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The grip to be grafted of Mr Paul Alliès,
Knight of the Agricultural Merit

This instrument, sometimes called grip to bind, was invented about 1886, at the time or the phylloxera prevailed in our vineyards. The necessary operation of grafting on American young vines, resistant to this disease, was delicate and tiresome. With their method, the to obtain a satisfying rate of success. Also Mr ALLIED ( of his true first name), cutler of trade to NOBLE VALLEY, had it engineering to invent a powerful instrument with their use. Its principle is to maintain in place the graft on the new stock by coating the point with Clerc's Office with a stopper split in its length, thus leaving the freehands to bind the unit.

The tool consists of an assembly of 32 parts. It was manufactured around fifty per week with most extremely of the request, and approximately 1000 parts a year. Paul Alliès created in particular a machine able to split 5000 stoppers per hour, and thus to provide material of coating ready with employment. The family wire-drawing mill provided also the fine wire reheats necessary to the binding.

Detail of the handling: One positions the half-stoppers in the jaws fitted with two barbs to maintain them in place, then one completely encloses the point of Clerc's Office in the length of cork (strongly recommended English Clerc's Office). Compression is maintained with the rack located at the bottom of the handles; the can then release his hands and insert three wires annealings of 15 cm in the openwork parties of the jaws, then to twist them end of the fingers around the stopper. This technique limits the duration of the operation to less than one minute for an experienced . The yarn rusts and breaks naturally between 6 and nths. According to an advertisement of the time, “the Clerc's Office-Stopper gives 90 to 98% of success; perfect weldings and without pad…” 0n could directly graft on foot, or of course table by choosing a model to be fixed.

This grip manufactured until 1986 per Mr. WAS COMBINED, postpones grandson of the inventor, certainly in less quantity than at the beginning of the century. It should be noted that this tool is very nowadays often confused with a grip to incise; this short article was thus to restore a truth and to carry in that of the regards to its designer.

I thank ALLIED Mrs who me pleasantly and passionately reported the technical sides and histories of this wine instrument closely related to the inheritance of her family.

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