US83814A - Improvement in collar-machines - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 83,814, dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLAR-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whomy yit may concern.:

Be it known that l, J.\.\Ii3s T. VALKER, of Alba-ny, in the county of Albany, and State. of iew York, have invented a new and useful Machine for Making Gollars and Cutts; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description oi' the coustruction `and operation of the same, reference being.

hadto the accompanying drawings, making a part ot' this specification. in which- Figures l and 2 are perspective views Figure 3 is a frontelevation;

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section 5 Figures 5, (i, 7, S, il, 10, and 11 are plane, side, and end lviews of the combination cutting-die and inoulder, as adapted for cutting and moulding collars;

Figures 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 1T are similar' views of the same, as adapted for cutis;

Figures 18 and 1S) arc plane and sectional end views of the adjustable and vertically-reciprocating foldingblade o1' follower, adapted for use with the dies for making collars;

Figure 20 and 21 are similar views of the same, adapted to be used with-thc dies for cutis; and

Figures 22 and 23 arc plane views of the removable face-plate of the folder, adapted to be used respectively' for collars or cuffs.

My invention consists oi' a machine so constructed and. arranged as that it shall, by a continuons operation, produce a collar or cuff, iinished for use, whether the salue be made of paper, a compound fabric of muslin and paper, or from stitiened muslin; and also in so moulding and bending the collars or cuits, by means of the peculiar shape of -the dies, and the act of cutting them out, as that they shall lit the contour of the wrist or neck.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use niv invention, I will now proceed to"describe its construction and operation.

The bed-plate A is placed and supported upon four legs, B B. On the upper side of the table thus formed are raised in suitable positions the two frames or supports, C C, for a walking-beam, D, and the two ways or guides E E, for a plunger,'F, O11 the under side, also in suitable positions, are fixed the hangers G G, H H, and I 5 and there are also.suitable apertures in the bed-plate for the purposes hereafter described.

The walking-beam D'plays upon suitable bearings at a., and is operated by the crank-shaft M, which is provided as usual with belt-pulleys, tin'ning in suitable bearings in the hangers G G, to which the shorter arm is connected by the rod N.

At the extremity of the short arm of the walkingbea-ni D, and running through it and the rod N, at right angles to both, is arod, O, which extends ashort distance beyond each side ot the bed-plate A. Attached to the long arm of the walking-beam D, by a short arm, P, which plays at both its extremities on the pivots b and c, and running between the two ways or guides E E, is the platen F.

Attached at right angles to the'shaft M is the cam Q, and at a suitable point on the side of said .cam is placed the stud li, which ,)perates the levers V and W at suitable intervals, and causes the folding-blade to reciprocate vertically, as hereinafter' more fully described.

At the side ot' the bed-plate A, attached to and revolving with the crank-sliatt M, is the gear-wheel S, which meshes into and turns another gear-wheel, T, which revolves on the shaft U. Fixed in the hanger I, hung on the axis zZ and e, between the two hangers H Hf, are the two levers V and lV, which are operated by the stud R and cam Q, which at each revolution oi'- the crank-shaft M strike upon the curved short arms of both. The long arm 'of the lever W' is-joiued by a short connection, X, to the short arm ot' the lever V by pivots fand y, upon which it moves, so that when the short arm ot' the. lever W is depressed by the cam Q the long arm, by means of this connection X, forces up the short arm of the leverfV, which has just been depressed by the stud R upon said cam.

To the long arln of the lever V, and at its extremity, is attached, by means ofthe pin h, upon which it plays, the adjustable folding-blade Y. This folding blade is suitably curved andshaped as that it shall assist in the folding and delivery of a colla-r, or so shaped that it shall deliver a cuff after the same is excised, as is shown in the detached vie-ws in igs. 1S, 19, 20, and 21.

At the forward end of the bed-plate A, in front of the guides E E, is a folder, Z, which moves on an axis, yi., which is fixed in two bearings raised from the bedplate. This folder has two short arms, a', which extend below the bed-plate, and to which are vattached the connecting-rods la 7:, by -Ineansx of'pivots b', their opposite ends being connected by pivots j j to the links Z Z, which play on two pivots, my m, fixed in the sides of they bed-plate, and to the rods -n yn, from which inotion is received through the rod O, (to which they are connected, as will be more fully describech) attached to the walking-beam, which is operated by the main shaft. The upper ends of the rods yn. yn are provided with slots o o through which pass the extremities of the rod O, the two small springs p jp holding the rod O to duty at the upper ends of the slotted beams, except when the pressure from the short arm of the walking-beam D is directly downward.

Underneath the aperture K is situated a curved box, which is secured to the bed-plate in a proper position for the purpose of holding the paper, which is cut to the proper width and rolled on to a loose roller.

At the front of this box are xed two small feedingrollers, q and yr, properly geared together, for delivering the paper to the dies, as required.

They are caused to revolve intermittingly, or at each revolution of the main shaft, by the segment of gear s on the inside circumference ofthe cog-wheel T, which meshes into the small gear-wheel at the extremity of the feed-roller lr, whose axis extends, for that purpose, through its bearings on that side of the bedplate A.

as it is out, in veontradistinotion to creasing the same, of' the knife Y, substantially as shown and described. substantially and for the purposes herein set forth. 9. A movable collar-shaped bed, G2, in combination 7. A Hat guide-tube, n, made adjustable,.to snit the with the dies B2 and A2, substantially as and for the Width of the paper, and arranged With the feedingpurposes set forth.

rollers q and v', for the purposes set forth. JAMES T. WALKER.

8. vThe arrangement of the levers V and XV, and lVitnesses: cams R and Q, all constructed as shown, and operating ROBT. D. RADCLIFFE, to alternately cause the upward and downward motion E. PRENTICE TREADWELL.

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