Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
1, USTAY EUTER OI verteld, Usterspammerstrasse 14, Memish russia,
Germany, Weaver 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 :-
My invention has for its object such improvements in mountings for looms, by
means of which it will be possible to fit out a loom with up to 200 shafts (leaves)
in the same space in which hitherto only 30 to 40 could be fitted and worked.
At the same time my improvements enable me to make larger figures and designs
than was possible with this class of looms with the means hitherto at hand and
with a smaller number of cards and I can make these figures in various manners of
binding.
The annexed drawings show the arrangement of the mountings in the loom.
Figure 1 is a front view of the loom ;
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section ;
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the arrangement of the mountings ;
Figure 4 is a cross section of the Jacquard machine showing the arrangement of
the lifting device for the needle board;
Figure 5 is a front view of the same with the device. for shifting the needle
board sideways;
Figure 6 is a plan of the same;
Figure 7 is a modified construction showing a cam chain in place of a cam disc ;
Figure 8 shows the lifting device in an enlarged scale;
Figure 9 is a plan of Figure 8.
The leaves are actuated as usual by means of a Jacquard machine A, having in
the example shown 160 lifting wires, because there are 160 leaves; the Jacquard
machine is fitted out with a needle board that can be shifted sideways and vertically.
In order to be able to mount the 160 leaves in the available small space, which
is not larger than usual, I arrange the same as follows.
The cords E tied to the lifting wires are ranged in 4 sets I, II, III, IV (Fig. 3)
and passed through a board B, each set being divided in 4 rows a, b, c, d of 10 holes
each making together 4 x 4 x 10 = 160 holes; if there had been 200 shafts a
fifth set of 4 x 10 holes would have to be arranged, more or less according to the
number of leaves.
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Below the board B I arrange a frame C of such length as will correspond to the
width of the goods to be woven, in the other direction, that is parallel to the warp,
it is of the width that corresponds to the 4 (or 5) sets of the board B and I arrange
a similar perforated board D and D at each side, right and left, divided also in
4 sets. These boards D and D' are fixed at right angle to the sets I, II, III, IV
of the board B and they are divided accordingly, that is to say in the direction of
the warp each part I D, II D
and ID, II D' IV D is provided
with 4 rows of holes a, b, c, d of 10 holes in each row.
Below the board B the cords E passed through it are tied to cords F and Fi
spreading right and left and these cords F and F are drawn in the following order
into the holes a¹, b', c¹, d¹ (I
IV of D and D¹).
The twice 10 cords F and F of the first cross row a of the set I of the board B
are drawn half right and half of them left into the first rows of holes a', a¹ of the
subdivisions I, I of the boards D and D¹ in the frame C; the twice 10 cords F
and F of the second cross row of the set I of the board B are drawn half right
and half of them left into the second row 6', ' of the boards DI and D¹ I in the
frame C and in the same manner the cords of the third and fourth row, and then

page_text: in the similar order the cords are arranged for the sets II B and II D and II D'
and so on for all the sets.
Below the frame C, I suspend to the cords F and F the leaves or shafts Ga, Gb,
Gc, Gd corresponding to the rows a, b, c, d and a, b, c d respectively and in four
stories one above the other, each story having 4 sets each of 10 shafts behind each
other, this making again the total of 4 x 4 x 10 = 160 shafts or leaves.
For very broad goods the shafts may be suspended to more than two cords F
and Fi; 3 or 4 may be used, which would be tied to the cords E and in the
frame C a third or fourth board (D³, D') would have to be inserted as indicated in
dotted lines.
The headdles H of the shafts are provided with weights I which.cause the down
stroke of the shafts.
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Now according to the shafts which work together, for instance all of the first
set, together, and all of the second set together and so on, I can produce a square
or a diamond of a certain size, and when the first and second sets work together
and also the third and fourth sets the square will be of double the size, and in each
square I can lay a figure of corresponding size. I can also produce a striped
pattern when the leaves of each set work each singly, and stripes of double width
can be made when two shafts work together.
By shifting the needle board of the Jacquard machine horizontally and vertically
in the well known manner a new manner of binding can be produced.
I need only 40 cards for a pattern requiring 400 and more cards with the ordinary
arrangement.
The new arrangement of the mountings is especially applicable for making
figured goods for ladies dresses with figures and stripes up to 1 to 2 inches in
width.
Now in order to be able to change the manner of binding at will and thus
produce a variety of designs, to make for instance flower designs in a ground of
satin, or of regular or other tweel or of taffeta and to make these changes
automatically by the machine at certain intervals of time, I tie two cords K
and K (Fig. 8 & 9) to the ends of levers L and L' which are supported below
the Jacquard machine and the other ends of which act upon hooks M & M'.
These hooks take hold of the pillars of a lantern N when the lifting cords K & K
are raised and they turn the lantern in one direction or the other. The lantern is
keyed to a spindle O carrying a cam disk Y upon which rests a lever P which
is raised or lowered by the turning of the cam, and since the needle board R is
supported by this lever it will be raised or lowered accordingly and thus another
row of holes in the cards will be brought opposite to the needles and consequently
another sort of binding will be made.
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For shifting the needle board horizontally I use a similar arrangement.
connect two levers S and S¹ to two lifting wires and actuate a lantern U by two
hooks T and T. The lantern is keyed upon a spindle V lying parallel to the
needles. Opposite to the needle board I fix to the spindle V a cam disc W, and
to the needle board. I fix a spiral spring X pulling the same against the cam, so
that when the lantern U is turned round the cam will give the needle board a
certain position corresponding to the excentricity of the cam and thus another
change of the binding can be made. In both cases a chain of cams X' (Fig. 7)
instead of the cam disc can be used for obtaining a larger range in the variety of
designs.
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.) The arrangement of the mountings for looms by means of which it is possible
to fit up to 200 leaves in the same space where usually 40 only can be lodged by
suspending the shafts in 4 stories one above the other each story carrying 4 sets
each of 10 shafts in a horizontal row which are suspended to cords F & F¹ drawn

page_text: into the holes of rows a, b, c, d' of sets I, II, III, IV of perforated boards D
and D in a frame C and uniting these cords to the cords E of the lifting wires
which are drawn into similarly arranged rows of holes a, b, c, d of perforated
sets I, II, III, IV of a board B below the Jacquard machine.
2.) In combination with this arrangement of the boards B and C and of the
shafts Ga, Gb, Gc, Gd the devices for shifting the needle board sideways and in a
vertical direction consisting of the levers, L, L' and S and S₁ and of the hooks M
and M and T and T¹ and the lanterns N and U respectively, carried upon the
spindles and V to which are keyed cams Y and W or discs carrying cam
chains changing the position of the needle bar in a vertical or horizontal
direction when they are turned by the action of the levers L, L' and S, S¹
respectively.
Dated this lot dow of Contomban 1000
GUSTAV REUTER.
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.