Improvements in and relating to the Method of Attaching Picker Spindles to Looms for Weaving Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Method of Attaching Picker
Spindles to Looms for Weaving Textile Fabrics.
I, WILLIAM RAMSAY, of 35 Wilkie's Lane, Dundee, in the County of Forfar,
N.B. Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and relating to the method of
attaching picker spindles to looms for weaving textile fabrics, its objects being to
secure the spindle in position securely, and yet in a manner to admit of its
ready removal if required; and that without injury to the parts in connection
therewith.
In carrying out my invention, I secure the one end of the picker spindle to the
sword head by means of a combination bolt and stud, the bolt being attached to
such sword head by means of a nut, its other extremity being employed as a stud
upon which is screwed a cast iron nut of suitable shape. Beyond this nut is a
cast iron cover, in thickness preferably at least equal to the diameter of the picker
spindle, such cover being kept in position by a nut. At the side of the cast iron
nut and cover is a hole, whose diameter is equal to the end of the picker spindle.
When boring this hole a temporary distance piece is placed between the cast iron
nut and the cover, a plane passing through its centre coinciding with the axis of
such hole.
When the picker spindle is in position, the distance piece removed, and the cast.
iron cover held by its nut, the recesses in the cast iron nut and cover grip the
picker spindle very firmly.
The other end of the picker spindle abuts the box end, fitting easily a recess
therein.
1000
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41, Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Method of Attaching Picker
Spindles to Looms for Weaving Textile Fabrics.
I, WILLIAM RAMSAY, of 35 Wilkie's Lane, Dundee, in the County of Forfar,
N.B. Mechanic, 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 improvements in and relating to the method of
attaching picker spindles to looms for weaving textile fabrics, its objects being to
secure the spindle in position securely, and yet in a manner to admit of its
ready removal if required; and that without injury to the parts in connection
therewith.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect, I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in the several
figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same numerals of
reference.
Figure 1. is a face view; Figure 2. a part sectional plan; Figure 3. a section
at A. A. (Figures 1. and 2.) looking towards the right, and Figure 4. a similar
section looking towards the left

page_text: In carrying out my invention, I secure the one end of the picker spindle to the
sword head 10. by means of a combination bolt and stud 11, the bolt being attached
to such sword head by means of a nut 12, its other extremity being employed as a
stud upon which is screwed a cast iron nut 13. of suitable shape. Beyond this
nut 13. is a cast iron cover 14. in thickness preferably at least equal to the diameter
of the picker spindle 15, such cover being kept in position by a nut 16. At the
side of the cast iron nut 13. and cover 14. is a hole 17. whose diameter is equal to
the end of the picker spindle. When boring this hole a temporary distance piece
is placed between the cast iron nut 13. and the cover 14, a plane passing through
its centre coinciding with the axis of such hole 17.
When the picker spindle 15. is in position, the distance piece removed, and the
cast iron cover- 14. held by.its nut 16, the recesses in the cast iron nut and cover
grip the picker spindle very firmly.
The other end of the picker spindle abuts the box end 18. fitting easily a recess
therein and is held by a pinching screw 19.
.:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
(1.) In looms for weaving textile fabrics, the improvements in the method of
securing the picker spindle in position, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
(2.) The combination of parts by which the stud 11. is attached to the sword
head, and the picker spindle gripped by the nut 13. and cover 14. as illustrated and
described.
(3.) The method of forming the recesses in the nut 13. and cover 14. as
described.
Doted this 18th dor of October 1802