Improvements in Machines for Measuring Textile and other Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Oct., 1892-Accepted. 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Measuring Textile and other
Fabrics.
HORATIO LORD, 10 Ann Place, Bradford, in the County of Yorkshire, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a Patent granted to me, and bearing date
July 15th A.D. 1891, No. 11989, the object of such invention being a measuring
machine for measuring fabrics in rolls or folds, the operation of measuring being
carried out by holding the machine in the hand, and moving the machine gradually
forward, and causing a measuring wheel to travel along the edges of the fabrics
operated upon, the said fabrics being in a stationary position.
The object of my present invention is to fix the measuring apparatus in a
stationary position upon a table or other suitable similar construction, and also
upon looms, cuttling, perching, finishing, or any other machines used in the textile
trades, in such a manner, that a fabric being carried through any of the said
machines, or run over a table, or such like similar construction, shall, in its
progress, operate the measuring wheel of the measuring apparatus, and cause it to
revolve, and communicate motion to the various wheels, and index pointers, so that
the machine shall indicate upon an index face, the measurement of any length of
fabric, that shall thus have operated upon the measuring wheel, this said operation
being the reverse of what takes place in my said Patent of July 15th A.D. 1891,
No. 11989, wherein the machine is moved by hand; but, in my present invention
the machine is stationary and the fabric moves.
In carrying out my object I construct the measuring machine in a similar
manner as that described in my said Patent of July 15th, A.D. 1891, No. 11989,
with the exception that I dispense with the "guide" therein described.
I fix the measuring machine to a table or other similar construction, or to looms,
cuttling, perching, finishing, or any other textile machines, in such a position that
the fabric being worked, or run, upon a table, or other similar construction, or
worked, or run, through any of the above said textile machines, shall press upon
or against the measuring wheel, and as the fabric runs along, it thus causes the
measuring wheel to revolve, and give motion to the various wheels and index
pointers, and thus to indicate upon the index faces the measurement of the length
of fabric that has run upon or against the measuring wheel.
Dated this 21st day of January 1892.
HORATIO LORD,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Measuring Textile and other
Fabrics.
HORATIO LORD, 10 Ann Place, Bradford, in the County of Yorkshire, Patent
Agent, 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 :-
In order to give a clear idea of the manner of carrying out my improvements,
I make use of Figure 1. which is partly a drawing of my invention, a Patent for
which was granted to me, and dated July 15th 1891, and numbered 11989. My
drawing shows one mode of fixing the machine to a table which can also be used
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page_text: for fixing to textile machines, but I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not
confine myself to any special method of fixing nor to any special pattern of brackets
used in fixing my machine.
A. represents the machine, the measuring wheel, M. a section of a table,
N. a bracket of iron, or other suitable metal. At the top of the machine A. I
fix studs of metal, at a¹ a¹ a² and in the upper arm of the bracket N. I make slot
holes n', n¹, n², to correspond in position to the studs a', a', a², and I also make the
bracket N. with two feet, n³, n, and in the foot n', I make a tapped hole, in which
I put a band screw n³. I fix the bracket N, and the machine A. to a table or to
textile machines as follows
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I insert the studs a' a' a² through the slot holes n' n' n² of the bracket N. and
afterwards screw a hand wheel n on to the stud n² I then take the bracket N, to
which the machine A. is now fast, and 1 slide the feet ³n one upon the table O.
and the other underneath the table O. I then turn the screw n³ up tightly, which
causes the bracket N. to grip the table firmly, the machine A. is thus hanging
from the bracket N. in such a position, that the measuring wheel, is slightly
above the surface of the table O. This manner of fixing I can also adopt to
textile machines generally. In carrying out the measuring of fabrics I proceed as
follows-One end of the fabric P. is brought under the measuring wheel b¹ the
fabric P. is then drawn along by hand or motive power, and as it moves along it
comes into contact continuously with the measuring wheel causing it to rotate,
and it thus gives motion to the various wheels, and index pointers, contained in the
machine A. and the measurement of the length of fabric that has come in contact
with the measuring wheel b' is indicated upon the dials of the machine A.
Having now 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. The employment of the various parts of the measuring machine, with the
exception of the guide J. a Patent for which was granted to me, and bearing
date July 15th A.D. 1891, and numbered 11989, in combination with a table or
similar construction, and in combination with textile machines of any kind, to
which the measuring machine can be fixed, for the purpose of measuring fabrics,
in the manner, and by the means, as described.
Dated this 20th day of October 1892.
HORATIO LORD,
Applicant.