IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN WEAVING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT 10 Eugene Mouline. of Vals, in the Department of
Ardeche, in the Empire of France, Silk Merchant, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN WEAVING."
Sealed the 18th November 1862. and dated the 23rd May 1862.
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugene Mouline at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
May 1862.
1, EUGENE MOULINE, of Vals, in the Department of Ardeche, in the Empire
of France, Silk Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the lavention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN WEAVING," to be as follows:--
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used in giving
the requisite to-and-fro motion to shuttles used in weaving." For this purpose
I employ a permanent horse-shoe magnet mounted on a carriage; this carriage
runs on guides parallel with the direction in which the shuttle is to be moved;
the carriage is caused to move to and fro on its guides by means of an endless
chain; which is supported by two chain wheels; these chain wheels turn on
horizontal axes, and are placed on opposite sides of the loom. A constant
rotary motion is given to one of these chain wheels, and the chain is thus
caused constantly to travel, the upper portion of the chain moving in one
direction, and the lower portion in the opposite direction. On the carriage is
a vertical slide, on the upper and lower edge of which are projections, which,
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page_text: by moving the slide, can alternately be made to enter the spaces of the upper
or under portion of the chain, and the carriage can thus be moved in either
direction. The slide is moved to effect the requisite change of motion of the
carriage, each time that the carriage has arrived at one end of its course, by a
projection on the slide coming against a fixed stop on the framing of the
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loom, by which the slide will either be moved up or down as required.
magnet is mounted vertically on the carriage with the poles uppermost, and
immediately over the magnet is a thin metal plate by preference of copper or
brass, which runs from side to side of the loom, and upon this plate the shuttle
rests and travels.
The outer side of each pole of the magnet is raised, and is brought
to an edge, which is at right angles to the length of the brass plate, and
as the magnet is moved to and fro, these edges rub against the under side
of the brass plate; the shuttle is provided near each of its ends with a hollow
roller composed of thin steel, and the shuttle rests and runs on these rollers;
when the shuttle is in its position over the magnet, one of the rollers comes
over one edge of the magnet and the other roller over the other edge, the
distance between the axes of the rollers being equal to the distance between
the edges of the poles of the magnet. As the carriage carrying the magnet
is moved to and fro, the magnet draws along with it the shuttle, and thus
causes it to travel to and fro.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Eugene Mouline in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, EUGENE
MOULINE of Vals, in the Department of Ardeche, in the Empire of France,
Silk Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did. for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Eugene Mouline. Her special licence that 1. the said Eugene
Mouline, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other as !,
the said Eugene Mouline, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might

page_text: 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
GENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN WEAVING." upon the condition (amongst others),
that 1, the said Eugene Mouline. my executors or administrators. by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Oflice within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Eugene Mouline, 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 state-
cut, that is to say:-
My improvements consist. first, in replacing the electric magnet, which
draws the shuttle in looms in which magnetism is employed, by an ordinary
magnet.
Secondly, in the manner of arranging the magnet, so as to act on the
shuttle.
And, thirdly, in the construction of the shuttle.
It is of importance that the two ends of the magnet should be diamond-
shaped, or terminate in points distant from one another equal to the distance
the small wheels on the shuttle are apart. in order to apply the magnetic
action to them with the greatest possible intensity, the principal effect of the
magnet being to cause the small wheels to turn. which action draws the shuttle.
Instead of cutting the ends of the magnet diamond-shaped, the ends may
be mounted with bars of soft iron having edges or points corresponding with
the small wheels, which wheels should be made of soft iron, and constructed
very light. The axes of the wheels and the body of the shuttle should also be
of iron, so that the whole of this iron shuttle being polarized by the action of
the magnet may be submitted to the greatest possible attraction.
This Invention will be understood by referring to the figures and letters on
the accompanying sheet of Drawings, which represents a front elevation of
part of a loom having my improvements attached. The magnet is shewn at a;
it is attached to a travelling support or carriage b, having wheels c, so that it
can move to and fro from one end to the other on the bar d. The carriage b
is drawn by an endless chain c, moved always in the same direction by the
pulley, or the handle g, but giving the carriage the necessary alternate
Movement. On the carriage there is a groove h, having in it a bolt i, which
penetrates into a link of the chain first above and then below, so that the

page_text: carriage shall be drawn first one way and then the other, as indicated by the
arrows. The bolt is shifted alternately by the springs h. 1. placed at the two
ends of the apparatus. The carriage may be linked alternately to the upper
and lower part of the chain by any mechanical means suitable for changing
the direction of the carriage without concussion. The shuttle runs on a thin
copper rod, held in a frame capable of being raised or lowered as required.
and the magnet projects beyond the frame, so that it shall always be in
contact with the copper rod, and constantly maintain the magnetic action.
Small grains or pieces of copper are placed on the ends of the axes of the
wheels of the shuttle in order to prevent the shuttle boards from rubbing
against the body of the shuttle; but any other arrangement may be employed
for this purpose.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim, in looms for weaving,
First, the employment of an ordinary magnet for moving the shuttle to and
fro, instead of an electric magnet.
Secondly, the method of arranging the magnet with or without its mounting
of iron bars.
And, thirdly, the peculiar mode of constructing the shuttle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugene Mouline, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
EUG. MOULINE. (L.S.)