AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND EMBOSSING PATTERNS ON TEXTILE FABRICS AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hugo Pataky, of Berlin, Germany for an Invention of
AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND EMBOSSING PATTERNS ON
TEXTILE FABRICS AND OTHER MATERIALS a communication from Moses
Heimann, a person resident at Berlin, Germany
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugo Pataky at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April 1883.
HUGO PATAKY, of Berlin, Germany "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CUTTING
AND EMBOSSING PATTERNS ON TEXTILE FABRICS AND OTHER MATERIALS a com-
munication to me from Moses Heimann, a person resident at Berlin, Germany,
This invention has for its object to produce a cheap substitute for lace and
embroidery.
The apparatus for this purpose consists chiefly of a system of rollers, which
system comprises two feed rollers adapted to guide the fabric towards the
stamping and cutting rollers, placed vertically behind the feed-rollers.
The stamping roller or die cylinder carries on its jacket the pattern for the
fabric, and its axle is made hollow for heating the roller. Under this roller is
placed the solid cutting roller made of steel like stamping roller.
Behind the latter is mounted the press roller made of a steel-core covered with a
paper-jacket about one centimetre thick and carrying the exact pattern of the
stamping roller.
An excentric mounted on the crank shaft serves to impart a reciprocating motion
to a brush placed between the stamping roller and press rollers, in order to
remove the waste material left by the fabric after having been cut and pressed.
The machine works as follows: After the stamping roller and the smooth cutting
roller have seized the fabric delivered to them by the feed rollers, they cut out the
holes corresponding to the pattern of the stamping roller, and subsequently press
the edges on the press roller. The hollows of the press-roller must exactly
correspond with those of the stamping roller.
The product thus obtained is then carried off by means of two rollers.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Hugo Pataky in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th October
1883.
HUGO PATAKY, of Berlin, Germany, "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CUTTING
AND EMBOSSING PATTERNS ON TEXTILE FABRICS AND OTHER MATERIALS," a com-
munication to me from Moses Heimann, a person resident at Berlin, Germany,
This invention has for its object to produce a cheap substitute for lace and
embroidery. The imitation lace and embroidery is manufactured by means of a
machine illustrated by the annexed drawings and constructed as follows:-
On the frame A are fixed 2 standards B B₁ which serve as bearings for the
rollers C, D and E, by means of which the fabric is cut and pressed or embossed.
At the front of the frame A are placed 2 rollers F and G. On the roller F is
wound the fabric to be pressed, and on the roller G is wound a strip of paper of
the same length and breadth as the fabric; the paper strip is fed together with
the fabric through the pressing and cutting rollers for the purpose of obtaining a
more accurate finish of the pattern.
The rollers C, D and E are mounted in their bearings in such manner as to come
in contact with each other.
The pattern of lace or embroidery to be reproduced on the fabric is engraved in
relief on the hollow roller D made of steel. During the operation of pressing the
roller D presses firmly against the smooth roller C, whereby a preliminary
impression is produced on the fabric. If the pattern of lace or embroidery to be
pressed requires the cutting out of certain decorative details, such pattern is cut out
with sharp edges on the roller D, so that when 'the latter is pressed against the
roller C, such parts are cut out.
Near the engraved roller D and at the same height is mounted a solid roller E
made of firmly compressed cardboard or papier-maché and having a smooth
surface, this roller serves as a matrix to the roller D, the pattern of which is
reproduced on the roller E in bas-relief by pressing D and E together.
The rollers C and D which are connected with each other by means of toothed
wheels, seize the fabric and paper and cut out the pattern, while the roller E presses
the imitation of the lace into the cut out fabric. For the purpose of obtaining
more accurate delineations the hollow steel roller D is heated by means of a gas
flame.
Over the rollers D and E are placed two brushes F and H, which rotate in
directions opposite to the rollers D and E and have for their object to remove the
waste or blanks, left by the fabric, from the rollers D and E. The roller O is kept
free from waste by means of the knife S.
Mounted in bearings of the standards B and B' are furthermore the feed rollers K
and L and the delivery rollers M N which serve to feed, respectively to carry off,
the fabric.
O represents a weight resting on the lever P and serving to hold the roller O with
a constant pressure against the roller D, but so as to easily yield to the uneven
surface of the fabric.
The fabric to be cut and pressed and which is wound on the roller F, is placed
together with the paper strip serving as a support during the operation and which
is wound on the roller G, between the guide rollers K and L and the press rollers C
and D. The toothed wheels mounted on the axles of these rollers are turned by
means of a toothed wheel mounted on the driving shaft provided with a crank or
a pulley,