Improvements in or attached to Springs for Looms or other purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1898-Accepted, 16th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or attached to Springs for Looms or other purposes.
I, EDMUND BRIERLEY, of No. 12, Fitton Street, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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I have two or more strips of metal or other material, one end of each strip has
projections formed on or attached to it, and the other end which passes through
an open coiled spring, is attached in any suitable manner to the mechanism that
actuates the spring. These strips pass through the open coiled spring in opposite
directions and the projections on the end of the strips come against the ends of the
coiled open spring and thus if the other ends of the strips are pulled out it will
compress the spring. One or more of these strips are wide enough to keep the
spring straight when being compressed.
I, EDMUND BRIERLEY, of No. 12, Fitton Street, Rochdale, in the County of
Lancaster, Machinist, 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:-
manner.
In carrying out my invention I pass two or more strips of metal or other material
into or through an open coiled spring, one or more of these strips is or are made
rather less in width than the inside of the spring and yet wide enough to keep
the spring straight or nearly so. If two strips only are used one end of each strip
has formed on or attached to it a projection or projections, and to the other end of
each strip the mechanism that actuates the spring is attached in any suitable
The two strips are passed through the coiled spring so that the pro-
jections on one strip will come against one end of the spring and
those on the other strip will come against the other end of the spring. But to make
my invention better understood I will now proceed to describe the same by refer-
ence to the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 represents a side and Fig. 2 an end
elevation of a spiral spring with the strips attached, Fig. 3 is a side elevation of
a side and
a strip with two projections on one end and a hook at the other Fig.
Fig. 5 an end elevation of a strip with a piece of wire to form the projections at
one end and a hook at the other, Fig. 6 is a side and Fig. 7 a plan of a strip which
is folded over a piece of wire to form the projections at one end and is folded over
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page_text: at the other end so as to strengthen it. In Figs. 1 and 2 a is one of the strips and b
is the other, these are passed through the spring in opposite directions so that the
projections a¹ on one strip come against one end of the spring c and the projec-
tions on the other strip come against the other end of the spring c, and thus if
the ends a² and 2 of the strips are pulled out they will compress the spring c and
thus give the elasticity required.
Having thus described the nature of my said invention and how the same may
be carried into effect I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the
precise details herein laid down and shown in the drawings as the same may be
varied without departing from the character of my invention but what I do claim
is:―
In springs for looms and othe purposes having strips of metal or other material
which pass up inside the spring substantially as shown and described.
Doted this 11th dor of Tune 1898
EDMUND BRIERLEY.