USRE7123E - Improvement in measuring attachments for packaged fabrics - Google Patents

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v V E. MORGAN.

MEASURING ATTACHMENT FOR PACKAGED FABRICS.

Reissued m 23, 1876 UN TED 5 STATES I have discov PATENT OFFICE.

Enwn'Rio' MORGAN, or WASHINGTON, nISTRmT or COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOB,

BY M SNE ASSIGNMENTS, To PETER H. WATSON.

illilPROVEMENT m MEASURING ATTACHMENTS FORIPACKAGED FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. '11 1,235, dated January 24, 1871; reissue No. 1,188, -dated May 23, 1876 application filed May. 3, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MORGAN, of

-'the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Fabrics into Packages for Storage or Sale, of which the following is a description, reference being into linear-yard unitsand fractions thereof, the yards being numbered consecutively from one end of the web to the other;

In these figures, A indicates the cloth, and B the paper.

When fabrics made in sheets or webs, of l the .class usually cut into pieces to suit the wants of customers when sold at retail, are put up in packages-by rolling or folding, for ,storage or sale, in the manner heretofore customary, they are measured by hand and the measure marked u n the end of the web, or upon a tag attac ed to the end, so that whenthe mark is obliterated or the tag lost from the original roll or the marked end is cutoff in retailing the cloth, the quantity contained in the roll, whether integral or remnant, can only be ascertained by unrolling and remeasurement, an operation of considerable labor in which injury tothe appearance of the fa ric from crumpling and soiling can scarcely be avoided. When a definite number of yards from the end of the piece in such a package is wanted, it is ascertained where to make the cnt .to sever the quantity desired by the man-- 'ual application of a yard-measure.-

One of the objects of my invention .is to avoid such manipulation in obtaining pieces of definite length from the sud-of a roll of cloth, and in ascertaining either the integral .length' h of an remnant thereof.

of a roll or the le that t is object can be accomplishe y P P lE- and putting it up in packages that every part of it'will be self-measuring, and the end at the outside of the package will always. exhibit the true length of cloth within, whether it be the integral piece or only what remains after portions have been cut oil.

In the example shown in the drawing, my I invention is carried into efl'ect by takinga piece of .paper'of convenient length, measuring it lengthwise into yardunits, or other units, if preferred, graduating these units, and, when necessary, subdiv isions thereof, and numberingthe units so graduated consecntively from one end of the piece to the other. Such graduation and notation exhibits to the eye the length of the piece, and, assisted by this simple operation of mentaLsubtraction, will indicate the point at which a cut is to be made to obtain apiece of given length from the end at which; the notation terminates, The terminal graduation and notation on the remnant will exhibit how much of it is left, so that when the piece of paper so graduated and notated is formed into a 'ackage by folding or rolling, beginning the fo ding at the end at which the graduation begins, the graduation and number at the terminal end on the periphery of the roll will exhibit the length of the piece within the package The paper thus measured, graduated, numbered, and packaged not only-is self-measurin g and exhibits its own length on the outside of the package, but will also virtually impart the same-qualities to a web ofcloth .of the same length with which it is placed in exact apposition, and both together so rolled or folded into a common package. This "application of my invention is very important in saving time and labor in retailing dry-goods or in taking accounts of stock.

" If the cloth so measured and packaged bethick and inelastic and the paper hard and firm, the, paper will creep slowly along the concave surface of the fabric; instead of resting in strict apposition-with it, asthey are winding round and round to form the package, until at the finish the end of the paper will extend-beyond that of the cloth. In such a case, if a piece of given length is wanted from the roll, it must be unfolded to with a web of cloth in a folded the-extent necessary," the unfolded portions; of both paperandeloth placed in due appm ,1 aiden, and the desired length severed from both. The terminal notation and graduation" left on the roll will exhibit the length of cloth remaining, while the graduation and notation on the severed paper will show the length of thepiece of cloth cut of.

If the cloth be thin or very elastic, the

nated paper very thin, and the package tightly coiled, the creeping of the paper over the cloth will be ineonsiderable, and the units of measure of the web and paper will be so nearly in-appositiou throughout the entire extent of both that fabrics of moderate cost may be measured and cut into pieces, with all needful end more than the usual preeision, by severing the cloth and paper just as they lie together unfolded to the graduatio'n-markwhieh indicates the length of the piece to be cut oil. 1

The graduatedpaper, when thus combined package, obviously becomes, in efi'ect, the linear-measure and numbered graduation of every portion of the web, to record and exhibit its linearertent.

The paper may be made of any convenient web of paper, which afierward may into narrow strips, each containing one of the series.

' 2 mas width, and the graduation-marks ma ml Wheu'expedient, several series-0t nn bored graduation-marks may be qll'lkgflzft V What I claim isg duated into numbered linear units d,

folded in such fmanner as shall make them self-measuring from end to end, and exhibittheir length without unfolding them, whether the package be whole or aremnant, substantially as described. 2. Manufacturing into packages webs 0 such goods as are commonly cut into pieces for sale or-use, by combining with them numbered graduation-marks, and folding or rolling themin such manner as shall inakethem 'selfl.

measuring and exhibit their length without unfolding, substantially as described.

EDWARD MORGAIL Witnesses:

W. T. J onnsou,

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