IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE GEARING AND CHANGING OF HEALDS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sydney Herbert Storry, of Huddersfield in the County
of York, Woollen Manufacturer, and Samuel Dyson Rhodes of Huddersfield
aforesaid, Machinist, for an Invention of IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sydney Herbert Storry and
Samuel Dyson Rhodes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
25th July 1883.
SIDNEY HERBERT STORRY of Huddersfield in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturer and SAMUEL DYSON, RHODES of Huddersfield aforesaid, Machinist.
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE GEARING AND CHANGING OF
HEALDS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
This invention has reference to apparatus to be employed in attaching and
detaching healds to the jack levers of Looms, and to provide ready and simple
means for raising lowering, and adjusting the said healds."
"
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For the purpose of carrying out our Invention we use the usual "streammer"
which fits on the jack lever in the bottom of which "streammer we make a
number of slots or openings partially square and partially round. This" streammer
is placed into a grooved fixing or bracket, having a button headed stud fixed
thereto for the purpose of entering one of the slots or openings formed in the
"streammer The grooved fixing is connected by wires to the top shatt of the
healds, whilst the bottom shaft is connected in the usual manner to bottom.
jack levers, whereby the healds and parts connected therewith, are kept rigid or at
such a tension as to prevent the button headed stud from slipping out of the slot
in the "streainmer."
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By means of the apparatus herein described, the healds are not only readily
geared charged and adjusted, but the cords at present in use for that purpose, aro.
dispensed with whereby their consequent evils such as liability of fire, expansion.
and contraction are avoided

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Sydney Herbert Storry and Samuel Dyson Rhodes in the Patent
Office on the 19th January 1884.
SIDNEY HERBERT STORRY, of Huddersfield in the County of York Woollen
Manufacturer and SAMUEL DYSON RHODES of Huddersfield aforesaid Machinist.
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE GEARING AND CHANGING OF
HEALDS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
"
This invention has reference to apparatus to be employed in attaching and
detaching healds to the jack levers of looms, and to provide ready and simple
means for raising, lowering, and adjusting the said healds.
For the purpose of carrying out our invention we use the usual streamer which
fits onto the jack lever, near the bottom of which streamer we make through it a
number of slots or holes.
The perforated portion of this streamer is placed in a grooved fixing or bracket
having fixed therein a button or headed stud, or projection (or there may be
more than one) designed to pass through the slot holes or openings formed in the
streamer.
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The grooved fixing is connected by wires to the top shaft or stave of the healds,
whilst the bottom shaft or stave is connected in the usual manner to the bottom
jack levers, whereby the healds and parts connected thereto are kept rigid or at
such a tension as to prevent the buttons er headed studs from slipping out of the
slots in the streamer.
Referring now to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig 1.
represents in elevation apparatus according to our invention with portions of the
wire connecting rods removed. Fig. 2. is a sectional plan in line 8. 9. of. Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. is a side elevation with the connecting wires omitted for sake of clearness.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew respectively in elevation and in plan (drawn to a smaller scale).
the streamers as they would be arranged on the jack levers when in work.
The streamer A is (exept as to its proportions) of ordinary form and rests in
recesses in the jack lever B. Near the lower end of the streamer slot holes C are
formed through it. In the example illustrated they are arranged diagonally, and
each hole is somewhat larger at one end than at the other, to allow of the passage
therethrough of the heads of studs or buttons. D which are secured in the fixing F.
When the streamer A is slipped over the heads of the studs or buttons the weight
of the heald stave or shaft E and parts connected thereto draws the fixing F
downward, and owing to the inclination of the slots or holes in the streamer, the
fixing F is caused to simultaneously move laterally until the shanks of the buttons.
or studs have entered the smaller parts of the slots or holes; thereby causing the
streamer to enter a groove formed in the fixing F as shown and which aids in
retaining the fixing F in position
In some looms where there is much vibration it will be advantageous to insert a
headed cotter or wedge G between the side of the fixing F and the streamer A as,
shewn in Figs 1. and. 2. This affords an additional safeguard against accidental
disconnection of the fixing from the streamer which might be caused by entry of
an obstruction between the heald shaft and loom.
The fixing F is suitably formed to receive the lifting or connecting wires H. H
which are hooked thereto; at their lower extremities short links J are provided as
shown which slip onto the ordinary hooks provided on the upper heald stave or
shaft. E.

page_text: The lifting or connecting wires H. H¹. are made of mild Bessemer steel. They
are not both the same length, H. being somewhat shorter than the others as the
streamers are not placed in the same line of recesses in the jack levers B. B. but
for convenience are arranged zig zag. as illustrated in plan Fig. 5. The rods H
and Hare arranged as shewn in Fig. 4.
By means of the apparatus above described it will be seen that not only can the
heald frame be readily geared, changed, or adjusted but moreover the cords
ordinarily employed for effecting these objects are dispensed with and their
consequent evils such as liability to fire, expansion or contraction avoided. :-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we hereby declare that
what we consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as the invention
secured to us by the Letters Patent hereinbefore first in part recited is :-
1. The use in combination with a streamer made with slots, holes, or openings of
a grooved fixing with a headed stud or button or headed studs or buttons
substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for facilitating the gearing and changing of healds employed in
looms for weaving. The use in combination with a streamer and a fixing such as
referred to in the previous claim of a headed cotter or key as described and
illustrated for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof we the said Sidney Herbert Storry and Samuel Dyson
Rhodes have hereunto set our hands and seals this Eleventh day of January in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty four
SIDNEY HERBERT STORRY
SAMUEL DYSON RHODES
(L.S.)
(L.S.)