A Machine to Imitate Cording and Stitching with or without Inserted Cords.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Machine to Imitate Cording and Stitching with or without
Inserted Cords.
JAMES DOWLING trading as J. Dowling and Company of No. 35 Jewin Street
in the City of London Engineer and Machinist do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
It consists of a machine producing on materials and fabrics imitation cording
and stitching by the following means-
Two metal rollers with shaped recesses or grooves cut or turned around the
rollers with the intervening rings (between such recesses or grooves) embossed or
milled, and with or without plain creasing or division rings to produce dividing
spaces between rows of cording.
The above described rollers are mounted in suitable frames and fitted with
suitable gearing and guide plate for insertion of cords as described below.
The rollers are heated by gas.
A guide plate with holes for inserting cord or cords between two or more fabrics
into the shaped recesses or grooves.
Dated this Tenth day of September 1894.
A Machine to Imitate Cording and Stitching with or without
Inserted Cords.
I JAMES DOWLING trading as J. Dowling & Co. of No. 35 Jewin Street in the
City of London, Engineer and Machinist, 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 consists of a machine for producing on materials and fabrics
imitation cording and stitching by the following means:- -Two metal rollers with
shaped recesses or grooves, cut or turned around the rollers with the intervening
rings (between such recesses or grooves) embossed or milled, and with or without
plain creasing or division rings to produce dividing spaces between rows of
cording.
The above described rollers are mounted in suitable frames and fitted with
suitable gearing and guide plate for insertion of cords. The rollers are heated
by gas.
In order that my said invention may be more clearly understood I will now
proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying sheets of drawings
in which
Fig. 1 (Sheet 1) represents a front elevation of my said machine.
Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 (Sheet 2) an end elevation of the same.

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rollers.
Figs. 7 & 8 represent another system of feeding and guiding for the aforesaid
purposes.
Figs. 9 & 10 represent the material with the imitation stitching and cording and
dividing bands (full size) as produced by the machine.
The same letters of reference are used to indicate the same parts.
A A are two cast iron frames or standards for supporting the various parts of
the machine. B B₁ are two cast iron, or other metal, cylinders turned with
parallel, vertical rings and grooves or corrugations C, C, C, which may be of any
suitable number. Between a series of these rings one or more plain or embossed
brass bands C¹ C¹ are fitted for forming blank spaces on the material.
The axes D D' of the cylinders revolve in bearings E, E', which have an up &
down motion in the planed slots of the standards A A¹. The ends of the axes
at D are hollow or tubular to permit a gas tube F to pass through the centre of
the cylinders B B'. The object of this arrangement is to allow jets of gas to the
Bunsen burner G to be ignited in the interior of the cylinders for the purpose of
heating them, when operating on the materials to be corded. F' Fare holes
made at each end of the cylinders to admit air.
The method of imitating the stitching on the fabrics is more clearly shewn in
Figs. 4 & 6.
Each ring or corrugation is milled or embossed with notches H, H, or other
devices so as to produce the effect of stitching between the cording as shewn at
Figs. 9 & 10. By reference to Fig. 4 it will be seen that the notched or indented
rings of the upper roller B fit into corresponding grooves or recesses in the lower
roller B₁ which is left plain and thereby gives the corded or corrugated effect as
seen in Fig. 9, an inferior material with or without paper or cement being placed
underneath and then rolled and corded together; sufficient pressure being obtained
by means of the screws I. I.
To allow this pressure to be adjusted to the required thickness of the materia! a
pair of helical steel springs J. J. are used, which abut against the plates J¹ J' and
give the pressure downwards on the bearings of the upper cylinder or roller B.
The rollers or cylinders B, B₁ are made to revolve at an uniform speed by means
of the two spur-wheels K, K¹, keyed to the shafts or axes D D. The lower
axis D¹ has fitted to it the large driving wheel L which is driven by means of the
pinion M Figs. 1 & 3 working loosely with the spur wheel P to which it is
attached on the axis N. This axis is bolted to the transverse plate O.
The intermediate spur wheel P is driven by means of the pinion Q keyed to the
shaft R passing through bearings in the standards A A. On the end of the
axis R is fitted the crank handle S by which the machine is operated by hand or it
may be driven by pullies and steam power if desired.
With regard to the feeding in of the material, it is effected in the following
manner: A series of guide rods T, T, are employed and fitted to a frame U
supported by the two arms V, V, working on a pivot X which also forms a tie-rod
to the two standards or frames. This arrangement allows these guide rods to be
raised in the position shown at Fig. 3, in full lines, ready for stretching the
materials to be corded illustrated at Fig. 6 (Sheet 2). They are made to pass
inside and outside alternately of the rods and then fed in between the rollers which
draw them through and cord and emboss them as above described.
Should it be thought necessary to insert cords into the grooves made by the
rollers in order to make the fabric stiffer, or give more body, a given number of
cords Y, Y, are passed through holes in the guide rod Y¹ Figs. 1 & 6 and thence
between the two fabrics to be corrugated. This modification is shewn clearly in
Fig. 10 on a larger scale.
Another method of feeding in the materials is by the aid of two radiating
corrugated guide plates of brass or other material. This feeder is employed to
produce the necessary fullness in the material where required to allow for the

page_text: contraction of the material when passed through the rollers. Fig. 7 is a plan of
the under radiating feeding plate. In Fig. 8 the upper plate fits over the
corresponding grooves of the lower plate. This feeder is screwed to the front of
the frame.
Instead of the cylinders B B' being made with vertical grooves and rings they
can be formed in a diagonal or angular direction as in Fig. 5 (Sheet 2) and the
plain bands or divisions of any desired width and number.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
First. The general combination and construction of the machine for cording and
imitation stitching materials as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accom-
panying drawings.
Second. Producing on materials or fabrics cording and imitation stitching by a
cylinder or roller formed with vertical or angular rings, milled or notched or plain
which gear with corresponding vertical or angular grooves and rings in another
cylinder, and having division rings to form spaces between rows of cording
substantially as described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Third. The method of feeding and guiding the materials to be corded as
herein before described and shewn in the annexed drawings.
Dated this 10th day of June 1895.
BROWNE & Co.,
9 Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.