Improvement in the Method of Marking on Textile and other Fabrics and in the Appliances and Apparatus therefor for Cutting Out and Making Up into Garments.
Year: 1889

page_text: Improvement in the Method of Marking on Textile and other Fabrics
and in the Appliances and Apparatus therefor for Cutting Out
and Making Up into Garments.
HENRY WILLEY 29 Brayards Road Peckham Rye in the County of Surrey Tailors'
Cutter, 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 :-
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My invention is designed for marking through the punctuations of a flexible stencil
by a mechanical device on textile and other fabrics to be cut out and formed into
garments, which has hitherto been performed by marking round the component parts
of garments by means of paper patterns or by the use of a stencil.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I proceed to describe the
same by duplicate figures and letters relating to the various parts of the drawings
annexed.
Figure 1 is an open side view through my machine, showing the position of hopper,
and, under padded roller, and inside wheels.
Figure 2 is an extended view of the hopper drawn out, showing fluted roller, and
small inside padded roller.
Figure 3 is an end view showing the interior of machine, fluted roller in length, and
a space for hopper to be placed in.
The mechanical apparatus which I use, now consists of a pair of inside wheels A A.,
which, by their revolution cause the stencil and fabric by means of a small piece of
cardboard, in front, to pass between a lower roller B, and an upper padded roller C,
the whole receiving its rotation from a handle fixed on the spindle of roller B, or it
may be conveniently driven by a band wheel from a shaft.
A pad D is fixed at the base of roller B in order to remove the superfluous powder,
which may cling to the said roller. Here the marking is commenced, by means of
powdered chalk, or any suitable material, dry damped or greased, fed on to the stencii
from a hopper E, situated in the centre of machine, at right angles to, and in connection
with the side frames. The said hopper has slotted sides, allowing it to be conveniently

page_text: placed on the spindle F, which being fitted with a fluted roller G, agitates the pipeclay
from the centre of the hopper, the whole being kept in position by an overhand
spring H, adjusted by a set screw I. By this means the pipeclay or any suitable
material is allowed to drop in small portions on a small padded roller J, situated
inside the hopper, which revolving on the surface of the padded roller C passes-the
pipeclay on to the stencil below, and causes the desired pattern to he marked. The
stencil and fabric then pass under a stationary brush X, and over a grating K, next
travelling beneath a second padded roller I, in the same line of route revolving in an
opposite direction to that of roller C, and designed to wipe the stencil clean and fix
the powder more firmly on the cloth.
Lastly, the stencil and fabric are drawn through a pair of india-rubber rollers M M
on to a cutting table ready for use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the saine is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A perfect mechanically operating stencil marking machine, and I find it
necessary to have in such a stencil machine a hopper situated in the centre, a small
padded roller inside and a fluted roller on centre spindle.
2nd. In such a machine, a padded roller and an under plain roller, with a pad for
cleansing purposes at its base, also to have in use a stationary brush, immediately
following another padded roller.
3rd. In such a machine to have a pair of india-rubber rollers in front, to draw the
stencil and fabric completely out, substantially as described. I fix my machine on a
flat base, in order that it may be placed on any ordinary cutting table.
Dated this 19th day of March 1880
HENRY WILLEY.