Improvements in or appertaining to Picking Sticks for Under Pick Looms.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1899
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Picking Sticks for Under Pick
Looms.
We, ARTHUR HEATON, of Valley Road Works, Liversedge, in the County of
York, Machine Maker, MAHLON HIRST, of Littletown, Liversedge aforesaid,
Mechanic, and THOMAS HALLAS, of Littletown aforesaid, Overlooker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to picking sticks
for under pick looms. This class of picking stick usually fails or gives way at
the part engaging the picker and the object of this invention is to enable the
sticks failing in this way to be utilized again.
For this purpose we mount the lower end of the picking stick in a long metal
sheath or holder preferably of sheet steel and it may be open on one side that
is to say in the form of a shallow trough the size and shape of the picking stick
in cross section and we do not carry the picking stick quite down to the stud
upon which it vibrates but a portion of the metal holder projects below the
stick and is made with a bearing eye by which it is secured upon said stud and
a wooden or other suitable bearing block is preferably fixed in the holder by
the side of the eye so as to afford a substantial and easily renewable bearing.
The overlapping parts of the picking stick and holder are drilled with say,
four equidistant bolt holes and when the stick is new it is secured to the holder
by a couple of bolts passed through the two holes furthest away from each other.
Then when the end engaging the picker requires renewing the stick is raised up
the distance the holes are apart and the bolts passed through the first and third
hole in the holder and the second and fourth hole down in the stick.
When the upper end of the stick again requires renewing the stick can be
raised another hole.
Dated this 9th day of March 1899.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
Improvements in or appertaining to Picking Sticks for Under Pick
Looms.
We, ARTHUR HEATON, of Valley Road Works, Liversedge, in the County of
York, Machine Maker, MAHLON HIRST, of Littletown, Liversedge aforesaid,
Mechanic, and THOMAS HALLAS, of Littletown aforesaid, Overlooker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
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page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement-
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This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to picking sticks
for under pick looms. This class of picking stick usually fails or gives way at
the part engaging the picker and the object of this invention is to enable the
sticks failing in this way to be utilized again.
For this purpose we mount the lower end of the picking stick in a long metal
sheath or holder preferably of sheet steel and it may be open on one side that
is to say in the form of a shallow trough the size and shape of the picking stick
in cross section and we do not carry the picking stick quite down to the stud
upon which it vibrates but a portion of the metal holder projects below the
stick and is made with a bearing eye by which it is secured upon said stud and
a wooden. or other suitable bearing block is preferably fixed in the holder, by
the side of the eye so as to afford a substantial and easily renewable bearing.
The overlapping parts of the picking stick and holder are drilled with say,
four equidistant bolt holes and when the stick is new it is secured to the holder
by a couple of bolts passed through the two holes furthest away from each other.
Then when the end engaging the picker requires renewing the stick is raised up
the distance the holes are apart and the bolts passed through the first and third
hole in the holder and the second and fourth hole down in the stick.
When the upper end of the stick again requires renewing the stick can be
raised another hole.
To fully describe our invention, reference is made to the accompanying shee'
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of refer-
ence indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, is an elevation of our improved adjustable stick.
Figure 2 is a cross section of the same.
Figure 3, is an edge view of the stick.
Figure 4, is a longitudinal section.
Figure 5, is a similar view to Figure 1 showing the stick raised in the sheath
to restore it to its normal length after the upper end has been removed.
Figure 6, is a separate view of the sheath.
Figure 7, is a plan view of the sheath.
Figure 8, is a separate view of the stick.
The stick 2 fits between the sides 3 of the sheath 4 and is adjustably secured
therein by the two bolts 5 passed through two of the holes 6 formed through
both the sheath and stick.
A renewable wooden bearing block 7 is secured in the bottom of the sheath
by the two bolts 8 and a hole 9 is made through the block and sheath and the
complete stick is mounted by this hole in the usual way.
Two clipping straps or clamping picces may be passed round the sheath and
stick to adjustably connect them together instead of the bolts 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The combination of the stick 2 and the sheath 4, substantially as herein
shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of the stick 2, the sheath 4 and the bearing block 7, sub-
stantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 9th day of December 1899.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.