Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Damping or Dewing, Beating, Finishing, and Drying Cloth and Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Damping or
Dewing, Beating, Finishing, and Drying Cloth and
Fabrics.
other
We ARTHUR BREARLEY and ROBERT BREARLEY, both of Queen Street Mills Batley,
in the county of York, Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
The object of our invention by a new method and arrangement of machinery to
treat cloth, and other suitable fabrics by raising the nap or pile, then dewing or
damping it, and passing it in a stretched state to be operated upon its face, by a
winged beater revolving at a high speed, then by an ordinary revolving beater,
operating upon its underside or back; the cloth is then passed forwards to the
tentering machine.
By this means we raise and keep erect the whole pile of the fabric until it arrives
at the tentering machine, when it is finished according as required.
In carrying out our invention we employ a suitable fraine on which we mount a
break roller covered with cards, over which the cloth passes and which prevents it
from slipping, it then passes to a roller whose periphery is covered with brass filliting
for raising the nap or pile of the fabric, as it passes on its way to another roller which
it passes over, then under suitable guide rollers to a second roller, also covered with
brass filliting, the piece is brought in contact with the roller, by a roller placed upon
the underside of the piece and carried by an arm attached to a shaft upon which is a
worm wheel operated by a worm upon a second shaft, which is operated by a hand
wheel, for adjusting and regulating the amount of contact of the piece with the roller
aforesaid, the piece is then dewed or damped and passes upwards over guide rollers
and whilst stretched or suspended between such rollers it is beaten or battered upon
its face or pile with a revolving winged beater, driven at a high speed, and mounted
upon a suitable shaft, it is then beaten upon its underside or back by the ordinary
beater, and passes to the tentering machine constructed as follows: In the tentering
machine we dispense with the front rollers and employ a round faced wheel near each
set of hooks to take off the drag of the piece from the hooks, and to keep the pile of
the piece from becoming flattened by contact with any object; also the piece is more
equally dried or tentered.
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JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Damping or
Dewing, Beating, Finishing, and Drying Cloth and other
Fabrics.
We ARTHUR BREARLEY and ROBERT BREARLEY, both of Queen Street Mills,
Batley, in the County of York, Manufacturers, 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:-
The object of our invention is by a new method and arrangement of machinery to
treat cloth and other suitable fabrics, by dewing or damping it, and passing it in a
stretched state to be operated upon its face by a winged beater, for raising the nap or
pile revolving at a high speed, then by an ordinary revolving beater, operating upon
its underside or back; the cloth is then passed forwards to the tentering machine.
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page_text: By this means we raise and keep erect the whole pile of the fabric, until to arrive
at the tentering machine, when it is finished according as required.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of our improved apparatus for damping, beating, and
finishing cloth.
Fig. 2. is a side elevation in section of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. is a sectional elevation showing cloth passing into the tentering machines.
Fig. 4. is a front view of our improved front rollers in tentering machines.
Upon a suitable frame A, we mount a break roller B, and guide roller B', the break
roller B, is covered with cards, over which the cloth passes, and which prevents it
from slipping, the tension upon the cloth being regulated as desired by means of the
collar C, and the weights D; the piece F is then damped or dewed by means of a
series of tubes or nozzles E, arranged in front and across the width of the piece F, as
it passes upwards over guide rollers G. H. J. and whilst thus stretched or suspended
between or upon such rollers, to raise the pile or surface of the cloth it is beaten or
batted upon its face or pile with revolving flexible winged beaters K. K. the width of
the machine and mounted upon a shaft K' in brackets or bearings K, and revolves at
a very high speed, and so its wings deliver repeated blows to the face of the cloth the
cloth is then beaten upon its underside or back by the ordinary revolving rigid
beater O, and passes to the tentering machine.
These beaters are driven by means of pulleys L M. which are likewise driven by
pulleys N, upon the cross-shaft P, which shaft receives its motion by means of the
pulley P connected to the main or other driving shaft.
The guide roller J, is made to revolve by means of bevel wheels J¹, J³, J³, J¹, J³,
and J and shafts R. R which are driven by the cross-shaft P, and by revolving,
keeps the piece straight as well as puts sufficient tension upon the same to allow of the
beaters operating upon it in the manner required.
In the tentering machine we dispense with the front rollers, and employ a round
faced wheel S. S. near each set of hooks T. to take off the drag of the piece from the
hooks and to keep the pile of the piece F. from becoming flattened by contact with
any object, also the piece is more equally dried and tentered.
The guide rollers G and J may be connected and driven by chains and chain-
wheels.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my sai
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is :-
1. The combination of break roller B. guido roller B¹, dewing or damping
apparatus E, guide rollers G. H. J. and winged beaters K. and O. operated as and
for the purposes substantially as shown and described.
2. The use and employment of the winged beater K operating upon the face of th
cloth substantially as shown and described.
3. The general arrangement and construction of apparatus substantially as show
and described.
4. In tentering machines, the use and employment of a round-faced wheel or dis
at or near each set of hooks for the purposes substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Second day of December 1889.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.