AN IMPROVED WINDER AND ARRANGEMENT FOR WINDING AND PUTTING-UP VELVET AND OTHER RIBANDS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Theodor Anton Verkruzen and Moritz Anton
Verkruzen, of 96, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, for. the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED WINDER AND ARRANGEMENT FOR WINDING AND
PUTTING-UP VELVET AND OTHER RIBANDS."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Theodor Anton Verkruzen
and Moritz Anton Verkruzen, at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition and Declaration, on the 11th February 1865,
pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THEODOR
ANTON VERKRUZEN and MORITZ ANTON VERKRUZEN, of 96, Hatton Garden, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED WINDER
AND ARRANGEMENT FOR WINDING AND PUTTING-UP VELVET AND OTHER RIBANDS,"
and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto us, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made
solemn Declaration that we are the first and true Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE that we, the said Theodor Anton Verkruzen and Moritz
Anton Verkruzen, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification

page_text: under our hands and seals, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the
following statement, that is to say:-
Our Invention relates to an improved winder and block, and mode of
winding, blocking, and putting-up velvet and other ribands. The improved
winder is also the riband holder upon which the riband is intended when
wound to be sent out.
The objects of our said improved winder and winding arrangement, being
first to avoid the injury caused to the pile or face of the velvets or ribands by
"plushing" and creasing, consequent from the methods of card or flat winding
and putting them up by the manufacturer or wholesale vendor, hitherto in use.
Secondly, to save the retail vendor the loss of time, and the goods the injury
caused by the operation known in the trade by the term "blocking," which
is necessary more or less when the ribands are put up in the usual way, and
by which re-blocking operation the delicate pile surface of velvet ribands often
receives the greater part of the plushing and crushing injuries.
We propose to effect these improvements by means of a new form of winder
and block, which consists of a rotating cylinder and dise, and is to be made and
applied in the manner herein-after described and explained.
Our new winder itself forms the block, and when used, in the first instance
by the manufacturer in putting up the ribands renders the second winding or
re-blocking by the vendor wholly unnecessary. The new winder also greatly
facilitates the "re-blocking" when such operation is necessary, from the goods
having been put up and sent out to the retailer in the usual way.
Another advantage which the vendor will derive from the introduction of the
improved winder is the great facility thereby afforded for unwinding and
measuring off the ribands at the retail counter, while their twisting, untwisting,
and kinking is also thereby avoided.
The forms and modes of making the new winder block are illustrated upon
the accompanying Drawing and the mode of using and applying the same,
described in the following explanation referring thereto.
EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1 shews an elevation, or side view, of one of the improved winder
blocks, with the stand upon which it is to be placed underneath it, and upon
the pin, in the centre of which the winder rotates; Fig. 2, a transverse
section through both winder and stand; Fig. 8, a plan view thereof. Each
of these three Figures is lettered with similar letters.
a is the under plate or stand, carrying the pin b in the centre; this

page_text: under plate or slab may be made of wood or of any suitable substance, and is
intended to be used instead of fixing a pin to the counter.
If made of wood;
or other light material, it may be weighted to give it stability. c is a flat dise
of pasteboard, metal, thin wood, or any other material, or compound, suitable
for the purpose; d is the core, or cop, which may be hollow, or solid, and of a
cylindrical or other form at the periphery, and upon which the ribands are
wound and blocked. The disc and core, or cop, are each formed with a hole
in the centre, and are fixed together by gluing or otherwise, so that the centres
of the two holes are opposite each other. When the riband is wound upon
the winder block, thus formed by placing it upon the stand pin and turning it
thereon, the disc forms a kind of flange or foundation, upon which the edges
of the riband rest and are protected. e is a loose fork or handle, the ends of
which fit into the holes d', d', in the cop, for turning the cop, or cop and disc
together; ff, f, are small pins or points projecting a little from the periphery
of the cop for holding the end or loop of the riband g.
The winding operation is performed in the following manner:-The riband
being doubled, pile to pile, in the usual way (or singly if required) is placed
with the fold (or end) upon the points f; the ends of the loose fork are then
inserted in the holes d', d', which are intended to be of the same size and
gauge
in all cases, so that one fork will fit all winders and the cop, or cop and disc
being then turned by applying the band to the upper part of the fork, the
riband is thus wound spirally round the core, or centre, by one hand, and
guided by the other until the required quantity is reeled, when the loose end
may be secured by a pin, or otherwise. A top disc may be added, if desired.
The velvet or other riband being thus wound is ready for packing, or putting
up, to be sent out either from the manufactory to the wholesale or retail
dealer, winder, and all entire and complete.
In order to prevent the cop and disc from separating, we propose to fix
them together by means of a small pipe, formed with a flange at one end, the
unflanged end of this pipe being first passed through the hole in the disc and
then through the hole in the cop, is spread by inserting the point of a cone in
the end. The flange gives additional strength to the disc, and also allows the
cop to be turned round upon it, or with it, as may be required when intended to
turn upon the pipe, and not with the disc. We interpose a piece of clean paper
between the cop and disc, and fix the paper to the cop so that it may rotate
therewith and protect the edges of the coiled riband from being rubbed in the
winding or blocking operation. h is a small spring on the stand, for holding
the disc temporally in any required position. Fig. 4 shews a small frame,
intended to be used in the manufactory for performing the first winding

page_text: blocking operation, or putting up the ribands on the improved winder. i is an
elongating spindle with a hole in the bottom for receiving the upper end of the
winding fork; j is a small bevil wheel, in gear with a similar wheel on the
shaft k, both being turned by the handle with one hand, while the riband is
guided with the other, as before described.
Having thus described the nature and object of our said Invention, and
illustrated the winder and winding arrangement by Drawing, we hereby
further declare that we do not restrict ourselves to the precise form of the
core, or other parts, or mode of fastening the ends in winding, shewn upon
such Drawing, but include such modifications therein as are herein-before
mentioned, or are identical with the same as regards the form and winding
arrangement accomplished thereby.
In witness whereof, we, the said Theodor Anton Verkruzen and Moritz
Anton Verkruzen, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.
THEODOR ANTON VERKKUZEN. (L.S.)
MORITZ ANTON VERKRÜZEN.
(L.S.)
THEODOR ANTON VERKKUZEN. (L.S.)
MORITZ ANTON VERKRÜZEN.
(L.S.)