Improvements in Machinery for Finishing or Giving a Lustre to Velvets and other Cut Pile Fabrics.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Finishing or Giving a Lustre to
Velvets and other Cut Pile Fabrics.
JOSEPH DUTTON, 51 Edmund Street Sudley, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Foreman, and ROBERT DUTTON, 3 Aldred Street, Crescent, Salford
in the County of Lancaster, Machinist do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for Improvements in machinery for finishing or giving a lustre to velvets
and other cut pile fabrics to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to improve the machinery employed in the
process of finishing or imparting a lustre to velvets or other cut pile fabrics &
thus to expedite such process.
According to the present process, a thin strip of hard wood or other suitable
material, called a peg and fixed in a metal clip or box, is operated in one of the
following ways.
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First The peg is worked backward and forward, and as the cloth passes
through the machine the peg is allowed to scrape or slide over the cloth during
that half of the stroke running in the contrary direction to that in which the cloth
is passing.
Second-The peg is held stationary, and is allowed to scrape the cloth as it
passes through the machine.
It will be readily seen that the required finish or lustre is obtained by friction
between the fabric & the peg as above described.
In our invention we increase the amount of friction upon the fabric without
materially increasing the tension upon the same, & thus obtain a better effect &
a higher rate of speed that at present obtains.
Upon a metal frame is mounted a circular revolving bed over which the cloth
passes, over this bed is fixed one or more circular rollers of hard wood or other
suitable material, hereinafter called friction rollers, held in proper bearings which
allow the friction rollers to be raised or lowered; as the fabric passes over the
revolving bed the friction rollers are pressed upon it by springs or other
suitable means & also caused to revolve in a contrary direction to the course of
the cloth; the speed of the friction rollers can be varied by cone pulleys or other
suitable means & the amount of friction thus regulated.
More than one friction roller may be mounted upon the revolving bed, &
more than one revolving bed with its complementary roller or rollers may be
employed.
Dated this 13th day of July 1894.
JOSEPH DUTTON.
ROBERT DUTTON.

page_text: Improvements in Machinery for Finishing or Giving a Lustre to
Velvets and other Cut Pile Fabrics.
We JOSEPH DUTTON of 51 Edmund Street, Sudley, Salford, in the County
of Lancaster, Foreman Mechanic, and ROBERT DUTTON of 3 Aldred Street
Crescent, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker 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 :-
The object of our invention is to improve the machinery employed in the process
of finishing or imparting a lustre to velvets or other cut pile fabrics.
According to the present process, a thin strip of hard wood, called a peg, smooth
& round on the edge, is fixed in a metal clip or box & operated upon the fabric as
follows:-
The fabric is passed over a metal table or bed, & the peg is worked backward &
forward over it, as the fabric passes through the machine the smooth edge of
the peg is allowed to scrape or slide over the cloth during that half of the stroke
running in a contrary direction to the course of the cloth, another method is to carry
the fabric over a circular revolving bed, & the peg, which is held stationary, is pressed
upon the fabric as it passes over the revolving bed, thus by means of friction upon the
fabric the desired lustre is obtained.
By our invention we obtain a greater amount of friction upon the cloth at one
operation than at present obtains, & we are enabled to expedite such process.
Op a metal frainc is mounted a circular revolving metal cylinder or bed over
which the fabric is passed, over this cylinder or bed we mount, one or more circular
rollers, of hard wood or other suitable material, turned perfectly true & smooth
on the face & hereinafter called friction rollers; as the fabric passes over, the
revolving bed, the friction rollers are pressed down upon it & are made to revolve
in a direction contrary to the course of the cloth, the pressure of the friction
rollers upon the fabric is made elastic by means of springs or weights, which may
be regulated by screws or other suitable means, by an arrangement of levers the
friction rollers may be raised from the fabric when required.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine to which our improvements are applied.
Figure 2 is an end view of part of the machine, shewing clearly the revolving bed
& friction roller.
A is the general, frame work of the machine; the velvet or other cut pile
fabric, a, is conducted in the ordinary manner to the revolving bed, b, over which
it passes aud upon which it is operated upon by the friction rollers c, which revolve
in the brackets d, secured to the shafts which are mounted in the bushes or
blocks sliding in the standards g, the pressure of the friction rollers & upon the
fabric
a is regulated by the springs, h, which are adjusted by the screws i & the
caps the friction rollers c may be raised from the fabric a by means of
the levers, k, secured to the shafts, e, & conuected by the adjustable rods, I, to the
cam m operated by the handle n; r is the driving shaft, giving motion to the
shaft, upon the shaft is a pinion s, gearing with the wheel secured to
the revolving bed b, giving it the required motion; the pulleys, t, to which are
secured the pinions, t, are free to revolve upon one end of the shafts, e, & take
their motion from the pulley u the pinions t¹ gear with the pinions & secured to
the friction rollers c giving them the required motion.

page_text: We would have it understood that we do not limit ourselves to the exact details
given, as the same may be varied or modified without departing from the nature
of our invention.
More than one friction roller may be employed in connection with the revolving
bed, & more than one revolving bed with its complementary friction roller or
rollers may be employed.
our said
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of
invention, & in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is;-
1. In machinery for finishing & giving a lustre to velvets & other cut pile
fabrics the use of a circular revolving friction roller in lieu of a peg, substantially
as & for the purposes herein shown & described.
JOSEPH DUTTON.
ROBERT DUTTON.