IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustav Geissler, of Kirkburton, near Huddersfield, in the
County of York, Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustav Geissler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th December 1881.
GUSTAV GEISSLER of Kirkburton near Huddersfield in the County of York
Manufacturer. IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
This Invention has reference to the means or method employed to receive the
shuttle when it is sent "home" into the shuttle box so as to lessen the concussion
occasioned thereby.
My Invention consists in the employment of self acting and positive mechanism
for effecting this object.
For this purpose I connect to the upright picking rod a friction bowl or
projection placed in such position on the said picking rod, that at each return
motion of the slay a finger or other projection will strike the said pulley and so
lower the picking rod sufficiently as to cause the picking stick to move the picker
a few inches in the shuttle box, just about the time the shuttle is arriving in the
box. By this means the shuttle is received by the picker without concussion and
wear and tear reduced. The leather and other devices at present employed to
receive the shuttle are dispensed with.

page_text: shuttle when it is sent home into the shuttle box so as to lessen the concussion
occasioned thereby.
My Invention consists in the employment of self-acting and positive mechanism
for effecting this object.
For this purpose I connect to the upright picking rod a friction bowl or
projection placed in such position on the said picking rod that at each return
motion of the slay, a finger or other projection will strike the said pulley and so
lower the picking rod sufficiently as to cause the picking stick to move the picker
a few inches in the shuttle box just about the time the shuttle is arriving in
-the-box.
In order that my Invention may be more readily understood I herein give
reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings which is an end elevation of so
much of a loom as is necessary to illustrate my improvements. A is the slay or
shuttle box frame supported by arms B suspended at C and has an oscillatory
motion given to it by means of arms and cranks from the crank shaft D as usual. É
is the picking rod connected at its upper end to the lever F and at its lower end
to the picking lever G also as usual. On this picking rod E I fix a bowl H by
means of a suitable bracket and on the slay or box frame A I fix a finger I both of
which are so placed and arranged in regard to time that a moment before the
shuttle arrives home in the shuttle box J the finger I in its backward movement
will strike the said bowl and lower the picking rod E sufficient as to move the
picker L on the picking spindles to receive the shuttle whereby the concussion is
relieved and wear and tear thereby reduced.
The leather and other devices at present employed to lessen the concussion are
dispensed with.
Having thus shewn and described my improvements, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the exact details herein shewn and described as they may be somewhat
varied but what I believe to be new and claim as my Invention is,-
The employment of the bowl or projection H in combination with the finger I
for the purpose of moving the picker in the shuttle box so as to receive the shuttle
and reduce concussion, in manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof I the said Gustav Geissler have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Tenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand,
eight hundred and eighty two.
G. GEISSLER.
(L.S.)