AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR TAWING OR DRESSING SKINS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for tho
Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR TAWING OR
DRESSING SKINS."--A communication from abroad by Charles Molinier,
of No. 64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th April 1874.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR TAWING
OR DRESSING SKINS," a communication to me from abroad by Charles'
Molinier, of No. 64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, to be as
followe

page_text: A, A, A, A, indicate a table moveable on hinges c, c, c, upon cross
piece TT, and worked at pleasure by the treadle PP. This table
receives the skins which are to be stripped or fleshed. The skins are
seized between the cross pieces TR, TR, TR, TR, which are made to
approach and recede from cach other by means of the levers LL.
Introduced between the said cross pieces, the skins are placed upon the
above-mentioned table A A, and brought forward under the cylinder cy, cy. .
The table is then raised to such a height as will permit the cylinder to
act on the skin. At this moment a double action takes place; the
cylinder cy, cy, is driven from the pulley P.O, and in rotating draws
towards it and at the same time stretches the skin seized between the
cross pieces TR, TR. These cross pieces, set to slide on the iron
bars BR, BR, move along them until they meet the uprights M, M.
The skin is brought back towards the workman, and receives in this
motion the preparation of stripping or fleshing. The operation is then
recommenced by placing in front that side of the skin which was
behind, in order that all its parts may be submitted to the action of the
tool.
In order that the cylinder cy, cy, may operate as required, it is
armed with a variable number of blades of steel, copper, or other suitable
metal, which blades surround it, describing helicoidal curves.
To ensure rigidity of the table A A, and uniformity of action of the
cylinder cy, cy, the table is provided with a cast-iron plate H H, and to
give to the apparatus the elasticity required to avoid tearing the skins.
these cast-iron plates are covered with india-rubber bands and strong
leather.
The advantages of this method are general economy and perfection of
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent 3
Office on the 2nd October 1874.
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: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.

page_text: * WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special
licence that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, adminis-
brators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 OR APPARATUS FOR TAWING OR DRESSING SKINS," a
communication to me from abroad by Charles Molinier, of No. 64,
Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing represents a machine embodying
this Invention, Figure 1. being a general plan, Figure 2 a front elevation,
Fig. 3 a cross section, and Fig. 4 a detached part of same.
A, A, A, A, indicate a table, moveable on the hinges c, c, c, upon cross
piece TT, and worked at pleasure by the treadle PP: This table
receives the skins which are to be stripped or fleshed. The skins are
seized between the cross pieces TR, TR, which are made to approachi
and recede from cach other by means of the levers LL. Introduced
between the said cross pieces the skins are placed upon the above-
mentioned table A. and brought forward under the cylinder c y, cy.
The table is then raised to such a height as will permit the cylinder to
act on the skin. At this moment a double action takes place; the