US1478903A - Pick counter for looms - Google Patents

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A. H. MORTON PICK COUNTER FOR LOOMS Dec. 25, 1923.

Filed ADril 29. 1922 of Massachusetts, have others skilled in the art apply pick counters to looms,

such counters.

is subjected are of the Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT H. MORTON, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

PICK COUNTER FOR -LOOMTS.

Application filed April 29, 1922. Serial No. 557,292.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. MORTON, a citizen of the United States, residin'g at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State invented certain new and useful Improvements'in Pick Counters for Looms; and I do hereby declare the following to b a full, clear, and exact description of the. invention, such as will enable to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to an improvement in pick counters for looms.

A great many attempts have been made to but every such attempt, so far as I am aware, has ultimately failed because the excessive vibration of the loom in operation has eventually destroyed, worn out or rendered inoperative Pick counters have been applied to looms made of the most sturdy construction, and great strength and durability, but the excessive vibration and racking due to the operation of the loom has worn them 25 out or destroyed them in a comparatively short space of time. The object of the present invention is to produce a pick counter for looms of a new construction such that the vibrations and blows to which the loom revented from being transmitted to the pic counter by pick counter from the loom frame by resilient means. To the above ends the present invention consists in the pick counter 85 hereinafter described and particularly defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred form of the, invention, Fig. 1

is a perspective view from the rear, showing 40 a part of the loom with the improved pick counter in position thereon; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the pick counter, showing the channel of the frame to which it is attached in section; and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view pick counter bracket.

The illustrated embodiment of the invention is described as follows: The pick counter 1 is mounted on a bracket 2, secured to the arch 3 of the loom. It is connected by a flexible shaft enclosed in an armored casing 4 with the lay shaft of the loom,-a hand wheel 5 on the lay shaft being shown. The

supporting the the lateral and pick counter proper 1 may be of any usual or preferred construction. In the illustrated em odiment of the invention it is provided on one end with a boss 10, to which its supporting bracket is attached, and on the other end with a boss 11, to which the flexible shaft and armored casing are attached. The bracket 2 consists of a strip of flexible metal fastened at one end by means of rivets 12 to the stud 13, the shank 14 of which pene trates a hole in the flange 15 of the arch 3 of the 100111. The shank 14 is secured in place by a nut 16. The other end of the bracket is attached to the boss 10 of the counter by means of the cap screw 17. The bracket 2 is twisted between its ends so that lateral vibrations will be taken care of by the flat in one plane, while longitudinal vibrations may be taken care of by the flat in the other plane. Thus the vibrations both lateral and longitudinal of the loom frame are only transmitted to the pick counter by means of this resilient bracket, which absorbs and reduces and modifies the effect of such vibrations and blows upon the pick counter.

It is'to be understood that the present invention is broad and generic in character, and that it includes within its purview any form of pick counter which is supported from the frame of the loom by resilient means operating to prevent the direct transmission to the counter proper of the blows, vibrations or shocks to which the frame is sulfl'ected in operation.

aving thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A pick counter for looms, comprising a counter proper, and a resilient sup ort for attaching the counter to the frame 0 a loom, said counter having different portions for absorbing the lateral and longitudinal vibrations of the loom frame.

2. A pick counter for looms, comprising a counter proper, and a resilient supportlng member for attachin'g the counter to the frame of a loom, said supporting member havin separate portions thereof disposed in different planes for respectively absorbing longitudinal vibrations of the ALBERT H. MORTON.

loom frame.

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