AN IMPROVED THREAD-PROTECTING CLEW-BOX
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Marie François Patureau, of Paris, France,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED THREAD-PROTECTING
CLEW-BOX."
Sealed the 25th February 1862, and dated the 27th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Marie François
Patureau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th August 1861.
I, LOUIS MARIE FRANÇOIS PATUREAU, of Paris, France, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED THREAD-
PROTECTING CLEW-BOX," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to a mode of protecting thread or yarn made up into
a clew from being contaminated, and also preventing the same from being
entangled, and consists in enclosing each clew into a small box of card-
board, sheet metal, or any other suitable material, which box is formed in two
parts or shell glued or fixed together in any other suitable manner, and so as
entirely to cover the clew, a hole being left in the box for an end of the thread
or yarn to pass through for allowing to unwind any required length thereof,
while other holes may be provided in the box for examining the clew without
being obliged to open the box.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Mario François Patureau in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis
MARIE FRANÇOIS PATUREAU, of Paris, France, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
Ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Iler reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Louis Marie François Patureau, Her special licence that I, the said Louis
Marie François Patureau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as 1, the said Louis Marie François Patureau, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "AN IMPROVED THREAD-PROTECTING CLEW-BOX," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Marie François Patureau, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Marie François Patureau, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The Invention relates to an improved mode of protecting sewing thread or
other yarn when made up into a clew from becoming contaminated or soiled
by continuous handling, dust, or other similar causes, whilst the Invention at
the same time prevents the thread or yarn of the clew from becoming
entangled on being wound off, as often happens when unwinding thread from
a skein. For this purpose I enclose each clew in a small capsule, box, or
protecting case, by preference, made of cardboard, fitting round the clew, and
provided with a hole through which is left protruding that end of the yarn
that is situated in the interior of the clew, thus allowing to wind off any
suitable quantity of thread from the clew without fear of the thread becoming

page_text: entangled. The box or protector I prefer making in two halves, hollow semi-
spheres or shells, the rims or borders of which being applied against each
other, exactly fit together so as fully to cover the clew inserted between them,
the said rims being further glued, or in any other suitable manner fixed
together, by preference, by glueing all round the line of junction of the two
semi-capsules or shells, a small strip of paper bearing the manufacturer's trade
mark or any other suitable indication or ornament, whilst in order to allow
of examining the yarn or thread of the clue whilst in the interior of the
capsule or protector, this latter is provided with one or more holes suitably
situated for that purpose. I prefer making the clew boxes or thread pro-
tectors of cardboard; but stout paper, thin wood, sheet metal, gutta percha,
leather, or other similar suitable materials might likewise be made use of for
that purpose.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is executed, I declare that I do not intend to restrain or
restrict myself to any particular shape, size, or material of which my clew
boxes or thread protectors are to be made, nor to the manner in which the
same may be made, viz., by hand, or by any suitable punching or other
machinery; but what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim
as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent, is enclosing clews of sewing thread or other yarn in a suitable cover
of cardboard or other similar resisting material for protecting the thread
from becoming contaminated, and allowing at the same time a better winding
off of the thread or yarn enclosed in such box or clew protector.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Marie François Patureau, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
L. M. F. PATUREAU. (L.S.)