The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-17 00:00:00

NEW' FRENCH INVENTION.

(From the itnerire.l,l ITerald.)
M. Augustin Coront, of Lyons, has just invented an
admirable machine, by which a single workman can con-
duct six rotatory looms, and weave silk, cotton, flax, hemp,
and wool, into plain or figured stuffs; with a celerity and
perfection hitherto-unknown. This skilful mechanic has
conceived the idei of two looms, which, by their combina-
tions and the adaptation of two pieces, form a third. The
first has already been used in the fabrication of crape, of
seven-eighths taffetas, of three-quarters calicoes ; the se-
cond in making figured stuffs ; and the third, set up as a
five-fourth machine, two pieces of half-ell wide, each di-
vided by a separate ehuttle. All the accessories are appli-
cable to these looms, and are set in motion by the band, by
alternately pushing the clapper, which is on wheels, anti
works horizontally. Ti receives its motion from a pully,
with a twisted leather strap, aml two springs placed at each
side of the loom. It is capable of being applied to an in-
finite variety of purposes. When it is wished to make a
strong stuff, such as ticking, or thick-grained cloth, the
clapper strikes the woof twice each time it passes. In pro-
-1 portion as it is wished that the- stuff should be open or
close, slight or strong, the clapper strikes slightly or heavily,
slowly or quickly, and the precise strength is controlled by
a regulator. A band-screw and a small mallet suffice to
operate these changes. The shuttle, placed in boxes, which
it does not quit except by the impulse of the workman,
passes in the chain from PO to 110' times in a minute, from
the time the machine is set in motion. Another advantage
is, that the shuttle has a twofold operation, of a nature
hitherto totally unknown, so that it can be varied without
trouble or delay, according to the unequal strength of the
zones and the stuff ; and notwithstanding the extreme ve-
locity of both clapper and shuttle, the loom can be stopped
at will without injury. While the parts stop which serve
to fabricate one of the pieces in a loom arranged for 6-4,
throe of the second stop also. This is an inconvenience
which M. Augustin Coront will in time be enabled to ob.
vitae, by making each piece of mechanism of a texture in-
dependent of the other ; but these abort intervals are made
up for by the rapidity of the simultaneous execution of two
pieces. This is nothing compared to the time lost by the
workmen in common looms in disentangling and tying the
threads.
The application of this invention to the fabrication of
muslin. and tissues of flax, cotton, and hemp, proves that it
is as favourable to the health of the workmen as it is to the
interests of commerce. In fact, the excessive fineness of
its parts, each wheel being perfect, will admit of the em-
ployment of flax, hemp, and cotton thread quite dry, and
It will consequently be no longer necessary to work them in
low and damp situations, for the purpose of softening them.
The workmen, in quitting the manufactoriea, which might
almost be called caverns, where they are interred alive,
will 'no longer labour under influences which stint their
growth, and subject them to asthmatic and scrofulous af-
fections. They ought to be as gratiful to M. Augustin
Coront for his invention as the manufacturers of needles are
to Mr. George Prior, who,tin I€lo9, invented a very simple
ra appatus, composed of a variety of bellows, which blow
away from the mould the particles of free-stone and steel,
which fly off' in the process of cleaning, and which before
this invention, from their rotatory-motion, flew into the
eyes, nostrils, and mouths of the workmen, and were the
cause of serious disorders. While observing upon the in-
jurious action of the small particles which escape in the
process of certain manipulations, we may, perhaps, be
allowed to direct the attention of the scientfile to the best
means to be employed for the prevention of the injurious
effects which arise from the slik dust produced in the cutting
of shawls.
Id. Coront has taken out a brevet d'inventinn and a
brevet de perfietionnement for,the triple WM. Thus the
right of selling orOf matufachtring belongs co:elusively to
him ; nevertheless, with the view of spreading the sylvan-
times of this nodal Mimicry, boon*" to furnish for 180 f.
(el.) a loom in wood; comprising all the—uratial cornhina-
raps of which it is soteeptihte. eo cotoiivion of reositing,
sea milord ter the of his lariestion,' the
et 400 k . pee boat for aright viinusiolooloring twooty
five ; eof for fifty ; and sof. for onetanited.