IMPROVEMENTS IN RIBBON Looms.
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RIBBON
Looms. A communication from Antony Barrallon, residing at Saint
Etienne, in the Empire of France, aforesaid,
Sealed the 25th October 1867, and dated the 2nd May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd May 1867.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN RIBBON LOOMS,"
a communication from Antony Barrallon, a person resident at Saint Etienne,
in the Empire of France, aforesaid, to be as follows:-
The improvements which have been communicated to me, relate to the
diminishing of the height and the depth of the ordinary ribbon looms, and to
facilitating and augmenting the production of the weave by the novel arrange:
ment and combination of the warp whose leads or tension weights are done
away with, and by the position of the drum and the means of actuating
the healds.

page_text: These improvements first of all consist in giving to the warp a horizontal
position of slighter span, so that the loom may be narrower; then instead of
rising perpendicularly to a great height the warp is passed on glass bars, and
brought back towards the top in an inclined position at an angle of about 40
degrees to the front side of the loom, where it is wound on a wormed rod,
from whence it rises perpendicularly to the feed bobbins placed on the front
part of the loom within reach of the weaver's arm. These bobbins are placed
horizontally and perpendicularly at the front of the loom, and are supported
by conic spindles furnished with a pressure nut, which serves to force the said
-bobbins more or less on the spindles, to increase more or less the tension of
the warp. The healds are actuated by treadles, as in the ordinary jacquart
loom. The axis of the drum placed in the middle of the loom is however
horizontal and perpendicular to the front-of-the-machine, and each heald is
set in motion by two treadles instead of one, by means of two ropes placed on
each side; these treadles topple one to the right and the other to the left;
their heads being engaged in one of the drivers vertically uplifted by the wires
of the drum, so that their tails are lowered and draw the ropes connected with
the heald, and passing on a pulley placed a little above this latter; the heald
thus drawn to the right and to the left no longer requires to have above it a
great length of rope, and consequently the height of the loom may be
diminished.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th October 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI 2
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 38, Porchester.
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont
Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS. Her..most Excellent Majesty. Queen Victoria, by, Her Letters:
Patent, bearing date the. Second day of May, in the year of our Lordi 8
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her-beirs-and-successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henri Adrien. Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said.
Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,. and assigns, or. such:
others as I, the said Heuri. Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,: 3
and assigns, should at. any time agree with, and no others, from time to.

page_text: 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 RIBBON LOOMS," a communication from
Anthony Barrallon, à person resident at Saint Etienne, in the Empire of
France, aforesaid, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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:-
The improvements which have been communicated to me relate to the
diminishing of the height and the depth of the ordinary ribbon looms, and to.
facilitating and augmenting the production of the weaver by the novel arrange-
ment and combination of the warp whose leads or tension weights are done
away with, and by the position of the drum, and the means of actuating the-
healds.
These improvements first of all consist in giving to the warp a horizontal:
position of slighter span, so that the loom may be narrower; then instead
of rising perpendicularly to a great height the warp is passed on glass bars.
and brought back towards the top in an inclined position at an angle of about
40 degrees to the front side of the loom, where it is wound on a wormed rod,.
from whence it rises perpendicularly to the, feed bobbins placed on the front,
part of the loom within reach of the weaver's arm; these bobbins are placed.
horizontally and perpendicularly at the front of the loom and are supported.
by conic spindles furnished with a pressure nut which serves to force the
said bobbins more or less on the spindles to increase more or less the tension.
of the warp. The healds are actuated by treadles as in the ordinary jacquart
loon. The axis of the drum placed in the middle of the loom is however:
horizontal and perpendicular to the front of the machine; and each heald is
set in motion by two treadles instead of one by means of two ropes placed on
each side; these treadles topple one to the right and the other to the left,.
their heads being engaged in one of the drivers, vertically uplifted by the wires
of the drum so that their tales are lowered, and draw the ropes connected. with.

page_text: the heald, and passing on a pulley placed a little above this latter; the heald
thus drawn to the right and to the left no longer requires to have above
it a great length of rope; and consequently the height of the loom may be
diminished.
.
These improvements are represented in the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1
of which is a front view in elevation of the loom; Fig. 2, a side view in
elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a section of two bobbins, one with a cylin-
drical and the other with a conical tube, furnished with pressure nuts. Like
letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout all the Figures.
a, drum for the wires; b, vertical drivers; c, c', toppling treadles; d, d',
ropes to work the healds; e, planks of the beats; f; batten with its shuttles;
threads;
g, creel, furnished with the warp bobbins; h, wormed rod of the warp
i, warp of the tissue marked in-red ink-;-, connecting rod, actuating the
batten by means of an eccentric; l, toppling lever actuating the shuttles of
the batten by moving in the position indicated by the red lines y; ; m,
eccentric, actuating the toppling lever ; n, driving wheel; o, engagement
wheel, receiving its movement from the driving wheel n, and transmitting
it to the wheel P.; q, lever to lift the wheel o in order to interrupt the move-
ment, and stop the machine.
By the details of the foregoing description, and the Figures. of the accom-
panying Drawings it will be readily seen that the principles of these, iniprove-
ments lie
First, in the peculiar disposition of the warp of the tissue, which allows of
having a lesser depth of loom, so as to occupy less rooin; this warp is no
longer loaded with the usual leads or tension weights, which the workman is
obliged to lift, and moreover the loading system which is here substituted is
placed on the front part of the loom, so that workman without disturbing
himself may reach the same and regulate, by means of pressure nuts, the
tension of the warp.
Secondly, in the disposition of the batten and of the organs which actuate
it on the lower part of the loom, and that of the drum with the wires furnished
with peculiar treadles, which allows of lifting and lowering the healds without
requiring the usual length of rope, so that the loom may be said to be without
that part known as the crown, which the workman was unable to reach save
with a ladder; in short the-loom-is-so-calculated as to take up the least
possible room wherever set up, a thing of the utmost importance in certain
factories, and that portion of the woven material in course of manipulation is
ever within reach of the workman hand, thereby increasing the nianufacture
by reason of the workman's having to disturb himself less frequently in

page_text: bestowing his attention on the accessories of the loom. The loom manu-
factures three lengths of the widest ribbon at the same time, or a larger
quantity of a smaller width; it is actuated otherwise than by hand labour, it
is no longer therefore a bar loom.
Having thus described the nature of the said improvements, and the manner
of carrying them into effect, what I claim is,-
1°. The disposition of the warp partly horizontally and partly perpendicularly
and consequently the diminished depth of the loom.
2. The conical shape of the bobbins supplying the warp and that of the
rods supporting them, combined with the pressure nuts so as to allow of
suppressing the tension weights.
3°. The disposition of the batten and of the parts which actuate it on the
lower part of the loom.
4°. The disposition of the drum with the wires furnished with peculiar
treadles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)