IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign.
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France,
and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent; for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
WEAVING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS."A communication from
Célestin Martin, residing at Pepinster, Verviers, in the Kingdom of
Belgium. Manufacturer.
Sealed the 15th March 1867, and dated the 26th September 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th September 1866.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Por-
chester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY POR WEAVING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," a
nication from Célestin Martin, a person resident at Pepinster, Verviers, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in substituting to the means employed up to
the present time in forming isolated surfaces of wool and other fibrous
materials for the making of the thread in weaving machines an apparatus

page_text: placed in front of the main cylinder supplying the doffer, and between the two;
the said apparatus consisting in two uprights or supports fastened on to the
frame of the machine, to which are fixed at equal distances from each other
little steel blades, more or less large, according to the thickness of the thread
to be obtained, and which prevent the deposit of the fibrous material by the
main cylinder on those parts of the. doffer facing them, so that only the fibrous
material deposited in the intervals existing between the blades constitutes
a more regular surface for the making of each thread.
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 21st March 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du
Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 88, Porchester Terrace,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR WEAVING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS
MATERIALS," a communication from Célestin Martin, a person resident at
Pépinster, Verviers, in the Kingdom of Belgium, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien, Bonneville, do hereby
déclare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same:
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the:
following statement, that is to say:-
These improvements consist in substituting to the means employed up to:
the present time in forming isolated surfaces of wool and other fibrous
materials for the making of the thread in weaving machines an. apparatus:
placed in front of the main cylinder supplying the doffer, and between the two;
the said apparatus consisting in two uprights or supports: fastened on to the
frame of the machine, to which are fixed at equal distances from each other:
little steel blades, more or less large according to the thickness of the thread
to be obtained, and which prevent the deposit of the fibrous material by the:
main cylinder on those parts of the doffer facing them, so that the fibrous
material deposited only in the intervals existing between the blades constitutes:
a more regulár surface for the making of each thread...
These improvements are represented by the letters A and B in the accom
panying Drawings, Fig. 1 of which represents a longitudinal section in elevation
of a wool-carding engine with a single doffer, and two taking-in apparatuses,
and Fig. 2 a view in plane of the rods, and of the little blades which constitute
the said improvements.
With the exception of the pieces A and B, the whole of the machine has
long been known and used in many factories. Up to the present day in the
making of the thread, or rather in the formation of little separate sheets for
the making of the thread in throstle frames with a single carding doffer,
combing collars were used, which were applied on the doffer with intervals of
from about two or three lines (about 4 to 6 millimètres) between them, so as
to obtain separate sheets which gave the thread, or else the carding doffer was
covered all over without intervals and collars, but then instead of feeding the
carding machine with an uninterrupted surface of wool it was supplied by
means of woollen ribbons, separated one from the other at the entrance, a
separation which continued throughout the whole carding machine as far as
the doffer, when each ribbon on entering formed a separate sheet for each
thread. By means of the pieces A and B the separation of the sheets for the
making of the thread takes place by a doffer covered all over, that is, without
a collar, and at will with an uninterrupted surface of wool at the entrance; or
ribbons without any separation between them, neither at the entrance nor
during their
passage through the machine. The pieces A are iron or wooden
rods fixed to the frame of the machine, which serve to receive the little steel
blades B fixed by each end at equal distances from each other on the said

page_text: rods; the blades prevent the deposit of matters by the drum on the doffer,
and as the fibrous matters can only be deposited between these blades it.
happens that each interval contains a little sheet better separated from the
neighbouring ones than with intervals in the combs of the doffer; these little
steel blades may be equally replaced by iron or steel wires, or the blades may
be more or less. wide, and their distances from each other modified according.
to the thickness of the thread to be obtained.
Having thus desribed the nature of the said improvements, and the manner;
of carrying them into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine.
myself to the precise details above enumerated as these may obviously be
modified without departing from the principle of the Invention, according to.
the special construction of the machines in which they are adopted; but what.
I claim is, the use of little steel blades, or iron or steel wire placed between.
the feed drum and the carding machine, to obtain the formation of the thread
by the throstle frame with a single doffer by means of a doffer wholly covered. I
with material, in other words, without any separation capable of forming
collars, and without any sort of separation in the fibrous material, neither on
entering nor inside.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H BONNEVILLE
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