IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF SIMILAR CHARACTER.
Year: 1866

page_text: 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman,
for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER
COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF SIMILAR CHARACTER.'
-A communication from abroad by Edwin Blood, of Newburyport, in
the State of Massachusetts United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th February 1866.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING
PAPER COLLARE, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF SIMILAR CHARACTER,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of machine for cutting out
paper collars and other articles of similar nature, forming the button-holes
therein and embossing the surface thereof in imitation of stitching at one
[Price 8d.]

page_text: operation, the principal elements of which are a pair of rollers with attached
revolving cutters, punches, dies, and embossing surfaces. The upper roller is
fitted with rotary cutters consisting of rings of steel having sharp edges which
overlap sharp edges at the ends of the working face of the lower roller, and
forming together two pairs of rotary shears to cut paper passing between the
two rollers to a proper width and longitudinal profile to form the collars or
other articles. To provide for the cutting of the collar or other article to the
desired length and its ends to the proper shape two cutters are inserted into
grooves provided across the face of the upper roller, the said cutters being
either parallel with the axis of the roller or oblique thereto, according as the
ends of the collar or other article are to be at right angles with or oblique to
the longitudinal edges. These cutters operate with a shears-like action in
combination with the sharp edges of two grooves correspondingly arranged in
and across the working faces of the lower roller.
To produce the imitation of stitching on the collar or other article male
embossing dies are provided upon the upper roller, and female embossing
dies in the lower roller. The male dies may consist of rings or strips having
toothed edges, or of pins inserted into the one roller, and the female dies of
grooves or holes in the other roller. The male die for producing the appear-
ance of stitching lengthwise of the collar consists of a toothed ring so shaped
as to be parallel to the adjacent rotary cutter, and the female die consists
simply of a corresponding groove cut around the periphery of the lower roller.
The male dies for producing the imitation of stitching along the ends of the
collar consist of pins inserted and secured in
in the upper roller
parallel with the transverse cutters, and the corresponding female dies consist
of holes in the face of the lower roller. The punches for cutting the button-
holes are formed upon the upper roller, and the corresponding dies, in con-
junction with which the punches operate, consist of holes in the lower roller,
with lateral openings through the roller for the clearance and escape of the
burrs cut out in cutting the button-holes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th August 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES OF SIMILAR CHARACTER," being a communication from
abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention, as communicated to me from abroad, relates to a novel
construction of machine for cutting out paper collars and other articles of
similar nature, forming the button-holes therein and embossing the surface
thereof in imitation of stitching at one operation. The principal elements of
the machine are a pair of rollers with attached revolving cutters, punches,
dies, and embossing surfaces, the whole combined, arranged, and organized to
operate as herein-after described.
Fig. 1 in the accompanying Drawing is a front elevation of a machine
constructed according to this Invention; Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of
the same taken in a plane parallel with Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse section
of the cutting and embossing rolls; Fig. 4 is an axial section of one of the
cutters and of the ring by which it is held in place; and Fig. 5 is a face view
of a collar cut by the machine.
A is a bed plate having erected upon it two standards B, B, in which are

page_text: received the boxes a, a, a', a¹, for the journals c, c, c¹ c¹, of the pair of
rollers C, C¹, which are arranged one above the other and geered together by
a pair of spur wheels b, b', in such a manner that when rotary motion is given
to the lower roller C by a belt running upon a pulley H on one end of it the
two rollers will rotate together at the same speed. The boxes a, a, of the
lower roller C rest upon fixed bearings, but the boxes A', A¹, of the upper
roller Care fitted to slide vertically in the standards B, B, under the control
of pressure springs D, D, which act upon them to press down the upper
roller upon the lower one, or upon a sheet or strip of paper placed between
the two rollers. The pressure of the springs D, D, is regulated by
screws E, E, fitted to caps F, F, secured on the top of the standards B, B.
The rollers may be made of steel, but are represented in Figures 2 and 3 as
made of iron and fitted with steel bands d, d¹, which are keyed on their
respective rollers to form hard smooth-working peripherical faces, the circum-
ferences of which somewhat exceed the length of the collars or other articles
to be cut. At or near the opposite ends of its band d¹ or working face the
upper roller C¹ is fitted with rotary cutters e, e, consisting of rings of steel
having sharp edges which overlap square edges f, f formed at the ends of the
working face of the lower roller. The cutters e, e, combining with the
edges f, f, form two pairs of rotary shears and serve to cut the paper passed
between the two rollers to a proper width and longitudinal profile to form the
collars or other articles. When the collars or other articles to be cut are
intended to have their edges parallel the edges f, f, and the lapping edges of
the cutters e, e, will be in vertical planes at right angles to the axis of the
rollers, but when the said articles are to have their edges curved the edges
will be so formed that if projected on a plane they would present the requisite
curvature. The cutters represented are intended to produce a collar of the
form represented in Fig. 5, having one straight and one curved edge, and
hence the edge of the cutter e at the left-hand edge (see Figures 1 and 2)
and the corresponding edge f are in planes at right angles to the axis of the
rollers to cut the straight edge of the collar, and the edge of the cutter e at
the right-hand end and the corresponding cutting edge fare curved to
conform to the required curvature of the other edge of the collar. To provide
for the cutting of the collar or other article to the desired length and
its ends to the proper shape two cutters g, g, are inserted into grooves pro-
vided across the face of the upper roller C¹, the said cutters being either
parallel with the axis of the roller or oblique thereto (as shown in Fig. 1)
according as the ends of the collar or other article are to be at right angles with

page_text: or oblique to the longitudinal edges.
°
These cutters operate with a shears-
like action in combination with the square edge of two grooves h, h,
correspondingly arranged in and across the working faces of the lower roller C.
To produce the imitation of stitching on the collar or other article male
embossing dies are provided upon the upper roller C¹, and female embossing
dies in the lower roller C. The male dies may consist of rings or strips
having toothed edges, or of pins inserted into the one roller, and the female
dies of grooves or holes in the other roller.
In the example of the Invention represented the male die for producing the
appearance of stitching lengthwise of the collar or other article consists of a
toothed ring having a lateral curvature corresponding with that of the
rotary cutter e, and is fitted between the end face of the band d¹ and a packing
ring having a corresponding lateral curvature, and the female die consists
simply of a groovek (having a corresponding curvature) cut around the
periphery of the band d of the lower roller. The male dies for producing
the imitation of stitching along the ends of the collar consist of pins inserted
and secured in the band d' of the upper roller, as at I, I, parallel with the
cutters g, g, and the corresponding female dies consist of holes, as at m, m, in
the band d of the lower roller. The bands d, d¹, of the two rollers, and the
cutters e, e, and die on the upper roller are held in place by packing rings
n, n', fitted to the rollers and nuts p, p', screwed on to screw threads q, q¹, on
the right-hand journals of their respective rollers; the said nuts holding the
bands d, d', against shoulders r, r', on their respective rollers, and the packing
rings n, n', having their inner sides curved laterally to conform to the curvature
of the right-hand cutters e and f, and their outer faces flat and perpendicular
to the axis of the rollers. The punches s, s, for cutting the button-holes are
secured in or formed upon the band d¹ of the upper roller, and the correspond-
ing dies t, t, in conjunction with which the said punches operate consist. of
holes in the band d of the lower roller with lateral openings u through the
rollers, as shewn in Figures 2 and 3, for the clearance and escape of the burs
cut out in forming the button-holes. These punches and dies are to be on
and in the rollers themselves when the rollers are made of steel without the
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bands d, d¹.
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The operation of the machine is as follows:-The paper from which the
collars or other articles are to be made is first cut from a roll of any length into
strips of a width somewhat greater than that required for the said articles, and
on the rollers being set in motion, and the end of a strip being presented between
them the strip is drawn between the rollers by their rotary motion and cut up
into pieces of such length, width, and form, as to produce the collars or

page_text: articles desired, the proper width and longitudinal profile being produced by
the cutters e, e, f, f, and the proper length and form of the ends being produced
At the same time the embossing to
by the cutting edges of g, g, and h, h.
represent stitches is produced by the dies i, k, l, m, and the button-holes
are cut by the punches 8, 8, and dies?, t. By making the rollers of sufficient
length in an axial direction and furnishing them with a suitable number of
cutters, embossing dies, and button-hole cutting punches and dies a roll of
paper of suitable width may be so cut up as to produce two or more collars
or other articles at once, the said articles being cut side by side, two or more
from the width of the paper.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "Improved Machinery
for Manufacturing Paper Collars, Cuffs, Wristbands, and other Articles of
similar Character," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect,
I wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
I claim the arrangement of machinery above described for cutting out,
punching the button holes in, and embossing an imitation of stitching upon
paper collars, cuffs, wristbands, and other articles of similar nature at one
operation.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
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Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)