Improvements in the Production of Ornamental Effects in Fur, and in Machines for Cutting the Hair of Fur Skins.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Ornamental Effects in Fur, and
in Machines for Cutting the Hair of Fur Skins.
We ADOLPHE HERSE and JULIEN WEIDENBACH of Rue des Coatures
St. Gervais Paris in the Republic of France Hat Merchants 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:-
In the preparation of fur skins it is usual to cut off the ends of the hair in order
to make the fur thin and to produce an even velvety surface. This cutting is
effected by means of a machine provided with cutting blades carried by a rotatory
cylindrical support and acting in conjunction with a stationary blade the length to
which the hair is cut being regulated by a screw adjustment.
Our invention consists in producing ornamental effects in fur by cutting the hair
of fur skins at parts only or by cutting it of different lengths at different parts of
the skins.
And our said invention consists also of the improvements hereinafter described
in fur cutting machines the object of which improvements is to admit of the cutting
of fur according to our invention in such machines.
Our improvements in the said machines consist in the combination therewith of
appliances (hereinafter termed "guards") by means of which portions of the hair
are held away from the cutters while the skins are being passed through the
machine the said portions of hair being consequently left of the natural or of
greater length than the other portions after the cutting has been effected.
We will further describe our invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings and to the letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 of the said drawings is a front elevation (partly in section) of the
upper part of a machine of the kind herein before referred to showing our improve-
ments applied thereto. In the said figure accessorial parts such as the driving
mechanism are not shown.
Figure 2 is a section of the said machine taken on the line A Figure 1.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 are separate views of various forms of the guards herein-
before referred to drawn to a larger scale than the other figures.
Figures 7 represents an alternative arrangement of the guards.
Referring to the said Figures 1 and 2 a, a are portions of the frame of the machine.
bis the rotatory cylinder carrying the cutting blades which cylinder is covered by a
shield c jointed to the frame of the machine at d. e is the table which supports
the skins while they are being operated on in the machine. f is the stationary
blade and g is a fluted roller under which the skins are passed. In Figure 1 the
said roller g is represented as partly broken away in order to fully show the guards
hereinbefore referred to which are marked in the said Figures 1 and 2 and
consist of plates or pieces of metal or other suitable material having wings
projecting from the side of one face as clearly shown in Figures 3 and 4 which
are respectively a face view and side view of one form of the said guards shown
separately the wings being marked ii in the said figures. The said guards are affixed
by screws to a bar j secured to the shield c the position of which bar can be
adjusted by the elongated holes or slots k k. The position of the guards relatively
to the operating parts of the machine is best shown in Figure 2 by reference to
which figure it will be seen that the wings of the guards project toward the fluted
roller g and that the portions of the guards on which the wings are formed are
downward and between the said roller and the stationary blade f. The acting
ends of the guards (i.e. the ends which in the drawings are lowermost) may be

page_text: straight as shown in Figures 3 and 4 or curved inward as shown in Figure 5 or
curved outward as shown in Figure 6 or of other form according to the effect
required to be produced by the cutting.
In Figure 7 an alternative arrangement for mounting the guards in the machine
is illustrated the said arrangement consisting of a slotted bar to which the guards
are clamped by screw bolts passing through slots in them and through the slot in
the said bar. This arrangement admits of ready adjustment of the said guards
both horizontally and vertically without altering the position of the bar supporting
them. Where the said arrangement is used the bar is affixed by screws to the
shield c in lieu of the bar j shown in Figures 1 and 2.
The effect of subjecting a fur skin to the action of a cutting machine in which
two of the guards h h are mounted as illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying
drawings is to cut the hair at all parts except those which pass under the said
guards consequently if the skin be passed in a straight line through the machine
two straight parallel ribs of long hair will be left on the skin the hair at other
parts being short.
The machine may be provided with any desired number of the guards.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim ;-
First. The production of ornamental effects in fur by cutting the hair of fur
skins at parts only or by cutting the hair of different lengths at different parts.
Secondly. The improvements in fur cutting machines herein before described
with reference to the accompanying drawings that is to say the combination with
such machines of guards by means of which the hair on parts of the skins operated
on in the machine is held away from the cutting blades substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated the Twenty-seventh day of March 1894.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.