IMPROVEMENT IN THE RACK APPLICABLE TO THE BATTENS OF LOOMS OR MACHINERY FOR WEAVING PLAIN OR FIGURED RIBBONS
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLAUDE
GUILLOTTE, of Crispin Street, Spitalfields, in the County of Middlesex,
Machine Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of February, in the first year of His reign,
did for Himself, his heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Claude Guillotte, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Claude Guilotte, my exors, adñiors and assigns, or such others
as I, thave said Claude Guillotte, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and.vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of an "IMPROVEMENT IN THE RACK APPLICABLE TO THE BATTENS OF
LOOMS OR MACHINERY FOR WEAVING PLAIN OR FIGURED RIBBONS," (communi-
cated to me by a certain foreigner residing abroad"); in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Claude Guillotte, shall cause
a particular description of, the nature of my said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Claude Guillotte, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the figures and
letters marked thereon, and by the following description thereof, that is to
say:
My Invention relates to that description at loom commonly called or known
by the name of the French ribbon bar loom, wherein the shuttles are actuated
by means of racks, but as such looms are well known, and their construction
understood and in use in this country, it will not be necessary to give a full
description of such looms, only so far as it is desireable to show the precise
point of the improvement, and which improvement is in the constructing of
the racks which work the shuttles of leather, in place of metal, which has
heretofore been the practice, whereby considerable expence will be saved, and
at the same time in using such racks, so constructed of leather, the necessity of
using oil will be dispensed with, and thus will the possibility of the fabric
becoming soiled by oil be prevented. But in order that the Invention may be
fully understood and carried into effect, I will now describe the Drawing here-
unto annexed, which represents part of a rack a constructed according to the
improvement applied to part of the batten of a loom. Figure 1 being a front
view of part of the usual framings of the batten a and b, which are connected
together by the screw bolts c, as shown in the Drawing; d, d, are two shuttles
in their places which have leather racks glued into a chace, mortice, or groove
cut on their under sides, as is clearly shewn in Figures 3 and 4. These shuttles
d receive motion by the turning of the pinions e, e, which are turned first in
one direction and then in the other by means of the backward and forward
motion given to the rack A, which in Figure 1 is shown in its place,
partly by dotted lines and partly in substance; this rack A lies in a chace
mortice cut in the batten in the same manner as do the metal racks heretofore
used, and are supported at short distances on friction rollers as heretofore
practised, and the rack A is made to move backwards and forwards by means of
the tooth wheelf receiving motion from two straps or cords affixed at opposite
sides on the drum g, which is on the axis of the wheel f, the cords or straps

page_text: being affixed in the same manner to another drum which has its axis on the
framing of the loom, and this second drum is turned first in one direction and
then in the other by means of cords affixed thereto and also to two treadles, all
which is well understood by persons acquainted with such looms. It will not
therefore be necessary to give a more full description of such looms, as the
manner of applying my improvement thereto will be clearly understood from
the above description, aided by the Drawing hereunto annexed. I will there-
fore now proceed more fully to describe the construction of the rack A, having
first observed that the same letters of reference indicate similar parts wherever
they occur. In the Drawing Figure 5 represents a front view of part of a
rack A constructed according to the improvement, A being the rack which
is formed of leather, such as is commonly used for the soles of shoes, the rack
is then glued on to a piece of well seasoned mahogany or cedar h, and the
iron plate or rod i is to be affixed by small pins or studs j, as is shown in the
Drawing. Figures 2, 3, and 4, show the upper and under sides and end view
of a shuttle d, k, Figures 2 and 4 being the groove which slides along and is
guided by the upper guides or race of the batten, Figure 1, and in Figures 3
and 4 is the groove which slides along and is guided by the under race or
guide n, Figure 1, of the batten, into which the pinions or toothed wheels e, e,
are placed on their axes in such a manner that the teeth take into the rack A,
and thus is caused to turn first in one direction and then in the other. The
leather rack which is glued in the groove of the shuttle does not require other
wood or iron affixed thereto.
Having now described the nature of the improvement, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I lay no claim
to any of the parts shown or described, excepting the manner of constructing
the racks.
And I do hereby declare the improvement on the racks which are used in the
battens of ribbon looms for working or actuating the shuttles to consist in
forming such racks of leather.
In witness whereof, I, the said Claude Guillotte, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-one.
CLAUDE (L.s.) GUILLOTTE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1881, the aforesaid Claude Guillotte (through the inter-
pretation of Louis Guris, the said interpreter being first sworn that he has
truly, distinctly, and audibly interpreted the contents of the above Specification
to the said Claude Guillotte, and that he would interpret the acknowledgement
of the same,) came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.