Improvements in or appertaining to the Shuttles and Shuttle Races of Weaving Looms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to the Shuttles and Shuttle Races
of Weaving Looms.
I, THOMAS RHODES, of 81, Park Side Road, West Bowling, near Bradford, in
the County of York, Brickworks Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the shuttles and shuttle races of
weaving looms and its object is to more efficiently guide the shuttle and prevent it
flying out."
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For this purpose I employ a number of either permanent magnets or electro-
magnets let into the face of the shuttle race so as to form a more or less continuous
row, or rows, of magnets from one shuttle box to the other. An iron armature or
iron armatures or a magnet or magnets is or are let into the underside of the shuttle
so that as the shuttle passes between the warp along the race the magnets fixed
therein attract the armatures or magnets fixed to the shuttle and consequently tend
to keep the shuttle in line with the race. In addition to this arrangement the
shuttle may have a magnet or magnets let into the side next to the reed arranged
to attract the reed wires or dents and thus tend to keep the shuttle against the reed
as it traverses the race.
Small iron rollers or runners may be fixed to the underside of the shuttle to
reduce the friction.
Dated this 8th day of January 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to the Shuttles and Shuttle Races
of Weaving Looms.
1, THOMAS RHODES, of 81, Park Side Road, West Bowling, near Bradford, in
the County of York, Brickworks Manager, 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 improvements in the shuttles and shuttle races of
weaving looms, and its object is to more effectually guide the shuttle and prevent
it "flying out."
For this purpose 1 employ a number of either permanent magnets or electro-
magnets let into the face of the shuttle race so as to form a more or less continuous
row, or rows of magnets from one shuttle box to the other. An iron armature or
iron armatures or a magnet or magnets is or are let into the underside of the shuttle
so that as the shuttle passes between the warp along the race the magnets fixed
therein attract the armatures or magnets fixed to the shuttle and consequently tend
to keep the shuttle in line with the race. In addition to this arrangement the
shuttle may have a magnet or magnets let into the side next to the reed arranged
to attract the reed wires or dents and thus tend to keep the shuttle against the reed
as it traverses the race.
Small iron rollers or runners may be fixed to the underside of the shuttle to
reduce the friction.

page_text: Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part
of this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a plan view of a portion of the slay board or lay of a loom
with the reed in section fitted with my improvements. Figure 2, represents a cross
section of the same.
Figure 3, represents a back view of a shuttle having two bar magnets let into it.
Figure 4, represents a cross section of the same.
Figure 5, represents a back view of a shuttle having one bar magnet let into it.
Figure 6, represents a cross section of the same.
The magnets A let into the shuttle and secured thereto by the rivets B are
arranged to bear against the reed and by their attraction towards the wires R of
the latter tend to keep the shuttle in the race. In many cases this will be found
sufficient but in addition I may let a number of magnets A' into the face of the
slay board and provide an iron roller Cat each end of the shuttle which rollers
being attracted by the magnets tend to keep the shuttle from flying out. Fixed
iron armatures may be let into each end of the shuttle instead of the said rollers.
Or a strip or strips of iron may be let into the slay board for the shuttle to travel
on and a magnet or inagnets may be let into the underside of the shuttle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In a weaving shuttle, a magnet or magnets let into the shuttle and arranged
to attract the reed wires, substantially as herein shown and described and for
the purpose specified.
2. In a weaving shuttle, a magnet or magnets let into the underside of the
shuttle for the purpose of preventing the shuttle flying out, substantially as herein
shown and described.
3. In a weaving loom the combination with the slayboard, of a number of
magnets let into the shuttle race, substantially as herein shown and described and
for the purpose specified.
Dated this 8th day of October 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.