Cutting Machines.
Year: 1885

page_text: Cutting Machines.
We, JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR and FRANK WOODHEAD TAYLOR both of the Colne
Road Mills, Huddersfield in the County of York Manufacturers do hereby declare
the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO "JERRYS"
OR PERPETUAL CUTTING MACHINES to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to "Jerrys" or Perpetual Cutting Machines employed in
Shearing or Cutting Textile fabrics and these Improvements have for their object
to prevent abrasion or other injury to the fabric during the operation of Shearing
or Cutting when any hard or lumpy matter or foreign material in, upon or under
the fabric passes beneath the Cutting Cylinder.
For the purpose of this Invention, we employ an endless web or cushion of any
suitable fabric or fabrics such as cloth, Velvet or other pile fabrics, felt, india
rubber, paper or other soft yielding or elastic material of a similar character.
This endless web or Cushion is caused to travel over and in contact with the bed
or bed plate of the Machine at the required speed and in so doing to carry upon
and with it the fabric to be operated on by the Cutting Cylinder. The endless
web or cushion may have a smooth surface as described in the Specification to
Letters Patent N° 4993 of 1884 granted to John William Taylor, Paul Gledhill
and John Liversedge but we prefer to have the surface of such a character as will
tend to pull or drag with it the fabric laid upon it. A suitable surface for this
purpose is offered by the pile of velvet and similar fabrics and such fabrics may be
employed alone or in combination with other fabric or fabrics-When the adherent
or similar surface such as is offered by velvet is not required, as for example when
the back of the fabric to be cut presents such a surface the surface of the endless
web or cushion, may be smooth, piled felted or woven indifferently.
The endless web or cushion forms a yielding support upon the bed or bed plate
into which any hard or lumpy matter or foreign material may be embedded on
contact with the Cutters and thus prevent injury to the fabric.
Dated this second day of March one thousand eight hundred and sights firs

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We, JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR and FRANK WOODHEAD TAYLOR both of the Colne
Road Mills Huddersfield in the County of York Manufacturers 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:-
This Invention relates to "Jerrys" or perpetual Cutting Machines employed in
shearing or cutting tetile fabrics and these Improvements have for their object to
prevent abrasion or other injury to the fabric during the operation of shearing or
cutting when any hard or lumpy matter or foreign material in upon or under the
fabric passes beneath the cutting Cylinder.
For the purpose of this Invention we employ an endless web or cushion of any
suitable fabric or fabrics such as cloth velvet or other pile fabrics, felt indiarubber
paper or other soft yielding or elastic material of a similar character-This endless
web or cushion is caused to travel over and in contact with the bed or bed plate
of the machine at the required speed and in so doing to carry upon and with it
the fabric to be operated on by the cutting cylinder.
The endless web or cushion may have a smooth surface as described in the
Specification to Letters Patent No 4993 of 1884 granted to John William Taylor,
Paul Gledhill and John Liversedge but we prefer to have the surface of such a
character as will tend to pull or drag with it the fabric laid upon it.-A suitable
surface for the purpose is offered by the pile of velvet and similar fabrics and such
fabrics may be employed alone or in combination with other fabric or fabrics.―
When the adherent or similar surface such as is offered by velvet is not required,
as for example when the back of the fabric to be cut presents such a surface, the
surface of the endless web or cushion may be smooth piled felted or woven
indifferently.
The endless web or cushion forms a yielding support upon the bed or bed plate,
into which any hard or lumpy matter or foreign material may be imbedded on
contact with the cutters and thus prevent injury to the fabric.
And in order that this Invention may be more readily understood and carried
into practical effect we have hereunto appended a sheet of Drawings reference
being hereinafter had thereto and to the letters of reference marked thereon.
A, is the endless web or cushion; B, the bed or bed plate; C, C, C, the fabric
being operated on; D, the cutting cylinder; F, the first motion pulley from a
pinion G on the shaft of which the wheel H is driven.-On the shaft carrying H
is fixed the roller K the surface of which may be roughened or provided with card
teeth as indicated. Below K or conveniently situated relatively thereto is another
roller -The rollers K and L are geared or connected together by means of two
or more straps bands or tapes M, over which the endless band A passes and is
thus prevented from being carried round by the roller K. N, is an adjustable
roller for putting the necessary degree of tension on the fabric as it passes over the
bed plate. O, the dust roller and P. P, stretching bars.-The arrows indicate the
direction of movement of the fabric through the machine.

page_text: It will be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise construction
of the machine to which our Improvements are applicable and that we do not
claim as constituting a part of this our Invention the adaptation or combination
therewith of an elastic cushion fixed upon the bed plate.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of this our
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
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(1) In a "Jerry" or perpetual cutting machine for shearing or cropping woven
or similar fabrics, a travelling endless web or cushion passing over the bed plate
and carrying upon its outer surface the fabric to be operated on by the cutting
cylinder, substantially as bereinbefore described and set forth.
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(2) In a " Jerry or perpetual cutting Machine for shearing or cropping woven
or similar fabrics, an endless band web or cushion of soft yielding or elastic
material or materials having a pile or similar surface, substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth and described.
Dated this twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty five