A SYSTEM OF WEAVING FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE GOODS, VIZ., SHAWLS, SILKS, STUFFS, CARPETS, KNOTTED OR UNKNOTTED, SINGLE OR DOUBLE FACED GOBELINS. TAPESTRY, DRAPERY, VELVETS, DAMASKED LINEN, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES, BY MEANS OF A FRAME WHICH REPLACES THE JACQUARD LOOM."
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sebastien Botturi, of Paris (France), Rue de la
Roquette, 140, for the Invention of "A SYSTEM OF WEAVING FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE GOODS, VIZ., SHAWLS, SILKS, STUFFS,
CARPETS, KNOTTED OR UNKNOTTED, SINGLE OR DOUBLE FACED GOBELINS.
TAPESTRY, DRAPERY, VELVETS, DAMASKED LINEN, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES,
BY MEANS OF A FRAME WHICH REPLACES THE JACQUARD LOOM."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sebastien Botturi at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th August 1857.
I, SEBASTIEN BOTTURI, of Paris (France), Rue de la Roquette, 140, do hereby
declare to be the Inventor of "A SYSTEM OF WEAVING FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE GOODS, VIZ., SHAWLS, SILKS, STUPPS, CARPETS, KNOTTED OR
UNKNOTTED, SINGLE OR DOUBLE FACED, GOBELINS TAPESTRY, DRAPERY, VELVETS,
DAMASKED LINEN, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES, BY MEANS OF A FRAME WHICH
REPLACES THE JACQUARD LOOM," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the manufacturing of frames and propellers to
serve in place to those used actually in the fabrication of the Aubusson, the
gobelins, knotted or unknotted, velvetted on one side and smooth on the

page_text: other, velvetted on both sides, smooth on both sides, for the manufacturing of
textile matters, knotted or unknotted, velvetted with thread inside, or textile
with a part smooth and flowers out, either double or simple faced; and by
the same system of chains or floor ribands, either horizontal or vertical, all
kind of cloths, and specially billiard cloth, and cylinders for manufacturing
papers for Utrecht velvet, shawls, silk, or any other kind of textile whatever,
may be, either the nature or the materials of it, manufactured to-day by the
system jacquart; to manufacture also stuffs double faced, by way of printed
chains.
When I wish to make a textile of several colours in the chain, I employ a
movement of to-and-fro motion, and of a cylinder, in place of the boards in
Jacquart frame. This cylinder is supplied with wedges going in the sense of
the circumference. These wedges give motion to each point of the motion,
but it is necessary each point should work alone. The wedges are taken by
means of an endless screw, which gives only way to the wedges, and is to
work. The motion is composed of groove pieces. These grooves are as
numerous as the rows in the textile, and are placed according to the quantity
and dimension of the cylinders. The grooves are kept by a brass wire or a
rope, tho end of which forms an opening in which enters the wedge of cylinder;
the other end is fixed to the ropes of cylinders used to take up each row of
thread, and must be in same number as they are in drawing. Such cylinders
are set in motion by a cylinder, and by the movement of to-and-fro which
replace the boards of the jacquart system. The cylinders gets up the threads
of the chain by way of iron rods, on which are hooked all the threads holding
the rings and threads. These iron roads are kept tied to the cylinder by means
of the ropes passing equally through a pully. The iron rods must, as well as
the cylinders, be equal to the number of rows in the drawing. When I wish
to make a velvetted textile, knotted or unknotted, to avoid a loss of wool I
prepare my rolling propellers in a different way. I place each row of the
drawing in the holes made in the propellers, then each row is passed in an
independent riband, and stopped in a curb. After having been passed in the
card, the height and breadth of which are in proportion to the number of rows
which are to enter in the drawing, when each range or row is prepared I
take it up by means of an independent ribond in the upper part of the frame,
and I grapple the curb holding the wool to the hooks prepared for it. When
the drowing is prepared I begin by the lower range by means of a motion
of my independent ribond; I tie it at my will, make some double faced,"
velvetted on one or both sides, smooth on both sides, smooth on one side
only, shortly any textile I think proper to make. When this row is finished,

page_text: I get the wools under the chain and do the same operation in all the rows;
and when the drawing is finished I get up all the rows, taking good care to
put the chasse against the textile that the threads may pass freely. When
I wish to get fine velvetted by motion, I take two blades, more or less high,
according to the height of the velvetted. These blades act as the flying
bobbin, and are cut through by another blade crossing mechanically the
frame.
I can also with this frame make tapestry goblin point stitched up, and make
at once canvass on tapestry.
When all the textiles are made mechanically, the chasse is motioned and
stops at the brim of the textile, when stopped the cylinder goes round and gets
up the threads of the chain, then the chasse goes back; an iron rod fixed on
the frame by a spring under the chasse moves the shuttles. When the shuttle
is gone through the spring goes up, but the chain remains so that the threads
.of the following row may get up, but this only for the case there should be a
large quantity of wool in chain. Each time that the chasse strikes it strikes on
a spring, which corresponds with the regulator, so that the cylinder and holder
go round only as the materials get made.
To move the mechanism by which all is set in motion, and which is in place
of the jacquart system, I use an axle or tree; turning round, either manually
or mechanically, on this are two commotioning pieces (bielles). As I have
noticed that the commoving pieces used till now have a circular rubbing, I set
three pulleys; this renders the motion easier and lessens the weight.
When we wish to make a textile with an unlimited number of colours with
shuttles, instead of doing by chains we take as many shuttles as there are
colors in the textile. These shuttles are all placed on the same cart or wheel,
going forward or backward according to necessity by means of a regulator,
each shuttle sets at work in its proper time.
..
When I wish to make a textile double faced with various colours in the
chain, I then make use of a shuttle; I pass it on the chain, and to get the
double face, I mean to get the drawing beneath the chain, I use a flying
bobbin. To obtain this result I place a bobbin, set with woof, upon an iron
rod; this rod, which only runs half the frame, slides in the tube and is
stopped by meeting another rod. The two ends of these rods are supplied
with springs. When the rods, meet, the bobbin get from one rod on the other
and goes to finish its row of woof. When the bobbin has gone through the
breadth of the textile, the iron rod brings it in the other sense, and the already
described motion goes on unceasingly. I put the rod in motion by way of a
spring, or of a weight placed on a wheel, giving a to-and-fro motion.

page_text: By the means of the double-faced textile, formerly described, I have made
a furniture which I can alter at will, as to have to-day a furniture in velvet
and varied colours, and to-morrow a furniture in gobelins. All these textiles
are made on vertica as well as on horizontal frames.
I also make use, in the fabrication of all these textiles, of a propeller which
I put in motion on rails. This propeller is supplied with three cards, one
of which is in a form of blades, and has an opening at the end; I pass the
wool in this opening, and I allow the card set with. wool to advance in
the chain, which permits me to knot and make double face. in all kind
of stuffs.
By means of the independent riband I make the velvetted billiard cloth, and
cylinders for manufacturing paper textiles double faced by way of printed
chains..
. I use the archimedes screw, going through the whole lengths of the
drawing by means of a small wheel or pinion placed besides the drawing table.
I give unto this screw more or less regular motion, and get by these means
the thickness I wish for. Upon this screw slides a box, equal in thickness to
the furrow; by turning the screw the furrow comes forwards in the same time
as the drawing is read. When the row is read, get forward the transversal
screw, by means of two screws of the same furrow, in order to get the exact
point.
The Inventor claim the exclusive right to construct and produce, viz.,
1st, the frames invented and constructed by him with a view to replace
entirely the jacquart system, by which frames are manufactured, all kinds of
textiles, crossed, velvetted, knotted or unknotted, double or plain faced, &c.;
also all kind of velvet of different colours, produced by his mechanical textile,
the independent ribbons required to. make the. velvetted and other different
kinds of cloths which may be made by his system.
2nd, of a propeller and all its accessories, brakets, frames, &c., in con-
nexion with the motive power or propeller.
3rd, of moving pieces (bielles), mechanical shuttles, flying bobbins, mechan-
ical temple, velvetting rod, &c., and, in a word, of all the machinery connected
and employed in his frames and propellers, which are of his own invention.
4th, of the manufacture of back chairs, seats, arm chairs, and chairs of
whatever description, shape, or texture they may be.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Sebastien
Botturi in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th February 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SEBASTIEN
BOTTURI, of Paris, France, Rue de la Roquette, 140, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Sebastien Botturi, Her special licence that I, the said Sebastien Botturi,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Sebastien Botturi, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A SYSTEM OF
WEAVING FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ALL KINDS OF TEXTILE GOODS, VIZ, SHAWLS,
SILK, STUFFS, CARPETS, KNOTTED OR UNKNOTTED, SINGLE OR DOUBLE FACED
GOBELINS TAPESTRY, DRAPERY, VELVETS, DAMASKED LINEN, AND VARIOUS OTHER
ARTICLES, BY MEANS OF A FRAME WHICH REPLACES THE JACQUARD LOOM," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Sebastien Botturi; my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrumeut in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sebastien Botturi; do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement':-
My Invention consists of a system of frames or looms, propellers and their
accessories, to serve in place of those now used in the fabrication of Aubusson,
the gobelins, knotted or unknotted, velvetted on one side and smooth on the
other, velvetted on both sides or smooth on both sides, for the manufacturing of
textile goods knotted or unknotted, velvetted with a thread back, a smooth
textile with a thread back, or a textile with a plain ground and flowers in
relief, either double or single faced; and by the same system of chains and

page_text: lisses, either horizontal or vertical, all kinds of cloths and especially billiard
cloth, and cloth for cylinders for manufacturing papers; for Utrecht velvets,
shawls, silk, and any other kind of textile goods whatever may be either their
nature or the materials of which they are now manufactured by the Jacquard
system; to manufacture also double-faced stuffs by means of printed chains.
I have comprised under one single application, as forming the same
discovery, the frames or looms, propellers and their accessories, they being
connected for one single result (the manufacturing of textile goods); but I
claim the right to use and employ the said frames or looms, propellers,
and their accessories and machinery separately for any other purpose I may
deem proper.
lisses by
No. 30,
Plan 1, Fig: 1-A, side view of the principal frame or loom; B, side view
of the propeller; F, fork which regulates the lay or batten; G, uprights of the
frame or loom; K; groove; S, moveable iron band. which is placed at the side
of the propeller and held at the lower part by a screw nut; this iron band is
grooved to allow an iron branch A, Fig. 3, to work upon it; U, iron band
which joins the band S to the forked piece AG, Fig. 3, by means of the branch
A, as seen in Plan 2, Fig. 7; Z, groove which permits the raising and
lowering of the branch A, Fig. 3; AM, forked bar which carries the band
AN AN, iron band, of which one of the extremities is notched to receive the
stopper; AO, an iron rod on which the tube W moves backwards and
forwards; W, tube; PP, screw which holds the band AN. No. 2, wheel
which serves to give movement to the lay or batten. No. 13, cross-pieces
which support the roller M. No. 24, levers' which move the
means of the cords. No. 27, 28, cords which move the lisses.
cramp iron which fixes the propeller to the loom. Plan 1, Fig. 2: A, front
view of the principal frame; D, roller which bears the wheels Nos. 1 and 2;
E, lay or batten; G, uprights of the frame or loom; H, roller which rolls up
the textile; I, roller which holds the tissue to the centre of the lay or batten;
J, roller which carries the chain; M, roller used to fabricate textiles knotted
or..unknotted, with a chain of wool or other material; N, roller, which carries
the lisses; R, pieces which serve to support the propeller when it is ready for
working. Nos. 1 and 1, wheels on which the cords work, which give motion
to the lay or batten. No. 2, wheel which puts in motion the roller D and
the wheels Nos. 1 and 1. No. 8, stop-wheel and its picker. No. 12, stop-
wheel, the gear-wheel of which is opposite to that of the wheel No. 8, No.
28, cords for moving the lisses. Plan 1, Fig: 3-A, front view of the
principal loom; B, back view of the propeller; C, textiles; D, roller, &c.;
E, lay or batten; G, uprights of the loom; H, roller, &c.; I, roller, &c.,

page_text: J, roller, &c.; M, roller, &c.; N, roller, &c.; R, pieces, &c. Nos. 1 and 1;
wheels, &c. No. 2, wheel, &c. No. 28, cords, &c. T, iron bar which gives
motion to the pieces S of the propeller; A, iron bar which works in the
groove Z of the pieces S, and unites them to the band U; AG, forked piece
which supports the band U; Y, spindles which carry the bobbins; X, rails in
front of the loom on which the propeller moves; AO, iron branch on which
the tube W works; W, tube.
Plan 2, Fig. 1-G, part of the uprights of the loom; K, groove; L,
moveable piece which bears the chain roller, and which is moved backward
and forward so that the chain may be always in the centre of the lay or
batten; the piece L is pierced with an oval hole and the groove with a round
hole; No. 11, bolts moving to and fro to shift the piece L backward and for-
ward. Plan 2, Fig. 2: N, lisses. Plan 2, Fig. 3:-0, wheel on which the cord
which stretches the chain winds itself; P, stop-wheel which maintains and
prevents the wheel O from turning forward; this stop-wheel is fixed on the
roller M; No. 14, stopper which is fixed on the wheel O; No. 15, cord;
No. 16, weights used to stretch the threads of the chain. Plan 2, Fig. 4:-F, fork
which serves to regulate the lay or batten. Plan 2, Fig. 5:-V, backward and
forward movement which is adapted to the lay or batten and which opens the
chain threads, in order that the comb propeller may enter. To arrive at this
result I place in the interior of the lay or batten two combs which are moved
by means of the backward and forward movement V. Plan 2, Fig. 6:-No. 52,
iron rod at the extremity.of which is placed the flying bobbin for the mecha-
nical weaving; this rod is fixed to the upright of the lay or batten and is put
in motion by means of a spring; No. 53, flying bobbin or fly bobbin. Plan 2,
Fig. 7:-B, propeller with its principal accessories; AJ, place on which are
fixed two combs to regulate the course of the woollen threads; No. 54, place
on which the comb propeller is placed; No. 55, tooth of. the comb propeller.
(The teeth of this comb are pierced with a hole into which the woollen threads
pass before being fixed into the check.) Plan 2, Fig. 8:-AG, pieces viewed in
two different ways. Plan 2, Fig. 9:-AD, screw nut. Plan 2, Fig. 10:-AQ,
check to keep the woollen threads. Plan 2, Fig. 11, upper part of the pro-
peller; AF, transversal bar where is placed one end of the comb propeller;
No. 40, key groove where is placed the comb propeller; AH, sides of the
upper part of the comb propeller; No. 42, grooves which allow the comb pro-
peller to advance or recede; A, detached piece of the propeller; U, ditto
ditto; AM, piece of the propeller seen on two different sides; E, lay or batten
for the mechanical weaving; No. 56, spring which drives the shuttle; No. 57,
piece which gives motion to the spring; No. 58, piece which unlatches the

page_text: rocker; No. 59, rocker; No. 60, spring which brings the rocker to its place.
Plan 2, Fig. 12, regulator:-AR, gear wheels which give motion to the beam;
No. 61, spring against which the lay or batten strikes each time that it closes
the textile; it gives the movement to the gear wheels and beam on which the
textile winds itself. Plan 2, Fig. 13:-AC, beam; X, iron bar which carries
the mechanical temple; AW, hollow iron pulleys fixed on the iron bar; AY,
wooden wheels furnished with points going from right to left or from left to
right according to which side of the loom they are placed on; the points enter
the textile and stretch it; the movement from right to left, and vice versâ, is
obtained by means of two pads maintained by the fork AZ; AZ, fork fixed
on one side of the loom, and which maintains the pads of the mechanical
temple; AS, gear wheels, fixed to the beam on the opposite side_to_the-regula-
tor wheel AR, giving motion: to the mechanical temple by means of the gear
wheels AT and AU. Plan 2, Fig. 14:-B, back view of the propeller alone:
Plan 3, Fig. 1:-G, frame of the loom; F cylinders, each of which raises
a. row of threads; No. 63; iron rods, on which are placed the pulleys that
facilitate the working of the cords upon the cylinders F; No. 64, mails or
loops, into which are passed the threads of the chain or warp raising the
threads which represent each stitch of the design, and which start from the
iron rods No. 63; No. 65, leads; E, lay or batten; No. 46, iron piece which
starts from the connecting rod and gives the movement to the lay or batten;
ED, wheel. which carries the shuttles when I wish to make fabrics of varied
colors by warps; G, cylinder of the movement, furnished with pickers
lowering and raising the screw II; II, archimedean screw, raising the
pickers of the cylinders G; No: 81, 82, 83, 84, gear wheels giving motion
to the chain à la vaucanson; No: 85, chain à la vaucanson; No. 86, gear
wheel fixed on the shaft which gives the general movement; No. 87, 88,
gear wheel giving the motion to the wheel D; No. 89, iron bands which
bear the iron rods No. 63. Plan 3, Fig. 2 :-G, surface of the movement
cylinder divided into compartments for the pickers; II, archimedean screw.
Plan 3; Fig. 3-H, to-and-fro movement. Plan 3, Fig. 4:-F, cylinder;
No. 63, iron rod; No. 64, mail or loop of the lisse or healds; No. 65, lead:
Plan 3, Fig. 5-H, pieces of the backward and forward movement seen on
two different sides: Plan 3, Fig. 6:-Nos. 40, 41, and 42, view of the
cylinders, and of the iron bands supporting them. Plan 3, Fig. 7, view of
two shaft propellers; No: 46, view of the pieces which joined to the con-
necting rods give the movement to the lay or batten; No. 47, connecting rods.
To avoid the friction of this connecting rod, which diminishes its strength, I
add three pulleys, which in reducing the resistance keeps it at its regular

page_text: strength; No. 48, brake to maintain the roller No. 49; No. 49, roller
which carries the chain; No. 50, thread which is fixed to the rods No. 63;
No. 51, view of the cord on the cylinders F.
Plan 4, Fig: 1-table for the reading of the designs; TA, archimedean
transversal screw; B, pulleys. going on rails; TIC, rails; E, archimedean
screw; T, immovable pedestals, of a spiral form in the interior; HG, bar
which maintains the necessary distance from the screws E; H, gear
wheels; K, chaine à la vaucanson; L, M, pinions; EN, crank; IQ,
iron band which supports the dials N, W; IS, TN, W, dials to count
the stitches of the design.. Plan 4, Fig. 2-3M, rollers, each of which
carries a row of the fabric; N, iron rods equal in number to the rollers;
and under each of which passes a row of the textile or fabric; L, figure
lisses, equal in number to the rollers; R, cords which put in motion the
lisses and pass into the pulleys IS; ES, pulleys which are maintained in a
row between two iron bands; P, rings to draw the lisses; E, lay or batten;
No. 70 and 71, places on the lay or batten where the moveable checks are
fixed.
By means of the loom and propeller (Plan 1 and 2) it is possible to fabricate
all kinds of textiles, plain, twilled, or velvetted, double or single faced. The
woollen threads leaving the bobbins of the propeller pass into two combs, and
are fixed in the check after having passed through the holes of the teeth of
the propeller comb. When the woollen threads are taken into the check, I
open the chain threads and cause the propeller comb to pass to the other side
of the chain; I pass a woof; I bring back the comb propeller; I give a
stroke of the lay or batten; I pass a woof in front of the chain;
I repass
the
comb propeller to the other side of the chain; another woof and I bring back
the comb propeller; I open the chain threads, and I fasten the textile by
means of a woof; then I take out the check with which I retake the woollen
threads, which I cut and I pass to another loom.
To facilitate the passage of the woollen threads, I put only one chain thread
to each tooth of, the comb; when the loom is horizontal instead of vertical, it
is only necessary to change the combinations of the propeller. To fabricate
textiles velvetted or plain, striped, or figured; I do not make use of the
propeller; I place the woollen threads upon a roller, and in a third lisse, I
always put a single thread to each tooth, and by means of this figure lisse I
pass my woollen threads above and below the chain, and I fasten at will. By
means of the loom (Plan 4, Fig. 2) I obtain the same results for textiles of an
infinite variety of colors; each row of the textile is placed upon one of the
rollers M, then it passes under a rod N to be fixed in one of the immovable.

page_text: checks which are placed at the top and bottom of the comb of the lay or
batten. Before being fixed in the check this row passes into a figure lisse,
and into the comb. When all the rows of the design are placed in the check
at the bottom of the lay or batten, by means of a moveable check I take the
first row, which I fasten at will by means of the figure lisse; when this row
is finished; I cause the figure lisse to rise to the top of the loom, and I place
the woollen threads in the check which is at the top of the lay or batten, and
I pass; to the next row. By this means I can produce as well tapestry with
the gobelin stitch and twilled fabrics, making the canvas at the same time."
The loom (Plan 3, Fig. 1) replaces with advantage the jacquard loom;
the backward and forward movement and the cylinder G replace the
cards of the jacquard loom; the cylinder G is furnished with pickers which
move in the direction of the circumference; these pickers put in motion each
point of the movement H, but as it is necessary that each point should move
separately, the pickers which are on the cylinder are lowered by means of an
endless screw II, which leaves at liberty only the picker which is to act. . The
movement is composed of grooved pieces (Plan 3, Fig. 3 and 5); these
grooves must be the same in number as the rows of textile in the design; one
end of these grooves has a hole into which the picker of the cylinder enters;
the rotative motion of this last puts in motion the groove; the other side of
which corresponds with the cylinders F, which raise the chain threads; when
the woof is passed, the groove disconnects itself, and returns to its place; the
next picker moves the next groove, and so on to the end of the design. The
very great advantage of this loom' over the jacquard loom is the power of
putting as many colors as may be wished, and that without increasing the
expense, while with the jacquard loom only a limited number can be employed;
there is also a great saving in the cards, which quickly wear out, while by my
system each stitch of the design is represented by a thread which is attached
to the rod of the row which it is to occupy.
To produce textiles of varied colors and without a wrong side, to weave
under the chain I make use of two rods (No. 52, Plan 2, Fig. 6), each of
which passes across half the width of the chain in a contrary direction; one
of these rods carries the bobbin charged with woof; when they meet the
concussion opens the spring of the bobbin No. 53, which passing from one
rod to the other finishes its row of woof, returning and continuing the same
operation indefinitely; the rod No. 52 slides in a tube which is fixed to the
uprights of the loom or of the lay or batten. In my mechanical weaving for
velvetted fabrics I make use of two steel rods to form the velvet, and which.
move like the rods of the flying bobbin; I also adapt a rocking lever to the.

page_text: lay or batten, which enables me to raise and lower it at will. The spring
No. 56, of the lay or batten E (Plan 2, Fig. 11) is stretched by the piece
No. 57. When the connecting rod No. 47 (Plan 3) and the piece No. 46
bring the lay or batten to the front of the loom, the spring is then held by the
piece No. 59 (Plan 2, Fig. 11) in form of a rocker; when the lay or
batten returns to the back the iron bar No. 58 moves the rocker and the
spring drives the shuttle; these pieces Nos. 57 and 58 adapt themselves to
the uprights of the loom. To produce textiles without a wrong side the
uprights of the loom are grooved so that the mechanism may follow the same
movement as the lay or batten; to conceal the woollen threads which are
under the textile they are cut, and by means of a needle they are re-entered
into the textile. By these combinations I can produce all kinds of textiles,
and with the greatest rapidity, and at the same time with great economy; for
by the jacquard looms stuffs with a great number of colors cannot be made
mechanically. For cheap draperies I put a chain of cotton or thread, but I put
only a single thread to each tooth of the comb; in order that the textile may
be woven with ease, the chain must be tightly stretched. The principal
advantage of this fabric consists in my being able to produce an excellent
cloth from refuse wool; I also weave these draperies by means of my
independent lisse, which carries a woollen chain; my other chain is of cotton
or thread, and also the woof; I weave above and below the chain, and
between the threads of the cotton chain. To produce textiles with varied
colors in the woof the shuttles are placed in the compartments of the wheel
ED, which gives motion to the gear wheels Nos. 87 and 88.
For the reading of the design I make use of a table on which I place an
archimedean screw T passing through the whole width of the table; at
each end of the screw I place a pulley B which slides regularly on the
rails TC; at each end of the screw another screw joins; each of these
screws E and CA passes on a pedestal F. To maintain the space between
these screws I place transversally an iron bar IG of which each end is forged
and pierced in such manner as to turn on a ferule square, holed inside and
placed on the screw. To give to these screws regular motion I make use of
two gear wheels H and of a chain à la vaucanson ; to give the
movement I place the pinions L and M, which I put in motion by means
of the crank N. On the other screw I place a moveable piece, the interior
of which is of the same worm as the screw; this piece which the screw puts
in motion slides on a rod HO and has a point which exactly marks the desired
stitch.
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At one of the extremities of the screw I place an iron band TQ, on

page_text: which are fixed the three dials IS, TV, TV, which serve to count the
number of stitches of the same color existing in each row of the design; the
screw is moved by means of a crank. Behind the pinions L, M, is
placed a dial plate with a check which prevents the screw from advancing
beyond the required stitch.
This system giving a great celerity to the reading, I claim an exclusive
right to it.
These are the means and machinery employed by me, the Inventor, foi
the fabrication of all kinds of textiles herein-before described, and I reserve
to myself the exclusive property in the above, viz. :-
1st. Of the frames or looms constructed to fabricate textiles by a movement
which replaces-the jacquard-loom, and by means of which I manufacture all
kinds of textiles, plain, twilled, velvetted, knotted or unknotted, single or
double faced velvets of one or various colors, produced by my system of
mechanical weaving, the independent lisses serving to produce velvetted
textiles, billiard and other cloths, and, in a word, all the textiles and other
articles which can be produced by means of my system.
2nd. Of the connecting rods, mechanical shuttles, flying bobbins, mechanical
temple, blades for the velvetted textile, reading table, in short, all the machines
employed in my frames or looms and propellers of my Invention.
.3rd. Of the propeller, with all its accessories, and of the loom acting with
the propeller.
I, the inventor, expressly reserve to myself the exclusive privilege and right
to all additions and improvements that I may make to the systems and
machinery herein-before described, as well as to all which may be connected
with the result obtained by the employment of the said machinery by me
invented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sebastien Botturi, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of