IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CRIMPING, GOFFERING, OR FLUTING."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josiah Adams, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brass Founder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR CRIMPING, GOFFERING, OR FLUTING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josiah Adams at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th March 1871.
I, JOSIAH ADAMS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass
Founder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR CRIMPING, GOFFERING, OR FLUTING," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in combining or arranging the parts of the
said machines, substantially in the manner herein-after described.
The objects of my improvements are, first, to preserve the parallelism
of the crimping, goffering, or fluting rollers of the machine notwith-

page_text: standing the introduction of the fabric or material between the said
rollers; second, to effect in a simple and easy manner the introduction
of the fabric or material between or its removal from the rollers; and,
third, to adjust the pressure put upon the rollers with great nicety.
I arrange or combine the parts of the machine as follows:-I support
the top roller in a bracketed arm or upright fixed to the base plate of
the machine, and I support the bottom roller by means of a horizontal
pivoted frame or lever having motion in a vertical plane, whereby the
said bottom roller can be depressed from or raised towards the fixed top
roller at pleasure. The middle of the pivoted frame or lever is provided
with bearings in which the ends of the bottom roller work, one end
of the said bottom roller projecting beyond its frame and the fixed
upright of the top roller, the said projecting end receiving a winch or
handle for giving rotation to the rollers. The said pivoted frame
or lever carrying the bottom roller has pivots or centres on its back
end which turn in uprights fixed to the base plate of the machine,
and the said pivoted frame or lever is supported in a horizontal or nearly
horizontal position by means of a spring upon which an adjusting screw
passing through an eye in the front of the frame or lever bears. By
depressing the front end of the pivoted frame or lever the latter turns
on its pivots or centres and separates the bottom roller from the top
roller. On releasing the front end of the pivoted frame or lever it
is raised by the action of its spring, and the bottom roller is pressed
into contact with the top roller. By means of the adjusting screw and
spring described the bottom roller can be pressed with the required
force into contact with the top roller.
The fabic or material to be crimped, gofered, or fluted is placed
between the rollers by a lateral motion at the open end of the machine,
the bottom roller having been previously separated from the top roller
by depressing the pivoted frame or lever. On releasing the pivoted
frame or lever the fabric or material is gripped between the two rollers,
the bottom roller being situated parallel to the top roller notwithstanding
the material between the two rollers. By depressing the pivoted frame
the bottom roller may be lowered and the material withdrawn from the
machine at any desired point.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Josiah Adams in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSIAH
ADAMS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her licirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Josiah Adams, Her special licence
that I, the said Josiah Adams, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Josiah Adams, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thercafter 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 IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES
FOR CRIMPING, GOFFERING, OR FLUTING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Josiah Adams, 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 Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Josiah Adams, 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 :-
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My Invention consists in combining or arranging the parts of the
said machines substantially in the manner herein-after described.
The objects of my improvements are, first, to preserve the parallelism of
the crimping, goffering, or fluting rollers of the machine, notwith-
standing the introduction of the fabric or material between the said
rollers; second to effect in a simple and easy manner the introduction

page_text: of the fabric or material between or its removal from the rollers, and
third, to adjust the pressure put upon the rollers with great nicety.
I arrange or combine the parts of the machine as follows:-I support
the top roller in a bracketed arm or upright fixed to the base plate of
the machine, and I support the bottom roller by means of a horizontal
pivoted frame or lever having motion in a vertical plane, whereby the
said bottom roller can be depressed from or raised towards the fixed top
roller at pleasure. The middle of the pivoted frame or lever is provided
with bearings in which the ends of the bottom roller work, one end of
the said bottom roller projecting beyond its frame and the fixed upright
of the top roller, the said projecting end receiving a winch or handle for
giving rotation to the rollers. The said pivoted frame or lever carrying
the bottom roller has pivots or centres on its back end which turn in
uprights fixed to the base plate of the machine, and the said pivoted
frame or lever is supported in a horizontal or nearly horizontal position
by means of a spring upon which an adjusting screw passing through an
eye in the front of the frame or lever bears. By depressing the front
end of the pivoted frame or lever the latter turns on its pivots or centres
and separates the bottom roller from the top roller. On releasing the
front end of the pivoted frame or lever it is raised by the action of its
spring and the bottom roller is pressed into contact with the top roller.
By means of the adjusting screw and spring described the bottom
roller can be pressed with the required force into contact with the top
roller.
The fabric or material to be crimped, goffered, or fluted may be placed
between the rollers by a lateral motion at the open end of the machine,
the bottom roller having been previously separated from the top roller
by depressing the pivoted frame or lever. On releasing the pivoted
frame or lever the fabric or material is gripped between the two rollers,
the bottom roller being situated parallel to the top roller notwithstanding
the material between the two rollers. By depressing the pivoted frame
the bottom roller may be lowered and the material withdrawn from the
machine at any required point.
Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation; Figure 2, in side elevation;
and Figure 3 in plan, a machine for crimping, goffering, or fluting

page_text: constructed according to my Invention; Figure 4 represents a plan of
a portion of the same detached. The same letters of reference indicate
the same parts in each Figure of the Drawing.
a is the top fluted roller, and 6 the bottom fluted roller of the machine.
The top roller a is supported in the bracketed arm or upright c fixed to
the base plate d of the machine. The ends of the top roller a turn
in bearings at c³, c³, in the bracketed arm c. The bottom roller is
supported in the horizontal pivoted frame or lever e, e, moving in a
vertical plane. The said frame or lever e, e, is represented in plan
in Figure 4 detached from the machine. The said frame or lever e, e,
is provided with pivots or centres e², e², at its back end which turn in
uprights ff, fixed to the base plate d of the machine. At e³, e¹, in the
middle of the pivoted frame or lever e, e, are bearings in which the ends
of the bottom roller turn, the bearing es being situated within the
hollow upright part of the bracketed arm c (see Figure 1). One end
of the bottom roller is prolonged through the arm c and has a winch
or handle g upon it for working the machine. The pivoted frame or
lever e, e, carrying the bottom roller bis supported in a horizontal or
ncarly horizontal position by means of the strong spring h, the said
spring acting through the adjusting screw i working in a screwed eyc or.
box k made in the front of the frame or lever e, e. By pressing forcibly
upon the head of the adjusting screw the spring his compressed and
the said frame turns upon its pivots at c³, e³, and separates the bottom
roller from the top roller a. On removing the pressure from the screw
i the spring / raises the pivoted frame or lever e, e, and presses the
bottom roller into contact with the top roller a. As the bottom roller b
separates from or is pressed to the top roller a the said bottom roller is
preserved parallel to the said top roller by the pivoted frame or lever c, c,
carrying it. By means of the adjusting screw i and spring the bottom
roller can be pressed with the required force into contact with the top
roller as will be understood by an examination of Figure 2. The end
bearings at c³, et, of the top and bottom rollers a, b, are so far apart as
to leave that end of the machine open for the introduction between the
rollers of the fabric or material to be operated upon.
In using the machine for crimping, goffering, or fluting the distance
between the rollers is first adjusted by means of the adjusting screw i
according to the thickness of the material to be operated upon, and the
two rollers are then separated from one another by depressing the front

page_text: end of the pivoted frame or lever e, e. The fabric or material is next
placed between the separated rollers at the front of the machine or by
a lateral motion at the open end A of the machine and on releasing the
pivoted frame or lever c, e, the bottom roller b is pressed against the
top roller, and the fabric or material is gripped between them, the
bottom roller preserving its parallelism to the top roller notwithstanding
the material between the two rollers. By now turning the handle g
the material is crimped, goffered, or fluted by the action of the rollers
as is well understood. To release the fabric or material it is only
necessary to depress the pivoted frame e, e, when the bottom roller is
separated from the top roller and the fabric or material may be with-
drawn from the machine at the open end A. The facility with which
the bottom roller b can be separated from the top roller a permits the
fabric or material to be removed from between the rollers at any desired
point.
Instead of supporting the pivoted frame or lever e, e, supporting the
bottom roller upon a flat spring a coiled spring may be used with the
same or nearly the same effect.
Instead of supporting the bottom roller in a pivoted frame or lever
the top roller may be supported in a pivoted frame or lever and the
bottom roller be fixed in its bearings.
I prefer however to arrange the parts of the machine in the manner
herein-before described and illustrated in the Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and
illustrated as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of my Invention. But I claim as my Invention the improve-
ments in machines for crimping, goffering, or fluting herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say,
supporting the bottom roller (or top roller) of the pair of rollers of the
said machines in a horizontal pivoted frame or lever, the said frame or
lever being supported and the roller carried in it pressed into contact
with the fixed top roller (or bottom roller) by means of a spring,
substantially as and for the purposes described and illustrated. Also
adjusting with great nicety the pressure put upon the rollers of the
said machines by means of an adjusting screw acted upon by the spring

page_text: which supports the pivoted frame or lever carrying the bottom roller or
top roller, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Josiah Adams, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-onc.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JOSIAH ADAMS. (L.S.)