IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION FOR EFFECTING THE FOLDING OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Sampson and Joseph Sampson, both of
Gordon Street, Bradford, in the County of York, Stuff Finishers, and
Elijah Ledger, of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, also in the County of York,
Bookkeeper, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Sampson, Joseph
Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th January 1857.
We, GEORGE SAMPSON and JOSEPHI SAMPSON, both of Gordon Street;
Bradford, in the County of York, Stuff Finishers, and ELIJAH LEDGER, of Loft-
house, near Wakefield, also in the County of York, Bookkeeper, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
EFFECTING THE FOLDING OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in effecting the folding or rigging by causing the
fabric to be folded or rigged to pass between two plates, folded to forms suit-
able to produce the desired folding, the one plate acting on the under surface
of the fabric, whilst the other acts on the upper, and as a sort of saddle
to it.

page_text: The fabric is conducted to and from between these folding plates by suitable
rollers or cylinders. In some cases we also apply heat to one or both of the
plates, to facilitate the operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th July 1857.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
SAMPSON and JOSEPH SAMPSON, both of Gordon Street, Bradford, in the County
of York, Stuff Finishers, and ELIJAH LEDGER, of Lofthouse, near Wakefield,
also in the County of York, Bookkeeper, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, Her special licence,
that we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George
Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times théreáfter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE FOLDING
OR RIGGING OF WOVEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said George 'Sampson, Joseph 'Sampson, and Elijah Ledger, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed-in. the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson, and
Elijah Ledger, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
The improvement consist in effecting the folding or rigging by causing

page_text: opposite end views, of apparatus arranged to carry out our improvements. In
each of these views the same letters indicate similar parts wherever they
occur.
a, a, is the framing of the machine. The course of the fabric is indicated by
the red color b, and it is guided so as to pass from the beam c to between the
folding plates d, e, by means of the guide roller f and the feed rollers g, g, the
upper one of which has a groove round it at g', in position to assist in forming
a crease for the doubling and in guiding the piece to the saddle. The plate d
is somewhat the form of an inverted V, and the two sides of it are at a greater
angle at the part nearest the rollers g, g, than at the other end, where the fabric
is taken by the nip rollers h, h, and the plate e follows the same form as the
plate d, but at a distance from it sufficient to admit of the fabric passing freely
between them. The fabric as it leaves the rollers h, h, is, for convenience of
conducting it to the pressing machine, guided so as to bring it into a hori
zontal line by the angular rollers i, j, and k, the bearings for the axles of which
as well as of the other rollers are capable of adjustment, or, if desired, the
piece after leaving the nip rollers h, may at once be wound on to a loose roller
by frictional contact thereof with one of the rollers h. Motion is given to the
rollers 9, 9, and h, h, in the following manner:-1 is a strap or band which
receives motion from a steam engine or other suitable power, and gives motion
to the drum or pulley m affixed upon the axis n, upon which is affixed the
bevilled pinion o, which takes into and drives a similar bevilled pinion p, on
the axis of one of the rollers h, whilst one of the rollers g is driven by the
strap or band g, which passes on the pulley or drum r affixed on the axis
n, and thereby receives motion to drive the pulleys affixed on the axis of one
of the rollers g.

page_text: If desired, heat may be applied to one or both of the plates d and e, as also
to the feed rollers 9, 9, or the nip rollers h, h.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, we would have it
understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details shown and
described, as variations may be made therein without departing from the
peculiar nature of our Invention'; but what we do claim is, the employment of
plates d and e, with parts acting therewith, as means to effect the folding or
rigging of woven fabrics, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Sampson, Joseph Sampson,
and Elijah Ledger, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the 25th
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Witness,
ALFRED WILLIAM LARKIN.
GEORGE SAMPSON. (L.S.)
JOSEPH SAMPSON. (L.S.)
ELIJAH LEDGER.
(L.S.)