IMPROVEMENTS IN
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Almond at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th February 1883.
JOHN ALMOND of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster
LOOMS FOR WEAVING"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This invention relates-Firstly to an improved construction of taking up lever
used in connection with the taking up motion of looms.
Secondly-To the construction and use of a shuttle guide and spring or springs
so arranged and combined as to act as shuttle guide and swell.
Thirdly To an improved temple roller adjustable to varying widths of cloth
being woven.
Fourthly To improved apparatus for taking up the cloth as woven without the
aid or use of the Cloth beam or roller as ordinary used.
Fifthly To an improved interchangeable picking bowl or cones.
Sixthly To an improved adjustable expanding and contracting beam for the
warp.
On the catch end of the taking up lever I cast a T head and pin which
projects on each side of the said lever the catch I cast in form of a double finger
open clip the fingers span the projecting pins and the space midway between the
said fingers receives the edge and part of the width of the lever when the catch is
raised so as to be in its working position the projecting pins referred to act as the
centre on which the catch moves whilst the T head serves as fulcrum and securely
holds the catch the latter thus forming a locking pawl detachable at will
Another construction comprises a clip at the end of the lever the catch having
an oblong projecting pin so that when the narrow side, of, the said pin is passed
through the slit leading to the Clip on the oblong pin reaching the clip and being.
turned a quarter revolution or into its working position it is securely held by the
Clip and pin.
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The shuttle guide I construct so as to be adjustable and moveable and employ
in connection therewith a blade or spiral springs mounted upon guide studs so as
to ease and secure the shuttle on its entry into the box.
Temple rollers. I construct of slightly taper or conical outer metallic roughed
cylinders mounted upon and secured to an inner shaft and having end studs or.
axles on which the whole rotates the metallic covering is adjustable so that the
length of roller may be varied at will
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page_text: In lieu of the ordinary cloth beam or roller I attach to the axis a shaft of the
emery roller an eccentric and lever the lower extremity of the latter is toothed or
has a rack thereon gearing with a pinion the latter imparting reverse traverse to a
quadrant or arms by which the cloth as woven is evenly folded into or upon a box
or platform there being a guide roller near the emery roller over which the cloth
passes after leaving the emery roller.
A modification of the above comprises lever and eccentric the foot of the lever
being employed for operating lags for distributing or folding the Cloth as described
or the lever may operate a cuttle whilst a third modification comprises the use of
gear wheels having pin and slot motion for actuating the lever giving the requisite
traverse and distribution of the cloth.
The picking cone I construct of double cones placed and having their smaller
ends opposite each other on a stud and on which is a bush and collar the outer
cone is on the bush end the collar serves to keep the cones apart or spaced there
being a recess turned or formed in the smaller ends of both cones within which
the Collar of the bush is received.
In the construction of the expanding or contracting warp beam I employ end
flanges provided with elongated bosses on the inside of the flanges and these mount
upon (by preference) a square shaft having cylindrical ends on the said shaft
midway its length I affix a drum and to the bosses of the flanges and to the said
drum I attach (by screws or otherwise) legs of wood or metal these form the
equivalent of the barrel of the ordinary warp beam and such logs and the end flanges
may be moved or slided endwise on the shaft so as to lengthen-or-shorten the space
between the flanges according to the width of the warp or width of the piece of
cloth to be woven
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