An Improvement in Wire Weaving and Apparatus for that Purpose.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Wire Weaving and Apparatus for that
Purpose.
I, WILLIAM HARGREAVES of No. 19 Vernon Street, Broughton, Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
According to this invention wire instead of being woven as usual by hand, is woven
by a power loom specially adapted for the purpose. The warp wires pass from
separate bobbins through a grid of studs by which they are somewhat bent laterally
and thus encounter sufficient friction to ensure their tightness. Thence they pass
through suitable heddles and a reed to the beam which receives the woven fabric.
The grid of friction studs is not stationary but is kept in position by a suitable weight
or spring so that it can move a little allowing the warps to yield when the weft is
struck up by the batten. The weft wire is wound on a bobbin enclosed in a cigar
shaped tube constituting the shutile, the bobbin being prevented from turning too
rapidly by suitable friction springs within the tube.
Lube.
From the bobbin the weft wire passes through an eye in the side of the shuttle
On each side of the loom there is a rod guided to move horizontally in the line
of the shed, and this rod in each case receives an intermittent reciprocating motion
from a lever worked by a cam, the cams being so timed that while the one rod is
making its to and fro strokes, the other rod remains at rest. The action of the loom
is as follows:-The batten being back and the shuttle at one side of the loom, say the
right, the shed of the warp is formed by the movement of the heddles; the right hand
rod then advances and after pushing the shuttle quite through the shed retreats. The
batten then advances, strikes up the weft wire, and retreats. The left hand rod then
pushes the shuttle through the succeeding shed, and the action is repeated.
Datal this 20th day of January 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Wire Weaving and Apparatus for that
Purpose.
I, WILLIAM HARGREAVES of No. 19 Vernon Street, Broughton, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :-
According to this invention, wire, instead of being woven as usual by hand, is
woven by a power loom specially adapted for the purpose. The warp wires pass from
separate bobbins through a grid of studs or bars by which they are somewhat hent
latterally and thus encounter sufficient friction to ensure their tightness. Thence they
pass through suitable heddles and a reed to the beam which receives the woven fabric.
The weft wire is wound on a bobbin enclosed in a cigar shaped tube constituting the
shuttle, the bobbin being prevented from turning too rapidly by suitable friction
springs within the tube.
From the bobbin the weft wire passes through an eye in the side of the shuttle tube.
On each side of the loom there is a rod guided to move horizontally in the line of the
shed, and this rod in each case receives an intermittent reciprocating motion from a
lever worked by a cam, the cams being so timed that while the one rod is making its
The action of the loom is as
to and fro strokes, the other rod remains at rest.

page_text: follows. The batten being hack and the shuttle at one side of the loom, say the right,
the shed of the warp is formed by the movement of the heddles; the right band rod
then advances and after pushing the shuttle quite through the shed, retreats. The
batten then advances, strikes up the weft wire, and retreats. The left hand rod then
pushes the shuttle through the succeeding shed, and the action is repeated.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view and Fig. 2 is an end view of
the apparatus for supplying and tightening the warp wires. The wire bobbins fare
mounted on a board d supported on a trestle e or other convenient framing. The
wires, as they pass from the bobbins, pass alternately over and under a number of
bars of which the first, third &c. are carried on the upper part of frames a whilst
the second, fourth &c. are carried by bars c which can be adjusted by screws g to
give the warp wires more or less flexure as may be required. Fig. 3 is a front view
and Fig. 4 an end view of the apparatus at one side of the loom for working the
shuttle, which is shewn on an enlarged scale in longitudinal section by Fig. 5 and
transverse section by Fig. 6. The shuttle consists of a tube a into the ends of which
are screwed conoidal bosses having central recessed holes E. On unscrewing either of
these bosses the spool carrying the weft wire can be introduced, the wire being
passed through a lateral hole c. Either end of the spool is provided with a spring d
which by its friction on the interior of the tube a gives the necessary drag to prevent
the weft wire from unwinding too freely. At each side of the loom is arranged the
apparatus shewn in Figs. 3 and 4. The countershaft of timed to the stroke of the
loom, by means of bevil gear g, works a cross-shaft h carrying a cam which gives
reciprocation to a lever k pivotted at e. The upper end of the lever k has a slot
engaging a pin projecting from a carriage q which has rollers running along guide
rails p. A rod n attached to the carriage q extends through a guide s which has its
mouth enlarged to receive the shuttle a. On the shaft his fixed a cam-ended arm t
which, in revolving, mects a roller u adjustable on the lever and starts the lever on
its backstroke which is completed by the strain of a spring w. A buffer a receives
the blow of the carriage 9 and a buffer y receives the blow of the lever k when it
makes its backstroke.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The herein described method of weaving wire fabric by forming a shed of wire
warp under suitable tension and by means of reciprocating levers and rods worked by
the loom mechanism causing a shuttle containing a bobbin of weft wire to pass
through the shed from side to side of the loom.
2. The tension apparatus for the warp wires substantially as described with reference
to Figs. 1 and 2.
3. The construction of shuttle substantially as described with reference to Figs. 5
and 6.
4. The shuttle moving apparatus substantially as described with reference to Figs. 3
and 4.
Dated this 18th day of October 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.