IMPROVEMENTS IN BARCELONNETTES OR CRADLES FOR CHILDREN OR FOR DOLLS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Claude François Mougin, of Paris, France,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BARCELONNETTES OR CRADLES FOR
CHILDREN OR FOR DOLLS."
Sealed the 18th July 1862, and dated the 25th January 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Claude François
Mougin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th January 1862.
Í, JEAN CLAUDE FRANÇOIS MOUĠIN, of Paris, France, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BARCELONNETTES OR
CRADLES FOR CHILDREN OR FOR DOLLS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to barcelonnettes or cradles for children or dolls, and
consists in imparting to the said cradles a suitable swinging, rocking, or
see-saw motion by means. of spring driven clockwork and suitable connecting
parts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Claude François Mougin, in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN CLAUDE
FRANÇOIS MOUGIN, of Paris, France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jean Claude Francois Mougin, Her special licence that I, the
said Jean Claude François Mougin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Jean Claude Francois Mougin, 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 BARCELLONNETTES
OR CRADLES FOR CHILDREN OR DOLLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Jean Claude Francois Mougin, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument 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 performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Claude François Mougin, 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:-
Nothing is changed of the ordinary form of cradles, whether made of wood,
iron, or any other material, only the top of the basket is fixed with iron or
wooden plates to the bottom, to give it greater solidity than those with nets.
The basket is suspended by the middle from posts, from underneath the
cradle, or by the top upon steel plates, or by nobs which screw according to
pleasure. To this cradle a movement of clockwork is adapted similar to a
roasting jack, but modified and disposed to the use of the cradle.
rocking is obtained by means of an excentric wheel encompassed by a collar
which extends at will. This excentric is fixed against the bottom of the cradle
The

page_text: either at the head or at the foot.
The rocking can be varied by a connecting
rod and winch fixed at one end to the staff of one of the springs of the move-
ment, and at the other end to the cradle itself to turn or slide in a flat plate
of iron or copper which is attached to the bottom of the cradle. This plate
is inserted in the middle once, the length of the winch, in order that the
staff may slide inside from the top to the bottom without interruption.
This movement is composed of a barrel with several other springs according
to the dimensions required to be given to them to act more or less time
without being wound up again. One of these screws or springs allows a
stem to pass, destined to receive the excentric or the winch. The spring
directs a screw without an end put from the top to the bottom of the action in
order to pass into the bottom to fix on it two or four pins called the fly-wheel,
like a roasting jack, where there should be leaden or brass balls and fans, or
plates of iron or brass to produce and regulate the swiftness and force of
the movement desired. The fly must turn underneath the action so that
the cradle may not obstruct it, so that a child several years old may be rocked
as easily as one newly born.
To complete this machinery there is a dial with a hand, which is directed
by the springs inside. This hand will tell how many times it has been rocked.
In winding it up again the hand will rise of itself and resume its original
place. To soften the winding up there is either inside or out the action a
wheel placed upon the pin of the barrel which serves ordinarily to wind up
again. This wheel is controuled by another smaller, having a square pinion
to receive the winch or key for winding up. This is the first plan.
By another plan the cradle can by rocked by one or two weights according
to the springs employed to obtain a more prolonged motion. These weights
will replace the springs. One of the springs will carry a reel either inside or
out the action, to wind up the cord or chain to which the weights are attached.
The movement will be placed and will wind itself up as in the first plan,
only two posts are added at the head and foot of the cradle which will rise
about two metres. Between these two posts two pulleys are placed at top,
which received the cords or chains to which the weights are attached.
Between these same posts the weights will descend as if in a groove without
being able to turn aside. In this plan and in the first, the excentric and
the winch will be employed.
The Inventor uses these plans not only for childrens' cradles, but also for
toys, sofas, invalids' beds, hammocks, &ca., according to the wish of the pur-

page_text: Whatever may be the shape and elegance of these cradles, bassinets,
invalids' beds, sofas, hammocks, &ca., the Inventor offers to make them rock
by a particular means of action consisting with the object wished to be rocked..
The motion of those for toys is more simple, and will act with or without
flys, according to the simplicity or complication of the movement.
London the 25 July 1862.
JEAN CLAUDE FRANÇOIS MOUGIN. (L.S.)..