Improvements in Machinery for Cutting Cloths on the Cross.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 4th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Cutting Cloths on the Cross.
GEORGE HILTON SMITH, Irk View Rhodes, near Manchester, Machinist
BENJAMIN COOPER, 405 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester Yarn and Cloth
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
We pass the cloth over a table or bench, in which is an angular slot, at right
angles with the slot is fixed a shaft above or below the table on which is centered
an arm or pendulum. At the end of the pendulum is a knife or cutter which is
caused to revolve by means of a belt or band, driven from a pulley on the centre
shaft of the arm so as to enable the knife to be moved too and fro in the angular
slot of the table. In this manner the cloth is cut in lengths as required.
The above may also be constructed as a parallel cutter.
The selvages or edges of the lengths cut are joined or sewn together and so form
a continual length or piece of cloth cut on the cross.
If the above cloth is required in narrow strips we subject it to another cutting
process in which we place the required number of rotating knives to divide the
width of cloth in any number of parts.
To enable us to cut the strips perfectly even we pass the cloth over a sectional
roller, each section representing the width required of each strip.
The cutting knives are placed on a shaft with a longitudinal slot, the holes in the
knives being shaped to fit the shaft so as to be movable to any part thereof.
The knives are held in position by the sectional roller, the cloth being cut whilst
passing over the roller.
The strips then are wrapped on sectional reels in any lengths that may be
desired.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1894
GEORGE HILTON SMITH.
BENJAMIN COOPER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Cutting Cloths on the Cross.
We GEORGE HILTON SMITH, Machinist, of Irk View, Rhodes near Manchester,
and BENJAMIN COOPER, Cloth and Yarn Agent, 405 Cheetham Hill Road,
Manchester, both 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 :-
Our invention relates to certain improvements in machinery for cutting cloths on
the cross or bias and the manner in which the same is performed as herein described
and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. is a plan of a table or bench with an angular slot for first process.
Fig. 2. is an elevation of the table.
Fig. 3. is a plan of the machine for second process.
Fig. 4. is a sectional elevation of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5. is an end view of Figs. 3 and 4.

page_text: table or bench of Figs. 1 and 2.
knife 6 moves from end to end.
Fig. 1 in which is a diagonal slot, a, a circular
The axis of the circular knife b. is fixed on a
carriage c placed on a slide d parallel with the angular slot.
Below the knife b. and on the carriage c are fixed two grooved pulleys e and e 1.
At one end of the slot a and fixed to the table or bench f is a grooved carrier
pulley e 3, at the other end is a driving rim e 2, attached thereto is a driving pulley g.
The driving band passing over the rim e 2 under the pulley e, over the pulley on
the axis of the knife b, under the pulley e 1, over the pulley e 3 and back to the
rim e 2, so as to give rotary motion to the knife b, whilst passing along the slot a a.
The rope i, both ends of which are attached to the carriage c and passed over guide
pulleys ih and j 2. as shown in Fig. 1. On the rope i is the handle k', fastened in a
suitable position so that when actuated it moves the carriage c, from one end of the
Blot to the other.
Thus it will be seen the cloth laid on the table will be cut at any angle required
by the knife passing through it, whilst in motion.
By this process we cut the cloth to any length which may be required.
Having cut a number of pieces by this method, the selvages are then sewn
together, thus forming a continuous piece of any desired length on the bias, this
piece may then be subjected to the machine as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 for the
purpose of cutting it into shreds or ribbons.
On this machine is fixed a slotted shaft a, on which is placed a number of
knives b. and washers or sleeves c. The knives & have a thoug which fits in the
slot of the shaft thus enabling the knives to be worked in any given position as
the sleeves c. determine. The knives b. being rotated at a high speed cuts the
cloth as it is brought to them. The sectional roller d fitting in the slots of each
section acts as a guide for cutting the cloth in even parts as dictated by the
.sections.
The sectional roller is actuated by the knife shaft through worm and wheel as
shown in Fig. 5, so that the knives are sure to be in action before the feed
commences.
To supply the cloth to be cut and to prevent its being pulled out of shape we
have an endless feed cloth which carries it forward on to the sectional roller and
into the knives which are held in position by the sectional roller d, as shown in
Fig. 4.
The clothe is actuated by a belt passing from pulley on the end of roller d.
and on to the pulley and roller f. over which the feed cloth passes, it then passes
under carrier roller g. and on to carrier roller h, over the table k over i and under j
and on to f.
The cloth to be cut is placed straight whilst on the feed cloth, on the table k, it
is then carried forward on to the section roller d, passed through the knives and
under the roller j, where it comes in contact again with the feed or carrier cloth and
is carried forward and wrapped on to the pressure roller 1. The roll wound can
then be placed in a creel and reeled off as desired.
Having thus described 'the nature of our invention and the manner in which the
same is performed, what we claim is:-
:-
First. The circular knife worked or moved in an angular slot as herein shown
and described.
Second. Passing the cloth over a sectional roller by which the knives are held in
position for cutting.
Third. The mode of feeding or carrying the cloth on to the sectional roller so as
to prevent the pulling of the cloth out of shape.
Dated this 27th day of February 1895.
GEORGE HILTON SMITH.
BENJAMIN COOPER.