US555490A - Tool for dampening fold-lines of collars - Google Patents

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H. BARNES. TOOL FOR DAMPENING FOLD LINES 0F GOLLABS. No. 555,490.

Patented Ma..r.3, 1896.

- INVENTOR fv/JATTOHNEY WITNESSES;

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HENRY BARNES, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

TOOL FOR DAMPENING FOLD-LINES OF COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,490, dated March 3, 1896.

' Application find May 14, 1895. Serial No. 549,253. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY BARNES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tools for Dampening the Fold-Lines of Collars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a tool for dampening the fold-lines of collars, the object and nature of which will be more fully set forth in the following specification, and such features as I believe to be new and novel particularly pointed out in the claims to follow.

To enable others to fully understand my said invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved device, consisting of a wheel rotatably mounted upon a handle portion, said wheel having a grooved periphery carrying a ring of yarn or other like substance that will absorb moisture, transverse holes in said wheel to act as reservoirs for holding surplus liquid, and a reduced portion of the handle around which the yarn rings are formed. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation of one of the yarn rings after it has been wound on the handle of the device and twisted in the proper form preparatory to placing it on the grooved wheel. Fig. 3 is an upper plan view of the dampening device looking in the direction of arrow a Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail vertical cross-section of the dampening-wheel and yarn ring thereon through line b, looking in the direction of arrow 0 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail vertical longitudinal view of the dampening-wheel looking in the direction of arrow (1 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail enlarged broken section of the dampening-wheel, showing one of the liquid-reservoirs and the hole of communication. between the peripheral groove of the wheel and such reservoir, showing also the position of the yarn or absorbent ring by a dotted line.

Its construction and operation are as follows:

1 represents the wheel having the central bore 2, by which it is loosely mounted on the stud 3, projecting laterally from the metal shank 4. The screw 5 and collar 6 hold such wheel in place. The peripheral groove 7 is intended to hold a ring that will absorb and retain moisture and give up the same, in the manner hereinafter to be more fully explained. I prefer, however, to make it easy for the operator to construct rings whenever necessary and without appreciable delay. For this purpose I employ any absorbent material, like yarn, and wind it around the reduced portion 8 of the wooden handle 9. A few turns or coils about the ring forming part of the handle will suffice, whereupon the newly-formed ring is pushed off from its seat and such ring twisted into the shape shown at 10, Fig.2, in readiness to be forced into the groove of the wheel, the reduced portion 8 of the handle being enough smaller than the diameter of such groove that the yarn ring will adhere firmly'to the wheel. removal of the newly-formed ring from the said reduced portion 8 of the handle 9, I prefer to flatten or cut away the handle back of the shoulder 11, as shown at 12, which cutaway or flat part coincides with the surface of the part 8, so that by crowding the thumb or finger against the said yarn ring it can easily be removed from the handle.

The reservoirs 13 consist of holes formed transversely around the rim of the wheel 1 and sufiiciently large enough to hold a drop of suitable liquid. These holes are drilled so close to' the groove 7, Fig Lastocutinto To facilitate it, forming thereby the hole 14 as an open communication between said reservoirs and groove. Th'ese reservoir-holes may be sufficiently increased in number as to readily supply the felt ring with the proper amount of liquid for the purpose presently to be described.

As previously stated, the object of this device is to dampen that portion of a collar that constitutes the folding-line. necessary, after collars are washed, starched and ironed, to first moisten the hard-starched surface at the bending-point, whether it be the wing-point of a standing or an ordinary turn-over collar. Otherwise to attempt to bend the collar without first dampening a narrow track across the bending-point, and

"thus soften the starchy surface, would result It is absolutely shown) is used, which contains a quantity of starchy water or other mucilaginousliquid in connection with a thick felt pad lying in such pan. Said felt pad being thoroughly satu' rated with such liquid the dampening-wheel is run over, under a slight pressure, the felt pad, and sinking far enough therein to thoroughly saturate the yarn ring 10 and also fill the several reservoir-holes 13 with a drop of the liquid. The wheel is then run along that portion of the collar where the proposed foldline is intended to be, leaving a narrow and uniformly-dampened track of equal. width throughout its entire length. This uniformity is due to the fact that the yarn ring having been evenly saturated with the liquid it has absorbed the drops of liquid in the several reservoirs will keep up the necessary supply for the full distance the wheel is intended to travel.

The advantage of the several reservoirs, holding each but a single drop of liquid, over a large central reservoir is readily seen in comparing the results obtained by the two methods. Let it be supposed that the wheel is made hollow and such hollow space filled with. the necessary fluid. It is evident that such fluid will leak out in greater quantities at the lower portion of the wheel than at any other point, while the top and a portion of the sides will be dry, which will result in a distribution of liquid at one point of the collar much greater than at any other. In fact, instead of a connected narrowirack of moisture on the fabric there will appear a broken line of wet spots, some of which, especially at the start, will be so large and such a profusion of liquid deposited as to ruin the starched surface of the collar.

In my improved dampening-tool the yarn ring will take up all the liquid it is capable of holding, and a reserve force in. the shape of a single globular drop will be securely lodged in each of the numerous reservoirs circumferentially placed around the wheel and just under the yarn ring and in communication therewith, as before mentioned, and the wheel can be laid aside for a few moments, if the operator is not ready to use it, without danger of leaking or of an unequal distribution of the liqu id at any point in the wheel, and when brought into use it will begin a narrow even track and continue the same throughout the whole distance traveled.

I do not wish to be confined to the exact construetimi of the reservoirs, as these may be varied withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

llaving 1h us described my in vent ion, what, therefore, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters jlatent, is-

I]. In a tool for dampening the fold-line of collars, of the character described, a circumferelitially-grooved wheel rotatably mounted upon a support, a trackingi-ing adapted to absorb and hold liquid placed in such groove, reservoirs cireumferentially arranged about said wheel for holding a small quantity of liquid in reserve, such reservoirs havingopen communieation with the groove of the wheel so as to replenish the tracking-ring with liquid, as set forth.

2. In the handle of a tool of the character described the reduced portion upon which the yarn is wound, to form the dampening-rings, combined with a flattened part thereon to assist in removing such rings after they are formed, as seti'orth.

Signed at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this 6th day of May, A. I). 1895.

HENRY BARNES.

\Vitnesses:

fl: .Iarsons DIUKEHMAN,

HARRY V. WHIPPLE.

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