IMPROVE- MENTS IN RIBBON LOOMS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN RIBBON LOOMS."-A communication from Francisque
David, residing at St. Etienne, in the Empire of France, afore-
said.
Sealed the 21st July 1868, and dated the 28th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 28th January 1868.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, 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 Francisque David, a person
resident at St. Etienne, in the Empire of France, aforesaid, to be as
follows:-

page_text: The Invention communicated to me relates to an improvement in
the battens of looms capable of weaving several double pieces of velvet
at the same time, and consists in adding to the two ordinary straight
shuttles two circular shuttles, by means of which figuring or embossment
is obtained. This batten is not ascensional, and the two circular
shuttles are placed one above the straight upper shuttle, and the other
below the straight lower shuttle, and the mechanism which actuates
them is combined with that of the straight shuttles, so that the upper
circular shuttle passes in the upper opening of the warp at the same time
as the straight upper shuttle, and the lower circular shuttle passes in the
lower opening of the warp at the same time as the straight lower shuttle.
To this effect behind the batten a rod is placed vertically carrying two
pinions gearing in on one side with a rack on the back part of the
straight shuttles, and on another side with a sliding ruler, which may
be moved horizontally. When the ruler is drawn by the ordinary
organs of the loom the vertical rod turns, and the shuttles are actuated
at the same time. In order to actuate the circular shuttles the rod is
furnished at top and at bottom with a muffle carrying a pinion with
oblique teeth gearing in with a rack on the back part of the said
shuttles, and another pinion with straight teeth actuated by a sliding
ruler similar to the first. When the passage of the circular shuttles
between the warp is necessary the sliding ruler is drawn like the first
by the ordinary organs of the loom, and the muffles turn for the
simultaneous passage of the said shuttles without the rod, which only
serves as a guide and prop of these muffles being subjected to this
movement.
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 22nd July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI 3
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 10,
Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue
du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her
special license, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, 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
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN RIBBON Looмs," a communication from
Francisque David, a person resident at St. 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 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.
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 Invention communicated to me and represented in the accom-
panying Drawings relates to an improvement in the battens of looms
capable of weaving several double pieces of velvet at the same time,
and consists in adding to the two ordinary straight shuttles two circular
shuttles, by means of which figuring or embossment is obtained. This
batten is not ascensional, and the two circular shuttles are placed one
above the straight upper shuttle and the other below the straight lower
shuttle, and the mechanism which actuates them is combined with that
of the straight shuttles so that the upper circular shuttle passes in the
upper opening of the warp at the same time as the straight upper
shuttle, and the lower circular shuttle passes in the lower opening of
the warp at the same time as the straight lower shuttle. To this effect

page_text: behind the batten a rod a, viewed isolated Fig. 4, is placed vertically on
each foot crank A, carrying two pinions b, b, gearing in with a rack
on the back part of the straight shuttles B, B', and another pinion 6³
gearing in with a sliding ruler C, which may be moved horizontally.
When the ruler is drawn by the ordinary organs of the loom the vertical
rod turns, and the shuttles are actuated at the same time. In order to
actuate the circular shuttles D, D', the rod is furnished at top and at
bottom with a muffle carrying a pinion with oblique teeth g, g', viewed
isolated, Fig. 5, gearing in with a rack on the back part of the said
shuttles D, D', and another pinion with straight teeth 1, I', actuated
by a sliding ruler similar to the first, C1, C2. When the passage of
the circular shuttles between the warp is necessary the sliding ruler is
drawn like the first by the ordinary organs of the loom, and the muffles
turn for the simultaneous passage of the said shuttles without the rod,
which only serves as a guide and prop of these muffies, being subjected
to this movement.
This mechanical disposition is eminently practical, simple, and
inexpensive. It is possible also to combine a system of hooks causing
the said straight and circular shuttles to fly by means of a mechanism
analogous to that used in hook batten looms, as shown in the Figs. 6,
7, and 8, of the Drawings. A double pointed hook m causes the two
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straight shuttles to fly, actuated as it is by the sliding ruler n.
lower extremity of the hook travels in the groove of the piece P, shown
apart in Fig. 7, by following the course of this groove the hook
engages or disengages itself from the shuttle as needs be. The hook
consequently oscillates on the rod r, which answers the purpose of a
hinge. The circular shuttles are actuated each by a mere rod working
by the same means as those just above described in respect to the double
hook by the sliding ruler S, S. The hinge is on the rod t, t, and the
hooking and unhooking of these rods from the shuttles take place at
the point u, and are operated by a metal plate elbowed at its two
extremities, which is caught by a notch furnished to each hook.
The back part of these circular shuttles carries two notches, in which
the hooks place or withdraw themselves according to the requirements
of the working of these shuttles, the straight shuttles are also furnished
with two holes to the same effect, in which the tips of the double hook
sink, and are withdrawn.
Having thus fully described the nature of the said Invention, and

page_text: the manner of carrying the same into effect, what I claim is, the
improvements in ribbon looms substantially as herein-before fully set
forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Eighth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)