Patent GB-190123513-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Cloth Laying, Measuring, Cutting and Folding or Doubling Machine.
Inventor: AUSPITZER FRANZ
Filed: 1901-11-20
Granted: 1902-11-20
Abstract: 23,513. Auspitzer, F. Nov. 20. Folding, packing, and measuring.-Fabrics are laid or folded on a table 56, and are cut off and measured, and after wards doubled or made up into packages which are finally inserted into a carriage, and thus conveyed from the apparatus. The fabric is laid in folds on the table by a traversing carriage 105 carrying an oscillating frame 108 consisting of two slotted bars 109, 110, connected by side pieces, the carriage and frame being provided with wheels or rolls which move on guide-rails. At each end of the frame-track are turning-bars 114, by which the frame is turned into the vertical position, with one of the slitted bars at the bottom, and the other at the top. The fabric is fed to the frame over a bar 3 and under a casing 71, mounted on arms 70, and a " touching " bar 69, and thence over the shaft 5, and the rolls 121 and 83. The carriage is traversed by a chain 26, and at each end of its traverse arms 324 on oscillating shafts enter the slit in the lower bar, and engage with the fabric, which they press into a recess in one of the vertically-movable holding-jaws 118 at each end of the apparatus, the fold being thus held while the carriage returns to lay another fold. In case it is desired to lay the folds so that at one end the upper folds project in succession over the lower ones, and, at the other end, recede, the folds are laid on a frame having an apron at the top, the frame being moved a step to the right after each fold is laid on. The fabric on being laid may be caused to pass over a bar by which it is stretched. The length of fabric is measured by a dial on a pinion which moves before a fixed finger, the pinion being connected with the carriage mechanism so as to be moved a step for each fold. Means may be also provided in connection with this measuring-apparatus, by which the folding or laying apparatus is thrown out of gear when a certain length of fabric is folded, the cutting- apparatus by which the folded piece is severed from the remainder being then thrown into gear. The cutting-apparatus consists of sliding cutting- blades in the bars 3 and casing 71, that in the bar 3 being pushed forward or transversely by rack-andpinion &c. mechanism, and that in the bar 71 being drawn towards the other by hooks which engage with pins or rollers on its carrying-slide. The mechanism by which tLe cutting-apparatus is actuated consists of an arrangement of clutch, eccentric, and rack-and-pinion &c. gearing which is operated from the motor shaft. When the fabric is cut, or when the complete length is run off, the " touch- " ing " bar 69 falls and serves to throw the folding or doubling apparatus into gear. The folded and measured fabric is doubled by being gripped at the middle by side hooks or arms which pull it down through a slit in the middle of the table. While thus held vertically, it is again doubled transversely by a horizontal blade, which abuts against the middle of the fabric and pushes it into a carriage in which it is held by arms while the blade is being withdrawn. The carriage then falls into a vertical position, and transmits the doubled or folded bale into another carriage, by which it is transferred from the apparatus. The mechanism is adapted to put the various parts of the apparatus into and out of gear automatically.