IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, Patent Agent, 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, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING
MACHINES." A communication from Alfred Neymark, residing at Rue
de Valois, Paris, aforesaid.
Sealed the 14th June 1864, and dated the 2nd January 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd January 1864.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, 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, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING,
MACHINES," communicated to me by Alfred Neymark, a person residing at Rue
de Valois, Paris, aforesaid, to be as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in certain mechanism applicable to sewing machines
in general, which may be adjustable or not, and by means of which chenille
trimmings, or other similar fabrics may be applied or attached to stuffs, tissues,
felt, leather, or other substances easily penetrated.
The two Figures of the annexed Drawing, in which the same letters of

page_text: reference indicate similar parts, represent Figure 1 an elevation, and Figure 2
a plan view, of a sewing machine to which the mechanism has been applied.
A is the main or driving arbor; B, plate supporting the mechanism and
fixed to the large arm of the sewing machine; C, pinion on the arbor A; D,
cam commanding the guide Q; E, arbor of the cam supported by the
bearers F, F; G, toothed wheel commanded by the pinion C, and fixed to the
arbor E; H, lever turning on the pivot I fixed to the plate B, one end of
which is commanded by the cam, and the other forms a two-pronged fork; J,
articulated shaft passing, under the large arm of the machine, and one end of
which, caught in the fork of the lever H is affected by each movement of the
latter; K, feeding reel for the chenille or other trimming; L, support of the
feeding reel; M; M, guide rods; N, rod working horizontally in sockets
placed at the ends of two bearers O, O; this rod receives a right and left
movement from the arm J, to which it is attached by a gudgeon sliding in a
slot worked at the end of this arm. Q, small bent arm fixed to the end of the
rod N, and terminated by a ring serving to guide the chenille or other
trimming;, R, needle.
When the machine works the guide Q receives a horizontal movement from
right to, left and from left to right of the needle, by the, rod N, the shaft J,
lever H, and cam D.; the result of this movement is, to carry the trimming
alternately right and left of the needle, which, works; perpendicularly in the
article to be ornamented without touching the trimming, which is thus fixed
only without being sewn.
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 29th June 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE, PRESENTS, SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, 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, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen, Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date, the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh 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,

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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 SEWING MACHINES,'
a cominunication from Alfred Neymark, a person residing at Rue de Valois,
Paris, aforesaid, 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 par-
ticularly 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
immédiately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare 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 :---
This Invention consists in certain mechanism applicable to sewing machines
in general, which may be either fixed or moveable, and by means of which
chenille trimming or other similar fabrics may be applied or attached to stuffs,
tissues, felts, leather, or other easily penetrated substances.
Said mechanism is principally composed of an arm or lever having a hori-
zontal alternative movement from right to left and from left to right, by means
of which movement trimmings may be applied to stuffs, leather, felt, and other
easily penetrated substances without sewing, that is to say, without the needle
passing through the said trimmings, the thread being simply carried over them
in a more or less angular direction with regard to the trimming, and then fixed
by means of a stitch made in the stuff alternately on the one or the other side
of said trimming.
This apparatus may be adapted to all kinds of sewing machines, to those
with a rotary action as well as to those in which the movement is ascending
and descending, whether the movements are above or below the table which
carries the sewing machine.
Two methods of obtaining the above result are shewn in the annexed
Drawing of the mechanism applied (as an example) to a sewing machine with
rotary niovement.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of said machine with mechanism applied;
Fig. 2, a plan view of same; Fig. 3, a side elevation of same machine, in which

page_text: the means of transmitting the vibratory movement are simplified; and Fig. 4,.
a plan view of Fig. 3.
In Figures 1 and 2 the same letters of reference indicate similar parts.
The same remark applies to Figures 3 and 4.
In the first two Figures A is the main or driving shaft; B, a plate carrying:
the mechanism fixed to the large arm of the sewing machine; C, a pinion on
the shaft A; D, excentric acting on the guide Q; E, shaft of the excentric
held by the bearers F, F; F, bearers of shaft E; G, toothed wheel commanded
by the pinion C and fixed to the shaft E; H, lever turning on the pivot I,
fixed to the plate B, one end of which is commanded by the cam and the other
end of which forms a two-pronged fork; J, jointed arm passing under the
large arm of the machine, one end of which passing between the prongs of the
forked lever H is acted upon at each movement of the latter; K, feeding reel
for the chenille or other trimming; L, bearer for the feeding reel; M, M,
guide rods; N, rod working horizontally in sockets placed at the extremities of
the bearers 0, 0, this rod receives a right and left movement from the arm J,
to which it is attached by a gudgeon P sliding in a slot worked at the end of
this arm; 0, 0, bearers; Q, small bent arm fixed to the end of the rod N
and terminated by a ring, serving to guide the chenille or other trimming;
R, needle.
When the machine works, the guide Q receives a horizontal movement from
right to left and from left to right of the needle by the rod N, the shaft J,
lever H, and cam D. The result of this movement is to carry the trimming
alternately right and left of the needle, which works perpendicularly in the
article to be ornamented without touching, the trimming, which is thus fixed
only without being sewn.
In Figures 3 and 4, A is the driving shaft; C, a pinion fixed on the
shaft A; K, reel on which the trimming to be applied is wound and from
which said trimming is fed; L, reel bearer; M, M, guide rods for keeping
the trimming in place; N, arm or lever working horizontally in sockets placed
at the extremities of the bearers O, O, screwed to the frame of the machine.
This arm or lever receives a right and left movement from an oscillating
lever T in the opening, at the lower end of which works the pin Z fixed to
said lever N. Q, small bent arm placed at the end of the arm N, terminated
by a ring, and serving as guide for the chenille or the other trimming;
R, needle; S, toothed wheel worked by the pinion; T, oscillating lever pivoting
on its axe U, in which are formed two openings, one oblong V, and the
other Y triangular, and worked by a pin X fixed on the toothed wheel S.
When the sewing machine to which the improved mechanism is applied is

page_text: started, the guide Q is moved right and left of the needle R. This is effected
in the system of transmission, seen Figs. 3 & 4, by the action of the rod N,
the excentric lever T, the toothed wheel S, pinion C, and main shaft A. The
result of this movement is to carry the trimming right and left of the needle R
which descends perpendicularly through the article to be ornamented without
touching the trimming, which is thus fixed without being sewn by the thread,
which passes over instead of through it.
The transmission of the movement to the rod N may be modified without
altering the principle of the Invention, which lies in the mode of carrying the
ornamental article right and left of the needle, in order to fix it without
sewing it to the article to be ornamented.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and how it may be
performed, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the
precise details above given, which, as I have above stated, may be modified; but
what I claim is, the mode of carrying an ornamental article, such as chenille,
braid, or other trimming, alternately right and left of the needle of a sewing
machine, by means of a rod, arm, or lever, similar to the one above described,
combined with the principal movement of the machine, substantially for the
purpose and in the manner above described and represented in the annexed
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my, hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)