Improved Buffer, to be Fixed on the Spindles of Shuttle Boxes of Loomis.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan:, 1846
Complete Specification Left,. 29th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Buffer, to be Fixed on the Spindles of Shuttle Boxes
of Loomis.
WILLIAM ATHERTON, Stansfield Road, Todmorden, in the County of Yorkshire,
Leather Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention refers particularly to my improved "buffer" a Patent for which
was granted to me, in the year 1885, and numbered 1323. I have found by
experience that the inside layers of leather of the buffer, at their bottom parts
are liable to break out from the bottom rivet. or pin that holds the layers
together.
The object of my invention is to counteract this. In carrying out my object,
I make use of a required number of layers of leather to form the buffer. I use a
strip of buffalo hide or metal of required dimensions, this strip of buffalo hide or
metal I place against the back of the layers of leather, and I then bend one end
down against one side of the layers of leather, and the other end against the reverse
side of the layers of leather. Í then place on each side of the layers of leather and
buffalo hide or metal, a single layer of leather. One or more rivets or pins are put
through the whole layers of leather and buffalo hide or metal, and the whole are
thoroughly bound together.
The buffalo hide or metal, prevents wear of the bottom portion of the inside
layers of leather, by any strain of the peg that is usually put through the back of
the lower part of the buffer..
Dated this 14th day of January 1896
H. & R. T. LORD,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Buffer, to be Fixed on the Spindles of Shuttle Boxes
of Looms.
WILLIAM ATHERTON, Stansfield Road, Todmorden, in the County of Yorkshire,
Leather Merchant, 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 :-
Figure 1. shews a view of the buffalo hide or metal, bent in position.
Figure 2, shews a front view of the buffer.
Figure 3. shews a back view of the buffer.
Figure 4. shews a side view of the buffer.
1 bend the buffalo hide, or metal A, into three parts, a¹, a³, a³, I then put a
required number of layers of leather together to form the part of the buffer B,
within the buffalo hide or metal A. I then put the buffalo hide or metal A,
against the back of the layers of leather, the bent parts a², a³, being brought down
one on each side, and the middle part a', being against the back of the layers of

page_text: leather, I then place a layer of leather 61, against one side of the layers of leather
that are within the buffalo hide or metal A, and I also place a layer of leather b
against the opposite side of the layers of leather that are within the buffalo hide
or metal A. The whole are then pinned or riveted together by pins or rivets b³, b³,
and they then form my improved buffer B.
My invention refers particularly to my improved buffer a Patent for which was
granted to me in the year 1885, and numbered 1323.
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 buffers to be fixed on the spindles of shuttle boxes of looms, the employment
of a strip of buffalo hide or metal, for the purpose of binding the layers of leather
forming the buffer together, as described.
.
1000
H. & R. T. LORD,
Agents for Applicant.