AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR WINDING AND HOLDING TAPE
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Imray; of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPLIANCE FOR WINDING AND HOLDING TAPE." A communication from
abroad by La Société les Fils de Cartier Bresson, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Imray at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1881.
JOHN IMRAY, of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR WINDING AND HOLDING TAPE."
[A communication from abroad by La Société les Fils de Cartier Bresson, of Paris,
Franco.]
Tape being usually wound in hanks is liable to become entangled when
portions are taken off for use, and there is no convenient means of perinaneatly
marking the hanks with the quantity or character of the manufacture. This
Invention relates to an appliance for winding and holding tape so that it is not
liable to entanglement, and that until the bank is exhausted it continues to
bear the mark of the manufacture, or such other mark as may be employed for
commercial purposes. A piece of cardboard, thin wood, sheet metal, or other
suitable material is cut to the shape of a long rectangle having on each side
near its ends laterally projecting ears, which extend like horns beyond the ends
of the rectangle. The tape is wound lengthwise on this frame, the folds being con-
fined at each end between the projecting horns of the frame. When the desired
length forming a hank is wound on the frame, a strip of paper or fabric is folded
round the middle, and made by glueing or pasting to form a ring which encloses
the tape, and which can be slid to and fro along it, so that it can be brought
to a position to cover the cut ond of the tape. This sliding ring may bear the
desired marks of the tape; and as it is prevented from being slid off by the
projecting cars at each end of the frame, it remains permanently attached to
the hank till the tape is exhausted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Imray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th December
1881.
JOHN IMRAY, of No. 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, "AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR WINDING AND HOLDING TAPE."
A communication from abroad by La Société les Fils de Cartier Bresson, of Paris,
France.
Tape being usually wound in hanks is liable to become entangled when portions
are taken off for use, and there is no convenient means of permanently marking
tho hanks with the quantity or character of the manufacture. This Invention
relates to an appliance for winding and holding tape so that it is not liable to
entanglement, and that until the hank is exhausted it continues to bear the mark
of the manufacture, or such other mark as may be employed for commercial
purposes. A piece of cardboard, thin wood, sheet metal, or other suitable material
is cut to the shape of a long rectangle having on each side near its ends laterally
projecting cars, which extend like horns beyond the ends of the rectangle. The
tape is wound lengthwise on this frame, the folds being confined at each end
between the projecting horns of the frame. When the desired length forming a
hank is wound on the frame, a strip of paper or fabric is folded round the middle,
and made by glueing or pasting to form a ring which encloses the tape, and which
can be slid to and fro along it, so that it can be brought to a position to cover the
cut and of the tape. This sliding ring may bear the desired marks of the tape;
and as it is prevented from being slid off by the projecting cars at each end of the
frame, it remains permanently attached to the hank till the tape is exhausted.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side view
shewing an appliance according to this Invention with the tape wound on it, and
Fig. 3 shews the piece of cardboard or other material as it is shaped to receivo
the tape. As is seen in Fig. 3, it is made at each end c, c, wider than its middle
part a, and the widening parts project as a pair of horns b, b, at each end. The
tape is wound on lengthwise between these horns, and when it is wound a strip d
of paper or fabric is wound transversely over the tape, and made by glueing or
pasting to form a ring or sheath that can be slid to and fro along the tape, but
cannot pass the projecting sides of the widened parts c. This ring or sheath is
printed or otherwise marked to indicate the quantity or character of the tapo.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, as communicated to me by ny foreign correspondents,
I claim the use for winding and holding tape of a slip of card or other suitable
material cut so as to present at each end windened parts and horns between which
the tapo is wound lengthwise, in combination with a sliding ring or sheath which
may bear marks of quantity or quality, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Imray, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.