IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Martin Holt, of Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster,
Picker Maker, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PICKERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Martin Holt at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th April 1881.
MARTIN HOLT, of Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Picker Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS."
This Invention is applicable to that class of pickers made of buffalo hide known
as "scoop" pickers, the object being to strengthen the pickers and to enable them
to be used either end forwards as advantageously as the solid headed picker, the
"pull" of the picking band being always direct, and hence there is less liability to
side wear.
I fold the bide for the body and foot of the picker in the usual manner as for an
ordinary "scoop" picker, and having cut out the back part of the "scoop" so as to
leave only a bar along the top for attaching the picker band, I pierce two holes in
the front ends near to the top, into which I insert the ends of a solid or rolled bar
of hide to correspond with the back bar. I then place the picker in the machine,
and press and finish in the usual manner, the bar becoming as it were rivetted into
its place and being perfectly firm and strong.
"
By these means I produce a picker possessing all the advantages of the "scoop
picker combined with the double bar, so that the picking band may be attached to
either side, according to which end is to be used for driving or impelling the
shuttle, so as to avoid the one-sided pull, which creates unequal friction and causes
much wear and tear of the pickers.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Martin Holt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th October
1881.
MARTIN HOLT, of Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Picker Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PICKERS."
"
This Invention is applicable to that class of pickers made of buffalo hide known
as scoop" pickers, the object being to strengthen the pickers and to enable them
to be used either end forwards as advantageously as the solid headed picker, the
"pull" of the picking band being always direct, and hence there is less liability to
side wear.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe the same more in detail, and in order that the same may be clearly
understood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and
have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with
those in the following explanation thereof.
In the annexed Drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a front view; and
Fig. 3, a plan view of a picker made according to my Invention.
I fold the hide for the body a, a, and foot b, b, of the picker in the usual manner
as for an ordinary "scoop picker," and having cut out the back part of the "scoop"
so as to leave only a bar c, c, along the top for attaching the picker band, I pierce
two holes in the front ends near to the top, into which I insert the ends of a solid
or rolled bar of hide d, d, to correspond with the back bar. I then place the picker
in the machine, and press and finish in the usual manner, the bar d, d, becoming
as it were rivetted into its place and being perfectly firm and strong. In some
cases I further secure this bar by means of a peg or pin e at one or both ends.
.
By these means I produce a picker possessing all the advantages of the "scoop'
picker combined with the double bar, so that the picking band may be attached to
either side, according to which end is to be used for driving or impelling the
shuttle, so as to avoid the one sided pull, which creates unequal friction and causes
much wear and tear of the pickers.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the
construction of "scoop" pickers with an additional bar rivetted or otherwise fixed
therein, substantially in the manner and for the purposes above more particularly
set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Martin Holt, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty are