An Improved Picker for Underpick Looms.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Picker for Underpick Looms.
We, WILLIAM HENRY ORMEROD, JAMES PILKINGTON ORMEROD, JOHN
ORMEROD Junior, and THOMAS PICKLES ORMEROD, all of the Firm of John
Ormerod & Sons, Globe Leather Works, Castleton near Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Tanners and Curriers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to pickers for underpick looms and consists in an improved
construction of the same. For the purpose of strengthening the slot into which the
picker stick enters, pickers for underpick looms have been made partly of buffalo
hide and partly of leather, in some cases an inner lap of leather round the slot and
foot with an outer lap of buffalo hide round the leather having been used, and in
other cases an inner lap of hide and an outer lap of leather. In each of these cases
the striking part was thus formed of layers of buffalo hide and leather which in
consequence of their different nature do not wear and hold satisfactorily together.
The object of our invention is to remedy this defect, which we do by making the
picker of leather and buffalo hide in such a manner that the striking part is
composed entirely of leather while the slot is surrounded at the sides and back by
buffalo hide.
In carrying out our invention we may fold a strip of leather so as to start at the
back end of the usual foot or guide fixed in the picker, on the left side of the same, go
round the front, along the right side of the picker, round the back and along the
left side, then turn round the front again and finish at the back end of the foot.
We then fold a strip of buffalo hide so as to pass round the back and along both
sides, terminating on each side at about the front of the foot. The picker is then
pressed and clamped together by means of staples or rivets driven through the
ends of the buffalo hide strip and the leather between them.
Teted the 7th day of October 1805
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.
We, WILLIAM HENRY ORMEROD, JAMES PILKINGTON ORMEROD, JOHN
ORMEROD Junior, and THOMAS PICKLES ORMEROD, all of the Firm of John
Ormerod & Sons, Globe Leather Works, Castleton, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Tanners and Curriers, 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 pickers for underpick looms and consists in an improved
construction of the same. For the purpose of strengthening the slot into which the
picking stick entera, pickers for underpick looms have in some cases been made
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page_text: partly of buffalo hide and partly of leather, in some cases an inner lap of leather
round the slot and foot or neb with an outer lap of buffalo hide round the leather
having been used, and in other cases an inner lap of hide and an outer lap of
leather. In each of these cases the striking part was thus formed of layers of
buffalo hide and leather which in consequence of their different nature do not wear
and hold together satisfactorily. In other cases the slot has been strengthened by
a steel baud, which however cracks and breaks under the repeated blows the picker
is exposed to. The object of our invention is to remedy these defects, which we do
by making the picker of leather and buffalo hide in such a manner that the striking
part is composed entirely of leather while the slot is surrounded at the sides and
back by buffalo hide.
On the drawing appended hereunto Fig. 1 shows a side view and Fig. 2 a top
view of our improved picker.
We form the picker of a band of leather a and a band of buffalo hide b, both
being spliced or tapered at each end. We fold the leather band a round the foot
or neb c which is formed as usual, by starting with one end of the band at the
back of the neb on one side of the same, going round the front, along the other
side of the neb and slot d, then round the back and along the first side, then
We
turning round the front again and finishing at the back end of the neb c.
then fold the band of buffalo hide 6 so as to pass round the back and along both
sides and make its length so that it terminates at each side near to the front of
the neb. The picker is then pressed and clamped together by means of staples e
or rivets driven through the ends of the buffalo hide band and the leather between
them.
With this mode of making the picker there are no joints on the striking face
but a double thickness of leather firmly held at each side is formed for the shuttle
to enter into, and the bursting out of the end of the band of leather in pickers
made in the usual way is prevented. The rigidity of the buffalo hide surrounding
the slot strengthens and keeps straight and parallel the sides of the picker and
diminishes friction, while the advantage of a leather strip inside to receive the
blow of the picking stick on a comparatively soft material that will not rebound
is preserved.
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
The manufacture or formation of a picker for underpick looms as hereinbefore
dosorihed and illustrated by the drawings
Dated the 7th day of July 1896.
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 6, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 6, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.