Improvements in Shuttle Guards for Looms.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
Bohemia, in the Empire of Austria, Master Weaver.]
Improvements in Shuttle Guards for Looms.
I, CHARLES JUNGE, of Lincoln Chambers, 75 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Consulting Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in shuttle guards for looms, and consists in
enclosing the shuttle on all dangerous sides and securing the several fingers of the
guards to the lay in such a manner that they may be easily and rapidly adjusted in
accordance with the various depths of the reed, and that the distance between the
said fingers may be increased or diminished and any finger removed without
trouble.
In the accompanying drawing
Figures 1 and 2 show an elevation and transverse section of a lay provided with
shuttle guards constructed according to my invention.
Figure 3 is a front view showing a finger of a shuttle guard to an enlarged scale,
and Figure 4 represents a side view of the same.
In carrying my invention into practice I arrange on the lay cap a, at somewhat
smaller intervals than the length of the shuttle b, the fingers c whose lower edges or
backs are curved so as to correspond to the transverse section of the shuttle. By
this means I prevent the shuttle moving either laterally away from the reed d or in
an upward direction, as it is enclosed on all dangerous sides and receives, as it
were, a constrained or positive motion, which does not expose the weaver to any
risk.
With the object of obtaining the desired adjustability of the fingers, their fastening
bolts mare adapted to slide in horizontal elongated recesses of formed in the lay cap
and covered by plates h, which present a longitudinal slot having at one end a
circular enlargement through which the head n of the bolt m can be passed into
the recess f; whilst the slot itself, being too narrow for the passage of the aforesaid
head, serves as a guide for the bolt m and finger c.
For enabling the shuttle guard to be properly adjusted in height according to the
form of the shuttle and the depth of the reed, the several fingers c are furnished with
a vertical slot through which the bolt m extends. These fingers are securely held
at the places which they are designed to occupy by means of the nut e on the bolt m.
When a
finger is to be removed, this nut is loosened, then the finger and bolt are
moved to the circular enlargement of the slot y and the bolt is withdrawn at this
point from the recess in the lay cap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
Shuttle guards for looms, provided with fingers
according to the form of the transverse section of
are furnished at their upper part with a vertical
guided by a bolt m in the horizontal slot g of a plate
having their back c¹ curved
the shuttle, which fingers
slot i and adapted to be
secured to the lay cap a, the

page_text: head n of the bolt being guided in a recess f formed in the lay cap and covered by
the plate h, for the purpose of enabling the fingers to be adjusted in horizontal and
vertical directions, substantially as set forth.
CHARLES JUNGE.