IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OF PAPER SUBSTITUTED FOR CARDBOARD IN JACQUART MACHINES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Guillaume Grange, of Paris (Rue Obckampf,
160), France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OF
PAPER SUBSTITUTED FOR CARDBOARD IN JACQUART MACHINES.”
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Scaled the 20th February 1874, and dated the 8th September 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Guillaume Grange at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 8th September 1873.
I, GUILLAUME GRANGE, of Paris (Rue Obekampf, 160), France, do
5 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE USE OF PAPER SUBSTITUTED FOR CARDBOARD IN JACQUART MACHINES,” to be as
follows:--
Since fine work has been produced on the Vaucanson and Jacquart
looms many have attempted, and have to some extent succeeded, in
using paper instead of cards, the price of which is so high. Paper,
although it gives good results, has a great fault, which is want of
strength, especially at the points where it is acted on by the projecting

page_text: points of the cylinder. It will then be therefore understood that the
holes in the paper where the points of the cylinder penetrate have to
stand a great deal of wear.
Now according to my Invention I protect these holes by securing to
the paper by gum or otherwise ribbon, bands of cloth or other fabric,
leather, and even excessively thin metal, or any other strengthening sub-
stance stronger or more strength enduring than paper or cardboard. The
bands thus prepared and united to the paper are pierced at any regu-
lated distance desired to correspond with the projecting points on the
cylinder. Each hole in the bands thus prepared is provided with a metal
eyelet. All the eyelets are placed and rivetted in such manner as to gear
with the projecting points of the said cylinder, which communicates to
the prepared paper bands the required motion.
It will be understood that the paper intended for the Jacquart
machines, as well as the ribbon, bands of leather, metal, or other
material, are fitted in such manner that the cylinder contains the proper
rows of points for driving them. Thus for the ordinary Jacquart
machines I should have three or four bands for the middlo, and one at
cach extremity; but for fabrics of less breadth, the paper being straighter,
two bands, viz., one at cach end, would be sufficient.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Guillaume Grange in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th March 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUILLAUME
GRANGE, of Paris (Ruc Obekampf, 160), France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Пer
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Guillaume Grange, Her special licence
that I, the said Guillaume Grange, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Guillaume Grange, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: 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 THE USE OF PAPER SUBSTITUTED FOR CARDBOARD IN JACQUART MACHINES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Guillaume
Grange, 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 Guillaume Grange, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 :—
Since fine work has been produced on the Vaucanson and Jacquart
looms, many have attempted, and have to some extent succeeded, in
using paper instead of cards, the price of which is so high. Paper,
although it gives good results, has a great fault, which is want of
strength, especially at the points where it is acted on by the projecting
points of the cylinder. It will then be therefore understood that the
holes in the paper where the points of the cylinder penetrate have to
stand a great deal of wear.
Now according to my Invention I protect these holes by securing to
the paper by gum or otherwise ribbon, bands of cloth or other fabric,
leather, and even excessively thin metal, or any other strengthening
substance stronger or more strength enduring than paper or cardboard.
The bands thus prepared and united to the paper are pierced at any
regulated distance desired to correspond with the projecting points on
the cylinder. Each hole in the bands thus prepared is provided with a
metal eylet. All the cylets are placed and rivetted in such manner as
to gear with the projecting points of the said cylinder, which commu-
nicates to the prepared paper bands the required motion.
It will be understood that the paper intended for the Jacquart
machines, as well as the ribbon, bands of leather, metal, or other
material, are fitted in such manner that the cylinder contains the proper

page_text: rows of points for driving them. Thus for the ordinary Jacquart
machines I should have three or four bands for the middle, and one at
cach extremity; but for fabrics of less breadth, the paper being straighter,
two bands, viz., one at each end would be sufficient.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not limit myself
to the number of the protecting or strengthening pieces, for as a rule they
may bo gummed or otherwise united or secured to the paper in such
numbers as may be required, always providing each hole of the paper
with a metal cylet or cylets; these holes thus provided correspond to the
series of projecting points of the cylinder; but I claim, the treatment of
paper used in Jacquart and like machines, substantially in manner and
for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Guillaume Grange, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, in the year of 1
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.