It is found that many of the patents in the group of "Shuttles" cover merely elements found in the interior of what may be considered the standard type of "fly" shuttle, in which a bobbin or skewer holds a package of thread supported near one end of the shuttle cavity, the thread to be pulled off endwise toward the other end and out through an eye in the side of the shuttle near the delivery end, the outside of the shuttle being smooth and tapered at both ends. Inventions which are not details of this so-called standard type are placed in this group of shuttle types.