IMPROVEMENTS IN CRINOLINES, AND IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SPRINGS FOR SUCH AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arsène Beaulieu, of 25, Rue du Chemin de Fer,
Porte de Cologne, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Mechanical
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CRINOLINES, AND IN
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SPRINGS FOR SUCH AND OTHER PURPOSES."-
A communication from abroad by Henri Theodore Van Eycken, resident
at Rue Terre-Neuve, No. 25, Brussels.
Sealed the 18th December 1859, and dated the 5th July 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arsène Beaulieu at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th July 1859.
I, ARSENE BEAULIEU, of 25, Rue du Chemin de Fer, Porte de Cologne,
Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature the nature of the Invention "IMPROVEMENTS IN CRINOLINES, AND
IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SPRINGS POR SUCH AND OTHER PURPOSES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in crinolines, and in
machinery for manufacturing springs for such and other purposes. The
improvements in crinolines consist in employing in their manufacture springs
composed of a cord of catgut or other similar substance bound round spirally
with brass, steel, or other wire. The spring so formed is cut into suitablo
lengths, and the extremities of each length are connected together so as to

page_text: form the spring into a hoop by means of a short length of metal tube split
longitudinally so as to allow it slightly to spring open. The interior diameter
of this tubo is a little smaller than the exterior diameter of the spring, so
that when the ends of the spring are introduced into the short tube, the tube
clips them and holds them securely.
straight, and through the centre
Through one of these holes the
Another part of the Invention consists in improvements in machinery for
constructing springs of this description. For this purpose one end of the cord
of catgut or other similar substance to be bound round with wire is connected to
the periphery of a drum, the axis of which is carried by a forked piece attached
to a bent axis, so that when the axis is rotated, the drum is carried round
with it. The two ends of the bent axis are
of each of these ends there is a small hole.
catgut or other substance to be covered passes, and through the other a cord
passes, a portion of which is wound around a drum fixed on the same axis as
the drum, to which the catgut is attached, this cord, after passing through the
hollow end of the axis, passes over a pulley, and to the end of the cord a weight
is attached, so that the cord tends constantly to wind the catgut on to the
latter drum. The catgut or other substance also passes over a pulley, and a
weight is attached to the end of the catgut so as to keep it extended. Between
the hollow end of the axis through which the catgut passes and the pulley
there is a frame, through a small hole in which the catgut passes; at right
angles to this hole there is another hole, through which the wire for covering
the catgut passes. On one of the hollow ends of the axis there is a toothed
wheel into which a toothed wheel driven by a crank handle gears. By this
means, when the crank handle is turned the bent axis is caused to rotate.
The bent axis carrying round with it the drum to which the catgut is attached,
causes the catgut to rotate, and so winds spirally around it the wire with which
it is to be covered, the catgut as it becomes covered with the wire being wound
on to the drum carried by the bent axis.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arsène Beaulieu in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
January 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARSÈNE
BEAULIEU, of 25, Rue du Chemin de Fer, Porte do Cologne, Brussels, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, Mechanical Engineer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Arsène Beaulieu, Her special licence that I, the said
Arsène Beaulieu, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Arsène Beaulieu, 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 CRINOLINES, AND IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SPRINGS
FOR SUCH AND OTHER PURPOSES," a communication from abroad by Henri Theodore
Van Eycken, a person resident at Rue Terre-Neuve, No. 25, Brussels, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Arsène Beaulieu, 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 naturo
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 Arsène Beaulieu, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention bas for its object improvements in crinolines, and in
machinery for manufacturing springs for such and other purposes. Tho
improvements in crinolines consist in employing in their manufacture springs
composed of a cord of catgut or other similar substance bound round spirally
with brass, steel, or other wire. The spring so formed is cut into suitable
lengths, and the extremities of each length are connected together so as to
form the spring into a hoop by means of a short length of metal tube split
longitudinally so as to allow it slightly to spring open. The interior diameter
of this tube is a little smaller than the exterior diameter of the spring, so that
when the ends of the spring are introduced into the short tube, the tube clips
them and holds them securely.
Another part of the Invention consists in improvements in machinery for
constructing springs of this description. For this purpose one end of the cord
of catgut or other similar substance to be bound round with wire is connecte.!

page_text: to the periphery of a drum, the axis of which is carried by a forked piece
attached to a bent axis, so that when the axis is rotated, the drum is carried
round with it. The two ends of the bent axis are straight, and through the
centre of each of these ends thero is a small hole, through one of these holes
the catgut or other substance to be covered passes, and through the other a
cord passes, a portion of which is wound around a drum fixed on the same axis
as the drum to which the catgut is attached; this cord after passing through
the hollow end of the axis passes over pulley, and to the end of the cord a
weight is attached, so that the cord tends constantly to wind the catgut on to
the latter drum. The catgut or other substance also passes over a pulley, and
a weight is attached to the end of the catgut so as to keep it extended.
Between the hollow end of the axis through which the catgut passes and the
pulley there is a frame, through a small hole in which the catgut passes; at
right angles to this hole there is another hole, through which the wire for
covering the catgut passes. On one of the hollow ends of the axis there is a
toothed wheel, into which a toothed wheel driven by a crank handle gears.
By this means when the crank handle is turned the bent axis is caused to
rotate, the bent axis carrying round with it the drum, to which the catgut is
attached, causes the catgut to rotate, and so winds spirally around it the wire
with which it is to be covered, the catgut as it becomes covered with the wire
being wound on to the drum carried by the bent axis.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood, and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto

page_text: picce D. The two ends of the axis F are straight, and turn in bearings in
the framing of the machine, and through the centre of each of these ends
there is a small hole through one of which the cord B passes, and through the
other the cord E, one end of the axis also carries a pinion G, into which a
pinion G', turned by the crank handle G³ gears. I is a frame, through a small
hole in which the cord B passes; at right angles to this hole there is another
hole as shown at Figure 3, through which the wire for covering the catgut
passes. The portion of the frame I above the centre of the holes is moveable,
as shown, to facilitate the introduction of the cord B and the wire C into the
holes. By the above description it will be seen that when the axis F is
caused to rotate by turning the crank handle G³, the drum D is carried round
with it, and the cord B by this means is thus rotated, and the metal wire C
is wound around it, and as the cord becomes covered with the wire, the cord E
is unwound from the pulley D', and the cord B is wound on the pulley D.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arsène Beaulieu, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and