AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR 'HOOKING' AND CUTTING CLOTH
Year: 1882

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LETTERS PATENT to William Lee of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR 'HOOKING'
AND CUTTING CLOTH"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Lee at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1882.
WILLIAM LEE of Manchester in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR HOOKING' AND CUTTING CLOTH'
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My invention relates to apparatus used by clothiers for preparing and cutting
fabrics to be made into coats, vests, trousers, mantles, shirts and other garments.
Instead of the separate booking frame and table usually employed I fit a hooking
frame on the edge of the table and pivot the table on a frame so that it may be
placed in a vertical or horizontal position. I make two transverse grooves and a
longitudinal groove in the table as guides for the knife. I form the hooking
frame of a rod supported by arms hinged on the table provided with hooks or
needles fixed on movable brackets secured with set screws. I fit bolts to the tables
to retain the rod in position. I employ a lever or levers to raise the hook bar and
a lever or levers to shoot forward or withdraw the bolts, to retain the hook bar or
allow it to fall. I use a retaining catch to secure the table in the vertical position
and a swing leg with or without catches to hold the table in a horizontal position.
I place loose metal or other plates on the hooks or needles so that the hooks may
be readily withdrawn from the fabric.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Lee in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th May
1883.
WILLIAM LEE of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster
APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR "HOOKING' AND CUTTING CLOTH"
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"AN IMPROVED
My Invention relates to apparatus used by clothiers for preparing and cutting
fabrics to be made into coats, vests, trousers, mantles, shirts and other garments.
Instead of the separate hooking frame and table usually employed I fit a hooking
frame on the edge of the table and pivot the table on a frame so that it may bo
placed in a vertical or horizontal position. mako two transverse grooves and a
longitudinal groove in the table as guides for the knife. I form the hooking frame
of a rod supported by arms hinged on the table provided with hooks or needles
fixed on movable brackets secured with set screws. I fit bolts to the table to
retain the rod in position. I employ a lever or levers to raiso the hook bar and
a lever or levers to shoot forward or withdraw the bolts to, retain the hook bar or
allow it to fall. I use a retaining catch to secure the table in the vertical position
and a swing leg with or without catches to hold the table, in a horizontal position.
I place loose metal or other plates on the hooks or needles so that "the books
may be readily withdrawn from the fabric.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed-to describe-tho-accompanying Sheet of Drawings reference
being bad-to-the-figures-and-letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is an elevation: Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a plan of my-improved-
apparatus for booking and cutting cloth and Fig. 4 is a section through the
line A B of Fig. 3.
a is a frame on which the table b is pivoted at b¹ so that it may be swung into
a vertical or horizontal position. 6 is a longitudinal groove and b³ ³ are two
transverse grooves on the table which act as guides for the knife: 6 is a catch to
retain the table in a vertical position: the hooking frame is formed of a rod or
bar c supported by arms & pivoted to the frame a: ee are needles or hooks fixed
on movable brackets e¹ and secured to the rod c by set screws e: f are bolts
which support the bar c: these bolts slide in grooves formed in the frame a and
are moved from the end of the frame by the handle secured to one end of the
lover g connected at the other end to the short lever g³ secured to the rod g³:
other short levers g' also secured to the rod g³ fit into recesses formed on
projections on the lower side of the bolts and either shoot forward or with-
draw the bolts when the handle g is moved and thus retain the bar c in position
or allow it to fall and withdraw tho needles from the cloth: f' are spring catches to
retain the bolts in position: the catches may be dispensed with and springs may
be used alone the bar c is raised by means of lifters or bars, h which slide in
bearings h¹ secured to the frame a: i is a rod carried in suitable bearings near the
bottom of the frame: the levers j are secured to the rod i and their other ends
pass through slots h' in the lifters and project slightly: a lever is also secured
to the rod i and is moved by means of the handle there is a catch upon the
frame a to hold the lover k in position: m is a swing leg hinged to the table at m'
and held up by the spring catch m³ when it is desired to swing the table from
a horizontal to a vertical position: secured to the swing leg m are a handle m³ and
a stud or pin m³: this stud is free to slide in a curved slot in the pivoted lever n:
a lever o is secured to the rod o' and is free to slide in a vertical slot near the end
of the pivoted lever n: the rod o' is carried in suitable bearings secured to the

page_text: table b: two levers o³ are secured to the rod o': p p are two legs pivoted at p¹ to
the frame a and with springs p² to bring them back into position when they are
not pressed outward by the levers o².
The fabric is hooked to the needles e when the table 6 is in a vertical position:
the catch bis then moved and the table allowed to swing into a horizontal
position. The swing leg m is then released from the spring catch m² and drawn
forward by the handle m³ into a vertical position: as the leg m is advanced the
pin m* traverses the slot, moves the levers n and o, rod o' levers o' and allows the
legs p to be pulled back into a vertical position by the springs p² and thus to form
a support for the table b. To withdraw the needles e from the fabric the bolts f
are drawn from under the bar o by means of the levers connected to the handle g:
the catch k³ is unfastened and the lever & raised thus allowing the lifters h to drop
and the bar c to fall at the same time withdrawing the needles from the fabric.
Instead of actuating the rod o and levers o in the manner described I may
dispense with the pin m pivoted lever n and lever o and secure a handle to the
rod for the purpose of working it and the levers o².
Having stated the nature of my Invention and described the manner of
performing the same I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to
the precise details given as thoy may be varied or modified without departing
from the main features of my Invention and
I declare that I claim
1. The improved apparatus substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein shown and describod.
2.-The combination of a hooking frame with a cutting tablo substantially as and
for the purposes described.
In witness whereof I the said William Lee have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eighth day of May One thousand eight hundred and eighty threo.
WILLIAM LEE (L.S.)