IMPROVE- MENTS IN RIBBON Looms
Year: 1868

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henri Adrien Bonneville at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th January 1868.-A communication from Pierre Bonnet
and Antoine Fargère, of the Firm of Bonnet and Fargère,.
residing at St. Etienne, in the Empire of France, aforesaid,
Manufacturers.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex,
and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN RIBBON Looms," a communication from Pierre Bonnet and
Antoine Fargère, of the Firm of Bonnet and Fargère, two persons
resident at St. Etienne, in the Empire of France, aforesaid, Manu-
facturers, to be as follows:-
The improvements communicated to me relate to the substitution,
in order to figure or emboss ribbons, for the batten said to be with
pinions used up to the present day, of the batten said to be with hooks
capable of producing the figuration or embossment or otherwise work
with several shuttles, whilst having, like the ordinary hook hatten,

page_text: only one sliding rod, a single row of hooks and a single puppet. The
batten loom being known, the particulars of the said improvements are
alone indicated here. The batten is divided into two parts, the one
fixed, the other moveable; the fixed part carries a sliding ruler, the
hooks on their rod, the guide or straight blade and vertical guides
guiding the ascending and descending shuttles, and cut out for the
passage of the operating shuttle and for the hooking. The ascensional
and descensional moveable part of the batten carries the shuttles only
with their cramps, the ascension being regulated by inclined planes
(montagnes) actuated by the cards of the jacquard machine to present
and hook the operating shuttle on the hooks. The puppet rods are
tackled, and are each furnished with a band chain passing on pulleys and
actuating the sliding ruler, causing the hooks to act and consequently
the shuttles. In order to bring back the shuttle, without figuring or
embossing according to the nature of the Drawing, the rods of the
puppet which are alternately uplifted by means of tongues in corre-
spondance with projections fixed on their motive lever (sabre) connected
with the wheel of the loom are brought back, when the said lever is
lowered by the meeting, when required, if the said projection with a
tongue with which each rod is furnished, and consequently the sliding
ruler is brought back, as also the required shuttle. This meeting of
the tongue and the projection takes place by means of a card of the
jacquard machine. To this effect in front of the tongue which is to
operate the return stroke a toppling piece is placed, which by pressing
the tongue puts it in contact with the projection. This toppling piece
is put into motion at the moment required by a cord actuated by a
fixed treadle, when the return stroke is useless by a projecting stay
actuated by a rope of the jacquard machine; but this treadle operates
when it is freed from the stay by the jacquard machine rope, and
consequently draws the rope, which causes the toppling piece to oscillate
and places the tongue of the puppet rod in contact with the projection
fixed on the motive lever.