Improvements in Stretching Machines for Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1886

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stretching Machines for Woven Fabrics.
SAMUEL WALKER Engineer & Machinist, Radcliffe GEORGE LEEK Manager,
Victoria Street, Radcliffe SAMUEL LOMAX Finisher, Seed Street, Radcliffe. We do
hereby declare the nature of our invention for STRETCHING WOVEN FABRICS to
be as follows:-
Two or more rollers are arranged for the cloth to pass between, these rollers have a
number of brass rings fitted on them & are so arranged that the rings on the
bottom rollers form grooves for the rings on the top rollers run in, these rollers
have an arrangement attached to them whereby they can be raised or depressed
as required, the bottom rollers are also specially arranged to hold the cloth in
its proper position while the top rollers press the cloth out, for this purpose the rings
on the bottom rollers have teeth cut in them.
SAMUEL WALKER.
GEORGE LEEK.
SAMUEL LOMAX,

page_text: Improvements in Stretching Machines for Woven Fabrics.
SAMUEL WALKER, Engineer & Machinist Eagle & Atlas Iron Works, Radcliffe
GEORGE LEEK, Manager, 72 Victoria Street, Radcliffe SAMUEL LOMAX, Finisher,
43 Seed Street, Radcliffe all in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
We do hereby declare the nature of this invention as follows
This Machine consists of two or more rollers marked on drawing F and G, the,
outside of these rollers being. covered with brass rings shown at A. the rollers
are arranged in two's, or say top & bottom rollers as shown on drawing, the rings A
on the top rollers being turned & arranged to work in between the rings C
on the bottom rollers as shown at B, these latter rings C are specially prepared
to hold tlie cloth while being stretched, and for this purpose there are small teeth cut
in the rings C. which the cloth rests upon; The working of this Machine may
be described as follows-The Machine is fixed upon two stands or by some other
convenient arrangement adjacent to the drying tins or cylinders, and arranged for the
cloth to pass between the rollers as it leaves the Mangle, batch, or cloth roller. The
cloth being now passed between the rollers F & G of the machine, the top roller F
is lowered down into the grooves of the bottom roller G, thus pressing the cloth with
it, the more it is pressed down the more the cloth will be stretched; the top roller F
is raised or depressed by a screw D at each end of this roller, attached to each screw
a pair of small bevel wheels E, which are also attached to a shaft H running across
the top of the machine, and on this shaft- is a hand wheel J. which when turned
round will raise or depress the roller as required. These rollers are driven by
a chain-wheel keyed on to the drying cylinder centre, which drives a similar wheel K,
keyed on the bottom-roller G of the machine; The top roller being driven by, a pair
of long tooth wheels L and M which are fastened one on each roller end; the
long tooth allowing the top roller F to be raised or depressed without its. being
lifted out of gear.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is.
1. The General Arrangement of the Machine.
2. The arrangements whereby the cloth is held whilst being stretched by means of
the cut rings on the bottom roller to which are arranged to hold the cloth every half
inch in width, and thereby stretching the cloth equally from edge to edge.
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SAMUEL WALKER.
GEORGE LEEK.
SAMUEL LOMAX.