Improved Means for Securing Picking Bands to Pickers and to- Picking Sticks in Looms for Weaving.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Picking Bands to Pickers and to-
Picking Sticks in Looms for Weaving.
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We JAMES HOPKINSON of Laurel Villas Alfred Street, Bury Gentleman, and
RICHARD ARTHUR HOPKINSON, of 95 Cemetery Road, Darwen, Currier, both in
the County of Lancaster, 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 relates to improved means for securing the leather picking bands-
to the pickers and to the picking sticks in looms for weaving, the principal object
of the invention being to dispense with the necessity for making holes or
perforations in or near the ends of the bands whereby their liability to become
broken is considerably reduced and their durability greatly increased.
A further economy also is effected owing to the fact that when a breakage does.
occur a very much smaller piece of the leather band is wasted than heretofore.
The nature of the said invention and the manner in which the same is to be.
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a partial section and Fig. 2 a plan view illustrating the application of
our invention, and Fig. 3 shows detached views (on a larger scale) of the clip which.
forms the principal feature of novelty in our invention.
a represents part of a picking stick and b the picker, c is the picking band.
Instead of making a hole at or near the free end of the picking band to which the
picker b is attached and driving a leather or wooden peg through the same as
usual, we pass the end of the band c through the slot in the top of the picker b.
as usual, and we secure the end by firmly fixing thereon a metal clip d which is
wider and longer than the slot.
This clip (see detached view Fig. 3) is made of two metal plates d and d', between
which the end of the picking band is placed, and is gripped tightly by means of
screws or bolts e. We prefer to make the inner sides of these metal plates one-
with a longitudinal tooth or projection +, and the other with a corresponding
recess so as to give them a better bite or hold on the leather band, but their inner
surfaces may be corrugated or roughened in any other way which will enable them
to obtain a sufficiently firm grip upon the leather picking band without making a
hole or holes through the same.
The other end of the picking band c is fastened to the picking stick a by the
same means, the only difference being that one of the plates of the clip d is recessed
into the picking stick, and that the screws or bolts e are longer as they have to
pass through the picking stick as shown at Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved means for securing picking bands to pickers and to picking sticks.
in looms for weaving consisting of a clip formed of two metal plates held firmly

page_text: together by means of screws or bolts so as to grip the leather picking band
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 8th day of April 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.