Improvements in or connected with the Making-up of Velvets, Velveteens, and the like in Card Board and similar Boxes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Making-up of Velvets,
Velveteens, and the like in Card Board and similar Boxes.
I, CHARLES EDWARD COWPER, of the Firm of C. Cowper & Co., of 27 York
Street, Manchester, Velveteen Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention to be as follows:-
My invention refers to the making up in card board boxes of velvets, velveteens
and similar fabrics made in a continuous length, and my invention has for its object
a better and more expeditious making up of such fabrics in said boxes. Hitherto
velvets have been made up in a flat or batten form, the operator having to stroke
out the creases of each fold by hand which necessarily involves a considerable
amount of time and labour.
By my invention I make the velvet up in roll or cylindrical form upon a
suitable core or axis the fabric being wound on by the said axis being rotated in a
suitable machine or stand. The axis consists, by preference of a card-board tube or
cylinder with wooden centre blocks at each end, which take into suitable bearings
in or on the ends of the box.
By so making up the fabric the creases may be readily smoothed out as the roll
rotates and by making one side of the box to fold down the fabric may be drawn
direct from the roll without taking it out of the box.
To facilitate the correct rolling on of the fabric so as to make it flush at each
end, the axis aforesaid is provided with plates, discs or flanges.
The box may be fitted with means for measuring off the fabric as it is withdrawn
from the roll.
Dated this 18th day of December 1893.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Making-up of Velvets,
Velveteens, and the like in Card Board and similar Boxes.
1, CHARLES EDWARD COWPER of the Firm of C. Cowper & Co., of 27 York
Street, Manchester, Velveteen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my
said 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 refers to the making up in card-board boxes of velvets, velveteens
and similar fabrics made in a continuous length, and has for its object a better and
more efficient making up of such fabrics in said boxes, whereby the same can be
readily withdrawn from the boxes in the desired quantities without removing the
bulk.
In accordance with my invention I make the fabric up in roll form upon a
suitable core or axis the fabric being wound on by the said axis being rotated in
a suitable machine. The axis consists, by preference of a card board tube or
cylinder with wooden centre blocks at each end which take into suitable bearings in
or on the ends of the box.
And in order that my said invention shall be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and will

page_text: now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various figures and
letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front perspective view, Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 an end view of a
card board box shewing the method of mounting and making up of the fabric
therein in accordance with my invention.
In accordance with my invention (A) is the fabric made up in roll form as
illustrated which is wound upon a hollow axis or core (B) fitted with end centre
blocks (C). These centre blocks take into recesses in the box ends or into
recesses (D) in the end pieces (E) affixed to the ends of the box and thus allow
of the roll being revolved.
In lieu of this form of axis a solid rod or shaft may be employed, but I prefer
the card board axis as being the cheapest and best.
To enable the fabric to be drawn from the roll I form the front side of the box
to fold down as illustrated leaving the end of the roll easy of access and enabling
the roll to be readily removed or placed in the box. Such turning down of the
front side also enables the box to be used for show purposes.
The machine in which the fabric is rolled may be of any convenient form, say
with a set of adjustable clamps to hold the axis central and turn the same by means
of a handle. The method of making up the fabric ensures of the creases of each
fold being smoothed out more readily than in making up the fabric in flat or batten
form by hand as heretofore.
By lengthening the box or shortening the roll a series of rolls may be mounted
in one box. To ensure of the correct rolling on of the fabric, or the edges of the.
fabric being flush at either end, I may employ discs or flanges as shewa by the
dotted lines in Fig. 2.
In some cases I provide the box with means for measuring the fabric as it is
taken from the roll and such means consists, by preference of a small friction wheel
or rod over which the fabric may run as it is drawn from the roll and which wheel
or rod, through suitable gearing, operates a pointer on the end of the box for indi-
cating on a graduated arc or circle the length of fabric delivered.
It will be obvious that my improved mounting of the fabric in the box may
apply to fabrics made up in the batten or other form the axis being formed
accordingly.
Having thus 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 :-
1. In the making up in card board and similar boxes of velvets, velveteens and
similar fabrics made in a continuous length, making up the fabric in roll form and
mounting same in said boxes on an axis supported in suitable recesses or bearings
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated on the
accompanying drawing.
2. In the making up in card board boxes of velvets, velveteens and the like, the
use and employment of a hollow card-board or similar axis with or without flanges
for holding the fabric and taking into suitable recesses or bearings on or in the box
ends and said boxes having a hinged side and a measuring device substantially as
set forth.