US1884239A - Control mechanism for looms and the like - Google Patents

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Oct. 25, 1932- .1. REYNOLDS ET AL 1,834,239

CONTROL MECHANISM FOR LOOMS AND THE LIKE Filed April 14. 1930 7 Sheets-Sheet 1 0/ ATTORNEY.

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CONTROL MECHANISM FOR LOOMS AND THE LIKE Filed April 14. 1950 7 sheets-sheet 2 INVENTORS:

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CONTROL MECHANISM FOR LOOMS AND THE LIKE 7 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed April 14. 1930 A TTORNEY.

Oct. 25, 1932. J, REYNOLDS ET AL 1,884,239

CONTROL MECHANISM FOR LOOMS' AND THE LIKE Filed April 14, 1930 7 Sheets-Sheet 5 L 42 Z JNVENTORS M0 M7 Z; 7 W ATTORNEY.

Oct. 25, 1932. J, 0 ET AL 1,884,239

CONTROL MECHANISM FOR LOOMS AND 'THE LIKE Filed April 14. 1930 7 Sheets-Sheet s HQ 10' ME In ATTORNEY.

Oct. 25, 1932. .1. L. REYNOLDS ET AL CONTROL MECHANISM FOR LOOMS AND THE LIKE Filed April 14, 1950 7 Sheets-Sheet 7 zuay m m m N I Patented Oct. 25,. 1932 UJET ED PATENT-- OFFICE,

JAMES L. REYNOLDS, F srnnnnxnrin JOHNM. mcxnLvn or CHARLOTTE,

NORTH CAROLINA I CONTROL;MECHANISM FOR LOOMS AND THE LIKE Application filed April 14, 1930. serial 1%. 444,285.

This invention relates to means for controllmg both the design woven into a fabrlc and the color imparted to the fabric in a vloom from a single indicating means and also dispensing with the box chain or the color control chain.

Heretofore it has beenconventional in dobby looms to have a chain sometimes as long as almost one-hundred feet in length which would make a complete pattern chain of ap proximately fifty test if extended straight away: from the loom in any direction and f' brought back through the loom'to form a complete belt. .It has heretofore been. the

practice to convey this chain through certain selected portions of the space surrounding I the loom and in many instances it forms a barrier to light and obscures the loom to such an extent as to render operation diiiicult.

Furthermore these bars composing this chainare conventionally composed of a wooden bar with metallic pins set therein and these pattern.

- In connection with this pattern chain for controlling the harness mechanism of the (lobby loom it is also conventional to use an extended colorcontrol chain for controlling the box motion of the loom and in. some instances these box motion chains are fifty feet or more in length and have to have means for properly supporting the same and thus a great amount of space is taken up andalso ,-1. the chain is expensive as to materials and as to the labor involved in assembling the chain to suit the design. I p

It is an object of our inventiontherefore to dispense in dobby looms and other types of looms employing separate meansfor controlling the harness mechanism and the box motion mechanism and to combine into one .mechanism means for controlling both the harness mechanism of various types of looms and also controllingthe box motion mechanism by said mechanislm said loom being controlled by a unitary index member for con trolling both the design'of the fabric and the material woven thereinto, by providing indicating means for controlling both the warp and the filling bothas to color, quality and place of location of said warp and filling in the weaving of the fabric.

In the conventional method of having separate indicating means for controlling the design of the fabric woven and the filling imparted thereto, it is often theicase that the harness control means or pattern chains for controlling the harness and the box motion control, or color chain for controlling the box motion, become out of time Withrelation toreach other and thus renders the fabric woven by the loom of no value and places the colors in the wrong position'inthe design, and it, is an object of our inventionito control both the harness mechanism and the box motion mechanism from a single source with all parts positively driven in unison to render it impossible for the box motion control means and the harness control means to be come out of time.

Some of the objects of our invention having been stated other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, showing "one form of our invention, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of our device showing the same attached to a loom dobby;

Figure 2 is an end elevation looking from the right hand side of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an elevation looking'from the opposite side of Figure 1;.

Figure 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken along the line 4-4 in Figure 2;'

Figure 5 is a plan view partially in cross section taken along the line 55 in Figure 1;

Figure 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 66 in Figure 1 and looking downward;

Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along the. line 77 in Figure 4;

Figure 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 88 in Figure 4;

Figure 9 is a cross-sectional View taken along the line 9 in Figure 1;

Figure 10 is a plan view of one of the index cards used by our machine;

Figure 11 is an enlarged detail view of the upper right hand portion of Figure 4;

Figure 12 is an enlarged detail view of the structure immediately below the enlarged structure shown in Figure 11 as will appear in Figure 4;

Figure 13 is a perspective view of the mechanism in which the indicator members are mounted and associated parts;

Figure 14 is a perspective view of the means for supporting the upper portion of the structure shown in Figure 13;

Figure 15 is a perspective view of one of the means for pivotally securing the structure shown in Figure 14 in position;

Figure 16 is a cross-sectional view taken 7 along the line 1616 in Figure 3;

Figure 17 is a perspective view of one of the means for handling the index cards;

Figure 18 is a perspective view of one of the means for elevating the index card while another index card is slipped under the pack of elevated cards;

Figure 19 is a detail view taken along the line 19-19 of Figure 12;

Figure 20 is a perspective view of the means for operating the box motion of the loom;

Figure 21 is a perspective view of a portion of the parts in the lower right hand corner of Figure 20;

Figure 22 is a detail view of the supporting base for the mechanism shown in the preceding figures.

Referring more specifically to the drawings the numeral 10 indicates a left hand side frame plate of the upper part of the device and the numeral 11 indicates a right hand frame plate looking at Figure 2. These frame plates are secured together by means of members which are shown in the form of spacing rods or girts 12 and 13 which are located near the lower front and rear portion of the frame plates 10 and 11. At the top of the frame plates 10 and 11 a top spacer or girt 14 acts as a support for securing the top portion of the members 10 and 11 together by means of screws 15 penetrating the frame plates 10 and 11 andbeingthreadablysecured intothe downturned end portions of the top spacer or girt 14. The members 12 and 13 have their ends reduced and penetrate bosses 16 and have nuts 17 on both ends thereof to firmly secure the side frame plates 10 and 11 to each other. Secured on the member 14 by means of screws 18 is a shield or cover member 19 which serves to protect the upper part of the machine from lint and dust and other foreign articles.

The framework just described is secured to the frame work of the dobby head which is indicated by the reference character 20 by having on the side shown in Figure 1 a brace member 21, which is secured alongside the lower portion of the frame 10 by means of bolts 22 and 23, and the member 21 is turned upwardly atone end thereof and is secured to the framework 20 by means of bolts 24 and 25.

Intermediate the ends of the member 21 is secured a stand 26 by means of a bolt 27 and pins 28. The member 26 projects upwardly and has a bearing portion 29 on one side thereof and at the upper end thereof has a pin 30 mounted therein which acts as a pivot for the box motion control which will be later described. A boss 30* is located on the member 26 in which a shaft supporting the driving means for the box motion is fixedly mounted.

On the other side of the frame work and more particularly to the right hand frame plate 11 is secured a support 31 by means of screws 32 and 33 and the end of this member 31 next to the loom is turned upwardly and is secured to the frame work of the loom 20 by means of a bolt 34. Intermediate the ends of the member 31 is an upwardly projecting support 35 which is secured to the member 31 by means of a bolt 36 which member 35 projects upwardly and is secured at its upper end to another portion of the frame work 20 of the dobby frame of the loom by means of a bolt 37.

The side frame members 10 and 11 are secured to each other by means of a member 40 which is rectangular in cross section and closed 011 all sides and ends except the bottom and screws 41 penetrate both of the side frame members 10 and 11 and are threadably embedded in the end wall portion of the member 40, this member 40 serving as a means of binding the side frame members 10 and 11 together, and also serving as a partition member between the two stacks of cards in conjunction with blocks 272.

Secured on the front spacer or girt 12 is a collar 42 by means on a set screw 43 and this collar 42 projects downwardly and has a slot 44 in the lower end thereof in which a stud 45, with'the thumb nut 46 thereon, is adapted to be vertically adjusted. This stud is fixedly secured to a plate member 47 which platemember acts as aguard and support for the edges of the index cards, which cards will be later described. This plate member 47 has a slot 48 in the lower end portion thereof in which is adjustably secured a stud 49 which has the thumb nut 50 thereon by means of which the plate member 47 can be held in adjusted position as to the lower portion thereof. This stud 19 is secured in the plate member 288 which will be later described.

On the back girt or spacer 13 on the other side of the mechanism from the plate member 47 which has been described, and which is shown clearly in Figure 2, a. similar plate member is placed and the same reference characters apply to the other plate member and associated parts as to the parts which have just been described, as they are identical.

The member 40 has the upper surface thereof bored with a plurality of holes to correspond with all of the index members which are adapted to penetrate these holes when they go through a hole in the card, all of which will be later described.

In a conventional dobby loom there appears a vertically disposed and positively driven shaft 51 which in the conventional type or dobby loom serves to drive both the pattern mechanism and the box mechanism and we utilize this shaft in applying our invention by securing on said shaft a sprocket wheel 52 and on this sprocket wheel is mounted a sprocket chain 53, which sprocket chain extends to a sprocket wheel 54 which is mounted on a vertically disposed shaft 55, which shaft 55 is mounted in a pillow block 56, which pillow block is secured to the frame plate 10 by means of bolts 57 and 58. The sprocket wheel 54 being secured to the shaft 55 by means of a set screw 59 and prevents the shaft from having downward movement and a collar 60 is secured to the shaft 55 by means of a set screw 61 and prevents upward movement of said shaft 55. Secured to the upper end of shaft 55 is a bevel gear 62 which is secured on shaft 55 by means of a set screw 63 or any other suitable means, and this bevel gear 62 is adapted to mesh with abevel gear 64, which bevel gear 6 1 is mounted in a transversely disposed shaft 65. This shaft 65 is rotatably mounted in suit-able bearings in the frame plates 10 and 11. Alongside this bevel gear 64is a spur gear 67 which is secured on said shaft 65 by means of a set screw 68.

On the other side of the'device from-the mechanism just described and on the other end of the shaft 65 is secured a double faced cam member 69 by means of set screw 70, and

on the inner face of cam member 68 is a circuitous groove 7 0 and in this circuitous groove 7 0 a roller 71 is adapted to operate, said roller 71 being secured on a lever 72 which lever is pivoted on a stud 73, and on the upper end of lever 7 2 a connecting member 74 is pivotally mounted on a pin 75 in the upper end of member 72, the member 7 at being forked to engage opposite sides of the upper 1 end of lever 72. This member 7 4 has threadably secured therein a connecting rod 76 which is locked in position by means of a lock nut 77 and the other end of this connecting rod 76 is likewise secured to a connecting member 7 8 by means of a lock nut 7 9, this member 78 being forked and pivotally mounted on pin 80 in the upper end of a bell crank lever 81 which bell crank lever is fixedly secured to a rock shaft 82 by means of a set screw 83, which rock shaft is rotatably mounted in bearing portions 8% which project from the rear edge of the frame plates 10 and 11. The other end of this bell crank lever 81is designated by the reference character 85, which end 85 is forked as at 86 and a pin 87 is adapted to have movement in said forked portion. This pin 87 projects through a vertically disposed slot 88 in the frame plate 11 and the pin 87 is screwed into the index mechanism which will be presently described.

This shaft 82 extends transversely'across the machine and is rotatably mounted in the bearing 84; on the frame plate 10, and fixedly secured on the other end of this shaft 82 by means of a set screw 89 is a lever 90 which is similar to the portion 85 of the bell crank lever on the other end of the shaft 82, this lever 90 having a fork 91 in the free end thereof, in which fork a pin 92, which projects through a vertically disposed slot 93 in the frame plate 10 is adapted to operate. This pin 92 is connected to the other side of the index mechanism which will be presently described.

On the side of the frame plate 10 is a boss in which is mounted a stud shaft 101, said stud shaft being fixedly secured in the boss 100, and rotatably mounted on the said stud shaft 101 is a spur gear 102 driven by spur gear 67, and integral with the spur gear 102 is a disk 103 which disk has a pin 10 1 therein, and also integral with the disk 103 is another disk 105 which has a cavity as at 106 out out of its periphery, said cavity serving in connection with the pin 104: in the Geneva stop movement which will be presently de scribed. This shaft 101 has a collar 107 secured on the end thereof and the spur gear, and the disk and the other disk with the cavity 106 therein all rotate together on this shaft, forming a Geneva driver.

Mounted in bearings in the frame plates 10 and 11 is a rotatable shaft 108 which has sprockets 131 and 132 thereon to prevent lateral movement, said shaft being mounted in bosses 110 and 111, said bosses being integral with the frame plates 10 and 11, and on the end of the shaft 108 which is visible in Figure 1 is fixedly secured a star wheel 112, said star wheel having a plurality of slots 113 therein, into which the pin 104 on the disk 103 is adapted to travel to impart intermittent motion to the shaft 108. This star wheel 112 has, in the form of the invention shown, eight slots therein, so that in making a complete revolution the shaft 108 will be intermittently moved eight times.

To the right hand portion of Figure 1, and also more fully appearing in Figure 2, it is seen that slidable bearing portions 114 and 115 are secured to the frame plates 10 and 11 by means of screws or bolts 116 and 117, said bolts penetrating elongated slots 118 and 119 in said bearing members 114 and 115. These bearing portions 114 and 115 have the downturned end portion in which set screws 120 and 121 are mounted, by means of which the bearing members 114 and 115 can be adjusted longitudinally along the frame members 10 and 11. These members 114 and 115 have upwardly projecting bosses 122 and 123 in which a rotatable shaft 124 is mounted. This rotatable shaft 124 has sprocket wheels 125 and 126 mounted thereon in close proximity to the bearing portions 122 and 123. These sprocket wheels are secured to said shaft by means of a suitable set screw, such as 127 or any other suitable means, and on each of these sprocket wheels chain belts 128 and 129 are mounted, these chain belts having a pin 130 in each solid link portion of the chain, which means that each link portion of the chain has these pins 130 therein. These belts 128 and 129 are mounted on the sprockets 131 and 132 respectively, which sprocket wheels are mounted on the shaft 108 by means of a suitable set screw 133 or any other suitable means. These pins 130 are adapted to fit into holes 134 in opposite ends of each of index cards 135. This card 135 has plurality of rows of selectively placed and spaced holes designated by the reference characters 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142 and 143 respectively, as shown in Figure 10.

In Figure 1 show the two stacks of index cards and designate one stuck by the letter A and the other s ack by the letter B, the purpose of conveyors 128 and 129 bein to feed cards from the top of stack A o the top of the member 40 where they i l subjected to the reading opera-ti do linger mechanism, which will ly described, to allow said on d a fter being of t polled from the chain and to drop (it the stack of cards indicated by the l .1. The method of handling these cards will be later described.

Secured on the lnside of the frame plates 10 and 11 are angular members 142 and 1% plurality of holes 149 therein through which the index members 150 and 151 and also 234 and 235 pass in a slidable manner, and these index members are slidably mounted in a housing member which is designated by the reference character H, this housing member having a cavity 158 therein which is rectangular in cross section. This member H is formed of the members 156 and 157 with plate members and 153 secured to the members and 157 by means of the screws 54 and 155 which are located on opposite sides of the members 156 and 157 respectively.

This forms a rectangular cavity 158 which houses con'ipression springs 159 and 160 which are relatively strong compression springs of the desired strength to perform the function of forcing the index members 150 and 151 and 234 and 235 downwardly through holes in the index card and operating the other mechanism with which they are associated and which will be presently describe? These springs 159 and 160 are held in pi ion by means of a collar 161 being secured on the index member 150, and a collar 162 secured on the index member 151. 17c designate all index members in the rear row as shown in Figure 13 by the reference character 150, and all index members on the front row shown in Figure 13 by the reference character 151. This does not apply to the index members which control the shuttle box mechanism. The members 156 and 157 have secured between. the ends thereof block members 163 and 164 in which block members the pins 87 and 92 as previously described are mounted for operation in the slots 88 and 93, which slots are shown in Figures 1 and 3. The index member housing designated broadly by the reference character H, and wnich has been described, is mounted for sliding movement in a cradle member K which compris s a transverse brace member 166 and downwardly projecting end portions 167 and 168, which portions 167 and 168 on their inside faces have vertically disposed channels 169 and 17 r and the sliding surfaces 171 and 172. a

The block members 163 and 164 are adapted to slide Vertically in the channels 169 and 17 O and the pins 87 and 92 being screwed into the block members 163 and 164 projecting through slots 173 and 174, and the ends of the plate members 152 and 153 slide against the surfaces 171 and 172 which appear on both members 167 and 168 although only one set of these sliding surfaces appear in Figure 14. On each of the upper outer surfaces of the members 167 and 168 is a small cavity designated by the reference character 175 into which the needle point of screw 176 is adapted to be adjustably secured, said screw 176 being mounted in plate 177, and said plate having holes 178 and 179 therein, by means of which the plate 177 can be secured to each of the frame plates 10 and 11 by-means aof screws 180 and 181.. An enlarged hole 176, shown in Figure 5 appears in the frame plates 10 and 11 through which the screw 176 projects to enter the cavity 175 in each of the members 167 and 168. This pivoted mounting of cradle K allows swinging movement of the index housing H and cradle K and proper adjusting of the same. e

I On the shafts 108 and 124 ismounted a mechanism which is identical and one set of reference characters will be used to describe both of these. Fixedly mounted near the central portion of these two shafts 108 and 124 is a cam member 182 which has'the two projections 183 and 184 thereon, and on both sides of each ofthese cam members 182 are being portions 185 and 186and integral with these bearing portions 185 and 186'are downwardly projecting p'ortions187 and188, which project downwardly and have their ends joined together, beingintegral, and are secured to a plate member 189, and projecting upwardly from the end portion of these two members 187 and 188 is a guide member 190 which has a slot 191 therein, in which a bar member 192 is slidably mounted.

The other end of bar member .192 is pivotally secured to a pivoted memberxl93v as at der 200 and the plate 144 is secured a. stop member 201 and between the shoulder 200' and the projection 197 is mounted on the pin 199 a compression spring 202, and each of the plates 152 and 153 hasthe projection 203 thereon which are adapted to engage the upper end of the member 193 to swing plate 189 downwardly every fifth downward move ment of the index housing member Secured intermediate theends of thememher 192 is a tension spring204 which is secured at its other end near the base-ofthe upwardly projecting portion 190 as at 190 the tendency of said spring being to pull the member 192 and the lever 193 away from the projection 203, I and also the tendency of spring 202 is to move these parts to a position where the upper end of member 193 will not be engaged by the projection 203 each time the member H is lowered, but the cam 182 which has the two projections 183 and 184 thereon is adapted. to engage the free end of member 192 at each half turn of the shaft 124, and when this happens then the member v193 is moved inward toward the housing Hto cause the projection 203 to engage the upper end of member 193, and cause the member 201 to engage the free end of plate 189 and swing it on its pivot point, which pivot point is shaft 124 or 108 as thecase may be, and this plate 189 whichfis pressing against the top of the index card 135 will expel said index card from. the pins 130 on the sprocket chain's which are carrying the cards to cause it to fall down on top of the stack of cards designated by the letter B in Figure 4, after said card has passed. beneath the index fingers 150 and 151 and 234 and 235 and has been read by said fingers and is free from engagement by said fingers. The timing 'ofthe cams and the mechanism previously described is so ar ranged as to cause this releasing of the index card from the sprocket chain carrying the same at the proper time when it is immediately above the stack of cards designated bv the letterB. Itis apparent that in normal operation only the cam 182 on shaft 124 will operate the push rod 192 as the cam 182 on shaft 108 will be operatingto lift its associated rod 192 and will not push the same except when the machine is reversed.

Each of- theindex members 150 and 151 has secured to the upper end thereof as at 205 'a'fiexible, non-stretchable member such asa wire 205 which is' looped at its upper end and is adapted to repose in a notch or other suitable recess 206 in one end of members 207,

which members are pivoted intermediate their ends as by means of awire or'a rod 208 penetrating all of the members 207, said member 208 being mountedin a groove 209 which groove appearsin the member-210, which member 210 at its ends is secured by any suitable means to'the frame members 10 and 11. This member 210 has a plurality of transverse angular grooves,-these transverse grooves are cut across the longitudinal groove 209 and these transversegroves are shown in Figure 5 as being filled with the pivoted members 207. These' transverse groves are cut at an angle across the member 210 for the reasonthat the members 207 must be placed at an angle in order to coincide with the index fingers of the loom, and the malchine must be built to one side to allow the lay f of the 'loomto have full swing without com- 'ing in. contactwith this attachment. The

other ends or rear ends, looking at Figure 2 and the left hand end looking at Figure 4, of

the members 207 have secured thereto in any suitable manner, flexible, non-stretchable members suchv as wires 211 which members 211engage notches 212 which are cut in the lower edges-of the index fingers-213 of the dobby mechanism of a dobby loom. These index fingers 213 are conventional and are pivoted on the transverse rod 214'and have the rear ends 215 which are lowered when the right hand end as seen in Figure 4 is lifted and this allows thefdobby hook-216'to fall dobby knife.

down and engage the reciprocating dobby knife 217.

It is thus seen that in normal operation when an index member or 151 or 234 and 235 fails to go through a hole in a card as Where no hole appears in the'card that the right hand end of the index finger 213 will be in lowered position and this will cause the dobby hook 216 to be in elevated position and therefore will not become engaged with the The hooks 216 are connected to the harness mechanism of the loom so that it is seen that when any selected portion of the harness mechanism is desired to be operated, that a hole will be placed in card 135 to allow a selected index member to operate one of the levers 207 with which it is connected to raise an index finger 213 to allow a hook 216 to fall down to be engaged by the dobby knife 217. The mechanism just described which appears in the upper left hand corner of Figure 4 is conventional and is shown only for purpose of illustrating the manner in which our invention works with the conventional dobby head in a dobby loom.

The box changing mechanism or the mechanism for changing the shuttles toimpart a new color or a new filling to the warp has heretofore been operated by a separate color changing pattern chain and it is an object of our invention to control the box changing mechanism from the index card, and to this end we provide the sprocket wheel 220 on which sprocket chain 221 is mounted and this chain 221 is also mounted on sprocket wheel 222 which is secured on a hollow shaft 223 by means of set screw 224 or any other suitable means. This hollow shaft is rotatably mounted on the solidshaft 225 which is fixedly secured in the frame plates 10 and 11 as at thebosses 226 and 227 and serves as additional bracing means for holding the two frame plates 10 and 11 together.

At the outer end of the shaft 225 a collar 228 is secured to hold the hollow shaft 223 in position. This shaft 223 has a wheel 229 secured thereon with pins 230 and 231 projecting from one side thereof, and pins 232 and 233 projecting from the other side thereof, said pins being adapted to be any desired length for the operation of as many different box operating levers 243 and 248 as desired. Preferably along one edge of the card we provide a suitable width of space indicated by the letter 0 in Figure 10 as the space reserved on the card for the control of the color or box mechanism, and although we have shown only two transverse lines across the card we desire it to be understood that a plurality of rows of holes may be provided for operation of as many diflerent boxes as may be necessary in any particular type of loom. We desire it to be understood that we can select any portion of the card for the color indication control mechanism. Theseholes are adapted to con trol the left hand index members which are indicated in Figure 2 by the reference characters 234 and 235 which will operate in the holes 234" and 235 in the index card.

These index members 234 and 235 have 5 members 205 wl 'ch are similar to the other like members for the other index members, secured to the upper end thereof which in pivoted members 236 and 237 which are pecu liarly shaped, in that they run at ri id-t angles through the member 210 and then bend to the left as seen in Figure 5, and the other ends thereof have a member 237 secured thereto which member projects downwardly, and

each is secured to the free end of one of bell crank levers 238 or 239 as the case may be. These bell crank levers 238 and 239 are pivotally mounted as at 30, which has previonsly been described, and project downwardly and have the laterally projecting portion 240 the projection 29 of member 26 and the other end of this member 243 has an arcuate slot 245 therein, in which one laterally project portion 246 on rod 247 fits. This rod leads to the conventional box mechanism for changing the shuttles therein. Also mounted on this pin 244 is a similar-lever member 248 with slot 249 therein into which the laterally pro jecting portion 250 on rod 247 is adapted to project, and the other end of this member 243 has an arrangement identical to that just described on the end of lever 243 and bears the same refers cc characters.

Each of the levers 248 and has a gin 251 to which is secured a tension spring The other end of this tension spring is secured intermediate the ends of the pivoted me: 241 on pin 253. It is evident that when me of the index members or 235 engages a hole 234 or 235 in index card 135 and droos downwardly being propelled by the spring or 159 as, the case may be, which is the.earound, that the levers or will occupy the position shown hy the lever 238 in Figure 20 and this will force the pivoted member 241 into the path of one of the pins such as 233, 232, 231 or 230 and the revolving whe .9 in which these pins are carried will r ends of the lever in which the slots or occur and operate the rod 247 to the she is box mechanism. The member 241 has a 253 to which the other end of tension 252 is secured and this member 241 l 254 therein which is adapted to on cavity 255 in the lever 243 or 243, as case may be, to limit the movement of member in both directions to prevent its being swimg too far outward or to allow the spring to pull it too far backward. 7

It is evident that any number of color change levers or shuttle box operating levers a vertically extending slot 279 therein a 248 or 243 may be used as the stud. pm 2 1% can be lengthened and the pins 230 to 282'inclusi in the wheel 229 cai'i be lengt ned so that if desired many more of such shuttle box opei ing levers can be used, and we have shown only two of such levers to indicate that a number of levers can be used by morr lengthening the pins 23 to inclusive a by lengthening the pin 24.4 other levers thereon sin The frame plate 10 he" ward near the end portions thereo 260 and 261 which have the ve posed slots 262 and 263 therein i bolts 264 and 265 respectvely are mounted, said bolts being secured in the lower side frame member 266. Near the central porti of the frame plate 10 are the downwai f projecting strips 267 and 268, and a bolt 4 is embedded in the side frame member and has the clamp 270 running om 4 member 267 across to the other memoer and byloosening bolts 265, 269 and 26 frame member 266 can be moved with r to the leg portions 260, 261, 267 and 268. might be stated that a washer 27 by the bolts 265 or 264: as the case adjusting-the frame member 266 w i tion to the frame member 10. I

The members 267 and 268 are groove-i their proximate edges to form a passage for the end of blocks 272 whichserve to for c. a partition between he stachs of and B when the lower portion of the fi work is moved downwardly with rela the upper portion. As many blocks 2 be placed in the machine as may be nece to fill the space between member when the upper and lower portions machine are adjusted with relation to each other to conform tothe numberef index cards being used for a particular pattern other side of the mechanism or the frame member 11 hasthe downwardly proje strips 27 3 and 274 near the corner thereof, and the member 273 has a i therein and the bolt 276 is threadably see into a lower side plate member 277 ard therwasher member 278 perm i justment of the frame member 277 with reiation to therupper frame member 11..

At the other corner of member 277 the downwardly projecting member 274; occ

which has'just been mentioned and this h. 1

bolt 280 pierces this slot and small or washer member 281, said bolt 280, l V threadably embedded in the side frame in her 277. Near the central portion of) member 11 downwardly project-in 282 and 283 appear and which are cov a plate member 284 and betwe th 282 and 288 a run-way or vertical guideprovided for the blocks 272 which serve as a- T partition member between the two stacks of cards A and B. A bolt 285 pierces a slot 286' in the plate member 284 and is threadably embedded in the frame member 277.

By means of the above desc 'ibeol parts on both sides the side frame members 266 and 277 which form the frame work for the lower part of the mechanism to be adjusted with relation so the upper portion of the mechanism means are provided to accommodate any des sired number of cards in the card chambers Q N weber 288 has grooves 289 and 290 therein, in v which the chains 316 and 317 are supported, which chains will be presently described The bottom of the plate or frame mem-' bers 266 and 277 are secured together by an oil pan 291 by means of screws 292 and 29,3 wl ich pierce the plate members 266 and 277 and threadably engage the Lip-turned side wall portions of the oil pan 291. PIOJQCiZlIlg fixedly mounted stud shaft 294; which has pivotally mounted thereon a bearing girt 295 which is pierced by the shaft 55 and'this shaft 55 has a groove 55 therein by means of whn i a bevel gear 296 is adjustably secured thereon and this bearing girt 295 has a follower member 297 secured thereonby means of screw 29.8 which member 297 arojects upwardly and laterally and is forked to en- 'both sides of the shaft 55 and to fit closely against the upper surface of the bevel gear 296. i

The other end of this bearing girt 295 is mounted on a stud shaft 299 which-stud shaft is fixedly mounted in the side frame member 266. tud shaft 299 and stud shaft'294 form a support for both ends of the bearing girt 295. The bevel gear 296 is adapted to mesh with a skew gear-306 which is fiXedly mounted on a shaft 301 which she t 801 is rotatabiy mounted in the lower side frame meme fhers 266 and 277 and has a spur gear 862 fixedly mounted thereon which spur gear meshes with another spur gear 303 which is rotatably mounted on the shaft 299.

wit the spur gear 3021's a disk 304 which l ,1 s 305 and 806.

A 11 arc-shaped projection 307 is secured to or integral with one side of the disk 304 and 'i as a lock or rest for the Geneva star 308 which is'fixedly mounted on shaft G "15121 star wheel has four lower frame members 266 and 277 ,7 has fixedly secured thereon two sprocket Wheels 311 and 312. On the opposite side of the lower frame work is rotatably mounted a shaft 313 on which sprocket wheels 314 and 315 are fixedly mounted, it being evident that these sprocket wheels 314 and 315 can either be fixedly mounted on the shaft 313 or can be rotatably mounted on said shaft as desired. Mounted on the sprocket wheels 311 and 314 is a sprocket chain 316 and on the sprocket wheels 312 and 315 is a sprocket chain 317. These sprocket chains are unlike the upper sprocket chains 128 or 129, in that the lower sprocket chains do not have pins in every link, in that no pins appear but at certain intervals along both of these chains 316 and 317 we provide pairs of blocks 318 and 319 to engage the cards from the lower side of the stack B and pass them beneath the support 287 and over beneath the stack A when it is in raised position as shown in Figure 4.

It is seen that this set of sprocket chains is given an intermittent motion as there are four intermittent motions imparted to shaft 309 during one complete revolution of the same. 7

The skew gear 300 is adjustably secured on the shaft 301 by means of a flange 320 being fixedly secured on said shaft by suitable means such as a set screw 321 and the skew gear has arcuat-e co-axial slots 322 therein through which screws 323 project and are threadably secured in the flange 320 by means of which the skew gear 300 can be adjusted with relation to the shaft 301. This is necessary in order to properly time the apparatus to cause stack A of the cards to he lifted at the proper time to match the pins 130 and the holes 134 in both ends of the index card. It is evident that other means of timing may be devised such as by adjustin the position of the bevel gear 296 with relation to the shaft 55 and other Well known means of adjusting the gears for proper timing. The skew gear is secured on the shaft 301 by an additional screw 324, said screw 324 being threadably secured in the end of shaft 301.

On the inside of plate or frame member there extends an elongated bearing portion 326 in which the shaft 301 is rotatably mounted and adjoining this bearing portion 326 is fixedly secured to the shaft 301 a spur gear 327 by means of a suitable set screw 328 or any other suitable means, and secured to one side of this spur gear 327 is a disk 329 which is made of leather or any other suitable friction material, and loosely mounted on the shaft 301 is a plate or clutch member 330 which has a boss 331 integral therewith and against which a compression spring 332 is adapted to press, said compression spring being loosely mounted on shaft 301 and against the other end of compression spring 332 is mounted on the shaft 301 the collar 333 which is secured to the shaft 301 by means of screw 334 or any other suitable means.

This collar 331 has a notch 335 in the periphery thereof which is adapted to engage a blade 336. Blade 336 is secured to a projection 337 on lever 338 bv means of screws 339, said lever having an elongated slot 340 in the lower end thereof in which pin 341, which is secured on the face of disk or plate member 330, and adapted to be loosely mounted. The lever 338 is fixedly secured to a transversely disposed shaft 342 by means of set screw 343. This shaft 342 is rotatably mounted in the side walls 266 and 277 of the frame work for the lower half of the machine, and flush against the inside surfaces of these frame portions 266 and 267 are fixedly secured the hub members 344 and 345 by means of set screws 346 and 347 or any other suitable means for securing the hub members in position. These hub members have oppositely extending arm portions 348, 349, 350 and 351. The ends of these arms 348 to 351 inclusive have forks 351*, as shown in Figure 18, at their free end and are adapted to have loosely mounted therein the pins 352, 353, 354 and 355. These pins 352 to 355 inclusive are adapted to project through vertically disposed slots 356 in the side frame members 266 and 277.

The mechanism controlled by the pins 352 to 355 inclusive comprises four separate mechanisms but they are identical in structure and the same reference characters will apply to all four structures, but the mechanism as a whole will be designated by the reference characters D and E as to side plate 266 and F and G as to side plate 277. These lifting mechanisms comprise a. plate member 357 which has a vertically disposed slot 358 therein and the pins 358 and 358 on which plate 357 slides. One of the pins such as 355 serves to raise and lower plate 357. At the upper end of the plate 357 we have a hinge 359 with the inwardly projecting portion 360 hingedly secured as at 359 and provided with a leaf spring 361 secured to the plate member 357 and pressing against the inwardly projecting hinged or pivoted portion 360. This portion 360 projects inward and has an upwardly sloping under-surface as indicated by the reference character 362. Each of the portions 360 work in recesses 363 in plate 288.

It is seen that when the shaft 301 is rotating normally in a counter-clock wise direc tion that the mechanism will be in the position shown in Figure 4 and the elevators for the card indicated by the reference characters E and G will. be in raised position as shown in Figure 4 to hold the section A of the cards up in elevated position. The other two elevators designated by D and F will be in lowered position allowing the pack of cards indicated by thereference character B in Figure 4 to be in lowered position. This position will be maintained while the machine is being used for normal operation and the cards be ing fed through the machine in the normal direction by passing from pack B underneath 3 reversal of direction occurs the knife 336 by means of the friction mechanism will be pressed against the cam 333 and will engage the notch in said cam and the friction clutch comprising the plate 329 and the steel plate 330 will cause the partsto assume a reverse position from that shown in Figure 4 and will raise the pack B and will lower the pack A and allow reverse operation.

On the inside of the plate or frame member 266 and 277 are bearing portions 364 and 365, in which bearing portion 364, shaft 366 is mounted, and in bearings 365 shaft 367 is mounted said shafts 366 and 367 being rotatably mounted. On each of the shafts 366 and 367 is loosely mounted spur gears 368 which mesh with the spur gear 327 on shaft 301. Each of spur gears 368 has integral therewith a hub 369 whichhas mounted therein a pin 37 0 with a compression spring 371 back of this pin and a block 372 secured in one end of this holein which the pin 370 is mounted, and this pin is normally pressed out of the hole in which it is mounted and normallythe end thereof is pressed against the face of disk 373 which is fixedly secured on shaft 366' or 367 in close proximity to the gear 368. The collar 369 holds gear 368 in position. In the periphery of the disk 373 is a notch 374, and a dog 375 is pivotally mounted as on pin 376 which is mounted in lug 376 secured to end of oil pan 291 by means of screws 376 Fixedly mounted on each end of the shafts 366 and 367 are the cams 377 and 37 8. These cams appear on both ends of both of the shafts 366 and 367, and the dogs 375 occur at both sides of the oil pan, and the gear wheel 368 is also mounted on both shafts 366 and 367 and the structure of both of these shafts and associated parts is identical, and one set of reference characters will apply. The disk 373 has a cavity 379 which is shallow at its inception, is arc-shaped and gradually grows deeper and has an end portion to said cavity which is in the same plane as the shaft 366, in other words the deeper end of the cavity has a perfectly straight end wall portion or a wall portion which is not sloping so as to cause the pin 370 to be held in said cavity and to rotate the'shaft on which the disk is mounted when the wheel 368 is'turned in a direction to cause the pin 370 to be fed into the cavity from the shallow end and to engage the deep end.

The only difference in the two structures above described is that the disk 373 has the notch 37 4 and cavity 379 facing one waywhen mounted on the shaft 366'and has the notch 374 and cavity 379 facingthe other way when mounted on the shaft 367, so that it is apparent that when the machine is normally operated that the gear wheel 368 on shaft 366 will be driven in aclock-wise direction which will cause the pin 370 to engage the cavity 37 9 and'to move the shaft 366 and cause cams 378 and 377 on shaft 366 to rotate with the shaft and the operation of these cams will be presently described; While this operation is being completed it is evident that the right hand spur gear 368 on shaft 367 in Figure 4 will be driven also in a clock-wise direction but the cavity 377 will be facing the reverse way from that shown in Figure 17, and the dog 375 will engage the disk 37 3 and prevent its turning, and the pin 370 will fall into the deep end of cavity 379 and gradually be lifted out of the cavity and will not turn the shaft 367 in normal operation.

The side wall portions 266 and 277 have suitable guides 380, 381, 382 and 383 on the inside surface thereof and the same reference characters apply to both the side portions 266 and 277. In the guide portions 380 and 381 the tubular members 384 and 385 are slidably mounted and these portions 384 and 385 have flanges 386 and 387 on the upper end thereof to limit their downward movement, and slidably mounted in these members 384 and 385 are rods 388 and 389. The lower ends of the members 384 and 385 are forked and have mounted in the lower forked ends thereof the rollers 390 and 391, which are adapted to be engaged by the cams 37 7 or 378 at predetermined times.

The rods 388 and 389 have mounted thereon immediately above the flanges 386 and 387, compression springs 392 and 393, and immediately above these compression springs are the washer members 394 and 395. The rods being flattened immediately above these washer members and being slidably mounted in the guides 382 and 383. To the upper end of the flattened portions of said rods we secure the plate member 396 which reference character denotes the plate member on the top of all four of these push rods. These plate members project through recesses 363 in the plate member 288 which normally supports the stack of cards B. It is seen that in normal operation that the shaft 366 will be moving in a clock-wise direction and that wheel 368 on shaft 366 will engage the cavity 379 and drive this shaft 366 and cause the cam members 377 and 378 thereon to operate with said shaft to raise the tubular members 384 and 385 which have the rollers mounted in the lower end thereof and to press upwardly the plate member 396 and it will cause the card to pass by the sloping undersurface 362 of the lid member 360 (see Figure 18) and cause the pack of cards to be held in elevated position, and also will elevate the pack of cards A to such a point as to cause the holes 134 on each end of the card to engage the pins 130 on the sprocket chains 128 and 129 to move the card to the right in Figure 4 beneath the index members and beneath the guide plate 144 where the reading operation will intermittently take place until the card reaches the proper position immediately above the stack of cards B, at which time the ejecting mechanism already described will be operated by the downward movement of the housing H to cause the card to be removed from the sprocket chain and to rest on top of the stack of cards indicated by the reference character B.

It is evident that during this normal method of operation that the push rods 385 and the rods 389 and the plate 396 on the upper end thereof will remain inoperative for the reason that the pin 370' in the gear wheel 368 which appears on the shaft 367 will be moving in a direction such as not to become engaged by the cavity 379 in the plate 373 and the dog 335 cooperating with this shaft 367 will prevent any movement of said shaft and therefore the right hand. portion of the lifting mechanism as seen in Figure 4 will remain inoperative.

The entire mechanism which has been described as being attached to the frame 20 of the dobby of the loom also requires additional support and to provide this additional support we have a projection 397 projecting downward from the lower side of the oil pan 291, and this has a bore therein which is unthreaded and into which its the upper end of a threaded rod 398 the portion which fits into the projection 397 not being threaded. This threaded rod 398 has an octagonal portion 399 integral therewith for purposes of turning the same by means of a wrench. The rod 398 projects into a pipe 400 and a nut 401 inside the pipe is threadably mounted on said rod 398, and above the end of said pipe 400 is threadably mounted a nut 402. On the lower end of this hollow pipe 400 is threadably securedor otherwisesecured a base 403, so that it is seen by this arrangement that by turning the octagonal portion 399 the height of the mechanism can be adjusted and locked in position by driving home the lock nut 402.

Although we have set forth throughout the specification method of operation of the various parts of the machine we will now attempt to give a general summary of the method in which this machine operates.

Vith the machine assembled and with the bottom and top frame portions adjusted to accommodate the selected number of cards in packs'A and B and the machine being connected to the driving mechanism of the 100m it is apparent that the vertically disposed shaft is rotated and that in normal operation the lower set of sprocket chains is moved in a counterclockwise direction as seen in Figure 4 and also the upper set of sprocket chains is driven in a coun'ter-clock-wise direction. At the proper interval the push rods supporting the plates 396 on the left hand side of the machine as seen in Figure 4 are elevated by the cam members on shaft 366 and pushes the transferred card above the elevators D and G and raises pack A of cards upward and pushes the top card up against the upper set of sprocket chains to cause the end holes 134 in said card to engage the pins 130 in the upper set of sprocket chains and then the card is intermittently moved to the right and beneath the plate 144 and the index members are lowered with the carrying mechanism therefor, and the front row of index members 151 engage the front row of holes designated by 143 in Figure 10 and the rear row of index members 150 engage the second row 142 under the bracket a in Figure 10 and certain of the index members will fail to be lowered on account of the fact that there will. not be a hole punched in the card at that point, but according to the design of the fabric certain holes will be punched in both rows and allow certain selected index members to pass down ward into said holes and through corresponding holes in the top of member 40, (see Figure 4).

hen the index members lower they will raise the other end of the index levers 207 and also raise the selected index finger of the dobby mechanism and allow the dobby hook 216 to fall downwardly and become engaged with the knife 217 to operate the harness jack connected therewith. This operation will consume two picks of the loom when this reading of the card has occurred the intermittent motion imparted to the upper set of sprocket chains will move the cards forward and the same operation as above described will be performed on the set of rows included in "the bracket 1) in Figure 10 and then the row included in the bracket 0 in Figure 10 will be read and last the row included in the bracket cl. After the last row has been read on the card the next intermittent movement of this card will bring it immediately above the stack of cards designated by B in Figure 4 and during the operation for the set of rows designated by a, b, c and (Z the housing H will reciprocate vertically but will fail to engage the vertically disposed pivoted men her 193 but when the card is immediately above the pack B the projections 183 or 184 as the case may be, will press the member 192 forward and cause the member 193 to be engaged at its upper end by the projection 203 and this will expel the card from the upper sprocket chain and from the pins 130 to cause it to fall on top of the pack of cards designated by the letter B. During the above described reading operation of the cards the lower set of sprocket chains are moving intermittently to pass the lowermost card from beneath the pack B, beneath the support 187 and beneath the pack of cards A and also beneath the members 360 as shown in Figure 18, and then in the next upward movement of the plates 396 the card will be pushed up above the members 360 and occupy the position shown by the lower card under the pack A in Figure 4.

The above described operation in connection with previously stated methods of operations throughout the specification broadly covers the operation of the machine, but it might be stated here that in reversing the machine for any desired reasonsuch as picking out imperfections in the last picks of filling before stopping the device the following operation will take place:

It will be seen in Figure 3 that the hand Wheel 4053 when turned in a clock-wise direction will operate our invention in its normal direction but by reversing the hand wheel and turning it in a counter-clock-wise direction our previously described mechanism will be acted in reverse, and when this occurs the friction clutch mechanism shown in Figure 2 will cause the blade 336 to engage the notch 335 in cam 333 and will throw the shaft 342 and associated parts in its other position and will lower the card elevating means D and G and will raise the card elevating means E and F and the left hand mechanism operated by the shaft 366 will become inoperative for reasons already set forth, and the mechanism associated with shaft 367 will become operative to lift the pack of cards B in the same manner as the pack of cards A is shown lifted in Figure 4,

and the direction of the sprocket chains will be reversed both above and below the packs of cards and the operation which has previously been described for normal direction will be the same but in a reversed direction as previously described, that is, the pack 13 will be pushed up against the pins 130 in the upper set of sprocket chains and the card will be moved by the upper set of sprocket chains in a left hand direction in Figure 4 until the proper number of cards have been placed back into the pack A and the proper number brought from pack A over underneath pack B, and then the normal forward operation of the mechanism and the loom may be resumed.

In the drawings we have shown our device associated with the regular dobby loom and have shown part of the means for operating the harness jacks of said loom, but we desire it to be understood, and it is perfectly apparent that our device can, by slight mechanical modifications, be applied to a loom in which the harness isoperated by a harness chain throwing a selected gear wheel into operation to cause the harness mechanism associated with said particular gear wheel to be operated. In applying our invention to a loom of this type the mechanism shown for controlling the box mechanism in Figure 20 would be likewise employed for controlling the harness mechanism and the levers 24-3 and 24-8 wouldbe increased in number to take care of each harness jack in the loom, and these levers would be thrown into operation by having all of the levers 207 connected to such levers 243 and 2&8 with the means shown in Figure 22 for throwing said levers into active operation, and instead of the arc-shaped slots in the other end of said levers we would have these levers to operate the levers for throwing the selected gear wheel into operation to operate the harness jack in place of the harness chain throwing said lever into operation in the conventional loom which operates the harness mechanism by means of a pattern chain as above described.

It is also apparent that although we have shown our mechanism attached to only one end of the loom that this mechanism can be duplicated at the other end of the loom as it is common to have a dobby mechanism at both ends of the loom, and by placing our mechanism in association with the loom hav ing harness controlling means in both ends of the loom, that the capacity of the loom as to variation in patterns can be doubled. By having our mechanism in both ends of the loom, of course we dispense with the expensive and troublesome long pattern chain for controlling the design and also the color control chain for controlling the box motion at both ends of the loom.

Also there are types of looms in which the harness is cam operated from cams located beneath the loom and the boX motion is controlled by a pattern chain and it is apparent that our invention can be used to dispense with the pattern chain controlling the box motion by having the levers 243 and 24:8 and other similar levers operate the box motion in said loom in the manner already described for the loom which has the intermittent gears adapted to be placed into opera tion by a pattern chain.

In the drawings we have shown our invention adapted to operate in connection with a double index loom, in which two complete picks of the loom occur for one raising and lowering operation of the housing H and in the invention shown we have shown two lines of holes in the index card adaptedto be operated upon simultaneously by the index reading mechanism. It is apparent that this invention can be used on a single index loom in which there would be a raising and lowering of the index mechanism H for each pick of the loom, and this is accomplished by substituting a two-point cam instead of the one-point cam (38 which is shown in the drawings on shaft 65, and instead of having a star wheel 221 with eight slots therein this star wheel in a single index mechanism would have sixteen slots therein instead, so as to intermittently move the card feeding mechanism sixteen times during each revolution of the shafts 108 and 124 instead of eight as appears in the drawings for the double index mechanism, and in a single index loom the housing H would carry only a single line of index members whereas in the drawings we have shown two sets of index members 150 and 151, and it is apparent that the index card 135 would have single rows of holes therein instead of double rows as shown in Figure 10.

In the drawings and specification we have set forth a pref-erred embodiment of our invention and although specific terms are used in referring to various parts of the structure shown in the drawings, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only, and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the appended claims.

WVe claim:

1. Control means for both the harness mechanism of a loom having a (lobby head and the shuttle box mechanism of the loom, said control means comprising a perforated pattern means, said pattern means comprising a plurality of separated cards having holes punched therein to control both the design of the fabric and the filling imparted thereto, means for progressing said pattern means through said control means, index members, means for intermittently moving the index members into engagement with the pattern means to cause the index members to penetrate certain holes in said pat tern means, means associated with said pattern means and with the harness mechanism of the loom for operating the harness mechanism of the loom from said holes in said pattern means, a plurality of other index members adapted to penetrate selectively punched holes in said pattern means, means associated with said second index members and with the box motion of the loom for controlling the box motion of said loom by said second set of index members.

2. In a control device for dobby looms having a harness mechanism and a shuttle box mechanism, means for driving said control device in unison with said loom, a pattern mechanism in said control device, said pattern mechanism comprising a plurality of perforated separated cards, a pattern read ing mechanism driven by the loom and being adapted to intermittently engage the pattern and to be operated upon by said perforations in said pattern, some of said pattern reading means having connections with the harness mechanism of the loom for selectively operating all of the harness mechanism of said loom and other of said pattern reading mechanism adapted to be selectively operated also by said pattern device to selectively operate the shuttle box mechanism of said loom.

3. A controlling device for dobby looms with sai" loom having harness mechanism therein and also shuttle box mechanism, said controlling device com arising pattern mechanism composed of a plurality of separated card members, said card members having a plurality of holes punched therein to control the harness mechanism and the shuttle box mechanism, a reading mechanism for said cards, means connected to the loom for operating the reading mechanism to cause the reading mechanism to intermittently engage the cards, said reading mechanism comprising a plurality of index members, some of said index members being connected to each of the harness mechanism of the loom and other of said index members being connected to the shuttle box mechanism of said loom, means for progressively feeding said cards beneath said index mechanism to cause said index members to be controlled by the holes punched in said cards to operate selectively all of the harness mechanism of the loom and also to operate selectively all of the shuttle box mechanism of said loom.

i. In a loom having a harness mechanism and a shuttle box mechanism, a control mechanism associated with and driven by said loom, said control mechanism comprising a framework, a plurality of individually movable index members mounted in said framework, means permitting movement of all of said index members together, a pattern mech anism in said framework, said pattern mechanism comprising a plurality of separated cards, said cards having a plurality of holes punched therein, means for passing said cards successively through said framework beneath said index reading mechanism, means driven by the loom for moving said index reading mechanism into engagement with said cards, means for intermittently moving said cards through said framework and causing said index reading mechanism to successively engage successive rows of holes in said cards, some of said index members being adapted to be operated by passing through selected holes in said cards, connections between some of said index members and the harness mechanism of said loom for operating the same, connections between other of said index members and the shuttle box mechanism of said loom for operating said shuttle box, and means for reversing the motion "of said control means for any desired number of picks of the loom when desired.

5. A control mechanism for looms having both the harness mechanism and the shuttle box mechanism, a plurality of index members adapted to be operated upon by said indications on each of said cards, means driven by the loom for moving said index members successively against the surface of said cards and withdrawing the same away from the surface of said cards, connections between some of said index members and the harness mechanism of said loom for controlling all of the said harness mechanism selectively, and connections between other of said index members and the shuttle box mechanism of said loom for controlling all of the said shuttle box mechanism.

6. Control means adapted to be associated with and driven in unison with a loom equipped with a dobby head and a harness mechanism and box motion mechanism, said control means comprising a pattern mechanism composed of a plurality of cards perforated to form a pattern, means for conveying said pattern mechanism through said control means means adapted to be controlled by said pattern mechanism for controlling all of the harness mechanism of the loom and other means adapted to be controlled also by said pattern mechanism for operating selectively all of said shuttle box mechanism.

7. In a control mechanism for a loom with said loom having a dobby head with dobby hooks and a harnessmechanism and a shuttle box mechanism, said control means comprising a plurality of individually movable index members associated with the harness mechanism and a plurality of other index members associated with the shuttle box mechanism, a pattern mechanism in said con trol means, said pattern mechanism comprising a plurality of separated cards forming a complete pattern, means for passing one card at a time beneath the index members, means for intermittently lowering and raising the index members as a whole, said cards being punched with a plurality of holes to form a design for the fabric and also to control the shuttle box mechanism, said index members being adapted to penetrate said holes to operate selectively the dobby hooks and the harness mechanism and the shuttle box mechanism, and means for reversing the movement of said control means when desired.

8. A control mechanism for a loom with said loom having a dobby head controlling the harness mechanism and shuttle box mechanism, said controlmechanism comprising upper and lower frameworks adjustable with relation to each other to form a suitable setof compartments between the upper and lower framework, a plurality of index members mounted in the upper framework, some of said index members having operable engagement with the dobby hooks controlling the harness mechanism and other of said index members having operable engagement with the shuttle box mechanism, means for intermittently lowering and raising said index members as a whole, a pattern mechanism comprising a plurality of separated cards adapted to be stored between the upper and lower frameworks of said control mechanism, means in the upper framework for passing one of said cards at a time intermittently beneath said index members, means in the lower framework for passing one card at a time from the bottom of one pack beneath the bottom of the other pack of cards,

means for intermittently elevating one of said packs of cards to cause the top card to engage the means for transferring the same beneath the index members, and means for reversing the above described movement when desired.

9. In a control means for a loom with said loom having harness mechanism and shuttle box mechanism, said control means comprising an upper framework and a lower framework with means for adjusting the two said frameworks with relation to each other vertically, a vertically disposed shaft mounted on one side of both of said frameworks, a plurality of conveying means mounted in said framework, said conveying means comprising an upper and lower set of conveying means, two separated compartments in the space between the upper and lower frameworks, said upper and lower frameworks being adapted to be adjusted with relation to each other to accommodate any desired number of pattern means, said pattern means comprising a plurality of separated cards with each card punched to control the design of the fabric woven and the filling imparted thereto, a plurality of index members mounted in the upper framework and having means for moving the same vertically intermittently to cause the same to engage the said cards, some of said index members having connections with the harness mechanism for controlling the same and other of said index members having connection with the shuttle box mechanism for controlling the same, said conveying means having means for engaging one of said cards at a time and to convey the same intermittently beneath the

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