Improvement in Weavers' Shuttles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 18921
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1893-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Weavers' Shuttles.
I EMERY HAWORTH of Number Fifty-one Stanley Street within the Borough
of Nelson in Lancashire out of business do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of a new and improved form of cage or
frame for holding firmly in its proper position in a shuttle, a weavers shuttle peg
and is constructed as follows; the cage is made with two narrow vertical sides
braced together at the top thereof with a flat cross bar and which fits more or less
on the top and back portion of the heel of the shuttle peg; the two vertical sides
of the cage are also continued from the bottom thereof and at right angles thereto
in a horizontal position the whole length of the square of the shuttle peg heel but
do not cover the whole of the sides of the square or heel of the shuttle peg but
only so much thereof as is requisite to keep the square of the shuttle peg in a firm
position and so that the peg cannot be moved in a lateral direction; the said two
horizontal sides of the cage are attached to each other at the front portion and on
the bottom thereof by another flat cross bar. There is a slot or groove made in
each side of the wood of the shuttle in the recess where the shuttle peg is usually
placed, and into these slots or grooves the cage is fixed in the required position;
the shuttle peg is then placed in the cage and fixed in the wood of the shuttle by
the pin or axle of the peg being inserted and when the shuttle is at work the peg
cannot be moved laterally because it is bound by the horizontal sides of the cage,
nor can it be moved vertically because it is held in its position by the spring of the
shuttle pressing it against both the top and bottom cross bars of the cage.
Dated this 5th day of May 1892.
EMERY.. HAWORTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Weavers' Shuttles.
I EMERY HAWORTH of Number Fifty-one Stanley Street within the Borough
of Nelson in Lancashire, out of business 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 a new and improved form of cage or frame for holding
firmly in its proper position in a shuttle a weaver's shuttle peg and which prevents
the point of the peg getting below its proper level in the shuttle and causing the
weft to break, and is constructed as follows;
The frame is made with two vertical sides the length and breadth of which must
equal at least that of the shuttle peg heel and so that the said heel may rest therein
and which said sides are braced together at the top thereof with a flat cross bar
which fits more or less on the top surface and back portion thereof of the heel of
the shuttle peg the said vertical sides are also braced together on the bottom
thereof by another cross bar which is also flat and rather broader than the top
cross bar.
The vertical sides have each an indentation made therein of sufficient width to
allow the pivot or axle of the shuttle peg to pass through and lie therein when the
frame and peg and axle are properly fixed in the wood of the shuttle. The frame
being now constructed will allow the shuttle peg to rest therein the top back part
and the underside front part of the shuttle peg heel being forced against their

page_text: respective cross bars by the pressure of the spring of the shuttle acting on the
underside of the shuttle peg, and the pivot or axle hole of the shuttle peg being
always opposite the indentations in the said vertical sides.
A groove is made in each side of the recess in the wood of the shuttle where the
shuttle peg is usually placed or fixed and into these grooves in the wood the cage
or frame is fixed in the required position and is held there by the pivot or axle of
the shuttle peg resting in the indentations made for it in the vertical sides of the
frame and which pivot when properly fixed in the shuttle presses against the bottom
portion of the frame and so keeps it in its proper position.
In order to allow the shuttle peg to be raised out of the shuttle sufficiently high
to suit a weaver when replacing a cop or spool and also for the top back portion
of the shuttle peg heel to have and maintain a sufficient hold of the underside of
the top cross bar 1 cause a shuttle peg to be used which has the surface of the
front portion of the shuttle peg heel on the top thereof slightly depressed grooved
or hollowed out so much that it will admit of the peg being raised out of the
shuttle to as upright a position as is needful when pressed back against the edge of
the top cross bar of the said frame and which said depression groove or hollowing
out on the top and front portion of the said shuttle peg heel is shewn in Figure 5
of the drawings accompanying this Specification.
The force of the shuttle spring acting on the back portion of the underside of
the heel of the shuttle peg keeps the peg tightly fixed and pressed against both the
top and bottom cross bars of the frame and prevents the point of the shuttle peg
from getting below its proper level and the shuttle peg being also confined in the
frame the vertical sides of which prevent all side motion thereof thus enabling the
whole of a cop or spool to be run off and saves the time and material hitherto
consumed and wasted in repairing the many breakages of the weft. The frame
may be made of cast or cast malleable or forged iron, or steel or other metallic or
hard and durable substance.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1. is an elevation in section of a shuttle with my improvement attached.
Figure 2. is a side elevation of the frame.
Figure 3. is a plan of the frame.
Figure 4. is an isometric projection of the frame.
Figure 5. is a weaver's shuttle peg shewing the depression on the top surface of
the heel thereof.
A is the shuttle peg pivotted at B.
B. is the pivot or axle of the shuttle peg which rests in the indented portion of
the vertical sides of the frame.
C. is the lower cross bar of the frame upon which the underside of the front
portion of the heel of the shuttle peg rests and is pressed against it by the shuttle
spring F.
D. is the upper or top cross bar of the frame against the underside of which the
back portion of the top surface of the heel of the shuttle peg is pressed by the
shuttle spring F.
E E. are the indentations made in the vertical sides of the frame for the axle of
the peg to pass through and rest therein as shewn in Figures 2, 3, and 4.
F. is the shuttle spring.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Firstly. A new and improved frame or cage peculiarly constructed as herein
before described and in the said drawings in Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4 is set forth,
shewn and delineated together with the combination of the said several parts of
the said frame or cage so peculiarly constructed as aforesaid substantially as and
for the purposes herein before particularly mentioned and described.
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page_text: Secondly. The combination of the said frame or cage and the said several parts
thereof as a whole with the wood of the shuttle, the peg of the shuttle as herein
before described and its pivot or axle and the shuttle spring substantially as and
for the purposes herein before mentioned and described and in the said drawings
are delineated shewn and set forth in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5.
Thirdly. The manner of retaining the said frame or cage in its position when
fixed in the grooves of the wood of the shuttle by causing the pivot or axle of the
shuttle peg when inserted in its proper position in the peg, the frame and wood of
the shuttle to press upon the vertical sides of the frame in the indentations thereof
and so hold the frame in its proper place substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and set forth.
1000
EMERY HAWORTH.