An Improved Compound Hooking or Folding and Cutting Table for Cloth.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1899-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Compound Hooking or Folding and Cutting Table
for Cloth.
We, WALLACE ELLIOTT, of 32, China Lane, Piccadilly, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Clothiers' Engineer, and PERCY HIGSON, of 42, Spring
Gardens, Manchester, aforesaid, Chartered Accountant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved compound hooking and cutting table
for cloth and the object of the invention is to simplify and improve the machine.
According to the invention we mount the roll of cloth upon a pivoted plate
and we hold the roll upright by an arm mounted adjustably upon a stationary
pillar placed near the pivoted plate.
To hook the cloth on to the adjustable hooks we turn the table into the
vertical position, and then hook the cloth which can be drawn readily from
the roll; the table can then be turned down horizontally and locked by our
improved locking device, which consists of two catches engaging the frame ends
and actuated by a handle placed about the centre of the front of the table, or as
an alternative the catches may be locked automatically when the table is turned
down and in this case the handle is employed only for releasing the catches. When
the table is turned down the cloth can be marked ready for cutting and to
remove the hooks we employ an improved withdrawing motion, consisting of a
shaft which passes transversely below the table preferably near the centre; on
the front end of the shaft is a hand wheel and at the back a worm which gears
into a toothed quadrant secured upon the pivoted bar or shaft upon which the
brackets with the hooks are mounted so that by turning the hand wheel the
hooks are all drawn out of the cloth simultaneously and positively.
After the hooks have been withdrawn the cloth can be cut up on the table
which can have slots in it for this purpose or the cloth can be moved off the
table on to a cutting machine. A further improvement consists in mounting
the bar or shaft which carries the hook brackets say two or three inches above
the level of the table top, so that when the hooks are in their highest position
the bow or middle portion of the hook is also above the level of the table about
in the same plane as the centre of a full roll of cloth when hooked on.
To facilitate the withdrawal of the hooks and prevent the layers of cloth being
displaced we prefer to employ a number of small slotted brackets mounted
adjustably on a rail fixed to the edge of the table, and the hooks pass through
the slots in these brackets.
The pivots upon which the table turns are fitted in blocks free to be moved
and adjusted in slots in the frame ends, so that in case of very heavy pieces of
cloth the table can be balanced in order to turn it down more easily.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1898
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.

page_text: An Improved Compound Hooking or Folding and Cutting Table
for Cloth.
We, WALLACE ELLIOTT, of 32, China Lane, Piccadilly, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Clothiers' Engineer, and PERCY HIGSON, of 42, Spring
Gardens, Manchester, aforesaid, Chartered Accountant, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved compound hooking and cutting table
for cloth and the object of the invention is to simplify and improve the machine.
According to the invention we mount the roll of cloth upon a pivoted plate
and we hold the roll upright by an arm mounted adjustably upon a stationary
pillar placed near the pivoted plate.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 an end view partly in section and Fig. 3 an
end view showing the table in a horizontal position of our improved compound
hooking and cutting, table for cloth.
In the drawings,-a designates the end frames of the machine, a central
support for the table c when in a horizontal or tilted position; to each end frame
is secured a projecting piece d, and on a light shaft e carried in bearings at the
ends of the table are two locking catch pieces f, see Fig. 3, and near the middle
of this shaft is secured a handle g. A metal rail h is secured to one edge of the
table and fitted to slide upon this rail are several slotted brackets i, and
secured to the table are brackets which support a shaft or bar k preferably
set above the level of the table top, upon this shaft is mounted several hook
brackets which carry hooks m.
To the underside of the table c is secured a bracket n which carries the front
end of a shaft o the other end being supported by the central bracket j, on the
front end of this shaft is a hand wheel 7 and a worm q at the other end gears into
a toothed quadrant secured to the shaft k. Studs s secured adjustably in slots
to the table by nuts a pass through blocks fitted adjustably in slots in the end
frames a, and the roll of cloth u to be operated upon is supported vertically on an
upright stand v.
Before starting to hook cloth the table is turned up into the position shown
in Figs. 1 and 2, and the hand wheel p is turned far enough to bring the hooks m
into the position shown in the drawings, the brackets and i having first been
set into their proper positions with the hooks passing through the slotted
brackets, the cloth is now drawn off and hooked first on to the left hand
hook m and then on to the other hooks (or any of them) and folded back in the
reverse direction over the hooks, and so on until all the roll of cloth (or as
much as is desired) has been hooked on, the table is now turned down on its
studs s into its horizontal position, as in Fig. 3, and the handle g drawn down
to move the catch pieces f into the pieces d and secure it. The catches f could
be locked automatically by weighting the handle g, the handle being moved to
release the catches f only. The hooks m are mounted so that the centre or bow
of the hook comes into the middle portion of the cloth u, see Fig. 3, and to
withdraw them from the cloth the hand wheel p is turned in the required
direction, and as the hooks pass through slots in the brackets i upon which the
edge of the cloth rests and the bar k is above the level of the table it follows
that no disturbance of the cloth will take place; as soon as the hooks have been
withdrawn the folded cloth can be removed to a separate cutting machine, or

page_text: if it be desired to cut up the cloth on the folding machine suitable slots may
be cut in the table c for that purpose.
By slackening the nuts the studs can be moved along the slots in the table
so as to alter and adjust the balance of the latter according to the weight of the
cloth to be cut and thereby facilitate the tilting of the table.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. In a hooking and cutting table, a locking device actuated from a handle,
or automatically, to lock the table when turned into the horizontal position, and
means for releasing the catches, substantially as described.
2. In a hooking and cutting table, adjustable slotted brackets such as i and
adjustable hook brackets combined with mechanism for withdrawing the hooks
and pushing them forward as required substantially as described.
3. In a hooking and cutting table fitting the pivots upon which the table
turns in adjustable blocks fitted in the end frames of the machine substantially
as described.
4. The general combination and arrangement of parts embodying our improve-
ments in hooking and cutting tables substantially as described.
Datal
11
T
1000
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.