IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PÅTENT to Oates Ingham, of the Firm of Oates Ingham
and Sons, of Bradford, in the County of York, Dyers and Finishers,
and Illingworth Butterfield, of the same Place, Manager, for the
Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FINISHING
TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 24th October 1871, and dated the 26th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Oates Ingham and
Illingworth Butterfield at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th April 1871.
We, OATES INGHAM, of the Firm of Oates Ingham and Sons, of
Bradford, in the County of York, Dyers and Finishers, and ILLINGWORTH
BUTTERFIELD, of the same Place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN
FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS," (to be as follows) :-
:-
This Invention relates to a process in finishing textile fabrics
technically known as "rigging," which is folding or doubling them
longitudinally, the two lists or edges being placed together, which is

page_text: usually done for the purpose of hot-pressing them, and this process has
heretofore been effected cither by hand, that is, by the operative placing
the two lists together at convenient distances or intervals throughout
the entire length of the fabric, or by guiding the fabric whilst it is being
drawn forward over a thin edged rotating pulley or a thin curved edge
plate, but the said rigging by these means cannot be effected with
sufficient accuracy or precision and facility.
Now our improvements consist in the employment of a pair of ordinary
loom temples mounted on the frame of an ordinary steam heated
cylinder finishing machine, which temples are by preference placed one
above the other and face to face, but at a suitable distance apart.
Also a blade or thin lever arm is mounted on a fulcrum or stud (which
is adjustable) fixed to the frame.
Fabrics to be rigged are wound upon a roller, and this roller placed
with its axis in a vertical position in a frame, and so as to be capable of
rotating. The end of the fabric is passed over a rail or roller, and each
list or edge passed respectively into or between the temples, and the
blade or arm is placed in between the fold of the fabric, the end of
which is thin and rounded or curved. The stud is adjusted so that the
rounded end of the blade will by the aid of a spring or weighted lever :
press against the fabric at its middle, and at a point about opposite or
at right angles to the temples. The fabric is then passed or drawn
forward through the said temples and over the cylinders of the finishing
machine, and passing thence is wound upon another roller in its rigged
or folded state.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
IFICATIO
filed by the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth Butterfield in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, OATES
INGHAM, of the Firm of Oates Ingham and Sons, of Bradford, in the a
County of York, Dyers and Finishers, and ILLINGWORTH BUTTERFIELD,
of the same Place, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,

page_text: give and grant unto us, the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth Butter-
field, Her special licence that we, the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth
Butterfield, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth Butterfield, our cxecutors,
3 administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thercafter 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 "IMPROVED MEANS
OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth
Butterfield, our executors or administrators, 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 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 we, the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth
Butterfield, 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 two accompanying
Sheets of Drawings (that is to say)
This Invention relates to a process in finishing textile fabrics
technically known as "rigging," which is folding or doubling them longi-
tudinally, the two lists or edges being placed together, which is usually
done for the purpose of hot-pressing them, and this process has hereto-
fore been effected either by hand, that is, by the operative placing the
two lists together at convenient distances or by intervals throughout
the entire length of the fabric, or by guiding the fabric whilst it is being
drawn forward over a thin edged rotating pulley or a thin curved edge
plate, but the said rigging by these means cannot be effected with
sufficient accuracy or precision and facility.
Now our improvements consist in the employment of a pair of
ordinary loom temples mounted on the frame of an ordinary steam-
heated cylinder finishing machine, which temples are by preference
placed one above the other and face to face, but at a suitable distance
apart. Also a blade or thin lever arm is mounted on a fulcrum or stud
(which is adjustable) fixed to the frame.
:

page_text: Fabrics to be rigged are wound upon a roller, and this roller placed
with its axis in a vertical position in a frame, and so as to be capable of
rotating. The end of the fabric is passed over a rail or roller, and each
list or edge passed respectively into or between the temples, and the
blade or arm is placed in between the fold of the fabric, the end of
which is thin and rounded or curved. The stud is adjusted so that the
rounded end of the blade will, by the aid of a spring or weighted lever
press against the fabric at its middle, and at a point about opposite or
at right angles to the temples. The fabric is then passed or drawn
forward through the said temples and over the cylinders of the finishing
machine, and passing thence is wound upon another roller in its rigged
or folded state.
In order that this Invention may be clearly understood, we herein
give reference to an accompanying Sheet of Drawings of machinery
or apparatus constructed and arranged in accordance therewith, wherein
Fig, 1 is a side clevation and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same,
A is the frame of an ordinary steam heated cylinder finishing machine,
and B³, B³, and B³ are the cylinders thercof. On this frame is fixed a
rail or bearer C supporting a bracket or stand D, in which are fixed two
rods E and F. These rods carry the two temples or guides G and H,
which are similar to ordinary loom temples, but made larger, and
suitable for this particular purpose. (The said temples and rods are
shewn in detail half full size in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6.) I is a bracket
also fixed to the frame A supporting a fulcrum or stud J, upon which
is mounted the blade or lever arm K, the end of which is thin and
rounded off; L is a frame for holding the picce roller M in a vertical
position, and so as to allow it to rotate; N is the rail for the piece or
fabric P to pass over to the temples in manner as shewn by the dotted
lines, the two lists or edges passing respectively through the temples
whilst the blade is inserted between the fald of the fabric,
spring S
acting upon
it to stretch and form the rigg or crease in or about the
middle of the fabric, which thence passes over the roller T to and over or
around the cylinders B, 2, and 3, and is then wound upon another
roller U which is portable in the usual manner. And in order to secure
that the fabric will be wound evenly upon the said roller there are two.
racks V, slidable in the stands W, having hooks or recesses which clip.
the ends of the shaft of the roller U, and these racks are geared together
by a shaft and pinions X so that they are moved up or down in the

page_text: stand simultaneously. A pulley Y is fixed on the shaft X with a cord
and weight Z to apply pressure to the roller U. The rods E and F are
fixed in the stand D by set screws, and the stand can be moved on the
rail by means of the screw D', so that the temples may be readily set or
adjusted to a proper position according to the width of fabric to be
rigged; also the stud J is moveable by means of a screw J*, it being
mounted on a short slide bed J³, so that the blade may readily be
adjusted to the width of fabric under operation. The temple H is also
capable of being moved on its rod E by screw E, so as to adjust it to the
other temple G, as may be required; this means of adjustment is shewn
at Figs. 5 and 6.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and shewn
by Drawings in what manner the same is to be or may be performed
or carried into practical operation, we would have it understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the precise details as shown, but what we
claim is,-
Firstly. The application and use of temples for guiding fabrics when
under operation of rigging, and the uso of a blade for forming the
rigg, in manner shewn and described.
Secondly. The combination and arrangement of apparatus for rigging
fabrics, substantially as herein described and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Oates Ingham and Illingworth
Butterfield, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Twenty-
fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
AMAN INTAM
Witness,
WN. TASKER,
CATES INGHAM.
(i.S.)
ILLINGWORTH BUTTERFIELD. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Bradford,