CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHODS OF SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED THERE- WITH
Year: 1877

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
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHODS OF SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, OR
OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED THERE-
WITH." A communication from Bélisaire Soiblin, residing at Roubaix, France
aforesaid.
Sealed the 27th October 1877, and dated the 5th May 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th May 1877.
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. "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SPINNING WOOL,
COTTON, SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED
THEREWITH." A communication by Bélisaire Soiblin, residing at Roubaix, France
aforesaid.
The Invention relates to a new and improved method of drawing for looms for
spinning wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous materials, which allows of obtaining
thread composed of two or more different colours, and even of two or more
different kinds of materials, such as white and black wool, or any other choico
of colours, wool and cotton, wool and silk, and of obtaining variegated and shaded
thread of different colours and shades by superposing the different colours or materials.
The drawing cylinder column is preserved as in the ordinary loom.
The Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a
front elevation, and Fig. 2 a cross section.
In the Drawings the letter S represents the fluted roller, and R the pressure
roller.
The back roller columns are replaced by two pair of rods, each of which is provided
at one of their ends with a gearing M, P, N, Q, each pair of which engages together,

page_text: The said rods are placed in such a manner that the gearing M, P, passes as near as
possible to the gearing N, Q, but without touching each other. On each of the said
rods are mounted as many cylindrical combs or carding rollers M¹, P¹, N¹, Q¹, very
fine and very close, as there are spindles to the loom; their diameter taken at the
needle point must be combined with that of the gearings mounted on the rods, in
order that they may be able to move as near as possible to one another without
touching.
The drawing roller S¹ is placed as near as possible to the comb Q', and the pressure
roller R¹ as near as possible to the comb P¹. On the axis of the roller S is mounted
a gearing, through which the motion is transmitted to another gearing mounted on
the axis of a bevil wheel H by means of a double wheel called horse's head, by
means of which the drawing is controlled.
The wheel H acts on the bevil wheel L, which carries a grooved socket, in which
engages a vertical shaft V, on which are threaded two screws, one F, the thread of
which is right handed, gearing with the wheel M, and the other G, the thread of
which is left handed, goaring into the wheel N. If a rotary motion is imparted to
the roller S, and consequently to both the bevil wheels H, L, and the shaft V, the
latter in its turn will impart a rotary motion by means of its screw threads to the
rods M, P, and N, Q, contrary in direction, but equal in strength, so that two
prepared rovings of equal size, one passing over the combs M', P¹, and the other
over the combs N¹, Q¹, will converge at the point of contact of the drawer rollers,
and form a regular and one-coloured thread, if the rovings are of the same colour,
and a milled thread if they are of different colours; but if an alternate upward and
downward motion is imparted to the vertical shaft V, in accordance with the
distances between the screw threads F and G one of the two gearings M or N will
remain at rest, whilst the speed of the other will be doubled, so that the same
quantity of material will always be supplied to the drawing rollers, but alternately,
either by the combs M', P¹, or N¹, Q. Thus a thread of regular size will be pro-
duced, but the two colours will be joined end to end, and form a variegated and
shaded thread. This result is obtained by means of the parts A, B, C, D, E. C is
a grooved horizontal eccentric fixed vertically on the end of the shaft V, but on
the axis of which it rotates freely. It is rigidly connected with the gearing D by
means of a socket. B is a pinion fixed on the end of the shaft V, by means of
which the motion is transmitted to the gearing A, by which it is transmitted to the
gearing D and eccentric C through the pinion E.
The two gearings A and D and B and E must have a sufficient thickness to
enable their cogs to slide parallel into one another without being able to dis-
engage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd November 1877.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de
la Chausée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent. "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SPINNING WOOL, COTTON,
SILK, OR OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED THERE-
WITH." Communicated by Bélisaire Soiblin, residing at Roubaix, France aforesaid.
The Invention relates to a new and improved method of drawing for looms for
spinning wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous materials, which allows of obtaining
thread composed of two or more different colours, and even of two or more different
kinds of materials, such as white and black wool, or any other choice of colours,
wool and cotton, wool and silk, and of obtaining variegated and shaded thread of

page_text: different colours and shades by superposing the different colours or materials. The
drawing cylinder column is preserved, as in the ordinary loom.
The Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a
front elevation, and Fig. 2 a cross section.
In the Drawings the letter S represents the fluted roller, and R the pressure
roller.
The back roller columns are replaced by two pairs of rods, each of which is
provided at one of their ends with a gearing M, P, N, Q, each pair of which engages
together. The said rods are placed in such a manner that the gearing M, P, passes
as near as possible to the gearing N, Q, but without touching each other. On each
of the said rods are mounted as many cylindrical combs or carding rollers M¹, P¹, N¹, Q¹,
very fine and very close, as there are spindles to the loom; their diameter taken at
the needle point must be combined with that of the gearings mounted on the rods,
in order that they may be able to move as near as possible to one another without
touching.
The drawing roller S¹ is placed as near as possible to the comb Q', and the
pressure roller R¹ as near as possible to the comb P₁. On the axis of the roller S is
imounted a gearing, through which the motion is transmitted to another gearing
mounted on the axis of a bevil wheel H, by means of a double wheel called horse's
head, by means of which the drawing is controlled.
The wheel H acts on the bevil wheel L, which carries a grooved socket, in which
engages a vertical shaft V, on which are threaded two screws, one F, the thread of
which is right handed, gearing with the wheel M, and the other G, the thread of
which is left handed, gearing into the wheel N. If a rotary motion is imparted to the
roller S, and consequently to both the bevil wheels H, L, and the shaft V, the latter
in its turn will impart a rotary motion by means of its screw threads to the rods
M, P, and N, Q, contrary in direction but equal in strength, so that two prepared
rovings of equal size, one passing over the combs M¹, P, and the other over the
combs N¹, Q, will converge at the point of contact of the drawer rollers, and form
a regular and one-coloured thread if the rovings are of the same colour, and a milled
thread if they are of different colours; but if an alternate upward and downward
motion is imparted to the vertical shaft V, in accordance with the distances between
the screw threads F and G, one of the two gearings M or N will remain at rest,
whilst the speed of the other will be doubled, so that the same quantity of material
will always be supplied to the drawing rollers, but alternately, either by the combs
M¹, P¹, or N, Q¹. Thus a thread of regular size will be produced, but the two
colours will be joined end to end, and form a variegated and shaded thread. This
result is obtained by means of the parts A, B, C, D, E. C is a grooved horizontal
eccentric fixed vertically on the end of the shaft V, but on the axis of which it
rotates freely. It is rigidly connected with the gearing D by means of a socket.
B is a pinion fixed on the end of the shaft V, by means of which the motion is
transmitted to the gearing A, by which it is transmitted to the gearing D and
eccentric C through the pinion E.
The two gearings A and D and B and E must have a sufficient thickness to
enable their cogs to slide parallel into one another without being able to dis-
engage.
The number of combs, their size and fineness, may be modified according to the
work to be obtained and the materials to be acted upon, as also the arrangement
and disposition; the shape and details of the different parts above described may be
altered as occasion requires.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same 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, but what I claim is, a new
or improved method of drawing for looms for spinning wool, cotton, silk, or other
fibrous materials, which allows of obtaining thread composed of two or more different

page_text: colours, and of two or more different kinds of materials, by superposing the said
different colours or materials, substantially as above described and represented in
the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord One 5
thousand eight bundred and seventy-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)