IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."-A com-
munication.
Sealed the 29th August 1856, and dated the 20th March 1856..
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 20th March 1856.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte de FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, & 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in substituting the apparatus shewn in the accom-
panying Drawings for the littering sticks used by weavers.
On the two iron axes A. A, are fixed two cast-iron cylinders B, B. Each
cylinder is provided with ten brass rings C, C, increasing in size so as to form
a regular cone. These rings, armed with pointed pins D, D, revolve on the
cast-iron cylinder B, B.
This littering apparatus is placed at each extremity of the breast beam II, &
the tissues wind on the cones; during the working of the littering, a permanent

page_text: tension of the tissue takes place in the direction of its width, by the increase
of the diameter of the rings, which form a cone. Two cylindrical spindles
G, G, which I term winding spindles, are placed one on each side, & parallel to
the conc.
Each of the cones is adjusted on a slide E, composed of cast-iron, which is
drawn back if necessary at the passage of the shuttle. This slide is also
adjusted on the cast-iron support F by means of the screw bolts I. By
this system, the lightest as well as the medium and strongest tissues may
be woven.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of tho Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte de FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license that
I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le
Cointe de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all tinies
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 LOOMS FOR WEAVING," communicated to me from a foreigner residing
abroad, in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Peter Armand le Compte de Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said l'eter 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, ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Sheet of Drawings hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention, communicated to me, consists in improved apparatus to bo
used as a substitute for the littering sticks of weavers, and for stretching
woven fabrics in the direction of their width during the operation of weaving.
In the accompanying Drawings the same letters indicate the same parts of
the apparatus.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of my improved apparatus; and Figure 2
is also an elevation of the same in a reversed position; Figure 3 is a section
of the cone for stretching the fabric; Figure 4 is an end view of the appa-
ratus; Figure 5, a view of the opposite end; Figure 6 is a plan of the same.
F, F, are two cast-iron frames or supports, placed one on each end of the
breast beam II, and are adjusted to the proper distance by a screw passing
through a slot F¹ (Figure 5) and secured by a nut F". The part I of the
frame, which is at right angles to the part F, is grooved, to allow the cast-iron
support E, which has a steel spring screwed to it at the back, to make it slide
easy, and is adjusted to the required height by a square-headed screw E¹
(furnished with a washer) passing through the slot E". The support, which is
drawn back if necessary at the passage of the shuttle, is cast with bevelled or
beaded edges, and with a lug J for supporting the cone D. This cone, which
is shewn in elevation in Figures 1 and 2, and in longitudinal section Figure 3,
is composed of a circular iron axis A, square at one end, passing through the
lug, and is adjusted by the milled set screw A¹, on which axis a cylinder of two
diameters B, B, is fixed. At one end of the cylinder is a ring pressing
against the axis of the largest diameter. On the cylinder revolves freely and
independent of each other a series of ten, or a suitable number of brass rings
C, C, turned so as to form a conc. In the centre of the circumference of each
ring are fixed a number of sharp-pointed pins D'; between each ring an iron
washer may be placed. The whole are secured on the cylinder by a semi-
circular-headed nut B, with two holes b formed in it, for a key to turn it on the
screw at the end of the axis. Two cylindrical iron rods or spindles G, G,
which I term winding spindles, fixed in brass supports g, are placed one on each
side of and parallel to the cone, the distance from which is regulated by the
set screws G', furnished with washers.
The above-described littering apparatus is placed at each end of the breast

page_text: beam, as before stated, and serves to put down any thread of the warp which
may get up during the passage of the shuttle. Whilst the tissue is being
wound on the cones, a permanent tension takes place in the direction of its
width, by the increase in the diameter of the rings, which form a cone. By
this system the lightest as well as the medium and strongest tissues may be
woven.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same may be carried into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that
I do not confine myself to the precise details of construction herein-before
described; but I would have it understood that what I claim, and wish to be
secured by the berein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the construction
of the littering and stretching apparatus for the purposes herein before described,
and represented in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight bundred and
fifty-six.
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)