US261717A - Art of and machine foe manufacturing stiffening bibs and blades - Google Patents

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AQHOUSE. ART OF AND MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING STIFPBNING RIB$ AND BLADES.

No. 261,717. Patented July 25, 1-882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. HOUSE, OF BRIDGEPORT,OONNEGT1GUT, ASSIGNOR TO WARNER BROTHERS, OF SAME PLACE AND NEW YORK, N. Y.

ART OF AND MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING STIFFENING RIBS AND BLADES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,717, dated July 25, 1882.

Application filed February 11, 1881. (No model.)

1 To all whom it may concern:

View; Fig. 3, a sectional elevation, and Fig. 4

Be it known that I, JAMES ALFORD HoUs of Bridgeport, Fairlield county, Connecticut, have invented certain Improvements in the Art of and Machines for Man ufacturingStiffening Ribs and Blades, of which the following is the specification.

The object of my invention is to connect together a series of bundles of fiber, so as to form a strip or sheet of any required width in which said cords or bundles shall be parallel to the length, and this object I effect by the method and means hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine for forming the described strips. Fig. 2 is an end a plan thereof; Fig. 5, an enlarged detached view of the parts at the point where the ribs are introduced; Figs. 6 to 9, views illustrating the construction of the strips; and Fig. 10

is a perspective view, showing one of the needles.

While myinvention maybe used for the manufacture of any kind of material or fabric in which parallel longitudinalfibersareconnected, it is specially intended to be employed in making corset stiffeners from stiff vegetable fibers-as,forinstance,tampico orIxtlefiberswhich may be formed into bundles a, so as to constitute stiff continuous ribs, by binding the same together by overlying threads, or may be collected froma mass and separated into bundles justprior to connecting the latter together, as hereinafter described.

The cords or ribs a, as, or after being formed of parallel straightfibers, are brought parallel to each other, as shown in Fig. 5, and are then compacted and united into one strip by means of any suitable number of cross-threads, which are woven or sewed,braided,or otherwise combined with the main cords a in such manner as to bind the latter all together into one flat continuous piece. Various means maybe used for effecting such union of cords or ribs and threads. OnewhichIhavefoundmosteffective is illustrated in the drawings, which represents a machine whereby the ribs are brought and fed parallel to each other and united by a shuttle-thread, I), carried by a shuttle, B, carrierthread I), laid by means of a carrier, 0, and needle-threads b passed between the various ribs by reciprocating needles D.

The frame A of the machine is constructed with a race, as, for the shuttle B, the face-plate d of the race being perforated or having transverse tubes at inserted therein for the passage of the ribs or cords a, which cross the race above the shuttle to-geared feed-rolls E E, an intermittent rotation being imparted to the latter by means of a pawl, d engaging with a ratchet-wheel, d, on the shaft of one of the rolls and carried by an arm, d swinging on said shaft and reciprocated from any moving part of the machine. Any suitable means of adjustment is used whereby the reciprocation of the said arm may be varied to alter the feed.

The needle-frame or arm F is secured to or swings on a cross-bar or shaft, F, and is reciprocated by means of a cam, F on the main shaft G, an arm, f, attached to the needle-bar or frame, carrying a lug, f, which enters a camgroove in the side of said cam F The needles D are carried at the front end of the needle-arm parallel to each other, and set at such an angle that when the arm is down they will lie close to the face-plate d in grooves 1' thereof and between the tubes or openings d, the needle-threads b passing from the eyes diagonally across the shuttle-race over the edge of an overhanging plate, 01 to the fabric, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3, so that the shuttle can readily and surely pass between the needles and their threads. Needles of different forms may be used. I have found that most efficient to consist of a thin steel plate, bent or doubled until the sides are nearly in contact, leaving just sufficient space for the passage of a thread, which may therefore be laid easily into the needle, all as shown in Fig. 10.

The needle-threads are carried from bobbins or spools B each through a tension device, B, secured at the rear of the frame, so that the required tension can be secured for each separate thread, and from the tension device to a transverse perforated guide-bar, B thence through a perforated plate carried by a take-up lever, H, vibrating on the shaft F,

and having an arm carrying a stud, 12, adapted to a camgroove in the side of the cam F such .movement being thus imparted to the take-up as will release or tighten the threads, as necessary to secure the desired results.

The thread-carrier 0 consists of a flat plate, having an eye, m, and spring-lips m m], and reciprocated on or above the face plate 01 by means of a vibrating lever, I, pivoted at the rear end to the frame, and carrying a stud,f entering a groove in a cam, 1 by which the requisite movements are imparted to the lever in proper time. The carrierthread 1) passes from one of the bobbins through one of the tension devices to an eye, g, in the lever I, thence beneath the lips or fingers m m to the eye on of the carrier.

The shuttle is reciprocated in the ordinary manner by means of a lever, J, vibrated by means of a cam, J.

As the cords or bundles a are carried through the channels cl by the action of the feed-rollers, the operations of the different parts of the machine, the needles being up, and the shuttle and carrier both at the same side, Fig. 6, will be as follows: The needles will first descend, carrying the threads between the cords, as shown in Fig. 7, thus presenting the needlethreads for the passage of the shuttle B, which then moves to the left, thereby carrying the shuttle-thread 1) across the needle-threads below the fabric. The needles then rise, drawing up the shuttle-thread against the under side of the fabric, and holding it by the series of loops of needle-thread which pass between the cords or ribs a. The carrier G then moves to the left, carrying its thread I) over the cords to the position shown in Fig. 8, after which the needles again descend, each needle thread looping over the overlaid carrier-thread and binding it to the top of the fabric. The needle-threads are then crossed by the shuttlethread as the shuttle moves to the right, the needles again rise, and the carrier assumes its first position. The continuance of these operations results in firmly binding the cords, ribs, or bundles in a fiat fabric or strip, which may be made of any desired length, however short the individual fibers or splints may be, and by properly shaping and arranging the feed tubes or channels at, and by the use of the requisite number of needles the strip may be made of any desired width or thickness.

A strip or rib of bone or horn may be combined with one or more of the cords of Ixtle fiber, thus forming a compound strip.

In some instances it is desirable to coat or size the material, in which case the ribs a may be passed through a bath before entering the channels d,- or the strip, after being formed, may be passed through such bath.

It is not necessary, when tampieo fibers are used, to bind them into ribs, as they may be fed loosely through the channels 61, and will then be bound together by the operations described. To hold the ribs compactly together,

just as the binding threads are interlocked they are passed through a channel (just large enough to receive the finished strips) formed between adj ustable blocks a n, arranged above the shuttle-race, as shown. These blocks may be adjusted to receive strips of any width.

It will be apparent that arrangements may be made for increasing or decreasing the number of needles D, and for varying the form, number, and arrangement of channels d.

Itis notabsolutelynecessarytousethethreadcarrier (J, as themeedles or series of ribs may be moved laterally after each upward motion of the needles, so thatthey will, onagaindescending, pass eachbetween differentribs than those between which they descended at the previous movement, the needle-threads being locked in such case wholly by the shuttle-thread.

1 do not here claim the article produced by the means described, as this was patented to me June 7, 1881.

I claim 1. The mode described for formingstiffeningstrips from stiff fibers, consisting in first bringing the fibers parallel to each other; second, forming bundles or cords of such fibers; third, arranging a series of these bundles or cords parallel to each other; and, finally, uniting them by passing threads across and between the bundles and interlocking the same.

2. The combination, in a machine for forming flat strips from stiff fibers, of a channeled plate for receiving and guiding bundles or ribs formed of said fibers with the channels arranged to maintain said bundles parallel in close proximity, devices for feeding the bundles through said channels, and appliances whereby binding-threads are carried across and between the bundles and interlocked, as set forth. 3. The combination, in a machine for uniting ribs or bundles of stiff fibers, of a channeled plate, feeding appliances, a shuttle, and devices for reciprocating the same, a series of needles, and appliances whereby they are reciprocated between the channels, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the frame A, provided with a shuttlerace and a shuttle, B, of an arm or frame carrying a series of nee- IIS dles, a channeled plate, d, through which to pass a series of ribs, feed-rollers E E, a threadcarrier, 0, and appliances for reciprocating the shuttle, needle-carrier, and thread-carrier and for operating the feed devices, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with thefeed-rolls, of the adjustable blocks a n, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES ALFORD HOUSE.

Witnesses:

C. H. DIMOND, J. CARR.

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