Improvements in connection with Kiers and like Vessels for Bleaching, Dyeing and similarly treating Textile Materials, Yarns and Fabrics.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1897-Accepted, 11th Sept., 1897
Improvements in connection with Kiers and like Vessels for
Bleaching, Dyeing and similarly treating Textile Materials, Yarns
and Fabrics.
I, EDWARD MAKIN Junior, of 40 New Brown Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in connection with kiers and like vessels
for bleaching, dyeing and similarly treating textile materials, yarns and fabrics,
and the principal objects of my Invention are to enable the bleaching or other
liquor to be rapidly and economically heated and freely circulated throughout the
materials under treatment.
In carrying my improvements into effect I employ a suitable kier or vessel of
the ordinary or any convenient construction. This vessel is connected at or near
the bottom by a pipe or passage to a series of hollow shells, vessels or coiled pipes
in the form of cones placed in a suitable furnace flue or casing and arranged in
a row, the larger end of the second cone overlapping the small end of the first
but preferably without touching it and so on, thus leaving spaces between the
cones as well as a central passage through them for the gases from the furnace.
The hollow cones are fed or supplied with bleaching dyeing or other liquor in any
convenient manner and they are connected together by pipes or passages for the
circulation of the liquor and they are also connected by a discharge pipe or passage
to the upper portion of the kier or vessel. The gases from the furnace circulate
through and around the hollow cones and consequently the liquor therein soon
becomes highly heated and a rapid circulation is set up the liquor being discharged
from the cones through the top pipe or passage upon the materials in the kier and
flowing back to the cones through the bottom pipe or passage.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
Improvements in connection with Kiers and like Vessels for
Bleaching, Dyeing and similarly treating Textile Materials, Yarns
and Fabrics.
I, EDWARD MAKIN Junior, of 40 New Brown Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in connection with kiers and like vessels
for bleaching, dyeing and similarly treating textile materials, yarns and fabrics,
and the principal objects of my Invention are to enable the bleaching or other
liquor to be rapidly and economically heated and freely circulated throughout the
materials under treatment.
In carrying my improvements into effect I employ a suitable kier or vessel of
the ordinary or any convenient construction. This vessel is connected at or near
the bottom by a pipe or passage to a series of hollow shells or vessels in the form
of cones placed in a suitable furnace flue or casing and arranged in a row, the
larger end of the second cone overlapping the small end of the first but preferably
without touching it and so on, thus leaving spaces between the cones as well as a
central passage through them for the gases from the furnace. The hollow cones
are fed or supplied with bleaching, dyeing or other liquor in any convenient
manner and they are connected together by pipes or passages for the circulation
of the liquor and they are also connected by a discharge pipe or passage to the
upper portion of the kier or vessel.
A kier to which my improvements have been applied is shown in sectional
elevation in the accompanying Drawing.
In this view a designates the kier, 6 the pipe connecting the bottom of the kier
to the series of conical hollow shells c and d the delivery pipe connecting the series
of cones c to the top of the kier a; e is the furnace or fire place, f the furnace
flue in which the series of cones c are placed, g is an air pipe and safety valve
hh are two thermometers or pressure gauges, i is a blow off tap and k a liquor
supply pipe connected to the circulating pipe b.
The gases from the furnace e circulate through and around the hollow cones c
and consequently the liquor therein soon becomes highly heated and a rapid cir-
culation is set up the liquor being discharged from the cones through the top
pipe d upon the goods or materials (not shown) in the kier a and flowing back to
the cones c through the bottom pipe b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The combination with the kier a, of a series of conical hollow shells placed in
a furnace flue and connected by circulating pipes or passages to the bottom and
top of the kier whereby the liquor supplied to the cones is highly heated therein
and discharged upon the materials in the kier whence it returns to the cones to
be re-heated substantially as herein set forth.
2. In combination, the kier a, conical hollow shells c, connecting pipes b, d,
the furnace e and flue f all substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1897
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.