Improvements in and Machinery for the Manufacture of Quilts, Skirts, Mattresses, and other like Quilted Articles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1890-Accepted, 30th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Partly communicated from abroad by JOHN HAPPE, of Wandsbeck, Hamburg,
Germany, Engineer, and partly his own invention.]
Improvements in and Machinery for the Manufacture of Quilts,
Skirts, Mattresses, and other like Quilted Articles.
I HARRY EDLER of Portland Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Quilt
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows
In the manufacture of quilts it has hitherto been the practice to introduce the filling
material between the two fabrics forming the outside of the quilt by hand and then to
pass the same beneath the needle or needles of the sewing machine for sewing the
whole together or in the case of down quilts the fabrics have been first sewn together
in channels and the filling material afterwards put into the channels.
Now my invention consists in combining a multiple needle sewing machine with a
feeding machine for feeding the fibrous material, down, cotton-waste, wool or other
stuffing in a continuous layer of even thickness between the surfaces of the two
fabrics forming the outside of a quilt, skirt, mattresses or other like article whilst the
same are being passed beneath the sewing machine needles and so as to produce the
whole article perfectly sewn together and all by one and the same continuous
operation.
In performing the invention I mount the outside fabrics on rollers or pass the same
over guide rollers in front of a multiple needle sewing machine and upon the top
surface of the lower fabric whilst so travelling I "lay" the filling material by any
suitable drawing, carding, combing and distributing mechanism to the desired
thickness and cause the fabrics to travel forwards together carrying the layer of
filling between them beneath the feeding bar of the multiple needle sewing machine
and whereby the same in passing through the sewing machine become stitched
together by one continuous operation.
As a modification of the invention 1 sometimes employ a long travelling apron.
passing over a table for laying and feeding the filling material or I take or form a
lap of the filling material and feed the same from a roll between the outer fabrics in
the same continuous manner as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 1st day of July 1890
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Machinery for the Manufacture of Quilts,
Skirts, Mattresses, and other like Quilted Articles.
I HARRY EDLER of Portland Street, Manchester in the County of Lancaster Quilt
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 manufacture of. quilts it has hitherto been the practice to introduce the
filling material between the two fabrics forming the outside of the quilt by hand and,
then to pass the same beneath the needle or needles of the sewing machine for sewing
the whole together or in the case of down quilts the fabrics have been first sewn
together in channels and the filling material afterwards put into the channels.
Now my invention consists in combining a multiple needle sewing machine with a
feeding machine for feeding the fibrous material, down, cotton-waste, wool or other
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page_text: stuffing in a continuous layer of even thickness between the surfaces of the two
fabrics forming the outside of a quilt, skirt, mattresses or other like article whilst
the same are being passed beneath the sewing machine needles and so as to produce
the whole article perfectly sewn together and all by one and the same continuous
operation.
In peforming the invention I mount the outside fabrics on rollers or pass the same
over guide rollers in front of a multiple needle sewing machine and upon the top
surface of the lower fabric whilst so travelling I "lay" the filling material by any
suitable drawing, carding, combing and distributing mechanism to the desired
thickness and cause the fabrics to travel forwards together carrying the layer of
filling between them beneath the feeding bar of the multiple needle sewing machine
and whereby the same in passing through the sewing machine become stitched
together by one continuous operation.
As a modification of the invention I sometimes employ a long travelling apron
passing over a table for laying and feeding the filling material or I take or form a lap
of the filling material and feed the same from a roll between the outer fabrics in the
same continuous manner as hereinbefore described.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In the manufacture of quilts and other like articles the employment of a
multiple needle sewing machine in combination with feeding mechanism for supplying
the filling material between the outside fabrics simultaneously with the same being
sewn together substantially as hereinbefore described.
2nd. The improved arrangement and combination of mechanism whereby the
outside fabrics forming the quilt whilst being sewn are fed with the filling material
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
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JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.