IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF INFANTS' FRONTS OR LOOPED FRONTS, AND FOR THE FOLDING OR TWISTING OF RIBBON OR OTHER MATERIAL TO BE USED IN THE MAKING LOOPED ROSETTES AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES OF MILLINERY OR TRIMMINGS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE SAME.”
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Whitehall, of 30, Bromley Place, in the Town of
Nottingham, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF INFANTS' FRONTS OR LOOPED FRONTS, AND FOR THE FOLDING OR
TWISTING OF RIBBON OR OTHER MATERIAL TO BE USED IN THE MAKING LOOPED
ROSETTES AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES OF MILLINERY OR TRIMMINGS, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE SAME.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Whitehall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th August 1879.
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EDWIN WHITEHALL, of 30, Bromley Place, in the Town of Nottingham,
Machinist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF INFANTS' FRONTS OR LOOPED
FRONTS, AND FOR THE FOLDING OR TWISTING OF RIBBON OR OTHER MATERIAL TO BE
USED IN THE MAKING OF LOOPED ROSETTES AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES OF MILLINERY
OR TRIMMINGS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE SAME.
In this Invention I use a pair of rollers heated with gas, and having a swell or.
raised part in the centre for pressing the material as it passes through. In front of
the rollers I place a bracket and hollow axle on which I fix a pulley with grooves
of various sizes, so as to enable me to drive at different speeds. On the face of the
grooved pulley I fix a pin which carries a bobbin or bobbins containing ribbon or
other material, which revolves with the grooved pulley; between the grooved pulley
and pressing rollers I place a pair of hollow conical guides which carry the gophered
material between the pressing rollers, and as the gophered material is passing
through the hollow axle and between the conical guides, the bobbins containing
the ribbon and attached to the grooved pulley is made to revolve round the conical
guides forming a succession of double loops in screw-like form, and as the loops
slide from the conical guides they encircle the gophered material just as they pass
to the pressing rollers, and by using wet threads which pass between the heated
rollers the whole is stuck together. The various parts of the machine are put in
motion in ordinary way, by means of bands or wheels.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edwin Whitehall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
February 1880.
"
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EDWIN WHITEHALL, of 30, Bromley Place, in the Town of Nottingham,
Machinist. 'IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF INFANTS' FRONTS OR LOOPED
FRONTS, AND FOR THE FOLDING OR TWISTING OF RIBBON OR OTHER MATERIAL TO BE
USED THE THE MAKING LOOPED ROSETTES AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES OF MILLINERY
OR TRIMMINGS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE SAME.'
This Invention consists of improvements in the manufacture of infants' fronts or
looped fronts, and for the folding or winding of ribbon or other material to be used
in the making of looped rosettes and such like articles of millinery or trimmings,
and for the machinery or apparatus for effecting the same.
In this Invention I use a pair of rollers heated with gas, and having a swell or
raised part in the centre, for pressing the material as it passes through. In front
of the roller I place a bracket carrying a hollow axle, on which I fix a pulley with
grooves of various sizes enabling me to drive at different speeds so as to place the
loops closer or farther apart as required. On the face of the grooved pulley I fix a
pin or pins to carry bobbins containing ribbon or other material which revolves
with the grooved pulley.. Between the grooved pulley and the pressing rollers I
place at a given angle a pair of hollow conical guides (moveable so as to produce
larger or smaller loops) which carries the gophered material between the pressing
rollers, and as the gophered material is passing through the hollow axle and between
the moveable conical guides, the bobbin or bobbins containing the ribbon and
attached to the grooved pulley are made to revolve round the conical guides
forming a succession of double loops in screw like form, and as the loops slide from
the conical guides they encircle the gophered material as they pass to the pressing
rollers, and by using wet threads as they pass through the heated rollers the whole
is stuck together.
The various parts of the machine are put in motion by means of pulleys and
bands or belts, and may be worked either by hand, treadle, or steam power.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and the manner in which
the same may be used, I would therefore observe that what I consider novel, and
claim as my Invention is:-
First. The general arrangement and combination of apparatus for the making of
loops by means of conical guides arranged at a given angle for the purpose of
allowing the material to slide off in the direction of the pressing rollers, substantially
as herein before described.
Second. The novel arrangement and combination of apparatus for making loops
by means of conical, taper, or other plain guides round which the ribbon or other
material is wrapped to form the loops and caused to slide underneath the pressing
rollers, substantially as hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Whitehall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty