IMPROVED APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO FRILLING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ROBERT PLUMMER, of 51, Rue l'Aqueduc, Paris, France, Frilling Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS APPLICABLE
TO FRILLING MACHINES" to be as follows :—
My improved apparatus consists of the following parts, namely a pair of
standards, connected by tie rods and forming bearings for the axle of a hollow.
roller, above which the standards have bearings capable of adjustment vertically
carrying the axle of a second hollow roller, both rollers have each a steel or iron
ring shrunk upon it, which is turned down to form two pressing surfaces, one
slightly larger than the other, the larger surface of each roller pressing upon the
small surface of the other roller. Each roller is heated by means of gas and air jets
in the usual way.
The lower roller is fitted true to its bearings, so that it cannot
move endways, and is provided at one end with a toothed wheel which gears into a
similar toothed wheel opposite the end of the top roller, the upper wheel revolves
in a bearing ring secured to the standards, the wheel is provided with two
projecting studs which engage with the arms of a carrier secured on the outer end
of the upper roller, the opposite end of the roller beyond the standard is screw
threaded and provided with a pair of lock nuts by which the sides of the larger
pressing surface may be adjusted. By arranging the upper rollers as above
described I am enabled to place the pressing surfaces to or from each other so as to
press thin or thick materials together, while passing them between the rollers with
cottons saturated with water or gum or other suitable cement, and at the same
time, the edges of the larger pressing surfaces act as shears and sever the united
materials down the centre or where required. Thus the pressing together and
cutting is effected by one pair of rollers instead of pressing and afterwards cutting
as heretofore.

page_text: I ROBERT PLUMMER of 235 Faubourg St Martin Paris formerly of 51 Rue de
l'Aqueduc Paris do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVED
APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO FRILLING MACHINES as follows:-
The Apparatus is a contrivance for sticking or pressing together by the aid of
damp Threads, and heated Cylinders, two or more bands of material goffered or
otherwise, and simultaneously dividing the pressed bands down the centre, or as
the process is usually known and described among Frilling Makers, "Pressing and
Cutting.".
Fig. 1, represents the front view of the Machine.
The Machine consists of a pair of Cylinders C, hollow, heated inside by means of
gas jets. The Cylinders are fitted into Standards S and are revolved by means of
handle H and toothed wheels W. The largest circumference of these cylinders
'moving on each other form two heated pressing surfaces, and. two or more bands of
Frilled material passed between these heated surfaces along with damped Cottons,
conducted from Reels conveniently placed, are firmly pressed or united together.
The united bands are afterwards required to be divided down the centre of the
pressed part in order to allow each divided portion to be stitched separately into a
band or Border of Muslin or other suitable material.
This dividing process has hitherto been effected by hand by means of ordinary
scissors or in a Machine composed of Revolving Blades, or other contrivance
distinct and separate from the pressing operation.
By means of cutting the pressing circumferences into steps fitting one on the
other as shown in figure at point marked contact. I succeed in effecting
simultaneously the pressing and cutting action the bands being pressed or united
by the pressing surfaces F F and at same time by means of the steps forming
shears, the division is effected down the centre, and the band of material is drawn
out from the back of the Machine, in two distinct and separate parts.
The left hand bearing of the top cylinder is prolonged beyond the standard and
provided with a screw thread (A fig. 3): By means of the nut and lock nut N N.
providing a lateral adjustment of the Cylinder I am enabled to take up any wear
of the parts marked contact, and ensure a constant cutting action. The required
downward adjustment to regulate the pressing action is furnished by the top
screws B.
The novelty I claim is the stepped form of the pressing circumferences (marked
contact in the figure) producing the effect of circular shears, by means of which
while pressing the bands of material together in the ordinary way, I simultaneously
divide the united band into two parts, thus producing by one and the same
operation the result which has hitherto been effected by two separate processes.
R. PLUMMER.