IMPROVEMENTS IN GOFFERING APPARATUS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Robert Dann, of Nottingham, Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GOFFERING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 16th June 1863, and dated the 22nd December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Robert Dann at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd December 1862.
I, EDWARD ROBERT DANN, of Nottingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GOFFERING APPARATUS,"
to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in forming the bars used in goffering apparatus
in two or more parts, or bent at angles, one part of each bar to the next of it,
or in series of curves, in place of such bars being straight, round, or flat, as
heretofore. I form the bars of various sizes, of angular or other section, and in
series of the same or varying sizes corresponding with the form to be produced.
By these means novel effects are produced particularly applicable to bonnet
fronts.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Robert Dann in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward Robert Dann, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Robert Dann, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Edward Robert Dann, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN GOFFERING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Edward Robert Dann, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Robert Dann, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My improvements consist in forming the bars used in goffering apparatus
in two or more parts or bent at angles, one part of each bar to the next of it,
or in series of curves, in place of such bars being straight, round, or flat as
heretofore. I form the bars of various sizes of angular or other section, and
in series of the same or varying sizes corresponding with the form to be pro-
duced.
But that the improvements may be better understood I will proceed more
fully to describe the same by the aid of the Drawing annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure shows a section of a goffering apparatus with chains of bars
arranged according to my improvements; Figure 2 shows an end view, and
Figure 8 a plan of one of my improved bars separately.
a, a, is the outer case or framing; b, c, d, and e, are axes upon which are
affixed star wheels b, c, d, and e¹, for carrying the chains f, f, the links of
which have arms or projections f¹, f', to which my improved bars 9, 9, are
affixed. The two axes 6 and d, are geared to revolve together by a winch

page_text: handle applied to one of them. The red line h, h, indicates a piece of fabric
being passed into the machine for the purpose of its being goffered. And it
will be understood that in using the apparatus heat is employed to keep the
parts of it warm and the fabric as introduced is slightly damp. Each of these
bars g, as shown is formed of two surfaces (1) and (2) inclining to each other
at an angle of about 90 degrees so that the fabric under operation is pressed
by one bar into the recessed form of the other, I do not however confine myself
to that angle. And in place of one part of each bar in its transverse section
being at an angle to the other, they may be of a curved or other figure that
will admit of one bar being pressed or recessed into the next.
As shown by the Drawing the various bars 9, 9, are of varying sizes pro-
gressively increasing from the smallest to the largest, they may however be all
of the same or of other varying sizes. Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7, show modifica-
tions in the form of the bars 9. g. By these means novel effects are produced
particularly applicable to bonnet fronts.
Having thus described my Invention, and means by which I carry the same
into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details as shown, but what I do claim is, the use of bars of an angular or other
recessed form, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Robert Dann, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
EDWARD ROBERT DANN. (L.S.)