Improvements in Clips for Stentering Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Stentering Machines.
We, CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON, of Wharf Foundry, Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, M.I.C.E., and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of the same place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in clips for stentering machines and
the object of our invention is to enable the fingers or feelers of the clip to move
freely with the cloth when the latter is drawn under them, and also to allow the
fingers to drop away readily as soon as the cloth passes away from them, a further
object we have in view is to prevent the selvedges of the cloth curling up or
doubling under the clip.
In carrying out our improvements we cast to or form with the movable jaw
of the clip a projection upon which we hinge or pivot the finger or feeler, the
range of movement of this finger is limited in any convenient manner to ensure
that it will fall and rest upon the selvedge and prevent it curling or doubling,
anil in this manner the clip will rest upon the selvedge when lying straight.
By hinging the finger to the clip as described it follows every movement of
the cloth and allows the latter to slip smoothly under it without dragging, and
the finger can fall readily as soon as the selvedge moves from under it whereby
all danger of the finger marking or injuring the cloth is overcome.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants,
Improvements in Clips for Stentering Machines..
We, CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON, of Wharf Foundry, Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, M.I.C.E., and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of the same place,
Engineer, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in clips for stentering machines and
the object of our invention is to enable the fingers or feelers of the clip to move
freely with the cloth when the latter is drawn under them, and also to allow the
fingers to drop away readily as soon as the cloth passes away from them, a further
object we have in view is to prevent the selvedges of the cloth curling up or
doubling under the clip.
In carrying out our improvements we cast to, or form with the movable jaw

page_text: of the clip a projection upon which we hinge or pivot the finger or feeler, the
range of movement of this finger is limited in any convenient manner to ensure
that it will fall and rest upon the edge of the fabric and prevent it curling or
doubling the selvedge when the clip falls and secures the cloth.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 a plan view both partly in section
showing our improvements as applied to a stentering clip with shifting balance
for which we obtained Letters Patent No. 21625 of 1898.
In the drawings, designates the body of the clip mounted on a link of the
chain of the stentering machine the links being connected together by rivets or
studs placed in the holes b; to the body is pivoted at the movable jaw d of the
clip, and upon this jaw according to our present improvements we hinge or pivot
at el a finger or feeler e by a knife joint or equivalent by which the range of
movement of the finger is limited.
Fig. 1 represents the finger resting on the edge of the fabric f, the selvedge
of the fabric being shown curled up as is often the case. The fabric is gradually
drawn away until it passes the tip of the finger when the clip d immediately
falls and secures the selvedge. In an ordinary clip the finger e is made part and
parcel of the jaw or body d, and when the part of the clip falls to secure the
selvedge, there is a tendency of this fixed-finger, running in the same direction,
as the clip to turn up the selvedge under the clip. In our arrangement. the
finger a being pivoted to the body at el immediately the selvedge has been drawn
clear of the finger the latter falls down into the slot of the footplate and also
moves in an opposite direction-to-or-away from the clip d and the selvedge is not
in any way turned up or disturbed, at the same instant a rolling-weight in the
tube supported by the movable jaw rolls to the other end of the tube, the
momentum it attains causing the jaw d to clip the fabric very firmly.
In place of the tube and rolling weight any other of the well known means
for weighting the movable jaw d, might be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
The combination with the movable jaw of a stentering clip, of a finger or feeler
hinged or pivoted thereto in such manner that its range of movement is limited
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Lotos
Blox
TATATA
KATAYA
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants,
17. St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants,
17. St. Ann's Square, Manchester.