IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CLOTH AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Osbourn, of Spencer Road, Hornsey
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Cutter, in the employment of
Messieurs B. Hyam and Son, of Cannon Street, in the City of
London, Wholesale Clothiers and Manufacturers, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CLOTH AND OTHER
MATERIALS."
"
Sealed the 19th September 1871, and dated the 21st March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Osbourn at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition; on
the 21st March 1871.
Ì, FREDERICK OSBOURN, of Spencer Road, Hornsey Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Cutter, in the employment of Messieurs B. Hyam
and Son, of Cannon Street, in the City of London, Wholesale Clothiers
and Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CLOTH AND OTHER MATERIALS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention. consists in constructing cutting apparatus in such
manner that the cloth or other material shall be subjected to rolling

page_text: pressure in order to be and while being cut. For this purpose the
material is placed between a pressing roller and a cutting edge.
In one arrangement the cutter travels to and fro beneath the roller,
which is caused to revolve on its axis and exert pressure on the material
to be cut, which is placed on the travelling cutter between such cutter
and the roller. This arrangement is especially applicable to apparatus
for cutting into shape parts of waistcoats and other garments by means
of cutting frames or patterns with sharp edge. The cloth is placed on
the cutting frame or pattern and subjected to the pressure of the roller;
or the cutter, cutting frame, or pattern may be stationary; and the
roller in addition to its rotary motion on its axis may have a forward
and backward travel or traversing motion.
In another arrangement a cutter or cutters, or a cutting frame or
pattern with sharp edge may be formed or fixed on the roller itself,
which is caused to revolve on a bed or surface. The material to be cut
is placed over the cutter, cutting frame, or pattern on the roller and
interposed and pressed between it and the bed or under surface.
For some purposes a rolling or revolving disc or very narrow roller
may be used. This disc may have a cutting edge, and on pressure being
applied the material will be cut.
Sometimes instead of using a cylindrical roller I may use a roller of
semi-cylindrical shape or of the shape of a segment or section of a
cylindrical or other rounded body, and cause the same to oscillate or
revolve partially in each direction of motion alternately.
When I use a cylindrical roller I may sometimes make it partially
revolve in each direction of motion alternately.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Osborne in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK 3
OSBOURN, of Spencer Road, Hornsey Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Cutter, in the employment of Messieurs B. Hyam and Son, of Cannon
Street, in the City of London, Wholesale Clothiers and Manufacturers, -
send greeting.

page_text: dropped or fitting into the carriage C. This bed Ę consists of a number
of parallel bars held in a rectangular frame. On this bed or frame is
a cutter G screwed thereto by adjusting screws. This cutter is a piece
having its upper edge a sharp or cutting edge, and it is of shape
or form proper for or corresponding with the shape or form to be
imparted to the material to be out by the cutting operation. For
instance, in the example shewn in the Drawing a form or shape proper for
cutting out (from cloth) a side of a waistcoat is represented. Of course
other shapes of cutters may be used; H, represents the cloth or material
to be cut; I is a roller or cylinder which is preferably made of metal and
it is of sufficient weight to exert pressure on the cloth or material to be
cut. This roller is supported on an axis i working in bearings in plates
or supports J fixed to the framework A; K, K, are toothed pinions or
toothed flanges which are fixed to the roller or cylinder I. They project
at their periphery beyond the periphery of the roller I, and engage with
racks L, a rack L is fixed to and at each side of the carriage C. Hence
there are two racks Lone at each side of the carriage; N is a winch
handle fixed at one end of the axis i. The cloth while being cut is held
by pins or projections fixed to the carriage C of the cutter. When the
attendant turns the handle N he communicates rotary motion to the
roller I, and as the pinions or toothed flanges K on the ends of the
roller engage with the racks L, they actuate those racks and thereby
impart to and fro or reciprocating motion to the carriage O and there-
fore to the cutter G supported thereon. When the carriage reaches
the end of its travel in one direction (which is readily and perceptibly
indicated by its end abutting against the ends of the top of the frame A),
the attendant reverses the direction of motion of the handle, and
thereby reverses the direction of motion of the carriage C. The cloth
being interposed between the travelling cutter G and the revolving
roller I is cut to the required shape.
It is obvious that the motion instead of being imparted by manual
labour with a winch handle as just described may be communicated by
other power by arrangements evident to any practical engineer.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, cutting
apparatus the parts of which are arranged, combined, and constructed
in such manner that the material or fabric to be cut shall be subjected

page_text: to rolling pressure while being cut, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Osbourn, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
E. DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
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FRED³. OSBOURN. (L.S.)