IMPROVEMENTS IN ADAPTING TAPES, RIBBONS, AND OTHER SUCH NARROW FABRICS OR THREAD TO SURFACES FROM WHICH THEY MAY BE UNWOUND OR UPON WHICH THEY MAY BE RE-WOUND
Year: 1863

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County of Lancaster, Manufacturer and Merchant, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ADAPTING TAPES, RIBBONS, AND OTHER SUCH NARROW FABRICS
OR THREAD TO SURFACES FROM WHICH THEY MAY BE UNWOUND OR UPON WHICH
THEY MAY BE RE-WOUND."
Sealed the 8th December 1863, and dated the 13th June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said. Marcus Brown Westhead
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th June 1863.
I, MARCUS BROWN WESTHEAD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADAPTING TAPES, RIBBONS, AND OTHER BUCH NARROW
FABRICS OR THREAD TO SURFACES FROM WHICH THEY MAY BE UNWOUND OR UPON WHICH
THEY MAY BE RE-WOUND," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to make up tapes, ribbons, and other such
narrow fabrics or thread, in such manner that the consumer may be able to
unwind or rewind them, and retain the coils in a compact form. This I accom-
plish by applying a clip, which acts as a drag and binds one coil upon another,
although allowing any required length to be drawn off or re-wound; and I also
employ with the said clip lateral guides. According to one arrangement the
tape or other such article is wound for sale upon a cylindrical block, and upon
its surface is placed a small roller of glass, earthenware, or other suitable sub-

page_text: stance. This roller is drawn downward to the centre by an elastic band, so
that the desired pressure or drag is obtained, and side guides are at the same
time formed by the band, or flanges projecting from the roller may form the
side guides, or instead of these arrangements the side guides and pressure
roller may be detached from each other.
Another method of carrying out my Invention consists in causing the
material to pass twice through a fastening similar to a buckle without teeth,
by which means one coil is clipped with another, and the outward coil may be
drawn off or re-wound as desired. With this arrangement also the side guides
may be adopted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Marcus Brown Westhead in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME I, MARCUS
BROWN WESTHEAD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer
and Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Marcus Brown Westhead, Her special license that 1, the said Marcus Brown
Westhead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the
said Brown Marcus Westhead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
ADAPTING TAPE, RIBBONS, AND OTHER SUCH NARROW FABRICS OR THREAD TO SURFACES
FROM WHICH THEY MAY BE UNWOUND OR UPON WHICH THEY MAY BE RE-WOUND," upon
the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Marcus Brown Westhead,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marcus Brown Westhead, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (and accompanying Drawings) that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to wind or make up tapes, ribbons, and other
such narrow fabrics or thread, such as is used for crotchet or other purposes, in
such manner that the consumer may be able to unwind or rewind them, and
retain the coils in a compact form. In the accompanying Drawing I have
shewn two methods by which my Invention may be carried into effect: Figs.
1 and 2 represent in two views a coil of tape or ribbon with my improvements
applied. At a is a disc or cylinder of wood or other suitable material, whose
periphery in this case forms the surface upon which the tape or ribbon b is
wound in the usual manner. Through a central hole in this disc is passed a
strip of india-rubber c, which is threaded through a roller d, the ends of the
said strip being then united. The roller d I construct of glass, but it may be
of other material. The elastic band c, therefore, draws the roller d downward
upon the coils of tape or ribbon, and thus acts as a clip to bind the one upon
the other. Suppose a length of the material to be required, the coil may be
held in one hand and the end e drawn with the other until the desired quantity
is unwound; but as the clip above described acts as a drag, this is effected
without a disturbance of the coils, a result which is assisted by the elastic
band c constituting side guides for keeping them in their places laterally. If a
greater length be drawn off than is required it is readily wound again in a
compact form by holding the roller d in one hand and turning round the coils
of tape or ribbon with the other. Figs. 3, 4, and 5, represent another method
by which my Invention may be carried into effect. The disc or cylinder of
wood as before is at a, and the coils of tape or ribbon at b; in this instance,
however, the elastic band c is dispensed with, and a rigid metal clip is employed
which binds one coil to another. The clip consists of three cross pieces g, h, i,
united by side pieces k, which extend inwards a short distance so as to support
a certain number of the coils transversely.
will be best seen at Fig. 5, which is a diagram representing a section thereof,
and two coils of the tape, ribbon, or other such article. The second coil from
the outside is shewn at 1, passing under the cross piece i, over h, and under g,
after which it completes a circumference and passes in the same manner under
and over the said cross pieces g, h, i, issuing at m, and there constitutes the end
from which any desired length may be drawn. It will therefore be seen that
two coils of the tape or other such article are continually bound together, and
that the apparatus constitutes a drag for regulating the unwinding. The re-wind-
The manner of applying the clip

page_text: ing may be effected as before described in reference to Figs. 1 and 2. .Figs. 6
and shew another modification of my Invention. In this instance the tape,
ribbon, or other fabric is wound upon itself, and the first coil is used as the
surface upon which the other part of the fabric is wound; the elastic band c
is inserted through the central aperture formed in the first coil, which may
itself be conveniently formed by simply winding the fabric upon a spindle
which is afterwards withdrawn. Figs. 8 and 9 shew this modification of
my Invention, and in conjunction with a metal clip described in reference to
Figs. 3, 4, 5.
.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I claim, as secured
to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent, the application of a roller,
or, clip, or drag, used with or without elastic side guides for the purposes and
in the manner above described and shown in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marcus Brown Westhead,. have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
MARCUS BROWN WESTHEAD. (L.S.)