IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR 99 FOR CUTTING OR SEVERING VELVETS AND OTHER PILED FABRICS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugen Anselm, Jacob Goldschmid, Otho Hork-
heimer, and John Farran, all of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
99
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob
Goldschmid, Otho Horkheimer, and John Farran, at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st
December 1875.
5 We, EUGEN ANSELM, JACOB GOLDSCHMID, OTHO HORKHEIMER, and
JOHN FARRAN, all of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OR SEVERING VELVETS AND OTHER PILED FABRICS," to be
as follows:
This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for cutting or
-severing velvets and other piled fabrics after they have been removed

page_text: from the loom, such velvets having been woven double or face to face in
one piece in the manner described in the Specification of Letters Patent
granted to John Farran, and bearing date the 12th of March 1874, No.
899, or in any other manner wherein a double cloth or two cloths connected
together by pile threads are or may be woven in a loom at one operation.
The roller upon which the double fabric to be severed is wound as it is
delivered from the loom is carried in swinging brackets so that the
surface of the roll of cloth rests by its own weight upon a roller round
the under side of which the cloth passes, and then over and under the
guide or tension rollers to the cutting rails.
The cutting arrangement is very similar to that described in the
Specification above referred to, and shown as attached to the loom in
Fig. 1 of the Drawings annexed thereto. The knife rail is however
made adjustable, being carried by two racks which can be raised or
lowered and set to the greatest nicety by spur gearing, being held in
position when adjusted by means of a catch inserted between the teeth
of a fine toothed wheel. The top rail is adjustable to and from the
knife rail by means of eight set screws. The trough-shaped cutting rail
is also provided with a 'curved top rail similarly adjustable by means of
set screws. The two cloths as they are severed by the knives are drawn
through the machine by passing around two card covered (or otherwise
roughened) rollers driven 'at equal speeds by spur gearing, the lower
card covered roller receiving motion in the first place by means of a
worm and wheel, the worm shaft being actuated from the main driving
shaft by means of spur gearing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob Goldschmid, Otto
Horkheimer, and John Farran, in the Great Seal 'Patent Office on
the 21st June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EUGEN 30
ANSELM, JACOB GOLDSCHMID, OTHO HORKHEIMER, and JOHN FARRAN,
all of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob
Goldschmid, Otho Horkheimer, and John Farran, Her special license
that we, the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob Goldschmid, Otho Horkheimer,
and John Farran, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob Goldschmid, Otho
Horkheimer, and John Farran, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
O 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
CUTTING OR SEVERING VELVETS AND OTHER PILED FABRICS," upon the condition
5 (amongst others) that we, the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob Goldschmid,
Otho Horkheimer, and John Farran, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, 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 Otho Horkheimer (on behalf of
myself and the said Eugen Anselm, Jacob Goldschmid, & John
3. Farran) 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 and accompanying
Drawings:-
i
This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for cutting or
> severing velvets and other similar piled fabrics after they have been
removed from the loom, such velvets having been woven double or face
to face in one piece in the manner described in the Specification of
Letters Patent granted to John Farran, and bearing date March 12th,
A.D. 1874, No. 899, or in any other manner wherein a double cloth or
two cloths connected together by pile threads are or may be woven in a
loom at one operation.
In the annexed Drawing. Fig. 1 is an end elevation; Fig. 2, a trans-

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verse section; and Fig. 3, a front view (drawn to a smaller scale) of a
machine adapted for this purpose.
which
a, a, is the framing of the machine; and b, b, the roller upon
the double fabric to be severed is wound as it is delivered from the loom.
This roller is carried in swinging brackets c, c, so that the surface of the
roll of cloth rests by its own weight upon a roller d, d, round the under
side of which the cloth passes, and then over and under the guide or
tension rollers e, e, to the cutting rails. The cloth roller b, b, may be
mounted if preferred in a fixed bracket with another roller (mounted in
a swinging bracket) resting upon it, thus steadying the delivery of the
cloth.
The cutting arrangement is very similar to that described in the
Specification above referred to, and shown as attached to the loom in
Fig. 1 of the Drawings annexed thereto; z', z', being the trough-shaped
cutting rail; 8, s, the knife rail; and t, t, the top rail; u, u, the endless
strap; and v, v, the cutting knives. The knife rail s, s, is however
made adjustable, being carried by two racks f, f, which can be raised or
lowered and set to the greatest nicety by the spur gearing 9, 9, being
held in position when adjusted by means of a catch h, h, inserted
between the teeth of the fine toothed wheel i, i. The top rail t, t, is
adjustable to and from the knife rail 8, 8, by means of eight set
screws k, k. The trough-shaped cutting rail z', z', is also provided with
a curved top rail or roller 1, 1, similarly adjustable by means of set
screws 'k', k'. The two cloths as they are severed by the knives are
drawn through the machine by passing around two card covered (or
otherwise roughened) rollers m, m, driven at equal speeds by spur
gearing n, n, the lower card covered roller m² receiving motion in the
first place by means of a worm and wheel o, o, the worm shaft p, p,
being actuated from the main driving shaft q, q, by means of spur
gearing r, r.
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Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, we wish it to be understood that we claim
as our Invention,―
First. The combination in a machine apart from the loom of the
rails s, t, 1, and z', or their equivalent, with the cutting knives v, v,
carried by the endless strap u, u.

page_text: OTHO HORKHEIMER. (L.S.)