Improvements connected with Pickers for Looms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Improvements connected with Pickers for Looms.
We, JAMES MUIR, of 46 Tobago Street Glasgow, Manufacturer, and ALFRED
MUIR, of 104 West George Street, Glasgow, Stockbroker, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows
The leather forming a loom picker is usually bound or held together by means of
metal staples. These staples are objectionable as they tend to tear the leather and
render the picker useless.
Our invention has for its object to over-come this objection by rivetting together
the plies of leather, constituting the picker, by means of wire or other metal rivets
which have a comparatively large and flat head at one end and a sharp flattened or
chisel point at the other end. These rivets are passed through the picker and the
chisel ends are then clinched or bent over and hammered or pressed down flat and
level with the surface of the side of the picker.
The heads of the rivets may be circular, oblong, triangular, square or other
suitable shape.
Dated this 28th day of June 1894.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
We, JAMES MUIR of 46 Tobago Street, Glasgow, Manufacturer, and ALFRED
MUIR, of 104 West George Street, Glasgow, Stockbroker 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:―
The leather forming a loom picker is usually bound or held together by means of
metal staples. These staples are objectionable as they tend to tear the leather and
render the picker useless.
Our invention has for its object to overcome this objection by rivetting together
the plies of leather, constituting the picker, by means of wire or other metal rivets
which have a comparatively large and flat head at one end and a sharp flattened or
chisel point at the other end. These rivets are passed through the picker and the
chisel ends are then clinched or bent over and hammered or pressed down flat and
level with the surface of the side of the picker.
The heads of the rivets may be circular, oblong, angular, square or other suitable
shape.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood we have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 shows one side of a picker.
Fig. 2 shows the other side of the same picker.
Figs. 3 and 4 show other pickers in side view; the picker Fig. 4 being drawn to
a reduced scale.

page_text: Fig. 5 is a front view of one of the rivets and Fig. 6 a side view.
Referring to the drawings
It will be seen from Figs. 5 and 6 that the rivets a have broad flattened heads a¹
and chisel points a².
In Figs. 1 and 2 the picker, which is otherwise of the usual construction, is
provided, in lieu of the usual staples, with three rivets, one, a, passed through from
one side and the other two, b, c, from the opposite side. As will be seen the chisel
points after being passed through the picker are bent over and then pressed down
Hat and level with the sides of the picker.
In Fig. 3 the three rivets a, b, c, are shown as being all passed through from the
one side.
In Fig. 4 four rivets are used, two a, b, being passed through from one side and
the other two c, d, from the opposite side.
If desired more than four rivets may be used.
In use the rivets are found to be much superior to the ordinary staples.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
The application and use in loom pickers, in lieu of the ordinary staples, of metal
rivets having a comparatively large flat head at one end and a sharp flattened or
chisel point at the other end, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of February 1895.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.