IMPROVEMENTS IN GAUFFERING AND CRIMPING MACHINES, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANU- FACTURE OF CONTINUOUS BELTS AND SHUTTERS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hesketh Hughes, of Homerton, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAUFFERING
AND CRIMPING MACHINES, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CONTINUOUS BELTS AND SHUTTERS."
Sealed the 5th January 1859, and dated the 6th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hesketh Hughes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
July 1858.
I, HESKETH HUGHES, of Homerton, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GAUFFERING AND CRIMPING MACHINES, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO THE
MANUFACTURE OF CONTINUOUS BELTS AND SHUTTERS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in forming a continuous band, whether for revolving
shutters or for gauffering and crimping machines from plates or strips of
metal, parts of one side of each being cut away, and the metal between the
parts so cut away being twisted at right angles or nearly so to the face of the
plate; one or two holes is or are pierced in the twisted end for the reception
of a rod of metal or of links to hold the plates together, and so form a
continuous length. For gauffering and crimping machines a head of the
shape required to suit the gauffre, crimp, or plait is added or formed on the

page_text: edge of each plate, and a nick or part is cut away longitudinally through the
centre of the rising edge of each plate to receive a steel rod or bar, or a chain;
the effect is to form a groove in the centre of the material to be crimped or
gauffered. Where more grooves than one are required, then as many grooves
must be cut in the plates, and as many rods or chains used as there are
required to be grooves in the material. Two endless chains are made to work
opposite each other to form a gauffering or crimping machine, in the manner
described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me for England, the
15th day of May. 1844.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hesketh Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HESKETП
HUGHES, of Homerton, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Hesketh Hughes, Her special licence that I, the said Hesketh Hughes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Hesketh
Hughes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAUFFERING
AND CRIMPING MACHINES, PARTS OF WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF
CONTINUOUS BELTS AND SHUTTERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Hesketh Hughes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hesketh Hughes, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.

page_text: statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists in forming a continuous band, whether for revolving
shutters or for gauffering and crimping machines from plates or strips of
metal, parts of one side of each plate being cut away, and the metal between
the parts so cut away being twisted at right angles or nearly so to the face of
the plate; one or two holes is or are pierced in the twisted end for the
reception of a rod of metal or of links to hold the plates together, and so form
a continuous length. For gauffering and crimping machines a bead of the
shape required to suit the gauffre, crimp, or plait is added or formed on the
edge of each plate, and a nick or part is cut away longitudinally through the
centre of the rising edge of each plate to receive a steel rod or bar or a chain;
the effect is to form a groove in the centre of the material to be crimped or
gauffered. Where more grooves than one are required, then as many grooves
must be cut in the plates, and as many rods or chains used as there are
required to be grooves in the material. Two endless chains are made to work
opposite each other to form a gauffering or crimping machine, in the manner
described in the Specification of a Patent granted to me for England, the
15th day of May, 1844.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of one of the plates or strips
of metal with parts cut away, and shewing the metal or lugs remaining between
those parts before being twisted at an angle to the face of the plate employed
in the formation of a continuous band. Figure 2 is an end, and Figure 3 a
face view of a plate after the lugs have been twisted. Figures 4 and 5 are
end and face views respectively of a modification of the plate just described.
Here instead of the plate and lugs being formed in one piece, the plate is in
the form of a rod split for the reception of the lugs, which are afterwards
braized or rivetted to the rod.
Figure 6 is a side elevation of two endless, bands composed of a number of
the plates shewn in Figures 2 and 3. To form these endless bands I take a
number of the plates and pass rods a, a, through holes made in the lugs b, b;
I then form a head on the ends of the rods to prevent them slipping out from
the lugs. To suit some patterns to be gauffered or crimped, I form a bead on
the top edge of the plates, as shewn in the cross section of a plate at Figure 7,
and in some cases I make a cut in the plates, as shewn at a, Figure 3, or
otherwise divide the plates, and place in the cut or space between the plates a
steel rod or bar, or a chain, as shewn at Figure 6, fixed to the machine, or
two or more cuts or divisions may be made in the plates. These bars must
be thinned off at the ends where the fabric is to be introduced, to allow a

page_text: certain portion to be gauffered before the bars take effect; I sometimes make
the bars hollow and pass steel through them. A piece of muslin or other
fabric to be operated upon is introduced between the endless belts, Figure 6,
which being caused to travel by motion communicated to rollers over which
they are stretched, carry the fabric between them, and deliver it gauffered or
crimped from the end of the apparatus opposite that at which it entered.
Figures 8, 9, and 10, are views of a series of my plates united together by
links d, d, to form a continuous band, and applicable as blinds, shutters, and
many other purposes in which continuous metal belts may be required.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the making plates with lugs, and the uniting a series thereof into an
endless band to form a gauffering and crimping surface, and the employment
of two of such bands made to travel against each other to form a gauffering
and crimping machine in combination with the grooving bars or not, all
as herein-before described.
Second, the making plates with lugs and the uniting a series thereof into a
continuous belt, as herein-before described, to be employed as blinds, shutters,
and otherwise.
And third, the forming and uniting such plates into endless belts, as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hesketh Hughes, have hereunto set my
haud and seal, this Sixth day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine.
HESKETH HUGHES. (L.S.)