Loom picker construction
AssigneeDayco Corporation
InventorWilliam T. Wagner
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Abstract
In a loom picker construction having a picker stick, shuttle-engaging block, and apparatus for holding the block on the stick, an improvement in the holding apparatus is provided and includes a pair of projections extending from opposite sides of the block, and a spring clamp engaging the projections and stick and yieldingly urging the block against the stick.
Claims18
In a loom picker construction having a picker stick, a shuttle-engaging block, and means holding said block on said stick;
- the improvement in said holding means comprising, a pair of projections extending from opposite sides of said block, and a spring clamp engaging said projections and stick and yieldingly urging said block against said stick, said spring clamp comprising a pair of similar roughly V-shaped portions each defined by a bight and a pair of diverging legs and each being disposed with its bight and legs in a common plane, with a pair of planes associated with the V-shaped portions being disposed in spaced approximately parallel relation and with the V-shaped portions symmetrically arranged.
A loom picker construction comprising a picker stick of rectangular cross-sectional configuration, a shuttle-engaging block having a rear groove therein for receiving said stock therewithin, said block also having a pair of projections extending from opposite sides thereof, and a spring clamp engaging said projections and yieldingly urging said stick within said rear groove to hold said block against said stick;
- said spring clamp comprising a pair of similar roughly V-shaped portions each defined by a bight and a pair of diverging legs and each being disposed with its bight and legs in a common plane, with a pair of planes associated with the V-shaped portions being disposed in spaced approximately parallel relation and with the V-shaped portions symmetrically arranged.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.