US2091302A

US2091302A - Picker

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Publication number: US2091302A
Application number: US87236A
Authority: US
Inventors: Brahs George
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-06-25
Filing date: 1936-06-25
Publication date: 1937-08-31
Anticipated expiration: 1954-08-31

Description

Aug. 3l, 1937. Q BRAHS 2,091,302

PICKER Filed June 25, 1936 gaa-,ge ,Bra/115;,

ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 31, 1937 PATENT OFFICE PICKER George Brahs,

Application June 25,

3 Claims.

.This invention contemplates a novel construction of `pickers for looms, and particularly pickers ofthe class which slide in the loom shuttle box, the principal object being to produce a picker which shall have superior resistance to wear and tear and especially that incident to its impact with the shuttle and which may also be manufacturedat a minimum of cost. The picker according toy my invention is characterized by a band at that end thereof which impinges against the shuttle and which band embraces and is fast to terminals of the body of the picker, or that portion thereof which has the aperture for reception of the picker stick.

In the drawing,

Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are a side elevation, end elevation and plan, respectively, of the improved picker;

Figs. 4 and 5 are plans of the strip material from which the body and band are respectively formed;

Figs. 6 and 'l are a side and an end elevation of another form of the picker; and

Fig. 8 is a plan of still another form thereof.

Referring, first, to Figs. 1 to 5: A strip I of substantially the shape of that shown in Fig. 4 is used to form the body of the picker, to wit, with its ends reduced in width by equal-depth cut-outs Ia so as to form tongues 2. This strip in the present example exists in two plies, one

to form the outer and the other the inner layer of the body; the outer layer 3 is preferably of rawhide and the inner layer 4 of leather, the rawhide of the outer layer, being hard and stiff,

imparting strength and durability to the picker and the leather of the inner layer, being softer, avoiding chang of the picker stick. Such strip exists bent into the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3,

thus forming the picker body. That is to say, at points both sides of and near the middle of the strip it is bent to give it a bifurcated form, the rawhide ply being at the outside, and its terminal portions are bent short of the tongues and toward each other and then so as to leave the tongues projecting generally lengthwise and away from the closed end of the loop thus formed, leaving an aperture 5 for reception of the picker stick. Thus the picker body has an acting or shuttle engaging portion (formed by the terminals of the layers 3 and 4, with a layer I0 to be referred to-if present) which forms a stub or projection leaving the apertured part of the body with an endwise facing shoulder :r surrounding the stub at its base.

For the band a strip 6 having the shape shown Hawthorne, N. J.

1936, Serial No. 87,236

in Fig. 5, or with reduced ends or tongues l, may be used, such material being preferably rawhide.

This band is made to embrace said stub of the body with its own tongues depending and it is made fast to said body abutting the shoulders thereof formed at :I: by rivets 8 penetrating it and the body tongues, its own tongues being seu cured together by rivets 9. Preferably, there is introduced between the body tongues a layer I0, as of leather, to receive directly the impact of the shuttle point an-d this may be formed with a depending extension IIla. to lie between the band tongues I, as shown. The depending band tongues, with such extension of layer I0, if present, form the usual lug which travels in the bottom slot of the shuttle box.

This lug may be omitted, as in Figs. 6 and 7. Here the body of the picker is the same as already described, but the band II is without reduced ends, its ends being beveled and lapped an-d held by the rivets I2.

In Fig. 8 two strips are used to form the picker body, each being here two-ply, as one ply I3 of rawhide and the other I4 of leather. Each terminal of each strip is to be understood as reduced to form a tongue the same as in Fig. 4, and its terminals are bent off short of the tongues first in the same direction and then so as to extend in opposite directions. When these two lengths are assembled as shown (here with layers I5, as of leather between their tongues), o1' so that their concavities are presented to each other, the aperture I6 for the picker stick will be provided. At I1 are rawhide bands which embrace said tongues, being riveted thereto at I8, and which may be either of the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3 or that shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

Wherever there is face to face contact between the parts of the picker such parts: may be cemented together, as especially those portions of the plies 3 and 4 which extend around the aperture.

Since the picker is of the class which slides in the shuttle-box, or is not affixed to` the pickerstick, the bottom and side surfaces of its relatively long body, if not of the entire picker, should each conform to a single plane; in other words, the band should not project beyond any such surface (except, of course, where its lug depends to enter the slot in the bottom of the box). To make it possible toaccomplish this object without thinning and hence weakening the terminals of the body I bend such terminals inwardly, as explained, and I also provide the cutouts suc-h as la.

According to my construction the acting or shuttle-impact end of the picker is laminated, with the ends of the laminae presented at the end of the picker, and those laminae which are formed by the body of th-e picker are held together by the band. If the relatively middle laminae are of leather and the outer laminae, being formed by the outer plies of the body and the side portions of the band, are rawhide then the picker will impart a somewhat desirably cushioned blow to the shuttle and the acting end of the picker will be far more sturdy than a picker of the usual form, or having its acting end formed substantially the same as the right hand end of the picker shown in Fig. 3, pickers of the latter class being known to be subject to disruption at their acting ends as an incident of the indenting thereof by the shuttle point.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

l. In a loom picker, the combination of an elongated body having a picker-stick-receiving aperture closed at one end of the body, the portions of the body between which is said aperture being formed of longitudinally extending strip material and having terminals at the other end of the body which are bent toward each other and then bent to extend in a direction away from the first-named end, and a band embracing and fast to the portions of said terminals which thus extend.

2. In a loom picker, the combination of an elongated body having a picker-stick-receiving aperture closed at one end of the body, a stub at the other end of the body of less cross-sectional area than the apertured part of the body and a shoulder surrounding the stub at its base and facing in the same direction as the stub projects, the portions of the body between which is the aperture being formed of longitudinally extending strip material and having terminals included in the stub, and a band embracing and fast to said stub.

3. In a loom-picker, the combination of an elongated body having a picker-stick-receiving aperture closed at one end of the body, the portions of the body between which is said aperture being formed of longitudinally extended strip material and having terminals at the other end of said body which are of less Width than the remainder of said portions, said terminals being bent toward each other and then bent to extend in a direction away from the rst-named end, and a band embracing and fast to said terminals.

GEORGE BRAHS.