Improvements in Stentering Clips Employed in Machines for Stretching and Finishing Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1899-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stentering Clips Employed in Machines for
Stretching and Finishing Textile Fabrics.
We, CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON, of Wharf Foundry, Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of the same place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in stentering clips employed in
machines for stretching and finishing textile fabrics and our improvements
consist mainly in a novel application and arrangement of parts whereby the
weight of the clip is balanced while the fabric is over the slot in the bottom
plate but which when the fabric is absent and the finger falls forward into the
slot will act to weight the jaw of the clip and cause or allow it to grip the fabric
on to the bottom plate.
In carrying our invention into effect we employ a clip of ordinary form with
a pivoted gripping jaw and a finger or feeler projecting into a slot in the bottom
plate and in one arrangement, according to our improvements, we mount a ball
in a guide or mercury in a tube or other convenient form of moving weight to
act upon and balance the gripping jaw and so relieve the fabric of almost all
pressure while the finger rests upon it but which puts weight on the gripping
jaw and causes it to clip the fabric when the finger falls into the slot.
Instead of the rolling ball or other form of movable weight we might employ
a weighted lever, pendulum or other equivalent device which would act more
or less effectively and substantially in the same manner as the shifting balance
weight.
Dated this 1941 day of Antalia 1000
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Stentering Clips Employed in Machines for
Stretching and Finishing Textile Fabrics.
We, CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON, of Wharf Foundry, Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of the same place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:
1
Our invention relates to improvements in stentering clips employed in
machines for stretching and finishing textile fabrics and our improvements

page_text: consist mainly in a novel application and arrangement of parts whereby the
weight of the clip is balanced while the fabric is over the slot in the bottom
plate but which when the fabric is absent, i.c. clear of the slot, and the finger
falls forward into the slot will act to weight the jaw of the clip and cause or
allow it to grip the fabric on to the bottom plate.
In carrying our invention into effect we employ a clip of ordinary form with
a pivoted gripping jaw and a finger or feeler projecting into a slot in the bottom
plate and in one arrangement, according to our improvements, we mount a ball
in a guide or mercury in a tube or other convenient form of moving weight to
act upon and balance the gripping jaw and so relieve the fabric of almost all
pressure while the finger rests upon it but which puts weight on the gripping
jaw and causes it to clip the fabric when the finger falls into the slot.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a stentering clip fitted with our improve-
ments and showing the finger supported on the fabric over the slot in the
bottom plate.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the clip showing the jaw gripping the fabric after
the finger has fallen forward into the slot.
Figure 3 is a plan of the clip.
In these views, a designates the body of the clip, b the bottom plate having
a slot in it as usual, c the upper fixed arms, d the movable jaw of the clip
pivoted by the pin e to the arms c, and f the finger or feeler which projects into
the slot bi in the bottom plate.
The above parts may be of the usual or any convenient and suitable con-
struction and in the arrangement illustrated, according to our improvements
we secure by a clip g to the upper part of the pivoted jaw d a tube
in which is
placed a ball which, when in the position shown in Fig. 1 acts upon and
balances the gripping jaw d and so relieves the fabric k of almost all pressure
while the finger f rests upon it but which puts weight on the gripping jaw d
and causes it to clip the fabric k when the finger f falls into the slot as indicated
in Fig. 2.
Instead of the rolling ball or mercury in a tube or other form of movable
weight we might employ a weighted lever, pendulum or other equivalent device
which would act more or less effectively and substantially in the same manner
as the shifting balance weight.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. In a stentering clip the arrangement use and application of a movable or
shifting balance weight to relieve the fabric when over the slot of almost all
pressure and to increase the grip on the fabric when the finger falls into the slot
substantially as herein described.
2. The combination with the gripping jaw of a stentering clip, of a movable
or shifting balance weight substantially as and for the purposes herein described
and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of July 1899.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.