IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE FOLDING OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Sampson and Joseph Sampson, both of
Gordon Street, Bradford, in the County of York, Stuff Finishers, and
Elijah Ledger, of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, also in the County of
York, Book-keeper, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE FOLDING OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Sampson, Joseph
Sampson and Elijah Ledger at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th June 1857.
We, GEORGE SAMPSON & JOSEPH SAMPSON, both of Gordon Street, Bradford,
in the County of York, Stuff Finishers, and ELIJAH LEDGER, of Lofthouse,
near Wakefield, also in the County of York, Book-keeper, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS
FOR EFFECTING THE FOLDING OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to employing conical or truncated revolving
surfaces as means of effecting the folding or rigging of woven fabrics. The
fabric to be rigged or folded in the direction of the length, or as it is called

page_text: 'rigged," is conducted in contact with the edge formed by the base of two
conical surfaces forming a double conical wheel, between which conical surface
and the conical surfaces of other wheels or revolving discs, the two parts of
the fabric as folded are conducted to complete the folding.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson and Elijah Ledger in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th December 1857.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
SAMPSON and JOSEPH SAMPSON, both of Gordon Street, Bradford, in the
County of York, Stuff Finishers, and ELIJAH LEDGER, of Lofthouse, near
Wakefield, also in the County of York, Book-keeper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Sampson, Joseph Saimpson and Elijah Ledger, Her special licence
that we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George
Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to 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 MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE
FOLDING OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson,
and Elijah Ledger, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly.

page_text: ing manner-Upon this axis b is affixed the pulley or drum r, which by its
band or strap ¹ gives motion to the drum or pulley, affixed upon the
axis, upon which is also affixed the pinion r', which by means of the inter-
mediate wheel gives motion to the pinion, affixed upon the axis of the
roller g, and the teeth of which also take into those of the pinion 7, affixed
upon the axis of the roller f to give motion to the rollers f and g. Upon
the axis of the roller is also affixed the bevilled pinion 78, which takes into
and gives motion to the bevilled pinion 70, affixed upon the axis 710, which
rotates in the fixed bearings, and has affixed upon it the bevilled pinion 7¹³,
which takes into and drives the bevilled pinion, affixed upon the axis of the
roller e¹ to give motion to that roller. The axis of the roller q is supported in
arms from the axis q², upon which is affixed a pulley wheel q³ to receive a
friction strap q, by the friction of which when once placed they will have
a tendency to keep the roller 9 pressing against the surface of the roller o,
which receives motion from the axis 6 by the teeth of the bevilled pinion o¹,
affixed upon that axis b, taking into the teeth of the bevilled pinion o² on the
axis of the roller o, upon which axis is also aflixed the pinion o³, the teeth of
which take into the teeth of the pinion o* upon the axis of the roller p to
give motion to that roller. The teeth of the bevilled pinion of also take into
those of the pinions upon the axis s¹, upon which is also affixed the drum or
pulleys, which by a strap or band 83 gives motion to the compound wheel h,
by acting on the pulley or drum s affixed upon the axis of that wheel h.
The guides d' are capable of being shifted to the width of the fabric to be
folded; and that the wheel h and other parts acting therewith may be capable
of adjustment, the axis of the wheel h is carried by an adjustable frame t, as
are also the parts l, m, and n, which are also capable of adjustment in relation
to each other, as is shown. The frame t is supported at one end upon axes of
motion t¹, and at its other end by a screw t³, upon which is affixed a bevilled
pinion which is taken into by the bevilled pinion t upon the axis to, upon
which is affixed the crank handle to, by which an adjustment of the elevation
of the frame t is capable of being effected.
Figures 4 and 5 show diagrams of parts of another arrangement for
carrying out our improvements. In this case, the fabric as it leaves the com-
pound cone his operated upon by the conical surfaces of rollers u, u, in its
passage to between the rollers o, p.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, we would have it
understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details herein shown
and described, as they may be varied; but what we do claim is, the employ-

page_text: nent of conical or truncated revolving surfaces in folding or rigging of woven
abrics, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and
Elijah Ledger, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day
of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
1.
GEORGE SAMPSON. (L.s.)
JOSEPH SAMPSON.
(L.S.)
ELIJAH LEDGER.
(L.S.)
Vitness,
FREDERICK SAMPSON..