New or Improved Device for Supporting Stacked Rolls of Cloth and the like when any of the Parts of such Stack are Withdrawn for Inspection or similar Purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1899 -Accepted, 9th Dec., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Device for Supporting Stacked Rolls of Cloth and
the like when any of the Parts of such Stack are Withdrawn for
Inspection or similar Purposes.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM HITCHncock, of Arundale, Seymour Villas, Anerley,
London, S.E., Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a now or improved device for supporting stacked rolls
of cloth and the like when any of the parts of such stack are withdrawn for
inspection or similar purposes, and is designed with the object of providing a
simple, efficient and inexpensive supporting device whereby when a roll of cloth
or the like is removed from a stack for inspection or other purposes, such device
can be inserted in the place of the abstracted roll in such a manner as to maintain
the stuck in its normal or symmetrical condition and prevent it falling down or
otherwise becoming displaced.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the supporting device.
Fig. 2 being a similar view of a slightly different form thereof, while
Fig. 3 is an elevational view of a stuck built up of rolls of cloth, shewing the
application of my invention thereto.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the several figures, a represents two wooden or other
plates or slabs, which may be of rectangular or other convenient shape, such
plates or slabs having their inner or opposing sides a¹ of flat form, while the outer
sides a are preferably given a suitable convexity as shown in Fig. 2.
Connecting these upper and lower plates or slabs a together I provide one or
more vertical bars or rungs b, which are fixed to the opposing sides of the said
plates or slabs in any suitable manner, or such connecting bars or rungs may
form an integral part of the device.
It is essential that all the corners a³ of the device be rounded off, so that such
corners will present no sharp corners which would be likely to tear or otherwise
damage the rolls of cloth or the like with which the devices comes in contact.
In operation (and assuming the device is employed in connection with stacked
rolls of cloth) such device is inserted between any of the upper and lower rolls
of cloth e in place of the intervening roll which has been withdrawn for inspection
or other purposes, thereby effectually preserving the correct and desired
symmetrical form of the stack and preventing same tumbling to pieces or tilting
over to one side.
The primary object of the supporting device is to provide a temporary sub-
stitute for a portion of a stack that has been removed. but the said device can
also be advantageously employed during the process of stacking the goods or
unstacking same.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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The new or improved device for supporting stacked rolls of cloth and the like
when any of the parts of such stack are removed for inspection or similar pur-
poses, consisting in upper and lower parallel plates or slabs having rounded
corners and connected together by one or more vertical bars or rungs, substan-
tially as and for the purpose described and as illustrated by the drawings.
1000
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., ..
For the Applicant.

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