IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DOUBLING OR CUTTLING WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wright Jones, of Pendleton, near Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DOUBLING OR CUTTLING WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER,
AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS."
Sealed the 23rd November 1860, and dated the 29th May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wright Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th May 1860.
I, WRIGHT JONES, of Pendleton, near Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DOUBLING OR CUTTLING.
WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER. SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The fabric or material passes over adjustable guide rods and a card roller.
to a dividing or doubling pulley furnished with wire card or pins, and. from
thence between a pair of inclined rods or rollers to be lapped on boards or
rollers in a vertical position, or to a spiral plate or board for guiding the fabric
or material from a vertical to a horizontal. position, so that. it may pass between
a pair of drawing rollers and plaited down or lapped on boards or rollers in the
usual manner. Or instead of the dividing or doubling pulley I employ a
slotted frame in connection with a taper guide, which divides or. doubles the
material as required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Wright Jones, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WRIGHT
JONES, of Pendleton, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Wright Jones, Her special licence that I, the said Wright
Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Wright Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DOUBLING OB CUTTING, WOVEN
FABRICS, PAPER, AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Wright Jones, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Wright Jones, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
1
The fabric or material is passed over one or more adjustable guide rods and
under a card or pin'roller to a dividing, doubling, creasing, or rigging pulley
or disc, either plain or furnished at the rim with wire card or pins, and, from.
thence between a pair of inclined rods or rollers to be lapped on boards, or
wound on pegs or rollers in a vertical position. Or the fabric or material is,
passed from the pulley between guidé rollers to a spiral plate or board,for,
guiding the fabric or material from a vertical to a horizontal position, it being
pulled forwards by a card roller or a pair of drawing rollers,; and afterwards

page_text: plaited down or lapped on boards, or wound on rollers, as may be desired.
Or instead of the dividing, doubling, creasing, or rigging pulley, I employ a
slotted frame in connection with a taper guide which divides, doubles, creases,
or rigs the material as required.
The manner in which my Invention is to be performed will be clearly
understood by referring to the figures and letters on the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings representing my improved machinery or apparatus
for doubling, dividing, rigging, or creasing woven fabrics, paper, or similar
materials.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, with one of the sile
frames removed, of my arrangement of machinery in which the fabric or
material after being divided, doubled, creased, or rigged, is lapped upon boards
or wound upon rollers in a vertical position; and Fig. 3, a plan shewing the
course of the material. Fig. 4 is a front elevation; Fig. 5, a side elevation.
with one of the side frames removed; and. Fig. 6, a plan of another arrange-
ment of machinery in which the material after being vertically divided, doubled,
creased, or rigged passes over a spiral board or plate to a horizontal position
to. be afterwards plaited down, wound upon horizontal rollers or pegs, or
Japped on boards; and Figs. 7 and 8 represent the slotted frame and taper.
guide employed for dividing, doubling, creasing or rigging the fabric or
material instead of the pulley.
The fabric or material before passing through the machine may be taken
from a heap wound on a roller or placed in any desired manner. In all the
Figures the material is' shewn at a; it is wound upon the beam or roller b
which is placed in suitable bearings in the framework c. From the roller the
fabric or material passes over the guide rods d and e mounted with the
flanged bosses f, which can be adjusted to any desired position according to
the width of the material, and afterwards fixed by the thumbscrews g. For
the convenience of adjusting the positions of the flanges the front rod dat
each side of the centre of the machine is divided into inches and parts or
other desired measure, a few of the divisions being shewn at h. From the
guide rode the material is passed under the card roller i which holds the
material to its proper width as it passes onwards to the dividing, doubling,
creasing, or rigging pulley or disc k, which turns freely on a pin in the
standard fixed to a cross bar of the machine, the card roller being weighted
by the levers and weights j. The pulley or disc k is narrow at the rim, and
when it is placed in the centre of the machine it divides the material into two
equal parts which fall down at the sides, and are then guided between the

page_text: inclined rods in for maintaining the selvedges to their proper tension, which
rods work upon centres and can be placed at any desired angle.
In Figures 1, 2, and 3, the material passes from the aforesaid inclined rods m
to a vertical guide rod n, and from thence to the board o on which it is lapped.
The board is held at the top in the holder p connected to the spindle of the
bevil wheel q, and the bottom of the board is held in the holder », which
turns freely on the top of the screws. The bevil wheel 9 gears into another
bevil wheel on the shaft u, mounted with the pulleys v for working and
stopping the machine.
At the commencement of the operation, the material a is passed by hand to
the lapping-on board and a few laps put on, after which the machine is put in
motion, and 'as the board revolves it draws the material off the roller b, pulls it
over the guide rods d and e, under the card roller i, to the dividing; doubling,
creasing, or rigging pulley k, and afterwards laps it on the board o in a divided,
doubled, creased or rigged condition.
Instead of the lapping-on board, a peg or roller may be placed in the
holders p and r, and the material wound on in a vertical position, and when
the surface of the material is smooth, or highly finished a circular plate or
board wis placed at the bottom of the winding-on roller or lapping-on board
to prevent' the said material from slipping off.
b
In Figs. 4, 5, and 6, the material from the beam or roller passes over the
guide rods d and e, under the card roller i, to the dividing, doubling, creasing,
or rigging pulley k, and between the inclined rods m, in a similar manner to
that before described, but from the inclined rods the material passes in a
divided, doubled, creased, or rigged condition between the vertical guide
rollers x, and from thence over the spiral board or plate y, which causes the
material to pass from the vertical to the horizontal position, after which it is
passed under a roller or the stretching bar z, and onwards over the card
roller 'a', from whence it passes between the rollers 6¹ of an ordinary plaiting
apparatus, the pulley c¹ being fixed on the bottom roller shaft, in order to give
motion to the rollers. The card roller a¹ is fixed to the shaft d' mounted at one
end with the pulley of different speeds connected by the strap f, with a
similar pulley g¹ on the driving shaft h', carrying the fast and loose pulleys k¹.
The eccentrics for working the plaiting motion are shewn at ; they are fixed
to the shaft m', having at one end a pulley 'n¹, connected by the strap o' to a
pulley p¹ fixed to the shaft or spindle d', on which is fixed another pulley q¹, for
giving motion to the roller 6' by means of the strap r. Working loose on the
shaft d' are the 'swing levers s' connected by' the rods t¹ to the eccentrics in the

page_text: usual manner.
Thus after the material a has been. passed by hand through
the machine, and the latter put in motion, the card. roller a¹.draws the said
material from the beam or roller bover the guides d and e under the card roller i,
between the inclined rods m and vertical guide rollers a to the spiral board or
plate y, in a divided, doubled, creased, or rigged. condition, from whence it
proceeds under the stretching bar to the card roller a², and from thence
drawn forward by the rollers. of the plaiting apparatus, and plaited as required;
the card roller a¹ being put in motion by. the strap f¹ from the pulley g'. The
end of the spiral board or plate y, and also the stretching bar z, are shewn
slightly inclined for the purpose of guiding the material to the middle of the
card roller a', but they may be horizontal or placed at any angle according to
the requirements of the work. Instead of the spiral board or plate y for
altering the course of the material, I may employ rods or rollers placed in a
spiral direction for accomplishing the same purpose, and the centres of oscilla
tion of the plaiting apparatus may be near the floor or bottom part of the
machine, so that the material may be plaited upon a table or other desired
manner. If it be required to wind the material upon a roller placed horizontally,
instead of plaiting it down, it is only necessary to place a taking-up roller in
suitable bearings, and apply any well-known taking-up motion, or cause the
roller to draw the material through the machine instead of employing the card
roller a' for that purpose.
In Figs. 7 and 8 I represent in two different positions a slotted frame in
connection with a taper guide to be used instead of the pulley and inclined rods
for dividing, doubling, creasing, or rigging the fabric or material. The slotted
frame is shewn at u, and the taper guide at v¹; they are fixed to the frame-
work of the machine in any convenient position, and when the material is
drawn over the taper guide v and through the slot w³, it is divided, doubled,
creased, or rigged, as required.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be dis-
tinctly understood, that I claim as my Invention, and which to the best of my
knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used within the realm, for the
purpose of doubling, dividing, creasing, or rigging woven fabrics, paper, and
other similar materials.
First, the employment of one or more card or pin rollers working in com-
bination with a dividing, doubling, creasing, or rigging pulley or disc, or a
slotted frame and taper guide.
Secondly, the employment of inclined rods or bars for holding the selvedges
of the material at a proper tension.

page_text: Thirdly, the-modes of lapping the divided, doubled, creased or rigged material
on boards or winding-on pegs or rollers in a vertical position.
Fourthly, the employment of a spiral plate or board, or rods or rollers placed
in a spiral position for changing the material from a vertical to a horizontal
or nearly horizontal position.
And, fifthly, excepting the plaiting motion, which is old, I claim the general
arrangement of the machinery or apparatus herein described and illustrated in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said Wright Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Wright Jones, in the presence
of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester.
WRIGHT JONES. (L.S.)