Improvements in the Picking Apparatus of Under-pick Weaving Looms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Picking Apparatus of Under-pick
Weaving Looms.
We, BENJAMIN Ross, of 8, Foster's Buildings, Bramley, in the County of
York, Loom Tuner, EDWARD MOORHOUSE, of 3, Prospect Street, Bramley,
aforesaid, Loom Tuner, and MICHAEL O'NEILL, of 12, Park Place, Bramley,
aforesaid, Loom Tuner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in that class of under-pick weaving
looms commonly called the "American" loom and other under-pick looms in which
the picking mechanism is connected to the picking stick by means of a strap or
other similarly more or less flexible connection, and its object is to provide a more
durable yet equally elastic metallic connection.
For this purpose we employ a steel strap bent more or less into the form of 'a
bow to give the required elasticity. Two steel bows with the concave faces
towards each other may be employed to form the picking strap or cach bow may
be made of two or more parallel bow shaped strips of steel. The ends of the bow
shaped strips of steel may be secured together in any convenient, manner and may
be connected to the picking stick by means of leather, buffalo hide or in any other
suitable manner. The other end of the steel strap may be connected to the
picking mechanism by incans of a hinge or swivel joint.
Dated this 13th day of December 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
Improvements in the Picking Apparatus of Under-pick
Weaving Looms.
We, BENJAMIN Ross, of 8, Forster's Buildings, Bramley, in the County of
York, Loom Tuner, EDWARD MOORHOUSE, of Girlington near Bradford in said
county late of 3, Prospect Street, Bramley aforesaid, Loom Tuner, and
MICHAEL O'NEILL, of 12, Park Place, Bramley, aforesaid, Loom Tuner, 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:
This invention relates to improvements in that class of under-pick weaving
looms commonly called the "American" loom and other under-pick looms in
which the picking mechanism is connected to the picking stick by means of a strap
or other similarly more or less flexible connection, and its object is to provide a
more durable yet equally elastic metallic connection.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.

page_text: Figure 1, represents a side view of our improved strap connected to a portion of
a picking stick.
Figure 2, represents a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, represents a plan view of a slight modification.
In Figures 1 and 2, A and A2 are bow-shaped strips of steel hardened and
tempered to what is generally known as a spring temper. They are secured by
the bolt B to the ordinary hinge or swivel C adapted to be connected in the usual
way to the picking mechanism, and at the other end are riveted by the rivet D to
the leather, buffalo hide or other suitable loop E which is passed around the
picking stick F.
The bow-shaped pieces A and A2 are made as light or thin in cross section as
the strain put upon them will permit in order to obtain the required longitudinal
elasticity.
Although we prefer to use two bow-shaped pieces one may be dispensed with if
the other is made proportionately stouter.
Instead of placing the bow-shaped pieces with their concave side opposite each
other they may be placed parallel to each other, that is to say, the convex side of
one bow piece may lie in the concave side of the other. More than two bow
shaped pieces may be employed in this way.
In Figure 3, the pieces A and A2 are made with two bows in each and the
number of bows may be increased.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
A picking strap for an under-pick weaving loom formed of one or more metal
strips or bands bent longitudinally into a bow-shaped form, substantially as herein
shown and described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of September 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.