Improvements in Shuttles for Looms.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shuttles for Looms.
I, JOHN WOODCOCK, of Rose Bank Works, Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Shuttle and Bobbin Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to provide an improved shuttle-eye whereby a simpler
and better method of threading the yarn through the shuttle eye can be adopted
and the present practice of drawing the thread through the eye by suction
obviated.
It consists essentially in forming the shuttle eye of a piece of wire, metal or the
like with a loop or eye coiled or twisted in the centre placed across the shuttle in
combination with a bridge piece over which the yarn passes as it leaves the nose of
cop or pirn and by which it is guided or directed to the eye.
In carrying out the invention I dispense with the present shuttle eye and place
in the shuttle in advance of the shuttle peg a bar or wire of metal or other material
with a loop or eye coiled or twisted at or near the centre.
I also place a bridge piece preferably in the form of a slightly bent wire
immediately in front of the shuttle peg to guide the yarn from the nose of the cop
or pirn over the end of the shuttle peg to the eye. This bridge piece is preferably
made movable or adjustable in order to regulate the tension put on the yarn as it
passes from the cop. The eye piece may be made movable for the same purpose
but I prefer to make it fixed and regulate the tension by moving the bridge.
The wire which forms the eye may be placed at the top or bottom of the shuttle
and either horizontal or vertical but at present I prefer to place it horizontal and
near the top or upper side of the shuttle.
The threading of the eye is effected by passing the yarn round the bridge piece
and then over and round the eye piece the thread slipping into the eye through the
slit formed between the coils of the wire.
I consider that the threading will be done much more expeditiously than at
present and without the objectionable practice of the operative drawing or sucking
the thread through by the mouth.
Dated this 28th day of December 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shuttles for Looms.
I, JOHN WOODCOCK, of Rose Bank Works, Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Shuttle and Bobbin Maker, 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 is designed to provide an improved shuttle-eye whereby a simpler
and better method of threading the yarn through the shuttle-eye can be adopted
and the present practice of drawing the thread through the eye by suction
obviated.
It consists essentially in forming the shuttle-eye of a piece of wire, metal, or the
like with a loop or eye coiled or twisted in the centre placed across the shuttle in
combination with a bridge piece over which the yarn passes as it leaves the nose of
cop or pirn and by which it is guided or directed to the eye.
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page_text: It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
as examples two methods of attaching my improved shuttle-eye are illustrated.
The shuttle A and shuttle tongue B which carries the cop or pirn C are
constructed in any ordinary form but I dispense with the present shuttle-eye
passing through the shuttle and place in the shuttle A in advance of the shuttle
tongue or peg B a bar or wire D of metal or other material with a loop or eye d
coiled or twisted at or near the centre. A guide wire F attached by both ends to
the shuttle is passed through the eye d of the wire D to assist in guiding the yarn
into the eye d and prevent it being drawn out when in position. Although I prefer
to employ the guide wire F it may if desired be dispensed with.
The wire D which forms the eye d may be attached in any convenient way to
the shuttle the eyed being placed at or near the centre and one end being left
unattached for the yarn to pass round into the eye d. I at present prefer the
method or arrangement of fastening shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 in which the bridge
piece or wire E is firmly attached at both ends to the shuttle and the wire D
secured in a hole bored therein being clamped in position or prevented being
displaced by a second wire e placed in contact with it and also firmly secured to
the shuttle.
In Figs. 45 and 6 the wire D with the eye d is fixed by one end into the shuttle
the other being free for the yarn to pass over into the eye, other arrangements
for attaching the wire D may be adopted if desired.
The wire D which forms the eye may be placed either nearer to the top or
bottom of the shuttle and either horizontal or vertical but at present I prefer to
place it horizontal and near the top or upper side of the shuttle as shown.
The threading of the eye is effected by passing the yarn round the bridge piece E
and then over and round the edge of the loop forming the eye the thread slipping
into the eyed through the slit formed between the coils of the wire.
I consider that the threading will be done much more expeditiously than at
present and without the objectionable practice of the operative drawing or sucking
the thread through by the mouth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A shuttle having an eye formed by a piece of wire or other suitable material
and coiled or twisted with a loop placed across the shuttle in lieu of the ordinary
shuttle eye in combination with a second wire or bridge piece over which the yarn
is drawn as it leaves the nose of cop or pirn substantially as described.
2. The combination with the shuttle of the wire D coiled or twisted to form an
eyed and the bridge piece or wire E with or without the guide wire F substantially
as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 26th day of Santambar 1902
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.