Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1888
I, CHARLES HENRY PRIESTLEY of the firm of Briggs Priestley and Sons, of
Laisterdyke, Bradford, in the County of York, Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct a foundation upon which the cloth or
piece of material is wound in making up, of such a form as shall prevent wrinkling or
crimping or otherwise damaging the material as is the case with such foundations as
are in use at the present time.
The invariable practice in rolling piece goods has hitherto been to roll them round a
comparatively thin flat board.
The piece, if rolled with a moderate degree of tightness, as is usual, is found on being
unrolled to be more or less full of wrinkles and crimps, especially towards the end of
the piece next to the board.
I avoided this fault by making special rolling machines fitted with varying
breaks which enabled me to roll with great tightness, and I found by this means
1 had avoided the creases and crimping, but the tightness with which the piece was.
rolled around the board, caused the comparatively thin edges of the board to emboss
or press the piece through many folds of the cloth.
I have also found that owing to the shrinking or skellering of the board caused by
the drying of the board after the piece was rolled on it, there was produced an
objectionable wrinkling of the cloth, and in order to avoid these difficulties, I have
constructed a hollow foundation of papier maché, the long edges of which being
rounded like a roller, are not so likely to emboss or press the piece, and at the same
time producing a foundation which is not liable to shrinkage through changes of
temperature and climate; and being tight forms an essential condition of its suitability,
when the lifting about of the piece by the retailer is concerned, apart from the con-
sideration of packing and transport.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Foundations or Rolling Boards for Piece
Goods.
I, CHARLES HENRY PRIESTLEY, of the firm of Briggs Priestley and Sons, of
Laisterdyke, Bradford, in the County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what mannor the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statoment :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in the foundations or what is
commonly known as rolling boards for piece goods and has for its object the con-
struction of foundations in such a manner, as will prevent the wrinkling or crimping or
otherwise damaging the material which is wound thereon, as is the case with the
ordinary foundations or Rolling Boards in use hitherto.
Hitherto the invariable practice in rolling piece goods has been to roll them
round a comparatively thin flat board. The piece if rolled with a moderate
degree of tightness, as is usual, is found on being unrolled to be more or less full
of wrinkles and crimps, especially towards the end of the piece next to the board.
This I avoided by making special rolling machines fitted with varying breaks which
enabled me to roll with great tightness, and I found by this means I had avoided the
creases, and crimping, but the tightness with which the piece was rolled around the
board, caused the comparatively thin edges of the board to emboss or press through
many folds of the cloth.
I have also found that owing to the shrinking or skellaring of the board after the
piece was rolled on it, there was produced an objectionable wrinkling of the cloth, and
in order to avoid these difficulties; I have constructed a hollow foundation of papier
machè; the long edges of which being rounded like a roller the liability to emboss the
piece is avoided.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will further describe
the same by making reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1. represents a view of my improved foundation having the ends formed
with wood.
Fig. 2. is a longitudinal section through same.
Fig. 3. is a cross section.
Fig. 4. is an end view.
Fig. 5. is a view of one of my improved foundations formed entirely of papier-
machè.
Fig. 6. is a longitudinal section through same.
Fig. 7. is a cross section.
Fig. 8. is an end view.
I construct a hollow foundation of papier machè, A. the long edges B. B. being
rounded like a roller, in each end of the said foundation I insert and secure therein
wood ends (!(the penianting portions C101 being raduent to the thickness of on

page_text: The spaces D. D. caused by the reduction of the ends C. C. may be utilised for
advertising the number of yards or the like.
In figure 5 the foundation is formed entirely of papier mache having the ends C. C.
covered with a sheet of paper or the like-the long edges B. B. rounded like a roller
as in Fig. 1, the said edges being so formed are not so liable to emboss, press, or other-
wise damage the piece rolled thereon, and at the same time producing a foundation.
which is not so liable to shrinkage through changes of climate and temperature, and
being light forms an essential condition of its suitability when the lifting about of the
piece by the retailer is concerned.
Having now particularly described and
invention and in what manner the same is
I claim is :
ascertained the nature of my said
to be performed I declare that what
The herein before described rolling board arranged substantially in the manner and
for the purpose herein set forth.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent for Applicant.