A NEW OR IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF CHENILLE AND MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE PRODUCTION THEREOF
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd May 1883. Com-
municated to him from abroad by Joseph Baverey of-Irigny in the department
of the Rhone in the Republic of France, Chenille Manufacturer
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BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS of the firm of Harris and Mills of 23
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. A NEW OR
IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF CHENILLE AND MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN
THE PRODUCTION THEREOF A communication to me from abroad by Joseph
Baverey of Irigny in the department of the Rhone in the Republic of France,
Chenille Manufacturer
The product constituting the object of the present application is a compound of
the kind of chenille known as terry in which the weft not being cut presents the
appearance of terry velvet and the kind of chenille known as cut in which the cut
weft presents the aspect of ordinary or cut velvet.
These two kinds have hitherto been obtained in round chenille of constant
diameter. The novelty of the new production consists in the union on the same
length, of parts alternately cut or terry, the diameter of which is varied at will
during the manufacture, so as to produce effects of infinite variety
In the accompanying drawings Figures, 1 to 4 show some examples in which the
cut weft, forming velvet, is indicated by straight lines, and the uncut weft forming
loops is indicated by waved lines.
The machine designed for producing this material is represented at Figure 5
in longitudinal section, at Figure 6 in back elevation and at Figure 7 in front
elevation.
It is similar to ordinary machines with respect to the carriages and the twisting
of the two threads which constitute the warp; these parts have not therefore
been represented.
The fly A carrying the weft bobbins a. a. is also similar to those ordinarily
employed, but the moveable iron wires serving as calibers are dispensed with, the
fly produces only one strip of chenille and the caliber upon which are wound the
threads carried by the fly, is simply composed of a fixed cone B forming a
prolongation of the hollow axle C upon which the fly revolves.

page_text: The threads wound upon this cone by the rotation of the fly tend to slide towards
the point, they are aided in this motion by the action of two rollers D. D¹.
faced with india rubber pressed against the cone by a spring d, and driven at
convenient speed by gearing.
At the moment when the threads leave the cone, they are seized and twisted
between the two warp threads of which one, b, traverses the fly and the cone
along their hollow axes; and the other coming from an exterior bobbin c joins the
first near the end of the cone.
The chenille thus formed would be a terry chenille, the constant diameter of
which would depend upon that of the part of the cone where the winding of the
weft takes place: to obtain the kinds above described there are added to this
machine. First.-A moveable cutter E capable of being lowered at convenient
times into recess formed in the caliber cone to cut the weft before it leaves the
latter, in order to obtain at will cut or terry chenille. Second.-A moveable
extender formed of a small lever F jointed on the cone, behind the place of winding
and the point of which lever can be received entirely within a longitudinal recess
in the cone or to rise more or less as represented at Figure 5 to increase at will
the development of the weft thread wound and consequently the diameter of the
chenille.
This lever is furnished near its point with a small slit into which the cutting
edge of the blade E enters in order that the cut may always take place at the
same point.
It is only necessary to give motion at suitable times to these instruments, cutter
and extender, to vary at will, the description and the diameter of the chenille as it
is made, and obtain all the above mentioned effects.
These, motions will be given at the desired times by two cams G. H. the motion
of which will be given by the machine; the first G can act upon the cutter
carrier K by means of simple levers as represented at Figure 5; the second H,
transmits an oscillating motion to the tube I traversing the axis of the fly, by
means of a lever L, connecting rod M and toothed sector N acting upon a pinion O
fixed at the end of this tube.
The tube I transmits in its turn motion to the extender F, by means of a circular
inclined plane P, which acts upon the prolongation of the extender to cause it to
rise, the tension of the thread which is wound upon its end is sufficient to hold it
_firm when it is left by the inclined plane.
These motions may however be communicated by other suitable means without
changing the effects produced.
To obtain very great variations in the diameters, the caliber cone could be
furnished with two or three extenders acting together by the same motion.