or Producing the same.
Year: 1885

page_text: ior Producing the same.
We, HENRY AINSWORTH, of Clayton Street Mill, Great Harwood, in the County
of Lancaster, Weaving Manager; RICHARD HINDLE, of 24 Chapel Street, Mill Hill,
Blackburn, in the same county, Weaving Manager; GEORGE HAWORTH, of Ashton
Terrace, Preston, in the same county, Cotton Spinner; and JOHN AINSWORTH, of
109 St. Thomas's Road, Preston aforesaid, Weaving Manager, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention of improvements in hose piping and in machinery or apparatus
for producing the same consists in so forming hose piping by a process of weaving
that when woven an outer pipe or tube will enclose one or more inner tubes. We
arrange the warp, healds, and tappets of a loom to produce the several inner and
outer tubes by repeating for each tube the arrangement employed for weaving
single tube hose pipe. We provide for each separate tube its own shuttle which in
one direction is caused to pass through the shed for forming the upper half of the
tube and in the other through the shed for forming the lower half. For bringing
the shuttles into position in the required order, we employ, in lieu of a drop box
working vertically, a sliding shuttle box working horizontally or diagonally so
arranged that the shuttles when unemployed are moved backwards or forwards of
the reed (as the case may be) to a position out of the way. By arranging the
shuttle box to move horizontally or diagonally we are enabled to obviate the
intertwining of the several weft threads and the connecting of the two tubes
together at the shuttle box side which would result at each change of shuttle if a
drop box were employed. Thus the reed will beat up an even weft all round each
of the tubes giving them one uniform strength throughout the entire round.

page_text: Improvements in Hose Piping and in Machinery or Apparatus
for Producing the same.
We, HENRY AINSWORTH of Clayton Street Mill, Great Harwood, in the County
of Lancaster, Weaving Manager; RICHARD HINDLE of 23 Chapel Street, Mill Hill,
Blackburn, in the same County, Weaving Manager; GEORGE HAWORTH, of Ashton
Terrace, Preston, in the same County, Cotton Spinner; and JOHN AINSWORTH of
109 St. Thomas's Road, Preston, aforesaid, Weaving Manager, 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 of improvements in hose-piping and in machinery or apparatus
for producing the same consists in so forming hose piping by a process of weaving
that when woven an outer pipe or tube will enclose one or more inner tubes. We
arrange the warp, healds, and tappets of a loom to produce the several inner and
outer tubes by repeating for each tube the arrangement employed for weaving
single tube hose pipe. We provide for each separate tube its own shuttle which
in one direction is caused to pass through the shed for forming the upper half of
the tube and in the other through the shed for forming the lower half. For
bringing the shuttles into position in the required order, we employ, in lieu of a
drop box working vertically, a sliding shuttle box working horizontally or
diagonally so arranged that the shuttles when unemployed are moved backwards
or forwards of the reed (as the case may be) to a position out of the way. By
arranging the shuttle box to move horizontally or diagonally we are enabled to
obviate the intertwining of the several weft threads and the connecting of the two
tubes at the shuttle box side which would result at each change of shuttle if a
drop box were employed. Thus the reed will beat up an even weft all round each
of the tubes giving them one uniform strength throughout the entire round.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an end view and Fig. 2 a front view of
apparatus as applied to an ordinary single hose pipe loom so as to produce double
hose pipe according to our invention.
A is a sliding shuttle box provided with two shuttles, b being the back shuttle
and f the front shuttle. The back shuttle b furnishes the weft for the inner tube
and the front shuttle f for the outer tube. The double shuttle box A is mounted
upon bosses cc bored out so as to slide backwards and forwards on guide
rods d. d secured to a metal frame B on the slay E. The required alternate to
and fro movement of the box A is received from a grooved double tappet wheel C
on the end of the tappet shaft D; the tappet shaft making eight revolutions for
the crank shaft one. Motion is communicated through the rocking lever F,
connecting rod G, and, bell crank toothed quadrant H to the toothed racks I
which are fast to the bosses c. c. When the front shuttle f is brought into
position for the next two picks, that is to say for passing the weft through the
upper and lower halves of the outer tube, a double tappet on the tappet shaft D,
pushes the rod 9 and thereby raises the sliding rod h (mounted on the slay
sword S) and the finger e to the position shewn in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and thus

page_text: lifts up above the front shuttle f the weft thread from the back shuttle b which
latter would then be behind the reed R. When the front shuttle ƒ has returned
to the shuttle box A the finger e drops into the bottom of the groovej so as to get
below the back shuttle 6 (see Fig. 2). The double shuttle box may be provided
with any desirable arrangement of swells but it is more convenient to place the
swells for each shuttle so as to press upon the top instead of upon the side of the
shuttle as usually arranged.
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:-
1. The manufacture of hose piping consisting of an inner and an outer tube and
woven one within the other substantially as described.
2. In looms for weaving hose piping the use or employment of a shuttle box
having a backward and forward movement operating substantially as described
and shewn in the drawings for the purpose specified.
Doted thin 04th don'of Anct 1986
W. LLOYD WISE,
Agent for the Applicant.