AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING TEXTILE FABRICS INTO SMALL PORTIONS FOR PATTERNS, SAMPLES, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick John Trippe, of Southampton, in the
County of Southampton, Woollen Draper, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING TEXTILE FABRICS INTO SMALL PORTIONS
FOR PATTERNS, SAMPLES, AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 27th June 1873, and dated the 13th January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick John Trippe
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th January 1873.
I, FREDERICK JOHN TRIPPE, of Southampton, in the County of
Southampton, Woollen Draper, do hereby declare the nature of the.
said. Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING TEXTILE FABRICS
INTO SMALL PORTIONS FOR PATTERNS, SAMPLES, AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as
follows:
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The main body of the machine consists of a horizontal table supported
if desired upon a suitable stand; an endless band which passes over two
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page_text: forwards or backwards over the table, and has motion imparted to it by
a crank handle which is attached to the axis of one of the rollers.
In connection with the before-mentioned portion of the machine is a
screw press, in the foot of which a long slot is cut or made, and
immediately under and parallel with such last-mentioned slot is a similar
horizontal slot cut or formed in the bed of the machine.
The fabric or fabrics which it is desired to cut is or are laid in as
many thicknesses as may be desired upon the endless band and carried by
it up to a regulating guage, and held firmly by the pressure of the
before-mentioned screw press.
A suitable knife provided by preference with a handle similar to that
of a saw is arranged to work by hand vertically through the before-
mentioned slots which act as guides thereto, and the fabric or fabrics
being held firmly in position by the press on both sides of the knifo
as it passes through a clean cut is ensured.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick John Trippe in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
JOHN TRIPPE, of Southampton, in the County of Southampton, Woollen
Draper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Frederick John Trippe, Her special
licence that I, the said Frederick John Trippe, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick
John Trippe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thercafter 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 AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING TEXTILE FABRICS INTO

page_text: SMALL PORTIONS FOR PATTERNS, SAMPLES, AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon tho
condition (amongst others), that I, the said Frederick John Trippe,
my executors or adminstrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describo
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 im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick John Trippe, 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a
machine whereby textile fabrics can be advantageously and rapidly cut
into small portions suitable for employment as patterns, or samples, and
also for other purposes.
The main body of the machine consists of a horizontal table supported
if desired upon a suitable stand; an endless band which passes over
two rollers provided for that purpose is arranged so as to work either
forwards or backwards over the table, and has motion imparted to it by
a crank handle or wheel which is attached to the axis of one of the
rollers.
In connection with the before-mentioned portion of the machine is a
screw press, the foot of which is screwed or otherwise suitably affixed
upon the before-mentioned table, the same being guided in its descent
by the two vertical posts to which the bridge of the screw press is
attached. In the said foot of the press a long slot is formed or provided,
and immediately under and parallel with such last-mentioned slot is a
similar horizontal slot cut or formed in the bed of the machine.
The fabric or fabrics which it is wished to cut is or are laid in as
many thicknesses as may be desired, or as can be conveniently placed
under the press upon the endless band, and carried by the latter up to a
regulating guage, and held firmly by the pressure of the before-
mentioned screw press.
A suitable knife provided by preference with a handle similar to that
of an ordinary hand saw is arranged to work vertically by manual power

page_text: through the before-mentioned slots, which act as guides thereto, and the
fabric or fabrics being held firmly in position by the press on both sides
of the knife as it passes through the same a clean cut is ensured.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original and therefore claim as
constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is, the combination and arrangement of parts and
mechanism, substantially as and for the purposes herein-before described
and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick John Trippe, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
soventy-three.