Improvements in the Manufacture of Loom Shuttles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Loom Shuttles.
THOMAS WOODCOCK WILSON 39 Lupton Street Bradford in the County of
York Machinery Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to the making of shuttles of looms for weaving, in sheet
iron, steel or in other metals, or partly in sheet metals, and partly in wood, with
improved internal fittings with pot, composition, or other eyes for the weft, with
the intention of making of shuttles of a more durable and of a stronger nature than
are the ordinary shuttles made of wood. And apparatus for and improvements in
the method of the manufacture of sheet metal shuttles by machinery, presses
and dies.
To carry out my invention I employ a machine, which is known as a stamping
press, and suitable dies, arranged for the purpose of-The cutting out of blank
sheets of the exact length, and breadth, and form required to produce the sheet-
metal shuttle. And also dies for the purpose of, the sinking, the closing, and the
placing of the weft groove or indentation in the side of the shuttle A. A wood
plug into which the bobbin pike D, and the pike spring E are inserted, and held
in position, by means of pins-is placed inside of shuttle at C, and retained by
means of a pin, or pins, passing through the metal into plugs C and B. By these
means the pins retaining the pike, and pike springs, cannot work out of position.
In the inside of the other end of the shuttle, the wood plug B is placed, and
which contains the weft eye G. And from the outside at each end, pointed tips F
are forced into the wood plugs B and C.
Dated this 25th day of September 1890.
THOMAS WOODCOCK WILSON,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Loom Shuttles.
THOMAS WOODCOCK WILSON 39 Lupton Street Bradford in the County of
York Machinery Merchant 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 the making of shuttles of looms for weaving in sheet
iron, steel, or in other metals or partly in sheet metals, and partly in wood, with
improved internal fittings, with pot, composition, or other eyes, for the weft, with
the intention of making of shuttles, of a more durable and of a stronger nature,
than are the ordinary shuttles made of wood.
And apparatus for and improvements in the method of the manufacture of sheet
metal shuttles, by machinery presses and dies.
To carry out my invention, I employ a machine which is known as a stamping
press, and suitable dies are arranged, and consisting of a plunger, or forcing die,
and a recessed or retaining die, for each successive operation, for the purpose of
the cutting out of blank sheets of metal, of the exact length, breadth, and form
required to produce the sheet metal shuttle. And dies for the purpose of sinking
the hereinbefore mentioned sheet metal blanks. And dies for forming the weft
groove, or indenture H, made in the side of shuttle A. as in Fig. 2. And dies for
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page_text: the purpose of the forming, and the closing of the shuttle, after the said sinking
operation.
The respective sets of dies are made to the exact length, breadth, and form, of
the interior, and exterior of the shuttle respectively, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and
in sections CD and E F.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation in section, and illustrates, and describes the internal
fittings, weft eye G, pike D, spring E, wood plugs C and B, and tips F.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and illustrates the weft groove H, and weft eye G.
Fig. 3 is a plan of shuttle A.
A wood plug C, into which the bobbin pike D, and the pike spring E are
inserted and held in position by means of pins is placed inside of shuttle at C, and
retained by means of a pin, or pins passing through the metal, into the said plug C.
In the inside of the other end of shuttle A is placed the wood plug B which contains
the weft eye G, and is retained in the manner of plug C. And from the outside
of each eud of shuttle A, pointed tips F are forced into the wood plugs B
and C.
And, in the manufacture of sheet metal shuttles, the hereinbefore mentioned
sheet metal blanks may be stamped to form shuttles in one piece of metal. Or,
the said blanks may be stamped to form shuttles in two or more parts, such parts
are brazed or jointed together, so as to complete the form of the shuttle
described.
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:
1st. The general construction and combination of parts arranged, and indicated,
and with reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and sections C D and E F of the accom-
panying drawings.
2nd. The manufacture of sheet metal shuttles, formed in one piece, or in two
or more parts of sheet metal and wood, all arranged substantially in the manner
and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1891.
THOMAS WOODCOCK WILSON,
Applicant.