Improvements in Apparatus Employed in Making Bags and Sheets.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus Employed in Making Bags and Sheets.
I, WILLIAM HARGREAVES of Bacup in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Waste Dealer
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 improvements relate to Apparatus Employed in Making Bags and Sheets and
consist of a specially constructed frame whereon the material to be made up by hand
sewing or otherwise, is held conveniently in position for the operator to expeditiously
turn out the work. To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I construct a
plain frame by means of two uprights by preference attached to suitable feet, and held
together by two or more cross bars, preferably by three. The top cross bar is
graduated on its surface into inches or other units of measurement, and is fitted with
a bracket or standard or other attachment which is capable of sliding upon the top bar
aforesaid, and enabled to be held at any desired position on such bar.
This bracket or standard is provided with a hook to which one end or side of the
fabric to be made up or operated upon, is hooked, and another similar hook is
fixed on one of the uprights for to enable the other end or side of the fabric to be in
like manner secured. The sliding standard enables the fabric to be drawn to the
width required, and may be regulated to a standard width by means of the graduations
on the bar. The frame may be composed of metal or wood, or a combination of both,
and it may be employed in the repair of old bags or sheets, as well as in the making
of new ones, as will be obvious.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. shows a front elevation and Fig. 2. a side view of apparatus arranged in
accordance with my invention.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a. a. is the frame, of which a a² are the uprights provided with feet a³ a³ ;
and a a form cross bars, of which one only might be employed. b. b. is the
graduated cross bar, and c. c. is the sliding bracket or standard which is provided with
the hook d. d.; the other hook e. c. being attached to the upright a'.
ff. is the box containing the sandstone, and g. g. the stone on which a knife may
be sharpened.
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It will be evident that the other upright a² might also be elongated and supplied
with a hook in addition to or in substitution for that on a¹, and that the frame may be
modified by not graduating the bar b b by providing a pinch screw or otherwise to the
sliding bracket, and by dispensing with the box for a stone; and other variations
may be made without departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
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
A frame having thereon a sliding bracket or standard carrying a hook and made
[Price 67

page_text: capable of adjustment to a required distance from another hook upon the frame, on
a bar or rod whether graduated or not, for the purpose and in manner substantially as
herein shewn and described.
Dated this 31st day of July 1890
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.