US597149A - Heddle - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

L. KNEOHT.

HEDDLE.

No. 597,149. Patented Jan. 11,1898.

HTTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT @EETCE.

LOUIS KNEOIIT, OF PII'lLADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HEDDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,149, dated January 1 l, 1898.

Application filed February 13, 1897. Serial No. 623,234. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS KNEOHT, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in l-Ieddles, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an improved construction of a heddle which is provided with a head secured to each end on opposite sides thereof, whereby it is possible to remove a heddle whenever desired without disturbing the adjacent heddles, the invention being designed as an improvement on that for which a patent was granted to me on the 8th day of September, A. D. 1896, No. 567,395.

It also consists of a novel construction of head for the heddles, whereby the latter can be put on the bar of the heddle-frame in opposite position, thereby arranging the heddles in two rows, by which arrangement more room is gained for the warp to pass through and more heddles can be placed in a given space on the cross-bar of the heddle-frame, which is a great advantage over heddles as heretofore constructed.

It further consists of novel details of construction, all as will be hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a series of heddles embodying my invention and a heddle-frame to which the same is ap-- sides B, which are braced in any suitable man ner, the upper portion of each side having therein a slot B, in which the upper cross-bar C is mounted, while the lower cross-bar D is mounted in the lower portion of the frame A and secured in position in any desired manner. A preferable method of supporting the bar 0 in the slot B is by the stay E, formed of any suitable material, as steel, its upper end,F being turned over the upper bar C and bent downwardly, thereby forming a loop F, through which passes the bar 0, said ends F being engaged by the sleeves H, while the lower end G of said stay is turned around the lower bar D and engaged by a similar sleeve ll. Any other method of supporting and locating the said bar 0 in its slot may be used without departing from the spirit of my invention.

J designates the heddles employed,the same having the body J and the elongated eye K at about their central portion, the adjacent sides or walls L of said eye being given an offset in opposite directions, as will be understood from Figs. 4: and 5. The upper extremity M of each heddle has attached thereto the head N, the same having a body portion N, which has a member P, the latter being attached to said upper portion and having the laterally-deflected member Q, which is provided with the recess R therein, which is adapted to engage the bar 0 when the parts are in'assembled position. In like manner the lower extremity S of each heddlehas fas tened thereto on its opposite side the head T, the latter being provided with the body portion T, having the laterally-deflected member U, which is attached to the lower ex The operation is as follows: The heddles normally appear substantially as seen in Fig. 1, and if it is desired to obtain access to a heddle for the purpose of removing the same it is only necessary to slip the sleeves H toward each other on the body of the strip E until the same assume the position seen in Fig. 3, after which the bar G can be readily lowered and the desired heddle expeditiously removed by springing the adjacent head of the heddle to the desired extent until the upper and lower end of the desired heddle can be removed from the bars 0 D, it being of course understood that the heddles, as well as their heads N T, are made of suitable flexible or resilient material.

The manner of mounting the heddles in position upon their respective cross-bars will be understood from Fig. 1 it being noted that the laterally-deflected portions Q V are in each instance arranged staggered, each being turned oppositely to the adjacent heddle, whereby the body portions J of each heddle are arranged in two rows, as will be evident, the body of each heddle being offset from its neighbor.

It will be noted from the foregoing that an automatic regulation of the position of the heddles is attained, since the heads thereof touch each other when the heddles are assembled in operative position, so as to prevent turning around,tl1e heads in practice lying for a greater portion of their length close to the body of the heddle and having their free extremities deflected slightly therefrom. By reason of this arrangement of a plurality of rows in the the manner described more room is gained for the Warp to pass through, and consequently more heddles can be placed in a given space than heretofore.

It will be apparent that the heads may be attached to the heddles in any convenient or desired manner, and I do not therefore desire to be limited to any specific means for bold ing said heads in position.

It will of course be understood that although I have shown the heddles seen in Fig. 1 separated in a peculiar manner for the purpose of clearly illustrating the construction of the same in practice the heddles are in proximity to each other, the deflected free end of each head bearing against the body of an adjacent heddle, as already explained.

It will of course be evident that various changes may be made by those skilled in the art which will come within the scope of my invention, and I do not therefore desire to be limited in every instance to the exact construction I have herein shown and described.

Having thus described myinventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A heddle having at each of its ends a head consisting of a body portion with an attaching member and a laterally-deflected member forming a recess to receive the crossbar of a heddle-frame, the said heads being turned in opposite directions upon the body portion of the heddle, and having their free ends deflected so as to touch an adjacent heddle, whereby turning of the heddle on said bar is prevented.

2. The combination with the cross-bars of a heddle-frame, of a series of heddles having eyes therein, and arranged on said cross-bars so that when assembled two rows or series of eyes are formed each of said heddles having secured at its ends a head consisting of a body portion, an attaching member, and a laterally-deflected member having a recess formed therein and adapted to receive the cross-bar of a heddle, and having their free ends deflected so as to contact with an adjacent heddle.

LOUIS KNECHT.

WVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. 0. WIEDERSHEIM.

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