GB301475A - Stop mechanism for fabric measuring machines - Google Patents

Abstract

301,475. Measuregraph Co., (Assignees of Aeschbach, W.). Nov. 30, 1927, [Convention date]. Measuring.-A cloth measuring and cost-indicating machine operated by a roller in contact with the cloth is provided with means for stopping its operation where a predetermined length of cloth has been measured, the length-indicating means of the stop mechanism being separate from the normal length-indicating means and the driving connection between the stop mechanism and the normal length-indicating means. being readily releasable. As shown, the cloth roller 8 is arranged to move through gearing two pointers 64. 65, showing respectively fractions of a yard and yards, over a dial 63 and to operate two drums 70 which are connected by a price chart. One wheel 32 of this train of gearing drives another wheel 33 on a shaft carrying a worm 35 in gear with a worm wheel 36 on a shaft which has fixed to it also one element 38 of a toothed clutch. The other element 40 of the toothed clutch and a graduated disc 46 visible through a window 49 are mounted on a spring pressed sleeve 39 which, by means of a knob 42, can be pulled to separate the clutch elements, turned to the required setting, and then released to re-engage the clutch elements. When the amount of cloth corresponding to the setting of the disc 46 has been measured off a pin on the side of the disc 46 depresses a rod 53 which lifts a stop lever 59 into the path of a projection 61 on a disc on the shaft 7 of the cloth roller 8. By this time, the visible reading on the disc 46 will be zero, but this will return to its old setting when the resetting lever 22 is depressed. Specifications 1730/01, [Class 106, Registering &c.], 7911/14, and 208,183 are referred to.