An Improved Pile Wire with Movable or Fixed Cutter, for Power or Hand Looms, Employed in Producing Wilton Carpets, Velvets, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1899-Accepted. 29th Apr., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pile Wire with Movable or Fixed Cutter, for Power or
Hand Looms, Employed in Producing Wilton Carpets, Velvets,
and the like.
I, CAMILLE OCTAVE MOREL-DRUET, Constructing Engineer, of Tourcoing,
(Nord) in the Republic of France, 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: -
Hitherto, the pile wires and cutters employed in looms for producing Wilton
carpets, velvets and the like have been made in one piece, as in Figs. 1 and 2 of
the accompanying drawing. The cutter A, formed by the flattening of the
wire B, being very thin, and by no means strong, often breaks when striking
against the stop of the loom. The wire is thus rendered unserviceable and it
becomes necessary to mend the cutter and sharpen it afresh, an operation which
being frequently repeated, causes considerable trouble to the manufacturer.
This difficulty is easily obviated by the improved pile wire with movable or
fixed cutter shown in Figs. 3 to 8 of the acompanying drawings, in which Figs. 3
and 4 are elevations of the wire cutter taken at right angles. Figs. 5 and 6 are
similar views with the cutter removed, and Figs. 7 and 8 are similar views of the
cutter..
The wire E of the improved pile cutter has a special form as shown in
Figs. 5 and 6, a form which ensures its being very strong; and in the bent part
a small recess P is made.
A metal plate C, shown in Figs. 7 and 8 serves as cutter. It is furnished with
a projection or tooth R and a recess R¹. The plate is inserted in the groove F F
formed in the hooked end of wire E. It rest in the point F, from which the groove
runs; the tooth R fits into the recess P the end of the wire taking into the
recess R and the cutter is thus fixed or mounted, the pile wire being thencefor-
ward able to sustain any shock from coming into contact with the stop of the
loom, without its being possible for the cutter to shift or break.
The part of the plate between the points F and F is sharpened.
If the wire should break, the workman removes the cutter C, fits it to another
wire, and can then continue his work without loss of time.
If desired by the manufacturer, the cutter C can be made to form a part with
the wire E, by simple soldering or any other method of fixing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is: :-
1. The combination with a pile wire having a hooked or bent end grooved
internally, of a cutter consisting of a metal plate with a sharpened edge, and

page_text: adapted to be slid in the groove in the pile wire and secured therein substan-
tially in the manner described.
2. The improved pile wire, with movable or fixed cutter substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 1st day of Nomb 1900
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.