IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION .left. by William Edward Newton at the
Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th February 1866.-A communication from abroad by Henry
Francis Knapp, of New York, in the United States of America.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery.
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do .hereby declare the:
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MAKING
COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF DRESS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to various improvements on an Invention patented
by me. 30th Sept. 1864, No. 2,414, and has for its object the cutting or
punching out the collars from the sheet, making the button holes, forming a
mark for the bend, and embossing or ornamenting the collar at one operation.
The sheet of paper or other material is fed into the machine between a pair
of feed rolls actuated by an excentric and provided with a lever and pawl
which works into a ratchet wheel on the end of one of the feed rolls, which
are provided with moveable rings or bands of iron armed with points which
hold the material securely. The paper thus fed in passes on to the lower bed
of the machine, in which are formed slots or openings fitted with pieces of
iron, which form the lower halves of cutters, and are capable of sliding side-
ways for adjustment; they are screwed to the bed plate for the purpose of adjust-
ing the length of paper or other material required to form collars of different
sizes. The bed has also a ridge of iron for forming the bend or fold of the

page_text: collar. When the paper is fed partly forward the die or upper plate (which
is provided with knives or cutters which move sideways in a similar manner
to those described on the bed plate, and are adjusted by screws to coincide
with the pieces of iron on the lower bed plate) is now pressed down and cuts
the collar to the required length. The paper is again moved forward at the
next operation under another part of the upper die, which has attached to it
a narrow piece of india-rubber the length of the upper plate, and is also
provided with an embosser and with dies to fit into holes in the bed plate to
form the button holes. On the front side of the upper plate or die is screwed
a knife, which comes against a piece of steel screwed to the lower bed plate
for the knife to cut against; this knife is made of a tapering form with a
point or end in front thereof; now, when the plunger is again pressed down,
the piece of india-rubber by pressing down on the ridge of iron forms a mark
for the bend of the collar, at the same time the embosser represents a sham
stitch round the edge of the collar and the button holes are pierced. The
plunger is again raised and the paper fed forward, when the now completed
collar will be passed under the tapered knife, and by coming against the edge
of the steel piece on the lower bed (which has a guide for the point or end of
the knife to fit into) gives a shear cut of the width of the paper required to
be cut; it will thus be seen that the collar in being cut from the main sheet
forms the top of the collar which is about to be operated on, and at the same
time cuts the bottom of the collar just completed.