Improvements in Process of and Machines for Making Handkerchiefs and like Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Process of and Machines for Making Handkerchiefs
and like Articles.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM COHN, of No. 118, East 117th Street, Borough of Man-
hattan, in the City of New York, United States of America, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of handkerchiefs and like articles,
and aims to provide an improved machine especially applicable to such manu-
facture.
Handkerchiefs and the like are generally manufactured by hemming the edges
of linen or other sheet fabric or material, the hem being formed by folding in
the edge and then the hem to the desired width, and then stitching the edge
fold to the body. In hand made handkerchiefs it has been customary for
the operator to either simultaneously or successively crease the fabric by turning
in the edge and hem, clamping then at one end with a foot-operated clamp, and
holding them in position while pressing down the folds by drawing a folding
plate along the folded portions. This plate is usually a flat hand tool provided
with a scale for measuring the width of the fold, the skill of the operator being
generally relied on to preserve parallelism and a uniformity of width throughout
the length of the fold. Although great skill and proficiency is attained by the
operators, this process has necessarily been a comparatively slow, expensive, and
inaccurate one, but it has been adhered to for the manufacture of fine handker-
chiefs because an article of better finish after stitching could be obtained by it
than by the known process for manufacturing machine made handkerchiefs, in
which a special hemmer has been attached to the stitching machine, being adapted
to fold the edge of the handkerchief to the width of the hem, plus the "
gaw,"
and to inturn the edge to form the gaw, presenting its fold to the stitching
machine at a point to be engaged by the needle as it leaves the folder, so that no
creasing or preliminary folding of the sheet occurred between its cutting and
the time of feeding it into the folder of the stitching machine. Some economy
and uniformity has been obtained by the latter process, but owing to the diffi-
culty of obtaining uniform relation between the hem and the body of the hand-
kerchief, while simultaneously folding and stitching it, and also to the difficulty
of folding the corners while stitching, and of obtaining a neat joint here, the
handkerchiefs produced have been inferior in character, and of a lower grade and
price than those known as hand made handkerchiefs, while the skill and time
required for successively operating a combined folding and stitching machine,
taken in connection with the comparatively imperfect work resulting, have made
it inexpedient to employ this process for fine handkerchiefs.
My invention aims to provide an improved process for manufacturing hand-
kerchiefs by which the cost of their production shall be diminished, and their
character and uniformity improved, and to provide an improved machine especially
applicable for use in connection with this process.
To this end in carrying out the preferred form of my present improvements

page_text: as found in my new process, I simultaneously crease or score the edge fold and
score or crease the hem fold while the sheet, from the edge fold in, is in flat
condition, preferably creasing the edge fold by turning in the edge and thus
forming the "gaw," as the infolded edge is usually termed, and forming the hem
score by scoring the fabric while holding the adjacent portions flat, and I sub-
sequently fold in the hem according to the usual hand folding process, and then
stitch through the gaw fold and body, as with a hand-folded handkerchief, the
resulting product having exactly the appearance and construction of such a
handkerchief; and according to that part of my invention which relates to the
apparatus, I provide a machine having in its preferred form oppositely revolving
cylindrical rolls, parallel and in such proximity that they will nip and feed the
sheet of fabric between them, one or both having score provisions for scoring
the fabric, and adjacent pressing faces for holding and pressing it, which machine
comprises a table, preferably inclined, and extending at each side of the rolls
for feeding the fabric thereto, and a folder for inturning the edge of the fabric
in advance of the rolls. The rolls and folder are preferably adjustable the one
relatively to the other, as by making the folder movable parallel with the axis
of the rolls for gauging the width of the hem score and a scale is provided for
convenience in determining this width. The rolls are preferably pressed elastic-
ally together, and driven the one from the shaft of the other. The folder pre-
ferably acts as a guide to preserve the work at right angles to the rolls in its
travel, and I prefer to employ an additional feeding and guiding wheel driven
from one of the rolls at a like or suitable surface speed, and preferably on an
inclined and yielding axis, which may be adjustable both as to angularity and
feeding pressure, which feed wheel forces the material toward the scoring rolls
and laterally toward the folder, thus ensuring with a predetermined tendency
that the material shall occupy a certain position in the folder before reaching
the rolls.
The material is fed through this apparatus in cut or torn squares or pieces of
the requisite size, and is discharged from the apparatus with an infolded edge
and a parallel score marking the folding line for the hem. If the four sides of
the fabric have been thus creased, the hem is folded inward on the line of the
hem score, and the handkerchief is ready for stitching in the same manner in
which a hand-folded handkerchief is stitched.
Instead of folding in the edge in the apparatus, its line of fold may be marked
by a crease or score just as the line of the hem fold was marked, in which case
according to my invention the folder will be omitted, and two creasing or scoring
provisions made on the rolls in such manner that one can be adjusted relatively
to the other to give the desired distances between the hem and gaw creases, in
which case folds must subsequently be made on both of these creases to prepare
the handkerchief for the stitching machine. The latter modification will be
particularly adapted to printed handkerchiefs in which the folds must occupy
certain relations relative to the pattern or design printed on the handkerchief.
In detail the preferred construction of my improved apparatus comprises a
framework of a machine, a top scoring roll, a bottom scoring roll, a table, a
driving pulley, its shaft, a spur gear thereon, a second gear meshing therewith,
and the shaft carrying this gear. The top roll is carried by one shaft, and the
bottom roll is carried by another shaft, both being driven in opposite directions
at like surface speed. The shafts are rotatively mounted in a bearing block
carried in a slot in the frame at one end, and the first shaft at its other end near
the rolls is carried by a half bearing block, while the other shaft is carried by a
corresponding but reversed half bearing block at this end in the frame, so that
the shafts are free to move toward each other. The blocks are mounted in a
slide, and are pressed toward each other by a spring, adjusted by a screw screwing
into the top yoke. The spring forces the rolls into peripheral contact with each
other when there is nothing between them, and with the material while the
handkerchief is passing between the rolls.

page_text: The table has its top surface inclined downwardly from the front to the rear, and
substantially flush with the adjacent peripheries of the rolls, the table being
formed with a recess receiving the roll. The table is preferably of approximately
the size or length of the piece from which the handkerchief is to be formed, so
that this piece can be easily maintained flat and parallel with the axis of the
rolls, and will freely run down the table with the movement of the rolls. The
table may be suitably supported, as by being fastened to brackets on the frame.
The rolls have smooth cylindrical gripping or pressing faces, and one or more
reciprocal scoring provisions, as a male scorer or projection, and a female scorer
or groove, the former being preferably on the upper roll and the latter on the
lower roll and these parts being duplicated when desired. The material is scored
while passing between the rolls by being forced into the groove by the pro-
jection, this score marking the line of the hem fold.
According to one feature of the preferred form of my machine, I provide a
folder for infolding the edge of the material to the extent desired and delivering
it between the bite of the rolls in this infolded condition, and preferably for also
guiding the material so that its edge shall be at right angles to the rolls. The
folder may be a plate resting on the table, having a long overturned flange
the edge of which constitutes a guide for the edge of the
material, and a second inward fold of the folded portion, which second
fold constitutes the folding passage for the edge and is unadjustable, the inturn-
ing of the edge always being of uniform extent in ordinary handkerchiefs. The
material passing through the folder is both guided and folded, and is nipped by
the rolls and pressed tightly at the fold, so that it is thereby creased at this
point, issuing from the egress side of the rolls as a creased and folded gaw or
edge.
The folder is preferably adjustable to vary the width of the hem. It is fixed
to a slotted plate resting on a plate fixed in the table and having a projection
fitting the slot of the first mentioned plate, and a scale opposite a pointer on the
movable plate. A thumb screw clamps the movable plate in position, and when
released permits the plate to be slid to shift the folder toward or from the creaser.
I prefer to provide an additional feed wheel, which is preferably rubber faced,
and a yielding combined feed and guide wheel, preferably formed of india-rubber
and mounted on an inclined and elastic shaft carried in a laterally adjustable
bearing block, and a vertically adjustable bearing block, so that its angularity
and its vertical tension can either or both be adjusted. The wheel is driven from
a pinion from a spur gear on the driving shaft at suitable surface speed, and engages
the fabric near the rolls, forcing it toward the rolls and slightly toward the guiding
and folding portions of the folder, so that the material is automatically kept fed
against the folder sufficiently to ensure the full width of the gaw fold. When
two scoring projections are used, the feed wheel is arranged between these pro-
jections and on an axis parallel with the rolls, but when one projection and a
folder is used the feed wheel is preferably in line with the projection on the roll.
The adjustable bearing for the wheel shaft is constructed with a spring press-
ing the block outwardly and a screw pressing it inwardly, and the adjustable
bearing block for the outer end of this shaft is similarly constructed with a
spring for pressing the block upwardly, and a screw for pressing it downwardly,
thus adding the elasticity of this spring to that of the shaft.
In operation, the driving wheel may be driven from any suitable source of
power, and the shafts through the spur-gears will drive the rolls with like sur-
face speeds. The gear through the pinion will drive the feed and guide wheel
at the desired speed. Pressure between the rolls will be adjusted by the screw
which will be set by the set-screw. The pressure and inclination of the feed
wheel will be determined by the screws.
In carrying out my improved process, the crease and score are formed simul-
taneously, and the latter while the material at its opposite sides from the gaw
into the body is flat, and preferably while the gaw is being infolded. The sheet

page_text: thus creased and scored is then folded inward so that the hems overlap, and the
thus folded sheet is then stitched along the gaw fold as heretofore.
It will be seen that my invention provides improvements in the process and
apparatus for manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like which can be readily
and advantageously availed of, that it greatly decreases the skill, care and time
heretofore necessary to manufacture the handkerchief, and secures accuracy and
uniformity in the resulting article, and it will be understood that the improved
process is not limited to the use of the particular apparatus herein described, and
that the improved apparatus is not limited to the particular details of con-
struction and arrangement set forth as constituting its preferred form, since it
can be employed according to such modifications as circumstances, or the judg-
ment of those skilled in the art, may dictate, without departing from the spirit
of the invention.
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1000
Improvements in Process of and Machines for Making Handkerchiefs
and like Articles.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM COHN, of No. 118, East 117th Street, Borough of Man-
hatian, in the City of New York, United States of America, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of handkerchiefs and like articles,
and aims to provide an improved machine especially applicable to such manu-
facture.
Handkerchiefs and the like are generally manufactured by hemming the edges
of linen or other sheet fabric or material, the hem being formed by folding in
the edge and then the hem to the desired width, and then stitching the edge
fold to the body. In hand made handkerchiefs it has been customary for
the operator to either simultaneously or successively crease the fabric by turning
in the edge and the hem, clamping them at one end with a foot-operated clamp, and
holding them in position while pressing down the folds by drawing a folding
plate along the folded portions. This plate is usually a flat hand tool provided
with a scale for measuring the width of the fold, the skill of the operator being
generally relied on to preserve parallelism and a uniformity of width throughout
the length of the fold. Although great skill and proficiency is attained by the
operators, this process has necessarily been a comparatively slow, expensive, and
inaccurate one, but it has been adhered to for the manufacture of fine handker-
chiefs because an article of better finish after stitching could be obtained by it
than by the known process for manufacturing machine made handkerchiefs, in
which a special hemmer has been attached to the stitching machine, being adapted
to fold the edge of the handkerchief to the width of the hem, plus the "gaw,"
and to inturn the edge to form the gaw, presenting its fold to the stitching
machine at a point to be engaged by the needle as it leaves the folder, so that no
creasing or preliminary folding of the sheet occurred between its cutting and
the time of feeding it into the folder of the stitching machine. Some economy
and uniformity has been obtained by the latter process, but owing to the diffi-

page_text: culty of obtaining uniform relation between the hem and the body of the hand-
kerchief, while simultaneously folding and stitching it, and also to the difficulty
of folding the corners while stitching, and of obtaining a neat joint here, the
handkerchiefs produced have been inferior in character, and of a lower grade and
price than those known as hand made handkerchiefs, while the skill and time
required for successively operating a combined folding and stitching machine,
taken in connection with the comparatively imperfect work resulting, have made
it inexpedient to employ this process for fine handkerchiefs.
My invention aims to provide an improved process for manufacturing hand-
kerchiefs by which the cost of their production shall be diminished, and their
character and uniformity improved, and to provide an improved machine especially
applicable for use in connection with this process.
"
To this end in carrying out the preferred form of my present improvements
as found in my new process, I simultaneously crease or score the edge fold and
score or crease the hem fold while the sheet from the edge fold in, is in flat
condition, preferably creasing the edge fold by turning in the edge and thus
forming the gaw," as the infolded edge is usually termed, and forming the hem
score by scoring the fabric while holding the adjacent portions flat, and I sub-
sequently fold in the hem according to the usual hand folding process, and then
stitch through the gaw fold and body, as with a hand-folded handkerchief, the
resulting product having exactly the appearance and construction of such a
handkerchief; and according to that part of my invention which relates to the
apparatus, I provide in its preferred form a machine having oppositely revolving
cylindrical rolls, parallel and in such proximity that they will nip and feed the
sheet of fabric between them, one or both having scoring provisions for scoring
the fabric, and adjacent pressing faces for holding and pressing it, which machine
comprises a table, preferably inclined, and extending at each side of the rolls
for feeding the fabric thereto, and a folder for inturning the edge of the fabric
in advance of the rolls. The rolls and folder are preferably adjustable the one
relatively to the other, as by making the folder movable parallel with the axis
of the rolls for gauging the width of the hem score and a scale is provided for
convenience in determining this width. The rolls are preferably pressed elastic-
ally together, and driven the one from the shaft of the other. The folder pre-
ferably acts as a guide to preserve the work at right angles to the rolls in its
travel, and I prefer to employ an additional feeding and guiding wheel driven
from one of the rolls at a like or suitable surface speed, and preferably on an
inclined and yielding axis, which may be adjustable both as to angularity and
feeding pressure, which feed wheel forces the material toward the creasing rolls
and laterally toward the folder, thus ensuring with a predetermined tendency
that the material shall occupy a certain position in the folder before reaching
the rolls.
The material is fed through this apparatus in cut or torn squares or pieces of
the requisite size, and is discharged from the apparatus with an infolded edge
and a parallel score marking the folding line for the hem. If the four sides of
the fabric have been thus creased, the hem is folded inward on the line of the
hem score, and the handkerchief is ready for stitching in the same manner in
which a hand-folded handkerchief is stitched.
Instead of folding in the edge in the apparatus, its line of fold may be marked
by a crease or score just as the line of the hem fold was marked, in which case
according to my invention the folder will be omitted, and two creasing or scoring
provisions made on the rolls in such manner that one can be adjusted relatively
to the other to give the desired distances between the hem and gaw creases, in
which case folds must subsequently be made on both of these creases to prepare
the handkerchief for the stitching machine. The latter modification will be
particularly adapted to printed handkerchiefs in which the folds must occupy
certain relations relative to the pattern or design printed on the handkerchief."

page_text: In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate certain adaptations of my
invention,
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the preferred form of my improved apparatus showing
one step of the preferred manner of carrying out my improved process;
Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section of such apparatus partly in front
elevation, and partly cut on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a fragmentary cross-section of my improved apparatus cut on the
line 3-3 of Figs. 1 and 2;
Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view cut on the line 44 of Fig. 1;
Fig. 5 is a fragmentary front elevation cut on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1;
Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view showing the corner of a handkerchief blank
having the hem score and the gaw crease formed according to one manner of
carrying out my improved process;
Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the blank folded up ready for stitching;
Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the stitched blank;
Fig. 9 is a fragmentary front elevation of a modified form of apparatus for
scoring the lines of both folds as for printed handkerchiefs; and
Fig. 10 is a plan view thereof showing the feed wheel parallel with the roll.
Referring to the drawings, I will now designate in detail the preferred con-
struction of my improved apparatus.
A A indicate the framework of a machine,, B the top scoring roll, C the bottom
scoring roll, I the table, E the driving pulley, Fits shaft, G a spur-gear thereon,
Ha second gear meshing therewith, and I the shaft carrying this gear.
The top
roll B is carried by the shaft I, and the bottom roll C is carried by the shaft I,
both being driven in opposite directions at like surface speed. The shafts F and I
are rotatively mounted in a bearing block J carried in a slot K in the frame A¹
at one end, and the shaft F at its other end, near the rolls, is carried by a half
bearing block L, while the shaft I is carried by a corresponding but reversed half
bearing block M at this end in the frame A, so that the shafts are free to move
toward each other. The blocks L and M are mounted in a slide N, and are
pressed toward each other by a spring 0, adjusted by a screw P screwing into
the top yoke Q. The spring forces the rolls B and C-into peripheral contact with
each other when there is nothing between them, and with the material while
the handkerchief is passing between the rolls.
,
The table D has its top surface inclined downwardly from the front to the rear,
and substantially flush with the adjacent peripheries of the rolls 13 and C, the
table being formed with a recess R receiving the roll C. The table is preferably
of approximately the size or length of the piece from which the handkerchief is
to be formed so that this piece can be easily maintained flat and parallel with
the axis of the rolls, and will freely run down the table with the movement of the
rolls. The table may be suitably supported, as by being fastened to brackets S
on the frame A.
The rolls B and C have smooth cylindrical gripping or pressing faces a, and
one or more reciprocal scoring provisions, as the male scorer or projection b, and
the female scorer or groove c, the former being shown on the upper roll B and
the latter on the lower roll C in Figs. 2 and 5, and these parts being shown as
duplicated in Fig. 9. The material is scored while passing between the rolls by
being forced into the groove by the projection b, this score marking the line
of the hem fold in the construction shown in Fig. 1.
According to one feature of the preferred form of my machine, I provide the
folder T for infolding the edge of the material to the extent desired and deliver-
ing it between the bite of the rolls in this infolded condition, and preferably for
also guiding the material so that its edge shall be at right angles to the rolls.
The folder T is shown as a plate & resting on the table D, having a long over-
turned flange e the edge f of which constitutes a guide for the edge of the
material, and a second inward fold g of the folded portion e, which second fold
constitutes the folding passage for the edge, and is unadjustable, the inturning

page_text: of the edge always being of uniform extent in ordinary handkerchiefs. The
material passing through the folder T is both guided and folded, and is nipped
by the rolls and pressed tightly at the fold, so that it is thereby creased at this
point, issuing from the egress side of the rolls as a creased and folded gaw or edge.
The folder is preferably adjustable to vary the width of the hem. As shown,
it is fixed to a slotted plate h resting on a plate i fixed in the table D and having
a projection fitting the slot of the plate, and a scale k opposite a pointer / on
the plate h. A thumb screw m clamps the plate h in position, and when released
permits the plate to be slid to shift the folder T toward or from the creaser b.
I prefer to provide an additional feed wheel W, which is preferably rubber
faced, and a yielding combined feed and guide wheel, that shown being formed
of indiarubber and mounted on an inclined and elastic shaft X carried in a
laterally adjustable bearing block Y, and a vertically adjustable bearing block Z,
so that its angularity and its vertical tension can either or both be adjusted.
The wheel W is driven by a pinion n from a spur-gear on the shaft F at suit-
able surface speed, and engages the fabric near the rolls, forcing it toward the
rolls and slightly toward the guiding and folding portions of the folder T, so
that the material is automatically kept fed against the folder sufficiently to
ensure the full width of the gaw fold. When two scoring projections 6 are used
as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, the feed wheel W is arranged between these pro-
jections and on an axis parallel with the rolls, but when one projection and a
folder is used the feed wheel is preferably in line with the projection on the roll.
The adjustable bearing Y for the shaft X is shown as constructed with a
spring pressing the block outwardly, and a screws pressing it inwardly, and
the adjustable bearing block Z for the outer end of this shaft is similarly con-
structed with a spring for pressing the block upwardly, and a screw u for
pressing it downwardly, thus adding the elasticity of this spring to that of the
shaft.
In operation, the wheel E may be driven from any suitable source of power,
and the shafts F and I through the spur-gears G and H will drive the rolls B
and C with like surface speeds. The gear 7 through the pinion n will drive the
feed and guide wheel Wat the desired speed. Pressure between the rolls will
be adjusted by the screw 1', which will be set by the set-screw 10.
The pressure
and inclination of the feed wheel will be determined by the screws s and u.
Referring to Figs. 6, 7 and 8, 131 represents the body of the handkerchief, Ci the
hem thereof, D₁ the gaw, E¹ the gaw fold or crease, Fl the hem score or crease,
and G¹ the stitchings.
In carrying out my improved process, the crease E¹ and score F are formed
simultaneously, and the latter while the material at its opposite sides from the
crease E into the body is flat, and preferably while the gaw is being infolded.
The sheet thus creased" and scored is then folded inward so that the hems over-
lap, as shown in Fig. 7, and the thus folded sheet is then stitched along the gaw
fold as heretofore.
It will be seen that my invention provides improvements in the process and
apparatus for manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like which can be readily
and advantageously availed of, that it greatly decreases the skill, care and time
heretofore necessary to manufacture the handkerchief, and secures accuracy and
uniformity in the resulting article, and it will be understood that the improved
process is not limited to the use of the particular apparatus herein described, and
that the improved apparatus is not limited to the particular details of con-
struction and arrangement set forth as constituting its preferred form, since it
can be employed according to such modifications as circumstances, or the judg-
ment of those skilled in the art, may dictate, without departing from the spirit
of the invention.
In using the modification shown in Figs. 9 and 10, the ends a¹ of the top
rolls B and C may be screwed by means of the screws b' into or out of the
ends all of the rolls, to vary the distance between the scoring provisions bc on

page_text: the respective ends of the rolls for adjusting the width of the hem, and the
wheel W may be screwed by the screw c¹ into or out of the shaft X to adjust it
to a central position between the scoring provisions.
In practicing my process according to this modification, the creases for both
the gaw and hem folds will be formed while the sheet of fabric is flat from its
edge inward.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :
1. The improved process of manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like, which
.consists in simultaneously creasing the edge of the fabric on the parallel lines on
which gaw and hem folds are required, while the body of the fabric and the part
thereof between such creases is flat and unfolded.
2. The improved process of manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like, which
consists in simultaneously infolding and creasing the edge of a piece of fabric
and scoring it for the hem fold on a line parallel therewith, while the body of
the fabric from the edge fold inwardly is unfolded.
3. The improved process of manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like, which
consists in scoring the line for the hem fold in the surface of the fabric while
the fabric is unfolded, then folding in the hem on such score, and then stitching
the infolded hem to the body.
4. In a folding and creasing device for handkerchiefs and other articles, a
pair of rolls carrying scoring provisions, free to pass the body of a handkerchief
between them outwardly of said scoring provisions, and each having a cylindrical
portion in contact with that of the other at one side of said scoring provisions
and in proximity for nipping and feeding a handkerchief between them, in com-
bination with a guide for guiding the handkerchief during its passage between
the rolls, a support connecting said rolls at one end, and means driving said
rolls in opposite directions.
5. In a folding and creasing device for handkerchiefs and other articles, a
pair of rolls supported at their inner ends unconnected and free to pass the body
of a handkerchief between them at their other ends, carrying scoring provisions,
and having each a cylindrical portion in contact with that of the other, between
their supported ends and said scoring provisions, in proximity for nipping and
feeding a handkerchief between them, in combination with a folder in advance
of said rolls for folding the edge of the handkerchief and delivering the folded
edge thereto, and a support connecting the inner ends of said rolls.
6. In apparatus for manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like, a feed table,
a pair of rolls connected together at their inner ends, and carrying reciprocal
scoring provisions, a support for said rolls crossing the plane of said table and
connecting said rolls at one end only of the rolls, said rolls at their free ends
permitting the body of the handkerchief to pass, and having cylindrical peri-
pheries on each side of said scoring provisions in proximity for nipping between
them and feeding a handkerchief, and being approximately in line with the
plane of said table, and means for driving the rolls in opposite directions at like
surface speed.
7. In apparatus for manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like, a feed table,
a pair of rolls supported at their inner ends, free at their outer ends, and carry-
ing reciprocal scoring provisions, said rolls having their peripheries on each side
of said scoring provisions in proximity for nipping between them and feeding
a handkerchief, and being approximately in line with the plane of said table,
means for guiding the handkerchief during its passage between the rolls, and
means for driving the rolls in opposite directions at like surface speed.
8. In apparatus for manufacturing handkerchiefs and the like, a feed table,
a pair of rolls supported at their inner ends, free at their outer ends, and carry-
ing reciprocal scoring provisions, said rolls having their peripheries on each side

page_text: of said scoring provisions in such proximity for nipping between them and feed-
ing a handkerchief, and being approximately in line with the plane of said table,
means for driving the rolls in opposite directions at like surface speed, and a
folder arranged in advance of said rolls for folding the edge of the handkerchief
and delivering the folded edge thereto.
9. In machines for making handkerchiefs and the like, the arrangement of two
rolls having cylindrical peripheries in contact for nipping the edge of a handker-
chief to feed it between them, the one having a groove and the other a pro-
jection entering such groove for scoring the handkerchief as it is fed between
the rolls, a table for the handkerchief, a support connecting the rolls together at
one end, a yielding bearing for one of the rolls, and means for driving one of the
rolls, substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.
10. In machines for making handkerchiefs and the like the improved scoring
rolls having adjustable ends and having two sets of scoring provisions, one on
their adjustable ends and the other on their main bodies, substantially as shown
in Figs. 9 and 10.
Dated this 8th dox of Aument 1000
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Chartered Patent Agents.