Improvements in connection with Loom Picking Sticks.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in connection with Loom Picking Sticks.
PETER LEONARD KOBERTZ, Mechanical Engineer, Aachen-Burtsheidt, Bismark-
strasse No. 82, Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention refers to those picking sticks which act direct on the pickers
to propel them across the loom and the object of my invention is to avoid the rapid
destruction of the picking-stick.
For the purpose of my invention; the picking stick is bound round with an
iron or other metal rod which is fixed to the picking stick by its ends being driven
into the stick. In order to keep the rod in position and at the same time further
strengthen the picking-stick; bands of metal are placed tightly round the outside
of the iron (or metal) rod picking stick.
Dated this 17th day of Annil 1900
Improvements in connection with Loom Picking Sticks.
I, PETER LEONARD KOBERTZ, Mechanical Engineer, Aachen-Burtscheidt,
Bismarkstrasse No. 82, Germany, 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 refers to those picking sticks acting direct upon the pickers to
propel them across the loom, the object of the improvement being to avoid the
rapid destruction or wear and tear of that portion of the picking stick which
strikes against the pickers and which soon makes the picking sticks useless,
although in other respects they are perfectly sound.
In order that my invention may be fully understood reference is hereafter had
to the annexed drawings forming part of this specification of which No. 1 is a
front elevation and No. 2 a side elevation.
D is the wooden picking stick.
A is a metal rod, let partly into the picking stick D and fastened to the said
stick by its ends being forced into the stick at B.
"C" are the metal bands placed tightly round the outside of the picking
stick "D" and metal rod (A) in order to keep the rod A in position and at the
same time strengthen the picking stick. The metal bands "C" are fixed to the
picking stick by means of triangular pieces of the bands being forced into
the picking stick.

page_text: The application of the metal rod A tightly binding the wooden picking stick "D,"
contracts the wood, the stick thereby offering a firmer resistance to the pickers
without damaging the ends of the pickers coming in contact with the picking
stick, and allows the picking stick to be used for a much longer period.
The metal bands "C" are placed firmly round the picking stick and metal rod,
keeping the said rod in position and adding weight to the picking stick by means
of which greater propelling force is obtained, and at the same time further
strengthening the picking stick.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The metal rod binding the picking stick at its outer edge in order to
strengthen the said stick and contract the wood.
2. The metal bands binding the metal rod and picking stick, in order to further
strengthen the said stick and to add weight thereto, to increase the propelling
force of same.
Dated this Twentieth day of July 1898.
PETER LEONARD KOBERTZ.