Improvements in Apparatus for Unrolling and Measuring Cloths, and other Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 25th Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Unrolling and Measuring Cloths, and
other Textile Fabrics.
I, HARRY JAMES 91 Queen Victoria Street E.C. Mantle, Cutter, and Ware-
houseman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for unrolling and measuring
cloths and other textile fabrics and the same is carried out as follows.
1 provide a disc or plate which is carried upon ball bearings upon a suitable
support. This support is provided with projections or legs which rest upon a
counter or other suitable support. The disc or plate upon which the end of the
roll of cloth, rests is provided with a plate or projection which engages in the roll
of cloth or fabric and may be slotted to receive a board or the like around which
the cloth or fabric is rolled.
When it is desired a graduated or marked strip of suitable material may be
wound or rolled up with the cloth or fabric so that is the same is used or unrolled
the strip will indicate the amount of cloth or fabric so used or unrolled
Dated this 22nd day of December 1896.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Apparatus for Unrolling and Measuring Cloths, and
other Textile Fabrics.
I, HARRY JAMES 91 Queen Victoria Street London E.C. Mantle Cutter and
Warehouseman, 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 improvements in apparatus for unrolling and
measuring cloths and other textile fabrics, and the same is carried out as
follows. I provide a disc or plate which is carried upon ball bearings upon a
suitable support. This support is provided with projections or legs which rest
upon a counter or other suitable support. The disc or plate which the end of
the roll, of cloth rests is provided with a plate or projection which engages in the
roll of cloth or fabric and may be slotted to receive a board or the like around
which the cloth or fabric is. rolled.
When it is desired a graduated or marked strip of suitable material may be

page_text: wound or rolled up with the cloth or fabrio so that as the same is used or unrolled
the strip will indicate the amount of cloth of cloth or fabric so used or unrolled.
In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will now refer to the
annexed drawings, in which:-
Figure 1. is a sectional side elevation of my invention.
Figure 2. is a sectional side elevation of a modified form of same.
Figure 3. sectional side elevation of a further modified arrangement.
a is a disc or plate which has the grooves or ball races b formed in same, b¹
being a stationary plate supported on the table or support e through the medium
of the legs d, and having corresponding grooves or ball races e in which the
balls frun, the disc or plate a being secured in position by means of the bolt g
and nut h. is a spindle which carries the friction roller which bears upon the
underside of the disc a so that by rotating the handle k the disc a may be caused
to rotate. This disc a carries the support which has a projection m which
engages in a socket in the plate a. The support is slotted at n so that a
board or the like upon which the cloth is to be wound is placed. The spool
or reel o carries a strip or roll of paper of which is graduated so as to indicate say
in feet and inches the amount of cloth rolled upou the discs a, this graduated
strip being wound up with the cloth. The roll of cloth p is carried upon the
disc or plate q having the grooves or ball races r, s being a plate or support having
Corresponding grooves or ball races u in which balls run, this plate or support s
being carried upon the legs or supports u which rest upon a table or support.
It will be seen that the cloth may be unwound from the roll p, and rolled upon
the board or support carried in the socket piece 7, and at the same time the
graduated strip o may be wound up with same.
Referring to Figure 3, in this case the legs up on the support carrying the
rotating disc or plate are dispensed with, as a securing socket is formed as shewn
and the support rests upon the table having a flat surface, thus avoiding the
damaging of the surface upon which the apparatus is placed. If desired, instead
of a friction wheel I may employ a toothed wheel gearing upon a circular rack
for operating the plate a..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In apparatus for rolling up and unrolling and measuring cloth; a rotating
disc or plate. carried upon ball bearing or the like upon a suitable support, said
rotating disc being operated when required by means of a friction or toothed
wheel operated by a handle or crank or other suitable means; a graduated strip
or roll of material carried upon a spool or holder, said strip or roll being wound up
with the roll of cloth so that when unrolling the cloth the amount of cloth
withdrawn may be known.
Dated this 18th dox of August 1897