An Improved Frame or Reel Employed in Packing Sealskin and other Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Frame or Reel Employed in Packing Sealskin and
other Fabrics.
I, GEORGE HENRY BARRACLOUGH of Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Packing Frame Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
My invention has reference to frames or reels used for packing imitation seal skin
and other goods. In these frames, hooks are employed on which the selvage of the
fabric is secured for holding the fabric in an open or distended state.
Hitherto the hooks have been formed by stamping them out of a narrow piece of
wrought iron or steel, and afterwards attaching such row of hooks to the frame or
reel by rivets; and other methods of forming the hooks have been employed, but in all
cases, the hooks have been formed separately from the frame and have had to be
attached thereto by rivets or other like means.
My invention consists in forming such hooks from the frame itself, and this I effect
by stamping the hooks out of the frame. In order to accomplish my purpose I prefer
to make the metal of the frame, taper, after the manner of a knife blade, after which,
the hooks are stamped out of the thin part thereof. By this means there is no
rivetting, the frames are of less weight, and they can be produced at less cost.
Dated this 8th day of March 1889.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Frame or Reel Employed in Packing Sealskin and
other Fabrics.
I, GEORGE HENRY BARRACLOUGH, of Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire,
Packing Frame Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to frames or reels used for packing imitation sealskin
and other goods.
In these frames, hooks are employed on which the selvage of the fabric is secured
for holding the fabric in an open or distended state.
Hitherto the hooks have been formed by stamping them out of a narrow piece of
wrought iron or steel, and afterwards attaching such row of hooks to the frame or recl
by rivets and other methods of forming the hooks have been employed, but in all
cases the hooks have been formed separately from the frame and have had to be
attached thereto by rivets or other like means.
My invention consists in forming such hooks from the frame itself, and this 1 effect
by stamping the hooks out of "the frame. In order to accomplish my purpose
I prefer to make the metal of the frame taper, after the manner of a knife blade, after
which the hooks are stamped out of the thin part thereof.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I herein make reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 shews the section of metal which I prefer to employ for the purposes of my
invention, one side thereof being tapered or inclined somewhat after the manner of a
knife blade. A length of metal, (which may be steel or other suitable metal), of the
section shewn, is taken, and at certain parts thereon, portions of the thinner part of the
metal are stamped or punched out so as to leave pointed or tapered pieces a, shewn in

page_text: side elevation Fig. 2, the upper ends of which are afterwards bent over or curved
to form hooks b as shewn in side elevation Fig. 3. The series of hooks formed on
the strip of metal are usually four in number, and they are at such distances apart.
that when the said strip of metal is bent to the ordinary shape of a packing frame,
the hooks will be on the four angular portions of the frame, as will be seen on
reference to perspective view Fig. 4 and plan Fig. 5, the former, by means of
dotted lines, also shewing a length of fabric attached to the hooks b. Instead of the
hooks being formed at two operations as above set forth, they may be formed or cut
to the shape shewn in Fig. 3 by the punch or other tool used at one operation.
When the strip of metal has been bent to the shape required, the two extremities are
welded or rivetted together in any ordinary manner.
Packing frames provided with hooks formed out of the metal composing such
frames, are lighter and cheaper than those having the hooks rivetted or bolted to the
frame as at present, the labour and time expended in rivetting or bolting the hooks
to the frame being saved, and less metal used. The points or upper ends of the
hooks b, being below the edge of the frame, as will be seen in Figs. 3 and 4, are
thereby protected and cannot be broken or damaged by the frame falling or being
thrown on to the ground.
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:
Firstly. The forming or stamping of hooks from the metal composing the frames
used for packing seal skin or other fabrics substantially as described and shewn.
Secondly. The use of frames for packing sealskin or other fabrics when provided
with hooks formed or stamped out of the metal of which the frame is composed, so
that the hooks and frame, are in one piece, substantially as described. .
Dated this 6th day of December 1889.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax and Huddersfield, Agents.