IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Almond at the Office of the
Cominissioners of Patents on the 19th June 1883.
JOHN ALMOND of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING"
This invention relates-
Firstly to an improved construction of taking up lever used in connection with
the taking up motion of looms.
Secondly to an improved break for stopping the loom.
Thirdly to improved apparatus for taking up the cloth as woven without the
aid or use of the cloth beam or roller as ordinary used.
Fourthly to an improved inter changeable picking bowl or cones.
Fifthly to an improved adjustable expanding and contracting beam for the
warp.
Sixthly-to an improved attachment for the swell.
The catch end of the taking up lever is cast-hollow and circular there being a
gap or hollow head of the lever so as to admit of the necessary motion of the catch
which is provided with circular hollow and received in the hollow head of the lever.
A disc or lid having locking piece cast on its under face is placed on head of lever
and a bolt passed through lid through hollow of catch and to other side of hollow
head when it is secured by nut
The break apparatus comprises a weight lover having its fulcrum on the crank
shaft on a stud attached to the side frame are two arms the ends being fitted with
leather and the latter is caused to press upon and grip the break wheel by means
of two links connected with the ends of the arms referred to and with the crank
shaft so that when the weight lever falls the links act on the break arms and the
wheel is gripped and the loom is stopped.
The shuttle guide I construct so as to be adjustable and movable 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.
In lieu of the ordinary cloth beam or roller I attach to the axis or 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

page_text: 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 and 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 I
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) lags of wood or metal these form the equivalent of the barrel
of the ordinary warp beam and such lags and the end flanges may me 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 or cloth to be
woven.
The attachment for the swell comprises a casting..having eyes for receipt of the
Tend of the swell one of the eyes is provided with a slit or opening through
which the shank or neck of the Team pass, this enables the head of the T to be
passed into or through the eyes at once to its working position without the aid
of other fastening and also admitting of instant detaching of the swell when
necessary.