A New or Improved Combined Cord and Braid Machine for producing certain Trimmings.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct. 1890-Accepted, 13th Dec., 1890
עגײַנע UTI
A New or Improved Combined Cord and Braid Machine for
producing certain Trimmings.
I, WILLIAM JOHN ADAMS, of Whitworth Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Braid Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :—
My invention consists in a certain novel or improved arrangement and combination
of mechanism whereby I am enabled to manufacture a trimming composed of a
plaited cord having a braided selvage.
In carrying out my invention I combine a cord machine with a braid machine in
the following manner :-I arrange two of the cord heads with two of the braid heads
in such a manner as to allow the ends of the cord to pass through the braid, also for
the braid ends to pass through the cord in order to combine or interplait them. The
remaining heads of the cord and braid being arranged in the ordinary way.
When the combined machine is in operation the cord heads produce the plaited
cord and simultaneously the braiding heads form the braided selvage the two cord
heads and the two braid heads arranged as above mentioned serve to tie together or
interlace the plaited cord and braided selvage. The cord and the braid portions of
the trimmings may be formed of the same or of different materials.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying diagram of a combined cord and braid
machine.
In this instance eleven cord heads and twelve braid heads are shown. The eleven
cord heads are marked 13 to 23 and the braid heads 1 to 12.
The interplaiting is accomplished by the self-acting governor marked 24 which is
placed centrally between the cord heads 13 and 23 and the braid heads 1-2. This
governor is of the type used on an ordinary square cord machine and is employed to
guide the braid spindles from heads Nos. 2 to 23 and from Nos. 23 to 1 and from
Nos. 1 to 13 and from No. 13 back again to No 2 which then goes round the braid
heads in the usual way.
The governor 24 likewise guides the cord spindles from heads Nos. 23 to 2 and
from Nos. 2 to 13 to plait the ends round the cord in one direction and the governor 24
also guides the cord spindles from Nos. 13 to 1 and from Nos. 1 to 23 to plait the
ends round the cord in the other direction the cord ends crossing one another in the
usual well known manner.
In order to indicate the path of the spindles I have marked the braid spindles by a
crossed circle while the cord spindles for one direction as indicated by the arrows are
shown by a single circle and the cord spindles for the other direction also indicated
by arrows are shown by a circle with a black centre.
The ordinary spindle governors which are represented by the letter T, serve to
guide the spindles from one head to the other in the desired direction.
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The core for the cord plaited by the eleven core heads Nos. 13 to 23 is fed the
tube 25 placed in the centre of the cord machine.
It is obvious that the material or yarn of which the cord and the braided selvage
are formed may be different materials or colours as desired.
In place of making a cord with a single selvage I can by my invention form a cord
with a braided selvage at each side or two or more cords connected by braids or any
combination of a cord or cords and braid or braids which can be manufactured by
combinations of cord and braid plaiting machines to effect this it would only be
necessary to reduce or multiply the number of heads and to change the point at which
the cord and braid threads are interplaited in manner herein before described.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to he performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
:
The combination with a cord plaiting, machine or machines, of a braid plaiting
machine or machines substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated this 24th day of October 1900
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.