IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING PILE FABRICS to be as follows
Year: 1885

page_text: Pile Fabrics.
I, THOMAS MILLWARD of 40 Parker Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the county
of Lancaster, Foreman in timber yard, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING PILE
FABRICS to be as follows:-
"
The ordinary apparatus employed for stretching the Fabric whilst being cut is
usually a frame chiefly 'made of wood consisting of top and bottom pillars, or posts,
side rails, top and bottom rails, rollers for stretching the fabric and top and bottom
spears.
The usual method in fixing these various parts together is to place the top and
bottom spears close to the respective top and bottom rollers. I have found by long
practical experience, that a serious defect is caused by placing the top roller too
near the top spear, insomuch that a great difficulty is encountered by the turn in
the hand at the "setting in," on account of there being no rest or table formed by
the cloth or fabric to support or guide the knife which is used for cutting the pile.
To overcome this defect is the object of these my Improvements and may be
described as follows:-
As I have hereinbefore mentioned that a great difficulty is met when cutting the
pile of Fabrics in ordinary frames by reason of the top spear and the top roller
being placed too near to each other thereby not allowing any cloth or fabric to
form a table for the handle of the knife to rest on when in use.
In these my Improvements I either lengthen the side rails of the cutting frame
or fix brackets or bearings to carry the top roller at the top end of the said frame,
in such a manner that the cloth between the "setting in" and the top roller forms
a table for the hand of the cutter, or the handle or level of the knife or the knife
itself to rest on. In this manner I am able to raise the pile evenly from end to
end of the stretched cloth or fabric and so overcome the defects caused by the turn
in the hand at the "setting in " when using the ordinary frame for stretching the
cloth or fabric, for the purpose of raising the pile thereon.
Dated thiLL
- 106.

page_text: 1, THOMAS MILLWARD of 40 Parker Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Foreman in Timber Yard, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING PILE
FABRICS " and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to the ordinary stretching frames or to any similar frames
on which fustians, velvets, or other pile fabrics are stretclied during the process of
raising the pile.
"
It is customary in the process of cutting pile fabrics to stretch the cloth from
end to end of the frames between rollers and to commence cutting close to one
roller and to finish close to the other roller but as the knife used is about two feet
long, the hand of the cutter when commencing a "race is two feet behind the
back roller, and the level on the knife handle has nothing to rest upon and is
therefore useless until it reaches the cloth. The result of this is that the first two
feet of every stretch or length is not as evenly cut as the remainder. To obviate
this disadvantage I put the back roller about three feet behind the “setting in,” so
that the level on the knife handle rests upon the cloth during the whole length of
each stretch.
To make my Improvements more clearly and readily understood I have hereunto
annexed a Sheet of Drawings on which letters of reference are marked on
f
Fig. 1. is a side elevation. Fig. 2 an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a plan of my
improved cutting frame.
a and b are tightening rollers. c is the slot in the top tightening roller for the
cloth to pass through. d and ce are the solid ends of the roller. f. f. are holes for
inserting lever g, which is acted upon by weight 7. i is the " setting in" near to
which in ordinary frames is the back roller. The roller bis fixed during the
cutting of each length by the pin j in the usual manner. I fix roller b sufficiently
far from the setting in i to allow the level on the handle of the cutting knife to
rest on the cloth when the point of the knife is at i.

page_text: 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
The construction of cutting frames for pile fabrics, with the back roller at such a
distance from the "setting in" that the level on the handle of the knife may rest
on the cloth when the point of the knife is at "setting in."
Dated this 16th day of October 1885.
HORN & SON,
Agents for and on behalf of the Applicant.