IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND TOOLS FOR MAKING COLLARS. CUFFS. WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS, ALSO ADAPTED FOR CUTTING METAL BLANKS
Year: 1865

page_text: Street, all in the Borough of Birmingham, Machinists, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND TOOLS FOR MAKING COLLARS. CUFFS.
WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS, ALSO ADAPTED FOR CUTTING
METAL BLANKS."
Sealed the 8th August 1865, and dated the 13th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Barr, William
Henry Page, and James Clement Newey, at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th February 1865.
DAVID BARR, of Number 4, Cherry Street, WILLIAM HENRY PAGE,
of Lord Street, and JAMES CLEMENT NEWEY, of Brearley Street; all in the
Borough of Birmingham, Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND TOOLS FOR MAKING
COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS, ALSO ADAPTED FOR
CUTTING METAL BLANKS," to be as follows:-
The object of the machine is to manufacture collars and other articles of
dress by a much easier and quicker process than the present mode of manu-
facture. It is specially intended for articles made of paper, but is also
adapted for linen or any other material from which such articles are made,
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page_text: SPECIFICATION
in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Barr, William Henry Page, and James Clement
Newey, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DAVID
BARR, of Cherry Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, WILLIAM
HENRY PAGE, of Lord Street, Birmingham, and CLEMENT JAMES NEWEY, of
Brearley Street, Birmingham, also in the County of Warwick, Machinists, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our

page_text: Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said David Barr, William Henry Page, and Clement
James Newey, Her special licence that we, the said David Barr, William
Henry Page, and Clement James Newey, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said David Barr, William Henry Page, and
Clement James Newey, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A MACHINE
AND TOOLS FOR MAKING COLLARS, CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
DRESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said David Barr,
William Henry Page, and Clement James Newey, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said David Barr, William Henry Page,
and Clement James Newey, do hereby declare the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, and accompanying
Drawings, that is to say:
The object of the machine is to manufacture collars and other articles of
dress by a much easier and quicker process than the present mode of manu-
facture. It is specially intended for articles made of paper, but is also
adapted for linen or any other material from which such articles are made.
In the manufacture of collars it combines in one process what is usually
accomplished by hand labor in three distinct operations.
The mode of working the machine is as follows:-The paper or cloth from
which the articles are made is passed through a pair of wood or metal rolls,
as shewn in Figure 2, A, A. The rolls being worked by an eccentric and rod
connected with lever and catch working in a toothed wheel marked b, Figure 1.
The paper is brought by the rolls to the cutting out bed, as shewn in Figure 3.
The cutting punch, Figure 4, is attached to a cross head (a) and is brought
down by the eccentric rods d, d, on to the paper and cutting out bed; when
the collar is thus cut out, and marked and pierced, it is pushed off the punches

page_text: by means of a plate (e) Figure 4, worked by springs f. f. The collar being
thus left free is blown from the bottom tool by an air pump. Figure 2 g, the
air being conveyed by a tube from the pump to the bottom tool, and issuing
through two holes marked h, h, a fly wheel h is attached and the machine
may be worked by hand or steam power.
What we claim is,
First, the combination of the four operations, viz., cutting out, piercing the
holes, sham back stitching, and any other marking required, in one process.
Second, the removal of the articles from the machine by means of an air
pump or bellows.
Third, the spring plate for the removal of the collar from the punch and
the scrap.
Fourth, the peculiar construction of the several parts, so as to form a self-
acting machine.
Fifth, the construction of the button hole, as shewn in Figure 3, so as to
admit the button more freely than the holes hitherto made, and to prevent
breaking out of the holes.
In witness whereof, we, the said David Barr, William Henry Page, and
Clement James Newey, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.