IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Lomax, Shuttle Manufacturer, and Richard
Dawson, Foreman Shuttle Maker, both of Over Darwen, in the County of
Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Lomax and Richard
Dawson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th April.
1881.
JOSEPH LOMAX, Shuttle Manufacturer, and RICHARD DAWSON, Foreman Shuttle
Maker, both of Over Darwen, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING, PARTS OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO
OTHER USES."
This Invention relates, firstly, to an improved construction of tip for shuttles,
designed for preventing the tendency to splitting or fracture of shuttles during
manufacture and use.
Secondly, to an improved construction of shuttle peg, designed for securely
holding the cop thereon and preventing or greatly reducing the loss of waste, and
which improved pegs are equally applicable as "skewers" of winding machines and
other like uses.
In the manufacture of shuttle tips according to this our Invention we construct
the stem or shank of the tip hollow and angle, its end forming a cutting edge. The
shoulder formed at the junction of the tip and shank is, by preference, recessed or
concave, so that when the tip is forced into the shuttle block the cutting edge
facilitates entrance to the block, a portion of which enters the hollow stem or
shank, and the recessed or concave shoulder of the tip embraces or spans the end
of the block, so preventing the splitting and securely fastening the tip. A portion
of the length of the shuttle peg or skewers for winding machines we forge flat,
triangular, or other angular section, and then twist the angular part upon or
around itself, so forming a hollow worm or screw in the hollows of which the cop
embeds, whilst the angles or edges of the worm firmly hold the cop upon the peg;
the latter has a flat place thereon over which the ordinary spring is placed when
used, but as a rule the spring is not necessary; the outer surface of the spring may
be corrugated to correspond with the screw or worm of the peg.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Lomax and Richard Dawson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th October 1881.
JOSEPH LOMAX, Shuttle Manufacturer, and RICHARD DAWSON, Foreman Shuttle
Maker, both of Over Darwen, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SHUTTLES FOR WEAVING, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO
OTHER USES."
This Invention relates, firstly, to an improved construction of tip for shuttles,
designed for preventing the tendancy to splitting or fracture of shuttles during
manufacture and use.
Secondly, to an improved construction of shuttle peg, designed for securely
holding the cop thereon and preventing or greatly reducing the loss of waste, and
which improved pegs are equally applicable as "skewers" of winding machines and
other like uses.
"
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In the manufacture of shuttle tips according to this our Invention we construct
the stem or shank of the tip hollow and angle, its end forming a cutting edge. The
shoulder formed at the junction of the tip and shank is, by preference, recessed or
concave, so that when the tip is forced into the shuttle block the cutting edge
facilitates entrance to the block, a portion of which enters the hollow stem or
shank, and the recessed or concave shoulder of the tip embraces or spans the end
of the block, so preventing the splitting and securely fastening the tip. A portion
of the length of the shuttle peg or skewers for winding machines we forge flat,
triangular, or other angular section, and then twist the angular part upon or
around itself, so forming a hollow worm or screw, in the hollow, of which the cop
embeds, whilst the angles or edges of the worm firmly hold the cop upon the peg;
the latter has a flat place thereon over which the ordinary spring is placed (when
used), but as a rule the spring is not necessary; the outer surface of the spring
may be corrogated to correspond with the screw or worm of the peg.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will now proceed
to describe the same in detail, and in order that the Invention may be fully
understood we have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrated thereof.

page_text: carried into practical effect, we would have it understood that what we claim as
our Invention is,-
Firstly. The construction of shuttle tips in manner herein described and
illustrated by Drawings.
Secondly. The construction of shuttle pegs and skewers, as herein described and
illustrated by Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Lomax and Richard Dawson, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
JOSEPH LOMAX.
(L.S.)
RICHARD DAWSON. (L.S.)