CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SPINNING SILK AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1865

page_text: Sealed the 24th October 1865, and dated the 29th April 1865.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Peter Armand Le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition and Declaration, on the 29th April 1865, pursuant
to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent Offices,
10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR SPINNING SILK AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES," and have
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made. solemn
Declaration that it is a communication from Monsieur Justin Louis Auguste
Aubenas, a person resident at Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of
France.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification under

page_text: my hand and seal fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me consists in the construction of an
apparatus or spindle for spinning all kinds of thread, but is chiefly intended
for doubling silk threads. The spindle revolves in a direction contrary to the
bobbins which it carries in order to produce the first spinning, and the threads
are united at the upper extremity of the spindle for the doubling.
The chief advantage of this Invention is, that in one operation it spins
and doubles the threads coming from the dupion and other cocoons; these
threads drawn from the copper in several ends at the same time are wound on
bobbins which are at' once placed on the small spindle of the said thrower.
The spindle or thrower constructed in larger dimensions can be employed
'for the manufacture of ropes and cables in silk or of any other fibrous
substances.
And in order to have the Invention communicated to me better understood,
I refer to the accompanying Drawing, in which the same letters of reference
marked on the different Figures indicate similar parts.
Figure 1 represents à longitudinal section of the apparatus in full size
prepared especially for silk threads. In this Figure a is a disk revolving in an
iron socket fixed on the frame of the loom, and by which it is supported; b is
a small fly wheel; c, c, c, are the spindles on which are set the bobbins wound
up with thread, and serving to distribute the quantity for the winding rollers
according to the required twist; d represents the pinion of one of the small
spindles, and forms two wheels; the upper one fixed to the bobbin is provided
with fifty-nine cogs and the lower one with sixty cogs, is keyed on the small
spindle; these two wheels of the same diameter catch with the same pinion 1,
Figure 3. 1, 1, are two metal plates containing the internal gearing; they are
jointed by cross pieces, and cased by an external brass cylindrical envelope;
is an iron tube set into the framing of the apparatus; it carries a bronze
pinion catching with the wheels n, n, Figure 4. The tube f and its pinion
are fixed. The said wheels n, n, catch with pinions m, m; m, of the same
Figure, and are fixed on the small spindles c, c; g represents the lower part
on the same main spindle o, on which is fixed the grooved pulley. for trans-
mitting the movement.
Figure 2 is an horizontal section drawn above the gearing of the bobbins,
and shows the fly wheel 6 keyed on the axis of the spindle o by means of an
adjusting screw, and having two or more glass or agate eyelets.

page_text: Figure 3 represents an horizontal section drawn through the middle of the
small spindle c, c, c, on which is set the double brass wheel d. Each lower part of
the wheel & puts in motion one of the pinions, which transmits such move-
ment to the corresponding upper part of wheel d, on which is the bobbin, by
which contrivance, when the small spindle c performs fifty-nine rotations, the
bobbin will have revolved sixty times, and will have therefore wound up a
length of thread equal to one circumference. The proportions herein-before
stated of fifty-nine to sixty of the said wheel can be changed according to the
twist required; o in the same Figure represents the arbor of the main
spindle.
Figure 4 represents an borizontal section drawn through the middle of the
box formed by the plate e, e, and the external casing; o is the axis of the
main spindle; n, n, n, are three catching wheels cogging with the pinion
keyed on the iron tube f, Figure 1. On the other side the above stated
wheels catch with the three internal pinions m, m, m, fixed on the prolon-
gation of the small spindles c, c, c, on which the bobbins are attached, and
causing them to give to the thread the first spinning.
Figure 5 shows the apparatus set up at work on part of a mill.
And having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to
me, and the best manner to put it into execution, I declare that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein-before described, provided the
principle of the Invention be retained; but what I claim as new is,-
Firstly, the combination of the double wheel d and wheel 1, giving to the
bobbins a more rapid motion than the small spindle c, c, c, as herein-before
described, reference being had to the Drawing.
Secondly, the combining the main spindle or thrower o with the small
spindles c for obtaining the doubling.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five
L. DE FONTAINEMOREAU. (LS.)
Witness,
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury,
London.