upon the vertical picking shaft. By turning the arm on the shaft and
adjusting its position relatively to the spring plate the picker may be brought back
to any desired point and the amount of its concussion with the check strap or buffer
may be regulated.
P
1000
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Pickers and Picking Motions of
Looms for Weaving.
'
We, ELIJAH DIXON, of 112 Church Street Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Woollen Merchant, and HENRY CLAYTON, of 4 St. George's Terrace, in the same
Town, Waste Dealer, 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 :-
According to this invention the picker consists of a metal block faced on that end
which meets the shuttle with buffalo hide. or other suitable material the metal block
being arranged to slide freely between two V shaped guides one above and the other
below it. In one arrangement the metal picker on that side facing the front of the
loom has a projecting part from which rises a pin or pivot carrying a slide block
fitting easily within a slot formed on the free end of a metal radial arin fastened at its
other end to the ordinary vertical picking shaft the slotted metal arm taking the place
of the ordinary picking stick and strap. In another arrangement the metal picker
running in guides as above described may be provided with an arm or hook carried
above the shuttle box which may be connected with and actuated by the ordinary
picking stick and strap in the same manner as obtains with an ordinary picker
mounted to slide to and fro on a horizontally arranged spindle or rod.
In practice we find it preferable to cause the picker at its upper end to slide upon
the ordinary picker spindle or rod and at its lower end to slide in a V groove as shewn
in the accompanying drawings.
Figs 1 and 2 are respectively a front view and a cross section of so much of an
ordinary form of loom shuttle box as is necessary to illustrate the nature and
application of our invention.
In the drawings a is the bottom plate of the shuttle box; the ordinary picker
spindle or rod; e our improved metal picker (in the form of a slide block) faced on
that side which meets the shuttle with buffalo hide d. The V groove below is formed
in a metal bar e (see also Fig 4) inserted into the ordinary longitudinal slot through
the bottom plate of the shuttle box the said slot being ordinarily used to keep in
vertical position the ordinary construction of picker as it slides to and fro on its
spindle or rod above. Thus our invention is applicable to existing looms and the
bar e which is secured in place by means of set screws (see dotted lines in Figs. 1
and 2) may be readily adjusted relatively to the lower V edge of our improved metal
picker by raising or lowering it as required. We prefer to make the upper part of
our metal picker of a corresponding form to that of ordinary non-metal pickers (with
an opening g through its top as shewn in the plan view Fig. 3) so that it
connected with and actuated by the ordinary arrangement of picking stick and
be
strap.
may
By the above described arrangement the well known wear and tear of the picker
and its spindle as usually arranged is not only practically obviated but the picker as

page_text: moves along its path and when it strikes the shuttle is kept in an erect position the
liability of the hole through which the spindle passes to wear crooked being greatly
reduced.
We do not wish to claim as part of this invention the arrangement of picking shaft
apparatus referred to in our provisional specification.
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 :-
In looms for weaving the use or employment of a metal picker faced with buffalo
hide or other material the upper and lower parts of such picker being arranged to
slide upon or between an upper and a lower bearing substantially as described and
shewn in the drawings.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.