Improvements in Machines for Re-blocking Cloth.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Re-blocking Cloth.
A communication from HENRY HUTCHINSON, Gentleman, of No. 21, Bellevue Place,
and SAMUEL JOHN MOORE, Manufacturer, of No. 28, Front Street West, both
in the City of Toronto, in the County of York, in the Province of Ontario,
Canada.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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:-
The object of the invention is to design a simple machine in which cloth or other
fabric may be reblocked under sufficient tension to take out and prevent any
shrinkage and also to provide means for recording the measurement of the cloth as it
is being reblocked; and it consists essentially of a frame of suitable dimensions to
receive the cloth or other material and having a series of rollers arranged in it
around which rollers the cloth is passed, one or more of the centrally located rollers
being carried on discs located one at each end of the rollers and pivoted in the frame,
the cloth being carried around these rollers in such a manner that by revolving the
discs carrying the centrally located rollers the tension on the cloth may be increased
or decreased as required, one of the discs being provided with a spring catch
designed to engage with a toothed rack formed on the face of the disc so as to hold
the said disc stationary at any desired point, a ratchet toothed roller designed to rest
on the cloth and fixed upon a spindle arranged to operate a counter or measuring
device being connected on the cloth so as to record the number of yards passing
through the machine.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the improved machine.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective detail of one end of the machine, a portion of the
frame being broken away to expose the interior construction.
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All practical dry-goods men are aware of the fact that a considerable loss in
shrinkage and measure is sustained in goods and stock by not having cloth and
other fabric properly and tightly reblocked after they have been unwound in stock
taking or displaying them to customers. This loss is more particularly noticeable in
cashmeres and woollen goods. By the adoption of this machine the salesman is
enabled to reblock all the goods on the shelves as tightly and perfectly as they were
originally blocked at the mill.
The ends A of the frame are shaped substantially as shown in the drawing to rest
upon the counter B and are provided with lugs or projections C to butt against the
edge of the said counter. On the inside of each of the ends A is inserted a disc D
to which the rollers J K are fixed. On the face of one of the discs D is formed or
attached a notched rack F and immediately in front of the said rack is inserted in the
end A, a pin G, which is provided with a suitable knob and is held in position by
the spring H designed to hold the end of the pin G in mesh with the rack but at the
same time permitted to be withdrawn when it is desired to revolve the disc.
In addition to the rollers J K, rollers I, L, and O are provided connecting the
ends A together as indicated. The roller L is journalled so that it may be revolved
but is also provided with a catch M so that it may be held stationary if desired. In
order to reblock the cloth or other material the machine is placed in front of the
counter so that the lugs or projections C shall butt against the edge of the said
counter; the pin G is then pulled out clear of the rack and the disc given a half
turn bringing the roller J on top. The cloth is then passed over the roller I between
the rollers JK, then over the roller O, thence under the roller L'; after this the
discs are revolved so as to bring the roller J down on top of the cloth and the

page_text: roller K against the bottom of the cloth as indicated in fig. 1, said discs revolving
until the rollers J K have been adjusted to give the necessary tension on the cloth N
when the pin G is permitted to re-engage itself with its rack F.. This tension is
readily determined while pulling upon the cloth.
In re-blocking some goods it is necessary that the roller L should revolve; in
re-blocking others it is advisable it should not revolve and I therefore journal the
roller L and provide a dog or catch M which can be readily moved to engage with
tlie roller I, and hold it stationary or be moved from contact with the roller so as to
allow it to be revolved.
P is a roller having ratchet teeth formed on its periphery. This roller rests on
the cloth N and is connected to the spindle Q which operates a series of discs in the
counter R which may be made like any ordinary counter but hinged to the bracket S
by which it is connected to the end A as indicated. By hinging the counter R
to the bracket S tho said counter with its spindle and ratchet wheel may be thrown
clear of the cloth.
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A slate or memorandum slip is inserted on the surface of the counter R so that the
party measuring the cloth may readily make any desired memorandum on the said
.slate.
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In re-blocking some classes of double width goods the upper fold is apt to buckle up
when passing under the roller L. To provent this buckling or creasing this roller L
is made revolvable as before described and to still further assist the folds of the cloth
in keeping together I fix onto the roller La spring clip T which revolves with the
roller L and a spring finger U extending from the clip Tacts against the top fold of
the cloth so as to draw out the crease.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :--
1. The rollers J K fixed to and supported by the discs D which are suitably pivoted
or journalled in the ends A in combination with means for locking the discs substan-
tially as and for the
purpose specified
2. The rollers J K fixed to and supported by the discs D which are suitably
pivoted or journalled in, the ends A and provided with suitable locking mechanism
in combination with the rollers O and L substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
= 3. The fixed roller O and the journalled roller L in combination with the rollers J
and K fixed to the revolvable disc D provided with locking mechanism substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
4. The fixed roller O and the journalled roller L provided with a catch M in
combination with the rollers J K fixed to the revolvable discs D provided with locking
mechanism substantially as and for the purpose specified.
5. The fixed rollers I and O and the journalled roller L in combination with the
rollers J K fixed to the revolvable discs D provided with locking mechanism substan-
tially as and for the purpose specified.
6. The cloth N passing through the rollers J K over the roller O and under the
roller L in combination with the roller P having ratchet teeth formed on its.
periphery and connected to the spindle which operates the mechanism in the
counter R substantially as and for the purpose specified.
7. The combination with the revolvable roller of a clip T having a spring finger U
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
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Dated this 21st day of April 1890.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT; ·
Agents for the Applicant.