Improvements in Apparatus for Gauffering or Frilling Ribbons and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 10th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Gauffering or Frilling Ribbons and
the like.
I, ERNST HILDING FRITHIOF FLYGT, of No. 6 Rådmansgatan Stockholm in
the Kingdom of Sweden, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The apparatus forming the object of this invention is adapted for the gauffering
or frilling of ribbons. With the aid of this apparatus such work may be performed
very rapidly and without the least difficulty.
The frilling is effected between two corrugated or fluted rollers journalled in the
legs of two bow-shaped frames one for each roller. These bows form together one
approximately rectangular framing, the legs being situated close to and movable
along each other. In each bow are made oblong slots for the pivots of the roller
of the other frame. As will be easily understood these slots facilitate the bringing
of one bow nearer the other is attained by pressing the bows on their outer sides.
The same result may however be attained by a spring connected to both the bows.
By pressing on the bows the rollers are pressed against the interposed ribbon which
is thus frilled or gauffered when the rollers are turned by the aid of a milled head
or handle fixed to the outer end of one of the rollers.
According to another arrangement the rollers may be mounted so as to form as
it were the jaws of a pair of tongs movable in relation to one another. It will be
easily understood that the rollers are brought apart or pressed against the ribbon
by means of the tongs. The bringing apart is facilitated by a spring. The
revolution of the rollers is effected by means of a milled head or handle as above
described.
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JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
Improvements in Apparatus for Gauffering or Frilling Ribbons and
the like.
I, ERNST HILDING FRITHIOF FLYGT of Stockholm in the Kingdom of
Sweden Engineer and of 64 Aldersgate Street in the City of London, 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 provide an improved and portable means of
gauffering, crimping or corrugating frills, ribbons, trimmings or other like
materials in a more convenient and expeditious manner than that at present in
vogue.
The oneration is affected by rassing the frill ribbon trimming, or other material

page_text: to be treated, between two suitably fluted rolls, which are pressed together by a
spring or by one of the hands of the operator, while his other hand rotates
the rolls.
In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate like parts:-
Fig. 1, illustrates a front elevation, partly in section, of my improved apparatus.
Fig. 2, is a sectional view taken upon the line x-, in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, is a similar section, showing the position of the rolls when the apparatus
is in operation.
Figs. 4 & 5, show modified forms of apparatus, and
Fig. 6, a sectional detail, showing the modified construction of the rolls used in
the apparatus illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5.
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The frame of this apparatus consists of two U-shaped parts a " & "b," which
lay in the same plane and together form an approximately rectangular frame.
The legs "a" "a²," "1" and "," of the parts "a" and "b," are provided with
journals to receive the two rolls "A" and "B," one each respectively, and at or near
the outer ends of the said legs the slots "a" and "6" are formed, in which the
pivots of the roll carried by the other U-shaped part may slide, when the said
rolls are pressed together, or drawn apart.
The rolls "A," "B" are free to revolve on their pivots or centres "a" which
are screwed into their respective supports, and there secured by suitable lock-
nuts "ab."
One of these rolls is provided with a suitable milled head or
handle "C" with which to rotate it and its fellow during the process of gauffering.
In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the rolls "A," "B" are bored and mounted
on short spindles "a" and "x" formed on the jaws "ax," "*" of a pair of
tongs, the spring "D" normally keeping the said jaws "ax" "x" apart, and, with
them, the rolls "A" "B," which may be brought together by the pressure of the
hand on the legs of the tongs, when in use.
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The rolls "A" "B are kept on their respective spindles by suitable nuts "a","
or their equivalents, and one of the rolls is recessed to receive a milled head or
other suitable means "C," whereby it and its fellow may be rotated.
I may make the rolls removeable, and of a suitable conducting material, so that
by heating the tongs alone additional efficiency may be obtained, without dirtying,
or injury to, the rolls.
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In Fig. 5, is a further modification, which differs from the last only in the use of
a spring handle "E" in the place of the tongs, the short spindles "a**""64×"
being formed at the ends of the said spring "E.”
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 :-
1stly. In a hand-gauffering machine, a frame consisting mainly of two sliding
parts, each adapted to support in suitable journals a roll, which sliding parts may
be so moved by the supporting hand of the operator as to produce greater or less
pressure between the supported rolls, substantially as described with reference to
Figs. 1, 2 & 3.
2ndly. In a hand-gauffering machine, the combination of two rolls with the two
sliding parts respectively of a frame, substantially as and for the purposes described
with reference to Figs. 1, 2 & 3.
3rdly. In a hand-gauffering machine, a pair of tongs having jaws adapted to
receive rolls, which tongs may be so operated as to produce greater or less
pressure between the supported rolls, substantially as described with reference to
Figs. 4 & 6.
4thly. In a hand-gauffering machine, the combination of two rolls with the two
parts or jaws, respectively, of a pair of tongs, substantially as and for the purposes
described with reference to Figs. 4 & 6.
5thly. In a hand-gauffering machine, a suitable spring adapted to receive at its
ends rolls, which spring may be so operated by the supporting hand of the operator

page_text: as to produce greater or less pressure between the supported rolls, substantially as
described with reference to Figs. 5 & 6.
6thly. In a hand-gauffering machine, the combination of two rolls with a suitable
spring support, substantially as and for the purposes described with reference to
Figs. 5 & 6.
7thly. The general combination and arrangement of parts comprising a hand-
gauffering machine substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 9th day of November 1895.
ERNST HILDING FRITHIOF FLYGT,
Applicant,
By Jas. T. Armstrong,
Agent for Applicant.