Improvements in the Arrangement of Apparatus Employed in Finishing and otherwise Treating Textile Fabrics in the Open State.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
Improvements in the Arrangement of Apparatus
Employed in
Finishing and otherwise Treating Textile Fabrics in the Open
State.
I, PAUL DOSNE, Engineer, care of J. M. Sumner and Company, of 2, Brazennose
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the arrangement of apparatus employed
in finishing and otherwise treating textile fabrics in the open state.
In finishing fabrics which have been printed dyed or otherwise treated considerable
time is lost between the several operations owing to the necessity for drying the
goods before they can be reversed that is have their face brought into contact with
any guide roller without smearing or injuring the face.
It is now customary to conduct the fabric in the open state after the printing,
dyeing or other operation, into a drying or other room where it is passed over a
number of guide rollers arranged somewhat in a spiral form to a central or batching
roller where it remains until dry when the batching roller with the fabric can be
taken into the next machine.
According to my invention I conduct the fabric into the drying or other room and
wind it round rollers arranged in a spiral or otherwise but instead of batching it on
the central roller I pass it with the back or unfinished side over a roller (or its
equivalent to divert the course of the fabric) the axis of which is set at an angle say
of forty five degrees or at any other suitable angle to the central roller.
In this way
the direction of the fabric is changed and by passing the fabric over a second roller
set at any required angle to the last roller the direction may be again changed and
so on in this manner the fabric can be carried continuously and without batching
into and out of a drying or other room from one machine to another without ever
bringing its finished side into contact with a guide roller or its equivalent.
Dated this 27th day of August 1897
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Arrangement of Apparatus Employed in
Finishing and otherwise Treating Textile Fabrics in the Open
State.
I, PAUL DOSNE, Engineer, care of J. M. Sumner and Company, of 2, Brazennose
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, 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 relates to improvements in the arrangement of apparatus employed
in finishing and otherwise treating textile fabrics in the open state.

page_text: In finishing fabrics which have been printed, dyed or otherwise treated considerable
time is lost between the several operations owing to the necessity for drying the
goods before they can be reversed that is have their face brought into contact with
any guide roller without smearing or injuring the face.
It is now customary to conduct the fabric in the open state after the printing,
dyeing or other operation, into a drying or other room where it is passed over a
number of guide rollers arranged somewhat in a spiral form to a central or batching
roller where it remains until dry when the batching roller with the fabric can be
taken into the next machine.
According to my invention I conduct the fabric into the drying or other room and
wind it round rollers arranged in a spiral or otherwise but instead of batching it on
the central roller I pass it with the back or unfinished side over a roller (or its
equivalent to divert the course of the fabric) the axis of which is set at any angle
say of forty five degrees or at any other suitable angle to the central roller. In this
way the direction of the fabric is changed and by passing the fabric over a second
roller set at any required angle to the last roller the direction may be again changed
and so on in this manner the fabric can be carried continuously and without batching
into and out of a drying or other room from one machine to another without ever
bringing its finished side into contact with a guide roller or its equivalent.
In the accompanying two sheet of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a view of an ordinary arrangement of guide rollers fitted in a heated
chamber for drying textile fabrics. Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are views of an arrangement
according to my invention of deviators or obliquely set guide rollers placed in a
heating chamber for drying fabrics. Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views of steam heated
cylinders with deviators arranged according to my invention, and Fig. 9 is a
modification of Fig. 8. Figs. 10, 11, 12 and 13 show the application of my invention
to what is known as a vertical drying machine. Figs. 14 and 15 represent two
sectional elevations of a machine for ageing and steaming fabrics fitted with deviators
arranged according to my invention as illustrated in detail by Figs. 16 and 17.
Figs. 18, 19 and 20 are views illustrating my improvements applied where expanding
rollers are employed for taking creases out of the fabrics, and Figs. 21 and 22 illustrate
my arrangement of deviators as applied to fabrics immersed in liquid.
As already stated Fig. 1 illustrates the well known mode of guiding a piece through
a drying chamber, the piece being traversed into the chainber over guide rollers on
its back side as far as the middle of its course corresponding with the centre of the
chamber or thereabouts returning from this point on its face side over other guide
rollers until it leaves the chamber. The result of this operation in many instances
is that freshly printed pieces get smeared unless the drying operation has been
practically completed before the face of the fabric comes on to the central roller.
To avoid the above specified drawback and further to enable the trade to obtain
novel effects in certain goods such as printed fabrics I employ obliquely set guide
rollers in various combinations and arrangements as for example, in the arrangement
illustrated by Figs. 2 to 5.
In these views two obliquely set guide rollers A B are shown, and the fabric
entering the machine at t passes spirally over a series of guide rollers until it comes
to the roller C round which it passes and whence it proceeds horizontally to the first
deviator or obliquely set guide roller B which is set at an angle of forty five degrees
to the rollers C and D over the latter of which the fabric passes vertically upward
and over a roller D₁ thence round the second deviator or obliquely set roller A which
is set at an angle of forty five degrees to the rollers D¹ and C.
From the deviator A the fabric passes under the roller C¹ and away spirally over
guide rollers finally passing out of the machine at t¹.
In consequence of this deviation caused by passing over a guide roller set at an
angle of forty five degrees relatively to the other rollers in the course the fabric is
turned off in a direction at a right angle to its first line of travel and then coming
across a second deviator also set at an angle of forty five degrees it is once more
deflected perpendicularly to its second line of travel, or in other words it returns from

page_text: the machine in a direction parallel to the course it took when entering and further it
will be seen on reference to Figs. 2 to 5 that throughout the entire course of the
piece the same side is always in contact with the guide rollers.
My invention may be carried out in various ways in addition to that above described
with reference to Figs. 2 to 5 and I will now describe some other examples.
In Figs. 6, 7 and 8, I show my invention as applied to two parallel courses as for
instance where the piece is traversed over two lines of drying and finishing cylinders.
The piece entering at t upon the first line of cylinders E passes below round a
deviator F thence round the second deviator F1 thence returning along the second
line of cylinders E passes out at t¹. On issuing from the second cylinder or line
of cylinders E¹ as the case may be, the piece might if desired be passed round
another pair of deviators F2 F3 and thence over a third cylinder or line of
cylinders E2.
Fig. 9 shows two wooden or other guide rails arranged as deviators instead of the
rollers previously shown and described. This arrangement is advantageous with
certain kinds of cloth on account of the additional rigidity obtained and in spite of
the increased drag on the piece.
Figs. 10 and 11 illustrate the application of my system of deviators or obliquely
set guides to the so-called vertical drying cylinders.
In this arrangement the piece t after having passed over a first drying cylinder H
comes upon a deviator I (see Fig. 12) set at an angle of forty five degrees to the path
in which the fabric is travelling; from the deviator I the piece passes round a roller J
thence round a roller J¹ to a second deviator I¹ (see Fig. 13) from which it passes
over a second drying cylinder H¹ and over another deviator I guide rollers J Ji and
second deviator I¹ to a third drying cylinder H2. In like manner the fabric may be
travelled over any number of drying cylinders and be finally conducted out of the
machine at t¹. In place of the pairs of rollers J J¹ each pair or any pair may be
replaced by a single drying drum as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 10.
Figs. 14, 15, 16 and 17 illustrate the application of iny system of deviators to an
ageing machine. The cloth which has to be aged or steamed or similarly treated
enters the chamber at t through which it runs spirally over guide rollers to the
central portion of the chamber, its course thus far being indicated by a full line.
From the middle of the chamber the cloth returns over a deviator K which guides
it sideways to and round a drum P whence it returns over a second deviator K¹ and
passes as indicated by the dotted line over guide rollers and returns spirally back
through the chamber in the opposite direction to that of its passage to the middle of
the chamber out of which it passes at t¹ one face only of the cloth having been in
contact with all the guide rollers.
The above arrangement would be very useful in connection with calico printing.
Figs. 18, 19 and 20 illustrate the application of my system to a barrel shaped
drum L in conjunction with a special form of deviator for expanding and taking out
the creases in a fabric which enters at t, passes round an expanding rail or roller
deviator M, shown in section Fig. 20, round the drum L, round a second expanding
deviator N and away at t¹.
Fig. 21 illustrates the application of the system to a washing, soaping, dyeing,
bleaching or similar machine through which the fabric is run in the open state
through a tank containing liquid.
I have shown the deviator placed for example, in the middle of the tank but it
might be placed in any other suitable position.
The diagram, Fig. 22, illustrates the application of my system to a machine in
which two tanks are employed and it will be obvious that the piece may be conducted
in like manner through any number of tanks in series.
In cases where it is required to deflect the course of the piece to an angle which
is not a right angle I set the axis of the deviator (whether a roller, rod or rail) in a
direction perpendicular to a bisecting line of the required angle of deviation.
In order to insure a correct guidance of the fabric whilst being deflected as well as
to correct a deviation in the wrong direction, when creases are being taken out and

page_text: the cloth expanded, as in the arrangement Figs. 18, 19 and 20, I may employ
deviating rollers made in two parts and either with or without screw shaped
corrugations.
Further, to facilitate the drawing through of the piece I may give a positive
rotary motion to the deviating roller or to one of the guide rollers or drums in
juxtaposition to it.
In all the illustrations the deviators are shown with their axles in a horizontal
plane but it is obvious that they might be set vertically if required and that if so set
their action would be the same as described.
J
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In machines for drying, steaming, ageing, soaping, washing, bleaching, dyeing and
finishing textile fabrics in the open state-
1. The arrangement use and application of deviators consisting of obliquely set
rollers or guides placed at an angle of forty five degrees (or other desired angle) to
the path of the travelling fabric, whereby the fabric can be guided in the open state
into, through, and out of, the machine in the opposite direction to, that in which it
entered, without the face of the fabric, throughout its entire traverse, coming into
contact with the rollers or guides.
2. The combination with means for guiding and travelling textile fabrics in the
open state, of any required number of deviators such as obliquely set rollers or guides
for the purpose of deflecting the course of the travelling piece, substantially as
herein set forth.
3. The several combinations and arrangements embodying the application of my
system of deviators to travelling fabrics in the open state, substantially as herein
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.