AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING THIMBLES EMPLOYED ON BOARD SHIP OR ELSEWHERE
Year: 1855

page_text: Sealed the 17th April 1855, and dated the 27th January 1855.
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 27th January 1855.
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I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
MANUFACTURING THIMBLES EMPLOYED ON BOARD SHIP OR ELSEWHERE" to be 'as
follows.
The Invention communicated to me consists in the combination of a
machine, as herein-after described, for manufacturing thimbles employed. for
holding and fastening ropes on shipboard or elsewhere.
A, Figure 1, is an iron mandril;, B, a washer, turning round. A and which
in its rotative movement forces the iron suitably placed to: roll round 'the
mandril, and assume the form of a thimble. This rotative motion. is given

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to the washer B by a lever C, acted on at its extremity by a man.
motion of the lever is directed by a roller D rolling over a horizontal platform.
During the rotative motion the thimble is held by the lever E, the lower
part of which is set in a groove e'. The position of the lever E is changed
as the washer B rotates. When the thimble is finished, the key F is with-
drawn, and the upper part of the mandril A is taken off to allow the thimble
to be withdrawn.
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 26th July 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth 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 license
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand 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 of "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING THIMBLES EMPLOYED ON BOARD SHIP OR ELSEWHERE,"
(communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the

page_text: Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in the combination of a
machine for manufacturing thimbles or bulls-cyes, employed for holding and
fastening ropes on board of ships and elsewhere.
Figure 1 of the Drawing represents an elevation of the machine. In this
Figure, A is an iron mandril, round which turns the roller B, and which in its
rotative motion forces the iron plate (suitably placed, and from which the
thimble is to be made,) to roll round the mandril A and assume the requisite
shape. The roller B is put in motion by the lever C, acted on at its extremity
by the hand. The roller D serves to guide the lever C during its rotative
motion, and turns upon the horizontal platform H. During the rotation of
the roller B, the thimble or bulls-eye is held by the lever E, Figures 2
& 3, the lower part e of which is held in a groove, shewn at e¹, Fig. 1.
The position of the lever E is changed during the rotative movement of
the roller B. When the thimble is finished, the key F is withdrawn, and the
upper part of the mandril A is taken off to allow the thimble to be taken off.
Figure 4 represents an elevation, & Figure 5 a plan of the thimble. When
the thimbles are small, the lever E, serving to maintain the iron bar on the
mandril A during the rotative motion of the roller B, is replaced by pincers,
represented by Figure 6, having the two arms a, a, of a segmental form.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
of carrying the same into execution, I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein laid down, nor do I claim any
parts of the machine taken separately; but what I claim is, the construction
of a machine for the manufacture of thimbles or bulls-eyes, as herein-before
described, and referred to in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)