Year: 1886

page_text: the same.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of 67 Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me
from abroad by Max Rothenbücher of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to lay simultaneously several parallel cords on
cloth or other fabric covered with an adhesive substance for the purpose of pro-
ducing parallel ribs for trimming or decorating the same being principally for
waterproof cloaks or garments or the like.
The present device allows the cords or ribs to be arranged at any desired
distance apart and also in any required pattern consisting of bows or loops or the
like in which the cords are parallel to each other.
In the following description reference will be made to the annexed drawings.
A roller A provided with grooves which may be made by threading on a spindle
alternately larger and smaller discs, is adapted to revolve in a forked holder B to
which is attached a guiding handle G. Above the roller and supported from the
forked holder B is arranged a transverse bar e which is provided with perforations
corresponding in position to the grooves s s on the roller A. To the extremity
of the handle is fixed a frame D of suitable material provided with transverse pins
or rods for holding the bobbins K on which are wound the various cords or laces m
for the pattern; the number of the bobbins must correspond to that of the cords or
laces forming the design.
The cloth or garment. which is to receive the design is stretched on a table or
flat plate T and covered with an adhesive substance of caoutchouc or the like. The
separate cords or laces are then brought through. the particular perforations r
which are at the required distance apart, over the corresponding grooves 8 of the
roller A and passed before the same with their ends on the fabric p to which they
adhere

page_text: On guiding the apparatus over the stuff along a ruler or in the desired curves or
lines, the laces or cords from their respective bobbins K, passing over their grooves
on the roller are pressed fast on to the cloth by the roller and adhere thereto.
The apparatus is then removed and a second strip of fabric p¹ (Fig. 4) is laid upon
the fabric p over the cords or laces. A second roller A¹ the grooves of which
correspond to the first and which is also lodged in a handle (shown at Fig. 5 on a
reduced scale) is guided over the second strip of fabric p¹ so that the latter is
pressed down on the first between the cords thereby giving a ribbed pattern.
Instead of moving the apparatus it may be stationary and the table or support
may be arranged to move with the cloth." Also the bobbins K may be arranged
separate from the apparatus for instance on spindles fixed to the table in such a
manner that the laces or cords can be freely wound off and follow the movements
of the apparatus.
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For the purpose of simultaneously laying the several laces parallel to each other
and in certain curves, the grooves s¹ on the circumference of the roller A¹¹ may be
cut in parallel planes more or less inclined to that perpendicular to the axis of the
roller (as shown in Fig. 7) instead of guiding the apparatus along a curve.
passing this roller A" in a straight line, over the cloth, the laces are laid parallel to
each other in an undulating line, as shown by Fig. 8, corresponding to the course
of the grooves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
An apparatus consisting essentially of the grooved roller A or A¹ the transverse
bar e provided with perforations and the bobbins K serving to receive laces or
cords, for the purpose of causing the latter to adhere to a fabric p previously coated
with an adhesive substance, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated thin 15th day of Mov, 1006