IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTENS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomas Cooke, of Leicester, Batten Maker,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTENS FOR WEAVING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomas Cooke at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st October 1862.
I, JOHN THOMAS COOKE, of Leicester, Batten Maker, do hereby declare the
naturo of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTENS, FOR WEAVING,"
to be as follows:―
My improvements consist in the employment of one slide bar or carrier,, on
which are fitted pegs or bolts for carrying the shuttles from side to side of
their work, as hereafter described. On the bed of the batten I fit a slide bar
or carrier which works in grooves or otherwise to allow it to slide backwards
and forwards. On this slide are fitted pegs or bolts working in thimbles or
bearings to allow the pegs to rise and fall. On each of these pegs.a stud is
fitted, which passes through the slide bar or carrier and works in a groove or
template fixed on the bed of the batten, of such shape as to give the motion I
desire to carry my shuttles through their work. The slide or carrier has slots.
cut in it for the studs, which are fitted on the pegs to work through; these studs
fit and work in the template on the bed of the batten, so that when the slide
bar is moved to and fro each of the pegs receives an up-and-down motion.
My Invention is applicable to one or more sets of shuttles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Thomas Cooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
THOMAS COOKE, of Leicester, Batten Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Thomas Cooke, Her special licence that I, the said John
Thomas Cooke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Thomas Cooke, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN BATTENS FOR WEAVING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Thomas Cooke, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Thomas Cooke, do hereby declare.
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say-
My improvements consist in the employment of one slide bar or carrier,
on which are fitted pegs or bolts for carrying the shuttles from side to side of
their work, as hereafter described. On the bed of the batten I fit a slide bar
or carrier, which works in grooves or otherwise, so that it may slide backwards
and forwards. On this slide are fitted pegs or bolts working through eyes to
allow the pegs to rise and fall, and that in a straight line. On each of these
pegs a stud is fitted, which passes through the slide bar and works in a groove
or template fixed on or formed in the bed of the batten, of such shape as to
give the motion I desire to carry the shuttles through their work. The slide
has slots cut in it for the studs, which are fitted on the pegs to work through ;
these studs fit and work in the grooves on the bed of the batten, so that when

page_text: the slide bar is moved to and fro each of the pegs receives an up-and-down
motion.
race.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a face view of a batten
constructed according to my Invention, showing the shuttle on one side of the
race, and Figure 2 is a similar view showing the shuttle on the other side of tho
On the bed of the batten I fit a slide bar or carrier A, which works in
grooves, so that it may slide backwards and forwards. On this slide bar are
fitted pegs or bolts C, C, working through eyes a to allow the pegs to rise and
fall. On each of the pegs C a stud b is fitted, as shewn in section in Figure 3,
which studs pass through the slide bar A, and work in the grooves B, B. The
slide bar A has slots c cut therein for the studs b on the pegs C to work
through; the studs 6 fit and work in the grooves B, B, so that when the slide
bar A is moved to and fro the pegs C receive an up-and-down motion, and
take alternately into the holes in the shuttle D, which is thereby carried from
side to side of its work. Or I obtain the motions of the pegs by means of a
balance lever working on an axis fixed on the slide bar, as shown in Figure 4,
which is a face view of the slide bar. A is the slide bar; B the groove, of
which there is only one in or on the bed of the batten and of the shape shewn ;
Cis the balance lever centered on the axis D fixed on the slide bar. Slots E, E,
are formed in the arms of the lever, and these slots receive studs fixed on the
pegs F, F; G is a guide pin fixed on the balance lever passing through the
slide bar and entering the groove B. On the slide bar being driven from end
to end of the bed of the batten, the lever is caused to rock and drive the pegs
into and out of the holes in the shuttle, and thus carry it through its work.
My Invention is applicable to one or more sets of shuttles.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the employment
in battens for weaving of one slide bar provided with pegs or bolts for carrying
the shuttles from side to side of their work, which pegs or bolts are protruded
and withdrawn and made to travel in a straight line, in manner herein-beforo
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thomas Cooke, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, One thousang
JOHN THOMAS COOKE. (L.S.)