Improvements in Looms for Weaving Horse Hair and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Looms for Weaving Horse Hair and the like.
We, BERNHARD LANGE, of Konigstrasse 147, Elberfeld, Manufacturer, and
CARL KATHOL, Heubruchstrasse 5, Barmen, Merchant, both in the Empire of
Germany, 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:-
same.
This invention relates to an apparatus for mechanically interweaving horsehair
or the like, which is fixed on a loom in a convenient manner and operated by the
It comprises essentially a horse hair container a needle for moving the
hair forward and the shuttle.
Referring to the accompanying drawings the hair container with the needle is
represented in the annexed drawing by Figs. 1, 2 & 3. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show a
device used for opening the tongs or claws of the shuttle. Figs. 7 and 8 are
respectively side and plan views of the shuttle. Fig. 9 shows the arrangement
of the apparatus on the lath and the breast beam of a loom.
The hair container consists of a conveniently hollowed foot plate a, on which
the support provided with feet is secured by means of pins or the like 6.
This support has on its front side the two guides 63 in which a sliding piece e
moves and provided on its front side with a corresponding hollow. In this hollow
the horse hair is arranged and kept there by rubber bands fixed on the hooks e³
or by springs e¹. The sliding piece has also the opening e³ through which the
needle passes during its movement whilst the support 6 is also provided with a
hollow b, for allowing the passage of the shuttle.
At right angle to the hair receiver the device shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 is
arranged on the lathe m, the bands g bent round at their front ends are attached
on a frame i by hinges gl. Against the bands g, which can only turn to the side
opposed to the frame the springs g² operate which return these bands when moved
away from the frame back into the position shown in Fig. 6.
The shuttle s used with this device is arranged preferably as shown in Figs. 7
and 8. The mouth of the same is formed by the two pivoted tongs or claws t, of
which each has laterally a projection . The tongs of the same are kept close
by the spring s¹.
Under the shuttle s a roller or rollers can be provided.
For pushing a hair forward the needle d is used which fixed on the breast
beam p has at its front end a depression corresponding to the thickness of a
hair.
As shown in Fig. 9, two such devices are used together in a convenient manner.
The manner of operation is as follows:-
The hair container as well as the device influencing the mouth of the shuttle
are arranged on the lath m as shown in Fig. 9. When the breast beam advances
against the lath each steel pin d pushes a hair out of the container which as shown
in Fig. 1 forms a loop.
When the shuttle is driven forward the lateral projections of the tongs t

page_text: push against the rounded ends of the bands g and the same are opened against
the effect of the spring s¹ and seize the hair pushed forward by the needle. After
the projections t¹ of the tongs t have passed between the bands g, the mouth is
closed by the effect of the spring s¹ and the hair lying between is kept fast.
When returning the hair is still held in the mouth because the projections t¹ turn
the bands y on their hinges g' against their springs g; the hair is then guided
by means of the shuttle through the shed. At the end of the movement of the
shuttle there is provided a suitable device by which the mouth of the shuttle is
opened and the hair is freed, whereupon the shuttle is again driven forward and
the operation is repeated.
The warps may consist of convenient woollen cotton or the like threads, which
are beamed on the loom in the known manner. Through the shed formed by the
working of the loom the horse hair is guided by means of the shuttle as already
mentioned. After the shuttle has returned the shed closes again and opens when
the shuttle is again driven forward.
Two apparatus can work on one loom by which means an increased effect is
obtained. In consequence of these arrangements respectively by displacing the
picking shafts different widths can be produced on one loom.
In order to make the hairs supple for obtaining an easier and smoother work-
ing, the same are kept damp, which can be effected by water, oil or the like, which
is in a vessel arranged suitably between the apparatus, into which vessel the hairs
are laid in.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
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An improved apparatus or adjunct for use with looms for mechanically inter-
weaving horse hair, in which the horse hairs kept in a container are pushed for-
ward singly by means of a needle d fixed on the breast beam and then seized by a
shuttle s, the tongs t of which when driven forward are opened by the projec-
tions t¹, striking against the rounded bands g controlled by springs g², and when
the shuttle is returning, the horse hair held by tongs which are closed again by
a spring s¹, is guided through the shed all substantially as described and illustrated
and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 20th day of June 1898.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicants, 18, Buckingham Street, W.C.