CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT PLUSH AND SIMILAR SILK CLOTHS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
VICTOR RUZE, Manufacturer, of Gaillon, in. the French Republic, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of
May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the fifteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Louis Victor Ruzé, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Louis
Victor Ruzé, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Louis Victor Ruzé, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use; exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven-
tion of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT PLUSH AND SIMILAR
SILK CLOTHS;" in which said Letters is contained a proviso that I, the said
Louis Victor Ruzé, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in. what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: Louis Victor Ruze, dere
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of causing hat plush and similar silk cloths to be
passed through and to be acted on by a machine arranged with teazles or
cards on a cylinder which lay the pile evenly, the fabrics being prepared and
acted on as herein described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an end view of a machine constructed suitable for carrying out
my Invention; Figure 2 is a section thereof; Figures 3 and 4 shew respec-
tively a frame of teazles and the steaming box separately. A is the framing,
the nature of which is clearly shown in the Drawing; 6 is the main or driving
shaft, which receives motion by a strap acting on the drum c from a steam
engine or other power. On the axis 6 is fixed the cog wheel d, which takes
into and drives the cog wheel e on the axis f of the cylinder, on which are
fixed frames of teazles or cards, as is well understood, and as shown at h, h,
and this cylinder revolves at the rate of about one hundred and sixty revolu-
tions per minute. The cog wheel & also takes into and drives the cog wheel i
on the axis of the roller j. The cog wheel i gives motion to the cog wheel n
on the axis of the roller p by means of an intermediate cog wheel on the
axis m; on the other end of the axis of the roller p there is fixed a cog wheel
2, which gives motion to the cog wheel r on the axis of the roller s, as indi-
cated in the Drawing by red circles; k, k, k, are three rollers, which regulate
the manner in which the fabric is brought to be acted on by the teazles or
cards; the upper rollers k are carried by arms k, projecting from frames k
moving on the axis f, which frames have cogged racks formed thereon, into
which the cog wheels fixed on the axis moved by the handle k, by means
of which the arms carrying the upper rollers can be raised or lowered, and
thus regulate the manner in which the plush or fabric comes into contact with
the teazles or cards; t is a rotating brush which cleanses the teazles or cards;
it receives motion by a band x on the pulleys u, v. The ends of plush fabric a
to be operated on are sewn or fastened together, and made into an endless
band and placed in the curved holder y, as shown; it passes outside the lowe
roller k, then between the upper rollers k, k, then over the cylinder to be acted

page_text: by the teazles or cards, then over the steam box a, supplied with high-pressure
steam by the pipe a', which passes through holes in the box, thence the fabric
passes over the roller j, then between the rollers p and s, as shown, the roller s
moving in the direction of the arrows. The plush or other like silk fabric is,
previous to being operated upon as above described, subjected (for about a
quarter of an hour) to an acid bath, composed by preference of five hundred
parts by weight of water to one of sulphuric acid, heated up to a mild
temperature. The fabric is then removed from the bath, and the moisture
separated by a bydro extractor or other means, or in place of sulphuric, other
acid may be used.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the details herein given, as the same may be varied so long as plush or such
like silk fabrics are subjected to the treatment herein described; and the steam
box with holes, and the machinery for giving motion to the fabric and to the
cylinder carrying the cards or teazles, may be varied without departing from
my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Victor Ruzé, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
LOUIS VICTOR (L.s.) RUZE.
Taken and acknowledged by Louis Victor
Ruzé (party hereto), at Paris, in the
Republic of France, this 6th day of
October 1852. before me.
This is the Specification referred to in the affidavit of Samuel Carpmael,
sworn before me, this 26th day of October 1852.
J. JEFFERSON.
Samuel Carpmael, of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
maketh oath and saith, that he hath been informed and verily believes that the
signature "Thomas Pickford," set, subscribed, or written in the margin of the
Specification hereunto annexed, and marked with the letter A., and dated the
Sixth day of October instant, and purporting to be executed by Louis Victor

page_text: Ruzé, Manufacturer, of Gaillon, in the French Republic, and acknowledged by
him before the said Thomas Pickford, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Paris,
in the Republic of France, on the said Sixth day of October, is of the proper
handwriting of the said Thomas Pickford.