Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1887.
. Complete Left, 6th Apr., 1888
Complete. Accepted, 11th May, 1888
I AUGUSTE JOSEPH FABRE, of 44 Rue des Petites Ecuries, Paris, in the republic of
France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object a new system of shuttle pickers for looms for
weaving.
It is particularly characterized:
1st. By the employment for its manufacture of the animal matter called "Nerf do
boeuf," the sexual organ of the ox or other animals, prepared specially with a view to this
application, so that it will afford, besides its natural properties, all the qualities that
the leather pickers at present in use do not possess, as much from a point of view to its
firmness and durability as to its good action.
There has hitherto been employed for the manufacture of these pickers ox-skin of
a preparation analogous to that of parchment, this skin folded together in several
thicknesses presented divers inconveniences, notably a want of solidity indispensable
to an organ of this kind.
In fact, owing to the difficulties of lubrication and the consequent imperfection of
this lubrication, the leather rapidly becomes burned out from contact of the rod on
which the picker acts, thus making the passage of this rod oval and causing the
pickers to act badly.
In order to obviate these inconveniences, I have thought, as I have said above, to
employ the "nerfs" of oxen, bulls, buffalos, etc., whilst submitting them to a special
preparation.
After preliminary cleaning and dessication, the "nerf" is softened by any appro-
priate means, so as to cause it to take the form of a picker. In this new application
of the "nerf de boeuf," I purpose utilizing the canal (of the urethra), whilst the
nerf is still in a fresh state, a lubricating wick is introduced therein, which, when
the picker is formed, is in contact with the rod-guide in such manner as to secure by
its lubrication a good movement or sliding of the picker.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and
323, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Shuttle Pickers for Looms
for Weaving.
I, AUGUSTE JOSEPH FABRE, of 44 Rue des Petites Ecuries, Paris, in the Republic
of France, Manufacturer, 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 has for its object a new system of shuttle pickers for looms for
weaving.
It is particularly characterized
1st. By the employment for its manufacture of the animal matter called "Nerf de
boeuf," the sexual organ of the bull or other animals, prepared specially with a view
to this application, so that it will afford, besides its natural properties, all the qualities
that the leather pickers at present in use do not possess, as much from a point of view
to its solidity and durability as to its good action.
There has hitherto, been employed for the manufacture of these pickers ox-skin of a
preparation analogous to that of parchment, this skin folded together in several
thicknesses presented divers inconveniences, notably a want of solidity-indispensable
to an organ of this kind.
In fact, owing to the difficulties of lubrication and the consequent imperfection
of this lubrication, the leather rapidly becomes burned out from contact of the rod
on which the picker acts, thus making the passage of this rod oval and causing the
pickers to act badly.
In order to obviate these inconveniences, I have thought, as I have said above,
to employ the "nerfs" of cattle, bulls, buffaloes, etc., whilst submitting them to a
special preparation.
After preliminary cleaning and dessication, the "nerf" is softened by any appro-
priate means, so as to cause it to take the form of a picker. In this new
application of the "nerf de bœuf." I purpose utilizing the canal of the urethra so
whilst the "nerf" is still in a fresh state, a lubricating wick- is introduced therein,
which, when the picker is formed is in contact with the rod guide in such manner
as to secure by its lubrication a good movement or sliding of the picker.
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 :-
The manufacture of shuttle pickers from Nerf-de-bouf substantially as and for
the purposes described.