USRE3000E - Geoege edwin - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

GEORGE EnwrN KiNe, or NEw YORK, N.

IMPROVEMENT lN FLUTINGMACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 62,492, dated Febzuary 2G, 1867; reissue No. 3,000,

June 23, 18GB.

DivrsioN A.

To all whom it may concern: furnished at one end with a crank, b, and the Be it known that I, GEORGE EDWIN KING, upper roller, C, working in semioircular bearof the city, county, and State of New York, ingsc, formed in sliding blocks c, placed upon have invented certain new and useful Improvethe ends thereof, and pressed down upon the ments in Flutin g-Machines; and I do hereby same by a spring, d, the tension of which may declare that the following is a full, clear, and be regulated by means of a vertical screw, e, exact description of the same, reference being situated centrally inthe top of the frameA. had to the accompanying drawings, making a Then desired, the upper roller, G, may be held part of this specification, in whichwithin a given distance of the lower roller by Figure 1 is a front elevation of a fluting-mavertical set-screws f, situated,'one at each end chine constructed according to my invention. of the top of the aforesaid frame A, and act- Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig.v ing upon the sliding or adjustable bearings c. 3 is a detached section representing a portion 'Ihe puffing is represented in Fig. 4, and is of the same. Fig. 4 is va plan view of a piece formed of strips of any suitable fabric, and of of the uted puffing, for the manufacture of a width, when finished, nearly or quite equal which my invention is intended. to the length of the iiuting-rollers B C, and is Similar letters of reference indicate correformed with longitudinal portion-s g, which are spending parts in all the figures. iuted transversely to the length of the strip This invention is designed for making puffaforesaid; also with portions h, in which the ing applicable to shirt-bosoms, trimming, or fabric is pressed iiat, and through which lonother purposes of dress, in which the article, gitudinal rows of stitching are formed, to renas it issues from the machine, is (without havder permanent the conformation of the puffing; ing recourse to laundering) delivered in a comand also with portions l, which are intended plete form, either single or in two or more seto be wider than the parts just described, and

riesor rows, composed of flattened borders, which are puffed or crinlrled in such manner with flutes running along their inner edges, asl t'o possess an irregular wavy surface. Iny

ions of the puffand 'puffed or crinkled surfaces between the order to form these several port iutes. ing, each of the iiuting-rollers B G is formed l The invention consists in a guide constructed with as many annular or circumferential series, with one .or more curved or arched portions, AJ, of grooves and flutes as there are fluted in combination with one or more suitable iiutportions g upon the'puflin g, with as many nar- 4 ing-rollers, whereby the material, in passing row annular faces,B, asthere areiiattenedporthrough the machine, is iluted and contracted tions h, and with as many comparatively broad laterally, as it were, or drawn up between the portions, C', as there are puffed portions i in iiutes, to produce the required crinlrled surthe nished puffing, each of the said parts of face or surfaces in thepufiing. the rollers being of the same width as that To enable others to understand the construcportion of the completed puffing which it is tion and operation of my invention, I will prodesigned to shape, and the circumferential ceed to describe it with reference to the drawfaces or portions C being of such diameter in gs. that, when the two rollers are in proper posi- A represents the frame which supports the tion, those upon one roller will be situated at working parts of the apparatus, and situated such distance from those upon the other that longitudinally in the upper part of which are no considerable pressure will be exerted upon two iiuting-rollers, B and C, which are situ the fabric in passing between them, and the ated one above the other, with their ends pro several series A of grooves and iiutes upon one liecting through the large vertical slots, a, roller gearing into those upon the other roller. formed in the ends of the frame A; the roller l) indicates pressers, the rearmost end of each B being supported in semicircular bearin gs one of which is curved downward, and fitted formed in the lower ends of the slots a, and upontheupperrearmostpart of each of thefaces y, passing through a horizontal bar arched transversely,

manner that the width of the fabric passedv B of the lower roller B, with its forward end' curved upward in contact with the forward sides of the corresponding face B upon the other roller, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the aforesaid rearmost ends of these pressers D being pressed against the roller B by set-screws or brace, k, secured upon the rear of the frame A. Fixed upon the forward side of the frame A, in front oftheroller B, isa horizontal supporting-brace, m, which has fixed upon it an inclined a, uponwhichis supported the inclined guide E,which is composed vof two pieces of sheet metal, secured one over the other, at such a distance apart as to permit the passage of the cloth or fabric between them; and those parts of this guide E in front of the plain cylindrical portions C' of the rollers are curved upward or as shown at a', in such between each pair of the plain portions C will be greater, if stretched out to its full extent, than the width of the said portions, so that the said fabric, by means of its increased width, will be crinkled or puffed in passing between the aforesaid portions C', as will be presently fully set forth. f'

The end of the strip of cloth or fabric from which the luted puffing is to be formed is passed into and through the guide E, and between the rollers B O, and a rotary motion in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 2is communicated to the said 4rollers by turning the crank b, or by other suitable means. The

fabric is drawn lengthwise between the rollpass between ers, thoseportions thereof which y the several opposite series Af of grooves and iiutes of the two rollers being iluted, as shown at g in Fig. 4, while those portions of the saidV l fabric which pass between the smooth narrow A being formed annular faces B of the rollers, g into gathers by the iiuting of the fabric at the plate,

' sides or edges thereof, are pressed flat by pass' f ing under the pressers D, as the fabric 'is drawn ,their full extent, of a width .sides or edges,

along, at thel same time that those portions of the fabric drawn through the curved or arched parts a of the guide E, being, if stretched to greater than that of the smooth cylindrical portions C', and, being also gathered bythe iiutin g formed at their or puffed form as they are passed between the aforesaid portions C', the distance between the opposite smooth portions C aforesaid being such that no pressureis exerted upon the fabric passing between them beyond that required to simply press the convex surfaces thereof downward to a sufficient degree to insure the shaping thereof into the puffedjeondition just herein described. The extentto which the material will be 'thus contracted laterally, as

1t were, or drawn up between the iiutes, will c bythe excess in length of the be governed of the lguide over a straight arched portions c line or lines at their base.

By these means the fluted pufli'ng is brought into the form required in the finished. article without the necessity of washing the saine in order to b rin g the puffing into such form.

To complete the puffing, longitudinal rows of stitching are formed in the flat parts L of thek puiiing, tov retain it in shape, and, when desired, the puffing as thusV completed may be divided longitudinally in the said parts h, to separate it into narrow pieces, as required, for various trimming purposes.

as new, and desire to secure The. guide E, constructed with one or more curved or arched portions, a', in combination with suitable flirting-rollers, substantially as herein set fort-h, for the purpose specified.

GEO. E. KING. Vitnesses A. Ln CLERC, Y E. l). TRACY.

are caused to assume a crinkled connecting such arched portions

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