Improvements in Stentering Machines for Stretching and Finishing Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stentering Machines for Stretching and Finishing
Textile Fabrics.
I, ANDREW THOMSON, of 24, Ryan Street, Bowling, in the City of Bradford,
Engineer to Messrs. E. Ripley & Son, Bowling Dye Works, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in stentering machines for stretching
and finishing textile fabrics, and its object is to preserve the clip chains as well
as the grooved rails or metal guides within which such chains travel.
For this purpose I mount an anti-friction roller on each of the pins or rivets
connecting the links together, which rollers are of such a size that they bear
against the side of the guide and keep the chain out of actual contact with the
side of the guide as it travels along.
In addition to this studs may be provided upon the underside of the bed of
the clip on which anti-friction rollers are mounted to bear against the side of
a groove beneath.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1899
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stentering Machines for Stretching and Finishing
Textile Fabrics.
I, ANDREW THOMSON, of 24, Ryan Street, Bowling, in the City of Bradford,
Engineer to Messrs. E. Ripley & Son, Bowling Dye Works, 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 state-
ment-
This invention relates to improvements in stentering machines for stretching
and finishing textile fabrics, and its object is to preserve the clip chains as well
as the grooved rails or metal guides within which such chains travel.
For this purpose I mount an anti-friction roller on each of the pins or rivets
connecting the links together, which rollers are of such a size that they bear
against the side of the guide and keep the chain out of actual contact with the
side of the guides as it travels along.
In addition to this, studs may be provided upon the underside of the bed of
the clip on which anti-friction rollers are mounted to bear against the side of
the groove beneath.
To fully describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
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page_text: of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents an out side view of a clip, a portion of the guide rail
and a portion of a clip chain fitted with my improvements.
Figure 2, is a cross section on the broken line ab, and
Figure 3, is a plan view of the same.
The clip 2 is of ordinary form and so are the links 3 of the clip chain excepting
that the forked end or jaws 4 of each link are made sufficiently wide to allow
of the anti-friction roller 5 being mounted between such jaws upon the pin 6
coupling the jaws to the tongue piece 7 of the next link. Two studs or screws 10
are fixed in the underside of each of the clips and anti-friction rollers 12 are
mounted thereon. The peripheries of these rollers bear against the side of the.
rib or guide 13 on the guide rail 14, and the peripheries of the rollers 5 bear
against the side of the rib or guide 15.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is--
1. The combination with the clips and clip chains of rollers 5 and 12 and
guide ribs 13 and 15, substantially as herein shown and described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with the clip chain of rollers 5 mounted between the
jaws upon the pins 6, substantially as herein shown and described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of May 1900.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.