RESERVE Apparatus for Dyeing, Scouring, Bleaching, and otherwise Treating Yarn in Cops.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1888
Specification Accepted, 14th Sept., 1888
RESERVE
Apparatus for Dyeing, Scouring, Bleaching, and otherwise Treating
Yarn in Cops.
I, HOWARD RICHMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing in the City of
Providence, County of Providence, State of Rhode Island, United States of America,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
.
My invention is of general applicability in dyeing, mordanting, bleaching, steaming,
scouring, washing, drying, or otherwise treating yarns of cotton, silk, wool, worsted,
or other animal or vegetable fiber, in the form of cops, or in kindred compact forms,
by either sucking or forcing liquid dyes or other liquids used in dyeing, mordanting,
bleaching, scouring, steaming, or otherwise treating the cops, through the cops
when mounted upon hollow perforated tubes, skewers, or injection spindles, which
extend respectively through the cops and render every portion of each cop subject to
the action of said liquids.
The foregoing operations broadly as such, and as separately conducted in different
machines, are not novel with me, and attempts have heretofore been made, thereby, to
practically dye bleach, and otherwise treat, cotton and other yarns in cop and other
compact forms..
So far, however, as my knowledge extends the practice has never been practically
or successfully conducted upon a commercial scale, until the date of an invention
made by one August Graemiger, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, application
for patent for which was filed in the United States Patent Office upon April 14, 1887,
upon which application Letters Patent of the United States No. 368,715, were
granted upon the 23rd day of August 1887, and to which Letters Patent reference is
to be made.
My present invention being an improvement upon the aforesaid invention of the
said Graemiger, it is essential for an accurate understanding of the features of
distinction, that the objects and purposes and the salient characteristics of Graemiger's
invention aforesaid should be briefly stated.

page_text: The object of Graemiger's invention, which is of general applicability for dyeing,
bleaching, scouring, mordanting, drying, and otherwise treating yarns of various
kinds in cop and other compact forms, is the provision of means whereby all of the
cops composing any given series or succession, regular or irregular, of cops or of
tiers or groups of cops, may, in the selected series or succession, as to each cop,
fier or group, successively, but as to the entire series or succession of given cops, tiers
or groups, collectively, be contemporaneously or simultaneously subjected each to
its appropriate step of the contemporaneously conducted successive steps composing
the selected process, of any one of which processes, however, continuity of
operation in a greater or less degree, is the especial desideratum and the salient
characteristic.
To the foregoing ends the said Graemiger's said invention embraces apparatus
having the capacity for performing or carrying out any one of several cognate
processes or methods of treatment of yarn in cops or kindred compact forms, and
apparatus, moreover, so constituted as to be readily convertible into, or applicable for
use as, any one of several cognate yet distinct devices, respectively susceptible of the
performance of a particular kind of work, that is to say of the practice of some one
of the said several cognate processes hereinafter mentioned, all of which, as processes
or modes of treatment, are novel with Graemiger.
Broadly stated, Graemiger's aforesaid invention, so far as processes are concerned,
as applied to dyeing, mordanting, bleaching, scouring, steaming, washing, or otherwise
similarly treating by the impregnation of liquids, yarn in cops, comprehends, first, the
contemporaneous but distributive subjection of the cops composing a serios each in
turn to its appropriate step of the following contemporaneously-conducted successive
steps or operations, namely:-first, saturation or impregnation by sucking or forcing
the selected liquid through given cops; and, second, substitution of fresh cops to be
charged for given charged cops.
Similarly, also, Graeiniger's invention, as applied to the operations of impregnation
above mentioned, comprehends, second, the subjection of the cops in the manner
above stated to the following successive steps or operations-First, saturation or
impregnation by sucking or forcing the selected liquid through given cops; second,
liquid exhaustion by forcing or sucking air or other suitable fluid through given
charged cops and, third, substitution of cops to be charged and liquid exhausted for
given charged and liquid-exhausted cops..
Similarly again, Graemiger's invention as applied to exhausting surplus liquid
from charged cops, comprehends, third, the subjection of cops in the manner above
stated, to the following successive steps or operations :-First, liquid exhaustion by
forcing or sucking air or other suitable fluid through the cops; second, substitution of
cops to be liquid exhausted for given liquid exhausted cops.
Similarly, again, as applied to operations of dyeing with easily oxidizable liquid dyes,
Graémiger's invention comprehends, fourth and fifth, the subjection of the cops in
the manner above stated with reference to the first two operations which involve
impregnation with liquids,--and in connection either with the two steps of saturation
and substitution, which are involved in the practice of the first of his foregoing
processes, or else in connection with the three steps of saturation, liquid-exhaustion,
and substitution, which are involved in the second of his foregoing processes,-
to a preliminary step of air-exhaustion before saturation or impregnation proper, by
sucking or forcing air from out given cops to be charged or saturated.
Graemiger's invention further comprehends apparatus for conveniently effectuating
the five several processes which respectively reside in the practice of the foregoing
respectively recited connected steps or operations; the salient characteristic of which
is that it is a rotary apparatus the cop carrier of which is a conical or cylindriform
band or strap, to the peripheral exterior face of which groups of radially projecting
cops are applied, and which is mounted upon a fixed conical or cylindriform carrier
body fixedly supported referably to a tank and containing or embodying the mouths
of certain conduits which open through its peripheral face.
In order that the apparatus which Graemiger devised for the purpose of carrying

page_text: into operation any one of the above mentioned processes or methods of treatment may
be understood, it is proper to state briefly that Graemiger's machine comprehends;
first, a fixed tank, vat, or other recipient for containing a given quantity of liquid
coloring matter or other preferred liquid, and for subserving the purposes of a frame-
work to the machine as an entirety; second, a carrier body which, referably to the
fixed tank and the rotating cop carrier is simply a fixed conical or cylindrical device
subserving the double purpose, first, of being a fixed body with reference to and upon
or around, which the cop carrier has rotary movement, and, second, of being a body
containing or embodying upon its peripheral surface, or of being a supporting device
serving conveniently to present to the perforations in the cop carrier the mouths or
chambers of the conduits; third, a rotatable strap or band like encircling cop carrier
or device which carries radially projecting cops, which is mounted upon the peripheral
surface of the carrier body, is perforated referably to the points of and means for
attachment of said cops, and has such rotary movement referably to the carrier body
and to the tank that its perforations are in predetermined continuing sequence placed
in communication, preferably through perforated injection spindles, with the axial
apertures of the cops on the one hand and with the peripherally opening conduit
mouths and dead face on the other; fourth, a charging conduit in exterior com-
munication with a suction or pressure pump, and interiorly or as to its mouth,
conveniently through the intermediation of the carrier body, in communication for
the time being with given perforations in the cop carrier; fifth, liquid. exhausting
conduit in exterior communication with a suction or pressure pump, and interiorly or
as to its mouth, conveniently also through the intermediation of the carrier body, in
communication for the time being with other given perforations in the cop carrier;
sixth, a dead face formed upon or embodied in the peripheral carrier surface of the
carrier body, which, referably to the encircling cop carrier and as a dead face
generically considered, is simply a, in any convenient manner suitably formed, blank
or unchambered segment of the periphery of the carrier body, or a gap or opening in
said periphery, or an open chamber in said periphery, so located above the level of the
liquid in the tank as to act in connection with cops above said level,-calculated in
the preferred mode of employing the apparatus, for the time being to act in connection
with yet other given perforations of the cop carrier and permit of the removal at a
period subsequent to their treatment, of the cops applied to said perforations, and of
the substitution of others in their stead.
Of the foregoing apparatus of Graemiger, the tank, the perforated cop carrier, the
charging conduit, the liquid-exhausting conduit, and, as a device of convenience
merely, for the purpose of conveniently presenting to given perforations of the cop
carrier the mouths of said conduits, and as a device, moreover, with reference to
which the cop carrier is conveniently arranged to rotate, the carrier body, are the
vital members, elements, or instrumentalities.
In order to understand the operation of the said Graemiger apparatus it is
sufficient to add that the cop carrier, which, as stated, encircles or surrounds, after
the manner of a strap or band the carrier-body containing the peripherally
presenting mouths of the conduits, rotates relatively to the tank and the carrier-
body in such manner as, during a part of its rotation, to occasion the immersion
in liquid in the tank of cops carried by it, and also, during a further part of its
rotation, the presentation of its perforations with reference to which the cops are
secured to it, to the mouths of the conduits.
My present invention is also an improvement upon a certain improved apparatus
for dyeing, scouring, bleaching and otherwise treating yarn in cops, invented by
the said Graemiger and constituting the subject matter of an application for patent
filed by the said Graemiger August 25th, 1887, and patented to hin November 8th, 1887,
in and by United States Letters patent No. 372,795, which said apparatus, in that
it is simpler and cheaper of construction, is an improvement upon the machine of
the Graemiger patent No. 368,715, of August 23rd, 1887, and is to be contra-
distinguished from the said last named patented machine essentially in the fact that its
cop-carrier is constructed as a disk, to the front face of which the cops are applied,

page_text: preferably at. right angles; in the further fact that the carrier-body is also con-
structed in the form of a disk through the front face of which the mouths of the
conduits, preferably in the form of recessed chambers, open, and are circum-
ferentially distributed or placed at proper intervals. and radially disposed between
the centre and the circumference of said carrier-body; and in the further fact that
the disk-shaped cop-carrier is caused to rotate in contact with the front face of the
disk-shaped carrier-body and in a plane parallel therewith.
In other respects than the above Graemiger's so-called disk machine embodies
all of the essential features of the machine of his first patent, and is equally well
adapted to effectuate the process which comprises charging and substitution, or the
process which comprises charging, liquid-exhaustion and substitution, or the process
which comprises liquid-exhaustion and substitution, or the process which comprises
air-exhaustion, dyeing, and substitution, or the process which comprises air-
exhaustion, dyeing, liquid-exhaustion, and substitution, and comprehends all of the
elements which are necessary to the conduct or practice of any one of the fore-
going processes, and consequently of that one which involves the greatest number
of steps, although, as is hereinafter explained, in the practice of such of the
processes as involve the lesser number of steps, certain of the elements of the said
apparatus are inert or for the time being thrown out of action.
My present invention is also an improvement upon a certain improved apparatus
for dyeing, scouring, bleaching, and otherwise treating yarn in cops invented by
me and constituting the subject-matter of an application for patent filed by me
August 30th, 1887, and patented to me November 8th, 1887, in and by United
States Letters Patent No. 372,768, which said apparatus is to be contradistinguished
from the machines of both of the Graemiger patents referred to essentially in the
fact that its cop-carrier is of such construction and general organization as to be
adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, rocked, or see-sawed, as opposed to being rotated or
moved in a circular plane.
My said last named improved machine is, moreover, equally with either of the
Graemiger machines referred to adapted to effectuate the several processes
already referred to which are carried into operation by either one of the Graemiger
machines.
The special object of my present invention is the organization of a machine in
which the cops composing each group of cops can be successively subjected to the
action of different kinds of charging or impregnating liquids, and be, between each
operation of charging, liquid-exhausted of the liquid last charged into them-the
machine being in effect a compound machine formed, to speak generally and not
literally, of two or more machines each embodying the general organization of
Graemiger's, but all so united as to co-operate as an organized single machine
and be capable of performing upon an extended scale and with several different
charging liquids such an operation as can be performed upon a more limited scale
and with but a single liquid upon such patented machines as have been hereinbefore
referred to.
To illustrate: In order, by the use of any of the patented machines referred to, to
dye cops cutch brown, it is necessary to charge the cops with the cutch upon one
machine, to mordant the charged cops upon a separate machine, and to wash the
charged and nordanted cops upon a third separate machine.
Now, by the employment of one such a machine as is represented in the
accompanying drawings, the entire operation of commercially dyeing cutch brown,
which involves both mordanting and washing, can be performed upon it, and the
operation itself be continuously conducted as to a succession of freshly supplied groups
of cops.
To the foregoing. ends, my invention comprehends and utilizes, in an organized
machine for dyeing, scouring, bleaching, and otherwise treating, yarns in cops, the
following instrumentalities, namely:-First, a series of radially or circumferentially
disposed independent tanks; second, a series of charging conduits in communication
with a corresponding series of charging pumps; third; a series of liquid-exhausting

page_text: conduits in communication with one or with a preferably corresponding series of
liquid-exhausting pumps; fourth, a rotatable, flat, or disk-like, horizontally-disposed
cop-carrier provided with given perforations respectively in communication with the
hollow interiors of given radiating cop carrying arms pivoted to the carrier-disk and
adapted to be both intermittently rotated with said cop-carrier-disk, and, during the
periods of rest in, or the intermissions of its rotary movement, to be vibrated,
oscillated, or rocked; fifth, a fixed correspondingly-flat or disk-like horizontally-
disposed upwardly facing carrier-body upon the face of which, as a supporting platform,
the cop carrier disk is mounted and rotates, and which as to said face contains or
embodies the mouths of the charging and liquid-exhausting conduits and a dead-face,
over which mouths and dead-face the perforations of the carrier, which, as stated, are
in communication with the hollow interiors of the cop-carrying arms, are caused to
successively present as the carrier-disk rotates; sixth, suitable operating gearing for
intermittently rotating the cop-carrier-disk and its applied arms, and which I herein
generically term, intermittent cop-carrier rotating gearing: seventh, suitable operating
gearing for intermittently vibrating, rocking, or oscillating, the cop-carrying arms of
the cop-carrier disk, and which I herein generically term, intermittent carrier-
arm-rocking gearing; and, eighth, as a preferred but not essential element,
suitable connective gearing for conjointly operating, in predetermined concomitance,
said intermittent cop-carrier-rotating gearing and said intermittent carrier-arm
rocking gearing,-which connective gearing herein generically term, prime-mover-
gearing.
A machine conveniently and cheaply embodying my invention and adapted to
effectuate the simultaneous but successive subjection of cops to the action of three
separate charging liquids, for example a liquid dye, a liquid mordant, and a washing
liquid, is represented in the accompanying drawings and described in this speci-
fication, the particular subject-matter claimed as novel being hereinafter definitely
specified.
The machine represented in the drawings, it may be premised, is one in which the
cop-carrier is provided with eight cop-carrying arms, in which there are three inde-
pendent tanks, three independent charging conduits, three preferably independent
liquid-exhausting conduits, and two dead-faces, or a double dead-face, to act in connection
with two cop-carrying arms at the same time.
It is, however, to be understood that while the machine of the foregoing organization
is, for various practical reasons, a machine of very desirable capacity, being that of
three separate chargings,-my invention is not restricted to a machine having any
specific number of tanks, cop-carrying arms, charging conduits, liquid-exhausting
conduits, or dead-faces, and that while less than eight arms, three tanks, three
charging conduits, three liquid-exhausting conduits, and two dead-faces, may be
employed, larger numbers may equally well be employed, the number of arms,
however, being, preferably, always in excess of the total number of both charging and
liquid-exhausting conduits, while the tanks always correspond in number with the
number of charging conduits employed.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1. is a front elevational view, partially sectional and partially broken away,
the better to illustrate construction, of a cheap and convenient form of my entire
apparatus.
Figure 2 is a side elevational view, partially sectional and partially broken away, of
the housing or standard of the apparatus and of the cop-carrier and its cop-carrying
arms, the latter being represented respectively in dotted and full lines in their respective
elevated and depressed positions.
Figure 3 is a fragmentary, transverse, sectional, clevational detail, of one of the
tubular fulcra of the cop-carrying arms, of the arms operated in connection therewith
and of a portion of the cop-carrier-disk.
Figure 4 is a fragmentary, longitudinal, sectional, side elevation of the outer portion
of one of the cop-carrying arms and the cops which it carries.

page_text: Figure 5 is a right hand side elevational view of the standard or housing represented
in figure 1, the conduits and the cop-carrier and its arms being removed.
Figure 6 is a fragmentary side elevational detail of a portion of the gearing for
occasioning the intermittent rotation of the cop carrier, it being a view of the sliding
clutch upon the driving shaft and of the clutch lever, clutch rocker, and the clutch cam
on the cam shaft for operating said sliding clutch.
Figure 7 is a right hand end elevational view of the devices represented in
figure 6.
Figure 8 is a plan view of the cop carrier and cop-carrying arms and of the tanks
which are disposed about them.
Figure 9 is a top plan view of the carrier body, divided, for purposes of
explanation as hereinafter referred to, by radial dotted lines, into segments of sectors,
and showing the mouths of the conduits and dead face.
Figure 10 is a top plan view of the cop carrier, the tubular fulcra of the arms and
the cap-supporting pillars being removed.
Figure 11 is a top plan view of the spider-cap-bearing for the plunger rod.
Figure 12 is a longitudinal, horizontal, sectiontal plan of a portion of one of the
cop-carrying arms and of its tubular supporting fulcrum.
Figure 13 is a plan view of the carrier worm-wheel and of the counter shaft and
carrier worm upon said shaft for driving said worm-wheel.
Figure 14 is a top plan view of the plunger cam, cam rocker, and rocker bracket,
for operating the plunger rod.
Figure 15 is a face view of one of the tubular fulcra of the carrying arms.
Figure 16 is a fragmentary inside face view of a portion of one of the carrying
arms.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
A A A², figures 1 and 8, are a series of three radially disposed or circumferentially
distributed tanks or receiving vessels to contain liquids. These tanks are independent
of each other and distributed at predetermined distances, circumferentially considered,
apart, and each at the same radial distance from a fixed housing which supports the
carrier body and constitutes the supporting frame work of the apparatus. The cop-
carrier, as hereinafter explained, has movement referably to the tanks, while the
carrier-body is referably thereto a fixture centrally within their circumscribing
circle.
W is a fixed housing, being conveniently, as shown, a hollow standard in the form
of a truncated cone, which is fixedly erected from a bed plate or the ground, and
which serves to support the carrier-body, the extremital portions of the conduits the
mouths of which are embodied in said carrier-body, and the cop-carrying-arm-
provided cop-carrier which is superimposed upon said carrier-body, and which
serves, moreover, to contain or support, as the case may be, suitable gearing for
rotating the cop-carrier, suitable gearing for rocking the cop-carrying arms, and, if
desired, the prime-mover gearing for actuating the gearing aforesaid. The form of
this housing or standard is not material, and many supporting frame-works of various
forms may be substituted for the specific housing represented in the drawings. Such
a housing as is represented is however, such an one as I prefer to employ. B is the
carrier body, preferably a casting integral with the housing and made in the form of
an open-centered horizontally-disposed disk, or outwardly projecting or overhanging
horizontal flange circumscribing the upper edges of said hollow housing. The
carrier body is conveniently provided with an upturned peripheral rim b.
In figure 9, I have represented in plan the upturned carrying face of the carrier
body and have, for convenience of description, illustrated said face as divided by
radial dotted lines into eight segments of sectors, respectively numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, and 8. Of these sectors, it may be simplest now to state, those numbered 1
and 2 are dead-faces; those numbered 3, 5, and 7, contain or embody the mouths of
the three charging conduits; and those numbered 4, 6, and 8, the mouths of the
liquid-exhausting conduits. The tanks and face are preferably, radially aligned with

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segments embodying the mouths of the charging conduits,—namely, numbers 3,
5, and 7; their position being distinctly shown in figure 8.
D D D are three charging conduits the mouths of which open through the
carrier hody, and which lead to or are exteriorly in direct communication each with a
separate suction or pressure pump, of any preferred character, adapted either to suck
or to force any desired liquid through said conduits for the saturation, impregnation,
or charging of given cops.
E E E are three liquid-exhausting conduits the mouths of which open through
the carrier body intermediately between the respective mouths of the charging
conduits, and which lead to or are exteriorly in direct communication preferably
each with a separate suction or pressure pump, of any preferred character, adapted
either to suck or to force air, or other fluid employed as a liquid-exhausting medium,
through said liquid-exhausting conduits.
I have not represented in the drawings the pumps referred to, for the reason that
it is not necessary to an understanding of the invention, the pumps being simply, as
stated, of any preferred and well known character, and there being no connections
other than those which a competent mechanic would naturally employ.
The mouths of the charging conduits, which are in effect holes or perforations
through the substance of the flat-faced circumferential flange which forms the
carrier-body, are designated dd, while the mouths of the liquid-exhausting
conduits, which are similar holes or perforations similarly formed through the
carrier-body, are designated e e¹ e². All of these mouths are preferably holes of the
same diameter, all are radially disposed at the same distance from the center of
the carrier-body, and all are circumferentially disposed at the same distance apart in
contiguous sectors of the carrier body, their relative positions in the carrier-body
represented in the drawing being best understood by a reference to figure 9.
There is of course no connection between the respective conduits themselves,
between the mouths of the respective charging conduits and the liquid-exhausting
conduits, or between the mouths of the last-named conduits and those of the
charging conduits. Instead of making these conduit months in the form of holes
approximating in diameter the diameters of their respective conduits, it is, as is
apparent, quite possible to make them in the form of distinct or disconnected
chambers, sunken portions, recesses, or depressed compartments in the carrying face
of the carrier body, having respectively upon all sides continuous edge boundaries
being the unchambered or unrecessed bounding portions of the level or true carrying
face of said carrier-body against which face the cop-carrier is mounted and rotates.
There is, however, no advantage in such a construction, and that represented is the
best of which I have knowledge.
Lying, considered with reference to the direction of the movement of the cop-carrier
indicated by the arrows in figure 8, beyond the segment of the carrier-body marked S
which contains the mouth of the third or last liquid-exhausting conduit and inter-
mediately between said segment numbered $ and the segment numbered 3 which
contains the mouth of the first charging conduit, is, in the form of carrier-body
depicted, a blank sectoral area composed of the two sectors 1 and 2, the same being a
sectoral area of one-quarter the extent of the entire remaining face area of the
carrier-body which I designate "the dead face B*" and which is in communication
with no one of the mouths of the charging or the liquid-exhausting conduits, nor yet
with the conduits themselves, but which, referably to the cop-carrier, is simply a blank
surface calculated for the time being to present itself to such of the perforations in
and tubular fulcra of the carrier arms hereinafter described as in the movement of
said carrier happen to come over it. This dead face, generically considered, need not
necessarily be, as it preferably is, a blank surface of the metal of the carrier-body, but
may be a sectoral or other opening or openings through said body.
It is also entirely possible to employ the mouths of one or more of the liquid-
exhausting conduits, or a sectoral face area of the carrier-body adjacent thereto and
radially aligned with the open spaces intermediate between the tanks, as the dead-face
generically considered, it being manifestly apparent that it is possible to perform the

page_text: operation of substituting fresh or untreated cops for liquid-exhausted cops over the
mouth of any liquid-exhausting conduit, and even while the pump in exterior com-
munication with said conduit continues in action, as the operation of the said pump
could not prevent the said operation of substitution.
Such use, however, of the mouth of an exhausting conduit as a dead-face is not
desirable, because, as is obvious, the operation of the apparatus would thereby become
much slower as it would be necessary to delay the act of substitution until the act of
liquid-exhaustion has been performed.
I simply, therefore, instance the foregoing possibility of the apparatus the better to
explain that the dead-face proper is any portion of, or region referable to, the carrier-
body not included within the sectoral compass of, or area occupied by, the mouth or
mouths of the charging conduits.
In the claims the term dead-face is used in a generic sense, and not as restricted to
the special dead-face B*.
Having now described the construction of the carrier-body and how that it is a
convenient device for the purpose of conveniently presenting to given perforations in
and tubular fulcra of the hollow cop-carrier-arms, the dead-face, the terminal
portions or mouths of the charging conduits, and the terminal portions or mouths of the
liquid-exhausting conduits, and a device, moreover, with reference to which the carrier is
conveniently arranged to rotate,-I pass to a description of the cop carrier, which is
essentially composed of a carrier disk provided with hollow cop-carrying rocking arms,
and is preferably of the following specific construction :-
Cis the cop-carrier-disk, a circular flat disk fitted and mounted for rotary move-
ment upon and against the upturned carrying-face of the carrier-body which it is
conformed to exactly fit and to the peripheral rim of which it extends.
Rotation may be imparted to the cop-carrier in any convenient manner, but I prefer
to resort to the following means: From the under face of the cop-carrier-disk projects
a central annular hub which bears upon a vertical tubular sleeve bearing w centrally
supported within the hollow housing by radial webs *. The hub contains or is fitted
with a tubular carrier bushing ex which is keyed to it, and which passes down snugly
through the sleeve-bearing in the housing, projecting below said bearing and as to
its projecting extremity equipped with a carrier worm-wheel c¹ keyed to it.
It is obvious that rotation imparted to the carrier worn-wheel will, through the
carrier bushing, be transmitted to the cop-carrier-disk. Suitable means by which
rotation may be intermittently imparted are hereinafter described. Any suitable
packing material is preferably inserted between the cop-carrier-disk and the carrier-
body, in order to make tight contact between them. care a series of eight perforations
through the subsistance of the cop-carrier-disk. All of these perforations are preferably
holes of the same diameter, all are radially disposed at the same distance from the
center of the carrier-body, and all are circumferentially disposed at equal distances
apart. These holes correspond in diameter and in radial and circumferential distribu-
tion with the mouths of the conduits, so that, when the carrier-disk is caused to rotate
upon the carrier-body, six of the perforations in the disk register coincide or align
themselves with the six conduit mouths in the carrier-body, while the remaining two
perforations in the disk register coincide or align themselves with or come over the
dead-face. This relationship of the perforations to the conduit inouths and dead-face
is maintained whichever be the particular perforations respectively in alignment with
given conduit mouths.
are a series of what I term tubular fulera for the cop-carrying arms, the same
being curved hollow standards, shown in detail in figures 3 and 15, fixedly erected
respectively over and in continuation of the respective perforations in the cop-
carrier-disk. The upper extremity of each of these fulcra is provided with a circular
bearing face c', figure 15, provided with a circular concentric wearing groove c
figures 15 and 3. are the cop-carrying-arms, eight of which are represented, and
which are well made when of the form and proportions represented in the drawings.
Each of these arms is hollow and at its outer extremity conveniently provided with a
hollow transversely extended box or compartment which I term a wing c. Each of

page_text: these arms is also provided with a circular bearing face c¹, figure 16, corresponding
with the bearing face of its tubular fulcrum, and provided with a circular
wearing tongue adapted to the wearing groove in the bearing face of said
tulcrum.
Connection between each arm and its fulcrum is conveniently effected, and the
respective bearing faces maintained in close frictional contact, by means of a fulcruin
bolt c passing through both the arm and its fulcrum in coincidence with the imaginary
common axis of their respective bearing faces.
It will now be understood, inasmuch as the tubular fulera are rigidly fixed to the
cop-carrier-disk and the cop-carrying arms rigidly connected with their respective
fulera, notwithstanding that connection is of such character that the arms are
susceptible of being rocked, vibrated or oscillated, with respect to their fulcra,-that
the carrier-disk and arms are a connected whole and that rotation imparted to the
disk will also be imparted to the arms with which it is thus, as aforesaid, provided.
It will also be understood that the hollow interiors of the arms are in communica-
tion respectively with the hollow interiors of their supporting fulera, which latter
interiors, as already explained, are simply continuations of the perforations c in the
carrier-disk, and that, therefore, when any particular perforation in the carrier-disk
is in alignment with any particular conduit, direct communication is established
between said conduit and the hollow interior of the carrying-arm in question and its
connected wing, and this notwithstanding what may be the position of the arm in
question with respect to its susceptibility of being rocked.
The wings of the cop-carrying arms are conveniently of the form reprosented in the
drawings, but may be of any preferred form, and they possess a considerable under
face-area, and are as to said area provided with any preferred series of perforations p
passing through from said under face into their hollow interiors, the office of which is
to permit the passage of impregnating liquid or liquid-exhausting fluid to or from
cops (2 applied to said exterior under face of said wings and as to their hollow cores
in communication with said perforations. The perforations may be of any desired
form those shown are simply holes through the under surface of the wings, which
are conveniently threaded to receive hollow nipples fitted to receive removable per-
forated injection tubes H thrust through the cops and conveniently of a construction
invented by the said Graemiger and constituting the subject matter of an application
for patent filed by him February 8th, 1887, as serial No. 226,908, and likewise
illustrated in the Graemiger patent No. 368,715, referred to.
Instead, however, of employing these nipples the injection tubes, or the cops them-
selves, may be adapted to be fitted directly to the perforations.
Each one of the cop-carrying arms has internal projection beyond its fulcrum and
is provided with a slot c. It will, therefore, be apparent that each arm is a lever of
the first order; and that, if all of the internal projecting extremities of the arms be
simultaneously raised or dropped, the outer extremities of the said arms and their
wings will be likewise, but, of course, to a greater extent, raised or dropped. Such
an action as the foregoing, which is herein termed vibration, rocking, or oscillation,
is preferably imparted to all of the cop-carrying arms simultaneously, and may be
imparted by many mechanical devices any one of which would constitute what I
generically term carrier-arm-rocking gearing.
The specific intermittently operating gearing represented and hereinafter described
is such as I prefer for this purpose but as specific gearing it is not of the essence of
my invention.
The gearing in question used by me is of the following con-
struction:-
K is what I term a reciprocating plunger head for connecting or yoking together
the projecting inner extremities of all of the cop-carrying arms. This plunger head
is conveniently made in the shape of a spider yoke as shown in figure 8, and is
fixedly supported upon and connected with a vertically disposed plunger rod k,
extending, for stability of construction only, above it through a spider cap bearing L
erected upon bearing pillars springing from and carried by the cop-carrier-disk,

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and extending, also, freely but snugly downward through the tubular bore of the
carrier bushing ex and to some distance below said bushing.
Connection between the inner extremities of the cop-carrying arms and the plunger
head is conveniently effected by head bolts k*, which, while rigid in the head, pass
freely through the slots in the arms. It is obvious that the plunger rod, while
free for vertical movement in either direction, is stayed by and between its bearings
in the spider cap L and in the carrier bushing ex, and that, when said plunger rod is
thrust upward the carrier arms are caused to descend, and when said rod is drawn
downward said arms are caused to ascend.
Many devices for raising and lowering the plunger rod may be resorted to. Any
one of them would constitute what I berein generically term carrier-arm-rocking
gearing. No one of them specifically considered is of the essence of this invention.
I prefer to employ a cam rocker, pivoted at its inner extremity to a rocker
bracket supported from inside the standard, and below the lower extremity of
the plunger rod. At its outer extremity this cam rocker is slotted and connected
with the plunger rod by a connecting pin fixed to said plunger rod and passing
freely through said slot; and between its extremities said rocker is provided with
a laterally projecting cam-way roller & entered in a cam groove m* formed in the
side face of a cam, termed the plunger cam m, and mounted within the housing upon
a transverse cam shaft M passing through the interior of said housing and journalled
in bearings in the walls of said housing, as shown in figures 1, 2, and 5. The
cam way groove in the plunger cam m is of such path that, upon the rotation of
said cam, the outer end of the cam rocker is caused to rock upward and downward,
thereby raising and lowering the plunger rod, plunger head, and cop-carrying
arms. The path of the can way groove is also such that a dwell of the rocker is
occasioned both when it and the plunger-head are fully raised and are fully
depressed, and this is in order to occasion the temporary maintenance of the wing
extremities of the cop-carrying arms both in their uppermost and in their lowermost
positions.
Beyond one of its bearings (the right hand bearing, figure 1,) the cam shaft is
projected and equipped with a shaft worm wheel m² which is in constant engage-
ment with a worm n fixed on a transverse driving shaft N housed at right angles
to the cam shaft in bearings w³ secured to the exterior (in figure 1, right hand face)
of the housing.
O are driving pulleys, of any usual character upon the driving shaft N, by means of
which rotation is imparted to it. P is a driving toothed spur-wheel running free upon
the driving shaft beyond its right hand bearing, figure 5, and Q is a sliding clutch
feathered upon said driving shaft beyond said driving toothed spur-wheel P, and adapted
either to engage with said spur wheel and render it fast to itself and consequently to
the said driving shaft, or else to be disengaged therefrom and consequently to leave
the said spur wheel loose upon said shaft.
The sliding clutch is conveniently operated by a clutch lever fixed upon a rock
shaft R parallel with the cam shaft and housed in bearings w mounted upon the
exterior of the housing, and the rocking action necessary to cause said clutch lever to
slide the clutch into or out of engagement with the driving spur wheel is imparted to
said rock shaft by a clutch rocker q* hubbed upon said rock shaft and provided at its
outer extremity with a laterally extending rocker roller q travelling in the cam way
grooves formed in the outside face of a clutch cam S keyed upon the projecting
extremity of the cam shaft M beyond the worm-wheel m².
T is a counter shaft housed, in bearings to applied to the exterior of the housing, in
parallelism with and above the driving shaft. The rear extremity of this shaft (the
right hand end in figure 5) is fixedly provided with a driven toothed spur-wheel Px,
the teeth of which are in constant engagement with the teeth of the driving toothed
spur-wheel P on the driving shaft, but which is, of course, only driven when said
driving spur wheel is clutched fast upon its said shaft. t is a carrier worm fast upon
the counter shaft T mid-way of its bearings, and engaged, through an opening to

page_text: formed through the housing, with the carrier worm wheel c', which, as explained, is
through the carrier bushing ex fixedly connected with the cop-carrier-disk. It is
obvious that, when the driving spur wheel P is fast on the driving shaft N, the
rotation imparted to the counter shaft T will, through the carrier worm and worm
wheel, be transmitted to the carrier-disk. As, however, the counter shaft will stand
still except when the sliding clutch renders the driving spur wheel fast on the driving
shaft, it is apparent that the rotation of the carrier-disk will be intermittent and
directly dependent upon the form of the cam way grooves in the clutch cam S, which
groove is of such path, and which cam is so timed or set upon its cam shaft as to only
occasion the rotation of the carrier-disk and the cop-carrying arms during the period
when the plunger cam has acted to elevate the outer extremities of said cop-carrying
arms. The path or form of the cam way grooves in the respective plunger cam and
clutch cam are subjects of workshop calculation, and intentionally such that there shall
be both a dwell of the cam rocker, which occasions the lifting and dropping of the
cop-carrying arms, both whon said arms are raised and when they are lowered, and
also a dwell of the clutch rocker q*, which occasions the fastening or release of the
driving spur wheel upon the driving shaft, both when said clutch is engaged and when
it is disengaged. The relative mounting of the said plunger cam and said clutch cam
on their respective shafts, is also by workshop calculation such that both the rise and
fall of the cop-carrying arms take place when the cop-carrier-disk is stationary, while
the rotation of said arms with the cop-carrier-disk takes place only when the cop-
carrying-arms are raised.
Such of the foregoing devices, or their mechanical equivalents, as occasion the
raising and lowering of the cop-carrying-arms, constitute what I term intermittent
carrier-arm-rocking gearing; such as occasion the intermittent rotation of the cop-
carrier-disk, or their mechanical equivalents, constitute what I term intermittent cop-
carrying-rotating gearing and such as occasion the connected or concomitant operation
of the gearings aforesaid, or their mechanical equivalents, constitute what I term
prime-mover gearing.
While, as stated, it is my preference to employ the specific mechanical devices
described for the purposes set forth, because they are convenient and effectual for the
accomplishment of such purposes, they are but types of many mechanical contrivances
which may be resorted to for the same purposes.
Assuming the pumps operated as suction devices, the following is a description of
the operation of
my improved apparatus as represented and hereinbefore described, in
carrying out the commercial process of dyeing cutch brown, which, as stated, is a
process involving three separate chargings, three separate liquid-exhaustions, and,
finally, the substitution of the separately charged and liquid-exhausted cops for fresh
or untreated cops to be thrice charged and thrice liquid exhausted. The cutch brown
dye is introduced into the first tank, a mordant into the second tank, and a washing
liquid into the third,-in each case the level being above that to which the wings of
the cop-carrying arms are caused to descend, or a level sufficient to permit of the
immersion of the groups of cops applied to the respective wings of the cop-carrying
arms.
The charging pumps, it should be observed, are preferably each provided with
return pipes so as to each return to its tank as much of the liquid charged by it as is
not absorbed by or does not remain in the cops, the several liquids being thereby in
constant circulation from their tanks to their pumps and from their pumps back to the
tanks or vice versa. In other words, a constant circulation takes place through both
the charging pumps and the cops, and the liquids in the tanks are reduced only by
such quantity of liquid as remains in the cops. The reduction however when carried
to an extent affecting the normal level of the supply of liquid to the tanks is to be
compensated for, and the level maintained, by fresh supplies.
Two of the tubular fulcra of two of the arms of the cop carrier being, as two must
always necessarily be, in registry with the dead-face, and the intermittent carrier-
arm-rocking gearing having operated to elevate all of the arms, a cop is by an

page_text: attendant supplied to each perforation in the wing of the foremost of the two elevated
arnis the fulcra of which happen, as stated, to be in registry with the dead-face, and
the carrier with its arms still elevated is then by the intermittent cop-carrier-rotating
gearing caused to rotate, in the direction of the arrows upon figure 8, a sufficient
distance to bring the tubular fulcrum of the said foremost of the two arms, so, as
aforesaid, supplied with cops, in alignment with the mouth of the first charging
conduit, and consequently to bring said foremost arm into radial alignment with or
position over the first of the tanks, or that which contains the dye stuff; the
intermittent carrier-arm-rocking gearing in such position of the parts thereupon
operates to occasion the descent of all of the arms and the consequent complete
immersion in dye-stuff of the group of cops applied to the foremost arm the fulcrum
of which is, as explained, aligned with the mouth of the first charging conduit.
The pump in connection with the dye-stuff charging conduit being, as is preferred,
in operation as a suction pump, thereupon,-through the continuous passage formed
through the hollow interiors of the submerged wing and its arm, the fulcrum of said
arm, the perforation in the carrier disk to which said fulerum is applied, the mouth
of the charging conduit aligned therewith, and said charging conduit,-sucks enough
of the dye stuff contained in the said first, tank through the substance of each of the
cops of the group immersed in said tank to occasion the saturation and impregnation
with said dye stuff of the threads composing each of said cops. The carrier-arm-
rocking gearing at this stage of the operation acts to raise all of the cop-carrying
arms and retain them raised a sufficient time to enable the attendant to supply the
second cop-carrying arm which is in registry with the dead face with a group of fresh
cops Thereupon the intermittent cop-carrier-rotating gearing operates to occasion
the further rotation of the cop-carrier and its elevated arms a sufficient extent to bring
the tubular fulcrum of the arm the group of cops carried by which has just been
impregnated with dye-stuff, into alignment with the mouth of the first liquid-exhausting
conduit, and the tubular fulcrum of the succeeding arm which has just been supplied
with cops into alignment with the mouth of the first or dye-stuff charging conduit ;
The intermittent carrier-arm-rocking gearing in such position of the parts thereupon
operates to occasion the descent of all of the arms and the consequent complete
immersion in the dye-stuff tank of the group of cops applied to the second arm the
fulcrum of which, as explained, is for the time being aligned with the mouth of the
first or dye-stuff charging conduit.
The pump in connection with the first liquid-exhausting conduit being, as is preferred,
in operation as a suction pump thereupon, through the continuous passage formed
through the hollow interiors of the foremost wing and arm (or that one which has
descended between the first and the second tanks and not descended into a tank), the
fulcrum of said arm, the perforation in the carrier-disk to which said fulcrum is
applied, the mouth of the liquid-exhausting conduit aligned therewith, and said liquid-
exhausting conduit, exercises its power of suction to exhaust the said cops of said
foremost arm of such surplus dye-stuff as they contain at the time of their emergence
from the dye-stuff in the first tank. Thereupon all of the arms are again raised and
caused to dwell in their elevated position, and during the dwell the leading arm in
registry with the dead face is supplied with fresh cops; Thereupon the carrier and
armis are caused to again rotate a sufficient distance to occasion the registry of the
arm first considered, and which has just been liquid-exhausted of surplus dye-stuff,
with the mouth of the charging conduit operating in connection with the second tank
or that which contains the mordant; to occasion the registry of the arm second con-
sidered, and the cops of which have just been charged with dye-stuff in the first tank,
with the mouth of the first liquid-exhausting conduit; and to occasion the registry
of the arm which has just been supplied with cops with the mouth of the first or dye-
stuff charging conduit-whereupon the arms are caused to descend, and the cops
carried by the arm first considered subjected to an operation of impregnation with
mordant while the cops of the arm just charged with dye in the first tank are liquid-
exhausted! between the tanks, and the cops of the arm just supplied with fresh cops

page_text: impregnated with dye-stuff in the first tank by the action of the first charging
pump.
A continuance, more or less rapid at will, of the foregoing operation will, as is
apparent, eventually occasion the subjection of the cops of each group in turn to an
operation of charging with dye-stuff," an operation of charging with mordant, and
to an operation of charging with washing liquid, and after each of the foregoing
charging operations to a separate operation of exhaustion of the surplus of the liquid
last charged into them,-substitution of fresh or untreated cops for those treated being
meanwhile affected between the last operation, namely, that of the exhaustion of the
washing liquid, and the first operation, namely, that of impregnation with the dye-
stuff, and the entire operation being a continuous one and one involving but a single
(instead of several) handling of the cops.
The foregoing operation is simply instanced as a type, and it is, of course, apparent
that the tanks may at will be charged with liquid of various kinds, and, accordingly as
they are charged, the operation itself be caused to vary.
Considering the foregoing operation in its entirety, it will be observed that, after
all eight of the arms have once been supplied with cops, the operation will be
maintained as a continuous one by supplying, at each dwell of the arms in their
elevated position, the foremost arm upon the dead-face, or that arm the fulcrum of
which is in registry with the sectoral arca marked 2 on figure 9, with cops, and by at
the same time removing the treated cops from that arm which for the time being is in
registry with the sectoral area of dead-face marked 1 in figure 9; and that, upon each
operation of the carrier-arm-rocking gearing to occasion the descent of all of the
arms the cops carried by three of the arms are simultaneously charged with the
appropriate liquid, while the cops carried by three other of the arms are simultaneously
liquid-exhausted of such liquid as has been last charged into them. The object, there-
fore, of making the dead-face in effect double, or of twice its necessary area, is to
facilitate the operation of removing charged and liquid-exhausted cops and of supplying
fresh cops to be charged and liquid-exhausted, it being apparent that, if treated
cops can be taken off one of the arms while untreated cops are being supplied to
another, time will be economized.
I prefer as stated to conduct the foregoing operations by sucking both the several
charging liquids and then the surplus liquids from the outer surfaces of the cops
inward, but it is obvious that the same result can be secured by forcing impregnating
liquid and liquid-exhausting fluid from the core of the cops outwardly to their
surfaces.
I prefer also to use pumps strictly as such to force or suck the liquids or fluids
utilized, but any other forcing or liquid exhausting devices may be employed in the
stead of pumps, and I therefore herein use the word pump generically.
While it is apparent that it is of advantage in a machine having an even number of
arms to employ a dead-face of double the necessary area, I do not restrict myself to
such a dead-face, as it is preferable when an odd number of arms are employed to have
a dead face of the same sectoral area as the areas respectively occupied by the mouths
of the respective charging and exhausting conduits.
I have spoken of a dwell as taking place when the arms are elevated and also when
they are depressed: This dwell need not involve absolute cessation of motion, as a
slow rotation of the arins when either elevated or depressed would not prevent either
the operations of charging, those of liquid exhaustion, or that of supplying and
removing the cops; and this is also true in its relation to the action of lifting and
depressing the arms.
It is, however, preferable, as stated, that there should be an absolute dwell or
cessation of movement at the times indicated.
1 have hereinbefore used, and also in the claims use, such terms as "disks," "disk-
like," and "disk-shaped," as applied to both the carrier-body and the cop-carrier, not,
perhaps, in the strictest technical sense of these terms, but because of their general
appropriateness to characterize devices having such general form as the cop-carrier

page_text: and the carrier-body represented preferably have, the gist of the nature of which, so
far as form is concerned, resides in the fact that they are cach, for purposes of
mechanical construction and operation, a flat body, preferably, of course, but not
necessarily, circular in outline, and adapted, by reason of their flatness and general
similarity of form, when placed and rotated in parallel planes, together to operate in
essentially such manner as has hereinbefore been set forth.
The general idea of the construction of the carrier-body is that it should be a flat
horizontal surface embodying circumferentially distributed perforations constituting
the mouths of the conduits, upon which body, as a bearing surface, a correspondingly
levelled or flattened cop-carrier, having perforations through it from face to face and
equipped with radially extending cop-carrying arms, is mounted so as to cover and
enclose the mouths of the conduits, and relatively to which said carrier is caused to
rotate in such manner as to cause certain of its perforations to successively coincide
or register with the conduit mouths.
In the drawings I have represented the wings, so-called, of the cop-carrying arins
as of a given form. It is manifest however, that these wings are not essentials, and
that the cops may be applied direct to the outer extremities of the arms, be the form
of said extremities what it may. The wings are, however, convenient in that, if
desired, they may be made bodily removable from the arms for the more ready applica-
tion and removal to or from them of the cops, or for repairs. Whatever their form
may be, these wings, or their equivalents must, however, be hollow or chambered,
and be in communication as to their hollow interiors with the hollow interiors of the
arms.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to he performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable cop-
carrier, provided with cop-carrying arms adapted to be vibrated, oscillated or rocked,-
a fixed carrier-body with reference to which the cop-carrier has movement, conduits
in exterior communication with pumps, and the mouths of which are embodied in
the carrier-body, and tanks circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-
body, substantially as set forth.
2. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable
cop-carrier, provided with cop-carrying arms adapted to be vibrated, oscillated or
rocked, a fixed carrier-body with reference to which the cop-carrier has movement, and
which is provided with a dead-face,-conduits in exterior communication with pumps, and
the mouths of which are embodied in the carrier-body, and tanks circumferentially
disposed with reference to the carrier-body,-substantially as set forth.
3. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable cop-
carrier having perforations and hollow pivoted cop-carrying arms applied in
communication with said perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated or
rocked, a fixed carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier
rotates, and which as to said face contains or embodies the mouths of conduits, with
which mouths the perforations of the carrier are caused to register as the carrier
rotates, and a series of tanks circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-
body, substantially as set forth.
4. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable cop-
carrier having perforations and hollow pivoted cop-carrying arms applied in
communication with said perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, or rocked,
a fixed carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier rotates, and
which as to said carrying face contains or embodies the mouths of conduits and a dead-
face, with which mouths and with which dead-face the perforations of the carrier are
caused to successively register as the carrier rotates, and a series of tanks circum-
ferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-body,--substantially as set forth.
5. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable

page_text: cop-carrier having perforations and hollow cop-carrying arms applied in communica-
tion with said perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, or rocked a fixed
carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier rotates,—charging
conduits in exterior communication each with a separate suction or pressure pump and
the mouths of which are embodied in the carrier-body-liquid-exhausting conduits
in exterior communication each with a suction or pressure pump and the mouths of
which are likewise embodied in the carrier-body respectively beyond the respective
mouths of the charging conduits, gearing for rotating the cop-carrier and causing
its perforations to register successively with the mouths of the respective conduits,-
and a series of tanks circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-body and
the mouths of the charging conduits, substantially as set forth.
6. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable
cop-carrier having perforations and hollow cop-carrying arms applied in communica-
tion with said perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, or rocked, a fixed
carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier rotates and which
presents or embodies a dead-face, charging conduits in exterior communication each
with a separate suction or pressure pump and the mouths of which are embodied in
the carrier-body,-liquid-exhausting conduits in exterior communication each with a
suction or pressure pump and the mouths of which are likewise embodied in the carrier-
body respectively beyond the respective mouths of the charging conduits, gearing for
rotating the cop-carrier and causing its perforations to register successively with the
mouths of the respective conduits or with the dead-face, and a series of tanks
circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-body and the mouths of the
charging conduits, substantially as set forth.
7. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable
cop-carrier having perforations and hollow pivoted cop-carrying arms appied in
communication with said perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, or
rocked, a fixed carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier
rotates, and which as to said face contains or embodies the mouths of conduits, with
which mouths the perforations of the carrier are caused to registor as the carrier
rotates, a series of tanks circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-
body, cop-carrier-rotating gearing, and carrier-arm-rocking gearing,-substantially
as set forth.
8. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable cop-
carrier having perforations and hollow pivoted cop-carrying arms applied in
communication with said. perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, or
rocked, a fixed carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier
rotates, and which as to said carrying face contains or embodies the mouths of conduits
and a dead face, with which months and with which dead-face the perforations of the
carrier are caused to successively register as the carrier rotates, a series of tanks
circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrior-body, cop-carrier rotating
gearing, and carrier-arm-rocking gearing, substantially as set forth.
9. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable cop-
carrier having perforations and a series of hollow pivoted cop-carrying arms applied
in communication with said perforations and adapted to be vibrated, oscillated, or
rocked, a fixed carrier-body against the carrying face of which the cop-carrier
rotates, which as to said face contains or embodies the alternately disposed mouths of
charging conduits and liquid-exhausting conduits, and which also contains or embodies
a dead-face, with which months and with which dead-face the perforations of the
carrier are caused to successively register as the carrier rotates, a series of tanks
circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-body and the mouths of the
charging conduits, intermittent cop-carrier-rotating-gearing, and intermittent
carrier-arm-rocking gearing, substantially as set forth.
10. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable
horizontally-disposed cop-carrier having a series of circumferentially-disposed equi-
distant perforations and a series of hollow radially-disposed pivoted cop carrying arms

page_text: applied as to their hollow interiors in communication with said perforations and
adapted to be vibrated, oscillated or rocked, a fixed horizontally-disposed carrier-
body against the face of which the cop-carrier rotates and which as to said face
contains or embodies the equi-distant circumferentially-disposed mouths of alternately
disposed charging conduits and liquid-exhausting conduits, less however in aggregate
number than the number of cop-carrying arms, and which also contains or embodies
a dead-face, with which mouths and with which dead-face the perforations of the
carrier are caused to successively register as the carrier rotates, a series of tanks
circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-body and in such radial
disposition with respect to the mouths of the charging conduits as to present them-
selves to those cop-carrying arms the hollow interiors of which are, for the time being.
in registry with the mouths of the charging conduits, intermittent cop-carrier-
rotating gearing and intermittent carrier-arm-rocking gearing,-substantially as
set forth.
11. In a machine of the class above recited, a carrier body the working face of
which is a plane containing or embodying, first, a series of separate mouths of
charging conduits each opening within a given radial compass from the center of said
face, second, a corresponding series of mouths of liquid-exhausting conduits similarly
opening within the same radial compass from said center, and which, considered with
reference to circumferential distribution, alternate with the mouths of the charging
conduits, and, third, a deal-face intermediate between the mouth of the last liquid-
exhausting conduit and that of the first charging conduit of said respective series,
substantially as set forth.
12. In a machine of the class above recited, a carrier-body the working face of
which is a plane containing or embodying, first, a series of separate mouths of
charging conduits, second, corresponding sories of mouths of liquid-exhausting
conduits which, considered with reference to circumferential distribution, alternato
with the mouths of the charging conduits, and, third, a dead-face intermediate between
the mouth of the last liquid-exhausting conduit and that of the first charging conduit
of said respective series, in combination with a cop-carrier the working face of which
is a plane corresponding with the face of the carrier-body and which is provided with
a series of perforations in excess of the number of conduit mouths in said carrier-
body, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
13. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, the combination to form a rotatable
cop-carrier, of a carrier-disk having a series of equi-distant radially and circum-
ferentially disposed perforations,-hollow tubular fulera the hollow interiors of which
register with the perforations aforesaid, and hollow cop-carrying arms applied to
said fulcra and respectively as to their hollow interiors in communication with the
hollow interiors of the fulcra aforesaid, substantially as and for the purposes
set forth.
14. In a machine of the class herein recited, the combination of a rotatable flat or
disk-like cop-carrier having perforations in communication with which are pivotally
applied hollow cop-carrying arms adapted to be vibrated, oscillated or rocked,-a
fixed correspondingly flat or disk-like carrier body against the face of which the cop-
carrier rotates, and which as to said face contains or embodies the mouths of fixed
conduits and a dead-face, over which mouths and which dead-face the perforations
of the carrier are caused to successively present as the carrier rotates, and a series
of tanks circumferentially disposed with reference to the carrier-body and the
mouths of the charging conduits, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
15. In an apparatus of the class herein recited, a series of tanks which partially
circumscribe the carrier-body,-a disk-like horizontally-disposed carrier-body erected
within the partial circle formed by the circumscribing series of tanks, and embodying
a sectoral face area constituting a dead-face and opposite an interspace between the
tanks, conduits the mouths of which open independently of each other through the
carrying face of the carrier-body, and which are conveniently independent holes in
said face, a disk-like cop-carrier, provided with hollow radially-projecting cop-

page_text: carrying arms adapted to be oscillated, vibrated or rocked, having circumferentially
distributed perforations in communication with the hollow interiors of the cop-carrying
arms, and adapted, in the rotation of the carrier, to register successively with the
dead-face and with the conduit mouths,--cops applied to the outer extremities of the
cop-carrying arms, and suitable means for both rotating the cop-carrier and raising
and lowering the arms, substantially as set forth.
16. In a machine of the class above recited, in combination with a rotatable cop-
carrier provided with arms adapted to be rocked, vibrated or oscillated, a plunger
rod connected with the arms, a plunger cam, and a cam rocker,-substantially as
and for the purposes set forth.
17. In a machine of the class above recited, in combination with a rotatable cop-
carrier provided with arms adapted to be rocked, vibrated or oscillated,-a plunger
rod connected with the arms, a plunger cam and a cam rocker, a worm wheel
connected with the cop-carrier, an intermittently rotating counter-shaft provided
with a worm engaging said worm wheel, and gearing for intermittently operating
said counter shaft, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.