Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Smoothing Cloth prior to Folding.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Smoothing
Cloth prior to Folding.
I GEORG SCHLEBER of the Färbereien and Appretur-Anstalten Georg Schleber
Actien Gesellschaft of Greiz in the Empire of Germany Dyers and Finishers 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: ·
The object of this invention is to remove creases from cloth before being folded
between pressing boards.
Now according to this invention I provide two brushes at right angles to the
direction in which the cloth moves which brushes as the table of the folding machine
moves backwards and forwards press on the cloth on the right hand side and on the
left hand side alternately. The said brushes are supported in suitable bearings in the
standards attached to the moving table in which the roll of cloth to be pressed is
supported.
I provide also below the brushes two rollers and a rod which latter smooths the
inside of the cloth.
The said rollers and rod are supported at each end in suitable bearings in the
standards which support the roll of cloth.
The said bearings move in vertical guides and are normally depressed by.
springs.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will proceed
to explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which,
Fig. 1. represents side elevation of an ordinary folding machine fitted with
apparatus for smoothing cloth constructed according to this invention the sliding
table being at the extremity of its travel to the right.
Fig. 2. shews same machine and apparatus with the table moved to the left.
The same letters denote the same parts in both Figs.
a a¹ are the brushes for smoothing and spreading the material.
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These brushes are attached to oscillating spindles b b¹ moving in bearings in the
standard x1.
To the said spindles are, secured levers d d' connected by a link c.
The levers d d are connected by a rod or link e to a lever e¹ oscillating about a
stud ell.
The table x is reciprocated by means of a crank (not shewn) and connecting
od v.
As the said table moves backwards and forwards the cloth is unwound from the
oller p on which it is wound doubled longitudinally and passes between rollers 1 and 2
over the tension roller 3 on each side of the sword 4 which separates the cloth
and thence to the rod f and rollers z and z¹ respectively and after leaving the
ollers 2 and 2¹ the cloth is folded longitudinally between pressing boards in the usual
vay.
The sword 4 is attached at one end to the standard x¹. The brushes a and a¹ and

page_text: the rod during the movement of the table x stretch out and smooth the material
as hereinafter described. As shewn in Fig. 1. the sliding table x is at the extremity
of its movement to the right. Throughout this movement the pawl or catch e¹ slides
over a bar y attached to the table x causing the lever e' to to oscillate on the
pin or stud ell and draw the brush a against one side of the cloth while the rod
sinooths the other side thereof. The rod f is attached at one end to the bracket f
which bracket is secured to the standard ¹.
During the traverse of the table to the left after the pressing board has been placed
on the cloth the pawl el is disengaged from the lever e¹ and the spring a draws the
levers d d¹ to the left and presses the brush a¹ on to the right hand portion of the
cloth while the rod f smooths the back thereof as before see Fig 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An attachment for cloth Folding Machines for smoothing and taking out creases
from the material under treatment consisting of two suspended brushes a a¹ which
alternately press upon the right and left outside faces of the cloth in combination
with a rod f which smooths the inside face of the cloth and rollers z z¹ all substantially
as herein before specified.
2. Apparatus for smoothing cloth constructed as shewn by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this Sixth day of March 1897.