IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 Mid-
ealed the 29th November 1867, and dated the 1st October 1867.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 1st October 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, 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, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR SPINNING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIALS," a communi-
cation from Auguste Seguier, a person resident at Foix, in the Empire of
France aforesaid, Manufacturer, and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant
unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent
for the same, and made solemn Declaration that it is a communication.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me relates to an improved machine for
doubling, twisting, reeling, and spooling carded wool, combed wool, hemp,
flax, silk, and cotton, and other fibrous materials.
This machine, which is divided into two parts in order to facilitate the
working, goes through four operations simultaneously: it doubles, twists,
reels, and spools. These two parts are represented in the Figures of the
accompanying Drawings, as being viewed in elevation and laterally.
Figure 1 is the part which operates the doubling, and Figure 2 that by
means of which the other three operations are performed.
The first operation is that of doubling; it occupies to itself one of the two
parts of the machine. This part consists,-1°, of a table T on which, erect or
inclined, are placed the spindlefuls, which come from the spinning loom. 2º, of
a wooden cross pieco t on which are fixed ends of wire in number equal to
the spindlefuls, and receiving a thread in their ring. These wires serve to
hold the thread constantly in the vertical direction so as to facilitate the
unwinding. 8°, of a cross piece t¹ placed above and supporting as many
metallic bells as there are bobbins in the doubling. There are sixty-eight
bobbins in the spinning loom represented in the accompanying Drawings.
Each bell is perforated at its upper part with a hole of two inches or there-
abouts (5 centimètres) in diameter, and on the crown, formed by the edge, aro
soldered four brass wires, forming together eight compartments. The threads
'passed in the bells describe a half-circle round the brass wire branches, and
by reason of the resistance which this half circle opposes in the working the
wires are always drawn out and wind themselves on the bobbins with the
same tension. 4°, of a sort of cross bar m, n, o, p, on which pass the threads
on coming out of the bells. 5%, of an iron rod f running from one end of the
machine to the other, and carrying a quantity of pieces p equal for each
bobbin to the number of threads to be doubled. .6°, of sixty-eight apparatus
whose mission it is to prevent any contact between the bobbins and the
drawing rollers should one of the threads so happen to break.
Each of these apparatus is made up of an eccentric E communicating a
to-and-fro movement to the piece a, a, a"; thus actuated this piece carries
along with it a tablet b, as also its support m. The tablet is furnished with a
rod r which serves to uplift the supports, st, s¹¹, of the bobbin B as soon as

page_text: one of the threads happens to fail. It is easy to see that when one or the
threads fails the distention at once is produced, and that consequently the
contact of the bobbin with the drawing roller no longer takes place. So, in
fact, the little bronze piece p being maintained above the tablet only by tho
tension of the drawn thread, if the thread happens to fail the piece falls on the
tablet 6; then during the to-and-fro movement of the piece a, a, a", and of all
the pieces which depend on it, the support m of the tablet 6 is thrown back-
wards, and this latter describes the arc of a circle. In the arc of a circle
described the rod r uplifts the support 8, 81, 8", of the bobbin B; this latter is
no longer in contact with the drawing roller C, and the thread no longer
winds itself.
The other part of the machine comprises the three other operations of
twisting, reeling and spooling. After the doubling operation the bobbins are
placed on the bronze pieces M, which are composed of two branches, between
which the bobbins issuing from the doubling are placed, and of a pin carrying
at its extremity a bevelled pinion which serves to actuate the same. The
roller of the bobbin is pierced with a hole and traversed by an iron pin
arrested on one side in a branch of the piece M, and on the other by a steel
spring, in such a manner that the roller unwinds easily and cannot escape
under the action of centrifugal force. There are seventy-two pieces M in the
whole of the machine; they are placed in two rows, forty-eight above, and
twenty-four below, at about two-thirds of a yard or thereabouts (sixty cen-
timètres) from the centre of the shaft of the piece M is another drawing roller
c' on the axis of which are as many pressure rollers as there are pieces M. It is
by reason of the pressure exercised by these rollers on the drawing roller that
the thread is actuated. Twisted in a regular manner the thread, according
to the use to which it is intended, then winds itself on a reel for the forming
of hanks, or else bobbins itself on the two drums. These constitute the two
last operations of the machine. Each piece M is furnished with an engaging
appliance serving to arrest or actuate the same at will, so that the bobbin
having furnished all its thread to the twisting may be replaced by another
without stopping the machine, the other pieces M continuing their rotation
movement and twisting operation.
Having now fully described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same may be used or carried into effect, I would have it
to be clearly understood that I do not wish to restrict myself to the exact
details above given as the same may be modified according to the intended
applications of the same; but what I consider as novel, and therefore claim, is
the disposition and arrangement of a spinning loom so as to effect the whole

page_text: four operations of doubling, twisting, reeling, and spooling wool and such like
fibrous materials on one and the same machine, substantially as berein-above
fully set forth and described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.B.)