IMPROVED CUTTING ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RUCHES AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Dixon, of Bow Lane, in the City of
London, and Thomas Hughes and John Maddox, of Bethnal Green,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of “IMPROVED CUTTING
ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RUCHES AND
OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 12th November 1872, and dated the 18th May 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Dixon, Thomas
Hughes, and John Maddox at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 18th May 1872.
We, GEORGE DIXON, of Bow Lane, in the City of London, and THOMAS:
HUGHES and JOHN MADDOX, of Bethnal Green, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
CUTTING ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RUCHES
AND OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
To the rocking shaft or part of the frame that carries the batten of
the loom we connect another shaft or arrangement for carrying knives

page_text: or cutters, which may be of any convenient form, but we have found the
semicircular form to be efficient. This knife shaft works underneath or
alongside the fabric that is in process of weaving, so that as the weaver
completes so much of his work as will form a ruche or other individual
part of a piled or other fabric, the cutters will thereby take action on
the fabric, and cut it up as required.
The motion of the cutting shaft is produced by the action of the
rocking shaft or frame for carrying the batten, herein-before referred to.
After the fabric is cut we remove it from the loom by means of brush,
roller, or such like acting arrangements applied to the loom in connexion
with the knife or cutter arrangements.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes, and John Maddox
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th November 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
GEORGE DIXON, of Bow Lane, in the City of London, THOMAS HUGHES,
and John Maddox, of Bethnal Green, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes, and John
Maddox, Her special licence that we, the said George Dixon, Thomas
Hughes, and John Maddox, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes, and
John Maddox, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVED CUTTING ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO LOOMS FOR THE PRODUCTION

page_text: OP RUCHES AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes, and John Maddox, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 Patont
OF RUCHES AND OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes, and John Maddox, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes,
and John Maddox, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
:-
These improved cutting arrangements we apply or secure to the
rocking shaft or tree, or to that part of a complete loom which carries
the batten, or to any other part of the loom where the same can be
applied, so as to work in such correspondence with the action of the
batten as is necessary to obtain the required operation for the same, and
such cutting arrangements consist of a shaft, or spindle, or other ar-
rangement for carrying knives or cutters, which knives or cutters may
be of any convenient form, for instance, semicircular, circular, or other-
wise. The shaft or spindle carrying the knife arrangement works
underneath or alongside the fabric which is in process of weaving, so
that as the weaver completes so much of his work as will form a ruche
or other individual part of a piled or other fabric requiring cutting the
cutters will be caused to act on the fabric and cut it as required.
The motion of the cutting shaft or spindle is produced by the action
of the rocking shaft or other part of a complete loom which carries
the batten, herein-before referred to, though the motion may be effected in
any other manner which is conformable to the operative effect required.
In clearing away or removing the fabric from the loom after it is cut,
we apply to the loom rollers or such like acting arrangements, having
brushes or carded surfaces, or glass paper surfaces, or otherwise, so as
to effectually clear away from the loom the woven and cut fabric as may
be necessary.

page_text: Having now particularly described the nature of the said Invention,
and in general terms described in what manner the same is to be per-
formed or put in practice, we will now proceed to particularly describe
and ascertain in what manner the said Invention is to be performed or
put in practice, by referring to the accompanying Drawings, it being
understood that the foregoing descriptive statements are to be resorted
to also.
Fig. 3, part view of cutting shaft and knife block, together with ratchet
wheel for actuating the cutter.
Fig. 4, end view, showing ratchet wheel and palls, which work the
cutting shaft or spindle.
In the said Drawings A denotes the part of a complete loom which
carries the batten; B denotes a rod connected to the "swords" of the
batten, and which by means of the pall a attached to said rod B by
acting on the ratchet wheel b actuates the cutter spindle or shaft C;
D denotes the bearings for the same secured to the breast piece of the
loom frame, as shown; D* denotes the press block for keeping the woven
material up to the cutters or knives; E, roller with carding surface or
brush; F, roller with glass paper surface; G, auxiliary rollers for faci-
litating working, and to enable the weaver to clear away his work. The
way in which these rollers are secured to the loom frame will be well
understood by inspection of the Drawings. The other parts of the loom
shown by the Drawings need no description, being those usually adopted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed or put in practice, we hereby declare that we claim the Invention
of the herein described "Improved Cutting Arrangements applicable to
Looms for the Production of Ruches and other Fabrics," wherein the use
of cutting arrangements combined with clearing away arrangements,
whether of the same construction as herein described or any other con-

page_text: struction of substantially the same effect, is a special and important
characteristic.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Dixon, Thomas Hughes,
and John Maddox, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.