In- PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYEING FABRICS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Pickles, of Heckmondwike, in the
County of York, Sam Smithson, of the same Place, and Charles
Henry Pickles, of the same Place, Dyers, for the Invention of “In-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYEING FABRICS."
Sealed the 14th October 1878, and dated the 28th July 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left...by the said. Thomas Pickles, Sam
Smithson, and Charles Henry. Pickles at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 28th July 1873.
We, THOMAS PIOKLES, of Heckmondwike, in the County of York,
SAM SMITHSON, of the same Place, and CHARLES HENRY PICKLES, of the
same Place, Dyers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYEING FABRICS," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates more particularly to an apparatus known as a
dyeing machine, consisting of a trough containing the dyeing liquor and

page_text: carrying a series of rollers for passing the fabric into the dyeing liquor,
and having suitable feeding and squeezing rollers in connection therewith,
and in some cases the machine has been so arranged that on the fabric
arriving at the far end of the machine it is caused to pass back again
underneath the trough to the feed end of the machine by means of an
apparatus called a scray or creeper, the ends being then joined together
so as to form a continuous sheet, which can then be run any number of
times through the dyeing trough, as may be required.
This arrangement, however, possesses certain disadvantages, and our
Invention consists in carrying the fabric back to the feed end of the
machine by means of a series of rollers or other suitable apparatus
placed above the trough, so that the fabric, after having passed through
the trough is carried back over the trough instead of underneath it, and
the surplus liquor which drips from the fabric is thus caused to fall back
into the trough, and is so saved and utilised.
Our Invention also consists in using, in conjunction with the apparatus
for carrying the fabric back to the feeding end of the machine, a cutler
and drawing roller, through which the fabric is caused to pass con-
tinuously, so that when it is required to take the fabric from the machine
it is simply necessary to undo the thread which joins the ends, and the
cutler then delivers the fabric into any suitable receptacle placed to
receive it, and this arrangement may be applied with advantage, whether
⚫the fabric is carried over or underneath the trough.
By thus arranging the fabric to pass continuously through the drawing
or delivery rollers and the cutler while it is passing through the machine,
it is always in position for being drawn out of the machine whenever
required, thereby avoiding the necessity of throwing the end over the
drawing roller in order to draw the piece out when finished, as has
heretofore been usual,
In order to keep the fabric properly stretched while passing through
the machine any suitable stretching apparatus of known construction

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Pickles, Sam Smithson, and Charles:
Henry Pickles in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th January.
1874.
TO ALL TÓ WHOM THESE PRÉSENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
PIOKLES, of Heckmondwike, in the County of York, SAM SMITHSON,
of the same Place, and CHARLES HENRY PICKLES, of the same Place,
Dyers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Pickles, Sam Smithson, and
Charles Henry Pickles, Her special licence, that we, the said Thomas
Pickles, Sam Smithson, and Charles Henry Pickles, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas
Pickles, Sam Smithson, and, Charles Henry Pickles, our 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN DYNING FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Thomas Pickles, Sam Smithson, and Charles
Henry Pickles, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing, under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the 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' YẺ, that we, the said Thomas Pickles, Sam Smithson,
and Charles Henry Pickles, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
Our Invention relates more particularly to an apparatus known as a

page_text: carrying a series of rollers for passing the fabric through the dyeing
liquor, and having suitable squeezing rollers in connection therewith,
and in some cases the machine has been so arranged that on the fabric
arriving at the far end of the machine it is caused to pass back again
underneath the trough to the feed end of the machine by means of an
apparatus called a scray or creeper, the ends being then joined together
so as to form a continuous sheet, which can then be run any number of
times through the dyeing trough as may be required.
This arrangement, however, possesses certain disadvantages, and our
Invention consists in carrying the fabric back to the feed end of the 1
machine by means of a series of rollers or other suitable apparatus
placed above the trough, so that the fabric, after having passed through
the trough is carried back over the trough instead of underneath it, and
the surplus liquor which drips from the fabric is thus caused to fall back
into the trough, and is so saved and utilized.
1
Our Invention also consists in using, in conjunction with the apparatus
for carrying the fabric back to the feeding end of the machine, a cutler
and drawing roller, through which the fabric is caused to pass con-
tinuously, so that when it is required to take the fabric from the
machine it is simply necessary to undo the thread which joins the ends, 2
and the cutler then delivers the fabric into any suitable receptacle placed
to receive it.
By thus arranging the fabric to pass continuously through the drawing
or delivery rollers and the cutler while it is passing through the machine,
it is always in position for being drawn out of the machine whenever
required, thereby avoiding the necessity of throwing the end over the
drawing roller in order to draw the piece out when finished, as has
heretofore been usual.
In order to keep the fabric properly stretched while passing through
the machine any suitable stretching apparatus of known construction {
may be applied.
M

page_text: Figs: 2 and 3 are views of portions of the other side of the machine.
The same letters refer to the same parts in all these Figures.
A is the trough, and B, B, B, are the rollers in the trough. 0, 0, 0,
are the squeezing rollers, to which motion is imparted from the shaft D
5 by means of the bevil and spur gear E, E; E. The fast and loose pulleys
are shown at F, F. The series of rollers for carrying the cloth back to
the feed end of the machine is shewn at G, Ġ, G, G, and the motion is
communicated to these rollers as follows:-The crank pin H imparts a
vibrating motion to the ratchet lever I by means of the connecting rod
0 K, and the ratchet lever I is furnished with a ratchet, which takes into
the teeth of the ratchet wheel L keyed on to the shaft M. The roller
on the shaft M is loose, and on the other end of this shaft is keyed the
bevil wheel N, which gears into the wheel O on the end of the long
worm P. This worm gears into the series of worm wheels on the ends
5 of the shafts carrying the rollers G, G, G. In this manner an inter-
mittent motion is imparted to the rollers, and the extent of this motion
may be varied and regulated as required by adjusting the pin at the end
of the connecting rod in the slot in ratchet lever I. At Q is shewn a
cutling apparatus, through which the fabric passes in its course through
O the machine. When an endless length of the fabric is being passed a
number of times through the machine this cutler is thrown out of gear,
and remains stationary in the position shewn in Fig. 1, the fabric merely
running through it as shown by the red line, but when it is desired to
take the cloth off, the ends of the fabric are disconnected, and the cutler
5 is thrown into gear by means of the hand wheel R, Fig. 8, and it then
cuttles the fabric and delivers it into any receptacle placed to receive it,
as shown at 8.
One great advantage peculiar to this arrangement is that while the
cloth is being delivered, as shown at 8, another piece can be running in,
as shown at T, so that it is not necessary to run one piece or series of
pieces out of the machine entirely before another piece or series of pieces
is introduced. The fabric enters the machine at U and passes in the
direction of the arrows round the rollers B, B, B, in the trough and
through the squeezing rollers C, O, C. It then passes round the loose
roller on the shaft M and over the roller V, which is driven by means of
the strap W. The cutler X is merely for the purpose of cutling the
cloth as it falls on the large roller Y, and this large roller and the smaller
ribbed rollers Z, Z, Z, turn over the folds of the cloth so as to bring them

page_text: into a convenient position for being taken up by the roller A³. On
passing into the machine the cloth may be stretched by passing it through
the stretching apparatus shewn at B¹.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Pickles, Sam Smithson,
and Charles Henry Pickles, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.