An Apparatus for Drying Hanks of Cotton, Wool, Silk, or other Fibrous Material
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Drying Hanks of Cotton, Wool, Silk, or other
Fibrous Material.
I, CHARLES TURNER, of Cinnamon Hill, Spotland Bridge, Rochdale in the County
of Lancaster Fulling Miller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows --
My invention relates to an apparatus for drying cotton, wool silk or other fibrous
material in the hank form aftor the same have undergone the process of dyeing sizing
or_scouting, or other analogous process as the case may he
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Drying Hanks of Cotton, Wool, Silk, or other
Fibrous Material.
[ CHARLES TURNER of Cinnamon Hill Spotland Bridge Rochdale in the County
of Lancaster Fulling Miller 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 an apparatus for drying Cotton, Wool, Silk or other fibrous
material in the hank form after the material has undergone the process of dyeing,
sizing, scouring or other analogous process as the case may be.
Hitherto such banks have been generally dried by being placed upon fixed staves or

page_text: rails as is well known, such being the case much time has been occupied for the
purpose of drying, by the use of my apparatus the hanks are more quickly dried than
by the use of stationary rails.as my apparatus is caused to have a motion, tho hanks
being thus caused to pass through the air at a great velocity.
This invention consists in providing a slotted or hollow rectangular shaped shaft
supported in a suitable frame, the said shaft being situate in a vertical position, within
the said slot at the lower part thereof and free to slide therein is a sliding piece which
is connected with a frame, which frame is free to slide along the surface of the shaft,
the said frame being provided with rails or staves, to the sliding piece may be
attached a chain or cord, which chain or cord is adapted to operate or raise the sliding
piece, consequently, to raise the frame carrying the staves, when so actuated by the
attendant; if desired other equivalent means may be employed for actunting or raising
the frame. At the upper part of the shaft 1 provide or axially mount thereon a
frame provided with rails or staves, the said frame with staves is similar in construc-
tion to the frame with staves provided at the lower part of the shaft ; and before
referred to.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood I have made reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which like letters of reference indicate
like parts throughout the figures therein shewn.
Figure 1. represents an elevation of my invention. Figure 2. is a plan of a frame
and staves as shown in Figure 1.
In a suitable frame A l mount a slotted or hollow shaft B which is situate in
a vertical position, at the upper and lower parts of the shaft B I employ frames C
which may be of metal or other suitable material, the lower frame being free to slide
along the surface of the shaft, but the upper frame is secured to the said shaft,
at the angular points of the said frames I provide sockets D into which are fitted
the extremities of wood or metal staves or rails E, secured in position by means
of screw threaded nuts and bolts F, the staves provided in the upper frame Care
provided with recesses G upon which staves and within which recessos rest and
are situate the extremities or ends of sticks or rails H ; one set of four being shewn
in full in Figure 2; the said staves E may be of any desired length, and any
convenient number of drying sticks may be employed, the position of the banks
are reprosented by dotted lines I, Figure 1, the lower frame with its parts being
adapted to slide along the shaft B, in order to adjust the machine so as to be
capable of drying hanks of different lengths, the banks are held in position by
means of the sticks H in the upper frame C and sticks K, the ends of which are
situate in longitudinal slots L provided at the undersides of the staves E of the lower
frame C, the said lower frame may be moved along the shaft B by means of a chain
or cord, or may be moved by any equivalent mechanical means, but, as shown in
the drawing herewith a toothed rack M is employed, which may be conveniently
attached to a sliding piece connected with the frame C, or the rack may be con-
nected direct with the frame itself, the said rack is situate within the slot N, the
rack being operated by means of the toothed pinion P, which gears therewith,
and is actuated by operating the hund wheel R, when the rack is actuated or
caused to rise by means of the pinion; a catch S is caused to engage with a tooth
of the ratchet wheel T, on the end of the spindle T'; thus the lower frame may
be held in any desired position with relation to the upper frame, when it is desired
to place the banks on the machine; when the same are placed in position, the catch
is then disengaged from the wheel T, the frame is then consequently allowed to fall,
the banks being thus distended or stretched. The upper part of the shaft B is pro-
vided with a pulley U, which is connected to the pulley W by means of a suitable
driving band, which pulley W being on the shaft W₁ provided with pulley X,
the said pulley being connected with a motion shaft, thus motion may be imparted to
the shaft B, and the banks may be speedily dried, the said hanks being held in position
--on the projecting rails as herein before described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1. In a machine for drying hanks of fibrous materials, the employment of a spindle
or shaft provided with a fixed frame and a sliding frame, each carrying rails, the
sliding frame acting as a means for stretching or distending the hanks.
2. The spindle B. frames C with rails and staves E, Hand K, rack M, pinion P,
catch Sand wheel T substantially as and for the purposes herein fully set forth and
described in the drawings hereunto annexed.
3. Sliding frame with rails K and staves E which frame may be caused to traverse
spindle B by means of rack and pinion or other equivalent means.
Dated this 10th day of December AD 1889
J. H. BUTTERWORTH,
For the Applicant.