A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR ORNAMENTING NET OR OTHER LIGHT TEXTURES OR FABRICS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Pierre Jules Tuquet, of the Firm of Charles Lecomte,
Heuzey, Jeuch, and Tuquet, Merchants, of Paris, France, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR ORNAMENTING NET OR OTHER LIGHT
TEXTURES OR FABRICS"
Scaled the 1st November 1878, and dated the 24th May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Pierre Julos Tuquet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th May 1878.
PIERRE JULES TUQUET, of the Firm of Charles Lecomte, Heuzey, Jeuch, and
Tuquet, Merchants, of Paris, France. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
ORNAMENTING NET OR OTHER LIGHT TEXTURES OR FABRICS."
This new or improved machine which forms the object of the present application
for Letters Patent is for the purpose of fixing at equal distances one from another
and in a given order, pea or other shaped spots of chenille or other similar articles
on to light textures or fabrics, especially on to net.
The machine is so constructed for fixing the chenille on to net in form of peas or
spots placed at regular distances in rows with equal space between each other. The
peas or spots of one row are combined with those of the other succeeding row by
displacing alternately the texture which is ornamented.
By suppressing this displacement of the texture, or by modifying the interspersing
of the pea or spot forming parts, great variety in the effect on the textures to be
decorated may be produced.
The machine consists of two similar side frames with tie pieces, in order to obtain
a perfect parallelism, and thus form a rigid framework. These side frames support
the standards of the main shafts of the machine.
Towards the lower part and in the centre the driving shaft is mounted, which
may be actuated by any suitable motive power. On each side of this shaft are
other shafts driven at the same speed of rotation as the driving shaft by means of

page_text: suitable gearing wheels. On these shafts are mounted the cams governing all the
movements of the parts of the machine.
In order to avoid the bending of the shafts a second frame is arranged to givo
rigidity to the shafts.
The side frame is surmounted by two standards which serve as a support for the
most of the parts, the working of which will be hereafter described.
The chenille is unrolled from reels conveniently placed so as to be taken up by a
kind of nipper, formed by two bars, for feeding the chenille forward. For this the
whole of the nipper is mounted on a moveable cross piece sliding on two guides
fixed in the standards. This nipper receives a reciprocating rectilinear motion from
a cam and an arrangement of levers. These levers govern a cross piece by
connecting rods, which, instead of being directly fixed on them, are linked with the
levers carrying the upper bar of the chenille nipper, and mounted on spindles fixed
in the cross piece.
Cramps are arranged for limiting the stroke of the levers, causing the first part of
the movement transmitted by the connecting rods to raise the upper bar of the
nipper, which releases the chenille, while the second part carries away the whole of
the nipper without the chenille participating in the movement. In moving in the
opposite direction the bar falls down, first seizes the chenille, and takes it along
during the end of its stroke in order to supply the necessary quantity for forming
a pea or other form of spot.
In leaving the feeding bars the chenille passes through openings provided in a
cross piece, which is simply the lower fixed part of a cutter, of which the cross piece
is the upper and moveable part. This cutter is intended for separating from the
chenille the necessary quantity for forming a pea or spot. For this purpose two
cross pieces are provided with blades which are made independent from the cross
pieces in order to be easily changed, and the upper cross piece has a vertical
reciprocating motion which is imparted by a cam acting on the friction rollers
mounted on the ends of a double lever on a shaft. This shaft carries outside of the.
frame two levers, which by means of two guide rods transmit motion to the upper*
part of the cutter by being rigidly fixed on two arms joined to the cutter.
In order to avoid the displacing of the chenille from under the action of the
cutter it is held in a guide before it is seized in the nipper, which takes it up when
it comes out of the cutter in order to introduce it into the net.
The net comes forward fed by cylinders on which it is rolled. It passes under
four rollers which hold it up and over a bar or net feeder with triangular sections.
Motion is imparted to the net by rollers which are necessary, the one for feeding
it in the transversal direction of the machine for regulating the spaces of the
successive rows, and the other for displacing the net in order to make each row of
peas or spots in the desired order with the peas or spots of the preceding row.
With this object the spindles of the rollers are borne on carriages which slide on
transverse bars of a fraine, the standards of which slide themselves longitudinally
on guides forming the tie pieces of the frame. It results from this arrangement that
the rollers and the net which they carry participate in every movement imparted
to the frame on its guides, and that this movement taking place after the formation
of each row of peas or spots the following row will be made in such distance as may
be desired with reference to the preceding row. This motion is imparted by a
suitable cam, friction rollers, and lever acting on a frame; but as this motion is to
be complete only in two complete revolutions of the machine, the going being
necessary for the first and the returning for the second, the cam is mounted on a
special shaft, which receives its motion from the driving shaft by a pinion and
wheel, the diameters of which impart to the shaft a single complete rotation to two
of the driving shaft.
In order to allow the displacing of the frame, the rollers, and the net, it is
indispensable that they should be rendered independent from all the parts of the
machine which do not participate in the same notion, and in particular from the
net feeder; therefore on the displacing motion just described, the net feeder, which

page_text: maintains the net in all the development it has between the rollers, has descended
a sufficient space to let the two rollers turn aside one from the other by sliding on
bars, so that the net remains between them in a perfect horizontal position, well
extended and independent from any other parts which might impede its motion.
The sliding of the carriages bearing the rollers is imparted by a cam of the shaft,
which by a friction imparts motion to the two similar shafts, coupled by two sectors
provided on the outside of the machine with levors governing suitable carriages.
It is during this motion of the rollers that the feeding movement of the net takes
place. The access of the feed roller is provided with a spring click. Towards the
end of the movement of the rollers the foed apparatus meets an abutment screw,
while the roller continues its displacement, and determines, by a catch motion, the
rotation of that roller which, the other rollers being independent, feeds forward
such a quantity of net as is easy to regulate by the abutment screw.
In order to maintain with security the net between the rollers, the spindles of
the upper rollers are carried to the end of levers under the tail of which springs are
adapted. The upper rollers press thus on the lower ones with a force the intensity
of which is regulated by the strength of pressure springs.
As soon as the two motions of longitudinal displacement for putting the
peas or spots astride and of feeding the not are produced, the rollers approach cach
other under the action of a cam and of a friction roller, which act to bring them
together just as the cam and friction roller act to guide them apart from each other.
The not being then rendered slightly floating is sustained by the net feeder, which
rises again to its place in carrying the net on its upper edge.
The motion of the net feeder is imparted by a cam of the shaft, which by a
friction roller shaft, two levers, and two connecting rods, forces the net feeder to
descend at the desired moment, and makes it rise again under the action of suitable
springs exactly up to its place fixed by an abutment screw. The upper edge of the
net feeder is cut from distance to distance by notches, the space between which
corresponds with the distance from each other of the peas or spots of chenille.
Moreover, the whole of its upper part is hollow and receives a bar, which may slido
longitudinally in it. This bar is provided with small nippers forming horizontal
needles, which correspond with the notches on the net feeder, and which, according
to the motion imparted to the bar, are presented in these notches to close them, or
are drawn back in the thickness of the net feeder in order to leave them open at
their upper parts.
The horizontal displacing of the bar and its needles is the result of the vertical
displacement of the net feeder, which bears along this bar in its motion, and forces
two inclined planes fixed at its ends to meet friction rollers mounted on a fixed
post on the lower cutter. The direction of the inclination of these planes makes
that in descending the bar horizontally displaced in one direction, while in
ascending it is horizontally displaced in another direction.
It is by the notches of the net feeder that the small nippers which are to take
up the chenille on the coming out of the cutters penetrate. These nippers, the
number of which corresponds with that of the notches, are actuated besides the
opening and closing motion for seizing and leaving the chenille, with a reciprocating
displacement in order to take up the chenille after it has passed through the net,
and is supplied by the nipper bars and carried towards a guide, and after the
necessary quantity has been cut by the cutter to a bodkin through the openings of
the net and the notches in the net feeder to the centre of the machine, where the
pea or spot is formed, then after having left the piece of chenille in that place they
are drawn back to let the other parts of the machine do their respective work.
The reciprocating motion of the nippers forward and backward is imparted by
a suitable cam; levers and connecting rods govern the forward motion of the cross
piece which carries the nippers. The backward motion is produced by a spring,
which brings the pieces back into their first position.
As to the opening and closing of the nippers it is obtained by plates, which seize
in a conveniently inclined groove the ends of the nippers, compelling them to.

page_text: approach each other and hold the chenille fast when the said plates are lowered,
while the nippers open freely and drop the chenille as soon as the plates asceud.
For ascending and desecending the plates are mounted on the ends of levers and
a shaft, and participate in its motion, which is determined by a suitable can and
shaft and a system of levers and connecting rods.
When the chenille has been brought to the centre of the machine and left there
by the nippers it is held in the openings of the net across notches closed at that
moment by the needles of a bar. Then the pea or spot is to be formed. Three
parts are employed in this formation, viz., a cap which places itself above each
piece of chenille rods, which in ascending, and by the tendency they have to approach
each other, bend the ends of chenille on the edges of the cap, and finally the
finishing bars, which, at the moment when the net and the net feeder descend, pinch
completely the pea or spot which is compelled to pass between them.
These bars have also another object. In order to avoid the involuntary dis-
placing of the pieces of chenille before they are bent they come by taking up a
small quantity of chenille to press it under the cap and to secure its position while
facilitating the working of the rods, which glide on their outer faces until the
moment they meet the chenille and bend it.
When the net feeder in ascending brings the net into its place the caps are above
each notch, and remain in that position while the nippers work in order to bring
the chenille into the opening, and until they are at a sufficient distance to permit
the rods to ascend and bend the chenille on the edges of the caps, which are then
displaced longitudinally in order to free the half formed peas or spots. This motion
is imparted to one of the bars which bear them by a cam on the driving shaft, a
friction roller rod, and a system of levers and connecting rods. The bar is provided
with a tongue, which guides it under the tie piece of the frame.
The rods which bend the peas or spots are carried on bars suspended on a shaft,
which imparts motion to them by a system of connecting rods, levers, and springs,
which have for their object to give to the rods a tendency to approach the centre
in their notion when rising, and to turn them aside when they come back to their
lower positions. The shaft receives its motion at the required moment by a
suitable cam, and shaft, and levers, and connecting rods, as soon as the cam allows
it. Balance weights serve to make the bars and rods ascend, the whole of the
system being equipoised by springs.
The motion of the finishing bars to bring them in contact with the chenille of
the caps is imparted to the standards, in which are mounted their pins, by a
suitable cam, a shaft, levers, connecting rods, and another shaft. These standards
slide on guides, the same which guide the net feeder and the bars in their motion.
The ascension of the bars on the pins leaves a passage for the net embroidered
with peas or spots between them, but the tendency these bars have to approach
each other forces the peas or spots to close completely on themselves, and fixes them
in a complete manner to the texture on which they are placed.
It is evident that the arrangement of machinery just described may vary in its
general dimensions, as well as in the number and disposition of its principal parts,
in order to give with the same principles results of great variety.
From the previous description it will be understood that the machinery has for
its object the fixing on net and other light textures chenille, or other applications
of a similar kind, in the form of peas or balls in the ornamentation of textures, this
improved method being distinguished by the following points :-
1. The particular disposition of the nipper serving to feed the chenille necessary
for the machine.
2. The combination of two blades, the one fixed and the other moveable, for
forming the cutters. .
3. The system of rollers and of the frame which carries them, as well as the
machinery for producing the displacement and feeding of the net.
4. The combination of the net feeder with the bar provided with needles and the
parts giving them motion.

page_text: 5. The especial combination of the nippers taking hold of the chenille, and intro-
ducing it into the net, as has been described.
6. The arrangement and the manner of working of the parts finishing the peas
or spots, such as caps, rods for bending and finishing bars, as well as the machinery
imparting motion to them.
7. Finally, the whole combination of the machine, arranged substantially as
herein-before described, or any similar modification thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Pierre Jules Tuquet in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 23rd
November 1878.
PIERRE JULES TUQUET, of the Firm of Charles Lecomte, Heuzey, Jeuch, and
Tuquet, Merchants, of Paris, France. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
ORNAMENTING NET OR OTHER LIGHT TEXTURES OR FABRICS."
This new or improved machine has for its object the fixing at equal distances,
one from another, and in a given order, pea or other, shaped spots of chenille, or
other similar articles, on to light textures or fabrics, especially on to net.
The machine which I am about to describe, reference being made to the Drawings
annexed, is so constructed for fixing the chenille on to net in the form of peas or
spots, placed at regular distances in rows, with equal spaces between each other.
The peas or spots of one row are combined with those of the other succeeding row
by displacing, alternately, the texture which is ornamented.
By suppressing this displacement of the texture, or by modifying the interspacing
of the pea or spot-forming parts, great variety in the effect on the texture to be
adused
Figure 1 (Sheets 1 and 2) is a section of the machine.
Figure 2 (Sheets 3 and 4) is an end view, Figures 1* and 2* being complete
views of the machine on a smaller scale, and Figure 3, also on a smaller scale, shows
some of the parts which form the peas or spots on the net.
The frame of the machine consists of two similar side frames a with tie pieces, in
order to obtain a perfect parallelism, and thus form a rigid framework. These side
fraines support the standards of the main shafts of the machine.
Towards the lower part and in the centre the driving shaft b is mounted, which
may be actuated by any suitable motive power. On each side of this shaft are
other shafts c and d, driven at the same speed of rotation as the driving shaft by
means of suitable gearing wheels e keyed on each of them. On these shafts are
mounted the cans which govern all the movements of the parts of the-machine.

page_text: In order to avoid the bending of the shafts, a second frame a² is arranged between
the cheeks, and having standards all arranged to give rigidity to the shafts.
The two cheeks a of the side frame are surrounded by two standards a¹, which
serve as a support for most of the parts, the working of which will be hereafter
described.
The chenille is unrolled from reels conveniently placed so as to be taken up by a
kind of nipper formed by two bars or straight edges g and h for feeding the chenille
forward. For this purpose, the whole of the nipper is mounted on a movable
cross piece i, sliding on two guides on the sides j, j, fixed in the standards a. This
nipper receives a reciprocating rectilinear motion from the cam k by means of the
friction roller k', and an arrangement of levers, which is clearly shown on the
Drawings. These levers govern the cross pieces i by the connecting rod l, which,
instead of being directly fixed on them, are linked with the levers h¹ carrying the
upper bar h of the chenille nipper, and mounted on spindles fixed in the cross
pioce, conveniently disposed.
Cramps are arranged for limiting the stroke of the levers, causing a first part of
the movement, transmitted by the connecting rods, to raise the upper bar of the
nipper, which releases the chenille, while the second part carries away the the whole
of the nipper without the chenille participating in the movement. In moving in the
opposite direction, the bar h falls down first, seizes the chenille, and takes it along
during the end of its stroke in order to supply the necessary quantity for forming a
pea or other form of spot.
In leaving the feeding bars g and h, the chenille passes through the openings pro-
vided in a cross piece m, which is simply the lower fixed part of a cutter, of which
the cross piece n is the upper and movable part. This cutter is intended for
separating from the chenille the necessary quantity for forming a pea or spot. For
this purpose, the two cross pieces m and n are provided with the blades m¹ and n³,
which are made independent from the cross pieces, in order to be easily changed,
and the upper cross piece n has a vertical reciprocating movement, which is
imparted by the cam o acting on the friction rollers o¹ mounted on the ends of a
double lever on the shaft p. This shaft carries outside of the frame two levers,
which, by means of two guide rods, transmit motion to the upper part of the
cutter n by being rigidly fixed on two arins n² connected to the cutter.
In order to avoid the displacing of the chenille from under the action of the
cutter it is held in a guider before it is seized in the nipper 8, which takes it up
when it comes out of the cutter in order to introduce it into the net.
The net t comes forward and passes between rollers u which hold it up to and
over a bar or net-feeder v of triangular section.
Motion is imparted to the net by the rollers u, which are necessary, the one for
feeding it in the transverse direction of the machine for regulating the spaces of the
successive rows, and the other for displacing the net, in order to make each row of
peas or spots in the desired order with the peas or spots of the preceding row.
With this object, the spindles of the rollers u are borne on carriages which slide
on the transverse bars of a frame y, the standards y' of which slide themselves, but
longitudinally, on guidesz, forming the tie pieces of the frame. It results from this
arrangement that the rollers u and the net which they carry participate in every
movement imparted to the frame y on its guides z, and that this movement, taking
place after the formation of each row of peas or spots, the following row will bo
made in such distance as may be desired with reference to the preceding row.
This motion is imparted by the cam 1 with projecting borders, which, by means of
the friction rollers 1' and lever 2, act on the frame y. But as this motion is to bo
complete only in two revolutions of the machine, the going being necessary for the
first and the returning for the second, the cam 1 is mounted on a small special
shaft 3 which receives it motion from the driving shaft by the pinion 4 and tho
wheel 5, the diameters of which impart to the shaft 3 a single complete rotation to
two of the driving shaft.
In order to allow the displacing of the frame, the rollers, and the net it is indis-

page_text: pensable that they should be rendered independent from all the parts of the machine
which do not participate in the same motion, and in particular from the net
feeder v.
Therefore on the displacing I have just described, the net feeder
which maintains the net in all the development it has between the rollers has
descended a sufficient space to let the two rollers u turn aside one from the other
by sliding on bars y, so that the net remains between them in a perfect horizontal
position, well extended and independent from any other parts which might impede
its motion.
The sliding of the carriages x bearing the rollers u is imparted by the cam 6 of
the shaft d, which by the friction roller 7 imparts motion to the two similar shafts 8
coupled by the toothed sectors 9, provided on the outside of the machine with levers
governing suitable carriages . It is during this motion of the rollers that the
feeding movement of the net takes place. The axis of the feed roller u' is pro-
vided with a spring click and spring work. Towards the end of the movement of
the rollers the spring work lever 10 or feed apparatus meets an abutment screw,
while the roller u³ continues its displacement and determines by a catch and click
the rotation of that roller which (the other rollers being independent) feeds forward
such a quantity of net as is easy to regulate by the abutment screw.
In order to maintain with security the net between the rollers u the spindles of
the upper rollers are carried to the end of levers, under the tail of which springs
are adapted. The upper rollers press thus upon the lower ones with a force, the
intensity of which is regulated by the strength of pressure springs.
As soon as the two motions of longitudinal displacement for putting the peas or
spots astride and of feeding the net are produced the rollers approach each other
under the action of the cam G¹ aud of the friction roller 7', which act to bring them
together just as the cam and friction roller 7 act to guide them apart from cach
other. The net being thus rendered slightly floating is sustained by the net
feeder v, which rises again to its place in carrying the net on its upper edge.
The motion of the net feeder vis imparted by the cam 12 of the shaft c, which
by the friction roller 13, the shaft 14, the two levers 15, and two connecting rods 16
forces the net feeder to descend at the desired moment, and makes it rise again
under the action of the springs 17, exactly up to its place fixed by the abutment
screw 18. The upper edge of the net feeder vis cut from distance to distance by
notches, the space between which corresponds with the distance from each other
of the peas or spots of chenille. Moreover the whole of its upper part is hollow
and receives a bar which may slide longitudinally in it. This bar is provided with
small nippers forming horizontal needles, which correspond with the notches on the
net feeder, and which, according to the notion imparted to the sliding bar, are pre-
sented in these notches to close them, or are drawn back in the thickness of the
net feeder in order to leave them open at their upper part.
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The horizontal displacing of the sliding bar and its needles is the result of the
vertical displacement of the net feeder v, which bears along this bar in its motion
and forces two inclined planes fixed at its ends to meet friction rollers mounted on
a fixed post on the lower cutter m. The direction of the inclination of these planes
is that in descending, the bar is horizontally displaced in one direction, while in
ascending, it is horizontally displaced in another direction.
It is by the notches of the net feeder that the small nippers s which are to take
up the chenille on the coming out of the cutters penetrate. These nippers, the
number of which corresponds with that of the notches, are actuated, besides the
opening and closing motion for seizing and leaving the chenille, with a reciprocating
displacement, in order to take up the chenille after it has passed through the net,
and is supplied by the nipper bars g and h, and carried towards the guide r, and,
after the necessary quantity has been cut by the cutter, to a bodkin through the
openings of the net, and the notches in the net feeder to the centre of the machine,
where the pea or spot is formed, thus after having left the piece of chenille in that
place they are drawn back to let the other parts of the machine do their respective
work.

page_text: The reciprocating motion of the nippers forward and backward is imparted by
the cam 21 of the shaft d; the friction rollor 22, shaft 23, the levers and connecting
rods mentioned above, and represented in the Drawings govern the forward motion
of the cross piece 24 which carries the nippers. The backward motion is produced
by the spring 25, which brings the pieces back into their first position.
As to the opening and closing of the nippers, it is obtained by the plates 26,
which seize in a conveniently inclined groove in the ends of the nippers, compelling
them to approach each other and hold the chenille fast when the said plates are
lowered, while the nippers open freely and drop the chenille as soon as the plates 26
ascend. For ascending and descending the plates 26 are mounted on the ends of
levers 27 of the shaft 28, and participate in its motion, which is determined by the
cam 29 of the shaft d, and a system of levers and connecting rods.
When the chenille has been brought to the centre of the machine and left there
by the nippers 8 it is held in the openings of the net across notches, closed at that
moment by the needles of the bar u*; then the pea or spot is to be formed. Three
parts are employed in this formation; the cap 30, which places itself above cach
piece of chenille, and closes, so to say, the notches, the rods 31, which in ascending,
and by the tendency which they have to approach each other, bend the ends of the
chenille on the edges of the cap 30, and finally, the finishing bars 32, which at the
moment when the net and the net feeder descend, pinch completely the pea or spot,
which is compelled to pass between them.
These bars have also another object. In order to avoid the involuntary dis-
placing of the pieces of chenille before they are bent they come by taking up a
small quantity of chenille to press it under the cap and to secure its position while
facilitating the working of the rods 31, which slide on their outer faces until the
moment they meet the chenille and bend it.
When the net feeder in ascending brings the net into its place the caps 30 aro
above each notch, and remain in that position while the nippers work, in order to
bring the chenille into the notches, and until they are at a sufficient distance to
permit the rods 31 to ascend, and bend the chenille on the edges of the caps,
which are then displaced longitudinally in order to free the half formed peas or
spots. This motion is imparted to one of the bars 33, which bear them by a canı
on the driving shaft b, a friction roller, rod, and a system of levers and connecting
rods. The bar 33 is provided with a tongue 37, which guides it under the tie
picce 38 of the frame.
The rods 31, which bend the peas or spots, are carried on the bars 39, suspended
on the shaft 40, which imparts motion to them by a system of connecting rods,
levers, and springs, which have for their object to give to the rods 31 a tendency
to approach the centre in their motion when rising, and to turn them aside when
they come back to their lower positions. The shaft 40 receives its motion at the
required moment by the cam 41 of the shaft c by the levers 42 and connecting
rods 43, as soon as the cam allows it. The balance weights 44 serve to make
the bars 39 and rods 31 ascend, the whole system being equipoised by the
springs 45.
The notion of the finishing bars 32 to bring them in contact with the chenille
of the caps is imparted to the standards 46, in which are mounted their pins by
the cam 47 of the shaft c, the levers 48, connecting rod 49, and shaft 50. These
standards 46 slide on guides, the same which guide the net feeder and the bars 39
in their motion.
The ascension of the bars 32 on the pins loaves a passage for the net embroidered
with peas or spots between them, but the tendency these bars have to approach
oach other forces the peas or spots to close completely on themselves, and fixes
them in a complete manner to the texture on which they are placed.
In order that the working and operation of the machine may be clearly under-
stood, I have particularly described each part of which it is composed, as well as
those which are directly employed in the formation of the peas or spots, and those
which serve to impart motion to the former. However, it will be readily under-

page_text: stood that the particulars of the construction and combinations of the parts for the
transmission of motion to the machine may be greatly varied without departing
from the essential character of the Invention.
It is evident that the arrangement and construction of the machine herein
described may vary in its general dimensions, as well as in the number and dis-
position of its principal parts, in order to produce with the saine principles of
action a great variety of results.
From the previous description it will be understood that the operation of the
machine has for its object the fixing on to net and other light textures chenillo or
other applications of a similar kind in the form of peas, spots, or balls in the
ornamentation of such textures.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming or carrying the same into practice, I would remark that I do not claim
any of the parts separately, which are well known and in common use, but what I
claim is,
First. The particular arrangement and disposition of the nippers g, h, which act
to feed the chenille as required, substantially as herein described, and represented
in the Drawings annexed.
Second. The arrangement and combination of two blades m, n, m³, n¹, the one
fixed and the other movable, for forming the cutters, substantially as herein-before
described, and represented in the Drawings annexed.
Third. The arrangeinent and combination of rollers t, u, and of the frame which
carries them, together with the mechanism for producing the displacement and
feeding the net, substantially as herein-before described, and represented in the
Drawings annexed.
Fourth. The arrangement and combination of the net feeder v with the bar v*
provided with needles, and the parts giving motion thereto, substantially as heroin-
before described, and represented in the Drawings annexed.
Fifth. The particular arrangement and combination of the nippers 8, which tako
hold of the chenille and introduce it into the net, substantially as herein-before
described, and represented in the Drawings annexed.
Sixth. The arrangement and manner of working of the parts 30, 31, 32, for
finishing the peas or spots, such as the caps, rods for bending and finishing bars, as
well as the machinery imparting motion thereto, substantially in the manner
herein-before described, and represented in the Drawings annexed.
Seventh. The general arrangement and combination of the machine arranged
substantially as herein-before described, and represented in the Drawings annexed,
or any similar modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Pierre Jules Tuquet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
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