LMPROVEMENTS IN FLUTING OR COFFERING MACHINES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Jewitt, of Kentish Town, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "LMPROVEMENTS IN FLUTING OR COFFERING
MACHINES" A communication fiom abroad by Appollonia Rosc, of New
York, United States of America.
Sealed the 9th March 1877, and dated the 13th September 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry. Jewitt at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th September 1876.
HENRY JEWITT, of Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FLUTING OR GOFFERING MACHINES." A communication from abroad by
Appollonia Rose, of New York, United States of America.
This Invention consists in so constructing and arranging machines of this class
that a more certain and uniform pressure is caused to be applied to the fluted
rollers than has hitherto been attained in the machines at present in use
Upon a bed plate is mounted or cast of a piece therewith two uprights or
bearings, one of which bearings serves as the support for one end of the lower
fluting roll, and the other support carries a handle, one end of a bent spring, a
drop catch or stop piece for the handle, and an arm or branch for carrying the
other end of the lower fluting roll.
A flat part on the handle takes into a channel or mortise, and is pivoted on a
strong stud in the bearing, and on one side said handle is formed as a bar with two
hangers or supports (one movable) which hangers form bearings for the upper
fluting roll, and the other extremity of the handle is flattened into convenient
form as a handle.
The movable hanger is secured by a screwed pin in the end of the bar of tho
handle, which end is recessed to receive the hanger flush with the end of the bar.
The bent spring is attached at one end to the bearing or support as before stated,
and its other end is curved or bent over and attached to the bar at the bearing end
of the handle, and thus serves to press the fluting rollers together, and the action
of said spring is regulated by a set sciew or screw and wing nut placed intermediately
between the extremities thereof and mounted in the bearing.
The fluting rollers are inade hollow for the reception of heating irons, and the
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page_text: end of the lower fluting roller is turned or squared to receive a pulley, winch, or
handle for driving the rolls.
The great advantage of this fluting or goffering machine is that the pressure on
the rolls is easily adjustable, the parts are simple and not liable to get out of order,
and the arrangement of the bearing is such that the material to be fluted or
goffered has a clear passage through and between the rolls.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Jewitt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th March
1877.
HENRY JEWITT, of Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FLUTING OR GOFFERING MACHINES." A communication from abroad by
Appollonia Rose, of New York, United States of America.
This Invention consists in so constructing and arranging machines of this class
that a more certain and uniform pressure is caused to be applied to the fluted
1ollers than has hitherto been accomplished in the machines at present in use.
Upon a bed plate is mounted or cast of a piece therewith two uprights or
bearings, one of which bearings serves as the support for one end of the lower
fluting roller, and the other support carries a handle, one end of a bent spring, a
drop catch or stop piece for the handle, and an arm or branch for carrying the
other end of the lower fluting roll.
A flat part on the handle takes into a channel or mortise, and is pivoted on a
strong stud in the bearing, and on one side said handle is formed as a bar with two
hangers or supports (one movable) which hangers form bearings for the upper
fluting roll, and the other extremity of the handle is flattened into convenient
form as a handle.
.
The movable hanger is secured by a screwed pin in the end of the bar of the
handle, which end is recessed to receive the hanger flush with the end of the bar.
The bent spring is attached at one end to the bearing or support, as before stated,
and its other end is curved or bent over, and a slot or hole in the extremity thereof
works on a stud on the bar at the bearing end of the handle, and thus seives to
press the fluting rollers together, and the action of said spring is regulated by a set
screw or screw and wing nut placed intermediately between the extremities thereof
and mounted in the bearing
The fluting rollers are made hollow for the reception of heating irons, and the
end of the lower fluting roller is turned or may be squared to receive a handle for
driving the rolls.
The great advantage of this fluting or goffering machine is that the pressure on
the rolls is easily adjustable, the parts are simple and not liable to get out of order,
and the arrangement of the bearing is such that the material to be fluted or
goffered has a clear passage through and between the rolls.
In order that the said Invention may be well understood, I have hereunto
annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, wherein Fig 1 is a side view of
the machine complete; Fig. 2, a top view; Fig. 3, a view seen from the right of
Fig 1; Fig. 4, a like view with handle and rolls removed.
Fig. 5, view of under side of the handle detached, and bearing of the upper
roll.
Fig. 6, detached views of the movable hanger of bearing of the upper roll.
Fig. 7, detached view of the drop catch or stop for the handle.
A is the bed plate; B, C, the bearings for carrying the rolls E, F, and other
parts; B, the bearing carrying on the stud a one end of the lower fluting roll E,
and the bearing O is provided with an arm or branch C³ carrying the other end of
the lower fluting roll E; G is the handle pivoted on stud b in recess c (Fig. 5) of
bearing O, into which said rocess the flat part d of the handle is received,

page_text: The handle is spread out at one side into a bar G¹, which bar carries the hangers
H, I, which serve as beatings for the upper roll. The hanger H is of a piece with
the handle, and carries the stud e on which the end of upper roll F is received and
works, and the hanger I is movable. The end of the bar G₁ is recessed at f, as is
clearly shown in Fig. 5, and to this end is attached, by the milled screw K, the
movable hanger I, which allows of the rolls being changed if desired for different
sized work.
The bent spring L is attached by screw g to bearing C, and a slot in its other
extremity plays on the stud h, Fig. 1, at the boaring end of the handle, and so as
to press the rolls E, F, together. The screw M, with wing head placed inter-
mediately between the extremities of the spring, serves to regulate the pressure on
the rolls
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The drop catch N is pivoted by screw stud i to the bearing C, and is weighted
and hung that the recess will in its normal position stride or straddle the handle,
but if it is desired to hold the rolls apart for adjustment of the article under
treatment the rear part of the handle will be depressed, and the thumb or finger
be applied to the under side of the wing piece so as to tilt the part m on to the
handle which will lock the handle and hold the rolls E, F, apart. As before stated,
the rolls E, F, are hollow for the reception of heating irons, and the part n, Fig. 3,
of the lower fluting roll is here shewn turned for the reception of a driving handle
which may be fixed by screw.
In treating flat work by this machine it is passed directly through the rolls, but
in the preparation of frilling the edge of said frilling desired to be goffered is
introduced at o, Fig. 3, sideways between the ends of the rolls.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention, I claim
the improvements in fluting or goffering machines, substantially as herein described
and shewn by the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Jewitt, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Thirteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven.