IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING OSTRICH AND OTHER FEATHERS
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd March 1871.-A communication from abroad by Adolphe Von
Conring and Emil Voigt, of the Firm of Conring and Voigt, of
Berlin, Prussia.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
MANUFACTURING OSTRICH AND OTHER FEATHERS," a communication to me
from abroad by Adolphe Von Conring and Emil Voigt, of the Firm of
Conring and Voigt, of Berlin, Prussia, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for laying and sewing ostrich,
fancy feathers, and other feathers on the sewing machine with rotating
needle arm, patented by Julius Gutmann, under the No. 2794, and date
of 4th October 1867. It may nevertheless be found applicable to other
sewing machines.
The construction and application of this apparatus are illustrated on
the accompanying Sheets of Drawing forming part of this Provisional
Specification.

page_text: The apparatus consists of two parts, firstly, of a metal plate A (scc
Fig. 1, Sheet 2) with brass rib a, a, and say twenty-two steel pins b, b, b,
fastened to it; the distance between each pair of these pins increasing
or decreasing systematically from one end of the plate to the other;
secondly, of a folding case B (see Figs. 4 and 5, Sheet 2) composed of i
two plates hinged together at d, d. This case is provided with two slits
or slots e, e, to give passage to the steel pins b, with four openings ♪♪,
for the holding pins c, c, with two slotted studs g, 9, and corresponding
openings h, h, and with a spring. The left-hand plato k, k, of the
case B is covered with gutta percha or other suitable material.
The application of the apparatus is as follows:-To make a serviceable
feather from small pieces (such as indicated by c', c', Sheet 3) place the
plate A on a table with the pins & pointing upwards, then lay the folding
ease B on plate A in such a way that the rib a, a, with the pins b, b,
protrudes through the slit e, e, and is kept in position by the pins c, c,
then lay the pieces of feather or feather scraps c', c', hetween the
pins b, b, in the form of a natural feather (see Fig. 6). A piece of wire
or other suitable metal or material is used for the quill of the feather,
its position being determined by the slotted studs g, g.
When the scraps of feather are arranged on the plate, the narrow part :
of the folding case B is closed and fastened by means of the spring i.
The apparatus thus arranged is lifted from the base plate A (see Figs. 7
and S) and placed on the plate of a Gutman's Patent sewing machine
with rotating needle bar (see Figs. 1 and 2, Sheet 1), being placed in
such a manner on the two rollers m, m, and between the two guides n, n,
that both needle holes of the pressing down spring, which for easier
motion is provided with a roller, passes over the quills of the feathers in
the slit of the apparatus. This being done the sewing by cross-stitch,
as seen in the Drawing, can commence.