CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD MACHINES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte do Fontaine Moreau, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 89, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
in the Empire of France, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
JACQUARD MACHINES."-A communication from J. Marin and L. P. de
Maliane of Leon
Sealed the 6th Juno 1856, and dated the 8th January 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte'
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 8th January 1856.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of
France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD MACHINES" to be as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in a new form of lifting wire or hook, which, in the
first place, forms a substitute by its flexibility for the griffe or greb; and, in
the second place, allows the use of paper for the ordinary cards in jacquard
machines, thus rendering its use more economical and more effective.
Fig. 1 of the annexed Drawing represents the improved lifting wire or
hook. A is the lower part, which rests on the small board, and receives the
cord; B, the upper part, which hooks upon the lame, to be carried off by.
the griffe; C is a bend in lower rod so as to form a spring.

page_text: Fig. 2 represents the needle; in Fig 1 it is shewn fixed on the lifting wire,
in its proper position. The paper bands are cut exactly as the cards now in
use, and are joined by a cotton thread passed through their whole length, in
substitution of the joining cords of the ordinary cards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 8th July 1856.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of January,' in the;
year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, tho said
Peter Armand le Comte, de, Fontaine, Moreau, Her special license that I,
the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or..such others, as I, the said Peter Armand le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD MACHINES," communicated to me by Messieurs J.
Marin and L. P. de Maligny, of Lyon, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaino Moreau, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the

page_text: Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say:-
This Invention consists in an improved hook or lifting wire for jacquard
machines, which hook allows the substitution of paper cards for pasteboard
cards employed in weaving. The improved hook is formed of two branches
A, B, as shewn in elevation, Figure 1, full size; the branch A is exactly similar
to that of the common hook; the other B, parallel to it, is nearly of the same
length, and is so constructed as to form a spring, which brings it always to its
parallel position. These two branches are passed through a longitudinal eye C
in the needle D, also shewn in plan, Figure 2, through which eye they play
up and down, when the griffe takes up the hook in the usual way. The eye E
rests upon the bottom board of the machine. In consequence of the improved
form of hook, the resistance or friction of the hook when lifted, or in any other
position, is transmitted to the card through a spring, and consequently much
lessened. No other alteration is required in existing jacquard machines but
to change the hooks and needles. The paper cards are stamped in the same
manner as the pasteboard cards, and they may be laced together with a lighter
and less expensive thread.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the construction of the lifting wire or hook, as herein-before described,
and referred to in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six.
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.B.)