IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RIGGING, PRESSING, AND CUTTLING FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: In the Matter of the Letters Patent granted to WILLIAM MELLOR,
Mechanic, EUSTACE WIGZELL, and JOSEPH POLLIT, Engineers,
all of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RIGGING, PRESSING, AND
CUTTLING FABRICS," dated the 9th day of July, 1874, No. 2415.
DISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION as proposed
to be filed by the said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph
Pollit, in the Great Seal Patent Office with the Specification to which
the same relates according to the statutes in that case made and pro-
vided.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, the said
WILLIAM MELLOR, EUSTACE WIGZELL, and JOSEPH POLLIT, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, 1874, diḍ
grant unto us, the said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph

page_text: Pollit, our executors, administrators, and assigns, the sole privilege to
make, use, exercise, and vend, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR RIGGING, PRESSING, AND CUTTLING FABRICS," and whereas in
pursuance of a condition in the said Letters Patent contained we, the
said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph Pollit, caused a
Specification in writing under one of our hands and seals, particularly
describing and ascertaining the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was, to be performed; to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within the time and in the manner prescribed in the
said condition:
And whereas, since the date of the said Letters Patent, and of the filing
of the said Specification in pursuance thereof, your Petitioners have
discovered that a part of the said Invention, as described in the said
Specification, that is, the part relating to the construction of the press,
so far as regards "intermittent pressure" was not new at the date of
the application for the Letters Patent aforesaid, your Petitioners are
therefore, desirous of dislaiming the same by omitting the third claim
contained in the said Specification; and we have discovered that by
the mis-spelling of one word, the omission of four words, and the insertion
of one word the meaning of certain parts of the said Specification is
obscured, and for the purpose of rendering the same intellegible we are
desirous of striking out the word "wheren" in line 6, page 4, and
substituting instead thereof the word "whereon," also we are desirous of
inserting the words "the cloth is cuttled" before the words "by
being laid in line 24, page 5, and also of striking out the word "the"
at the beginning of line 32, page 5 of such Specification.
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NOW KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that we the said William Mellor, Eustace
Wigzell; and Joseph Pollit, by and with the leave of Her Majesty's
Attorney-General, for the reasons aforesaid, and for effecting the objects
aforesaid, do hereby disclaim and strike out the words "Thirdly. The
machinery or apparatus herein shewn and described, whereby the.
material is subjected to intermittent pressure, whereby the process of
finishing is greatly facilitated," and we also strike out the word
"wheren" in line 6, page 4, and insert the word "whereon,” and¨we
also insert the words "the cloth is cuttled" before the words " "by.being
laid in-line 24, page 5, and also strike out the word "the".at. the

page_text: beginning of line 32, page 5, of the print of such Specification, as printed
by Her Majesty's Printers. And we do hereby declare that the said
Specification as amended by the present Disclaimer and Memorandum of
Alteration shall be and read as follows:-
The object of this Invention is the construction of improved machinery,.
by the use of which the combined operations of rigging hot and cold
pressing and cuttling or folding fabrics may be accomplished on one.
machine.
The piece or fabric to be operated upon is passed over a guide roller,.
and thence over and under other rollers mounted on levers; these rollers.
are for the purpose of securing the necessary tension or drag on the
piece, which is then passed to and over a "rigger" or roller to a pair of
nipping and drawing rollers working at right angles to the guide and
stretching rollers, the "piece" thus being rigged or doubled, and in
which state it is passed under a press plate returned over a guide roller.
(attached to the end of the plate) between other press plates having like
guide rollers, from thence between nipping and drawing rollers to other
guide rollers mounted on a lever. A swing or pendulous lever provided
with rollers or runners carries a length of the piece along a table
whereon two knives or blades are projected over the piece and table end
to end, and form on the return movement of the pendulous lever and cloth
the fold at that end of the table; a like pair of knives or blades are pro-
jected at the other end of the table on which the other fold of the piece
is formed, the blades are withdrawn ready for the next portion of the.
piece brought over the table to be folded in like manner. The said
blades are projected over the table and withdrawn therefrom by the
action of cams and levers.
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The pressure is applied to the press plates by means of eccentrics or
cams on the driving shaft or other arrangement of mechanism as may be
found convenient, and by means of levers and weight intermittent
motion is imparted to the machine by means of friction or segment
wheels so as to give the necessary dwell during the pressing of the piece."
The lower press plates are supplied with steam, the upper ones with cold
water, so as to secure both hot and cold pressing of the piece, and we
employ sheets of zinc or other metal and press papers in the pressing.
The apparatus above described for cuttling or folding the fabric may.
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In order that our Invention may be more fully understood we nerem
give reference to the accompanying Sheets of Drawings of a machine
constructed in accordance with our Invention.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Figs. 2 and 3 are end elevations, and Fig. 4 a
plan view.
The piece or fabric A to be operated upon is passed over a guide
roller B, and thence under and over the rods C mounted on arms c..
These arms are supported by axes D, and their position can be varied
according to the amount of tension or drag which it is required to put
upon the material. When adjusted they are kept in position by ratchet
wheels and catches d. The cloth thence passes over another guide roller E,
and is rigged or doubled over the edge of the "blade" or "rigger" E¹,
and thus doubled it passes through a pair of nipping or drawing rollers F
working at right angles to the guide and stretching rollers first
mentioned. The fabric being "rigged" or doubled is next passed to a
press consisting of a series of plates G, each having a guide or carrying
roller g at one end thereof. These plates are mounted capable of sliding
on the pillars H, the bottom plate being provided with pulleys h which
rest on cams ¹ mounted on shafts J which are carried in brackets on
the pedestal or bed of the machine. The top plate G is provided with a
dovetailed wedge Z, which is moved to and fro by screw and hand
wheel Z', according to the thickness of the piece under operation.
The cloth or fabric is passed between the series of plates commencing
at the bottom, and then pressure is applied by the rotation of the cams
h', which force upwards the series of plates, the amount of pressure being
regulated by the weight K acting through the levers K₁ and K on the
top plate G¹. After the cloth has been pressed the plates are lowered,.
each plate resting on pins fixed to the pillars for that purpose, and the
cloth can be drawn forward to be cuttled (see Fig. 5 for detail of press).
G are the plates; 9; the pins; 9³, pipes for introduction of hot or cold
water. It will thus be seen that the pressure on the material is inter-
mittent, the fabric being first pressed and then a portion drawn forward
to the cuttling apparatus. The fabric from the time of entering the
press to leaving it is subjected to as many pressures as there are plates

page_text: in the press, whilst the "cuttling" and "rigging" is being carried on
likewise intermittently, and the whole process greatly facilitated. The
cloth is cuttled by being laid in lengths upon a table M carried by the
framework N. A pendulous frame P is employed for carrying the cloth
from one end of the table to the other. Instead of the motion of the
bottom of the frame being circular it is horizontal and straight, being
guided in its course by the pins n working in slots or slides p.
the crank Q con-
The reciprocatory motion is effected by means of
nected by the rod R with the bell-crank lever R¹. The other end of
this bell-crank lever is connected by link R² to the pendulous frame P,
and a similar, link R³ connects the top of the frame with the stud, upon
which the bell-crank lever is mounted. By this arrangement the frame
can move vertically at the same time as the reciprocatory movement is
being performed.
Instead of employing the usual card surfaces for retaining the folded
cloth in its proper position whilst another fold is in progress we employ
two pairs of knives or blades S placed opposite each other at the sides of
the machine where the folds are required to be made. These knives are
attached to levers S¹ (by means of pins passing through slots s), the
levers ST being hinged at S³, the knives also pass through slots T in the
framework of the machine. The cloth having been carried the length
of the table in one direction the knives nearest the frame P are projected
across the top side of the blade t at the bottom of the frame P and
table, and the return movement of the frame carries the cloth over the
blades, which thus form and preserve the fold until the knives at the
other end of the table come into operation in a like manner, when
the pair first mentioned are withdrawn ready for the next folding.
pair firs
The projection and withdrawal of the knives is effected by the cams U,
in the grooves of which pins attached to the levers S₁ work; motion is
communicated to the machine from the pulley 1 mounted on shaft 2, on
which shaft is a pinión 3 gearing with a spur wheel 4 on the shaft J¹.
On this shaft is another spur wheel 5 gearing with a like wheel 6 on
the shaft J for actuating the cam K'. On the shaft J is a segment
friction pulley 7 gearing at one part of its revolution with another
friction pulley 8, and on another pulley on the same shaft is a strap or
driving belt which communicates motion to a series of pulleys on the

page_text: stantially as shewn and described.
Secondly. The machinery of apparatus for cuttling fabrics, either in
conjunction with the rigging and pressing apparatus or separately, sub-
stantially as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eustace Wigzell, for and on 2
behalf of myself and the said William Mellor and Joseph Pollit,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.

page_text: I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named Eustaco
Wigzell, to file in the Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification
to which the same relates, the above-written Disclaimer and Memo-
randum of Alteration.
Dated this Twenty fourth dose of Ancount
and seventy-пуе.
RICHARD BAGGALLAY,
Attorney-General.

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Mellor, Mechanic, Eustace Wigzell,
and Joseph Pollit, Engineers, all of Sowerby Bridge, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
· RICCING PRESSING AND CUTTLING FABRICS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Mellor,
Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph Pollit at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 9th July 1874.
We, WILLIAM MELLOR, Mechanic, EUSTACE WIGZELL, and JOSEPH
POLLIT, Engineers, all of Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR RIGGING, PRESSING, AND CUTTLING FABRICS," to be as
follows:
The object of this Invention is the construction of improved
-machinery by the use of which the combined operations of rigging, hot
and cold pressing, and cuttling or folding fabrics may be accomplished
on one machine.

page_text: The "piece" or fabric to be operated upon is passed over a guide
roller and thence over and under other rollers mounted on levers; these
rollers are for the purpose of securing the necessary tension or drag on
the piece which is thence passed to and over a "rigger" or roller to a
pair of nipping and drawing rollers, working at right angles to the guido
and stretching rollers, the "piece" thus being "rigged" or doubled, and
in which state it is passed under a press plate returned over a guide roller
(attached to the end of the plate) between other press plates having like
guide rollers, from thence between nipping and drawing rollers to other
guide rollers mounted on a lever. A swing or pendulous lever provided
with rollers or runners carries a length of the piece along a table
whereon two knives or blades are projected over the piece and table end
to end, and form (on the return movement of the pendulous lever and
cloth) the fold at that end of the table; a like, pair of knives or blades
are projected at the other end of the table on which the other fold of the
piece is formed, the blades are withdrawn ready for the next portion of
the piece brought over the table to be folded in like manner. The said
blades are projected over the table and withdrawn therefrom by the
action of eccentrics and levers. The pressure is applied to the press
plates by means of an eccentric or cam on the driving shaft, and by
means of levers and weights; intermittent motion is imparted to the
machine by means of friction or segment wheels, so as to give the
necessary "dwell" during the pressing of the piece. The lower press
plates are supplied with steam, the upper ones with cold water, so as to
secure both hot and cold pressing of the piece, and we employ sheets of
zinc and press papers in the pressing.
'
The apparatus above described for cuttling or folding the fabric may
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 30
filed by the said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph
Pollit in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph
Pollit, Her special licence that we, the said William Mellor, Eustacc
Wigzell, and Joseph Pollit, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and
Joseph Pollit, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RIGGING, PRESSING, AND CUTTLING
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William
Mellor, Eustace Wigzell, and Joseph Pollit, our executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 per-
formed, 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Mellor, Eustace Wigzell,
and Joseph Pollit, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement and accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, that is to
say
:-
This object of this Invention is the construction of improved machinery
by the use of which the combined operations of rigging, hot and cold
pressing, and cuttling or folding fabrics may be accomplished on one
machine.
The piece or fabric to be operated upon is passed over a guide roller.
and thence over and under other rollers mounted on levers; these rollers
are for the purpose of securing the necessary tension or drag on the
piece which is then passed to and over a "rigger" or roller to a pair of
nipping and drawing rollers working at right angles to the guide and
stretching rollers, the "piece" thus being "rigged" or doubled and in

page_text: drawing rollers F working at right angles to the guide and stretching
rollers first-mentioned. The fabric being "rigged" or doubled is next
passed to a press consisting of a series of plates G, each having a guide
or carrying roller g at one end thereof, these plates are mounted capable
of sliding on the pillars H, the bottom plate being provided with pulleys
h which rest on cams h¹ mounted on shafts J, which are carried in
brackets on the pedestal or bed of the machine. The top plate G is pro-
vided with a 'dovetailed wedge Z which is moved to and fro by screw
and hand wheel Z', according to the thickness of the piece under
operation. The cloth or fabric is passed between the series of plates
commencing at the bottom, and then pressure is applied by the rotation
of the cams ¹ which force upwards the series of plates, the amount of
pressure being regulated by the weight K acting through the levers K'
and K2 on the top plate G'. After the cloth has been pressed the plates
are lowered, each plate resting on pins fixed to the pillars, for that pur-
pose, and the cloth can be drawn forward to be cuttled (see Fig. 5 for
detail of press); G are the plates; 9, the pins, g', pipes for intro-
duction of hot or cold water. It will thus be seen that the pressure on
the material is intermittent, the fabric being first pressed and then a
portion drawn forward to the cuttling apparatus. The fabric from the
time of entering the press to leaving it is subjected to as many pressures
as there are plates in the press, whilst the cuttling and riggling is being
carried on likewise intermittently, and the whole process greatly facili-
tated by being laid in lengths upon a table M carried by the framework N.
A pendulous frame P is employed for carrying the cloth from one end
of the table to the other. Instead of the motion of the bottom of the
frame being circular, it is horizontal and straight being guided in its
course by the pins n working in slots or slides p.
The reciprocatory motion is effected by means of the crank Q con-
nected by rod R with the bell-crank lever R¹.. The other end of this
bell-crank lever is connected by link R² to the pendulous frame P, and
the a similar link R³ connects the top of the frame' with 'the stud.upon
which the bell-crank lever is mounted. By this arrangement the frame
can move vertically at the same time as the reciprocatory movement is
being performed.
Instead of employing the usual card surfaces for retaining the folded
cloth in its proper position whilst another fold is in progress, we employ
two pairs of knives or blades S placed opposite each other at the sides of

page_text: the machine where the folds are required to be made. These knives are
attached to levers S₁ (by means of pins passing through slots s); the levers
S¹ being hinged at S², the knives also pass through slots T in the frame-
work of the machine. The cloth having been carried the length of the
table in one direction the knives nearest the frame P are projected across
the top side of the bladet at the bottom of the frame P and table, and the
return movement of the frame carries the cloth over the blades, which
thus form and preserve the fold until the knives at the other end of the
table come into operation in a like manner, when the pair first-mentioned
are withdrawn ready for the next folding. The projection and with-
drawal of the knives is effected by the cams U in the grooves of which
pins-attached to the levers S¹ work.
Motion is communicated to the machine from the pulley I mounted
on shaft 2, on which shaft is a pinion 3. gearing with a spur wheel 4 on
the shaft J. On this shaft is another spur wheel 5 gearing with a like
wheel 6 on the shaft J for actuating the cam K'. On the shaft J is a
segment friction pulley 7 gearing at one part of its revolution with
another friction pulley 8, and on another pulley on the same shaft is a strap
or driving belt which communicates motion to a series of pulleys on the
shaft 9. From one of these rotation is imparted to the pulley 10 which
works the drawing rollers F and another communicates rotation to the
pulley 11 for working the cuttling apparatus, the motion being trans-
mitted to the different parts by spur wheels 12 and bevil wheels 13.
During the time that the cams h¹ are lifting or raising the press plates
the segment pulley 7 is out of contact with the pulley 8, and the rigging
and cuttling apparatus are stationary, as soon however as the cams reach
this lowest point the frictional pullies come in contact, and during the
dwell or plain part of the cams the fabric which has been pressed is
drawn forward to be cuttled, and a fresh portion is rigged and brought
into position for being pressed.
Having thus described the nature of this our said Invention and shewn
by Drawings how the same is to be performed, or, carried into practical
operation, we would have it understood that we do not confine ourselves
to the precise details of construction or arrangement herein given, as the
same may be modified, but what we claim as our Invention is,―
Firstly. The combination of machinery whereby the rigging, hot and
cold pressing and cuttling operations are performed in one machine,
substantially as shewn and described.

page_text: Secondly. The machinery or apparatus for cuttling fabrics either in
conjunction with the rigging and pressing apparatus or separately, sub-
stantially as shewn and described.
Thirdly. The machinery or apparatus herein shewn and described
whereby the material is subjected to intermittent pressure, whereby the
process of finishing is greatly facilitated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Pollit, for and on behalf of
myself and the said William Mellor and Eustace Wigzell, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.
Witness,
W. S. MILLIGAN,
Mechanical Draughtsman,
Halifax.
JOSEPH POLLIT. (L.S.)