CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN. MACHINES FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND FIBROUS MATERIALS IN GENERAL
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS
IN. MACHINES FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND FIBROUS MATERIALS IN
GENERAL." A communication from Celestin Martin, residing at
Verviers, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Sealed the 25th March 1873, and dated the 16th January 1873.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 16th January 1873, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
5 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18,
Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
[Price 8d1

page_text: cammes which it is not necessary to describe here; this upward
movement gives the proper shape to the reel formed on the spindle C by
the thread unrolled from the cylinders K; this thread is twisted to the
required degree of fineness by the said spindle.
Except the shape of the tube F, the above described parts are already
well known, and the public property, the parts represented in Fig. I.
and II. by the letters a¹, c¹, o¹, p¹, q¹, r¹, Fig. I. and III., by the letters
t', u¹, v¹, w₁, r, and Fig. IV. and V. by the letters m³, n, alone
composing the improved apparatuses.
Up to the present time in constructing fixed spinning machineg
different apparatuses have been used placed between the spindle or tube,
producing the twist for drawing out the thread and the cylinders which
feed the thread to be drawn out, for the purpose of preventing the
too much instantaneous twisting of the thread up to the point of contact
of the feeding cylinders, which would prevent the regular drawing out
of the thread. For this purpose some have used a fixed iron bar placed
between the feeding cylinders and the drawing cylinders, obliging the
thread to form a curved or broken line in order to stop or moderate
the twist; some have given an upward movement to the said bar, while
others such as Messrs. Vimont, of Vire (Calvados), France, and Sykes, of
England, have applied in the same part of the machine, rotating winged
shafts, each wing in its turn obliging the thread to describe a curved or
broken line. But if all these contrivances hitherto used have succeded
in distributing the twist upon a greater length of thread, the regulating
of the required twist of each thread, separately however, has not been
attained, all apparatuses known up to the present time as described
above being actuated by a regular uniform movement for each thread,
in other words operating in the same manner for all the threads at once,
because each ascending movement of the bar or of the winged shaft
allowed ever the same amount of twist; now the different threads drawn
from a cop always differing in size, according to the good or bad
working of the card which produces them, it becomes necessary to
regulate the twist of each thread separately, that is to say, to give to
each separate thread the twist necessary to produce a regular drawing
out, according to its degree of fineness or inequality in size; this result
is attained by means of the small apparatuses represented by letters
a', c¹, o¹, p, q, r', in Fig. I. and II. by the letters t, u, v, u, in

page_text: by the tube F being stopped at the cylinders.u¹ and y¹ it follows that
the thread becomes immediately loosened beyond the said two cylinders
and the balance piece t¹ at once throws the thread out, that is to say,
removes it from below the cylinder v¹.
Fig. IV., and V. represent the tube F of working size; it is pro-
vided at its entry with a small slit m¹ which allows the thread to pass
and take up its position during the movement of the tube at the point n'
where it passes into the tube; while retaining this position the thread
turns with each revolution of the tube round the entry of the tube itself,
and thus describes a circle favorising and facilitating the twist formed
through the point of the balance piece on which it rests.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, what I claim and desire to
secure by Royal Letters Patent is,―
1stly. The self-acting regulating for each thread separately of the
twist during the drawing out, and the application of said arrangement to
all spinning machines.
2ndly. The means above described and represented in the annexed
Drawings, whereby the said result is obtained.
3rdly. The use of a balance piece or other oscillating arrangement in
order to attain the said result.
4thly. The self-acting regulating of the twist for each thread
separately during the drawing out, for all kinds of spinning machines,
and for all kinds of material, based upon the tension of the thread.
5thly. The shape given to the tube F as described above, and
represented in the annexed Drawings.
6thly. The use of this tube with or without a balance piece or with a
fixed or moveable bar in order to intercept or moderate the twist during
the drawing out of the thread, that is to say, causing the thread to
describe a curve prior to its introduction into the said tube.
7thly. The application of the different means above described to
regulate by a self-acting process the twist of each separate thread,
while being drawn out, to preparing machines or so called carding
machines (cardes continues), which prepare the thick thread or thread in

page_text: its first form, which is afterwards placed in the spinning machines to
be drawn out to proper degree of fineness.
8thly. The whole of the machine as described above and represented
in the accompanying Drawings.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
H. BONNEVILLE (L.S.)