Improvements in Weaving Shuttles, or Improved Shuttle Pike or Peg.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weaving Shuttles, or Improved Shuttle Pike or
Peg.
I, WILLIAM CHAPMAN PRIESTLEY, of 22, Mount Pleasant, Cemetery Road,
Pudsey, in the County of York, Weaver, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in weaving shuttles.
Its object is first to abolish or do away with the operation of taking the pike
out of the shuttle, to change the bobbin which causes the weaver to have the work
to do twice over, or what is equivalent to twice. Second to save labour and
expence such as putting tubes or artificial ends, on to the small end of the bobbin
or grooving the head notching the head, etc., etc.
The
For this purpose I make the shuttle pike or peg in the following manner.
pike head, or part by which the pike is pivoted to the shuttle, I form square.
The body is of plain round iron, or steel.
A short distance from the point, I make a flat place on the pike. That means
I take a portion off at each side. The next part nearer the point is square, the
top and bottom corners are parallel with the top and bottom of the flat part on
the pike. The end of the pike is round.
I then make a little cylindrical shaped neb or nose, I make a square hole
through the neb, to fit the square on the pike. At one corner of the square I
take a portion out sufficient to permit the flat part on the pike to pass through,
the neb can then be put on the pike and pushed on to the square, it cannot get
off at the round end because it is of greater dimmension.
In order to put the bobbin on to the pike it has to be lifted up in the shuttle,
when the bobbin can be pushed back from over the flat part, so that the neb can
be put on the pike, the bobbin is then drawn or pushed to the end of the pike
pushing the neb on to the square, the pike is then pressed down into the shuttle,
when the pike is down in the shuttle the bobbin cannot get back, so that the
bobbin prevents the neb from getting off the square and the neb prevents the
bobbin from getting off the pike.
I do not bind myself to the shape of the hole through the neb, or to the shape
of the neb, I can use a circular neb to be put on at the end of the pike. I make
the hole through this neb in the shape of three quarters of the moon.
The
end of the pike the same shape when the neb is put on and pushed a short dis-
tance on the pike. It is turned partly round when another flat place is made on
the pike, but does not extend right to the end, so that when the neb is pushed
towards the end of the pike, it cannot get off.
Dated this 9th day of December 1898

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weaving Shuttles, or Improved Shuttle Pike or
Peg.
WILLIAM CHAPMAN PRIESTLEY, 22, Mount Pleasant, Cemetery Road, Pudsey,
in the County of Yorkshire, Woollen Weaver, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is to produce an improved pike or peg, having a
loose neb or nose, as one of its parts in shuttles for weaving textile fabrics. In
the first place I wish to abolish or do away with the operation of taking the
pike or peg out of a shuttle to change the bobbin, which causes the weaver to
have the work to do twice over, or what is equivalent to doing it twice over,
and in the second place, to save labour and expense, such as putting tubes or
artificial ends on to the small end of the bobbin, or grooving the head, or notch-
ing the head, and so on.
Figure 1, shows a section of a shuttle A, and a pike or peg B, made according
to my invention.
Figure 2, is a view of a loose neb or nose C.
Figures 3 and 4, are views of a section of a shuttle A, pike or peg B, bobbin D,
and neb or nose C.
In carrying out my invention, I make the pike head 1, of a square shape,
and this works upon a pin or pivot in the usual manner in common use.
The body of the pike B, I make of a round form, and at a required distance
from its end, by cutting away a portion off each side of a required length, I make
it flat in shape at 62, and then at the end of the flat portion 63, I make a portion 63
of a square shape, the top and bottom corners of this portion 63, are parallel with
the top and bottom of the flat part 2, and the end portion of the pike B, is
made of a round shape.
I make the neb C, of a cylindrical form, and through this neb C, I make a
square hole el, of such dimensions that the neb C, will slide upon the square
portion 3, of the pike B, I also cut out a part of the neb C its full length at
of such dimensions, that it can be placed upon the flat portion 62 of the pike B,
so that the flat portion 62, can pass into the square hole c¹ of the neb C.
The bobbin D, and the neb C, are placed upon the pike B, in the following
manner The pike B is raised out of the shuttle A, to the angle shewn in
Figure 1, I then put the bobbin D upon the pike B, in the usual manner, I
then put the neb C upon the flat part 63 of the pike B, as shewn in Figure 3, I
then draw the neb C, over the square portion 73, of the pike B, and also draw
the bobbin D, to the end of the neb C, and then I push the pike B down into
the shuttle A, to the position shewn in Figure 4. The end portion 64, prevents
the neb C, moving off the end of the pike B, and when the bobbin D, is pressed
down into the shuttle it is in such a position, that the neb C, cannot move back
to the flat portion 2, of the pike B. To remove the neb C and the bobbin D
from the pike B, the latter is raised to the position shewn in Figures 1 and 3,
when they can be easily removed.
I do not bind myself to any particular shape of pike or neb, as I can vary these
according to the requirements of particular makes of bobbins or shuttles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In loom shuttles, the improved form and construction of the pike or peg B,
having a flat portion 62, as substantially set forth and described.
2. In loom shuttles, the improved loose neb or nose C, having a central hole c¹,
and an opening c³, for placing upon the pike B, as substantially set forth and
described.
3. In loom shuttles, the combination with a bobbin D, of a pike B, having a
flat portion 62, and a loose neb or nose C, having a central hole c¹ and an open-
ing, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 1st day of July 1899.
WILLIAM CHAPMAN PRIESTLEY.