IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR USE IN EFFECTING, FRILLING, PLEATING, KILTING, GOFFERING AND SUCH LIKE OPERATIONS UPON MUSLIN OR OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Orange McConnell Chamberlain at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th May 1883.
ORANGE MCCONNELL CHAMBERLAIN of Hunger Hill Road in the Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham Engineer IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
USE IN EFFECTING, FRILLING, PLEATING, KILTING, GOFFERING AND SUCH LIKE
OPERATIONS UPON MUSLIN OR OTHER FABRICS."
The object of the invention is to simplify the construction and increase the
efficiency and speed of machinery for effecting frilling pleating crimping kilting
goffering and such operation upon fabrics with increased regularity and excellence
in the work produced
In apparatus commonly employed for pleating frilling and such like operations
upon fabrics the various pleats or folds are obtained by the action of a reciprocating
blade or part which gives the requisite creases to the fabric but such action is in
practice found to be imperfect
In carrying out my invention I provide a table or ledge over which the work or
material to be operated upon is fed to a pair of preliminary corrugated or ridged
rollers carried adjustably in guides having for their object a preliminary creasing
of the work to assist the subsequent operation of the parts or these first rollers
may be dispensed with and other means hereafter mentioned employed to effect
the regulation of the folds to be given to the work
The work or material then passes to between a pair of feeding rollers one of
which preferably the lower or pressing one being heated by gas or other suitable
means and the other say the upper one being formed with ridges and furrows or
raised and sunk grooves adapted to give a better hold upon the work especially
for small or fine work whilst for larger work it may be of a plain surface these
two rollers are geared together by suitable gearing driven by a handle or driving
wheel or pulley on the axis of one of them say the lower one and from between
these two rollers the work passes to another pressing or delivering roller carried in
bearings borne by arms swinging on bearings carried by the axes of the lower or
pressing roller before mentioned the said arms being retained at suitable positions
by means of screw studs traversing in curved guides in the framing or otherwise.

page_text: This latter pressing or delivering roller is also geared with and rolls or presses
upon the first mentioned pressing roller so as to revolve at a much slower rate
capable of adjustment. In the rear of and near the point of impinging of the
pressing and upper rollers is provided a suitable bar or plate or other suitable form
adapted to give a positive adjustment to the fold or pleat given to the work by
the crease or pucker arising from the difference of speed between the pressing
feeding rollers and the travel of the delivery or creasing roller; and where the
preliminary corrugated or ratchet shaped or other indented rollers; at the intake
of the machine are not employed; this creasing and pressing into regular pleats or
folds of the work is assisted by a piece or revolving or reciprocating appliance
having parts which in turn press upon or hold and for the instant retain in position
the pleats or folds until secured or pressed by the delivery or latter pressing rollers
These guiding and holding parts are capable of adjustment by means of screws and
nuts or suitable means
The pressure of the rollers upon one another for the feeding and delivery of the
work is obtained by spring or weight pressure capable of adjustment
The surface of the delivery or creasing roller is covered with suitable material
adapted to give a proper frictional hold upon the work-The whole is supported
by suitable framework.
Combined with the action of the above mentioned plaiting, pleating creasing or
goffering rollers and parts may be combined means for securing by sewing or
cementing suitable threads strips or bands to fix the same into a complete piece
or pieces of fabric as desired.
By these means I am enabled to attain the production of work of much better
quality with greatly increased speed and economy than is obtained by methods at
present employed.