Improvements in Loom Pickers
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Loom Pickers
We, JAMES PILKINGTON ORMEROD, of the firm of John Ormerod & Sons, Globe
Leather Works, Castleton in the County of Lancaster, Tanners and Curriers, and
GEORGE BOOTH, of 10A Manchester Road, Sudden, Rochdale in the County of
Lancaster, Foreman Picker Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved manufacture or formation of pickers for
underpick looms having for its object to increase the durability of said pickers.
In pickers for underpick looms as usually formed of the guide or neb and one
band of leather lapped round the neb and slot, only one layer of leather passes
over the neb at the striking face and there is a joint in the face, which causes the
pickers to give way at the joint after being only little worn. In some cases the
band of leather has been spliced at the ends and passed twice over the face
without any joint in the face, but the spliced ends afford an insufficient hold to
the wire staples or rivets holding the neb and band together. To obviate these
defects we form the picker of the neb and two strips or bands of leather placed
upon each other the middle part of which passes over the front of the neb and
forms the striking face, while the ends form the sides of the slot, and the back
end of the slot is formed either by separate pieces of leather of the same thickness
as the neb placed between the sides, or preferably by making the outer one of the
said bands longer than the inner one and turning the ends of the outer band
over those of the inner band towards the front, the whole being fixed by staples
or rivets at the neb and back end of the picker.
Dated the own way of p
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, 6, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer & Patent Agent.
Improvements in Loom Pickers.
We, JAMES PILKINGTON ORMEROD of the firm of John Ormerod & Sons, Globe
Leather Works, Castleton in the County of Lancaster, Tanners and Curriers, and
GEORGE BOOTH of 10A Manchester Road, Sudden, Rochdale in the County of
Lancaster, foreman Picker Maker 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 consists in an improved manufacture or formation of pickers
for underpick looms and has for its object to increase the durability of said pickers.
In pickers for underpick looms as usually formed of the guide or neb and one
band of leather lapped round the neb and slot, only one layer of leather passes

page_text: over the neb at the striking face and there is a joint in the face, which causes the
pickers to give way at the joint after being only little worn. In some cases the
band of leather has been spliced at the ends and passed twice over the face
without any joint on the face, but the spliced ends fixed together at the neb afford
an insufficient hold to the wire staples or rivets holding the neb and band together.
To obviate these defects we form the picker of the neb and two bands of leather
placed upon each other the middle part of which passes over the front of the neb
and forms the striking face, the bands being folded to the sides of the neb and
forming the sides of the slot, and the back of the slot is formed by the ends of the
bands joined together so that the edges of two ends form the inner face of the slot,
the whole being fixed together by staples or rivets at the neb and the back end of
the picker.
On the drawing appended hereunto, Figure 1 shows a side view of our improved
picker, Figure 2 a top view of the same having the ends of the outer band turned
forwards to form the back end of the slot; Figure 3 a top view of a modified
form having the ends of the inner band doubled or folded and those of the outer
band lapped round them to form the end of the slot, and Figure 4 a modification of
the folding shewn by Figure 3.
The improved picker consists of the neb a formed as usual of two pieces of
leather held together by a rivet or nail a¹ and two bands b and c passing with
their middle parts over the face of the neb a and bent along the sides of the same
forming the slot d. At the back end one of these bands is turned forward to form
the back end of the slot. In the arrangement shown by Figure 2, the outer band c
is longer than the inner one 6 and the ends c are each folded over one end of the
hand and laid together. In the modified arrangement shown by Figure 3 the
ends of the inner band b are doubled or folded together while the ends of the
outer band are spliced or scarfed and lapped round the end as shewn. Figure 4
differs from this only by having the two ends of the outer band of different length,
only one of them being lapped round the end of the picker, in order to reduce
the thickness of the end.
The whole is held together by clamps e at the neb and rivets e¹ at the back.
There being no joint of any kind in or near to the face of the pricker, the face
cannot burst out but will last till the countersunk hole for the shuttle tip has been
worn to the edges of the face.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The manufacture or formation of leather pickers for underpick looms of a neb
and two superposed bands passing at or about their middle over the face of the
neb, the ends of said bands being joined together so as to form the back end of the
slot, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The manufacture of pickers formed and folded as hereinbefore described
with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.
3. The manufacture of pickers formed and folded as hereinbefore described
with reference to Figure 3 of the drawings.
4. The manufacture of pickers formed and folded as hereinbefore described
with reference to Figure 4 of the drawings.
Dated this 27th day of November 1897.