IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR SUBMITTING YARNS OR THREADS TO THE ACTION OF GASEOUS AND LIQUID BODIES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for, Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-
man, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS
FOR SUBMITTING YARNS OR THREADS TO THE ACTION OF GASEOUS AND LIQUID
BODIES." A communication from abroad by Charles de Iongh, of
Guebwiller, in the Empire of France.
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Sealed the 15th June 1860, and dated the 29th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th December 1859.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS
FOR SUBMITTING YARNS OR THREADS TO THE ACTION OF GASEOUS AND LIQUID BODIES,"
to be as follows:-
The peculiar character of this Invention is to collect in the smallest possible
space, and to arrange so as to be operated upon in the most advantageous
manner by proper agents, a length of thread or of threads while in continuous

page_text: forward motion sufficient to allow the threads to receive the full action of such
agents before being delivered out of the machine or apparatus. This is
effected by winding the threads round drums, reels, or other suitable apparatus
in a helical form or one thread beside the other, such drums, reels, or other
apparatus having a continuous rotatory motion, and delivering out of the
machine or apparatus as much thread at one end of the helix as they take up
at the other end. By this arrangement any length of thread can be collected
and submitted to the action of the operating agents sufficiently long to ensure
the perfect action of such agents. These agents may be air, either heated or
not, if the object be to dry the threads; baths of mordants or dye stuffs, if the
object be to dye the threads; size or glue, if the object be to glue or size
them or any other agent or agents proper to obtain the desired effect or a
combination of them. This Invention is specially applicable to the winding or
drawing off from the cocoons of raw silk, which, by this means will bo
delivered out of the machine or apparatus in a dry state, and can be imme-
diately wound on to bobbins.
One mode of carrying out the Invention is to guide the threads on to a
drum 'or apparatus 'made in the following manner :-The drum or apparatus is
formed of two 'round lantern frames, one within the other, both revolving
round the same shaft at the same speed, but on different centres, so that their
circumferences may increase and diminish with regard to one another; on the
circumference of one lantern'are fixed laths, and on the circumference of the
other are similar laths, but moveable, in the direction of the length of the axis
of the apparatus. When these moveable laths are at the top or highest point
they are a little farther from the centre than the fixed laths, and therefore the
threads are carried by these laths and the rotatory motion of the drum or
lantern carrying the ends of these laths past an inclined plane; the laths are
moved forward by this inclined plane as much as the distance between one
spiral and another. When these same moveable laths have, by the rotatory
motion of the drum, arrived at the lowest point, they will be within the fixed
laths or nearer to the centre, and the threads will be resting on the fixed laths,
when another inclined plane pushes back the moveable laths to their first
position to again receive the threads and carry them forward. In case it is
requisite to dry the yarn or threads, -revolving flyers or ventilators may be
applied inside the drums or lanterns, which ventilators, by creating currents of
air through and between the threads, will effectually dry the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special license that I, the said
Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR SUBMITTING YARNS
OR THREADS TO THE ACTION OF GASEOUS AND LIQUID BODIES," being a communi-
cation from abroad by Charles de Iongh, of Guebwiller, in the Empire of
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Vincent
Newton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of tho said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
· NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being bad to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
The object of this Invention, as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent, is to submit lengths of thread while in motion to the action of
liquid or gaseous bodies for the purpose, say, of dyeing or drying the same,
and preparing it for spinning or weaving. This is effected by winding the
threads round drums or reels in the form of a helix, or one coil of thread
beside the other, a space being left between each coil. These drums or reels

page_text: will have a continuous rotatory motion, and will deliver out of the machine or
apparatus as much thread at one end of the helix as they take up at the
other end. By this arrangement any length of thread can be collected and
submitted to the action of the operating agents sufficiently long to ensure the
perfect action of such agents. These agents may be air, either beated or not,
if the object be to dry the threads; baths of mordants or dye stuffs, if the object
be to dye the threads; size or glue, if the object be to stiffen them; or any
other agent or agents proper to obtain the desired effect or a combination of
them. This Invention is specially applicable to the winding or drawing off
from the cocoons of raw silk, which, by this means, will be delivered out of
the machine or apparatus in a dry state, and can be immediately wound on to
bobbins.
In the accompanying Drawing an arrangement of machinery for carrying
out the operation of drying threads or yarns according to this Invention is
shewn in several views; Fig. 1 being a plan view, the middle part being
broken away to contract the length of the Figure; Fig. 2 being a sectional
elevation; Figs. 3 and 4, views of the opposite ends of the machine. The
machine consists mainly of two reels set one within the other, and both
mounted loosely on the same shaft, but excentrically with respect to each other.
A is the excentric reel shaft carried in bracket bearings attached to the main
framing. The reels are each composed of a pair of wheels or discs B, B,
C, C, on the peripheries of which are affixed, by means of screws, metal laths
b, b, c, c. The laths b, b, are slotted to receive the attaching screws, and they
are thus allowed to receive a slight endway motion as the reel rotates in order
to shog the coils of thread forward, and provide room for fresh thread to be
wound upon the reel. The excentricity of the reels is intended to facilitate
the shogging movement, the laths of the reel C being caused to lift in succes-
sion the thread free of the laths 6, 6, when they are being returned to their
starting position, and the laths 6, 6, being caused in like manner to lift the
threads from the laths c, c, before they severally commence their shogging
movement. This lateral motion of the coils of threads is effected during the
rotation of the reels by the ends of the laths b, b, being severally brought in
succession into contact with a fixed adjustable guide D, carried by a bracket
arm d at the upper part of the main framing, (see Fig. 3), and the return
motion is produced by their opposite ends being in succession pressed against
a fixed guide E attached to the lower part of the end framing; see Fig. 4.
The pair of wheels B, C, are connected together by rods a, a, which pass
through bolt holes made in the arms of the wheels B and through slot boles

page_text: made in the arms of the wheels C, C, and secured by clamp nuts at their
extremities; the slot holes are to give play to the rods and allow for the
excentric motions of the reels. Rotary motion is given to the reels by a pin
taking into a slot hole in an arm e of one of the wheels B; this pin is carried
by an arm projecting from a boss mounted loosely on the shaft A. Keyed
to this boss is a spur wheel F gearing into a pinion on the boss of an inter-
mediate wheel G, which receives motion from a spur pinion on the main driving
shaft. Within the reels a set of four fans is mounted for the purpose of pro-
ducing a circulation of air between and around the coiled threads; these fans
consist of leaves of wood or sheet metal I mounted on rotating shafts i, i, which
are supported in bearings attached to discs K, K, that are mounted loosely on
the shaft A and bolted to the reels; they will therefore rotate with them, but
to give the fans an axial motion their shafts i, i, are provided with pullies
*, *, over which pass bands from a pulley / loose on the shaft A. A band
m from the pulley 7 passes to a pulley n mounted on a stud axle at the lower
part of the main framing; and attached to this pulley n is a spur pinion n*,
which gears into the intermediate wheel G, before mentioned, which itself
receives motion from the main driving shaft. It will now be understood that
on motion being given to this shaft H through its driving pulley h, the reels
and the fans within them will be caused to rotate, and the threads to be dried
being guided on to the reels by means of guides o set at suitable distances
apart, these threads will be wound on to the reels until a sufficient accumu-
lation has been effected thereon. The precise amount of thread to be thus
accumulated will be determined by the length of time necessary to submit
them to the currents of air, and so in like manner when mordanting or dyeing
is the operation to which they are to be submitted by the duration of
immersion in the liquor deemed requisite. When this accumulation has
been once attained the ends of the first coils are to be led to rotating
bobbins by means of travelling guides or eyes p, which have an up-and-down
motion communicated to them by a rotating cam L and rock lever M, in the
usual manner of laying threads on bobbins; the delivery of the thread on
to the bobbins will then be continuous, the thread taken up being pushed
forward laterally by the shogging motion, already explained to take the
place of that wound off the reels by the bobbins. For sizeing, mordanting,
or dyeing the threads the reels are made to rotate for any suitable depth in
the liquor.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of improvements in the
mode of and apparatus for submitting yarns or threads to the action of gaseous

page_text: and liquid bodies, as communicated to me from abroad, and explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under
the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim submitting yarns or threads
to the action of gaseous and liquid bodies in the manner above described.
In witness whereof, I the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)