A NEW AND IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DRESSING OR WAXING ALL KINDS OF THREAD
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
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR DRESSING OR WAXING ALL KINDS OF THREAD." -A com-
munication from Alfred Thiriez and Edouard Thiriez, residing at Lille, in
the Department of the Nord, Empire of France, Manufacturers.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 28th January 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 "A NEW AND IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR DRESSING OR WAXING ALL KINDS OF THREAD," a communication
from Alfred Thiriez and Edouard Thiriez, two persons resident at Lille, in the
Department of the Nord, Empire of France, aforesaid, Manufacturers,
and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, admini-

page_text: strators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and made solemn
Declaration that it is a communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do bereby
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, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me relates to an improved machine for
applying in a regular and continuous manner a dressing of wax or any other
dressing on flaxen, cotton, or bempen thread, cord, or rope to render them
more even, supple, round, bright, solid, and convenient for various purposes,
especially for that of sewing.
It is composed of the organs berein-after described and represented
in the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 of which is a front elevation, Fig. 2.
an elevation on the side of the driving wheel, and Fig. 3 an elevation on the
⚫opposite side. In all these Figures the same letters of reference indicate
similar parts.
A is the creel; B, the thread guide ring; C, trough for hot or cold dressing;
D, brush rotating in the dressing trough; E, small cushions between which
the thread wipes itself; F, feeding cylinder which pushes the thread forward;
G, G¹, G", G, casters under which passes the thread, and which compel it
to rub more or less on the rollers; H, H, H", rollers covered with cloth
or brushes; I, lifting and lowering bar; L, reel on which rolls the thread
after dressing. The thread to be dressed or waxed is put on reels placed on
the creel A; it then passes in the thread guide ring B and on the brush D,
where it takes the dressing it requires. The velocity of the brush may vary
at will; it takes up from the trough more or less of the dressing substance to
furnish it at its upper part to the thread. Moreover, the thread guide
ring B is animated with a to-and-fro motion, also variable, which enables the
thread to wipe the dressing furnished by the brush on a more or less extended
surface. This distributing of the dressing in a regular manner, variable for
the different kinds of .thread, allows of having a thread more or less loaded
with the dressing, and answers perfectly the purpose of thread used in sewing
machines, a thing which has not yet been done. After having passed on the
brush the thread passes and is pressed between two little cushions E, which
regulate the quantity of dressing borne off by the thread.
The feeding
roller F, which regulates the unwinding of the thread, is actuated by the
cylinder. Its velocity is varied by means of graduated gullets of different
diameters, so as to give more or less friction on a same length of thread, and,

page_text: consequently, more or less gloss. The thread furnished by the cylinder F
passes underneath casters G, G¹, G", G, which compel it to rub on the
rollers H, H, H, which regulate the dressing on the thread, and imparts to
it a convenient gloss without detracting from its suppleness. The friction
of the thread on the rollers may be increased by putting the thread in contact
with a greater surface of the circumference of the rollers, or diminished by
advancing or drawing, back, by reason of the axis of the roller, the bars or rods
that support the casters G, G¹, G", G; the machine is so disposed as to effect
this. The friction may likewise be varied by applying the apparatus with
moveable and independent pulleys.
This machine presents undeniable advantages over all those now used; it
effects mechanically and in a novel manner the perfect dressing and waxing
of the thread, its working is easy, its productive powers great, and the
expense of dressing insignificant, there is no loss, the broken threads
may be joined together again with the greatest ease, since the thread may
be isolated from all the organs of the machine, it can also be readily brought
into contact again with these same organs to proceed with the operation.
The whole working is easy, as there is but little distance between the undressed
and the finished thread, the vertical distance being about 20 inches (about
50 centrimetres), which leaves the workman undisturbed at his seat.
The accompanying Drawings represent a single-faced machine; parallel
double-faced machines may also be made.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not intend to
confine myself to the precise details above enumerated, which may be modified or
replaced by analogous means without departing from the principle of the
Invention; but what I claim as new and original is, the arrangement and
combination of the various organs which collectively constitute the above-
described machine, whereby a regular and continuous working and a result
superior to that by the means now used are obtained, as also the regular
distribution of the dressing, which is controlled at will.
In witness whereof, I, the said Heuri Adrien Bonneville, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)