Improvements in Shuttle Guards for Looms.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
Improvements in Shuttle Guards for Looms.
We CORNELIUS FARRER, Manufacturer, JOHN HOWARD, Overlooker, and JAMES
WILLIAM HOLDEN, Overlooker, all of Britannia Mill, Woolfold, Bury, in the County
of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the wires or rods used at present as shuttle guards to
prevent the shuttle from accidentally leaving the race and injuring an attendant.
The invention consists in the first place in so hanging a cranked bar or thick
wire loosely in brackets fixed to the slay-cap or hand rail, that the guard cannot
interfere with the "shed" and as the pick or passage of the shuttle takes place the
said bar or wire shall be in such a position as to be outside the point or tip of the
shuttle.
The guard is prevented from swinging too far forward by cranking it at the end
or ends thereof so that such cranked end comes in contact with the slay cap, and is
thus entirely automatic and positive in its action.
In the next place instead of forming the guard of one continuous wire as usual,
I form the said guard of two wires or rods of not quite half the length of the guard,
the two inner ends of such wires or rods being supported in each end of a light
shell or tube of such a length 'that the guard can be adjusted to any width of loom
to which it may be desired to apply the same, or to any width of cloth to be made
in the same loom.
Dated this 16th day of January 1897
We CORNELIUS FARRER, Manufacturer, JOHN HOWARD, Overlooker, and JAMES
WILLIAM HOLDEN, Overlooker, all of Britannia Mill, Woolfold, Bury, in the County
of Lancaster, 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 wires or rods used at present as shuttle guards to
prevent the shuttle from accidentally leaving the race and injuring the attendant ;
and the same will be readily understood from the following description on reference
to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a slay cap and shuttle race with the improvements applied

page_text: The invention consists in the first place in so hanging a cranked bar or thick
wire d loosely in brackets e adjustable on slotted plates e 1 fixed to the slay-cap or
hand rail a that the guard d cannot interfere with the "shed" of the warp and as
the pick or passage of the shuttle c takes place the said bar or wire d shall be in such
a position as to be outside the shuttle c as shewn on Fig. 2.
The guard d is prevented from swinging too far forward by cranking it at the end
or ends thereof as seen at d 1 so that such cranked end d'1 comes in contact with
the slay cap a or the plate e 1, and the guard d is thus entirely automatic and
positive in its action, the plate e 2 limits the backward motion of the guard d, by
arresting the cranked part d 3 thereof.
In the next place instead of forming the guard d of one continuous wire as usual
we form the said guard d of two wires or rods of not quite half the length of the
guard, see Fig. 1, the two inner ends of such wires or rods being supported in
each end of a light shell or tube d 2. preferably fixed to one of the wires and of
such a length that the guard d can be adjusted to any width of loom to which it
may be desired to apply the same, or to any reasonable width of cloth to be made
in the same loom, the brackets e being adjusted for the same purpose on the cap a as
hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A shuttle guard consisting of a cranked wire hung loosely from the slay cap
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. A shuttle guard consisting of two cranked parts supported at the centre by a
long light shell or tube substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
annexed drawings.
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GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.