IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING AND WEAVING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Loughborough Park,
Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING AND WEAVING."-A com-
munication from abroad by Stanislas Vigoureux, residing at Rue des
Poissonniers, St. Denis (Seine), in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 23rd November 1866, and dated the 31st May 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st May 1866.
I, GEORGE TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton, in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS FOR SPINNING AND WEAVING,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in preparing fibrous materials.
for spinning and weaving. For this purpose I take a sliver of fibrous
material and I deposit thereon at intervals short pieces of a thread or threads
formed of fibre of a different color or material from the sliver; the sliver with
these pieces of thread is then passed through drawing apparatus and is spun,
by which a particolored or variegated thread is obtained which may be used
cher as weft or warp in the production of woven fabrics.
I prefer to employ two pair of rollers set at a short distance apart; the
sliver is passed between the front pair of these rollers and the thread or

page_text: threads, portions of which are to be applied to the sliver, are passed through
both pairs of rollers. The back pair of rollers are driven much slower than
the front pair, and so the thread or threads are caused to be broken at short
intervals and the pieces become attached to the sliver, which passes between
the front rollers together with them. The subsequent drawing and spinning
of the sliver may be effected in the same way that it would have been had
such short pieces of thread not been applied to it. The said pieces of thread
will produce very marked streaks in the yarn or thread produced from the
sliver, and corresponding lines in the fabrics in which yarn or thread so
produced is employed. Blades or other instruments may be employed in
place of drawing rollers for dividing off the portions of thread to be attached
to the sliver.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Tomlinson Bousfield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight bundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Tomlinson Bousfield, Her special licence that I, the said George
Tomlinson Bousfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, 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 PREPARING FIBROUS MATERIALS POR SPINNING AND WEAVING,"
a communication to me from abroad by Stanislas Vigoureux, a person
resident at Rue des Poissonniers, St. Denis (Seine), in the Empire of France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said George Tomlinson
Bousfield, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their bands and seals, should particularly describe
aud ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: 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 George Tomlinson Bousfield, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in preparing fibrous mate-
rials for spinning and weaving. For this purpose I take a sliver of fibrous
material and I deposit thereon at intervals short pieces of a thread or threads
formed of fibre of a different color or material from the sliver; the sliver with
these pieces of thread is then passed through drawing apparatus and is spun,
by which a particolored or variegated thread is obtained which may be used
either as weft or warp in the production of woven fabrics.
I prefer to employ two pair of rollers set at a short distance apart; the
sliver is passed between the front pair of these rollers and the thread or
-threads, portions of which are to be applied to the sliver, are passed through
both pairs of rollers. The back pair of rollers are driven much slower than
the front pair, and so the thread or threads are caused to be broken at short
intervals and the pieces become attached to the sliver which passes between
the front rollers together with them. The subsequent drawing and spinning
of the sliver may be effected in the same way that it would have been had
such short pieces of thread not been applied to it. The said pieces of thread
will produce very marked streaks in the yarn or thread produced from the
sliver, and corresponding lines in the fabrics in which yarn or thread so
produced is employed. Blades or other instruments may be employed in
place of drawing rollers for dividing off the portions of thread to be attached
to the sliver.
The Diagram, Figure 1 of the annexed Drawing, illustrates the method in
which I prefer to operate. a, a, are bobbins mounted on a suitable frame and
containing threads of various colors or materials, according to the effect it is
desired to produce; these threads are directed by suitable guides between
feed rollers b, b, which revolving at any convenient speed draw off the threads
from the bobbins a continuously; c, c, are larger bobbins with slivers of
untwisted fibre upon them, it may be of different colors or materials and
differing in color or material or both from the twisted threads on the
bobbins a; the slivers and threads are then passed together between the
rollers d, d, which are driven at a bigher speed than the rollers b, b. The
rollers d, d, simply act to feed the slivers from the bobbins.c, c, forward, and

page_text: they tend also to carry on the threads from the bobbins a at the same speed,
but as these threads are held back by the rollers a, a, the threads become
strained and then broken between them, and the pieces of thread travel on
with the sliver. Each thread which is in this manner broken into lengths
and combined with the sliver will form as it were a line of dots or strokes
upon it, the length of the dots or strokes will depend very much on the dis-
tances between the rollers b and d, whilst the intervals between the dots or
strokes will for the most part depend on the relative speeds of the rollers b
and d. After the slivers have in this way had the short ends of thread of
different color or material or both combined with them they are drawn in an
ordinary drawing frame and spun in the usual manner. During the drawing
process the fibres in each short portion of thread are held together by the
twist upon them, so that they form distinct streaks in the yarn.
Figure 2 represents the compound sliver obtained in this manner after it
has been drawn, and Figure 3 represents the general appearance of a piece of
woven cloth woven with a warp and weft produced as above described.
Colored or other threads of wool or of silk are in this manner very advan-
tageously combined with slivers of wool, either white or colored. Similarly
slivers and threads of other fibres may be combined. It is not essential that
the threads should differ in color from the sliver with which they are com-
bined, thus short ends of white cotton threads may be combined with a sliver
of wool, and afterwards the yarn or the fabric produced may be dyed in such
manner that the dye may take on to the wool and leave the cotton.
What I claim is the preparing fibrous materials for spinning and weaving
by combining with a sliver short ends of threads differing from the said sliver
in color or in material and drawing or extending the compound sliver so
obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Tomlinson Bousfield, have hereunto
my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
GEO. T. BOUSFIELD. (L.s.)