Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Measuring Cloth, Ribbon, 66 and other Goods in the Roll or Piece."
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Measuring Cloth, Ribbon,
66
and other Goods in the Roll or Piece."
I FRANK GARDENER WIGLEY of 103 and 104 Wood Street, in the City of
London, Commission Agent (communicated to me from abroad by E. L. Page of
Greene, in the State of New York, one of the United States of America, Merchant
and Shipper,) 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide means for readily and accurately
ascertaining the length of cloth, ribbon or other goods in a roll without unwinding
COMPLETE SPECIFEBAMEIN
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Measuring Cloth, Ribbon,
and other Goods in the Roll or "Piece."
I FRANK GARDENER WIGLEY of 103 and 104 Wood Street, in the City of
London, Commission Agent (communicated to me from abroad by E. L. Page of
Greene, in the State of New York, one of the United States of America, Merchant
and Shipper,) 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide means for readily and accurately
ascertaining the length of cloth, ribbon or other goods in a roll without unwinding
the goods and possibly thereby damaging them,
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews the implement for measuring the diameter of the cloth or goods in
the roll.
Fig. 2 shews the implement out of use, in perspective side view.
Fig. 3 shews a side view of the implement to a larger scale.
Fig. 4 shews the sliding arm separately in end view.
Fig. 5 shews the implement by an end view partly in section and
Fig. 6 shews a portion of a chart for use with said measuring implement.
a is the staff having marked upon it the required scale and b is a fixed arm or
finger. e is a sliding arm, or finger and the rolls of goods are measured as to
diameters and these dimensions being ascertained by reading off the points on the
scale indicated by the line c¹ of the sliding arm and the number of enwrappings or
windings having been ascertained with the aid of a needle or pointer, in manner
indicated by Fig. 2 reference is had to a chart (see Fig. 6) on which are arranged
figures which give the result of calculations of the relative lengths of goods enrolled
in rolls of given diameter and number of convolutions.
Thus supposing the number of folds or convolutions of cloth in a roll to be 20
and the diameter of the roll is by the aid of the scale to be 10 inches then reference
is had to a chart such as that of which Fig. 6 is a sample portion and by reading
off the figures contained in the compartment (C) where the selected horizontal
column (A) meets the selected vertical column (B) of the chart the desired result
viz. 11 yards and 5 inches will be obtained.
In measuring goods having a central hollow, as in the case of thin metal or oil-
cloths or linoleum allowance must be made for any hollow in the middle.
By careful and accurate admeasurement of the roll or piece and counting of the
folds or enwrappings, with reference to the chart, very accurate results as to the
lengths of cloth or other goods remaining in a piece after odd lengths have been
cut off can be immediately attained.
The chart a portion of which is shewn by Fig. 6 may be indefinitely extended
by additional calculation but sufficient is here shewn for the illustration of the
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The means or apparatus for use in ascertaining the length of a piece or

page_text: portion of cloth or other goods in the roll or
forth.
Dated the 3rd day of November 1893..
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piece "substantially as set
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.