Improvements in and connected with the Manufacture of Fabrics used for Covering Meat.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 15th Aug., 1900-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with the Manufacture of Fabrics used
for Covering Meat.
I, BINNS KERSHAW, of 62, Livesey Street, Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with the manufacture
of fabrics used for, covering meat and has for its object to furnish such fabrics
after having left the loom whether knitted or woven, with designs in one or more
colours so as to ornament and thereby render such fabric more serviceable,
attractive and pleasant to the eye and also to provide means for applying such
designs to the said fabric.
To this end when applying designs to knitted fabric intended for meat covers
I place the roll of knitted fabric on a beam suitably mounted and furnished with
a suitable letting-off arrangement or brake.
In connection with this letting-off beam I employ an opener or form over
which the knitted fabric is drawn and which serves to open out and act as a support
for the same whilst having the design applied by a suitable printing device
employed around the same.
In connection with this opener or form I employ another beam by which the
fabric furnished with the desired design is drawn over the same and on which
it is wound up again.
When applying designs to woven fabric intended for meat covers I also employ
a letting-off and taking up beam but instead of passing the fabric over an opener
or form I pass it over a table or support in connection with which I also employ
a suitable printing device.
The design or printing devices may in either case operate in a continuous or
intermediate manner and may consist of rollers, wheels or blocks suitably sup-
plied with colour or colours and be actuated from the fabric by contact therewith
or by mechanical means as described in Letters Patent granted to me No. 19126,
dated September, 8th, 1898, or in any other convenient manner.
Naho 1800
Improvements in and connected with the Manufacture of Fabrics used
for Covering Meat.
I, BINNS KERSHAW, of 62, Livesey Street, Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
ID 1

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement: —
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with the manufacture
of fabrics used for covering meat and has for its object to furnish such fabrics
after having left the loom whether knitted or woven, with designs in one or more
colours so as to ornament and thereby render such fabrics more serviceable,
attractive and pleasant to the eye and also to provide means for applying such
designs to the said fabrics.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a front view, Figs. 2 & 3 are sectional side views of a machine con-
structed in accordance with one form of my invention, and Fig. 4 a front view
and Fig. 5 & 6 are side views of a machine constructed in accordance with another
form of my invention.
In carrying out my invention and referring to Figs. 1, 2 & 3, when applying
designs to knitted fabric intended for meat covers, 1 place the roll a of knitted
fabric on a beam or shaft 6 suitably mounted in the top of the frame c and fur-
nished with a suitable form of letting-off arrangement or brake d and in the
bottom of the frame I suitably mount another beam or shaft e furnished with a
fast and loose pulley.
G
Between these beams or shafta b, e I employ a circular opener or form f over
which the knitted fabric f¹ is drawn and which serves to open out and act as a
support for the same whilst having the design applied by a suitable printing
device employed around the same.
In the present instance the said printing device consists of a colour trough f
having one or more wheels g mounted therein and employed inside a ring h
which is rendered horizontally movable upon rods i secured to the frame c and
placed under the influence of a weight k or spring which causes the ring hand
printing device as the fabric is drawn off the beam or shaft b to move laterally
with the fabric and thereby retain the printing wheels always in proper contact
therewith.
The ring his formed hollow and its orifice is less in diameter than that of
the opener or form f which causes the fabric as it is drawn from the beam or
shaft and wound on to the beam or shaft e to open out tubularly and permit
of being externally printed on by the wheel or wheels g whilst after leaving the
latter it will assume its original form again.
In lieu of rotating the printing wheels g by frictional contact with the fabric fi
continuously, as shown in Figs. 1 & 2, the same may be rotated intermittently,
as shown in Fig. 3, by employing the colour trough containing the printing
wheels g on a lever / which is pivoted by a stud m to the ring h and reciprocated
by means of a cam n secured upon the taking up beam or shaft & so as to bring
the printing wheel or wheels alternately in and out of contact with the fabric.
When applying designs to woven fabric intended for meat covers I also employ
a letting-off and taking up beam 6 & e but instead of passing the fabric over an
opener or form I tension the same by passing it over a table or support o, as shown
in Figs. 4, 5 & 6, in connection with which I also employ a suitable printing
device p.
In the present instance the said table or support is furnished at each end with
a roller of over the fabric f runs on its travel from the letting off to the taking
up beam or shaft.
In Figs. 4 & 5 two printing devices are employed, one p under the influence
of a spring or weight & laterally movable upon a shaft q secured to the frame c
and the other p between the said rollers, the wheels of the former printing the
upper half and those of the latter the bottom half of folded or tubular woven
fabric.

page_text: In Fig. 6 the fabric is passed through the machine single and only one printing
device is employed, the fabric after having been printed being cut and sewn
together to tubular form.
The method and means described for producing designs upon knitted or woven
fabrics for covering meat enables the manufacturers' merchant to keep unprinted
fabric in stock and to print the same as the demand may require, thus obviating
the necessity of keeping a large stock of printed fabrics of various designs to
ensure quick delivery.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
-
1st. The printing of knitted or woven fabric used for covering meat separate
from the loom in which it has been manufactured, all substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
2nd. A machine for printing knitted or woven fabric in the manner and such as
specified in the preceding claim, consisting of a printing and a tension device
employed between a letting off and a taking up beam or shaft, which tension
device opens or extends the fabric whilst passing the said printing device, all sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.