IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING FISHING AND OTHER NETS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau,
of the English and Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING
FISHING AND OTHER NETS."-A communication.
Sealed the 17th May 1853, and dated the 24th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand Le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th November 1852.
I, PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English
and Foreign Office Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING
FISHING AND OTHER NETS" to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in certain improvements on former Letters
Patent granted to Mr. Onesiphore Pecqueur, dated the 30th

page_text: August 1849, for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FISHING AND OTHER NETS."
The first part of my Invention relates to the re-elongating of the
twine of the shuttles.
In the Specification of Mr. O. Pecqueur the twine was represented
as being wound up upon a small iron plate, inserted within the
shuttle, and it was only by stopping the loom during half a minute
that the twine was unrolled; the said stoppage taking place every
two minutes, it followed that one fifth of the working time of the
loom was lost by such an unavoidable operation. Now, by my
improvement, the small iron plate herein-before described is replaced
by a small bobbin, E, set in the interior of the shuttle, as repre-
sented by Figure 1.
The twine is unwound gradually, according to the working of
the loom, and in such a manner that there is no longer any inter-
ruption in its working.
In Figure 1, which is a front view of the shuttle, B, B, A, is a
spring placed within the shuttle, having one of its ends fixed on the
The other end of the
shuttle by means of one or more screws.
spring A, bears on the twine at D, preventing the bobbin E,
unrolling too easily. The tension of the spring A, is so disposed
that it descends gradually according to the proportional diminution
of the twine on the bobbin E. These arrangements render the
tension of the twine uniform from the moment the bobbin is full
until the whole of the twine is exhausted.
The second part of the Invention relates to the connecting rods
and to the two winches set lateral to the loom, and giving the
notion to the shuttle bearer. The size and form of those organs
are to be altered, and as the range they give to the shuttle bearer
will be always the same, it is necessary to lessen their dimensions.
Figure 2, represents the size they are to have relatively to those of
Mr. O. Pecqueur's Patent. For my improvements, the winches
which put in motion the connecting rods will have half the length
of Mr. O. Pecqueur's.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English and
Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39,
Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty fourth day of November,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty two, in the sixteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau,
Her special licence that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fon-
taine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Peter Arinand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau,
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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING FISHING AND OTHER
NETS" (communicated to me from abroad), upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fon-
taine Moreau, by an instrument in. writing under my hand and
scal, should particularly.describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
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 Peter Armand Le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion communicated to me, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say):-

page_text: The Invention relates to improvements on a machine for making
fishing and other nets, described in Pecqueur's Letters Patent, dated
the Thirtieth of August, One thousand eight hundred and forty
nine, and consists in superceding the blade in the shuttle for sup-
plying twine to the machine by another contrivance, shewn in the
Drawing hereunto annexed. It will be seen on reference to Figure
5, Drawing 1, of O. Pecqueur's Patent, that the unwinding of twine
from the blade in the shuttle could not be effected without occasion-
ing the stoppage of the machine, by which considerable loss of time
ensued. Now, by my improvements, that operation is effected
during the time the machine is at work. I employ a bobbin, as
shewn in Figure 1, of the Drawing, which I introduce into the
shuttle, from which the twine is unrolled without intermission,
according to the requirements of the loom. A spring, A, is set in
the interior of the shuttle, having one of its ends fixed to the shuttle
by means of screws, and the other end pressing on the twine to pre-
vent the bobbin unwinding with too great facility, and the tension
of the spring A, is made to decrease in proportion as the bobbin dis-
charges the string. That arrangement causes the lessening of the
length of the lever acting on the bobbin, equilibrates the tension of
the twine, and renders its unwinding uniform from the time the
bobbin is full until it is all spent.
The other parts of the shuttle are the same as in the former
Letters Patent; the connecting rods, Drawings 1, 2, & 3, and the
two crank arms Q, Drawings 1, & 3, which are set laterally to the
loom, and put in motion the shuttle-holders, are also modified in
form, as shewn in Figure 2, which represents their dimensions on a
scale of one fifteenth, and in Figure 3, which shews them applied.
The crank arms which set in motion the connecting rods are half
the length of those of the loom of Pecquenr's Patent, and by the
several dispositions herein-before described, I suppress the parts V,
v, 9, 9¹, q¹¹, 21, & 22, Drawings 1, & 2.
And having now described the nature of the Invention and the
manner of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I
do not confine myself to the precise details or proportions herein

page_text: contained; but what I claim as new, and intended to be protected
by the said Letters Patent, is,―
Firstly, the constructing of shuttles of machines for manufactur-
ing fishing and other nets, constructed according to the Patent of
O. Pecqueur, with a bobbin instead of a blade to hold and supply
twine, as herein-before described in reference to Figure 1.
Secondly, the modifying the connecting rods. 2, and crank arms
Q, as herein-before described, reference being had to Figures 2, and 3.
Thirdly, the suppressing the pieces V, v, 9, 91, 11, 21, 211, as
herein-before described, and referred to in Drawings 1, 2, and 3.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty first day of May, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty three.
P. DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)