NEW METHOD OF CROSSING SILK IN THE THROWING, BY A MECHANICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PROGRESSIVE MOVING GUIDER AFFIXED TO THE REEL UPON THE SILK-THROWING MILL, PROCEEDING IN A CONSTANT DIAGONAL DIRECTION IN THE FORMATION OF THE SKAINE UPON THE REEL, WHEREBY THE SKAINE IS MADE MUCH BROADER THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN DONE BY THE COMMON METHOD NOW IN PRACTICE, AND BY REPEATED TRIALS AND EXPERIMENTS THE SAME IS FOUND TO BE VERY ADVAN- TAGEOUS, NOT ONLY IN THE PROCESS OF DYING, BUT ALSO IN WINDING AND WEAVING THE SILK AFTER IT IS DYED
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, PETER
NOUAILLE, of Greatness, in the Parish of Sevenoaks, in the County of Kent,
Silk Throwster, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the said Peter Nouaille did, by his petition, humbly represent
unto His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third (amongst other
things) that he had, by long study, pains, and expence, found out and invented
an entire "NEW METHOD OF CROSSING SILK IN THE THROWING, BY A MECHANICAL
AND MATHEMATICAL PROGRESSIVE MOVING GUIDER AFFIXED TO THE REEL UPON THE
SILK-THROWING MILL, PROCEEDING IN A CONSTANT DIAGONAL DIRECTION IN THE
FORMATION OF THE SKAINE UPON THE REEL, WHEREBY THE SKAINE IS MADE MUCH
BROADER THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN DONE BY THE COMMON METHOD NOW IN PRACTICE,
AND BY REPEATED TRIALS AND EXPERIMENTS THE SAME IS FOUND TO BE VERY ADVAN-
TAGEOUS, NOT ONLY IN THE PROCESS OF DYING, BUT ALSO IN WINDING AND WEAVING
THE SILK AFTER IT IS DYED," and thereby prayed His Majesty to grant unto
him His Letters Patent for the sole use of his said Invention of crossing
Silk in throwing, and of vending the same in such manner as therein is
mentioned; and His said Majesty, being graciously pleased to condescend to
his request, did, by His Royal Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the tenth year of His reign, give and grant
unto the said Peter Nouaille, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said
Peter Nouaille, his executors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by
himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputys, servants, or
agents, or such others as he, the said Peter Nouaille, his executors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention within

page_text: that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His
Maty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to him, the said
Peter Nouaille, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them,
should in their discretion seem meet; and that he, the said Peter Nouaille,
his executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the term of years therein mentioned: To have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said license, powers, priviledges, and advantages, by the said Letters
Patent granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto the said Peter Nouaille, his
executors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and imme-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute
in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if the said Peter Nouaille shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent (among other things), relation
being thereunto had) more fully and at large may appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that he, the said Peter Nouaille, doth, by this instrument
in writing under his hand and seal, particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of his said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed in manner following, that is to say):-
First, to each reel upon the silk-throwing mill, provide a slip of wood called
a guider, of one inch square, and of a length exceeding that of the reel about
five inches more or less; then, at equal distances on the guider, fix a number
of guiding wires suited to its length and to the number of skaines proposed to
be made on the reel, which wires may be made of the usual form of those now
in general use amongst the throwsters, and known by them under the name of
eyes. The guider thus prepared is to be placed on a certain number of
uprights proportioned to its length, whose use are only to keep it straight and
to support it, each of which uprights must be provided with a small friction-
roller placed in a groove at the top of each to receive the guider and permit

page_text: it to roll upon them backwards and forwards with freedom and ease. The
guider thus placed and rendered capable of moving freely is to receive its
motion from a horizontal circular wheel fixed at some convenient part near to
the end of the reel next adjoining to the drum, which wheel, by means of
an excentric pin fastened thereon and going through a hole in the end of the
guider, must necessarily go to and fro by the rotatory motion of the said
wheel as it would also by any other method applicable to the producing of a
progressive motion, of which many are known and might be described. This
horizontal circular wheel receives its own motion from a smaller vertical wheel
affixed to the end of the axis of the reel itself by means of a band to be
directed from the one to the other by fixed rollers, adapted to the particular
situation of the two wheels, which are to be proportioned to each other, the
larger wheel in circumference as seventy-four to that of the smaller wheel
forty-five, or any other proportions that will answer the same purpose with
accuracy. The mill with such guider affixed thereto will, in working, cross
the silk in the formation of the skaine upon the reel, which has never been in
use before, and the same effect might also be produced by various methods, as
well similar as differing from that herein-before described.
In witness whereof, the said Peter Nouaille hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy.
PETER (L.S.) NOUAILLE.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
B. ROSSELLON.
SAMUEL SMITH.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of September,
in the year above mentioned, the said Peter Nouaille came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afores,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the same Twentieth day of September, in the year above
written.