IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LONG NAPPED CLOTH WITH UNDULATED, RIBBED, OR PALMED SURFACE, AND IN THE APPARATUS THEREFOR."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of 6, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF LONG NAPPED CLOTH WITH UNDULATED, RIBBED, OR
PALMED SURFACE, AND IN THE APPARATUS THEREFOR." A communication
from abroad by Messieurs Benoit and Jules Bouvier, Manufacturers, of Vienne,
in the Department of Isère, in the Republic of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles Henderson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th March 1880.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LONG NAPPED
CLOTH WITH UNDULATED, RIBBED, OR PALMED SURFACE, AND IN THE APPARATUS
THEREFOR." A communication from abroad by Messieurs Benoit and Jules Bouvier,
Manufacturers, of Vienne, in the Department of Isère, in the Republic of France.
The object of this Invention is to dress cloth with a peculiar appearance and
special qualities by impressing thereon palmes, undulations of divers kinds, ribs,
and so forth, according to the mode of submitting them to the machine. Just at this
time the cloth is damped or steamed which renders it in a condition for receiving
any kind of impression desired; this pattern or design is then immediately fixed
by means of another steaming, which makes it preserve its form. In lieu of
steaming a liquid levigation may be substituted. In manufacturing this cloth a
machine is used composed of a straight or inclined roller in front of the machine ;
of an upper cylinder furnished with cards, which can be raised or lowered as
required; of a fixed blade placed on the cross bar of the frame of the machine; __
and between the cylinder and blade, or a little in front of and above the latter, of
a metal plate, smooth and fixed, pierced with holes or notched, fixed or movable,
according to whether it is desired to make ribs running lengthways of the stuff,
across it, or diagonally.
With a plate passing over the stuff, and with a straight roller and continuous
motion, straight raised ribs are made. With the inclined roller diagonal ribs are
made.
The palm is produced by the combined motion of the plate passing on the stuff
at the same time that the piece advances.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th September 1880.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LONG NAPPED
CLOTH WITH UNDULATED, RIBBED, OR PALMED SURFACE, AND IN THE APPARATUS
THEREFOR." A communication from abroad by Messieurs Benoit and Jules Bouvier,
Manufacturers, of Vienne, in the Department of Isère, in the Republic of France.
The object of this Invention is to dress cloths with a peculiar appearance and
special qualities by impressing thereon palms, undulations of divers kinds, ribs, and
so forth, according to the mode of submitting them to the machine.
Before the passage of the cloth through the machine it is damped or steamed,
which renders it in a condition for receiving any kind of impression desired; this
pattern or design is then immediately fixed by means of another steaming, which
causes it to preserve its form.
In lieu of steaming a liquid levigation may be substituted. In manufacturing
this cloth a machine is used composed of a straight or inclined roller in front of
the machine; of an upper cylinder furnished with cards, which can be lowered
or raised as desired; of a fixed blade placed on the cross bar of the frame of the
machine; and between the cylinder and blade, or a little in front of and above the
latter, of a smooth metal plate pierced with holes or notched, and fixed or movable,
according to whether it is desired to make ribs running lengthways of the stuff,
across it, or diagonally.
With a plate passing on the stuff and with a straight roller and continuous
motion straight raised ribs are made. With the inclined roller diagonal ribs are
made. The palm is produced by the combined motion of the plate passing on the
stuff at the same time that the piece advances.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of the apparatus; Fig. 2,
a side view of the same; Fig. 3 represents the perforated plate in detail; Fig. 4
is the upper cylinder furnished with cards d, also in detail; and Fig. 5 shows in
detail the fixed knife. The same letters of reference indicate like parts shown in
the different Figures.
A is the frame of the machine strengthened by the cross bar a supporting the
fixed blade or knife b, and on which the guide c of the perforated plate C is fixed;
B is the cylinder furnished with cards d; C, the perforated plate held on one side
by the spring r, and on the other by the piece 71, actuated by the cam e, receiving
motion from the conical toothed wheel f twice the size of that g which governs it.
D, wheel with peg actuating the piece h, communicating motion to the wheels j
by aid of the pinion i for causing the advance of the wheels on which the stuff is
rolled; E, bar supporting the pinions for lifting or lowering the cylinder armed
with cards; F is the governing pulley.
Finally, the inventor's claim the exclusive right to the application of the new
principle to all long piled tissues, whether wool, silk, cotton, or otherwise; also
in employing a fixed plate, the pile of the stuff being raised by the cards and
again smoothed by the motion of the stuff or the movable plate, which is either
notched or perforated, and combines its movement with the advance of the stuff.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.