IN- PROVEMENTS IN FOLDING OR WINDING UP WEFT, TWIST, GIMP, GALLOON, AND RIBBON, LACE, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN BOXES IN CONNECTION THERE WITH "
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Claude François Boutherin, Merchant, of No. 82,
Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, France, for the Invention of "IN-
PROVEMENTS IN FOLDING OR WINDING UP WEFT, TWIST, GIMP, GALLOON,
AND RIBBON, LACE, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN BOXES IN CONNECTION
THERE WITH
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Claude François
Boutherin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th November 1872.
I, CLAUDE FRANÇOIS BOUTHERIN, Merchant, of No. 82, Boulevard
Sébastopol, Paris, France, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FOLDING OR WINDING UP WEFT, TWIST, GIMP,
GALLOON, AND RIBBON, LACE, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN BOXES IN CONNECTION
THEREWITH," to be as follows :—
Up to the present time the articles alluded to are wound horizontally
and in parallel lines, each end being secured by an elastic or other band
or cord passing round the whole material so as to keep each turn or roll
of the material secure. The disadvantage of this system is that it is

page_text: difficult to unroll from the piece the desired quantity without precaution,
otherwise the material becomes twisted and consequently injured, and
should the piece be long it becomes entangled. These drawbacks are
obviated by winding the material in a helical manner, or from a parallel
winding to that of the figure 8, that is to say, that the ribbon or
otherwise does not pass over the ends of the roll until it has crossed in
the centre. The system is completed by fixing the material in a card-
board box specially constructed, and so arranged that there is no waste
room, the box being in just proportion to the size of the roll of material.
One end of the box is open to allow of the passage of the material, and
by drawing out the end it unwinds systematically and without any
possibility of entanglement, and the box being quite closed when the
material is once placed therein it is kept free from injury, from exposure
or other causes of deterioration, one or two openings covered with glass
being made in the top for inspecting the nature of and quality of the
substance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Claude François Boutherin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLAUDE
FRANÇOIS BOUTHERIN, Merchant, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol,
Paris, France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two,
in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Claude François Boutherin,
Her special license that I, the said Claude François Boutherin, my exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Claude
François Boutherin, 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
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FOLDING OR WINDING UP WEFT, TWIST, GIMP,
GALLOON, AND RIBBON, LACE, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN BOXES IN CONNECTION

page_text: THEREWITH," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Claude
François Boutherin, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my or 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Claude François Boutherin, 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 :—
Up to the present time the articles referred to are wound horizontally
and in parallel lines, as shown by Figures 1ª and 1b, each end C, D, being
secured, by an elastic or other band or cord E, F, passing round the
whole material so as to keep each turn or roll of the material secure.
The disadvantage of this system is, that it is difficult to unroll from the
piece the desired quantity without precaution, otherwise the material
becomes twisted and consequently injured, and should the piece be long
it becomes entangled. These drawbacks are obviated by winding up
the material in a helical manner or from a parallel winding to that of
the figure 8, that is to say, that the ribbon or otherwise does not pass
over the ends of the roll until it has crossed in the centre. The system
is completed by fixing the material in a cardboard box specially con-
structed and so arranged that there is no waste room, the box being in
just proportion to the size of the roll of material. One end of the box
is open to allow of the passage of the material, and by drawing out
one end of it it unwinds systematically without any possibility of en-
tanglement, and the box being quite closed when the material is once
placed therein, it is kept free from injury from exposure or other causes
of deterioration, one or two openings G covered with glass being made
in the top for inspecting the nature and quality of the substance.
Figure 2 represents my system of winding. It will be observed that
instead of a parallel winding it takes the form of the figure 8, that is
to say, that the material crosses at H before passing over the axes C¹, D'.
Figure 3 is a plan of the cardboard box; Figure 4 is a top view of
the same; Figure 5 is a side view, I being the opening from which
the material is withdrawn.

page_text: Having thus described my Invention, what I claim and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is, the helical system of winding up weft,
twist, gimp, galloon, and similar articles, in conjunction with the box
herein-before described, the two being inseparable and indispensable one
. to the other.
In witness whereof, I, the said Claude François Boutherin, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
E. HÉBRÉ.
CLAUDE FRANÇOIS BOUTHERIN. (L.S.)