IxPRATE- MENTS IN PICKERS FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ormrod Ingham, of Lidgate, near Todmorden, in
the County of York, Picker Maker, for the Invention of "IxPRATE-
MENTS IN PICKERS FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING.”
Scaled the 18th February 1873, and dated the 20th August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ormrod Ingham at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th August 1872.
I, ОRMROD INGHAM, of Lidgato, near Todmorden, in the County of
York, Picker Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PICKERS FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the construction of pickers in such
manner as to form the picker "shank," or that part of the picker
employed for propelling the shuttle, in such manner as to render the
picker more durable; and also my method of construction is such as to
reduce the cost of production by the use of "scrap." or small portions of
hide heretofore unavailable for such purpose and treated as waste..

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In constructing pickers according to this Invention I form the centre
or middle portion of the shank separate or distinct from the outer
scrap" or layer, and employing for the shank the scrap or waste hide.
Two, three, or more strips are secured together by means of rivets, and
the outer portions or wraps are secured thereto by ordinary staple or
staples and rivets. The interior portion of the shank made separato
as described is placed with the edge of the hide opposite the shuttle
tip, so that when the outer wrap is pierced the inner portion of the
shank will not split, and I thus secure durability and economy in
production.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Ormrod Ingham in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 20th February, 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 'I, ORMROD
INGHAM, of Lidgate, near Todmorden, in the County of York, Picker 1
Maker, send greeting.
. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing dato tho Twenticth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and soventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Ormrod Ingham, Her special licenco
that I, the said Ormrod Ingham, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Ormrod Ingham, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agreo with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ircland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PICKERS FOR LOOMS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Ormrod Ingham, my exccutors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ormrod Ingham, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is to
say :-
This Invention has for its object the construction of pickers in such
manner as to form the picker "shank," or that part of the picker
employed for propelling the shuttle, in such manner as to render the
picker more durable; and also my method of construction is such as to
reduce the cost of production by the use of "scrap," or small portions of
hide heretofore unavailable for such purpose, and treated as waste.
In constructing pickers according to this Invention I form the centre
or middle portion of the shank separate or distinct from the outer
wrap" or layer, and employing for the shank the scrap or waste hide.
Two, three, or more strips are secured together by means of revits, and
the outer portions or wraps are secured thereto by ordinary staplo or
staples and revits. The interior portion of the shank made separate as
described is placed with the edge of the hide opposite the shuttle tip, so
that when the outer wrap is pierced the inner portion of the shank will
not split, and I thus secure durability and economy in production.
Such being the nature and object of the said Invention I will now
proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the Invention
may be clearly understood I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings
and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a picker constructed according to my Inven-
tion; Fig. 2 is an end view of the samo; Figs. 3 and 4 are front and end
views of the inner portion of the shank detached, which is made from
scrap or pieces of hide which were heretofore considered and treated as
waste.
A is the inner portion of the picker shank, which. is composed of
scraps A, B, and C, secured together by means of the revits 1, 2, the
outer portion or wrap E being secured thereto by means of the revits G
and H. The interior portion of the shank made of scrap as above
described is placed within the outer wrap with the edges of the hide
opposite the shuttle tip so that when the outer wrap is pierced the inner

page_text: portion of the shank will not split, so that pickers constructed as above
described are economical of production and of durability...
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my
said Invention, I would have it understood that I claim, the construction
of pickers having the interior portion of the shank constructed as and
for the purpose herein fully described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ormrod Ingham, have hercunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
ORMROD INGHAM. (L.s.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Ormrod Ingham, in
the presence of
Wч. TASKER,
(Tasker & Brierley),
Patent Agents,
Halifax, Bradford, & Blackburn..