IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR FINISHING VELVETS AND VELVETEENS AND OTHER SIMILAR PILED FABRICS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Cooper, of Limefield, near Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR FINISHING VELVETS AND
VELVETEENS AND OTHER SIMILAR PILED FABRICS."
Sealed the 26th January 1877, and dated the 28th November 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Cooper at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th November 1876.
FREDERICK COOPER, of Limefield, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR FINISHING
VELVETS AND VELVETEENS AND OTHER SIMILAR PILED FABRICS."
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This Invention relates to the ordinary machines employed for finishing or
pegging" velvets, velveteens, and other similar piled fabrics, the object of the
Invention being to enable such to finish the fabrics up to the front end of the piece,
or nearly so, instead of leaving about a yard unfinished which required to be after-
wards finished by hand as usually practised.
In place of the ordinary plain tension roller close to the lower end of the
"finishing plate" in such machine I mount a roller covered with wire card, and on
one end of such roller I fix a ratchet wheel provided with a pawl. The velvet or
other fabric to be finished passes over this wire card roller, then back under a plain
tension roller placed beneath the plate, and then forward to the ordinary card
covered roller which draws the piece through the machine. The consequence of this
arrangement is that as the wire card on the first named roller takes a firm hold on
the back of the velvet or other fabric and the ratchet wheel prevents the action of
the "peg" from drawing the velvet or other piled fabric backwards, and thus the
finishing or pegging" of the said fabric may be cominenced close to the front end
thereof instead of about a yard from the end as ordinarily practised.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick Cooper in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th May
1877.
FREDERICK COOPER, of Limefield, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR FINISHING VELVETS
AND VELVETEENS AND OTHER SIMILAR PILED FABRICS."
"
This Invention relates to the ordinary machines employed for finishing or
pegging" velvets, velveteens, and other similar piled fabrics, the object of the
Invention being to enable such machines to finish the fabrics up to the front end
of the piece, or nearly so instead of leaving about a yard unfinished which required
to be afterwards finished by hand as usually practised.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe more fully the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect; and in order that the same may be clearly under-
stood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawing illustrative thereof, and have
marked the same with letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof: :-
The Drawing represents a sectional view of so much of a velvet finishing or
"pegging" machine as is necessary to illustrate my Invention.
a, a, is part of the framework of the machine, and b, b, the finishing plate, and c, c,
the "peg"; d, d, is the plain tension roller at the upper end of the finishing plate
over which the cloth passes.
In place of the ordinary plain tension roller close to the lower end of the finishing
plate b, b, in such machines I mount a roller e, e, covered with wire card, and on
one end of such roller I fix a ratchet wheel provided with a pawl. The velvet or
other fabric to be finished passes over this wire card roller e, e, then back under a
plain tension roller ff, placed beneath the plate b, b, and then forward to the
ordinary card covered roller which draws the piece through the machine.
The con-
sequence of this arrangement is that as the wire card on the first named roller c, e,
takes a firm hold on the back of the velvet or other fabric and the ratchet wheel
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prevents the action of the " peg" c, c, from drawing the velvet or other piled fabric
backwards, and thus the finishing or pegging" of the said fabric may be com-
menced close to the front end thereof instead of about a yard from the end as
ordinarily practised.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the use and adapta-
tion of a card covered roller in place of the plain roller at the lower end of the
finishing plate in combination with a plain roller placed beneath the plate in such
machines, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-before more par-
ticularly set forth and illustrated by the Drawing hereto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Cooper, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.