IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WINDING OR TAKING UP BOBBIN NET AND SIMILAR FABRICS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR WINDING OR TAKING UP BOBBIN NET AND SIMILAR
FABRICS." A communication from abroad by George Kent, of Paris,
France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1880.
"
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent. IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WINDING OR TAKING UP
BOBBIN NET AND SIMILAR FABRICS." [A communication from abroad by George
Kent, of Paris, France.]
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for beaming or winding bobbin
net and other like fabrics.
In order that it may be more readily understood I have illustrated one example
of the Invention in the accompanying Drawing, in which a is a roller having radial
pins or teeth b fixed around its periphery. This roller is rotated in the direction
of the arrow X by means of a ratchet and pawl c, d. A second roller e above
roller a presses upon the latter, and has the net or other fabric f wound upon it by
the rotation of roller a, the pins b of which penetrate the fabric and bring it up to
and wind it on the roller c. The journals of roller e are free to rise and fall in
slots in the frame h in order that the point of contact of the two rollers a and e
may be always at the same height, notwithstanding the varying diameter of e, due
to the winding of the fabric upon it.
The apparatus may be variously arranged, and the roller a may be pressed upon
roller e by levers, springs, weights, or other means, and the ratchet e may be
replaced by worm gear or its equivalent.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th January 1881.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent. IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WINDING OR TAKING UP
BOBBIN NET AND SIMILAR FABRICS." A communication from abroad by George
Kent, of Paris, France.
This Invention relates to an improved apparatus for beaming or winding bobbin
net and similar fabrics, which may be combined in a lace machine or employed
separately.
In order that it may be more readily understood I have illustrated one example
of the Invention in the accompanying Drawing, in which a is a roller having radial
pins or teeth b fixed around its periphery. This roller is rotated in the direction of
the arrow X, and is retained in its different positions by means of a ratchet and
pawl c, d. A second roller e presses upon the roller a, and has the fabric ƒ wound
upon it by the rotation of roller a, the pins b of which penetrate the fabric and
bring it up to and wind it on the roller c. The journals of roller e are free to rise
and fall in slots in the frame h in order that the point of contact of the two rollers
a and e may be always at the same height, notwithstanding the varying diameter
of e due to the winding of the fabric upon it.
The form, dimensions, and details of the parts of the apparatus may be variously
modified, and the roller e may be pressed upon roller a by levers, springs,
weights, or other means, and the ratchet c may be replaced by worm or other
gear.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
An apparatus for beaming or winding bobbin-net and similar fabrics, consisting
of a roller e mounted in a slotted frame and pressed against a roller a provided
with pins or teeth b and operated by a ratchet and pawl c, d, or their equivalent,
substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty ninth day of January, A.D. 1881.