Improvements in Stop Rod Motions for Fast Reed Looms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 7th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stop Rod Motions for Fast Reed Looms.
1, THOMAS GUINNESS, of 5, Victoria Place, Bayley Street, Stalybridge, in the
County of Lancaster, Loom Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in stop rod motions for fast reed looms
and has for its object to reduce the wear and tear principally of the shuttles,
pickers, and picking bands.
My invention consists in providing means for actuating the stop rod through the
medium of the crank in lieu of by the shuttle.
To this end I secure upon the stop rod a lever pointing towards the crank shaft
of the loom. The said lever has a projection adapted to bear against the underside
of the crank arm, the free end thereof being bent downwards and adapted to come
into contact with an anti-friction bowl rotating upon a stud secured to the loom
side by means of a bracket.
When the crank moves from the top centre forward, it depresses the said lever
which causes to turn the stop rod and move back the finger on the shuttle swell,
whilst when the crank rises the said lever comes into contact with the aforesaid
bowl which locks the stop rod in position.
When the shuttle fails to enter the shuttle box, the swell remains protruding into
the shuttle box and the chisel on the stop rod having dropped comes into contact
with the sliding frog which operates the setting-on lever in the usual way.
Dated this 9th day of April 1894.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in Stop Koa motions for Fast Reed
MS.
I, THOMAS GUINNESS of 5, Victoria Place, Bayley Street, Stalybridge, in the
County of Lancaster, Loom Overlooker, 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 improvements in stop rod motions for fast reed looms
and has for its object to reduce the wear and tear principally of the shuttles, pickers,
stop rods, and picking bands.
My invention consists in providing means for actuating the stop rod through the
.medium of the crank arm in lieu of by the shuttle.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1, 2 & 3 are cross sections of the slay and crank part of a loom furnished
with my improved stop rod motion and showing the slay and crank in three different
) positions. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 1.

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In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally I secure upon
the stop rod a a lever b pointing towards the crank shaft of the loom, the stop rod
being under the influence of a spring a¹ and having swell fingers h as usual. The
lever b has a projection 6' adapted to bear against the underside of the crank arm d,
the free end 62 being bent downwards and adapted to come into contact with a pro-
jection, preferably an anti-friction bowl e, rotating upon a stud e¹ secured to the
loom sidef by means of a bracket
g.
When the crank c' moves from the top centre, see Fig. 1, forward the crank
arm d at the end of its forward movement depresses the lever b, see Fig. 2, which
causes the stop rod a to turn and move the finger back off the shuttle swell i,
whilst when the crank c¹ rises the lever end comes into contact with the bowl e,
see Fig. 3, which locks the stop rod a in position.
When the shuttle fails to enter the shuttle box k, the swell remains protruding
into the shuttle box k and the chisel on the stop rod a having dropped comes into
contact with the sliding frog (not shown) which operates the setting-on lever (not
shown) in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I.
claim, is―
"In stop rod motions for fast reed looms
33.
1st. The general construction and combination of parts constituting my improve-
ments operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. Providing the stop rod a with a lever b, b', 62, adapted to be depressed by
the crank arm d during a portion of the forward movement of the crank c¹ in com-
bination with a projection e on the loom side under which the lever b, b², b³, passes,
so as to be locked in position thereby during a portion of the upward movement of
the crank c¹ thus rendering the stop rod selfacting, all substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 6th day of December 1894.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.