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

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
Improvements in Clips or Holders Employed in Stentering Machines
for Stretching or Finishing Textile Fabrics.
I, ALFRED AUSTIN WHITLEY, of Park View, Walmersley Road, Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to clips or holders employed in stentering machines for
stretching or finishing textile fabrics which clips or holders are made as described
in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 252990 granted to me that is clips or
holders in which the lever or arm which carries the tongue or finger which bears
on the cloth is made separate from the upper jaw by which the fabric is clipped
when the cloth passes from beneath the tongue or finger. The object of my
invention is to make the bearing of the tongue or finger on the fabric sufficiently
light to render the clips or holders suitable for use with all descriptions of fabrics
even those of the lightest kinds. This I effect by making the finger or tongue in
each clip or holder in duplicate or with three or more portions or prongs, and
the lower plate of the clip or holder over which the cloth passes with two or more
slots to correspond. By thus constructing the clips or holders the bearing on any
given point of the cloth is greatly reduced, and they can be used for even the
lightest descriptions of fabrics.
ATY
1000
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Clips or Holders employed in Stentering Machines
for Stretching or Finishing Textile Fabrics,
I, ALFRED AUSTIN WHITLEY, of Park View, Walmersley Road, Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, 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:
My invention relates to clips or holders employed in stentering machines for
stretching or finishing textile fabrics and more especially to clips, or holders
made as described in the Specifications of Letters Patent No. 2529 A.D. 1890, and
No. 14209 A.D. 1895, granted to me, that is clips, or holders, in which the lever,
or arm, which carries the tongue, or finger, which bears on the cloth, is made
separate from the upper jaw by which the fabric is clipped, or held, when it
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page_text: passes from beneath the tongue, or finger. The object of my invention is to make
the bearing of the tongue, or finger, on the parts of the fabric on which the
tongue, or finger, rests, sufficiently light, to render the clips, or holders, suitable
for use with all descriptions of fabrics, even those of the lightest kinds. This I
effect by making the finger, or tongue, in each clip, or holder, in duplicate, or
with three, or more, portions, or prongs, and the lower plate of the clip, or
holder, over which the cloth passes with two, or more, slots to correspond.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent vertical sections at right
angles to each other, and Figure 3 a plan of a clip, or holder, made in accordance
with my invention. The finger, or tongue, A, is shewn as being made with
three prongs, or portions, a, to bear on the cloth, and the lower plate B has three
slots in it for the passage of the prongs, or portions, a when the cloth passes
beyond them. Although I have shewn three prongs and three slots, as before
stated, the clip, or holder, may have two, three, or more, such prongs and slots
as desired. By constructing the clips, or holders, as described the bearing on
any given point of the cloth is greatly reduced and they can be used for even the
lightest descriptions of fabrics.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
Stentering machine clips, or holders, having a finger, or tongue, with two, three
or more portions, or prongs, and with a lower, or cloth plate having two, three or
more, corresponding slots therein, substantially as, and for the purpose, herein-
before described.
Dated this 24th dox of March 1800
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.