Improvements in connection with Folding and Measuring Cloth and other Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1892-Accepted, 10th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Folding and Measuring Cloth and
other Fabrics.
JOHN CLEMENTS Warehouseman 159 Trinity Road Upper Tooting S.W.
JOHN TOSH Warehouseman 5 Cannon Street E.C. do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention consists in a process whereby the folded edge of cloth, or
other fabric shall be covered over with paper or other material and preserved
from injury arising from contact with dirt, exposure to atmospheric influences or
other causes.
This process may be applied by means of certain mechanism such as
a plough, or other graduated guide or folder for running the paper on to the folded
edge of the cloth or fabric; further that the paper or other material used may be
measured by means of certain mechanism such as a printing, perforating, water-
marking or other such machine, to indicate the number of yds. or metres in the
piece of cloth or fabric operated upon.
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WALTER H. TALBOT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Folding and Measuring Cloth and
other Fabrics.
.
We, JOHN CLEMENTS, Warehouseman, of 159 Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, S.W.
and JOHN TOSH, Warehouseman, of 5 Cannon Street, E.C. 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 :-
Our invention has for its object to preserve the edges of cloth or other fabric
from injury or contact with dirt or exposure to atmospheric and other influences
while in a rolled or folded condition, and at the same time to indicate the length
thereof by measurement divisions, and it consists in covering such edges with paper
or other material having measurement divisions marked thereon while the fabric
is being wound or folded in the usual folding machine, by means which we will
presently describe, whereby the paper is folded to a trough shape round the edge
of the fabric.
In the accompanying drawing is shewn a folding machine with our invention
applied thereto.
Fig. 1 shews a side view, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a part plan.
The fabric A, the edge of which is to be covered, is placed beneath the framing
of the machine, and is passed over a series of rollers BD and F and under inter-
mediate rollers C and E. From the roller F the fabric is led to the other end of
the machine where it passes over the roller G to the winding or folding apparatus H,
which is driven by a strap and speed pullies in the usual manner.
On the pin of a bracket at the left hand end of the framing is placed loose a
reel of paper or other material K which is to serve as the covering for the
edge of the fabric, which paper is marked with measurement divisions as indicated
at Fig. 1.
The paper strip is held by a roller M against the edge of the cloth so that this
is situated at about the middle of its width, and, it having been drawn by hand
along the edge of the cloth to the roller G, it is there folded by hand round the
edge thereof as shewn more clearly at Fig. 2, where the fabric and the paper arc

page_text: shewn in section, and the end of the fabric together with the folded p per having
been laid by hand round the receiving board until a grip is obtained, 1'he winding
apparatus is set in motion whereupon the paper strip will be continuously drawn
off the reel K and automatically folded over the edge of the fabric as this is
wound on the board.
For insuring the correct folding of the paper strip as it passes from the reel K
to the roller G, a sheet metal guide or "former" carried by the framing may be
provided corresponding in configuration to the shape N so as to gradually fold
this together as it passes to the roller G.
Should the paper strip with measurement divisions be required to be laid upon
the edge of the fabric without being folded over the edge thereof the reel
carrying the paper strip may be placed in a horizontal position at L or at L', the
paper being gripped by the cloth as this is wound on the board.
The paper strip with measurement divisions may in this case be laid either
flush with the edge of the fabric or projecting beyond it, or on any desired part
of it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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1. The use in combination with a machine for winding cloth or other fab, of
an appliance whereby a strip of paper or other material having measu
divisions marked upon it is folded round the edge of the fabric at the sam
that this is wound or folded, substantially as described.
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2. The combination with a machine for winding or folding cloth or other
of a reel of paper such as K carried by a bracket on the machine, the pape. trip
being led from such reel along the edge of the fabric to the roller over whit
passes to the winding apparatus, and where the paper is folded round the edge of
the fabric so as to be wound together therewith, substantially as described.
3. In combination with the reel of paper K referred to in the preceding claim,
the use of a metal guide or folder, for folding the paper strip together as it passes.
from the reel to the place where it is folded round the edge of the fabric,
substantially as described.
4. The use in combination with cloth, or other fabric, of a paper strip having
measurement divisions marked thereon, so as to indicate the length of the fabric
covered by the strip, substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1892.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.