Improvements in Cloth or Packing Boards.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1898
Complete Specification Latt 16th Fab 1000
[Communicated from abroad by ROSCOE WITHERLE GAGE, of 65, Ashford Street,
Allston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of North America, Banker.]
Improvements in Cloth or Packing Boards.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord Street,
Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and
Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The boards upon which bolts of cloth and the like are wound usually have been
composed heretofore each of a single board of suitable length, width and thickness.
These have various serious disadvantages and defects. They frequently warp out
of true shape, or check and split so as to render them valueless and incapable of
serving their intended purpose, or so as that they tend to occasion damage or
injury to the cloth or other material which is wound upon them. Breakages
thereof from various causes are frequent, for instance, in consequence of the
handling which they receive prior to having the cloth wound around the same,
or in consequence of the strain to which they are subjected during the performance
of the winding operation, while they break also subsequent to the winding. An
increase of strength over the amount of strength which is possessed by the form of
cloth board heretofore in use is desirable. The weight of the usual form of cloth
board is objectionable for various reasons, among which is the cost of freightage,
the charges for transportation being based upon the weight transported. As will
be obvious, the weight of the cloth boards within a large package of bolts of cloth
adds materially to the weight of the said package, and consequently to the trans-
portation charges.
The aims of the invention are in part to provide a cloth board which will not
warp or split, to provide a cloth board which is stronger and better fitted to
endure the tests of hard usage than the cloth boards heretofore in use, to provide
a cloth board which is considerably lighter than the latter form of cloth boards
and to provide a form of cloth board which shall admit of being produced more
cconomically than the usual form.
Fig. 1 of the drawing, is an isometric projection of a cloth board embodying.
by invention. Fig. 2 is a view in cross-section on the vertical plane that is
indicated by the dotted line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
In the drawing, 1, 1, etc., designate strips of wood or other suitable material
extending in the direction of the length of the cloth board, and 2, 2, etc., designate
cross-strips located at intervals apart. The longitudinal strips 1, 1, constitute
ide bars, for the cloth-board, and the ends of the cross-strips 2, 2, extend within
the said side-bars, the said side-bars and cross-strips being united or secured
irmly together and constituting a light but strong and firm open or skeleton
ramework, as shown. Each side-bar is shown as consisting of a pair of the longi-

page_text: tudinal strips 1, 1, and the opposite ends of the cross or connecting strips 2,2,
are shown as received between the two longitudinal strips of the respective pairs
thereof. Preferably the strips are united and held together by glue, although other
suitable and convenient means of uniting or fastening the various strips securely
together may be employed, if deemed desirable. One of the cross-strips 2 is
located at each end of the cloth board, and the remainder are located at intervals
apart in the length of the cloth board. The ends of the cloth board are bevelled
or rounded off as at 3, 3, and so are also the outer or exposed edges 4, 4, of the
side-bars, as well as, desired, the remaining edges 5, 5, this bevelling or rounding
off of the ends and edges being for the purpose of avoiding marking or creasing the
goods which are wound upon the cloth boards.
The invention enables the stock which is required to be used in the manufacture
of the cloth boards to be employed more completely and to greater advantage,
inasmuch as the strips are much narrower than the boards of which ordinary cloth
boards are formed, and, as will be observed in the case of the illustrated embodi-
ment of the invention, are much thinner. Thus the raw material admits of being
more completely utilized than when it has to be formed into boards of the full
width of the cloth boards. Narrower and thinner pieces of stock admit of being
utilized, and therefore economy is attained and the cost of production is reduced.
Dated the 13th day of June 1898
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord Street,
Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and
Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Civil Engineer,
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 follow-
ing statement:-
The boards upon which bolts of cloth and the like are wound usually have been
composed heretofore each of a single board of suitable length, width and thickness.
These have various serious disadvantages and defects. They frequently warp out
of true shape, or check and split so as to render them valueless and incapable of
serving their intended purpose, or so as that they tend to occasion damage or
injury to the cloth or other material which is wound upon them. Breakages
thereof from various causes are frequent, for instance, in consequence of the
handling which they receive prior to having the cloth wound around the same,
or in consequence of the strain to which they are subjected during the performance
of the winding operation, while they break also subsequent to the winding. An
increase of strength over the amount of strength which is possessed by the form of
cloth board heretofore in use is desirable. The weight of the usual form of cloth
board is objectionable for various reasons, among which is the cost of freightage,
the charges for transportation being based upon the weight transported. As will
be obvious, the weight of the cloth boards within a large package of bolts of cloth
adds materially to the weight of the said package, and consequently to the trans-
portation charges.
The aims of the invention are in part to provide a cloth board which will not

page_text: warp or split, to provide a cloth board which is stronger and better fitted to
endure the tests of hard usage than the cloth boards heretofore in use, to provide
a cloth board which is considerably lighter than the latter form of cloth boards,
and to provide a form of cloth board which shall admit of being produced more
economically than the usual form.
Fig. 1 of the drawing filed with my Provisional Specification is an isometric
projection of a cloth board embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view in cross-
section on the vertical plane that is indicated by the dotted line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
In the drawing, 1, 1, etc., designate strips of wood or other suitable material
extending in the direction of the length of the cloth board, and 2, 2, etc., designate
cross-strips located at intervals apart. The longitudinal strips 1,1, constitute
side bars for the cloth-board, and the ends of the cross-strips 2,2, extend within
the said side-bars, the said side-bars and cross-strips being united or secured
firmly together and constituting a light but strong and firm open or skeleton
framework, as shown. Each side-bar is shown as consisting of a pair of the longi-
tudinal strips 1, 1, and the opposite ends of the cross or connecting strips 2,2,
are shown as received between the two longitudinal strips of the respec-
tive pairs of the said longitudinal strips. Preferably, the strips are
united and held together by glue, although other suitable and
venient means of uniting or fastening the various strips securely together
may be employed, if deemed desirable. One of the cross-strips 2 is
located at each end of the cloth board, and the remainder are located at intervals
apart in the length of the cloth board. The ends of the cloth board are bevelled
or rounded off as at 3, 3, and so are also the outer or exposed edges 4, 4, of the
side-bars, as well as, if desired, the remaining edges 5, 5, this bevelling or rounding
off of the ends and edges being for the purpose of avoiding marking or creasing the
goods which are wound upon the cloth boards.
con-
The invention enables the stock which is required to be used in the manufacture
of the cloth boards to be employed more completely and to greater advantage,
inasmuch as the strips are much narrower than the boards of which ordinary cloth
boards are formed, and, as will be observed in the case of the illustrated embodi-
ment of the invention, are much thinner. Thus the raw material admits of being
more completely utilized than when it has to be formed into boards of the full
width of the cloth boards. Narrower and thinner pieces of stock admit of being
utilized, and therefore economy is attained and the cast of production is reduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is;-
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The herein described improved cloth board upon which to wind a bolt of cloth.
Dated the 16th day of February 1899.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.