US Patent 4,279,276 (issued July 21, 1981) to G. Brian Hetz, assigned to Dayco Corporation, describes a loop picker for shuttle looms and a method of making it. The picker's forward block and body are made from a single strip of polymer-coated laminated fabric, pleated at the front and wound at the rear to form the picker stick passage. The document includes a USPTO web printout (abstract, claims, description) and the original patent with two sheets of drawings showing the picker and the manufacturing steps of winding, cutting, molding, curing and trimming.