Improvements in the Manufacture of Bordered Ribbon, and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Bordered Ribbon, and in
Apparatus therefor.
I, WILHELM REMY, of Crefeld, in the German Empire, Ribbon Manufacturer,
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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of ribbon with bound edges; and
consists, first, in an improved method of producing the borders, and, secondly, in
apparatus adapted for use in such manufacture..
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a ribbon made in the old style; Fig. 2 being a similar
view of a ribbon constructed according to the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the apparatus employed in the manufacture of the improved
ribbon; Fig. 4 being a corresponding side view.
Fig. 5 is a section on the line a, x in Fig. 3.
Fig. 6 is a front elevation drawn to a larger scale.
Figs. 7 and 7 are detail views shewing one of the folders and one of the
guides.
Fig. 8 is an enlarged plan of the finished ribbon.
Velvet' ribbon with coloured edges has hitherto been made by placing a piece of
satin (Fig. 1) on the back of the velvet a; the latter having been first coated
with an adhesive substance. The satin and velvet are then laid together and
passed through a folding machine. The satin strip b, which must be broader
than the velvet a, is turned over the edges of the velvet, and then passed between
two heated rollers; the satin being pressed hard against the velvet or body part of
the ribbon.
Owing to the breadth of the strip b, a large quantity of satin is required in the
manufacture of the ribbon; thus making the same very expensive. Further,
the back of the finished article necessarily has the same colour as the edges
thereof.
The objects of the present invention are to do away with these disadvantages.
The improved ribbon is illustrated in Fig. 2; the comparatively broad velvet
being placed between the two doubled satin edges ', which may be of any desired
colour. Instead of velvet and satin, other materials may be employed.
bar e.
The machine used in making the new ribbon comprises two flat strips d and d¹
fastened at right angles to the bed A. Between the strips d and d¹ is a sliding
The holder, which serves as a guide for the bar e, is secured to the
other holder in the following manner :-The bar e carries a cross-piece S; the
holder f having a projecting piece g fastened to the cross-piece S by a thumb-
screw m. When the thumb-screw m is tightened down, the projecting piece g
is drawn toward the cross-piece S; the sliding bar e and the holder f¹ being thus
held fast.
The velvet a¹ or body part passes over the rounded edge n of the bed A to the
adjustable guide v (Figs. 3 and 4), and beyond the grooved guide-pins and i¹.
The guide-pin i is fastened to the movable part S, and the guide-pin to the
immovable bed A.
The velvet a and the two narrow satin strips b' are led into the machine together.
The strips band may be wound on rolls, like the velvet a, or held in any other
suitable manner.
The construction and arrangement of the folding mechanism is as follows:-The
holders and f' have slanting grooves into which the double-hooked folders k

page_text: are fitted; a gauge being placed between the opposite hooks so as to ensure the
folders being set parallel with the ribbon. There are two guides for the
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bordering strips placed on the top of the folders k; another set of folders k
being put on the guides . The folders are similar to the folders k. A screw 1
having a nut 2 passes through each set of folders and guide k, land k¹; serving to
secure the same firmly in place. A cover u is fixed between the guides ¹ for the
purpose of preventing any creasing or unevenness of the ribbon.
The loosely-covered ribbon is led through the guides and to a pair of
heated rollers W and W placed near the end of the guides, which effect the
finishing operation of pressing the edges of the ribbon. The strips and are
covered on one side with an adhesive substance, and pressed by the ends of the
rollers W and W, which are cogged. After this operation, the ribbon presents the
appearance indicated in Fig. 8. It is obvious that the ends of the rollers W and W1
may be grooved or cogged in any desired way so as to obtain a figured effect on
the edges and bi of the ribbon.
Ribbon made by the method described above costs much less, and is not inferior
to, woven ribbon.
By loosening the screw m and shifting the cross-piece S, ribbon of different
widths can be produced. By changing the guides, the machine can be adapted for
use with ribbon or bordering strips of various thicknesses. In Fig. 6, thick guides/
are shown Fig. 7B representing a thin guide /.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
1. The improved manufacture of bordered ribbon, substantially as: herein
described, and consisting in making the bordering strips separately, coating
them on one side with adhesive material, folding them over the edges of the
body part of the ribbon, and then passing them between suitable rollers, to ensure
the firm adhesion of the bordering strips about the edges of the ribbon.
2. In the manufacture of bordered ribbon of the improved kind herein referred
to, passing the edges to which borders are applied, as also the bordering strips,
through folders (k and k¹), and then between heated rollers (W and Wi), sub-
stantially as herein described.
3. The manufacture o. bordered ribben, substantially as herein described, and in
which strips for bordering the respective edges are made separately from the main
or body part of the ribbon and afterwards attached thereto in the manner herein set
-forth.
4. In the manufacture of bordered ribbon of the improved kind herein referred
to, the employment of apparatus constructed or operated substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 17th day of December 1892.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.