A MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR REMOVING THE CARDBOARDS, METALLIC PLATES, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES FROM THE FOLDS OF FABRIOS USED IN THE PROCESS OF PRESSING
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Charles Ellison, of Shelf, near Halifax, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "A MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR
REMOVING THE CARDBOARDS, METALLIC PLATES, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES FROM
THE FOLDS OF FABRIOS USED IN THE PROCESS OF PRESSING."
Sealed the 12th November 1867, and dated the 15th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Charles Ellison at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th May 1867.
I, JAMES CHARLES ELLISON, of Shelf, near Halifax, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A MACHINE OR
APPARATUS FOR REMOVING THE CARDBOARDS, METALLIC PLATES, OR OTHER SUB-
STANCES FROM THE FOLDS OF FABRICS USED IN THE PROCESS OF PRESSING," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of a rectangular frame or box of suitable size to
receive a piece or fabric with the cardboards, metallic plates, or other sub-
stances which may be used placed betwixt the folds thereof. The bottom
of this frame or box constitutes a moveable table capable of supporting and
raising the folded fabric with the projecting ends of the cardboards or metallic
plates into contact with reciprocatory hooks, pushers, fingers, or pins, which
at each stroke catch on the edge of the top cardboard and remove it a suitable
distance so as to be seized by a pair of rollers which draw it out of or from
the fold of the fabric, the said fold, being held in position by fingers caused to
enter in betwixt the folds at the proper time and hold against the crease until

page_text: the cardboard or plate is withdrawn therefrom, consequently at each recipro-
cation of the said hooks, pushers, fingers, or pins one of the cardboards or
plates is removed alternately in opposite directions from the folds of the fabric,
which remains in its folded state.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Charles Ellison in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
CHARLES ELLISON, of Shelf, near Halifax, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thonsand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, ITer heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Charles Ellison, Iler special licence that. the said James Charles
Ellison, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said James Charles Ellison, 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 "A
MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR REMOVING THE CARDBOARDS, METALLIC PLATES, OR
OTHER 'SUBSTANCES FROM THE FOLDS OF FABRICS USED IN THE PROCESS OF PRESSING,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Charles Ellison,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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 James Charles Ellison, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, and accompanying two Sheets of Drawings (that is to say):―
This Invention consists of a rectangular frame or box of suitable size to
receive a piece or fabric with the cardboards, metallic plates, or other sub-

page_text: stances which may be used placed betwixt the folds thereof. The bottom of
this frame or box constitutes a moveable table capable of supporting and
raising the folded fabric with the projecting ends of the cardboards or metallic
plates into contact with reciprocatory hooks, pushers, fingers, or pins, which at
each stroke catch on the edge of the top cardboard and remove it a suitable
distance to be seized by a pair of rollers which draw it out of or from the fold
of the fabric, the said' fold being held in position by fingers caused to enter in
betwixt the folds at the proper time and hold them against the crease until
the cardboard or plate is withdrawn therefrom, consequently at each rocipro-
cation of the said hooks, pushers, fingers, or pins one of the cardboards or
plates is removed alternately in opposite directions from the folds of the fabric,
which remains in its folded state.
In order that this Invention may be clearly understood I herein give
reference to the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings of a machine con-
structed according to the said Invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan of the same.
A is the rectangular box supported on suitable framework B, the box
bottom forming a table C supported on the stem C; to this stem is fixed a
rack D into which a pinion D' gears, and by which the table is raised and
lowered in the box; E and E' are two pairs of rollers mounted in stands at
cach end of the box; G and G' are the fingers or pushers, which are attached
respectively to two slide bars II and H'; reciprocatory motion is given to
these slide bars by means of levers I, connecting rods 1', stud wheels I* and I³,
mounted on a shaft I, the former of which gears with and receives motion
from a pinion I fixed on the main driving shaft J; the latter of these stud
wheels also forms. a cam or .tappet plate for giving motion to the table by
means of the lever K, to which is attached a rod K' carrying a pawl or
catch K which takes into a ratchet wheel K³ fixed on a shaft K, on which
is also a worm gearing into a wheel K³ fixed on the shaft K on which the
pinion D' is also fixed. L and L' are the fingers to enter into the folds of the
fabric which are attached respectively to two levers M and M' mounted on
spindles to which oscillatory motion is given by means of an arm N, rod N¹,
and lever N, which is fixed on a shaft N³, on which shaft is also fixed a
lever N which is acted upon by a cam P fixed on the shaft l'; these levers
M and M² are connected by levers Q, Q' and Q', and a rod Q³, so as to cause
the pushers to act simultaneously.
On Sheet 2 are shewn details of parts of this machine drawn full size,

page_text: where Fig. 3 is a section of the box and rollers with a fabric folded and
papered, or having the cardboards or plates in it, and supported by the table;
and Fig 4 is a portion of the plan, the same letters referring to the same
parts, as in the other Figures. R is the fabric, and S are the papers, card-
boards, or plates. It will be observed that the top paper is in the position as
partially pushed out of the fabric by the action of the pushers G into contact
with and ready to be seized by the rollers E, which turning in the direction of
the arrows will draw it completely out of the fabric and deposit it on any
suitable receptacle, the fingers L holding the fabric in its folded state.
The action of the machine is as follows:-A fabric with the papers, card-
boards, or plates therein is placed in the box, and the table is raised by means
of the bandle T until the top paper is about on a level with the meeting or
nipping part of each pair of 1ollers; the machine is then put in motion,
when the slide bars H and II' are operated and carry with them the
pushers G and G which catch on the edges of the cardboards or plates and
push them alternately into the rollers which draw them out of the folds of
the fabric in opposite directions, the fingers L and L' entering into or between
the folds of the fabric at the proper times to hold them in position, and as
cach cardboard is pushed out the table is raised by the action of the pinion
and rack a suitable distance ready for the next reciprocation of the slide bars
and pushers, and so on, the fabric being raised up to the proper position in
time for the pushers to act or catch on the papers to push them alternately
into the nip of the rollers, which draw them out and deposit them in receptacles
ready to be removed by the attendant.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Charles Ellison, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named James Charles
Ellison, in the presence of
ARTHUR B. CROSSLEY,
Clerk to W. Tasker,
Patent Agent,
JAMES C. ELLISON. (L.s.)
Halifax and Bradford.