CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND FIBROUS MATERIALS IN GENERAL.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien. Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND FIBROUS MATERIALS IN
GENERAL. ." -A communication from Constant Larché, of the Firm
of Gires, Brothers, and Constant, residing at Saint Remy, France,
Manufacturer.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th June 1873.
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I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
5 Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the

page_text: nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, AND FIBROUS MATERIALS IN
GENERAL," communicated to me by Constant Larché, of the Firm of
Gires, Brothers, and Constant, a person resident at Saint Remy, France,
Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to improvements in machines for spinning wool,
cotton, silk, and fibrous materials in general; the construction and
arrangement of which are shown in the accompanying Drawing, which
represents the part of a spinning mule jenny constructed according to
the Invention.
These improvements consist in applying to the spinning mules jenny
or self-acting mules the ordinary mode of winding up used for the fixed
spinning machines.
A, in the Drawing, represents the thread when winding; A' is the
thread when drawing; when the drawing has been made and the
required twisting has been operated the finger B, mounted on the shaft
of the counter B', displaces the lever B² keyed upon the rod B³, carrying
at its end a stop or finger B' which draws away the spring C and allows
the bent bracket C¹, shown when the spinning takes place, to take the
position of the bent bracket C³, shown when the winding is operated.
The bent bracket is retained in raised position against the stiffness of the
thread by means of the square lever C³ attached to it.
The winding of the thread is made like with the fixed throstle frame
by means of a steel ring carried upon a very smooth metallic disc D,
mounted upon an iron square and running downwards and upwards along
the part of the spindle supporting the cop by means of a horizontal
rack E carrying a variable mechanical axis, to which the motion is
imparted by means of a square lever E², carrying at its end a friction
roller which follows the curves of the rule E³, which may be modified
according to the directions I wished to give to the spires of the thread
upon the cop, so that the latter may be firm by crossing the superposed
layers of the thread, as shown on the cop F.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th December 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-seventh
year of `Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that
I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 "CERTAIN
NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SPINNING WOOL, COTTON,
SILK, AND FIBROUS MATERIALS IN GENERAL," communicated to me by Constant
Larché, of the Firm of Gires, Brothers, and Constant, a person resident
at St. Remy, France, Manufacturer, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
22'
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby,
eclare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same.
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and.
y the following statement:-
The Invention relates to improvements in machines for. spinning wool,.
tton
cill and filima motoa

page_text: arrangement of which are shown in the accompanying' Drawings, in
which Fig. 1 represents a longitudinal vertical side view of the part of a
spinning mule jenny constructed according to the Invention; Fig. 2 a
top view of the same; Fig. 3 and 4 a longitudinal vertical side view and
a top view of the same modified. In these Figures the main parts are
indicated by the same letters of reference.
These improvements consist in applying to the spinning mules jenny
and self-acting mules the ordinary mode of winding up used for the fixed
spinning machines.
A, in the Drawings represents the thread, when winding; A' is the
thread when spinning; when the drawing has been made and the
required twisting has been operated the finger B mounted on the shaft
of the counter B¹ displaces the lever B² keyed upon the rod B³, carrying
at its end a stop or finger B which draws away the spring C and allows
the bent bracket C', shown when the spinning takes place, to take the
position of the bent bracket C, shown when the winding is operated;
the bent bracket is retained against the stiffness of the threads by means
of the square lever C³ attached to it.
The winding of the thread is made like with the fixed throstle frame
by means of a steel ring carried on a very smooth metallic disk D,
mounted upon an iron square and running downwards and upwards
along the part of the spindle supporting the cop by means of a horizontal
rack E provided with a variable mechanical axis, to which the motion is
imparted by means of a square lever E³, carrying at its end a friction
'roller which follows the curves of the rule E³, which may be modified
according to the directions wished to give to the spires of the thread
upon the cop, so that the latter may be formed by crossing the super-
posed layers of the thread, as shown on the cop F.
.
Instead of the horizontal rack E and the above other parts the winding
of the thread could be made as shown in the modification, Fig. 3 and 4,
by means of racks G, distant one from the other of about two meters
(six feet about), and bearing the iron band which sustains all the disks.
The said racks are moved by means of a longitudinal and parallel shaft
in front of the carrier, upon which are keyed pinions H gearing with the.
racks. The motion is imparted to the said shaft by means of a rope, the
two ends of which are attached by means of removing rackets to the
frame, and passing round the pulley I mounted on the longitudinal shaft

page_text: and connected to it only during the winding by means of interal catches.
The ascensional motion of the disks bearer may also be imparted by
means of the guage rule of the self-acting mules now in use.
.
By the improved means of winding above described an effective saving
of time and space is obtained, and the transformation of the mules jenny
into self-acting mules will may be made very easily, which until now
was almost impossible on account of the great expense and the con-
siderable works which were necessary, and the very difficulties met as
well for the unplait as for the winding of the threads.
To this day the winding presented many difficulties, much lost time,
and besides the machinery is very complicated. The machine must be
stopped after the twisting, the threads wound round the bare spindles
and then wound back, the thread guide or so called bent bracket must
be lowered and then guided, the carrier must be brought. back and the
thread drawn must be wound round the cop to begin again a new
drawing. During these several operations the machine produces nothing,
and the time of the winding represents 30% of the time for the spinning.
The lost time is utilized by the improved mode of winding above
described, the winding being made if not during the twisting of the
thread at least during a part of the time of the said twisting; that is to
say, the twisting is operated whilst the driving pulley makes about fifty
revolutions. The twisting fly wheel being keyed on that pulley is
exactly doing the same number of revolutions; thus if one hundred
revolutions of the fly wheel are required to twist the thread the counter
must be regulated of such a manner that the first fifty revolutions can
be made before the twisting takes place, so that the machine is con-
tinually working, and the twisting is operated during the winding.
The thread twisted by a mule jenny or a self-acting mule now in use is
about two meters (six feet about) long, because preparations and time of
stop are required to wind which diminish the product; but a machinery
constructed according to the Invention constantly working the thread
may be half less long. The drawing is thus best, and three improved
machines instead of two machines now in use can be placed in the same
space.
Having thus described the said improvements, and the manner of
carrying them into effect, what I claim and desire to secure by the said
Royal Letters Patent is, either the application to all machines for

page_text: Have spinning matimes,
or a spinning machine constructed according to the said improvements,;
substantially as above described, and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, havehere-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.