Means or Apparatus for Measuring and Registering the Length of Cloth in Milling Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means or Apparatus for Measuring and Registering the Length of
Cloth in Milling Machines.
I, ISAAC MIDGLEY INESON, of 33 Mann's Buildings, Howden Clough, Birstal,
near Leeds, Cloth Fuller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide means or apparatus for measuring and
registering the length of cloth as it travels in the milling machine.
According to my invention I employ a suitable case having a series of dials or
indicators upon its sides, the said dials or indicators are carried upon axles and are
in communication with each other hy means of wheels carried upon the said axles:
and a wheel affixed to the said case, gearing with the said wheels.
The wheel aforesaid has sharp teeth or projections upon its circumference or
periphery which dig into the cloth, the movement of the cloth so causing the said
wheel to rotate and give motion to the wheels working the dials or indicators.
The said dials or indicators are made to indicate or measure quarter yards, ten
yards, and 100 yards, or otherwise, as required.
The said means or apparatus may be held by the hand so as the wheel having
the sharp teeth or projections comes in contact with the cloth, or can be fixed on the
machine, if preferred.
Dated this 21st day of October 1802
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means or Apparatus for Measuring and Registering the Length of
Cloth in Milling Machines.
1. ISAAC MIDGLEY INESON, of 33 Mann's Buildings, Howden Clough, Birstal,
near Leeds, Cloth Fuller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide means or apparatus for measuring and
registering the length of cloth as it travels in the milling machine.

page_text: pinions D, E, and F¹, carried upon the said axles, and a wheel G affixed to the
spindle or axle H carried in the said case. Upon the said spindle or axle H is a
pinion H' which gears with the wheel D.
The wheel G aforesaid has sharp teeth or projections upon its circumference or
periphery which dig into the cloth, the movements of the cloth so causing the said
wheel to rotate and give motion to the wheels working the dials or indicators B.
The said dials or indicators B are made to indicate or measure quarter yards, ten
yards, and 100 yards, or otherwise, as required.
The dials or indicators B may be enclosed in covers K, screwed on to the case A,
and having glass windows L for reading the dials.
The said means or apparatus may be held by the hand, so as the wheel G
having the sharp teeth or projections, comes in contact with the cloth, or can be
fixed on the machine, if preferred.
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. An appliance, for measuring and registering the length of cloth in milling
machines, having a series of dials or indicators carried upon axles journaled in a
case and geared with each other by means of wheels deriving their rotation from
the motion of a pricker wheel which comes in contact with the fabric and is
actuated by the movement of the fabric, such as shown and described.
2. The combination with a case A having dials or indicators B carried upon
axles C journaled in the said case and gearing with each other by means of
wheels D, E, F, and pinions D', E¹, and F', of a wheel G and a pinion H'
carried upon an axle H, the said pinion H¹ gearing with the wheel D, whereby
motion is imparted to the axles C, substantially as and for the purposes such
as set forth.
*401 ANN
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.