Improvements in Apparatus for Curling and Stiffening Collars, Cuffs, and other similar Articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Curling and Stiffening Collars, Cuffs,
and other similar Articles.
1 WILLIAM LITLER BRADFORD of The Crescent Iron Works Salford in the
County of Lancaster, Laundry Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is a machine for curling or shaping and also stiffening
collars, cuffs, or other similar articles after having been ironed by an ironing
machine or in certain cases for ironing such articles independently of or in
conjunction with other machines.
My invention consists principally of a suitable frame work in which is fixed a
concave bed or plate of special construction so arranged that it can be raised or
lowered at the will of the operator by an arrangement of cam gear working in
fixed bearings.
Attached to the frame is a roller covered with cloth or other soft material against
which the concave bed or plate is pressed by a spring worked by the cam gear
above referred to, which latter is so arranged that the amount of pressure against
the roller can be varied by the operator by means of a handle according to the
nature of the articles to be operated upon.
The bed is heated by a row of atmospheric gas burners attached to and carried
under the same.
Doted this 23rd day of November 1809
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Curling and Stiffening Collars, Cuffs,
and other similar Articles.
I WILLIAM LITLER BRADFORD of The Crescent Iron Works Salford in the
County of Lancaster, Laundry Engineer, 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:-
The object of my invention is to construct a machine for curling or shaping and
also stiffening collars, cuffs or other similar articles after having been ironed by au
ironing machine, or in certain cases for ironing such articles independently of or in
conjunction with other machines.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is a front elevation and Fig. 2 an end view of a machine
constructed according to my invention.
b
The apparatus consists principally of a suitable frame a in which is fixed a
concave bed or plate supported on a spring c and so arranged that it can be raised
or lowered at the will of the operator by means of a cam d working in fixed
bearings and capable of being turned by a winch handle e.
Carried in suitable
bearings in the frame a is a roller f covered with cloth or other soft material
against which the concave bed or plate b is pressed upwards by the spring c worked
by the cam gear above referred to which latter can be so regulated that the

page_text: amount of pressure against the roller can be varied by the operator by means of
the handle e according to the nature of the articles to be operated upon.
The concave bed or plate is heated by a row of atmospheric gas burners
attached to and carried under the same, being regulated by a tap g to which gas is
conveyed by a flexible tube.
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 :-
:-
The general construction and arrangement of machine for the above purposes
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4. St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.