IMPROVED CORRUGATED BOX-IRONS FOR PLAITING HOSIERY, FABRICS, AND OTHER STUFFS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jeanne Gautherin, of Boulevard Saint Denis, 1 at Paris,
Widow, for an Invention of IMPROVED CORRUGATED BOX-IRONS FOR PLAITING
HOSIERY, FABRICS, AND OTHER STUFFS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jeanne Gautherin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th February 1883.
JEANNE GAUTHERIN, of Boulevard Saint Denis, 1, at Paris, Widow,
IMPROVED CORRUGATED BOX-IRONS FOR PLAITING HOSIERY, FABRICS AND OTHER
STUFFS,
My Invention relates to improved corrugated box-irons for plaiting bosiery
fabrics and other stuffs and consists of two combined or connected irons one of
which is fixed and serves as a support or rest for the other which is moveable, by
hand, by means of a handle similar to that of a sad iron. These two irons have
curved and undulated faces according to the form that it is desired to give to the
plaiting or frilling of the fabric.
In small articles admitting of plaits or frills into which the moveable iron can
only enter with difficulty I employ in combination with the fixed iron a double
crimping iron in the form of a fork which I turn upon the fixed iron in a series
of rotary gear-like movements thus producing the plaiting frilling or ruffling.
The fixed iron is a kind of block or base of cast iron or other suitable material
and rests on its lower surface on the table where placed for working. It is furnished
with a handle which serves to remove it to and from the stove. Its outer face is
curved and formed with a series of corrugations or flutings of any suitable shape
according to the plaiting or frilling to be produced.
The moveable iron is formed with a curved body whose outer face is also
provided with corrugations or flutings identical to those of the fixed iron. It is
also furnished with a handle for purposes of transport and manipulation.
Both series of corrugations or flutings of the two irons thus answer the purpose
of crimping irons to produce the plaiting or frilling.
The double crimping iron or rotary tongs is formed with a long handle which
terminates in two parallel rods which perform the part of ordinary crimping tongs
or irons when made to move over the corrugations or flutings of the fixed iron by
a series of successive revolutions.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Jeanne Gautherin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1883.
JEANNE GAUTHERIN, of Boulevard Saint Denis 1, at Paris, Widow
IMPROVED CORRUGATED BOX-IRONS FOR PLAITING HOSIERY, FABRICS, AND OTHER
STUFFS
My Invention relates to improved corrugated box-irons for plaiting hosiery,
fabrics and other stuffs.
Hitherto the operation of plaiting linen articles, garments &c, has been effected
either by hand, by means of ordinary crimping irons, which are used by laon-
dresses, or by means of special and very complicated machines in which the
plaiting is performed between. grooved cylinders to which a rotary motion is
communicated.
Plaiting irons constructed in accordance with my invention are designed to take
the place of such apparatus and to be employed by Jaundresses, housekeepers,
seamstresses and others, in the form of a simple instrument by which the plaiting
may be rapidly and well done.
This result is obtained by means of two combined irons, the one fixed and
serving, in some incasare, as a support, and other moveable by band, by means
of a handle similar to that of ordinary sad irons. These two irons have curved and
undulated faces according to the form that it is desired to give to the plaiting or
frilling of the linen articles, stuffs, &c.
For small articles which have to be plaited or frilled and into which the
moveable iron could only with difficulty penetrate, I employ, in combination with
my fixed iron, a kind of double crimping iron in the form of a fork, which I cause
to turn upon the fixed iron in a series of rotary gear like movements, thus producing
the plaiting, frilling or ruffling.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings :-
Fig 1 is a side elevation of the two combined irons in the position for
working,
Fig 2, is an end view, and
Fig 3, shews the double rotary crimping irons.
The fixed iron a, is a kind of block or base of cast iron, wrought iron, or other
suitable material, whose lower surface rests on the table or bench used for working
upon. It is provided with a handle c, for carrying it to and from the heating
stove. Its outer or upper face is curved, and formed with a series of grooves d, d,
to which any suitable shape may be given according to the particular kind of
plaiting or frilling to be produced.
The moveable iron is made with a curved body of cast or wrought iron or other
suitable material, the outer face of which is provided with grooves g, g, similar to
those of the fixed iron. It is also provided with a handle h, for purposes of
transport and for manipulation.
Both series of grooves of the two irons thus answer the purpose of shaping
irons for producing plaiting, such as is indicated in a full line in Fig: 1.
The rotary double crimping iron hereinbefore referred to is formed with a long
handle i, terminating in two parallel rods j, j, which perform the office of ordinary
crimping irons or tongs when they are caused to work in the grooves of the
fixed iron by a series of successive revolutions, as indicated by the curved arrows
in Fig: 1.
It is evident that I may make these irons of any desired form, and that I may
vary indefinitely the shape and arrangement of their grooves.

page_text: Having now described the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the
same may be performed, I declare that I claim,
1. The construction of box-irons or plaiting apparatus consisting in the com-
bination of a fixed and a moveable corrugated or grooved iron, substantially as
described and illustrated.
2. In plaiting apparatus the combination of a double rotary crimping iron or
tongs with a fixed corrugated or grooved iron substantially as described and
illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said Jeanne Gautherin have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fourth day of August in the year 1883.
Witness:
ALBERT CAHEN
Civil Engineer
of Boulevard Saint-Denis 1
at Paris
JEANNE GAUTHERIN (L.S.)