IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPECTACLE FRAMES AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of the
General Patent Offices; 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPECTACLE FRAMES
AND IN THE MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN."A communication from
François Bailly, residing at 11, Rue d'Anjou, Dauphine, Paris, in the
Empire of France.
sealed the 19th April 1865, and dated the 26th October 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 26th October 1864.
I, PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent
Offices, 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPECTACLE FRAMES
AND IN THE MANCHINERY EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows, that is to say:
The Invention communicated to me relates to certain improvements in the-
manufacture of spectacles and nose pieces, and in the machinery employed
therein, and consists,
Firstly, in the use of a punch having the form of shears, provided' with -
matrices of a suitable form for cutting out of sheets of metal plates serving to

page_text: produce in one piece the frame into which the glasses are inserted. The
movement is given to the two arms of the shears or cutters, provided with
punches, by means of a lever and treadle. The plate is grooved by another
punch of the same kind so as to leave the edges only of sufficient strength to
receive the glasses.
Secondly, in the employment of two pieces of metal (the section of which
is semicircular) capable of being separated one from the other by means of a
lever, the grooved plate having been made to pass round these two pieces,
they are kept apart by the lever, which give to the frame the usual form for
receiving the spectacle glasses.
Thirdly, the frames so manufactured are made to pass between two cylin-
ders cut file-like, and which are turned on their axis by any suitable power.
The grooving for the glasses, as well as the form of the external edges, are
prepared by means of cutters having suitable forms mounted on an ordinary
lathe, and to the action of the said cutters the frames are exposed.
Fourthly, the branches or arms are made of iron wires which are passed
through rollers to give them the required shape; at one end a piece of iron is
fixed to form the hinge, and at the other end a piece that is to serve to make
the buckle or ball piece. The pieces are soldered by dipping them into a
crucible full of molten solder.
Fifthly, in the manufacture of bridges of spectacles and nose pieces without
any solder by means of the apparatus herein-before described, the form of the
punches leaving certain parts of the metal adhering to the eges, and the said
parts serve for the springs and hinges.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 2
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of. the General Patent Offices,
10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street, 8
Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the 3
said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license that

page_text: I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Morcau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand Je
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPECTACLE FRAMES AND IN THE MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREIN" (a communication from François Bailly, a person resident
at Rue d'Anjou, Dauphine, Paris, in the Empire of France), upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should parti-
cularly 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 Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, 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, reference being had to the
Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say:
:
The Invention communicated to me consists of certaim improvements in
the manufacture of spectacle frames and nose pieces, and in the machinery
employed to produce them. I will successively describe the several improve-
iments composing the Invention according to the order followed in the process
of manufacturing the frames, and to render the Invention more easily under-
stood I will refer to the several Figures of the annexed Drawing, and to the
letters of reference marked thereon.
The first improvement is represented in Figure 1, and consists in the use of
a cutting punch a, B, having the form of shears, and provided with suitable
matrices c and d, for cutting out of sheets of metal the bands serving to pro-
duce in one piece tho frames of spectacles and nose pieces having the forms.
shewn in Figures 2, 3, and 4. The blades of the shears, which are provided
with matrices, are set in motion by means of a lever g worked by a pedal
fixed to a rod H. An opening is prepared in the frames by means of another
matrice which leaves the edges of sufficient strength for receiving and holding
the glasses of the spectacles and nose pieces, as seen in Figures 5, 6, and 7.

page_text: The frames in the state represented in Figures 5 and 6 take the forms shewn
in Figures 8 and 9 on account of the paring they have undergone when passing
through the machine represented in Figure 10. This machine is composed
of two matrices c and d put in motion by a lever B and treadle keyed.to the
connecting rod H.
.
The second improvement consists in the employment of two metal pieces,
1 and 2, Figure 14, having a semicircular section, and capable of being
separated one from the other by means of the lever B. The cut out parts
represented by Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 having been prepared so as to pass
round the two aforesaid pieces 1 and 2, it follows that the opening out. they
have received by the lever B gives to the frames the forms. represented in
Figures 11, 12, and 13, which forms are finally shaped by being passed
through the machine represented by Figure 15. This machine is composed
of two matrices d and e, one of them being fixed while the other is made to
fall on the first by means of an oscillating arm to which it is attached.
The third improvement consists in the use of two rollers A and B, Figure 16,
cut file-like, and which are put in motion by any suitable means. The tenons
are made by bending the ends of the frames represented by Figures 17 and 18.
The frames are ground and polished by the machine represented at Figure 22,
and which is composed of a grinder D, which receives its motion from a
revolving axis, and of a vibrating arm c, on which is attached the frame.
Figure 19 represents the lathe serving to bore the tenons of the frames.
These holes are made by the drills F, which are made to revolve by means of
the shafts B. The circle holders 9, 9, serve to hold the frames.
The fourth improvement consists in using a rolling machine to manufacture
the round or square iron wire branches of the frames. For that purpose one
extremity of the iron wire is bent to form the ring or ball and I add a mass
of iron to the other extremity to form the hinge, and the whole is soldered by
dipping the arm into a melting pot containing molten soldering. The stems
of the branches can also be stamped round or square by employing the machine
represented by Figure 20, which is composed of two punches B, C, set in
motion by a lever e connected with a treadle by the rod g.
The fifth improvement consists in producing the bridges of nose pieces
without soldering them by the use of matrices, giving to a metal plate the
form represented by Figure 21. The hinge is made by folding the extremity,
by which it takes the form represented in Figure 23.
And having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to
me, and the best mode of putting the same into execution, I declare that I do
not confine myself to the precise details herein-before described, as they can

page_text: vary without deviating from the principle of the Invention, but what I claim
and intend to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is,
First, the mechanical arrangements for putting in motion the cutters,
reference being had to Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing.
Second, the mechanical arrangements for moving the pieces 1 and 2,
reference being had to Figure 14 of the Drawing.
Third, the application of file-cut rollers, reference being had to Figure 16
of the Drawing.
Fourth, the lathe represented in Figure 19 to bore the tenons.
Fifth, the mechanical arrangements to press the branches of the frames,
reference being had to Figure 20 of the Drawing.
Sixth, the combination of parts to grind the tenons, reference being had to
Figure 22 of the Drawing.
Seventh, the manufacture of nose pieces by punches, and the use of metal
wire for the manufacture of the branches, as herein-before described, reference.
being had to the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
Witness,
G. F. DEDFERN,
4, South Street,
Finsbury,
L. DE FONTAINEMOREAU. (L.B.)
London.