US1450701A

US1450701A - Machine for treating bolts of cloth for clothing

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Publication number: US1450701A
Application number: US513987A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles E Murray
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-11-09
Filing date: 1921-11-09
Publication date: 1923-04-03
Anticipated expiration: 1940-04-03

Description

C. E. MURRAY MACHINE FOR TREATING BOLTS OF CLOTH FOR CLOTHING Apr. 1923.

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UNETE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. MURRAY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Application filed November 9, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD MURRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Treating Bolts of Cloth for Clothing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention to machines for opening and otherwise treating cloth as it comes from the mill in the usual longitudinally folded and rolled condition, so that such cloth will be in condition for passage through a sponging and shrinking machine by which the cloth is treated previous to being made into clothing; and the present improvement has for its object To provide a simple and eflicient structural formation and combination of parts and mechanisms in which bolts or rolls of cloth in the longitudinally folded condition in which they come from the mill, are opened, dry pressed, accurately measured during such opening and pressing actions, pleated upon a receiving table or platform, and the final sewing of adjacent ends of succeeding bolts of cloth is effected when the pleating of one bolt of cloth is completed and the pleating of a succeeding bolt has begun, so that a continuous length of cloth is obtained for passage through a cloth sponging and shrinking machine, such as forms the subject matter of my prior application for patent, Serial No. 470,546, filed May 18, 1921, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a machine illustrating the general arrangement of parts in the present invention.

Fig. 2, is a detail plan view of the revoluble holder for the bolt of cloth and the associated. pair of drawing rollers.

Fig. 3, is an end elevation of the machine.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

As represented in the drawings, the main supporting frame of the machine is formed with a base 1 and upright side standards 2, having rails and brackets for the support of the parts and mechanisms of the machine.

3 designates a bearing hub fixed near one end of and at the mid-length of the base 1 and preferably in an inclined position in a longitudinal plane as shown in Fig. 1.

Serial No. 513,987.

4 designates a revoluble head or platform journalled in the hub 3 and forming the support for the bolt of cloth operated on.

5 designates a centering blade preferably of a triangular form, arranged centrally on the head 1 and adapted to engage in the usual elongated opening at the center of the bolt of cloth, to hold the same in proper position while being unrolled.

6 designates a standard fixed on the base 1 in lateral relation to the aforesaid hub 3 and having at its upper end an overhanging arm 7 carrying a guidesleeve 7 in aligned relation to the center of the revoluble head 4 and adapted to support the centering means now to be described.

8 designates an adjustable stem moving in the sleeve 7' and carrying atone end the upperrevoluble centering blade 9 of a triangular shape, and adapted to engage in the upper end of the above mentioned elongated open center of the bolt of cloth and aid in holding the same in proper position during an unrolling operation.

10 designate inclined rails extending be tween the side standards2, and the upper portion of the standard 6 to connect and brace the same together.

11 designates a hand wheel having a shaft mounted in the guide sleeve 7' and carrying a gear wheel adapted for operative engagement with a gear formation on the adjustable stem 8, to impart longitudinal movement to the same and to the blade 9, in the operation of engaging or disengaging the blade 9 from the bolt of cloth.

12 designate longitudinal brackets on the hub 3 and lateral arm 7 aforesaid, adapted to support the drawing rollers now to be described. I

13 designate a pair of positively driven drawing rollers arranged adjacent to the bolt supporting means just described, and preferably in oblique parallel relation to the revoluble parts of said means. The drawing rollers 13 are preferably adjustable to and from each other to permit the ready introduction of the cloth between the same as well as attain proper fractional engagement between the rollers and the cloth. To such end one of the rollers 13 is journalled directly in hearings in the brackets 12 and receives positive rotation from driving connections hereinafter described, while the other of said rollers 13 isjournalled in the free ends of radius bars 12' pivoted on said brackets 12. In the preferred construction shown the shafts of the rollers 13 are operatively connected together by intermediate gearing connections 14c of anysuitable type.

15 designates a platform of a triangular shape secured to the standards 2 of the machine frame andin'clined downwardly towards the drawing rollers 13 with its point or apex adjacent to said. drawing rollers, and: preferably provided, with a centrally extending prong 16 adapted to enter between the double layers of cloth coming from said rollers to separate said layers in the initial spreading of the same.

17 designates a shaft journalled transversely at the upper end of the platform 15 and carrying a plurality of belt pulleys 17' in transverse spaced relation.

18 designate a plurality of idler belt pulleys ournalled at the respective inclined sides of the platform 15 and adapted to support a plurality of carrier belts 19, by which the cloth is moved along the platform in a spreading operation of such cloth.

designate a pair of positively driven carrier belts carried on drums 20 journalled in the side frames 2 and arranged in an inclined position and on a plane with the carrier belts 19 of the platform 15. Said carrier belts 20 are adapted to aid in moving the cloth through the machine.

21 designates a registering mechanism of any usual construction secured to side frame 2 and having operative connection with one of the hereinafter described shafts of the machine so as to register the travel of the positively driven carrierbelts 2O aforesaid. 22 designates a depending pendulum frame pivoted to overhanging bracket rails at the top of the side frames 2 aforesaid, and carrying at its lower end a pair of feeding rollers 23, to constitute the vibrating means whereby the cloth as it leaves the carrier belts 20 aforesaid, is pleat-ed upon a receiving table or truck 26 arranged beneath said pleating means, as shown in Fig. 1. In the preferred construction shown, the pendulum frame has a fixed angle arm 22" through which it receives positive vibration from the hereinafter described driving shaft of the machine. And the feeding rollers 23 are preferably driven in a positive manner by belt and pulley connections with the above mentioned drawing mechanism, and with a view to a ready insertion and removal of the cloth, one .of said rollers is carried on pivoted links 24:, and yieldingly held in position a spring 25, as shown. 2 designate horizontal rails 0n the side frame 2 at the mid-height of the same and extending longitudinally beyond the pleating mechanism and receiving table above described.Iv I

27 designates a transversely arranged track connected to the outer portions of the rails 2 aforesaid, by hanger links 28, which are preferably connected in a pivoted manner at their respective ends, so that the track 27 may be swung out of the Way when not required for use. The track 27 is adapted to afford a supporting way for a transversely travelling sewing machine by which the end of an already pleated roll of cloth upon the receiving table 26 is sewed to the end of a succeeding roll of cloth being pleated upon said table, so that a number of rolls of cloth are connected in a continuous web for passage through a sponging and shrinking machine, such as described in my aforesaid application Serial No. 470,546, in a further treatment of the cloth prior to the making of the same up into clothing.

The series of shafts and connections by which simultaneous movement is imparted to the above described lllGCllitlllSlllS are mounted on the main frame and consists as follows 29 designates the primary power shaft of the machine, arranged transversely and receiving motion from an electric motor 30 or other suitable power source.

31 designates a crank arm carried on one endof the shaft 29 and connected by a link 32 with the angle arm 22 of the pendulum frame 22 to impart vibratory motion thereto.

33 designates a vertically arranged shaft having bevel gear connection with the shaft 29, so as to receive motion therefrom.

3 f designates a transversely arranged shaft having bevel gear connection with the shaft 33 to rotate in unison therewith.

35 designates a longitudinally arranged shaft having at one end bevel gear connection with the shaft 34-, and at the other end like bevel gear connection with the carrying shaft of one of the drawing rollers 13, to attain a positive drive of the same.

36 designates the shaft of the registering mechanism 21 having bevelgear connection with the shaft 33 aforesaid.

37 designates a bevel gear connection between the shaft 33 and the transverse carrying shaft 17 of the plurality of pulleys 17 and carrier belts 19 thereon.

38 designates a pulley and belt connection between the shaft 17 and the shaft of one of the drums 20 of the pair of carrier belts 20 aforesaid. I

39 designate belt pulleys mounted loosely on the pivot shaft of the pendulumframe 22, and forming an intermediate element of belt and pulley connections between the feeding rollers 23 of the pendulum frame and the shaft of one of drums 20 of the carrier belts 2O aforesaid.

In practical use the roll or bolt of cloth in the longitudinally folded condition in which it comes from the mills, is placed upon the revoluble head or platform t, with its respective ends engaged by the

centering blades

6 and 9 aforesaid, the folds of the individual layers or wind ings of the bolt or roll resting upon said platform 4i and the disconnected edges of such layers in adjacent relation to the upper ends of the drawing rollers 13, and to the apex of the platform 15% and its separating prong 16. As so arranged the drawing rollers l3 acts to draw the folded layers of cloth from the roll thereof and feed the same to the separating prong 16 and the inclined platform 15 and its series of carrier belts 19, the action of which is to gradually open the layers of cloth and present the same in a fully opened condition to the pair of carrier belts 20 to be measured and then passed to the pleating mechanism heretofore described.

Having thus fully described my invent-ion what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for spreading bolts of cloth the layers of which are longitudinally folded, the combination of a supporting frame, a triangular platform extending from said frame, a series of positively driven carrier belts associated with the inclined sides of said platform, means for revolubly supporting a bolt of cloth adjacent to the apex of said platform, a pair of drawing rollers arranged intermediate of said supporting means and the apex of the platform, and a pleating mechanism associated with the other end of said platform.

2. In a machine for spreading bolts of cloth the layers of which are longitudinally folded, the combination of a supporting frame, a triangular platform extending from said frame in an inclined direction, a series of positively driven carrier belts associated with the inclined sides of said platform, means for revolubly supporting a bolt of cloth adjacent to the apex of said platform, a pair of drawing rollers arranged intermediate ofsaid supporting means and the apex of the platform, and a pleating mechanism associated with the other end of said platform.

3. In a machine for spreading bolts of cloth the layers of which are longitudinally folded, the combination of a supporting frame, a triangular platform extending from said frame, means for revolubly supporting a belt of cloth adjacent to the apex of said platform, a pair of drawing rollers arranged intermediate of said supporting means and the apex of the platform, a pair of positively driven carrier belts associated with the other end of said platform, and a pleating mechanism associated with said last mentioned carrier belts.

4:. In a machine for spreading bolts of cloth the layers of which are longitudinally folded, the combination of a supporting frame, a triangular platform extending from said frame in an inclined direction, means for revolubly supporting a bolt of cloth adjacent to the apex of said platform, a pair of drawing rollers arranged intermediate of said supporting means and the apex of the platform, a pair of positively driven carrier belts associated with the other end of said platform, anda pleating mechanism Izgsiociated with said last mentioned carrier e ts.

5. In a machine for spreading bolts of cloth the layers of which are longitudinally folded, the combination of a supporting frame, a triangular platform extending from said frame, a series of positively driven carrier belts associated with the inclined sides of said platform, means for revolubly supporting a bolt of cloth adjacent to the apex of said platform, a pair of drawing rollers arranged intermediate of said supporting means and: the apex of the platform, a pair of positively driven carrier belts associated with the other end ofsaid platform, and a pleating mechanism associated with said last mentioned carrier belts.

6. In a machine for spreading bolts of cloth the layers of which are longitudinally folded, the combination of a supporting frame, a triangular platform extending from said frame in an inclined direction, a series of positively driven carrier belts associated with the inclined sides of said platform, means for revolubly supporting a bolt of cloth adjacent to the apex of said platform, a pair of drawing rollers arranged intermediate of said supporting means and the apex of the platform, a pair of positively driven carrier belts associated with the other end of said platform, and a pleating mecha nism associated with said last mentioned carrier belts.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of October, 1921.

CHAS. E. MURRAY.