Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Measuring, Marking, Folding, and Winding or Packaging Paper, Cloth, and similar Fabrics or Materials.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 24th June, 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by THE FABRIC MEASURING AND PACKAGING COMPANY,
of the City and State of New York, United States of America.]
Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Measuring, Marking,
Folding, and Winding or Packaging Paper, Cloth, and similar
Fabrics or Materials.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake and Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement
This invention relates to a machine intended to measure cloth, paper and similar
fabrics, with accuracy, and to register the measure upon it; and to plicate or fold the
cloth lengthwise of the web, and then to wind it into a smooth compact package, thus
by a series of combined automatic and co-operating movements, finishing the package
complete at a single operation, the said plicating mechanism being adapted to be
removed without affecting the complete operation of the other part.
In this machine the fabric is not stretched before measuring and registering, but is
simply straightened or flattened out, that it may lie smooth to measure correctly: hut
in the subsequent processes of plication and winding, the cloth can be subjected to
any degree of stretching required for efficient plication, and for making a smooth and
compact passage.
Also the cloth, after entering, unstretched, through the straightening bars, herein-
after described, is drawn over a platform. or over a very light and ossil rotated

page_text: Figure 2 is an elevation of one side of the machine in operation.
Figure 3 is an elevation of one end of the machine as seen in operation.
Figure 4 is a top view of a part of the winding mechanism as driven by gearing.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 4.
Figure 6 is a section on the line of figures 4 and 5.
Figure 7 is a top view of part of the winding mechanism.
Figure 8 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 7.
Figure 9 represents a detached portion of one end of the measuring cylinder.
Figure 10 represents a section on the line ve, figure 9.
Figure 11 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the machine, taken on the 1
line X of figure 1, shewing details of the register and of a dial mechanism.
Figure 12 is a horizontal sectional view, taken upon line Y, figure 2, showing
details of a speed-regulator between the actuating roll and the measuring roll.
Figure 13 is a side elevation of said regulator.
Figure 14 is a side elevation of a portion of the registering mechanism.
Figure 15 is a sectional view of the registering mechanism taken upon line Z,
figure 14 showing details.
Figure 16 is a sectional view of a part of the registering mechanism, taken upon
line V figure 15.
Figure 17 is a diagram of a part of the registering mechanism, showing the
operation of the samic.
Figure 18 is a view of a detail of the means for releasing the registering mechanism,
and allowing it to return to zero.
Figure 19 is a view of another detail of the registering mechanism.
Figure 20 is a side elevation of the machine as adapted for measuring, registering,
and winding only without folding lengthwise.
Figure 21 is a bottom view of the ink fountain showing the Wallower-roll in dotted
lines and its ratchet, with the pawl for turning the ratchet.
Figure 22 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 21.
Figure 23 is a vertical sectional view on line PP, figures 1 and 2 looking toward
the base of the plicater, and showing so much of the plicater, its slide, and adjusting
screw, as appear in that view.
Figure 24 is a vertical sectional view on line PP, figures 1 and 2 looking toward
the apex of the plicater, showing as much of the side bars, fingers, and smoothing roll
as appear in that view.
Figure 25 is a top view of the side bars of the plicator.
Figure 26 is a view in elevation of the base of the side bars shown in figure 25.
Figure 27 is a view in elevation of one side of the side bars shown in figure 25.
Figure 28 is a view in plan of the fingers disconnected from the side bars.
Figure 29 is an elevation of the base of the fingers shown in figure 28.
Figure 30 represents a side elevation of a portion of the rear end of the smoothing
roll, and of its shaft, a fragment of the upper part of the carriage, a stud projecting
from the top of the carriage, and a block attached to the shaft and having an eye
formed in it to hang on the stud and form a hinge.
Figure 31 represents a side elevation of a portion of the front end of the smoothing
roll and its shaft, with a bracket having a swivel joint, and sliding on a cross bar of
the frame of the machine.
Figure 32 represents an elevation looking from the end of the machine, of the
parts seen in the last named figure.
Figure 33 represents in elevation a fragment of one of the series of pressure rolls
and of its connections detached.
Figure 34 represents in section at line A A, of figure 33, showing the manner in
which the two halves of the roller are hung upon studs projecting from the opposite
sides of a common rocking arm.
Figure 35 is a side elevation of one form of dial detached, with parts of its
connection, and of the frame of the machine.
Figure 36 is a section at the line N figure 15, of the annular cam which through a

page_text: Tever and pawls shown in figures 14, 15, 17, actuates the type wheels, showing its
spring-box, spring-friction rubber, and the retractor spring for returning the type
carrier or disc to its zero position, which at one end is connected with the spring-
rubber, and at the other end with the type-carrier.
Figure 37 shows one of the type-wheels with its ring of integer-types, the cover of
its spring-box being removed, to show the retractive friction-spring with a rubber
formed on it to produce the requisite friction, by giving the spring a peculiar
conformation or bend at its outer end to bear against the surface of the wheel with
the requisite force, to steady the types and return them to the zero position, when the
registry of one piece of cloth is finished, preparatory to beginning the registry of
another piece.
Figure 38 represents a similar view to that shown in figure 37, in which the
spring has a piece of felt, brass, or other suitable substance to form a brake-shoe,
attached near its outer end, to form a rubber to bear against the surface of the wheel
and produce friction.
Figure 39 represents a view of the inside of the cap of the spring-box detached,
with a seat formed on its hub for the ratchet wheel.
Figure 40 is a side elevation of one of the rings on which the types for the units
of the integer figures of the registry numbers are formed, the ring being removed
from the wheel to which it is fitted, and is to be held in place by set screws, as shown
in figure 16.
Figure 41 is a like view of the ring on which the types for the tens integer
figures of the registry numbers are formed.
Figure 42 is a view of the details of the conical pin for fastening one end of the
steadying-friction and retractor spring to the shaft or which the type wheel turns
freely, the other end of the spring being connected to this wheel by the friction of
contact and pressure against the surface of the wheel.
Figure 43 is the plan of a double driving pawl for the units ratchet-wheel and for
the tens ratchet-wheel.
Figure 44 is a side elevation of the double pawl shown in figure 43.
Figure 45 is a front elevation of the type-wheels, with the bracket in which they
are mounted, showing more fully the hinged zero pawls, and the zero pins of these
wheels.
Figure 46 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 45.
Figure 47 is a top view of the rocking-cam-collar of the printing movement.
Figure 48 is a vertical section upon an enlarged scale of a part of the outer por-
tions of the printing mechanism, mounted upon the shaft of the cylinder and on the
frame, shown in the same sectional view upon a smaller scale, in figure 15.
Figure 49 shows a plan and two edge elevations of the clutch spring.
Figure 50 is a side elevation of a portion of one end of a machine having a slightly
different frame to which the improved stop motion and counter are attached.
Figure 51 is a front elevation of the same.
Figure 52 is a plan view of the same.
Figures 53 and 54 are perspective views of the front portions of the machine
showing respectively the fabric on a platform suspended from a rod on the frame and
upon a roll similarly suspended.
Figure 55 is a side view of a fabric-carrying carriage mounted on wheels and pro-
vided with means for moving it laterally.
Figure 56 is a horizontal section of the sleeve, ratchet-wheel and clutch to operate
the dial shown in figures 50 and 52.
Figure 57 is a vertical section of the same.
Figure 5S is a top view of the same.
Figure 59 is a front view of a portion of the machine provided with an inclined
platform as support for the fabric.
In this machine two side frames T are provided, which being properly secured
together by stays and bolts, carry the various mechanisms hereinafter described,

page_text: including the measuring, registering, plicating, and packaging mechanisms, with their
connections complete, and also the driving gear or pulleys by which power is applied
and the machine caused to operate.
The measuring cylinder A whose circumference is made equal to a given length,
generally one unit of the desired measure, is made as light as is consistent with the
requisite strength, rigidity, and durability. The surface is roughened sufficiently to
prevent the cloth from slipping thereon, and the whole is made to turn as lightly as
possible.
The fabric to be operated upon is placed or wound upon a roll R, upon brackets
projecting from the frame, or laid in a pile P upon a platform, arranged below the
brackets for supporting the roll. The path of the fabric through the machine is shown
by the dotted line b, c, Figure 2. The cloth passes between the smoothing bars and
over the measuring cylinder to be measured, and thence passes to the actuating
cylinder B, and having already been measured and printed, it is apparent that what-
ever resistance the actuating cylinder B may offer to its forward movement will in
no case affect the measurement. Upon the actuating cylinder B, therefore, the cloth
is drawn with sufficient stress to turn it with its load.
The measuring and the actuating cylinders I have constructed of various materials
and in different ways; but I prefer to make these cylinders by taking small steel
cylindrical shafts S, figures 9, 11, and mounting thereon a series of light narrow-rimmed
cast iron wheels a, and securing to the rims of these wheels a series of narrow
parallel wooden lags a, figures 9, 10, arranged near together but not in contact
tight enough to crowd each other; so that even under the influence of changes of
atmosphere, or other causes, from which there is alternately a small expansion and
contraction of the lags, they shall severally have room enough for such changes of
volume without affecting the adjacent lags; thus preventing the aggregation of these
changes, and thereby avoiding sensible change in the circumference of the cylinder,
which would affect the measurement of the goods. The practical separation of the
lags, by preventing cumulative expansion, prevents, also, the rending or detachment
of the flexible covering by which the lags are enveloped.
I have found these lags to work well when made of straight grained white pine,
about one half inch square. They are attached to the wheels by screws a figures 9
and 10, forming a cylinder, which should be turned straight and to a uniform diameter.
The sand-paper a, is cut in lengths and attached to the lag on which its ends meet,
by small nails, and if deemed necessary, owing to the want of strength in the paper,
nails may be driven in several of the intermediate lags.
The end of the cloth b, c being taken from the feeding roll or pile, may be spread
upon a feed table ds, and passed under a stationary guide rod D, and trip rail, and
through between a pair of smoothing rods, consisting of a bearing rod d', and swinging
rod d, and a guide bar d³, figures I, 2, and 11. The bearing rod d' is supported at
the ends in journals in the frame T of the machine, so that it may be turned therein,
and provided with a ratchet do, and spring catch do, to hold it in any desired position.
Near the ends of the bearing rod d', are arms which carry the swinging rod d; the
cloth passes between the bearing and swinging rods, and by the position of the swinging
rod is deflected more or less from the direct line, and the wrinkles or slack places
smoothed out, and then passes over the guide bar d³, which brings it again in line
with the surface of the measuring cylinder A, and actuating cylinder B. The cloth
being thus straightened without stretching passes directly to the measuring cylinder.
over one end of which it may hang sufficiently to permit the proper action of the
printing mechanism.
To ensure proper contact between the cloth and the measuring cylinder in some
cases a series of short independent pressure rolls a¹, Figure 1, are provided. These
pressure rolls run free and loose upon their bearings, so that they may accommodate
themselves to inequalities or irregularities of the fabric. For the same reason they
are made short, and separated so that each may revolve with the actual surface velocity
of the cloth at its point of contact; although when the cloth varies in thickness of

page_text: length in different parts, no two of the pressure rolls may happen to have equal speed
at the same instant; yet they will hold the cloth in contact with the measuring cylinder
and leave it free to travel smoothly and without slip or inequality.
The pressure rolls a run freely upon suitable shafts carried by swinging arms a³,
which swing loosely upon a shaft a. The proper amount of pressure is given to the
rolls by means of springs a³, regulated by adjusting screws a Figure 11.
While inserting the first end of the fabric into the machine, these rolls are raised,
and may be severally hooked up out of the way, by means of latches at, or they
may be held up collectively by means of a hand lever a, and one of the latches a*.
When the fabric is entered, the latches of the rolls are immediately tripped to
permit them to act upon it. The hinge of the latch a' is fitted with a stop lug a¹³ to
mect a projection of the frame, to arrest its descent after the rolls are detached, at the
proper level to re-engage with the catches of the swinging arms a², when the rolls are
again raised; and another stop lug a, to prevent the latch a from being thrown over
when disengaged.
The surfaces of the pressure rolls may be covered with felt, rubber, or other soft
substance.
From the measuring cylinder the fabric passes direct to the actuating cylinder in
figures 1, 2 and 11.
A stationary table or bench may be provided, just below the line of travel of the
cloth, and securely supported by the frame of the machine.
The mechanism for passing the fabric through the machine, performs its work without
the aid of the marking mechanism, leaving the latter free to be adjusted at any point
in the length of a piece of fabric, or turned back to zero, and started afresh to measure
off another portion, and so divide the piece into two or more separate parts. When
the marking mechanism is thus relieved of the work of carrying the cloth forward, it
may be made far lighter and more sensitive.
The marking mechanism consists of a series of types bearing the desired numbers
or marks, and arranged at proper intervals upon the edge of a wheel or on the ends
of the arms of a disc C, figures 11 and 14. The circular path travelled by the faces
of the types when in position for printing is equal in length to the unit of measure,
and said types are carried in their revolution by a shaft, while the process of measuring
is in operation. But when the measurement is concluded, the connection with this
shaft is broken and the disc returns automatically to the initial of zero point. One of
the arms carries the type, representing the integers of measurement; the other arms
are provided with sockets in which are secured the types, showing the fractions, such
as one fourth, one half, three fourths, or any especial private mark or imprint
desired. On the arm which carries the integer types are two or more type wheels, for
printing the integral numbers of yards consecutively from zero upwards, the fractions
of each yard being printed consecutively between the integers. Each of these type
wheels is provided with a propelling, and retaining, mechanism to move it forward so
as to place, and retain, each type in succession in its proper position to print the
measure on the fabric, and springs are connected with the type wheels to return them
to their zero points, after one web has been measured, so as to be in their proper places
to begin measuring another web.
The type carrier consists of a disc which has a long hub and is mounted loosely upon
the shaft of the measuring cylinder, and has also four or more radial arms, all but one
of which carry types 37, to print the fractions; or symbols while the other arm carries
in a bracket co, the types to print the integers, of the measurement. This disc is held
in its several positions by friction produced by pressing concave and convex
surfaces c, c, together with force enough to produce the requisite adhesion. When
such pressure is released, the disc will have its arms carried back to the zero point by
the retractile action of a spring 20, one end of which is attached to the disc, and the
other, by frictional contact, to a convenient fixed part of the machine; in the example
shown in the drawing, the fixed cam es. The disc mounted, as described, loosely upon
a shaft, carries one of the surfaces of the friction clutch, in this case the convex e
the other, a concave surface c, being secured to the shaft of the measuring cylinder.

page_text: The faces of the types mounted on the arms of the disc C, when in position for
printing, are, if desired, at the same radial distance from the centre of the cylinder
shaft, as the surface of the measuring cylinder. The type are caused to revolve by
the clutch 2, 3, upon the shaft of the measuring cylinder while the process of
measuring a piece of goods is going on. But when the measurement of a piece is
concluded, the driving contact, of the surfaces of the clutch, is broken, and the arms
with their types return to the zero point. The arms which carry the fraction types
are provided at their outer ends with sockets in which are secured types e, denoting
fractions on,,, either with or without any other mark; such, for example as
or such marks may be substituted for the fractions themselves. The type for marking
the integers are arranged upon two or more small rings 5, c, cach having the
numerals from 0 to 9, both inclusive, and by the combined action of these wheels all
of the numbers from 1 upwards may be successively printed.
When but two type wheels are used to print from 0 to 99, inclusive, it is obvious
that it will be better to omit the nought from the tens wheel so as not to print it in
front of the units from 0 to 9 inclusive.
The type wheel c¹, is made to revolve freely upon a fixed shaft c³, and caused to
revolve by means of a ratchet c', actuated by a driving pawl c³, and retained in
position by a retaining pawl c. One notch of this ratchet is cut deeper than the
rest so that when the driving pawl acts thereon it shall fall nearer to the shaft than
when acting upon the other teeth The other type wheel, is furnished with a
simple ratelet e³, (preferably of smaller diameter, so that when the driving pawls are
both engaged with their respective ratchets, one pawl being in the deep notch, the
wheels shall be rotated an equal distance,) and driving pawl e, and retaining pawle",
similar to those of the first wheel c', but this driving pawl clo, is connected to the
driving pawl of the other ratchei c7, by a brace el, in such a manner that it shall not
act upon its ratchet except when the driving pawl of the first wheel engages the long
tooth; then the ratchet of the second wheel is turned forward one tooth; thus it
requires ten complete revolutions of the ratchet c', of the first wheel to give one
revolution of the ratchet of the second wheel, making by their combined movement,
the type rings, c, print the numbers in regular order from 1 to 99. The shaft c³,
of the type wheels is carried by a bracket 0, which is secured to one of the arms of
the disc, and revolves therewith.
This bracket also furnishes the necessary base for supporting the retaining pawls c",
of the ratchets. The type wheels c1, c2, are constracted with the type arranged upon
rings 35, 36, which are secured to their wheels, but may be removed and others
substituted when it is desired to change the size or character of the marks. Within
each wheel is a recess in which is placed a friction return spring 4, which is in form
similar to the main spring of a watch. One end of each spring is fastened to the
stationary shaft c³, by a conical pin 16, or other suitable means. Upon the outer end
of each spring may be secured a piece of felt, or the end of the spring may be suitably
bent, as shown in figures 39 and 40, or other suitable friction producing substance
may be used, which being held by the action of the spring against the inner surface
of the type wheel, will, by the revolution of the same, tend to wind up the spring
until its tension is equal to the friction between the rubber and the wheel. When the
retaining and driving pawls are lifted clear of the ratchets, these springs cause their
respective wheels to revolve in a direction the reverse of that in which they are
driven by their pawls. Upon the side or edge of each wheel c¹, c², is a small pin or
projection c¹, and upon the brackets et there are corresponding hinged catches or
stops c³.
In the regular revolution of the wheels the pins pass the stops lifting them
against the stop springs; but when the wheels are returned by the springs c, the
pins es, engaging with the stops c, which are secured to the bracket, cause the
wheels to stop at the proper point for commencing the numbering anew. It is also a
function of the springs c, to steady their respective wheels against their retaining
pawls and prevent any accidental displacement of the impression.
The driving
pawls e, co, are carried by a lever c¹, actuated by a cam c¹8, which does not revolve,
but around which a roll c", is carried by the revolution of the arm of the disc and

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bracket 0 upon which the lever c¹, is carried by a shaft c.
The cam 18, is
supported in such a way in a sleeve bracket 24, that it may not revolve, but may
slide endwise of the shaft S, of the measuring cylinder, being governed by a cam
pin 23, and its connections. When the cam e, is drawn back, its action causes the
lever e¹, to move beyond its regular working distance and throw the driving pawl c
against a luge of the bracket 0; this trips the pawls clear of the ratchets." At the
same time the lever c, lifts the retaining pawls and permits the springs c, to return
their wheels to their initial point, as described. The cam c¹8, contains, in a suitable
recess, a friction spring c", which has a surface of felt or other adhesive material. To
the friction spring is attached the outer end of a coil spring 20, the other end of
which is attached to the disc. The action of this spring is such that, while the disc
revolves in the regular operation of measuring, the friction spring e, keeps a tension
upon the return spring, so that the instant the disc is released from the driving
power, the spring, returns it to the proper position for commencing anew, while a
notch e, and elastic, or spring catch e13, prevent its being returned beyond that
point, but offer no resistance to its motion the other way, in which it works in
counting. The pin or detent which projects from the side of the spring c¹³, when it
strikes the notch c¹, to stop the disc at zero, yields by the deflection of its spring
with gradually but rapidly increasing resistance, until the motion of the disc is
arrested without shock. The disc is supported by the shaft of the measuring cylinder
and driven by a clutch secured upon the same shaft, which engages with a properly
formed surface upon the disc in such a way that when the cam cs, is withdrawn from
its working position, and the lever c, has tripped the pawls, the hub of the cam c
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striking a collar c, upon the hub of the disc and drawing it along the shaft of the
measuring cylinder, frees the clutch, and the disc returns, as described to the starting
point. When the cam e, is returned to its working position, the disc is pressed
back and the clutch surfaces caused to engage by the action of a spring ", which
throws the clutch surfaces into action and holds them there until again freed by the
movement of the cam as described. The cam c18, has upon its hub a pin or projection c²³,
which, passing through a slot in the sleeve bracket e, permits the cam to slide but
prevents its revolving. The outer end of the projection 23, passes through a slot in
à collar e, which is upon the sleeve bracket, which slot lies spirally across the centre-
line of the cam c. When the cam collar c, is rotated to and fro, the spiral slot acts
as a wedge, screw or cam, driving the pin e, and with it the cam es, to and fro
lengthwise in the sleeve bracket c. Between the hub of the dise and the pressure
spring c”, there is a collar e, so arranged, that when the cam c¹8, is drawn back, it
strikes this collar and compresses the spring, independently of the movement of
the hub of the disc in leaving the clutch; thereby leaving the disc free to be revolved
by the action of the return spring c A hand lever c, is provided in a convenient
position, which has a spring latch c, and keeper eas for holding it in position,
secured to the frame T, and a connection 28, to the collar c27, by which means this
collar can be rotated and the cam el, can be thrown forward or back, and can be held
in either position as desired.
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A platen or impression roll c³, is provided to support the cloth against the type in
passing. This roll is held within the sweep or path of the type in the intervals between
the arms of the disc. The distance of this intrusion of the platen within the circular
path of the type, being regulated by an adjustable stop, which arrests it at the point
where it will produce the depth of indentation and force of pressure of the types
necessary to make a clear and distinct mark, and to place the ink below the general
plane of the face of the cloth being measured. This platen or impression roll c³¹, is
carried by a slotted lever ca, in which it revolves freely. The slotted lever is made
to swing upon the same centre line as the hand lever and has an adjustable pressure
spring s and latch 30, similar to those of the pressure rolls a'; it is also tripped with
the swing arms a², by the lifting bar a, as described. Upon the hub of the slotted
lever is a lug ca, which engages with a similar lug or equivalent notch of an
adjustable collar, which is secured upon the hub of the hand lever c. The operation
of these lugs is such that when the hand lever is lifted, in the operation of disengaging

page_text: the clutch of the disc, the slotted lever, is also lifted, raising the impression roll clear of
the cloth, so that it may not cause any irregular action thereupon by the type in returning
to zero.
In this position the lever c, is retained by the latch 30, while adjusting the cloth
upon the measuring cylinder. When ready for starting the measuring and registering
of the cloth, the lever e, is depressed, by which single movement of the hand, the disc is
thrown into working position, and also the impression roll dropped to place upon the
cloth, while the collar c³, is so adjusted upon the hub of the hand lever that when the
same is depressed and the machine is in operation, the lug c³, prevents the impression
roll from crowding the cloth too deep between the arms of the disc and causing
irregular movement or slurred printing, but at the same time presents no obstacle
to the raising of the impression roll by the. action of the lifting bar a, as before
described.
The printing mechanism is supplied with ink or colour by inking rolls N, combined
with a pair of distributing rolls n¹, which are driven by a belt from a pulley n³,
secured upon the shaft of the actuating cylinder B or upon an independent shaft.
The size of the inking rolls N, and pulley no, should be such that the surface of the
inking rolls should move as nearly as practicable, with the same velocity as the face
of the type upon the disc so that the type in passing the rolls and taking ink therefrom,
shall have no tendency to slip or drag the ink. The distributing rolls are supplied
with ink from a fount n², and a Wallower roll », which is brought into contact
with the lower roll for distributing the ink at intervals by a lever n³, actuated by a
trip pin 4, carried by an arm of the pulley n; while the same movement of the
fount carrying a ratchet n³, past a stationary pawl n³, causes the necessary rotation
of the Wallower. In the frame of the machine is a stop pin no, to prevent the lever n³
from swinging farther than is proper while a spring no, is provided to ensure the
proper return of the fount. The ink rolls N, should be so situated with reference to
the disc that the proper change of the integer types should be made not only after
printing, or the contact of the type with the cloth, but also before the contact of the
types with the rolls for inking them.
The actuating cylinder B, is made of the same diameter as the measuring cylinder,
but it is made a little longer than the width of the cloth to be measured. The surface
of the actuating cylinder is also made rough or adhesive, that it may be turned by
frictional contact with the cloth. Upon the shaft of the actuating cylinder is placed
a regulator pulley ', figure 13.
The regulating pulleys 1, 2 are slightly tapering or conical in form, and are set in
reverse positions, so that the large end of the one shall agree with the small end of
the other. These regulating pulleys, instead of the conical form here shewn, may be
made with a series of steps of equal width, and of progressively but slightly increasing
diameter, that of the smallest diameter of one series being opposite the largest of the
other series; or one of the regulating pulleys may be an ordinary flat-faced pulley
and the other a flat-faced pulley constructed similar to a common form of lathe chuck
so as to be susceptive of expansion and contraction, or these regulating pulleys may
be of any other suitable form. One regulating pulley as described being placed
upon the shaft of the actuating cylinder, the other pulley is secured upon the shaft
of the measuring cylinder, a helt passes over these pulleys and is guided upon any
zone of their peripheries by means of a belt guide 63, upon a screw stud 4 projecting
from the frame T, the position of the belt guide being regulated by a micrometer
nut and index 66. By these means the actuating cylinder may be made to turn the
measuring cylinder with a surface velocity equal to that of the cloth that is being
measured, relieving the cloth from the labor of driving the measuring cylinder and
the registering and dial mechanisms.
The power is given to the machine by means of a belt with fast and loose pulleys j', j
Figure 1 in the usual manner. The belt is guided upon the pulleys by a shipper K.
The shipper is connected by a rod 2, with a handle 8, and trip lever . When the
machine is to be started the operator depresses the handle k, throwing the belt upon
the fast pulley by means of the connecting rod and shipper, and at the same time
lifting the trip lever upon a trip latch Figure 2, which holds the shipper in this

page_text: position, this movement of the connecting rod compresses a spring k Figure 2, holding
it in such position that the instant the trip latch is removed, and the trip lever liberated,
the spring will throw forward the connecting rod k³, and shipper K, shifting the belt
to the loose pulley 2, and permitting the machine to stop at once.
The trip latch, is provided with a set screw ¹ by means of which the depth of
the engagement of the trip latch with the tripping lever can be regulated so as to
make the tripping movement as light and delicate as may be desired. The trip latch
is secured to the shaft k, which revolves in a journal bearing upon the frame of the
machine. Upon this shaft is also secured a lever, which is provided with an
adjustable spring to assist in the operation of tripping the latch, as desired.
The
The dial mechanism consists first of a dial ratchet wheel M, Figures 2, 35, which
has adjustable pins or projections upon its side. One of these pins m³ is placed as a
starting point or zero. The other pin m² is the trip pin, and may be placed so as to
correspond with any desired number of teeth of the dial, from the zero pin. In
using this, the zero pin m³ is turned to a trip arm m³ which is secured on the shaft A
of the latch, and the trip pin is set as many teeth ahead as it is desired to count;
and by the action of a pawl m, the dial is caused to revolve one tooth with each
revolution of the measuring cylinder, such movement of each tooth indicating one
unit or fraction of a unit, measured by the cylinder until the trip pin strikes the arm,
which throws off the latches of the stopping mechanism or shipper as described.
pawl m is carried by a lever m³ which is actuated by a lug or cam projection m³,
secured upon the shaft of the measuring cylinder. This cam by its revolution causes
the pawl to move the ratchet one tooth for every revolution of the measuring cylinder.
The dial is also provided with a stop m' which prevents it from being dragged back
by the return motion of the pawl. When the desired number has been counted, the
pawl m and stop m' are tripped by the hand of the attendant and the dial returns to
the starting point. A coiled spring m³, Figure 11 is secured to the shaft of the dial,
the other end of the spring being either secured to, or held by frictional contact with
the stationary frame of the machine as shewn. Thus the motion of the dial in counting
coils the spring, so that upon the tripping of the pawl and stop by the operator, as
described the spring will at once automatically return the dial to zero.
Having been measured and marked, the material passes over the actuating cylinder,
and through the tension bars d³, do, which may be so adjusted and held in position by
means of a pawl spring d and ratchet wheel do as to give any desired amount of
resistance to the passage of the cloth; so that the same may be drawn smooth around
the plicater and even and tight upon the finished roll or package. From the tension
bars the cloth passes around the guide roll d' to a plicater E, Figures 1 and 2. This
plicater consists of two guide or side bars around which the two sides of the fabric are
folded, and two guides or fingers F between which the folded cloth passes. These
guides form the turning points passing around which the two sides or piles of the
cloth come together to complete the plication, and thence pass on to a shunt and
smoothing roll G. The plicater side bars fingers, and shunt roll, are mounted upon a
carriage which traverses upon a slide e so that they may be adjusted laterally by
means of a screw e and handle e, so that the apex e¹ of the side bars or point where
the fold or plicating line of the cloth passes or turns, may be adjusted to suit different
widths of cloth without disturbing the relation of the edge of the cloth to the printing
or registering mechanism; and also so that the line of plication may be located in
the centre of the fabric, or at any desired distance at one side thereof, as well as
correcting its position to suit any irregularity in the width or running of the material;
such lateral adjustment being made at will without affecting the direction of motion
of the cloth from the smoothing roll toward the winding mechanism; and thus
conducing to the automatic production of a smooth and neat package.
The plicater E consists of a triangular frame, the side bars of which are of semi-
tubular and tapering form, meeting at the apex of the triangle, and separated at their
bases, by a cross-tic-bar E', to which they are attached, and by which they are supported
and secured in position. To the same support the folding or guide fingers F also of
a semi-tubular tapering form, are likewise secured by their bases; extending thence a
B

page_text: little to one side and a little above or below the apex e¹ of the side bars; thus leaving
a space between the side bars and the fingers for the opposite piles of the cloth to pass
through, and also leaving a space between the fingers for thic plies to meet in, come
together, and pass to the shunt roll G, which guides the doubled fabric to the winding
mechanism where it is made into a roll or package. The side bars and fingers of the
plicater are made adjustable, in their relative positions by means of flanges 3 and
bolts.
The shunt roll & runs free upon its bearings, and is so placed in relation to the
plicater that the median plane of the latter, which passes through its apex el is
tangential to the roll. The line of contact of the surface of the roll with such plane
is across the path or direction of motion of the cloth therein. This shunt and
smoothing roll performs several functions; first, it acts as a guide, around which the
cloth is brought into a convenient position for winding or folding, thus rendering
the machine compact and convenient; secondly the cloth being pressed or drawn upon
it in the act of passing, the two plies are there brought into contact, with some
pressure, fixing their relative positions and smoothing them before passing to the
winder. In some cases the material to be plicated is found to vary in strength,
pliability or clasticity, in different parts of its length and breadth; sometimes the
comparative yielding of the edges causes undue stress upon the middle when passing
the apex of the side bars, tending to cause the point to puncture or fear the fabric.
To prevent such a result, the smoothing roll is made to swing or yield to the extra
stress over the apex, and is retained in position by a brace g, Figure 1, having an
adjustable spring g³, by means of which the tension of the cloth upon the apex of the
side bars may be momentarily regulated. Thus a third and an important function is
performed by the automatic yielding feature of the roll. The smoothing roll is made
to turn freely by the action of the cloth in passing and may be in one piece, or
composed of independent sections, each at liberty to conform to any unequal motion of
the various parts of the cloth. The shaft g, of the smoothing roll is secured to the
plicater carriage e, by a joint that permits it to swing; and this movement is governed
by the brace and adjustable spring g³, so that the end of the roll where the line of
plication passes, may yield slightly to any extraordinary tension or pressure,
from whatever cause, that would tend to rupture the cloth upon the apex e¹ of the
plicater.
When a piece of fabric is very stiff, and must be tightly compressed at the crease
to make the sides of the ply lie together flat, a yielding pinching roll may be arranged
parallel to the smoothing roll, and be pressed against it by gravitation or a spring, to
flatten or bring together the layers of the ply, passing between the rolls to the winder.
Or when, from any cause, the use of a smoothing roll, and a pinching roll is
inadmissible, a small cylindrical bar of polished metal may be employed to draw the
fabric over, in a short curve or kink, to do the flattening and smoothing.
After plication the cloth may be delivered to a cutting machine, in a pile, or wound
into a roll or bolt; for the latter purpose the winding mechanism consisting of a
shaft J with fast and loose pulleys 1, 2, and a head or chuck also a back centre
screw with a revolving head is provided. A bar or shaft being placed with its
ends in recesses provided in the heads 3, and clamped between them by means of
the back centre screw, the end of the fabric is wound upon the bar, and the heads and
shaft being rotated by means of the pulley, the fabric is wound into a bolt or
package and drawn around and through the plicater at one operation. When the bolt
or package is complete, the back centre screw is withdrawn, the shaft and package
taken from the machine, and the shaft is drawn from the package and returned to its
place between the winding heads to wind another package.
When a flat package is to be made, a board to be left in the package, is secured
upon the shaft by means of a clamp jo, and the winding performed as before. When
winding the flattened package, the inequality of strain upon the cloth, caused by the
unequal radius of sides, is counteracted by means of an equalizing bar or roll H, held
against the cloth with yielding and elastic pressure by means of a spring . This
equalizer H moves in a path that crosses the line of notion of the cloth, and while

page_text: yielding to the heavier strain takes up the slack when the strain is lighter, making the
stress of the cloth in passing the plicater very nearly uniform.
In Figures 50 to 59 are represented in detail the means for automatically stopping
with precision, a counter used in connection with the fabric measuring machine as soon
as the piece of fabric is measured and also the means provided for directing the fabric
into the machine. In said Figures A represents the frame of the machine, B the draft
roll, C the measuring roll, the shaft of which carries a spider having arms carrying
the printing mechanism D, the types of which are inked in their revolutions by the
inking mechanism E.
The impression roll c, is placed above and in the path of the printing mechanism it
is mounted upon arms c, one of which is provided with an adjusting screw c², the
front of which bears against the lower end of the trip lever E¹ pivotted upon the
horizontal rod a.
The arms care pivotted upon the rod a extending across the machine; and upon
said rod are also pivotted the arms a² carrying the pinching rolls a arranged in pairs
over the measuring roll. The arms a² are provided with a hooked end or latch a to
engage with a hooked spring catch a³, when it is desired to have some of the pairs of
pinching rolls or all of them retained away from the measuring roll.
The shipping lever B', is pivotted to the frame at B2, and actuates the shipper rod B³
and the trip lever B, that has one end adapted to engage with the lower end of a
small lever in the dial case D², and said trip lever is also provided with a handle B5, to
set it by hand. Within the dial case D2 any suitable train of gear may be used, but
I prefer to attach to the underside of the dial d, or it may be to a central index, a
hollow cone d, having an internal frictional surface d' against which the conical surface
of the
gear Ú is in frictional contact. This gear B is mounted upon a hollow
shaft D, having a head do, screwed at its upper end, and under said head is a coiled
spring, the lower end of which bears against the bottom d³ of a cylindrical chamber
secured to the bottom of the dial d. Within the shaft D is a rod d, secured to the
bottom of the dial by which the latter can be pushed up by means of the trip lever d³,
at the bottom thereof and the frictional surface faces be separated.
To the underside of the dial is also secured one end of a horizontally coiled
spring d, having its other end secured to open projections from the shaft D, and by
means of this spring the dial is retracted to zero. The dial has also circles of
holes to receive the trip-pin ds, and arrest the dial automatically at any desired
point by coming in contact with the small lever engaging with the end of the
lever B.
The gear D', meshes with a worm formed upon a sleeve C³, mounted loosely
upon the projecting end of the shaft C₁ of the measuring roll. This sleeve has
its inner end enlarged, and said enlarged end constitutes a hollow wheel C³, having
ratchet teeth C, on its periphery. Within said wheel is placed a hub C3, that is
secured to the shaft C₁, of the measuring roll by means of a screw co and said hub
has a flange C, to which is fastened by a screw e passing through said flange,
a segmental friction ring C, preferably of metal covered with felt c', secured thereto
with screws.
The ring C, is not quite a full ring and has its ends bevelled, and its felt cover is
a little less in diameter than the inner diameter of the wheel C³; and to expand the ring C',
a wedge C, is placed between its bevelled ends, and is actuated by a screw c, entering
therein after passing through the flange C, of the hub C3, so as to cause the desired
friction between said hub and the inner surface of the wheel to rotate said wheel and
the latter will rotate the dial by means of the worm and wheel when the pawl F³, is
disengaged from the ratchet teeth of said wheel C³. But when the pawl F' is in
engagement with said ratchet teeth, it holds the wheel C3 and its sleeve from turning
and consequently the dial also, but the flanged hub C, and its friction ring continue to
revolve with the shaft C.
To stop the dial or counter as soon as the end of a piece of fabric has passed the
marking point either on the measuring roll or upon a table suitably grooved and used
in place of this roll, a weight, preferably in the form of a light wheel F is made to

page_text: bear on the fabric upon said measuring roll over a groove ³ formed therein. The
wheel F is carried by a forked arm F, having its upper end secured to a horizontal
rod, carried in bearings secured to the frame of the machine. On the
outer end of this rod is secured a crank F³ from which is suspended a rod F*,
having its lower end connected with the pawl F, allowing the latter to engage
with the teeth on the ratchet wheel and stop the latter, and with it, the dial connected
therewith, when the last end of a piece of fabric has passed the marking point.
To have means for tripping simultaneously, and by one movement of the trip
lever E, the pawl F³, and its connections and the marking mechanism, as well as the
impression roll, said trip lever is connected by means of a rod e with a crank arm Fe,
secured to the shaft F2, and adjacent to its pivot, the trip lever E¹, has a short crank
arm e, to the end of which is pivotted the adjustable rod e³, that connects said trip
lever with the printer trip and also stops that mechanism. To retain the trip lever E
at a suitable angle to have the mechanisms above stated in working position or out
of said position, said lever is provided with a spring handle latch e, the lower end of
which enters perforations a² in the frame of the machine.
Operating connection is made either by means of cone pulleys b, 61, and a belt 12
Figure 59 or by means of expansive or other differential regulating pulleys, between
the draft roll B and the shaft C, carrying the spider of the printing mechanism, the
latter shaft carrying also the roll C, when a roll is used in place of a table or
platform C, for the fabric to pass upon while it is measured. The belt be, is retained
by a suitable shipper 3, in a correct location upon the conc pulleys to give a proper
speed to the marking mechanism and through the shaft of the latter, to the indicating dial.
To guide the fabric into the machine, said fabric is placed upon a laterally adjustable
carrier easily controlled by hand or by means of a lever. If the fabric to be measured
has been received in the form of a roll, said roll is mounted upon a shaft G, (passed
through its centre) and said shaft is mounted in bearings at the end of the machine
adjacent to the smoothing rolls g, g¹ between which the fabric is passed.
longitudinal motion can be given to the shaft G by means of a lever G2, having one
end secured to the floor or to a bracket attached to the frame of the machine, and its
middle portion rests between collars g², upon the shaft by which means the latter can
be moved endwise, and with it the roll of fabric placed thereupon.
A
If the fabric to be measured has been received in a folded form, a platform G³ is
suspended from the shaft G, by passing said shaft through the upper ends of
brackets secured to the ends of said platform, and the lever G, pivotted at one end
to the floor has its middle portion loosely connected to the platform. In place of
suspending the platform G³, from a rod on the machine, it may be carried on wheels
resting on the floor, as shown in Figure 55 and be moved similarly by means of a
lever G².
The operation of the device is as follows:- -The fabric is threaded into the measuring
machine on top of the cylinder C, (or on top of the inclined platform (, if one is used)
and under the weight or wheel F which rests upon the upper surface of the fabric and
is thus held up, at the same time holding up the pawl F5 free from the ratchet wheel C³.
The wheel F is so located that the end of the fabric as it enters the machine moves
under and supports it at the exact time that the machine begins to measure the fabric,
and operates the dial to show the measurement. The fabric passing through the
machine keeps the weight in this elevated position, but when the end of the measured
fabric passes from under the wheel or weight F said weight instantly falls into the
groove and carries down the pawl F5, which then engages one of the teeth of the
ratchet wheel C³ and at once stops the wheel C, and with it the dial, while the last
part of the fabric continues to go forward and is wound up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent I declare that what I claim in respect of my improvements in machines for
measuring marking, plicating and packaging, paper, cloth and other similar fabrics is ;-
First The combination of mechanism, substantially as described for ascertaining

page_text: and indicating to the eye of the attendant, the lineal measure of a piece of fabric, while
in an outspread, but unstretched condition, with mechanism, substantially as described,
for receiving the fabric as it leaves the measuring mechanism and plicating it
lengthwise, and mechanism substantially as described, to receive the plicated fabric as
it leaves the plicator, and make it up into a package, substantially as described.
Second-The combination of mechanism, substantially as set forth, for ascertaining
the lineal measure of a piece of fabric, and registering the same upon it, while in an
outspread but unstretched condition; with mechanism substantially as described, for
receiving the fabric as it leaves the measuring and registering mechanisms and
plicating it lengthwise while it passes, and mechanism substantially as described for
making it up into a compact package, the several mechanisms being parts of one
machine and co-operating to produce the result; substantially as described.
Third The combination of a measuring cylinder with a series of pressure rolls,
acting independently of each other, substantially as described.
Fourth The combination of pressure rolls, with swing arms on which the rolls are
carried, springs to apply pressure to the rolls and bear them against the cloth, so as
to hold it in contact with the measuring cylinder, means substantially as described to
withdraw the rolls simultaneously from the cloth, when required, and latches to hold
any number or all of the rolls off the cloth, substantially as described.
Fifth The combination of a measuring cylinder, with a series of pressure rolls a'
each member of the series mounted upon an arm a², that will swing under pressure
towards, and from the cylinder, and rock a little, in a direction transverse to the
plane of swing, so that the rolls are capable of a wabbling motion, which enables them
to conform themselves to both, lengthwise and breadthwise inequalities of surface of the
cloth under measurement, thereby pressing it more evenly against the cylinder and
ensuring greater accuracy of measurement, substantially as described.
Sixth The combination of a measuring cylinder, registering mechanism, and
means substantially as described, for passing the cloth through the machine, with a
series of independent acting rolls, held by elastic pressure against the cloth, to bear
it lightly and evenly against the measuring cylinder, each member of the series being
free to revolve in conformity with the surface speed of the cloth at the point of contact
substantially as described.
Seventh The adjustable smoothing rods d', d, whereby the cloth is straightened as
it passes into the machine, as set forth, so that it shall not be stretched to render
liable to inaccurate measurement, in combination with the measuring cylinder and the
adjustable stretching rods d³, do whereby the cloth is subjected, after being measured
to strong tenson that it may plicate smoother and more evenly and may wind into a
more compact package, substantially as described.
Eighth A measuring cylinder consisting of a series of separate light narrow lags,
in contact at their bases only, each lag attached separately to the rims of light wheels
secured upon a shaft, in combination with an external envelope provided with a
roughened surface, as described, whereby frictional contact with the cloth passing
under measurement, lightness to avoid inconvenient inertia and momentum, sensitive-
ness to the changing velocity of the surface of the cloth, and unchangeability in
circumferential dimensions, to secure precision of measurement, are attained in a high
degree, substantially as described.
Ninth The combination of the pressure rolls a', swinging arms a², with their
catches and corresponding hinged catches at, each catch having stops a", a¹s to limit
its upward and downward movement, substantially as described.
Tenth The actuating cylinder B, and measuring cylinder A, in combination with
differential regulating pulleys provided with a driving belt 6, whereby the shaft of
the measuring cylinder is supplied with the requisite power to actuate the register
and dial, and overcome the friction of its journals; substantially as described.
Eleventh The combination of the actuating cylinder, measuring cylinder, and a
pair of differential regulating pulleys 1, 3, having an adjustable belt 614, to connect
them and govern their relative speed, as required for measuring different classes of
goods; substantially as described.

page_text: Twelfth The combination of the differential regulating pulleys 61, 62, belt 6,
adjustable belt guide 63, graduated nut 65, whereby the speed transmitted by the belt, 14
to the shaft of the measuring cylinder, can be regulated; substantially as described.
Thirteenth The combination of an actuating cylinder, and differential regulating
mechanism, substantially as described, with a measuring cylinder and registering
mechanism substantially as described.
Fourteenth The combination of a measuring cylinder, registering mechanism,
substantially as described, actuating cylinder and winding mechanism; substantially
as described with tripping mechanism; substantially as described, for simultaneously
shifting the driving belt of the machine from the fast to the loose pulley; substantially
as described.
Fifteenth The combination of the measuring cylinder A, registering mechanism,
substantially as described, actuating cylinder B, and the latch, to engage with the
lever and hold the driving belt in action; with a trip arm m³, to detach the
lever from the latch &, whenever it is required to stop the machine; substantially
as described.
Sixteenth The combination of the measuring cylinder, registering mechanism,
substantially as described, actuating cylinder, the mechanism, substantially as
described, for shifting the driving belt, out of and into action; with a dial M,
adjustable stop pin m² and trip arm m³, to stop the machine, whenever, any pre-
determined length of cloth has been measured substantially as described.
Seventeenth The combination of the dial M, its trip pin and trip arm with
measuring, registering and winding devices, and their connections, substantially as
described whereby the machine may be set to indicate the measurement of a web in
consecutive numbers, from its beginning to its end, and to mark the registry of
measurement in concurrence with the indicated measure from a point a few yards
from the beginning of the web; the reciprocal and supplemented action of the dial
and register, lessening the labor and skill needed for working the machine and the
liability to undetected error from incorrect starting of the registry; substantially as
described.
Eighteenth-The belt shifter and its connections, and the dial and its connections
substantially as described, in combination with the measuring and registering devices,
and the winder mechanism; substantially as described.
Nineteenth An impression roll or platen adapted to being moved into position, to
support the cloth against the action of the types, and moved back from that position;
mechanism as set forth for carrying the printing types, capable of being moved
within the margin of the cloth, to imprint the measure thereon, and of being moved
back from that position; in combination with a lever having suitable connections as
described, whereby the impression roll and the printing types, can by one movement
of the lever be simultaneously started into action, and by the opposite movement be
withdrawn from action, and held in either position, by automatically acting catches
connected with the lever; substantially as described.
Twentieth The combination of the smoothing rods d1, d2, their rock arms, the
actuating cylinder, the compensating pulleys, the registering type, the impression roll,
and the measuring cylinder, arranged as described to form a recess at the end of
measuring cylinder, whereby space is obtained for the types and the platen, to operate
in, and across which recess the margin of the cloth under measurement, is evenly held
by the smoothing rod and actuating cylinder, supported by the measuring
cylinder, and passes between the registering type and the platen, and is printed
before distension, by the actuating cylinder and the stretching rods dd, ibus
obtaining a clear impression, and more accurate registry; substantially as described.
Twenty first The combination of a hinged impression roll, an adjustable spring to
press the roll against the cloth to be imprinted, and sustain it against the action of
the types, an adjustable stop e and a corresponding fixed stop c, to limit the depth
to which the cloth shall be pressed over and envelope the surface of the type, so as to
cause the printing ink to be deposited in a depression below the general surface of the
cloth; whereby protecting the registry from defacement and the blank opposing

page_text: surface of the cloth from being smeared by rubbing off, during the subsequent
folding, winding and handling, in making up the package; substantially as described.
Twenty second-The hinged impression roll and the means substantially as
described, for throwing it into and out of action, and the means substantially as
described, for throwing the printing types into and out of action; in combination
with a trip lever e², common to both of these starting and stopping mechanisms,
whereby the platen is drawn back whenever the types are thrown out of action, and
returned simultaneously with the types, when they are again brought into action;
substantially as described.
Twenty third The combination of a platen made to yield to variable pressure with
an adjustable stop 3 and a fixed stop ca, to limit the distances that the cloth shall be
borne within the circular sweep of the type to the points that will produce the degree
of indentation of the types into the surface of the cloth that will secure the best
impressions for cloth of different textures and thickness; substantially as described.
Twenty fourth-The actuating cylinder, its compensating pulley and helt and
means, substantially as set forth, for transmitting motion from it to the mechanism
for inking the registering type; in combination with the measuring cylinder, its
compensating pulley and registering type; whereby the measuring cylinder and the
register are relieved of the burden of operating the mechanism for inking the types;
substantially as described.
Twenty fifth-The independent roll d7, and means for transmitting motion from it
to the mechanism for inking the registering type, in combination with the measuring
cylinder and registering type, wherby the measuring cylinder is relieved of the labor
of operating, the mechanism for inking the registering types; substantially as described.
Twenty sixth-The combination of the trip rail, connecting rod ", shifter trip,
spring lever, and tripping mechanism actuated thereby, and the spreading table;
with the measuring cylinder, so that a fold of cloth or other obstruction in passing
the trip rail will lift it and stop the machine before it can reach the measuring cylinder,
or effect the measure and registry; such obstruction itself being utilized to auto-
matically prevent the injury which it might otherwise do; substantially as described.
Twenty seventh The combination of the plicating and winding mechanism with
the tension mechanism; substantially as described.
Twenty eighth The combination of the plicating side bars e', the fingers F, the
means whereby the fingers F, are supported at their bases and adjusted substantially
as described, smoothing roll G and winding mechanism; with the tension regulating
and equalizing bar H, and adjustable spring h¹, substantially as described.
Twenty ninth-The combination of the tapering and triangularly arranged side
bars c', meeting at their small ends and forming an apex c', and a base har e¹, to
which the side bars are attached by their bases, and by which they are united and
upheld with correspondingly tapered fingers F, the adjustable connections securing
said fingers to the base bar, to uphold them and permit their bases, or their small
ends, or both to be adjusted towards or from each other, or raised or lowered, whereby
the co-operating convergent, plicating surfaces of the fingers and side bars, shall
support the cloth by surfaces at and all round the apex, to ensure the formation of an
even unwrinkled fold, without undue strain of the cloth substantially as described.
Thirtieth. The combination of the triangularly arranged side-bars, the finger
guides, with a carriage, a slide-way to support the carriage and means for adjusting
the carriage, as described, during the process of plication, whereby the piles of the
fold may be regulated in width and laid more evenly together; substantially as described.
Thirty first. The combination of the plicater having side bars e and finger guides
substantially as described to fold webs of fabrics lengthwise; with the bars d do,
arms d³, the notched detent wheel do, and its pawl, the carriage e³, slideway e², and
traversing screw e¹; substantially as described.
Thirty second. The combination of the cloth carrier with the carriage e and means
to adjust it, bars d³ de, arms d³, and adjusting and holding hand screw e, to govern
the course of the clutch; substantially as described.
Thirty third. The combination of a swinging smoothing roll or bar G, and its

page_text: supports the yielding brace g², and spring ³, and means to adjust the tension of said
spring with the plicater, having side-bars e and finger guides, whereby the roll will
yield to any suddenly increased resistance to the passage of the fabric round the
plicater, and so lessen the danger of interrupting the work or breaking the machine;
substantially as described.
Thirty fourth. The combination of a plicater and a winder with an equalizer
arranged between the plicater and winder, to promote the even plication and safety
of the fabric; substantially as described.
Thirty fifth. The combination of the triangular frame of the plicater, with
guide fingers and means to render them reciprocally adjustable substantially as
described whereby the tension may be duly apportioned to the several parts
of the fabric, turning on the side bars, apex and fingers, and the pressure of
the fabric against the apex increased or diminished substantially as described.
Thirty sixth. The combination of a triangular plicater, having tapering sides which
converge to a point, and from an apex to bear against and distend the crease of the fold
with tapering finger guides, converging to substantially the same apex; the fabric under
plication being allowed to pass around and between the said finger guides; substantially
as described.
Thirty seventh. A series of independent integer type-wheels, each having its own
driving pawl and ratchet, a retaining pawl, a retractor spring, and a zero pawl, and
stop; in combination with a fraction-type-carrier, provided with a clutch, type-holders
and types, and a retractor spring, to return the carrier to the zero position when the
clutch is disconnected; substantially as described.
Thirty eighth. A series of integer type wheels, each turning freely on a shaft in
common c³, and each provided with a friction surface in combination with a spring c¹,
for each wheel, acting both as a brake and retractor, and by sliding friction rubbing
against and steadying the wheel while counting and gathering and storing, tensile
force to be given out again through frictional contact with the wheel in returning it
to the zero position after the counting is finished; substantially as described.
Thirty ninth. The combination of a series of integer type-wheels, provided with
ratchets, driving pawls, retaining pawls, a cam lever c¹, a cam cand tripping
lugs c with return springs c', and pivotted stops c whereby the integer wheels are
automatically returned to the zero position; substantially as described.
Fortieth. The friction clutch consisting of the parts c, c18, the fraction type disk C,
carrying the integer type wheels and their connecting and actuating mechanism in
combination with a lever e², cam c¹³, and sliding pin 23, by means of which the types
are held either in or out of action; substantially as described.
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Forty-first. The combination of the friction clutch, consisting of parts c², c¹³, and
fraction type disk C, with the spring e, and collar, cam c18, pin c³, cam collar c,
and bracket c, by means of which both the fractions, disk and the integer type
wheels are brought into the proper working position, and held in connection with
the driving power; substantially as described.
Forty-second. The combination of the type disc C, having a yielding or elastic cushion
stop with the cam c18, return spring, and notch ", substantially as described.
Forty-third. The combination of an identifying symbol type, Figure 19, with a type
wheel and one or more of the types for making sub-divisions of the units of measure-
ment, whereby the genuineness and measurement of every yard of a web of fabric can
be verified and guaranteed, and fraudulent substitution more easily detected; substan-
tially as described.
Forty-fourth. The combination of the shaft S, sliding hub h, collar c¹³, fixed on the
shaft and the collar c, fixed on the hub; with the spring, the collar c¹³, sliding
on the shaft, the sleeve c, sliding in the tubular bracket c, and pin c³, and the
cam collar whereby the spring, may be compressed, the can loosened and the
disk returned by the spring to its zero position, before the sleeve 2, bears
against the collar c, and pushes the cam c¹8 outward to trip the pawls and then permit
the retractor springs c' to return the type to the zero position; substantially as described.
Forty-fifth. The combination of the tubular bracket c24, and the tubular sleeve c52,

page_text: fitted into it with the hub h, the cam 18 and the disk C, whereby the cam c¹ is firmly
supported and free to slide inward and outward, and the disc C, left to move back and
forth to attach and detach the clutch, and to turn unobstructed back to the zero
position, substantially as described.
Forty-sixth. The combination of the draft roll, the printing mechanism, the fabric
support having a groove cut in its surface and the light weight suspended over said
groove, with the dial and means, substantially as described, for connecting said weight
with the dial, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Forty-seventh. The combination of the draft roll, the printing mechanism, the fabric
support, having a groove cut. in its surface, the light weight suspended over said groove,
and having an arm connecting said weight to a horizontal rod, with a crank attached
to said rod, and a ratchet wheel mounted friction-tight, upon the shaft of the printing
mechanism, and a dial substantially as described.
Forty-eighth. The combination of the grooved fabric support, the light weight
resting thereon, the means substantially as described to connect it with a ratchet
wheel, mounted friction-tight upon the shaft carrying the printing mechanism, the
ratchet wheel, a sleeve secured to said ratchet wheel and a worm upon said sleeve,
with a gear wheel and a dial or indicator, connected with said gear wheel, substantially
as described.
Forty-ninth. The combination of a fabric support and printing mechanism, a sleeve
upon the shaft of the latter, and having a ratchet wheel provided with an internal
frictional surface, with a flanged hub, secured upon the shaft of the printing mechanism,
and having external frictional surface to bear against the frictional surface of the
ratchet wheel, and a pawl adapted to be in engagement with said ratchet wheel, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described.
Fiftieth. The combination of a fabric support and printing mechanism, and loosely
mounted upon the shaft of the latter, a ratchet wheel, having an internal frictional
surface and secured upon said shaft a flanged hub, having an external frictional
surface, consisting of a segmental ring, having bevelled ends and an adjustable wedge
between said ends, and a pawl adapted to be in engagement with said ratchet wheel,
substantially as described.
Fifty-first. The combination of a draft roll carrying a cone pulley and the shaft of
a printing mechanism, carrying a cone pulley and an adjustable belt, uniting them
with a grooved fabric support, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Fifty-second. The combination of a fabric support, having a groove in its surface, a
light weight suspended over said groove, a revolving printing mechanism, an impression
roll above the latter, a dial, a worm, a ratchet wheel and pawl connected with said dial,
with a trip-lever to simultaneously lift the impression roll and bring the pawl into
engagement with the ratchet wheel, substantially as described.
Fifty-third. The combination of a draft-roll, a grooved measuring roll and
adjustable smoothing rolls with a fabric carrier and a lever to move said fabric laterally
substantially as described.
Fifty-fourth. The combination of the shaft of a draft roll, the shaft of a printing
mechanism, and differential regulating pulleys upon said shafts, with a grooved fabric
support and an indicator connected with the shaft of the printing mechanism, sub-
stantially as described.

page_text: This Specification was, upon the 17th day of May 1888, amended under
Sections 18 to 21 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.
[Communicated from abroad by THE FABRIC MEASURING AND PACKAGING COMPANY,
of the City and State of New York, United States of America.]
Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Measuring, Marking,
Folding, and Winding or Packaging Paper, Cloth, and similar
Fabrics or Materials.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Hasletine, Lake and Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a machine intended to measure cloth, paper and similar
fabrics, with accuracy, and to register the measure upon it; and to plicate or fold the
cloth lengthwise of the web, and then to wind it into a smooth compact package, thus
by a series of combined automatic and co-operating movements, finishing the package
complete at a single operation, the said plicating mechanism being adapted to be
removed without affecting the complete operation of the other part.
In this machine the fabric is not stretched before measuring and registering, but is
simply straightened or flattened out, that it may lie smooth to measure correctly; but
in the subsequent processes of plication and winding, the cloth can be subjected to
any degree of stretching required for efficient plication, and for making a smooth and
compact passage.
Also the cloth, after entering, unstretched, through the straightening bars, herein-
after described, is drawn over a platform, or over a very light and easily rotated
cylinder of known circumference, which is revolved with a surface velocity equal
to the velocity of the cloth. The shaft of this cylinder carries the registering
mechanism to imprint upon the cloth while passing, figures denoting linear
measurements.
If the surface of a measuring cylinder was just one yard in circumference, and it
could be rotated by frictional contact with a piece of cloth passing it so that the
surface velocity of both at the successive points of contact would be the same,-
either surface slipping, the conditions for accurate measurement of the cloth
would be attained. It is because of the impracticability of rigidly carrying into
ffect these conditions that a regulating mechanism, herein described, has been
levised.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 in

page_text: Figure 2 is an elevation of one side of the machine in operation.
Figure 3 is an elevation of one end of the machine as seen in operation.
Figure 4 is a top view of a part of the winding mechanism as driven by gearing.
Figure
5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 4.
Figure 6 is a section on the line of figures 4 and 5.
Figure 7 is a top view of part of the winding mechanism.
Figure 8 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 7.
Figure 9 represents a detached portion of one end of the measuring cylinder.
Figure 10 represents a section on the line vv, figure 9.
5
Figure 11 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the machine, taken on the 1
line X of figure 1, shewing details of the register and of a dial mechanism.
Figure 12 is a horizontal sectional view, taken upon line Y, figure 2, showing
details of a speed-regulator between the actuating roll and the measuring roll.
Figure 13 is a side elevation of said regulator.
Figure 14 is a side elevation of a portion of the registering mechanism.
Figure 15 is a sectional view of the registering mechanism taken upon line Z,
figure 14 showing detail.
Figure 16 is a sectional view of a part of the registering mechanism, taken upon
line V figure 15.
Figure 17 is a diagram of a part of the registering mechanism, showing the
operation of the same.
Figure 18 is a view of a detail of the means for releasing the registering mechanism,
and allowing it to return to zero.
Figure 19 is a view of another detail of the registering mechanism.
Figure 20 is a side elevation of the machine as adapted for measuring, registering,.
and winding only without folding lengthwise.
Figure 21 is a bottom view of the ink fountain showing the Wallower-roll in dotted
lines and its ratchet, with the pawl for turning the ratchet.
Figure 22 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 21.
Figure 23 is a vertical sectional view on line PP, figures
and 2 looking toward
the base of the plicater, and showing so much of the plicater, its slide, and adjusting
screw, as appear in that view.
Figure 24 is a vertical sectional view on line P P, figures 1 and 2 looking toward
the apex of the plicater, showing as much of the side bars, fingers, and smoothing roll
as appear in that view.
Figure 25 is a top view of the side bars of the plicater.
Figure 26 is a view in elevation of the base of the side bars shown in figure 25.
Figure 27 is a view in clevation of one side of the side bars shown in figure 25.
Figure 28 is a view in plan of the fingers disconnected from the side bars.
Figure 29 is an elevation of the base of the fingers shown in figure 28.
Figure 30 represents a side elevation of a portion of the rear end of the smoothing
roll, and of its shaft, a fragment of the upper part of the carriage, a stud projecting
from the top of the carriage, and a block attached to the shaft and having an eye
formed in it to hang on the stud and form a hinge.
Figure 31 represents a side elevation of a portion of the front end of the smoothing
roll and its shaft, with a bracket having a swivel joint, and sliding on a cross bar of
the frame of the machine.
Figure 32 represents an elovation looking from the end of the machine, of the
parts seen in the last named figure.
Figure 33 represents in elevation a fragment of one of the series of pressure rolls
and of its connections detached.
Figure 34 represents in section at line A A, of figure 33, showing the manner in
which the two halves of the roller are hung upon studs projecting from the opposite
sides of a common rocking arm.
Figure 35 is a side elevation of one form of dial detached, with parts of its
connection, and of the frame of the machine.
Figure 36 is a section at the line N figure 15, of the annular cam which through a

page_text: lever and pawls shown in figures 14, 15, 17, actuates the type wheels, showing its
spring-box, spring-friction rubber, and the retractor spring for returning the type
carrier or disc to its zero position, which at one end is connected with the spring-
rubber, and at the other end with the type-carrier.
Figure 37 shows one of the type-wheels with its ring of integer-types, the cover of
its spring-box being removed, to show the retractive friction-spring with a rubber
formed on it to produce the requisite friction, by giving the spring a peculiar
conformation or bend at its outer end to bear against the surface of the wheel with
the requisite force, to steady the types and return them to the zero position, when the
registry of one piece of cloth is finished, preparatory to beginning the registry of
another piece.
Figure 38 represents a similar view to that shown in figure 37, in which the
spring has a piece of felt, brass, or other suitable substance to form a brake-shoe,
attached near its outer end, to form a rubber to bear against the surface of the wheel
and produce friction.
Figure 39 represents a view of the inside of the cap of the spring-box detached,
with a seat formed on its hub for the ratchet wheel.
Figure 40 is a side elevation of one of the rings on which the types for the units
of the integer figures of the registry numbers are formed, the ring being removed
from the wheel to which it is fitted, and is to be held in place by set screws, as shown
in figure 16.
Figure 41 is a like view of the ring on which the types for the tens integer
figures of the registry numbers are formed.
Figure 42 is a view of the details of the conical pin for fastening one end of the
steadying-friction and retractor spring to the shaft or on which the type wheel turns
freely, the other end of the spring being connected to this wheel by the friction of
contact and pressure against the surface of the wheel.
Figure 43 is the a plan of a double driving pawl for the units ratchet-wheel and
for the tens ratchet-wheel.
Figure 44 is a side elevation of the double pawl shown in figure 43.
Figure 45 is a front elevation of the type-wheels, with the bracket in which they
are mounted, showing more fully the hinged zero pawls, and the zero pins of these
wheels.
Figure 46 is a side elevation of the parts shown in figure 45.
Figure 47 is a top view of the rocking-cam-collar of the printing movement..
Figure 48 is a vertical section upon an enlarged scale of a part of the outer por-
tions of the printing mechanism, mounted upon the shaft of the cylinder and on the
frame, shown in the same sectional view upon a smaller scale, in figure 15.
Figure 49 shows a plan and two edge elevations of the clutch spring.
Figure 50 is a side elevation of a portion of one end of a machine having a slightly
different frame to which the improved stop motion and counter are attached.
Figure 51 is a front elevation of the same.
Figure 52 is a plan view of the same.
Figures 53 and 54 are perspective views of the front portions of the machine
showing respectively the fabric on a platform suspended from a rod on the frame and
apon a roll similarly suspended.
Figure 55 is a side view of a fabric-carrying carriage mounted on wheels and pro-
ided with means for moving it laterally.
Figure 56 is a horizontal section of the sleeve, ratchet-wheel and clutch to operate
he dial shown in figures 50 and 52.
Figure 57 is a vertical section of the same.
Figure 58 is a top view of the same.
Figure 59 is a front view of a portion of the machine provided with an inclined
latform as support for the fabric.
In this machine two side frames T are provided, which being properly secured
ogether by stays and bolts, carry the various mechanisms hereinafter described,

page_text: including the measuring, registering, plicating, and packaging mechanisms, with their
connections complete, and also the driving gear or pulleys by which power is applied.
and the machine caused to operate.
The measuring cylinder A whose circumference is made equal to a given length,
generally one unit of the desired measure, is made as light as is consistent with the
requisite strength, rigidity, and durability. The surface is roughened sufficiently to
prevent the cloth from slipping thereon, and the whole is made to turn as lightly as
possible.
The fabric to be operated upon is placed or wound upon a roll R, upon brackets
projecting from the frame, or laid in a pile P upon a platform, arranged below the
brackets for supporting the roll. The path of the fabric through the machine is shown
by the dotted line b, c, Figure 2. The cloth passes between the smoothing bars and
over the measuring cylinder to be measured, and thence passes to the actuating
cylinder B, and having already been measured and printed, it is apparent that what-
ever resistance the actuating cylinder B may offer to its forward movement will in
no case affect the measurement. Upon the actuating cylinder B, therefore, the cloth
is drawn with sufficient stress to turn it with its load.
The measuring and the actuating cylinders I have constructed of various materials
and in different ways; but I prefer to make these cylinders by taking small steel
cylindrical shafts S, figures 9, 11, and mounting thereon a series of light narrow-rimmed
cast iron wheels a³, and securing to the rims of these wheels a series of narrow
parallel wooden lags a, figures 9, 10, arranged near together but not in contact
tight enough to crowd each other so that even under the influence of changes of
atmosphere, or other causes, from which there is alternately a small expansion and
contraction of the lags, they shall severally have room enough for such changes of
volume without affecting the adjacent lags; thus preventing the aggregation of these
changes, and thereby avoiding sensible change in the circumference of the cylinder,
which would affect the measurement of the goods. The practical separation of the
lags, by preventing cumulative expansion, prevents, also, the rending or detachment
of the flexible covering by which the lags are enveloped.
I have found these lags to work well when made of straight grained white pine,
about one half inch square. They are attached to the wheels by screws a" figures 9
and 10, forming a cylinder, which should be turned straight and to a uniform diameter.
The sand-paper a", is cut in lengths and attached to the lag on which its ends meet,
by small nails, and if deemed necessary, owing to the want of strength in the paper,
nails may be driven in several of the intermediate lags.
The end of the cloth b, c being taken from the feeding roll or pile, may be spread
upon a feed table d', and passed under a stationary guide rod D, and trip rail, and
through between a pair of smoothing rods, consisting of a bearing rod d', and swinging
rod d, and a guide bar d³, figures 1, 2, and 11. The bearing rod d' is supported at
the ends in journals in the frame T of the machine, so that it may be turned therein,
and provided with a ratchet do, and spring catch do, to hold it in any desired position.
Near the ends of the bearing rod d', are arms which carry the swinging rod d²; the
cloth passes between the bearing and swinging rods, and by the position of the swinging
rod is deflected more or less from the direct line, and the wrinkles or slack places
smoothed out, and then passes over the guide bar d³, which brings it again in line
with the surface of the measuring cylinder A, and actuating cylinder B. The cloth
being thus straightened without stretching passes directly to the measuring cylinder
over one end of which it may bang sufficiently to permit the proper action of the
printing mechanism.
To ensure proper contact between the cloth and the measuring cylinder in som
cases a series of short independent pressure rolls a¹, Figure 1, are provided. Thes
pressure rolls run free and loose upon their bearings, so that they may accommodat
themselves to inequalities or irregularities of the fabric. For the same reason the
are made short, and separated so that each may revolve with the actual surface velocity
of the cloth at its point of contact; although when the cloth varies in thickness o

page_text: length in different parts, no two of the pressure rolls may happen to have equal speed
at the same instant; yet they will hold the cloth in contact with the measuring cylinder
and leave it free to travel smoothly and without slip or inequality.
The pressure rolls a' run freely upon suitable shafts carried by swinging arms a
5 which swing loosely upon a shaft as. The proper amount of pressure is given to the
rolls by means of springs a³, regulated by adjusting screws a Figure 11.
0
While inserting the first end of the fabric into the machine, these rolls are raised,
and may be severally hooked up out of the way, by means of latches a, or they
may be held up collectively by means of a hand lever as, and one of the latches a
When the fabric is entered, the latches of the rolls are immediately tripped to
permit them to act upon it. The hinge of the latch a' is fitted with a stop lug a¹³ to
meet a projection of the frame, to arrest its descent after the rolls are detached, at the
proper level to re-engage with the catches of the swinging arms a², when the rolls are
again raised; and another stop lug a, to prevent the latch a from being thrown over
when disengaged.
The surfaces of the pressure rolls may be covered with felt, rubber, or other soft
substance.
From the measuring cylinder the fabric passes direct to the actuating cylinder in
figures 1, 2 and 11.
A stationary table or bench may be provided, just below the line of travel of the
cloth, and securely supported by the frame of the machine.
The mechanism for passing the fabric through the machine, performs its work without
the aid of the marking mechanism, leaving the latter free to be adjusted at any point
in the length of a piece of fabric, or turned back to zero, and started afresh to measure
off another portion, and so divide the piece into two or more separate parts. When
the marking mechanism is thus relieved of the work of carrying the cloth forward, it
may be made far lighter and more sensitive.
The marking mechanism consists of a series of types bearing the desired numbers
or marks, and arranged at proper intervals upon the edge of a wheel or on the ends
of the arms of a disc C, figures 11 and 14. The circular path travelled by the faces
of the types when in position for printing is equal in length to the unit of measuro,
and said types are carried in their revolution by a shaft, while the process of measuring
is in operation. But when the measurement is concluded, the connection with this
shaft is broken and the disc returns automatically to the initial of zero point. One of
the arms carries the type, representing the integers of measurement; the other arms
are provided with sockets in which are secured the types, showing the fractions, such
as one fourth, one half, three fourths, or any especial private mark or imprint
desired. On the arm which carries the integer types are two or more type wheels, for
printing the integral numbers of yards consecutively from zero upwards, the fractions
of each yard being printed consecutively between the integers. Each of these type
wheels is provided with a propelling, and retaining, mechanism to move it forward so
as to place, and retain, each type in succession in its proper position to print the
measure on the fabric, and springs are connected with the type wheels to return them
to their zero points, after one web has been measured, so as to be in their proper places
to begin measuring another web.
The type carrier consists of a disc which has a long hub and is mounted loosely upon
the shaft of the measuring cylinder, and has also four or more radial arms, all but one
of which carry types ca, to print the fractions, or symbols while the other arm carries
in a bracket co, the types to print the integers, of the measurement. This disc is held
in its several positions by friction produced by pressing concave and convex
surfaces c, c18, together with force enough to produce the requisite adhesion. When
such pressure is released, the disc will have its arms carried back to the zero point by
the retractile action of a spring, one end of which is attached to the disc, and the
other, by frictional contact, to a convenient fixed part of the machine; in the example
hown in the drawing, the fixed cam c¹³. The disc mounted, as described, loosely upon
shaft, carries one of the surfaces of the friction clutch, in this case the convex c48,
he other, a concave surface c", being secured to the shaft of the measuring cylinder.

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The faces of the types mounted on the arms of the disc C, when in position for
printing, are, if desired, at the same radial distance from the centre of the cylinder
shaft, as the surface of the measuring cylinder. The type are caused to revolve by
the clutch 18, upon the shaft of the measuring cylinder while the process of
measuring a piece of goods is going on. But when the measurement of a piece is 5
concluded, the driving contact, of the surfaces of the clutch, is broken, and the arms
with their types return to the zero point. The arms which carry the fraction types
are provided at their outer ends with sockets in which are secured types e, denoting
fractions on,,, either with or without any other mark; such, for example as 17
or such marks may be substituted for the fractions themselves. The type for marking 1
the integers are arranged upon two or more small rings c³, c³, cach having the
numerals from 0 to 9, both inclusive, and by the combined action of these wheels all
of the numbers from 1 upwards may be successively printed.
When but two type wheels are used to print from 0 to 99, inclusive, it is obvious
that it will be better to omit the nought from the tens wheel so as not to print it in 1
front of the units from 0 to 9 inclusive.
The type wheel c¹, is made to revolve freely upon a fixed shaft c³, and caused to
revolve by means of a ratchet c³, actuated by a driving pawl c³, and retained in
position by a retaining pawl c". One notch of this ratchet is cut deeper than the
rest so that when the driving pawl acts thereon it shall fall nearer to the shaft than
when acting upon the other teeth. The other type wheel c², is furnished with a
simple ratchet c³, (preferably of smaller diameter, so that when the driving pawls are
both engaged with their respective ratchets, one pawl being in the deep notch, the
wheels shall be rotated at equal distance,) and driving pawle, and retaining pawl c",
similar to those of the first wheel c', but this driving pawl c, is connected to the
driving pawl of the other ratchet e7, by a brace e, in such a manner that it shall not
act upon its ratchet except when the driving pawl of the first wheel engages the long
tooth; then the ratchet of the second wheel is turned forward one tooth; thus it
requires ten complete revolutions of the ratelet c', of the first wheel to give one
revolution of the ratchet of the second wheel, making by their combined movement,
the type rings, 36, print the numbers in regular order from 1 to 99. The shaft c³,
of the type wheels is carried by a bracket 10, which is secured to one of the arms of
the disc, and revolves therewith.
This bracket also furnishes the necessary base for supporting the retaining pawls c¹¹,
of the ratchets. The type wheels c¹, c², are constructed with the type arranged upon
rings 3, 3, which are secured to their wheels, but may be removed and others
substituted when it is desired to change the size or character of the marks. Within
each wheel is a recess in which is placed a friction return spring c¹, which is in form
similar to the main spring of a watch. One end of each spring is fastened to the
stationary shaft e³, by a conical pin 1, or other suitable means. Upon the outer end
of each spring may be secured a piece of felt, or the end of the spring may be suitably
bent, as shown in figures 39 37 and 40, 38 or other suitable friction producing substance
may be used, which being held by the action of the spring against the inner surface
of the type wheel, will, by the revolution of the same, tend to wind up the spring
When the
until its tension is equal to the friction between the rubber and the wheel.
retaining and driving pawls are lifted clear of the ratchets, these springs cause their
respective wheels to revolve in a direction the reverse of that in which they are
driven by their pawls. Upon the side or edge of each wheel c¹, c², is a small pin o
projection and upon the brackets to their are corresponding hinged catches o
stops c. In the regular revolution of the wheels the pins pass the stops lifting then
against the stop springs; but when the wheels are returned by the springs c,
pins c, engaging with the stops c, which are secured to the bracket co, cause th
It is also
wheels to stop at the proper point for commencing the numbering anew.
function of the springs c¹, to steady their respective wheels against their retainin
pawls and prevent any accidental displacement of the impression. The drivin
pawls c, eo, are carried by a lever c, actuated by a cam c¹8, which does not revolv
but around which a roll c, is carried by the revolution of the arm of the disc an
the

page_text: bracket 0, upon which the lever c¹, is carried by a shaft c¹.
supported in such a way in a sleeve bracket c, that it may not revolve, but may
The cam c, is
slide endwise of the shaft S, of the measuring cylinder, being governed by a cam
pin and its connections. When the cam e8, is drawn back, its action causes the
lever c, to move beyond its regular working distance and throw the driving pawl c³
against a lug c of the bracket c; this trips the pawls clear of the ratchets.
same time the lever e, lifts the retaining pawls and permits the springs c, to return
At the
their wheels to their initial point, as described. The cam el, contains, in a suitable
recess, a friction spring e, which has a surface of felt or other adhesive material. To
the friction spring is attached the outer end of a coil spring c, the other end of
which is attached to the disc. The action of this spring is such that, while the dise
revolves in the regular operation of measuring, the friction spring clo, keeps a tension
upon the return spring 20, so that the instant the disc is released from the driving
power, the spring e, returns it to the proper position for commencing anew, while a
notch and elastic, or spring catch 3, prevent its being returned beyond that
point, but offer no resistance to its motion the other way, in which it works in
counting. The pin or detent which projects from the side of the spring 3, when it
strikes the notch c², to stop the disc at zero, yields by the deflection of its spring
with gradually but rapidly increasing resistance, until the motion of the disc is
arrested without shock. The disc is supported by the shaft of the measuring cylinder
and driven by a clutch secured upon the same shaft, which engages with a properly
formed surface upon the disc in such a way that when the cam c18, is withdrawn from
its working position, and the lever c¹, has tripped the pawls, the hub of the cam c18,
striking a collar 12, upon the hub of the disc and drawing it along the shaft of the
measuring cylinder, frees the clutch, and the disc returns, as described to the starting
point. When the cam c18, is returned to its working position, the disc is pressed
back and the clutch surfaces caused to engage by the action of a spring e, which
throws the clutch surfaces into action and holds them there until again freed by the
movement of the cam as described. The cam c¹18, has upon its hub a pin or projection c²³,
which, passing through a slot in the sleeve bracket c, permits the can to slide but
prevents its revolving. The outer end of the projection e³, passes through a slot in
a collar c, which is upon the sleeve bracket, which slot lies spirally across the centre-
line of the cam cls. When the cam collar c, is rotated to and fro, the spiral slot acts
as a wedge, screw or cam, driving the pin c³, and with it the cam c¹³, to and fro
lengthwise in the sleeve bracket . Between the hub of the disc and the pressure
spring, there is a collar c, so arranged, that when the cam c18, is drawn back, it
strikes this collar and compresses the spring e, independently of the movement of
the hub of the disc in leaving the clutch; thereby leaving the disc free to be revolved
by the action of the return spring e. A hand lever c", is provided in a convenient
position, which has a spring latch 30, and keeper es, for holding it in position,
Secured to the frame T, and a connection es, to the collar c, by which means this
collar can be rotated and the cam c18, can be thrown forward or back, and can be held
n either position as desired.
A platen or impression roll cal, is provided to support the cloth against the type in
passing. This roll is held within the sweep or path of the type in the intervals between
he arms of the disc. The distance of this intrusion of the platen within the circular
ath of the type, being regulated by an adjustable stop, which arrests it at the point
where it will produce the depth of indentation and force of pressure of the types
ecessary to make a clear and distinct mark, and to place the ink below the general
lane of the face of the cloth being measured. This platen or impression roll, is
arried by a slotted lever e³, in which it revolves freely. The slotted lever is made
swing upon the same centre line as the hand lever c, and has an adjustable pressure
brings and latch co, similar to those of the pressure rolls a¹; it is also tripped with
he swing arms a², by the lifting bar a, as described.
ver isla lug, which engages with a similar lug or equivalent notch of an
Upon the hub of the slotted
djustable collar cat, which is secured upon the hub of the hand lever c. The operation
these lugs is such that when the hand lever is lifted, in the operation of disengaging

page_text: the clutch of the disc, the slotted lever c³, is also lifted, raising the impression roll clear of
the cloth, so that it may not cause any irregular action thereupon by the type in returning
to zero. In this position the lever e29, is retained by the latch co, while adjusting the cloth
upon the measuring cylinder. When ready for starting the measuring and registering
of the cloth, the lever c, is depressed, by which single movement of the hand, the disc is
thrown into working position, and also the impression roll dropped to place upon the
cloth, while the collar c, is so adjusted upon the hub of the hand lever that when the
same is depressed and the machine is in operation, the lug ca³, prevents the impression
roll from crowding the cloth too deep between the arms of the disc and causing
irregular movement or slurred printing, but at the same time presents no obstacle
to the raising of the impression roll by the action of the lifting bar a, as before
described.
The printing mechanism is supplied with ink or colour by inking rolls N, combined
with a pair of distributing rolls n', which are driven by a belt from a pulley n³,
secured upon the shaft of the actuating cylinder B or upon an independent shaft.
The size of the inking rolls N, and pulley n, should be such that the surface of the
inking rolls should move as nearly as practicable, with the same velocity as the face
of the type upon the disc so that the type in passing the rolls and taking ink therefrom,
shall have no tendency to slip or drag the ink. The distributing rolls are supplied
with ink from a fount n², and a Wallower roll n', which is brought into contact
with the lower roll for distributing the ink at intervals by a lever n³, actuated by a
trip pin, carried by an arm of the pulley ; while the same movement of the
fount carrying a ratchet 8, past a stationary pawl n³, causes the necessary rotation
of the Wallower. In the frame of the machine is a stop pin n, to prevent the lever n³
from swinging farther than is proper while a spring 0, is provided to ensure the
proper return of the fount. The ink rolls N, should be so situated with reference to
the disc that the proper change of the integer types should he made not only after
printing, or the contact of the type with the cloth, but also before the contact of the
types with the rolls for inking them.
The actuating cylinder B, is made of the same diameter as the measuring cylinder,
but it is made a little longer than the width of the cloth to be measured. The surface
of the actuating cylinder is also made rough or adhesive, that it may be turned by
frictional contact with the cloth. Upon the shaft of the actuating cylinder is placed
a regulator pulley b¹, figure 13.
The regulating pulleys 61, 62 are slightly tapering or conical in form, and are set in
reverse positions, so that the large end of the one shall agree with the small end of
the other. These regulating pulleys, instead of the conical form here shewn, may be
made with a series of steps of equal width, and of progressively but slightly increasing
diameter, that of the smallest diameter of one series being opposite the largest of the
other series; or one of the regulating pulleys may be an ordinary flat-faced pulley
and the other a flat-faced pulley constructed similar to a common form of lathe chuck
so as to be susceptive of expansion and contraction, or these regulating pulleys may
be of any other suitable form. One regulating pulley as described being placed
upon the shaft of the actuating cylinder, the other pulley 62 is secured upon the shaft
of the measuring cylinder, a belt passes over these pulleys and is guided upon any
zone of their peripheries by means of a belt guide 63, upon a screw stud projecting
from the frame T, the position of the belt guide being regulated by a micrometer
nut and index 66. By these means the actuating cylinder may be made to turn the
measuring cylinder with a surface velocity equal to that of the cloth that is being
measured, relieving the cloth from the labor of driving the measuring cylinder and
the registering and dial mechanisms.
The power is given to the machine by means of a belt with fast and loose pulleys j¹, j
Figure 1 in the usual manner. The belt is guided upon the pulleys by a shipper K
The shipper is connected by a rod 2, with a handle, and trip lever . When the
machine is to be started the operator depresses the handle 8, throwing the belt upo
the fast pulley by means of the connecting rod and shipper, and at the same tim
lifting the trip lever upon a trip latch ⁄³ Figure 2, which holds the shipper in thi

page_text: position, this movement of the connecting rod compresses a spring & Figure 2, holding
it in such position that the instant the trip latch is removed, and the trip lever liberated,
the spring will throw forward the connecting rod k³, and shipper K, shifting the belt
to the loose pulley, and permitting the machine to stop at once.
The trip latch, is provided with a set screw 1 by means of which the depth of
the engagement of the trip latch with the tripping lever can be regulated so as to
make the tripping movement as light and delicate as may be desired. The trip latch
is secured to the shaft k, which revolves in a journal bearing upon the frame of the
machine. Upon this shaft is also secured a lever ", which is provided with an
adjustable spring to assist in the operation of tripping the laich ks, as desired.
The dial mechanism consists first of a dial ratchet wheel M, Figures 2, 35, which
has adjustable pins or projections upon its side. One of these pins m¹ is placed as a
starting point or zero. The other pin m² is the trip pin, and may be placed so as to
correspond with any desired number of teeth of the dial, from the zero pin. In
using this, the zero pin m² is turned to a trip arm m³ which is secured on the shaft k
of the latch, and the trip pin is set as many teeth ahead as it is desired to count;
and by the action of a pawl m, the dial is caused to revolve one tooth with each
revolution of the measuring cylinder, such movement of each tooth indicating one
unit or fraction of a unit, measured by the cylinder until the trip pin strikes the arm,
which throws off the latches of the stopping mechanism or shipper as described. The
pawl m is carried by a lever m³ which is actuated by a lug or cam projection mo,
secured upon the shaft of the measuring cylinder. This cam by its revolution causes
the pawl to move the ratchet one tooth for every revolution of the measuring cylinder.
The dial is also provided with a stop m² which prevents it from being dragged back
by the return motion of the pawl. When the desired number has been counted, the
pawl m and stop mare tripped by the hand of the attendant and the dial returns to
the starting point. A coiled spring m³, Figure 11 is secured to the shaft of the dial,
the other end of the spring being either secured to, or held by frictional contact with
the stationary frame of the machine as shewn. Thus the motion of the dial in counting
coils the spring, so that upon the tripping of the pawl and stop by the operator, as
described the spring will at once automatically return the dial to zero.
Having been measured and marked, the material passes over the actuating cylinder,
and through the tension bars d³, do, which may be so adjusted and held in position by
means of a pawl spring and ratchet wheel 10 as to give any desired amount of
resistance to the passage of the cloth, so that the same may be drawn smooth around
the plicater and even and tight upon the finished roll or package. From the tension
bars the cloth passes around the guide roll d to a plicater E, Figures 1 and 2. This
plicater consists of two guide or side bars around which the two sides of the fabric are
folded, and two guides or fingers F between which the folded cloth passes. These
guides form the turning points passing around which the two sides or piles of the
cloth come together to complete the plication, and thence pass on to a shunt and
smoothing roll G. The plicater side bars fingers, and shunt roll, are mounted upon a
carriage which traverses upon a slide e so that they may be adjusted laterally by
means of a screw e and handle e, so that the apex of the side bars or point where
the fold or plicating line of the cloth passes or turns, may be adjusted to suit different
widths of cloth without disturbing the relation of the edge of the cloth to the printing
or registering mechanism; and also so that the line of plication may be located in
the centre of the fabric, or at any desired distance at one side thereof, as well as
correcting its position to suit any irregularity in the width or running of the material;
such lateral adjustment being made at will without affecting the direction of motion
of the cloth from the smoothing roll toward the winding mechanism; and thus
conducing to the automatic production of a smooth and neat package.
The plicaier E consists of a triangular frame, the side bars of which are of semi-
tubular and tapering form, meeting at the apex of the triangle, and separated at their
bases, by a cross-tie-bar E', to which they are attached, and by which they are supported
and secured in position. To the same support the folding or guide fingers F also of
a semi-tubular tapering form, are likewise secured by their bases; extending thence a
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page_text: little to one side and a little above or below the apex e¹ of the side bars; thus leaving
a space between the side bars and the fingers for the opposite piles of the cloth to pass
through, and also leaving a space between the fingers for the plies to meet in, come
together, and pass to the shunt roll G, which guides the doubled fabric to the winding
mechanism where it is made into a roll or package. The side bars and fingers of the
plicater are made adjustable, in their relative positions by means of flanges and
bolts.
The shunt roll G runs free upon its bearings, and is so placed in relation to the
plicater that the median plane of the latter, which passes through its apex e is
tangential to the roll. The line of contact of the surface of the roll with such plane
is across the path or direction of motion of the cloth therein. This shunt and
smoothing roll performs several functions; first, it acts as a guide, around which the
cloth is brought into a convenient position for winding or folding, thus rendering
the machine compact and convenient; secondly the cloth being pressed or drawn upon
it in the act of passing, the two plies are there brought into contact, with some
pressure, fixing their relative positions and smoothing them before passing to the
winder. In some cases the material to be plicated is found to vary in strength,
pliability or elasticity, in different parts of its length and breadth; sometimes the
comparative yielding of the edges causes undue stress upon the middle when passing
the apex of the side bars, tending to cause the point to puncture or tear the fabric.
To prevent such a result, the smoothing roll is made to swing or yield to the extra
stress over the apex, and is retained in position by a brace 2, Figure 1, having
adjustable spring g³, by means of which the tension of the cloth upon the apex of the
side bars may be momentarily regulated. Thus a third and an important function is
performed by the automatic yielding feature of the roll. The smoothing roll is made
to turn freely by the action of the cloth in passing and may be in one piece, or
composed of independent sections, each at liberty to conform to any unequal motion of
the various parts of the cloth. The shaft g, of the smoothing roll is secured to the
plicater carriage e³, by a joint that permits it to swing; and this movement is governed
by the brace and adjustable spring ³, so that the end of the roll where the line of
plication passes, may yield slightly to any extraordinary tension
from whatever cause, that would tend to rupture the cloth upon the apex e¹ of the
plicater.
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or pressure,
When a piece of fabric is very stiff, and must be tightly compressed at the crease
to make the sides of the ply lie together flat, a yielding pinching roll may be arranged
parallel to the smoothing roll, and be pressed against it by gravitation or a spring, to
flatten or bring together the layers of the ply, passing between the rolls to the winder.
Or when, from any cause, the use of a smoothing roll, and a pinching roll is
inadmissible, a small cylindrical bar of polished metal may be employed to draw the
fabric over, in a short curve or kink, to do the flattening and smoothing.
After plication the cloth may be delivered to a cutting machine, in a pile, or wound
into a roll or bolt; for the latter purpose the winding mechanism consisting of a
shaft J with fast and loose pulleys 1, 3, and a head or chuck also a back centre
screw with a revolving head is provided. A bar or shaft jo being placed with its
ends in recesses provided in the heads ³, and clamped between them by means of
the back centre screw, the end of the fabric is wound upon the bar, and the heads and
shaft being rotated by means of the pulley j', the fabric is wound into a bolt or
package and drawn around and through the plicater at one operation. When the bolt
or package is complete, the back centre screw is withdrawn, the shaft and package
taken from the machine, and the shaft is drawn from the package and returned to its
place between the winding heads to wind another package.
When a flat package is to be made, a board to be left in the package, is secured
upon the shaft by means of a clamp jo, and the winding performed as before. When
winding the flattened package, the inequality of strain upon the cloth, caused by the
unequal radius of sides, is counteracted by means of an equalizing bar or roll H, held
against the cloth with yielding and elastic pressure by means of a spring h. This
equalizer H moves in a path that crosses the line of unotion of the cloth, and while

page_text: yielding to the heavier strain takes up the slack when the strain is lighter, making the
stress of the cloth in passing the plicater very nearly uniform.
In Figures 50 to 59 are represented in detail the means for automatically stopping
with precision, a counter used in connection with the fabric measuring machine as soon
as the piece of fabric is measured and also the means provided for directing the fabric
into the machine. In said Figures A represents the frame of the machine, B tho draft
roll, C the measuring roll, the shaft of which carries a spider having arms carrying
the printing mechanism D, the types of which are inked in their revolutions by the
inking mechanism E.
The impression roll c, is placed above and in the path of the printing mechanism it.
is mounted upon arms c¹, one of which is provided with an adjusting screw c², the
front of which bears against the lower end of the trip lever E pivotted upon the
horizontal rod a.
The arms c are pivotied upon the rod a extending across the machine; and upon
said rod are also pivotted the arms a² carrying the pinching rolls a arranged in pairs
over the measuring roll. The arms a² are provided with a booked end or latch a to
engage with a hooked spring catch as, when it is desired to have some of the pairs of
pinching rolls or all of them retained away from the measuring roll..
The shipping lever B₁, is pivotted to the frame at B², and actuates the shipper rod B³
and the trip lever B, that has one end adapted to engage with the lower end of a
small lever in the dial case D, and said trip lever is also provided with a handle B, to
set it by hand. Within the dial case D any suitable train of gear may be used, but
I prefer to attach to the underside of the dial d, or it may be to a central index, a
hollow cone d, having an internal frictional surface & against which the conical surface
of the gear is in frictional contact. This gear D is mounted upon a hollow
shaft D, having a head d³, screwed at its upper end, and under said head is a coiled
spring, the lower end of which bears against the bottom d³ of a cylindrical chamber
secured to the bottom of the dial d. Within the shaft D' is a rod d', secured to the
bottom of the dial by which the latter can be pushed up by means of the trip lever d³,
at the bottom thereof and the frictional surface faces be separated.
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To the underside of the dial is also secured one end of a horizontally coiled
spring having its other end secured to open projections from the shaft Ds, and by
The dial has also circles of
means of this spring the dial is retracted to zero.
holes to receive the trip-pin do, and arrest the dial automatically at any desired
point by coming in contact with the small lever engaging with the end of the
lever B
The gear D', meshes with a worm formed upon a sleeve C, mounted loosely
upon the projecting end of the shaft of the measuring roll. This sleeve has
its inner end enlarged, and said enlarged end constitutes a hollow wheel C³, having
ratchet teeth C, on its periphery. Within said wheel is placed a hub 0, that is
secured to the shaft C, of the measuring roll by means of a screw c³ and said hub
has a flange C, to which is fastened by a screw e passing through said flange,
a segmental friction ring C, preferably of metal covered with felt c', secured thereto
with screws.
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The ring C, is not quite a full ring and has its ends bevelled, and its felt cover is
a little less in diameter than the inner diameter of the wheel C³; and to expand the ring (7,
wedge C, is placed between its bevelled ends, and is actuated by a screw es, entering
therein after passing through the flange C, of the hub C3, so as to cause the desired
friction between said hub and the inner surface of the wheel C³ to rotate said wheel and
the latter will rotate the dial by means of the worm and wheel when the pawl F³ is
disengaged from the ratchet teeth of said wheel C. But when the paw! F is in
engagement with said ratchet teeth, it holds the wheel and its sleeve from turning
and consequently the dial also, but the flanged hub C³, and its friction ring continue to
revolve with the shaft C¹.
To stop the dial or counter as soon as the end of a piece of fabric has passed the
marking point either on the measuring roll or upon a table suitably grooved and used
in place of this roll, a weight, preferably in the form of a light wheel F is made to

page_text: bear on the fabric upon said measuring roll over a groove c³ formed therein. The
wheel is carried by a forked arm F¹, having its upper end secured to a horizontal
rod. carried in hearings secured to the frame of the machine. On the
outer end of this rod is secured a crank F3 from which is suspended a rod F
having its lower end connected with the pawl F5, allowing the latter to engage
with the teeth on the ratchet wheel and stop the latter, and with it, the dial connected
therewith, when the last end of a piece of fabric has passed the marking point.
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To have means for tripping simultaneously, and by one movement of the trip
lever E, the pawl Fs, and its connections and the marking mechanism, as well as the
impression roll, said trip lever is connected by means of a rod e with a crank arm Fe,
secured to the shaft F, and adjacent to its pivot, the trip lever E', has a short crank
arm, to the end of which is pivotted the adjustable rod e³, that connects said trip
lever with the printer trip and also stops that mechanism. To retain the trip lover E¹
at a suitable angle to have the mechanisms above stated in working position or out
of said position, said lever is provided with a spring handle latch e, the lower end of
which enters perforations a² in the frame of the machine.
Operating connection is made either by means of cone pulleys b, b', and a belt. 62
Figure 59 or by means of expansive or other differential regulating pulleys, between
the draft roll B and the shaft (, carrying the spider of the printing mechanism, the
latter shaft carrying also the roll C, when a roll is used in place of a table or
platform C, for the fabric to pass upon while it is measured. The belt &², is retained
by a suitable shipper 63, in a correct location upon the cone pulleys to give a proper
speed to the marking mechanism and through the shaft of the latter, to the indicating dial.
To guide the fabric into the machine, said fabric is placed upon a laterally adjustable
carrier easily controlled by hand or by means of a lever. If the fabric to be measured
has been received in the form of a roll, said roll is mounted upon a shaft G, (passed
through its centre) and said shaft is mounted in bearings at the end of the machine
adjacent to the smoothing rolls g, g¹ between which the fabric is passed. A
longitudinal motion can be given to the shaft G by means of a lever G2, having one
end secured to the floor or to a bracket attached to the frame of the machine, and its
middle portion rests between collars g, upon the shaft by which means the latter can
be moved endwise, and with it the roll of fabric placed thereupon.
If the fabric to be measured has been received in a folded form, a platform G³ is
suspended from the shaft G, by passing said shaft through the upper ends of
brackets g3 secured to the ends of said platform, and the lever G2, pivotted at one end
to the floor has its middle portion loosely connected to the platform. In place of
suspending the platform G³, from a rod on the machine, it may be carried on wheels
resting on the floor, as shown in Figure 55 and be moved similarly by means of a
lever G".
The operation of the device is as follows:-The fabric is threaded into the measuring
machine on top of the cylinder C, (or on top of the inclined platform C, if one is used)
and under the weight or wheel F which rests upon the upper surface of the fabric and
is thus held up, at the same time holding up the pawl F free from the ratchet wheel C³.
The wheel F is so located that the end of the fabric as it enters the machine moves
under and supports it at the exact time that the machine begins to measure the fabric,
and operates the dial to show the measurement. The fabric passing through the
machine keeps the weight in this elevated position, but when the end of the measured
fabric passes from under the wheel or weight F said weight instantly falls into the
groove and carries down the pawl F, which then engages one of the teeth of the
ratchet wheel C³ and at once stops the wheel (3, and with it the dial, while the last
part of the fabric continues to go forward and is wound up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent I declare that what I claim in respect of my improvements in machines for
measuring marking, plicating and packaging, paper, cloth and other similar fabrics is ;-
First The combination of mechanism; substantially as described for ascertaining

page_text: and indicating to the eve of the nttendant, the lineal measure of a piece of fabric, while
in-an-outspread, but unstretched condition, with mechanism, substantially as described,
for receiving the fabric us it leaves the mensuring mechanism and pleating it
lengthwise, and mechanism-substantially as described, to receive the plicated fabric us
it leaves the plicator, and make-it-up-into-a-package, substantially-us-described.
Second 1. The combination of mechanisin, substantially as set forth, for ascertaining
the lineal measure of a piece of fabric, and registering the same upon it, while in an
outspread but unstretched condition; with mechanism substantially as described, for
receiving the fabric as it leaves the measuring and registering mechanisms and
plicating it lengthwise while it passes, and mechanism substantially as described for
making it up into a compact package, the several mechanisms being parts of one
machine and co-operating to produce the result; substantially as described.
Third The combination of a measuring cylinder with a series of pressure rolls,
neting independently of each other, substantially as described.
Fourth The combination of pressure rolls, with swing arms on which the rolls are
enrried, springs to apply pressure to the rolls and bear them against the cloth, so us
to hold it in contact with the measuring cylinder, means substantially as described to
withdraw the rolls simultaneously from the cloth, when required, and-latches to hold
any number or all of the rolls-off-the-cloth, substantially as described:
Fifth The combination of a mensuring cylinder, with a series of pressure-rolls-a¹
ench-member of the series mounted upon an arm a², that will swing-under-pressure
towards, and from the cylinder, und rock a little, in a-direction transverse to the
plane of swing, so that the rolls are capable of a wabbling motion, which enables them
to conform themselves to both, lengthwise and breadth wise inequalities of surface of the
eleth-under-measurement, thereby pressing it more eventy-nguinst the cylinder und
ensuring greater accuracy of measurement, substantially us-described.
Sixth 2. The combination of a measuring cylinder, registering mechanism, and
means substantially as described, for passing the cloth through the machine, with a
series of independent acting rolls, held by elastic pressure against the cloth, to hear
it lightly and evenly against the measuring cylinder, each member of the series being
free to revolve in conformity with the surface speed of the cloth at the point of contact
substantially as described.
Seventh The adjustable smoothing rods d', d², whereby the cloth is straightened us
it-pusses into the minchine, us set forth, so that it shall not be stretched to render it
liable-to-insecurate measurement, in combination with the mensuring eslinder and the
adjustable stretching rods-d's-d-whereby the cloth is subjected, after being measured
to strong tension that it may pliente-smoother and more evenly and may wind into n
more-compuet package, substantially-us-described.
Eighth A measuring cylinder-consisting of a series of separate light narrow-lags,
in-contact at their bases only, ench-lag attached separately to the rims of light wheels
secured upon a shaft, in combination-with-an-external envelope provided with a
roughened surface, as described, whereby frictional contact with the cloth passing
under measurement, lightness to avoid-inconvenient inertin and momentum, sensitive
ness to the-changing velocity of the surface of the-cloth, and unchangeability in
eircumferential dimensions: to secure precision of measurement, are attained in a high
degree, substantially as described.
Ninth The combination of the pressure rolls a', swinging arms-a²-with-their
estehes and corresponding hinged eatches a's ench entch having stops a¹;a¹-to-limit
ite upward-and-downward movement, substantially as described.
Tenth The-netunting cylinder B, and mensuring cylinder A, in combination with
differentin!-regulating pulleys provided with a driving belt ", whereby the shaft of
the measuring cylinder is supplied with the requisite power to actuate-the-register
and dial, and overcome the friction of its journals; substantially as described.
Eleventh The combination of the actuating eylinder, mensuring cylinder, und a
Fair of differential regulating pulleys having an adjustable belt-6"-to-conneet
them and govern their relative speed, as required for mensuring different classes of
goods substantially as described.

page_text: Twelfth The combination of the differential regulating-pulleys-'-b²; belt-b";
adjustable belt-guide-6-graduated nut-whereby the speed transmitted by the belt (";
to the shaft of the mensuring cylinder, can be regulated; substantially as described.
Thirteenth The combination of an netuating cylinder, and differential regulating
mechanism, substantially as described, with a mensuring cylinder-and-registering
mechanism substantially as described.
Fourteenth The-combination of a measuring cylinder, registering mechanism,
substantially us described, netunting cylinder and winding mechanism; substantially
as described; with tripping mechanism; substantially as described, for simultaneously
shifting the driving belt of the machine from the fast to the loose pulley; substantially
as described.
Fifteenth The combination of the measuring cylinder A, registering mechanism;
substantially as described, netuating cylinder B, and the latch-4; to engage with the
lever-k-and-hold-the-driving belt-in-nction; with a trip-arm-m³, to-detach the
lever from the-latch-k, whenever it is required to stop the machine; substantially
as described.
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Sixteenth The combination of the measuring cylinder, registering-mechanism,
substantially as described; netuating cylinder, the mechanism, substantially as
described, for-shifting the driving belt, out of and into netion; with n dini-M
adjustable-stop pin-m²-and-trip-arm-m³,-to-stop-the-machine, whenever, any pre-
determined length of cloth has been mensured; substantially-as-de-eribed.
Seventeenth The combination of the dial M, its trip-pin-and-trip arm-with
measuring, registering and winding devices, and their connections;-substantially-u
described whereby the-machine-may be set to indiente the measurement of a web in
consecutive numbers; from its beginning to its end, and-to-mark-the-registry-of
measurement in concurrence with the indiented measure from a point a few yards
from the beginning of the web-;-the-reciprocul and supplemental-action of the dial
and-register, lessening the luber-und-skill-needed for working the machine-and the
liability to undetected error from incorrect starting of the registry; substantially us
described.
Eighteenth The belt shifter and its connections, and the dial and its connections
substantially as described, in combination-with-the measuring and registering devices,
and the winder mechanism; substantially as described.
Nineteenth-3. An impression roll or platen adapted to being moved into position, to
support the cloth against the action of the types, and moved back from that position:
mechanism as set forth for carrying the printing types, capable of being moved
within the margin of the cloth, to imprint the measure thereon, and of being moved
back from that position; in combination with a lever having suitable connections as
described, whereby the impression roll and the printing types, can by one movement
of the lever be simultaneously started into action, and by the opposite movement be
withdrawn from action, and held in either position, by automatically acting catches
connected with the lever; substantially as described.
Twentieth The combination of the smoothing rods-d', d², their rock-arms, the
netunting cylinder, the compensating pulleys, the registering type; the impression roll;
and the measuring cylinder, arranged-us-described to form a recess-at-the-end-of
measuring cylinder, whereby space is obtained for the types and the platen, to operate
in, and neross-which recess the margin of the cloth under measurement, is evenly held
by the smoothing roti d' und netuating cylinder, supported by the-mensuring
eylinder, and passes between the registering type and the platen, und is printed
before distension, by the netuating cylinder and the stretching rods---thus
obtaining a clear impression, and more-accurate registry; substantially as described.
Twenty-first The combination of a hinged impression roll, un-adjustable spring to
press the roll against the cloth to be imprinted, and sustain it against the-nction-of
the types, an adjustable stop-c³ und -a-corresponding fixed stop (33, to limit the depth
to which the cloth shall be pressed over and envelope the surface of the type, so-us to
eause the printing ink to be deposited in a depression below the general surface of the
eloth; whereby protecting the registry from defacement and the blank opposing

page_text: surface of the cloth from being smeared by rubbing off; during the subsequent
folding, winding and handling, in making up the package, substantially as described.
Twent second The hinged impression roll and the menus substantially-as
described, for throwing it into and out of nation, and the means-substantially-ns
described, for throwing the printing types into and out of nation in combination
with-a-trip-lever-c²-common to both of these starting and stopping-mechanisms,
whereby the platen is drawn back whenever the types are thrown out of nation, und
returned-simultaneously with the types, when they are again brought-into-nation;
substantially as described.
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Twenty-third The combination of a platen made to yield to variable pressure-with
an-adjustable-stop c³-and-a-fixed stop (33, to limit the distances that the cloth shall be
horne within the eirentar sweep of the type to the points that will produce the degree
of indentation of the types into the suffice of the-cloth that will secure-the-best
impressions-for-cloth of different textures and thickness; substantially us-described.
Twenty-fourth-The actuating cylinder, its compensating pulley and belt-and
means, substantially as set forth, for transmitting-motion from it-to-the-mechanism
for inking the registering type; in combination with the mensuring cylinder, its
compensating puller and registering type; whereby the measuring cylinder and the
register-are-relieved of the burden of operating the mechanism for inking the types;
substantially-us-described.
Twenty fifth The independent roll 1', and means for transmitting motion from it
to-the-mechanism for inking the registering type; in combination with the measuring
eylinder and registering tyre, whereby the mensuring cylinder is relieved of the labor
of operating the mechanism for inking the registering types; substantially as described.
Twenty-sixth The combination of the trip rail-connecting red-", shifter-trips
spring lever-and-tripping mechanism actuated thereby, and the spreading table;
with-the-mensuring cylinder, so that a fold of cloth or other obstruction in-passing
the tri-rail will lift it and stop the machine before it can reach the measuring elinder,
or effect the measure and registry; such obstruction itself being utilized to auto-
matically prevent the injury which it might otherwise-do: substantially as described.
Twenty seventh 4. The combination of the plicating and winding mechanism with
the tension mechanism; substantially as described.
Twenty eighth The combination of the plienting side-bars-c',-the-fingers--the
means-whereby-the-fingers are supported at their bases and adjusted-substantially
as described, smoothing roll- and winding mechanism; with the tension regulating
and equalizing bar H, and adjustable spring /', substantially as described.
Twenty ninth The combination of the tapering and triangularly arranged-side
bars- meeting at their small-ends and forming an apex-c² and a base bur-e, te
which the side bars are attached by their buses, and by which they are-united-und
upheld with correspondingly tapered fingers the adjustable connections securing
snid-fingers to the base bar, to uphold them and permit-their-bases, or their small
ends or both to be adjusted towards or from each other, or raised or lowered, whereby
the co-operating convergent, plienting surfaces of the fingers and side-bars, shall
support the cloth-by-surfaces-nt and all round the apex, to ensure the formation of an
even unwrinkled fold, without undue strain of the cloth; substantially-us-described.
Thirtieth. The combination of the triangularly arranged side-bars, the finger
guides, with a earringe, a slide-way to support the enrriage and means for adjusting
the earringe, ns-described, during the process of plication; whereby the piles of the
fold may be regulated in width and laid more evenly together; substantially as described.
Thirty first 5. The combination of the plicator having side bars e, and finger guides
substantially as described to fold webs of fabrics lengthwise; with the bars d 1º,
arms d, the notched detent wheel 10, and its pawl, the carriage e, slideway e², and
traversing screw e substantially as described.
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Thirty second. The combination of the cloth carrier with the carriage-e³ and means
to adjust it, burs-d'-d; arms-d³; and adjusting and holding hand serew-e, to-govern
the course of the clutch; substantially as described.
Thirty third. The combination of a swinging smoothing roll or bar-C, and its

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spring with the plientor, having side bars- und finger guides; whereby the roll will
yield to any suddenly-increased-resistance to the passage of the fabric round the
plicator, and so lessen the danger of interrupting the work or breaking the machine;
substantially as described.
Thirty-fourth. The combination of a plicator and a winder with an equalizer
arranged between the plienter and winder, to promote the even plication and safety
of the fabrie; substantially as described.
e-pressure of
Thirty-fifth. The combination of the triangular frame of the plienter, with
guide-fingers and means to render them reciprocally-adjustable-substantially as
described; whereby the tension may be duly apportioned to the several parts
of the fabric, turning on the side-bars, apex and fingers, and the
the fabric against the apex increased or diminished substantially as described.
Thirty sixth. The combination of a triangular plientor, having tapering-sides which
converge to a point, and from an apex to bear against und distend the crease of the fold
with tapering finger guides, converging to substantially the same apex; the fabric under
plication being allowed to pass around and between the said finger guides; substantially
as described.
Thirty seventh. 6. A series of independent integer type-wheels, each having its own
driving pawl and ratchet, a retaining pawl, a retractor spring, and a zero pawl, and
stop in combination with a fraction-type-carrier, provided with a clutch. type-holders
and types, and a retractor spring, to return the carrier to the zero position when the
clutch is disconnected; substantially as described.
Thirty-eighth. A series of integer type wheels, ench-turning freely on a shaft in
common-and-each provided with a friction surface-in-combination-with-n-spring-c';
for ench-wheel-acting both as-a-brake and retractor, and-by-sliding friction rubbing
against-and-stendying the wheel while counting and gathering and storing, tensile
force to be given out again through frictional contact with the wheel in returning it
to-the-zero position-after-the-counting is finished; substantially as described.
Thirty-ninth. The combination of a series of integer type wheels, provided with
ratchets, driving pawls, retaining pawls, a cam-lover-c"; cum-c18-and-tripping
lugs--with-return springe-c³, und pivoted-stops-whereby the integer wheels are
automatically returned to the zero position; substantially as described.
Fortieth. The friction clutch-consisting of the parts-c22 8, the fruction type-disk (
carrying the integer type wheels and their connecting and netnating mechanism in
combination-with-a-lever-c², -em-c18- and sliding pin 23 by means of which the types
are held either-in-or out of action; substantially as described.
Forty-first. The combination of the friction clutch, consisting of parts-c²²-018, and
fruction-type disk C, with the spring c² und-collar ("--cum-c18-pin-c²³ cam collar;
and bracket, by means of which both the fractions, disk-and-the-integer-type
wheels are brought into the proper working position; and held in connection with
the-driving power; substantially as described.
Forty-second. The combination of the type dise C, having a yielding or elustic cushion
stop 13 with the cam-c1; return spring cund-notch-c²), substantially as described:
Forty-third. The combination of an identifying symbol type, Figure 10, with a type
wheel and one or more of the tyres for making sub divisions of the units of measure-
ment, whereby the genuineness and measurement of every yard of a web of fabric enn
be-verified and guaranteed, and fraudulent substitution more easily detected; substan-
tially-as-described.
Forty-fourth. The combination of the shaft S, sliding hub-1, collar c₁, fixed on the
shaft and the collar-c", fixed on the-hub with the spring c², the-collar c¹², sliding
on the shaft, the sleeve c³, sliding in the tubulur bracket c" and pin-cund-the
cum-collar c², whereby the spring may be compressed, the cam loosened and the
disk-returned by the spring 20- to its zero position, before the sleeve- bears
against the collar and pushes the cam-coutward to trip the jewls and then permit
the retructor springs to return the type to the zero position; substantially as described.
Forty-fifth. The combination of the tubular bracket c, und the tubular-sleeve-c³²;
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fitted into it with the hub-1, the eam c¹ and the disk C whereby the cam-c is firmly
supported and free to slide inward and outward, and the dise left to move back and
forth to attach and detach the clutch, and to turn unobstructed back to the-zero
position, substantially as described:
Forty-sixth. 7. The combination of the draft roll, the printing mechanism, the fabric
support having a groove cut in its surface and the light weight suspended over said
groove, with the dial and means, substantially as described, for connecting said weight
with the dial, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Forty-seventh. The combination of the draft roll, the printing mechanism, the fabric
support, having a groove ent in its surface, the light weight suspended over said groove,
and having au-arm connecting said weight to a horizontal rod, with a crank attached
to snid-rod-and-a ratchet wheel mounted friction-tight, upon the shaft of the printing
mechanism, and a dial substantially ns-described.
Forty-eighth. The combination of the grooved fabric support, the light weight
resting thereon, the means substantially as described to connect it with a ratchet
wheel, mounted friction-tight-upon- the shaft carrying the-printing mechanism, the
ratchet wheel, n sleeve-secured to said ratchet wheel and a worm upon said-sleeve,
with n-gear wheel and a dial or indicator, connected with said gear wheel, substantially
as described.
Forty-ninth The combination of a fabric-support and printing-mechanism, a sleeve
upon the shaft of the latter, and having a ratchet wheel-provided-with-an-internal
frictional surface, with a flanged hub, secured upon the shaft of the printing mechanism,
and having external frictional surface-to-bear-against-the frictional surface of the
intelet wheel, and a pawl-adapted to be in engagement with said ratchet wheel, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described.
Fiftieth. The combination of a fabric support and printing mechanism; and loosely
mounted upon the shaft of the latter, n ratchet wheel, having an internal frictional
surface and secured upon said shaft-a-Hunged hub, having an external frictional
surface, consisting of n-segmental ring; having bevelled ende and an adjustable wedge
between said-ends, and a pawl adapted to be in engagement with said ratchet wheel;
substantially as described.
Fifty-first. The combination of a draft roll-earrying a cone pulley and the shaft-of
a printing mechanism, carrying n cone puller and an adjustable belt, uniting them
with a grooved fabric support, substantially as-and for the purpose-described.
Fifty-second. The combination of a fabric support; having a groove in its surface, a
light weight suspended over-suid groove, a revolving printing mechanism, an impression
rell above the latter, a din!, a worm; a ratehet wheel and pawl connected with said dial,
with a trip-lever to simultaneously lift the impression roll-and bring-the-pawl-into
engagement with the ratchet wheel, substantially-ns described.
Fifty-third. The combination of a draft roll, a-grooved mensuring roll and
adjustable-smoothing rolls with a fabric carrier-and-n lever to move said fabric laterally
substantially as described.
Fifty fourth. The combination of the shaft of a draft rell; the shaft of a printing
mechanism, and differential regulating pulleys upon said shafts, with a grooved fabric
support and an indicator-connected with the shuft of the printing-mechanism;-sub-
stantially as described.
857.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.