Improvements in Instruments or Devices and Arrangements to be used for Outting Fustian.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Instruments or Devices and Arrangements to be
used for Outting Fustian.
1, HERBERT FORD-SMITH, of Hadfield Street Works, Cornbrook, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention to be as follows:-
Fustian is cut by a small knife placed and held in a pointed thin metal trough or
shield and this trough has a stem connected to it, which is attached to or carried
by a suitable holder, by which the workman holds and presents the point of the
thin metal trough or shield carrying the cutting knife to the threads on the face
of the fabric to be cut as it passes along.
In using the cutting instrument the point of the thin metal trough or shield
passes under the threads to be cut and they are cut by passing over its knife, and
the point of the shield is liable at times to pass through the fabric and if not
instantly released from the holder a slit of more or less length will be made in the
cloth which is thereby damaged.
The liability to the puncturing and slitting the fabric increases with the speed at
which the cloth passes along.
Hitherto complicated combinations and arrangements of mechanism have been
used for holding and guiding the cutting instrument and releasing it from the
holder when it pierces the cloth.
My invention relates to and consists in simple devices and means of securing the
cutting instrument to the stock or handle by which it is held, guided and directed
while cutting the threads on the face of the cloth, and whereby should the
instrument pass through the fabric being operated upon, it will be instantly
released from the stock or holder and consists of a rod round by preference of
steel or other suitable metal, which is secured in a suitable handle for the workman
who is to hold and direct it.
The forward end of this rod is slotted longitudinally, this slot being vertical
when the holder is in the position in which it is being used, and the under part of
the round rod is cut away, and its front end is bevelled and made with two
projections forming a groove between them on its underside and the rearward end
is slightly grooved in the lengthway of the rod and terminates in a shoulder or
ledge on the underside of the rod.
The cutting instrument is inserted between the two projections on the underside
of the bevelled end of the rod, and its rearward end rests in the slight groove and
against the shoulder on the rod. The slot in the lengthway of the rod gives a
slight elasticity so that its two projections under the bevelled end will clip and
hold the cutting instrument steady and from moving sideways.
The cutting instrument thus placed in the holder or stock is secured and held
therein by the coils of a narrow thin slip of paper or other similar suitable
material wound round both the rod and cutting instrument to bind the two
together, the end of the slip of paper being secured at the rear end by gummed
paper or other means.
The cutting instrument is thus sufficiently secured to the holder and should the
point of the thin metal shield go through the cloth the cloth will pass between the
bevelled end of the rod or holder, and the cutting instrument, and will tear or cut

page_text: the coils of thin paper or similar suitable material binding the two together, and
thus instantly release the cutting instrument from the stock or holder.
Dated this Twelfth day of January 1894.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Instruments or Devices and Arrangements to be
used for Cutting Fustian.
I, HERBERT FORD-SMITH, of Hadfield Street Works, Cornbrook, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Fustian is cut by a small knife placed and held in a pointed thin metal trough
or shield, and this trough has a stem connected to it, which is attached to or
carried by a suitable holder, by which the workman holds and presents the point
of the thin metal trough or shield, carrying the cutting knife to the threads on the
face of the fabric to be cut, as it passes along.
In using the cutting instrument, the point of the thin metal trough or shield
passes under the threads to be cut and they are cut by passing over its knife, and
the point of the shield is liable at times to pass through the fabric and if not
instantly released from the holder a slit of more or less length will be made in the
cloth which is thereby damaged.
The liability to the puncturing and slitting the fabric increases with the speed at
which the cloth passes along.
Hitherto complicated combinations and arrangements of mechanism have been
used for holding and guiding the cutting instrument and releasing it from the
holder when it pierces the cloth.
My invention relates to and consists in simple devices and means of securing the
cutting instrument to the stock or handle by which it is held, guided and directed
while cutting the threads on the face of the cloth, and whereby should the
instrument pass through the fabric being operated upon it will be instantly released
from the stock or holder, and consists of a rod round by preference of steel or
other suitable metal, which is secured in a suitable handle for the workman who is
to hold and direct it.
The forward end of this rod is slotted longitudinally, this slot being vertical
when the holder is in the position in which it is being used, and the under part of
the round rod is cut away, and its front end is bevelled and made with two
projections forming a groove between them on its underside and the rearward end
is slightly grooved in the lengthway of the rod and terminates in a shoulder or
ledge on the underside of the rod.
The cutting instrument is inserted between the two projections on the underside
of the bevelled end of the rod, and its rearward end rests in the slight groove and
against the shoulder on the rod. The slot in the lengthway of the rod gives a
slight elasticity so that its two projections under the bevelled end will clip and hold
the cutting instrument steady and from moving sideways.
The cutting instrument thus placed in the holder or stock is secured and held
therein by the coils of a narrow thin slip of paper or other similar suitable
material wound round both the rod and cutting instrument to bind the two
together, the end of the slip of paper being secured at the rear end by gummed
paper or other means.
The cutting instrument is thus sufficiently secured to the holder and should the
point of the thin metal shield go through the cloth the cloth will pass between the
bevelled end of the rod or holder, and the cutting instrument, and will tear or cut

page_text: the coils of thin paper or similar suitable material binding the two together, and
thus instantly release the cutting instrument from the stock or holder.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation of my improved instrument for cutting fustian.
It is shown full size except that parts of the rod or carrier are supposed to be
broken away in order to bring it into less space on the drawing.
Fig. 2, is a top plan view, that is a view in a plane at a right angle to that of
Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, is a view of the underside of that end of the rod or carrier having the
cutter attached to it.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are views of the end of the rod or carrier to which the cutter
is attached, but without the cutter.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are views corresponding respectively to Figs. 1, 2 and 3.
Fig. 44, is a cross sectional elevation at A Fig. 4, looking in the direction pointed
by the arrow on Fig. 4.
Fig. 4B, is a similar sectional elevation at B Fig. 4, looking in a direction
opposite to that pointed by the arrow on Fig. 4.
Fig. 7, is a side view, and
Fig. 8, a top view of the cutting instrument detached from the carrier, but shown
respectively in Figs. 1 and 2, in connection with the rod or carrier.
Fig. 9, is a side, and Fig. 10, a top view of the ordinary cutting instrument in
its sheath detached from the rod or carrier.
Fig. 11, shows the side view of another form of handle in which the rod or
carrier is secured.
Fig. 12, shows a similar handle to that represented in Fig. 11, but a different
mode of securing the handle to the rod or carrier.
Fig. 13, shows another mode of securing the rod or carrier and handle.
The rod or carrier a, is of metal of any desired length.
It may be tubular for lightness except at the end where the cutter is attached
which is solid.
The end of this rod or carrier a, is passed through a hole in the handle b, and
through a hole in the eye of a bolt 61, which fits a recess in the handle 6, the
screwed part of the bolt from the eye part passes through a hole in the handle b,
and then through a hole in a plate 63, forming a washer, and is then secured by a
Screw nut b³.
By this means the rod or carrier a, can be secured in any desired position and at
any desired angle in the handle b.
Figs. 11, 12 and 13 show another form of handle b.
In Fig. 11, the mode of securing is similar to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by an
eye bolt and screw nut.
In Fig. 12, a set screw 6, is used, that acts upon a part 6ª, passing through a
slot in the handle, and in Fig. 13, a key wedge b, is used.
The end of the rod or carrier a, to which the cutting instrument is secured, is
shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, with the cutting instrument c, attached and in Figs. 4, 5
and 6, without the cutting instrument.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 and Figs. 44 and Fig. 4B, show the shape of the rod or carrier a,
at that end where the cutting instrument c, is attached.
The rod or carrier is formed like a hook at one end and is forked as shown in
Figs. 5, 6 and Fig. 4"; at A Fig. 4, it is shaped as shown in the figures and by
the cross sectional elevation Fig. 4^.
The sheath c, for the cutter, or cutter carrying the sheath, is inserted and held
as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.
The shank part of the sheath c, Figs. 7 and 8, comes between the projections
from the hook prongs a', at one end and rests at its inner end in a groove a².
The hook end is forked so as to be slightly elastic in order to grip the sides of
the stem of the sheath c.
When in position as shown in Fig. 1, there is a space a³, between the shank part
of the sheath, and the rod or carrier a, and one end of a thin slip of paper or

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other similar material is passed between the shank of the instrument and the
rod or carrier a; near its hook end, and is then wound round both the stem of the
sheath and the rod or carrier spirally, as shown in dotted line in Fig. 1, and
the other end of the slip of paper is then secured to the rod or carrier a, by gum,
or a small piece of gummed paper so that the stem of the sheath c, is thus
sufficiently secured to the rod or carrier a.
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The end of the slip of paper after being wound round the rod or carrier and
stem of the sheath c, may be secured by being drawn under a spring or thin plate
secured to the rod a, by a screw, if desired.
The sheath c, shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and by Figs. 7 and 8, is pointed at its
front end, and has a groove longitudinally in the centre of its upper face for the
actual cutter c', a thin piece of steel placed in the groove in the sheath and held
therein by a small hoop.
The upper edge of the thiu piece of steel is the knife or cutter c.
C,
In place of the sheath c, and cutter c', shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8, the
ordinary sheath and cutter may be substituted if preferred, shown by Figs. 9
and 10.
This cutter is formed by the stem c³, which terminates wedge shaped at one
end forming at that end a thin sharp blade or knife c, which has placed upon
it a sheath of thin metal c, the sheath is pointed to enter the loops of the fabric
to be cut.
The ordinary stem and cutter c³, and its sheath c', is attached to and held in
the rod or carrier a, in the same way as the sheath c, and cutter c', shown by
Figs. 7 and 8.
In using my improved instrument should the point of the sheath pass through
the fabric at any time, the cloth will come between the stem c, of the sheath and
the bevelled end of the rod or carrier a, as shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 1,
and the cloth will thus force the stem of the sheath from between the projections
of the fork at the end of the carrier a, and will pass between the stem c, and the
carrier a, and at the same time shear or tear the slip of paper binding the two
together and thus release the sheath and its knife and allow it to pass through the
cloth without making a large slit in it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The mode of constructing rods, or carriers (a) and of attaching the cutting
instrument (c) thereto, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The mode of constructing sheaths (c) and attaching the knife or cutter (c¹)
thereto, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated
by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the drawings.
3. The combination of rod or carrier (a) and cutting device (c) or instrument (c³)
and handle (6) substantially as and for the 'purpose hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
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PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.