IMPROVEMENTS IN BOBBINS OF SHUTTLES OF 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 BOBBINS OF SHUTTLES
OF 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 BOBBINS OF
SHUTTLES OF SEWING MACHINES," a communication from Alfred Neymark,
a person residing at Rue de Valois, Paris, aforesaid, to be as follows,
that is to say:-
The said Invention consists in the use of cheap materials in place of the
metals usually employed in the manufacture of sewing machine shuttle bobbins

page_text: so as to allow of their being sold with the thread wound on them ready for
use, which cannot at the present time be done on account of the cost of the
bobbins. For this purpose the axes or central parts of the reel are made of
wood or bone, and the discs or borders which keep the thread from running off
of wood, bone, card, leather, metal, or other cheap material susceptible of
stamping or punching out. These borders may also be made of china or
opaque glass, but card is preferable as being cheaper and easier to work.
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 beirs 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, 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 BOBBINS OF SHUTTLES OF SEWING MACHINES," a communica-
tion from Alfred Neymark, a person residing at Rue de Valois, Paris, afore-
said, 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 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 Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be.

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The said Invention consists in the use of cheap materials instead of the
metals used in the manufacture of sewing machine shuttle bobbins, so as to
allow of their being sold with the thread wound on them ready for use, which
cannot at the present time be done on account of their too great cost. For
this purpose I make the axles or central parts of the reels of wood or bone,
and the discs or borders which prevent the thread from running off of wood,
bone, card, leather, metal, or other cheap material susceptible of stamping
or punching out. These borders may also, if desirable, be made of china or
opaque glass, but card is preferred as being the cheapest and most easily
worked.
It will be understood that these reels may be produced at an extremely low
price, and may be sold in the same way and at similar prices as ordinary
reels or clews of cotton, thread, or silk.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, what I claim is,
substituting wholly or partially cheap materials for the metals employed for
making sewing machine shuttle bobbins, substantially as above described..
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.)