Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 25th Jan., 1887.
We WILLIAM DIXON of 35 Market Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster
and FRANK HIBBERT of Hyde in the County of Chester both Mill Furnishers do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention is intended to provide a simple and ready means of preventing the
shuttle from being thrown out of the shuttle race while the loom is weaving.
Upon the top rail of the lathe or slay and in front thereof we fix (by screws or
otherwise) a wire or a thin bar bent downwards towards the shuttle race and stretching
across the loom.
This wire must be sufficiently high not to come against the "temples of the loom
or the yarn when the lathe beats up but must be low enough (say three quarters of an
inch below the rail of the lathe) to effectually prevent the shuttle from being thrown
out; and thus all danger of injury to the weavers (or others) in the shed and also of
damage to the shuttle is avoided.
It is evident that as the guard is formed of a wire or thin bar it will not obstruct
the view of the weaver.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants,

page_text: We WILLIAM DIXON of 35 Market Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
and FRANK HIBBERT of Hyde in the County of Chester both Mill Furnishers 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 is intended to provide a simple and ready means of preventing the
shuttle from being thrown out of the shuttle race while the loom is weaving.
Upon the top rail of the lathe or slay, and in front thereof, we fix (by screws or
otherwise) a wire or a thin bar bent downwards towards the shuttle race and stretching
across the loom.
The nature of our invention and the manner in which the it is applied to the loom
will be readily understood on reference to the annexed drawing which represents a
perspective view of part of the reed cap or top rail of the lathe of a loom with my
invention applied thereto.
a, a is part of the reed cap, and b, b is the shuttle guard or wire, which we prefer to
bend up again in the centre (as shown) in order to strengthen the same.
The said wire b, b is attached to the lathe cap by screws, c, c or equivalent means and
is adjustable by means of its bent ends and central support, as it must be sufficiently
high not to come against the temples of the loom or the yarn when the lathe beats
up, but must be low enough (say three quarters of an inch below the rail a, a of the
lathe) to effectually prevent the shuttle from being thrown out and thus all danger of
injury to the weavers (or others) in the shed and also of damage to the shuttle is
avoided.
It is evident that as the guard is formed of a wire or thin bar it will not obstruct the
view of the weaver.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
A shuttle guard formed of a wire affixed to the top rail or reed cap of the lathe
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawing annexed.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.