Im- PROVEMENTS IN DRESSING. SIZEING AND TAPE MACHINES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bashall junior, of Preston, in the
County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of “Im-
PROVEMENTS IN DRESSING. SIZEING AND TAPE MACHINES."
Sealed the 1st September 1853, and dated the 14th March 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Bashall at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th March 1858.
I, WILLIAM BASHALL junior, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESSING, SIZEING, AND TAPE MACHINES" to be as
follows:-
"These improvements consist in applying lubricating matter to the
cotton yarn or warp, after passing through the sow, trough, or the
finishing rollers of a tape frame, or dressing frame, or of a sizing
machine, making the yarn or warp more open, softer, and less wiry,
and not of so harsh a nature; the threads being, by this operation,
freed from the objectionable matting, or inclination to adhere to, each
other. The oil, or other matter to be used, may be applied to the yarn
by means of a roller covered or not with any material, such roller'

page_text: being partially immersed in the substance used, and mado to revolve
in contact with the yarn, thus transmitting to the yarn a portion of the
lubricating material; or such lubricating matter may be applied by a
roller or rollers, revolving or stationary, or by brushes, or by flannel, or
other contrivance; the gist of the improvement being the application
of the lubricating matter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Bashall, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 14th September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BASHALL junior, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Bashall junior, Her special
licence that I, the said William Bashall junior, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said William Bashall
junior, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any timo
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thero-
after 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 DRESSING, SIZEING, AND TAPE MACHINES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Bashall junior,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particu-
larly 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 Scal Patent Offico within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Bashall junior, do
hereby declare the nature of my said,Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:
My said Invention relates to the application of lubricating matter to
cotton and other yarn or warp threads, after such threads have passed
through the sow or dressing trough of dressing, sizeing, or tape machines,
in the ordinary process of dressing, sizeing, or preparing the warps for
being woven, the object of such treatment being the rendering the yarn
or warp threads more open, softer, and less wiry than warps treated in
the ordinary manner, and the removal of the usual harshness in such
threads, as well as the commonly experienced tendency of the individual
threads to become matted or adhere together. The substance which I
apply to the threads in carrying out this system of preparation is oil,
or any conveniently obtainable oleaginous or greasy matter. Such
lubricating or softening substance is applied to the threads by means
of a roller, partially immersed in the lubricating matter, and arranged
so that it shall revolve in contact with the threads, so as to transmit the
determined quantity of the lubricating matter to the threads in a con-
tinuously uniform manner. But I do not confine myself to this mode
of applying the lubricating matter, as that treatment may be accom-
plished by the agency of various arrangements of rollers, or by brushes,
or other depositing apparatus; the matter employed being applied to the
threads after the latter have passed through the usual dressing or
sizeing trough, or through the finishing rollers, or after passing over the
drying cylinders. This system of treatment is applicable, in the pre-
paration of warps, by any of the machines now commonly in use.
For the finer yarns, the common dressing machine may be used,
but I have adapted the process to what is known by manufacturers as
"Hornby and Kenworthy's patent sizeing or dressing machine."
In using my improvements in the latter machine, I fit up a transverse.
trough or receiver across the framing of the machine, close to the
drying cylinders, such trough having in it the oil or other lubricating
matter which is to be employed. Immediately over and dipping into
this lubricating trough is a transverse roller, carried in suitable end
bearings in the framing, and actuated by gearing from any convenient
movement of the machine, so as to rotate at the speed determined by

page_text: the operator. Then, as the warp emerges from the dressing troughs,
it passes over or round the heated drying cylinders in the usual manner,
and after leaving such drying surfaces the threads pass over the top or
upper side of the revolving oil distributing roller, and are thus suitably
saturated with the oily matter. The warp then passes off from the
machine, and is otherwise treated in the usual way. The oil trough is
kept supplied with its contained fluid by a separate reservoir, conve-
niently disposed in an open space in the machine framing, a pipe
from which reservoir has an adjustable valve in it, so that the flow can
be set by hand to the amount required during working; and in order
that the olenginous supply may be accurately suited to the wants of
the warp at all times, the stopping machanism, whereby the dressing
or sizcing operation is started and suspended, has suitable connections
attached to it, in such manner that when the machine is stopped the
line of warp threads is clevated from contact with the lubricating roller
or surface, and when the machine is again put in motion, the starting
mechanism similarly brings down the line of warp threads to bear
against the lubricating roller. The same movement is also connected
with the oil supply pipe from the reservoir, 50 that when the machine
stops waste of oil is prevented.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, 1 may observe, in conclusion, that I do not
confine or restrict myself to the precise details or arrangements which
I have had occasion to describe or refer to, as many variations may be
made therefrom without deviating from the principles or main features
of my Invention; but what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent, is,―
First, the general arrangement of mechanism, apparatus, or means
to be used in dressing, sizeing, and tape machines, as heroin-before
described.
Second, the system or mode of treating or preparing warp threads or
yarns with oil, or oleaginous or greasy matters, for the purposes herein-
hefore described

page_text: Third, the application and use in dressing, sizeing, or tape machines
of oleaginous or greasy matter for the preparation of warp threads.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bashall junior, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three.
WILLIAM BASHALL junr. (L.S.)
WILLIAM BASHALL junr. (L.S.)