Improvements in Means for Checking Loom Shuttles and Pickers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Checking Loom Shuttles and Pickers.
We, JOSEPH TEMPLETON, of Shay Terrace, Carlinghow, Overlooker, and ROBERT
TALBOT, Manufacturer of Bulrush Mills, Carlinghow both of Batley in the County
of York, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to construct a picker and leather saver in the form
of a spring buffer placed upon the picker spindle and easily and readily detached
and replaced on any kind of loom, the buffer consists of two bosses or flanges of
metal or other suitable substance connected together at each side, through the
bosses pass the picker spindle upon which is a boss adjustable as to its position by
a screw or other means, abutting against this, adjustable boss and the boss of the
buffer nearest the picker is a spiral or other spring, the action is as follows, on the
picker striking the buffer end it compresses the spring and lessens the concussion.
In place of the spiral spring a rubber or other form of spring may be placed
upon the spindle with the same effect, this construction of spring buffer saves both
the picker and all picking mechanism and there is less noise.
Dated this 24th day of December 1896.
Improvements in Means for Cheoking Loom Shuttles and Pickers.
We, JOSEPH TEMPLETON, of Shay Terrace, Carlinghow, Overlooker, and ROBERT
TALBOT, Manufacturer, of Bulrush Mills, Carlinghow both in Batley, in the county
of York, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be porformed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The object of our invention is to construct a picker and leather saver in the form
of a spring buffer placed upon the picker spindle and easily and readily detached
and replaced on any kind of loom.

page_text: The buffer consists of two bosses C, C, or flanges of metal or other suitable sub-
stance connected together at one side D (or at both sides) forming a sleeve;
through the bosses pass the picker spindle E, the spiral spring abuts against the
flange G of a loose thimble H on the spindle end and the boss of the buffer nearest
the picker.
The said thimble flauge G bears against the inside of the other boss, the conical
end or centre H of the thimble bears in the recess J of the spindle bracket K.
In fast looms the thimble may be elongated and be secured in the spindle bracket
by a set screw or the like means.
The action is as follows:-on the picker striking the buffer end it compresses
the spring and lessens the concussion. In place of the spiral spring a rubber
or other form of spring may be placed upon the spindle with the same effect.
This construction of spring buffer saves both the picker and all picking mechan-
ism and there is less noise.
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:-
In picker savers the employment of a spiral or other spring upon the picker
spindle within the sleeve, the ends of the spring acting upon the thimble Hange
and the flange or boss of the sleeve acting as a buffer substantially as shown and
described.
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