IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDERS SUITABLE FOR FOLDING OR MAKING UP RIBBON VELVETS FOR THE MARKET
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Wright Ewer, of Old Change, Cheapside,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDERS
SUITABLE FOR FOLDING OR MAKING UP RIBBON VELVETS FOR THE MARKET."
Sealed the 31st January 1868, and dated the 7th September 1867.

page_text: the bulk of the roll, and I make them of material which is sufficiently yielding
and so light that the pile of the velvet wound upon them may not be crushed.
I take for this purpose a strip of a flexible material, cardboard is the most
suitable, and I double on itself so as to make two open and rounded ends at a
suitable distance apart, and in between these ends I cement the folds of
cardboard or material together; in this way a thin central rib is produced
which does not appreciably increase the size of the roll, and the ends are
sufficiently broad, rounded, and yielding not to injure the pile of the fabric.
Such winders may however be otherwise produced, and it is not essential that
the central part of the winder should be narrower than the ends, but it is
convenient as goods pack into a smaller space.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Wright Ewer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WRIGHT EWER, of Old Change, Cheapside, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Wright Ewer, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Wright
Ewer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Wright Ewer, 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
WINDERS SUITABLE FOR FOLDING OR MAKING UP RIBBON VELVETS FOR THE MARKET,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Wright Ewer, 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 per-
formed, 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.

page_text: At the present time ribbon velvets are folded or made up for sale by winding
the fabric up upon itself thus
into a long roll with
rounded ends; this method of folding or making up however involves the
injury of much of the material, as at the interior of the roll each turn or bend
produces a blemish in the velvet. Now according to my Invention in place of
winding or doubling the ribbon velvet on itself I employ winders with ends
rounded so as to avoid the production of the sudden bends in the fabric from
which the blemishes result. I so form these winders that they do not
appreciably increase the bulk of the roll, and I make them of material which
is sufficiently yielding and so light that the pile of the velvet wound upon them
may not be crushed. I take for this purpose a strip of a flexible material,
cardboard is the most suitable, and I double it on itself so as to make two
open and rounded ends at a suitable distance apart, and in between these ends
I cement the folds of cardboard or material together; in this way a thin
central rib
produced which does not appreciably increase the size of the
roll, and the ends are sufficiently broad, rounded, and yielding not to injure
the pile of the fabric. Such winders may however be otherwise produced, and
it is not essential that the central part of the winder should be narrower
than the ends, but it is convenient as the goods pack into a smaller space.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 is a side view of a ribbon velvet
winder constructed in the manner which I prefer. It consists of a strip of
cardboard of the width of the velvet to be wound or slightly narrower. The
ends of this strip, as is shown, are bent round and glued or cemented to the
central portion of the strip so as to form a sufficiently stiff central rib
extending from a to b in the Drawings. In bending the strip of cardboard
care is taken not to produce a sharp end to the winder, but an easily rounded
end, such as the Drawing represents. The reel or winding apparatus carries
two pins or studs, which receive the winder upon them, the pins or studs
entering into the open ends of the winder. The pins or studs when the

page_text: inding apparatus is at work are carried 'round with an axis-from which they
e equidistant, and the velvet which is supplied to them by land labor is in
way wound on the winder into a roll. It is preferred to wind the velvet'
ouble with the pile face to face.
Lis
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Wright Ewer, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of March, in, the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
RICHARD WRIGHT EWER. (L.S.)".