Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 2nd June, 1894
constructed according to this invention.
In the front end of the shuttle we cut or otherwise form a recess A, which opens
to the interior of the shuttle and to its upper side: This recess is preferably under-
cut as shewn in Figure 4, for the reason hereinafter described. In the delivery
side of the shuttle we form the usual hole for the insertion of the modified form of
eye which we employ. From the recess A, to the eye-hole B, we also cut or form
a diagonal slot C, Figures 1 and 2.
A plate D, having the form shewn in plan in Figure 1, in side view in Figure 3,
and in cross section in Figure 4, and preferably constructed of metal, is inserted
into the recess A, end wise, from the interior of the shuttle. This plate may have
formed upon it two lateral bottom flanges fitting into the under-cut portions of the,
recess A, for the purpose of holding it in place. This plate may be additionally
secured by means of a transverse pin E, which passes through the body of the
shuttle and a hole formed at the proper position in the plate.
One side of the plate has a longitudinal channel F formed in it, and its upper
part is so much narrower than the corresponding part of the recess A that the weft
may pass freely through the space between the plate and the wall of the recess.
A transverse hole G is formed through the plate, and this communicates by a slot
with the front upper edge of the plate as shewn by Figure 3. The top front edge
of the plate is bevelled on the opposite side to the channel F, and approximately
in line with the diagonal slot C.
The shuttle eye may be of the ordinary form, and construction, except that a
slot is cut through it which in use communicates with the diagonal slot C as shewn
by Figure 2.
In threading the shuttle, which is held in the right hand, the weft. from the cop
is taken in the left hand passed down and along the channel between the upper part
of the plate and the wall of the recess, round the bevelled end of the plate, along
and down the diagonal slot, and through the slit into the eye of the shuttle. The
thread will then run in a direct line from the tongue of the shuttle into the
channel F, through the hole G, whence it passes at an angle into and through
the eye.
If the plate D be made of metal as we prefer, its weight will about balance the
weight of the butt of the shuttle tongue, and there will consequently be less
liability for the shuttle to fly out of the loom in use.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A threading device for loom shuttles, constructed arranged and operated
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a loom shuttle a channelled and slotted plate arranged in a vertical
longitudinal groove in the shuttle and having its channelled and slotted parts in
communication through a diagonal slot with a slit delivery eye, substantially as and
for the purpose hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.