Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Textile and other Fabrics and Tissues.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Drying Textile and other
Fabrics and Tissues.
I, GEORGE SPENCER of Chapel en le Frith in the County of Derby Mechanical
Engineer; 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 :-
This Invention relates to apparatus employed for drying tissues and fabrics and
especially for drying wadding during the process of manufacture and for drying
cloth and paper in continuous lengths after printing.
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These Improvements have for their object the more rapid and effective drying
of the articles operated on and consist in a combination or arrangement of a
creeper" or travelling support and its driving mechanism, with a drying chamber
and an arrangement for preventing the creeper from “sagging.”
And in order that this Invention may be more readily understood and carried
into practical effect I have hereunto appended a sheet of Drawings reference being
hereinafter had thereto and to the letters of reference marked thereon. In each of
the Figures similar parts are denoted by similar letters..
Fig. 1 shows a longitudinal section and Fig. 2 a view partly in plan and partly
in section.. Figs. 3 4 and 5 represent in front elevation, plan and side elevation
respectively one of the details of construction.
The central portions of the apparatus are shown as broken away or removed
along the lines A. A since it would be inconvenient to represent so large an
apparatus in its complete form.
B, is the drying chamber carried on the brackets or supports CC; D D¹, the
wheels or pulleys driving the creeper; F F¹, two steel or other metallic bands;
G G', two pulleys at the opposite end of the apparatus to the driving wheel;
HH, rods secured to the bands F F¹ by means of the brackets or carriers K K.
The metallic bands F F¹ are continuous, and pass respectively around the
pulleys D G and D¹ G¹. At equal distances along the upper surfaces of each of
the bands F F¹ there are attached or secured brackets or carriers. These may
conveniently be constructed and arranged as shown on a larger scale in Figs. 34
and 5. As there represented each carrier is rivetted to the band and has formed
within it a hole L, for the reception of one end of one of the rods H H. These

page_text: rods having their ends inserted in the carriers form, together with the band, a
continuous creeper or travelling support for the material during drying. The
bands FF¹ travel in or upon two metallic rails M M which are supported by and
attached to the brackets N N. A convenient section for these rails is shown
at N¹ N¹. The flanges of the driving pulleys D D₁ are notched or recessed at
regular intervals as at O O Fig. 1. The carriers K K are so arranged or constructed
as to fit into O 0 and the pitch of OO is equal to the pitch of K K. The bottom
of the drying chamber is arranged to lie between the upper and lower sides or
portions of the creeper as indicated in Fig. 1, so that after any given portion of it
has traversed the chamber it will return below the chamber to the starting point.
Rods may be inserted into every pair of brackets or carriers K K or they may be
inserted into alternate pairs or at any convenient intervals.
The heat for drying may be derived from any suitable source but I prefer to
employ a series of steam pipes above the creeper and parallel therewith. The heat
derived from the steam in the pipes is very uniformly distributed over the whole
surface of the material being dried owing to the absence of any "sag" in the
creeper.
The motion of the driving wheels or pulleys may be derived from any convenient
source as is well understood.
I am aware that a pitched wheel equivalent to D has been used in combination
with a chain for driving the creeper but I do not use a chain nor do I claim the
wheels D D¹ save as part of the new combination hereinbefore described.
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
(1.) In apparatus for drying textile and other fabrics and tissues the combination
of the creeper, consisting of two endless metallic bands carrying transverse rods,
with the pulleys D D¹ G G¹ and the rails M M¹, substantially as herein before set
forth and described and as illustrated on the accompanying sheet of Drawings.
(2.) In apparatus for drying textile and other fabrics and tissues, the adaptation
or arrangement of a series of steam pipes parallel with and above the creeper,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth and described.
(3.) In apparatus for drying textile and other fabrics and tissues the construction
and arrangement of the creeper, consisting essentially of two endless metallic bands
and transverse rods, substantially as hereinbefore set forth and described and as
illustrated on the accompanying sheet of Drawings.
(4.) The combination of the creeper described in the preceeding claim with
metallic rails M M² substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth and
described and as illustrated on the accompanying sheet of Drawings.
(5.) In apparatus for drying textile and other fabrics and tissues the combination
or arrangement of an endless creeper with metallic or other supporting rails
substantially as herein before set forth and described.
Dated this fifth dow of Dreamhos A D TOOK
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: stopping the spindles, the attendant having both hands at liberty, is enabled to
piece up the ends much quicker, with less waste, and much finer and better knots
than when stopped in the ordinary manner:
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
A compressed spiral spring F around the spindle A enclosed by a sliding
sleeve D, combined with the revolving wharl B substantially in the manner and
for the purpose as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.