Improvements in Machines for Drying Hanks of Yarn, Slivers of Wool, Tops, and other Fibre.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Drying Hanks of Yarn, Slivers of
Wool, Tops, and other Fibre.
I, WILLIAM WHITELEY of the Firm of William Whiteley and Sons Limited of
Lockwood Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine Makers do hereby
déclare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a new form and construction of machine for
drying hanks of yarn in a distended state upon rollers or sticks, also for drying:
slivers of wool tops and other fibre.
In constructing a machine according to my invention 1 employ two pairs of
longitudinal stationary bars arranged at each side of the machine, one pair of
longitudinal bars being situated above the other and lineable therewith.
These longitudinal bars are notched or have recesses formed on their upper sides
at suitable and equal distances apart for receiving and supporting the ends of
rollers or sticks upon which the hanks are placed hanging down in a distended and:
loose state. These hauk carrying rollers or sticks are divided midway of their
length by two discs or plates and they are so divided for the purpose of being
seized hold of by a jaw attached to the upper part of an oscillating lever which
removes a roller with dried hanks from the first set of notches in the lower
longitudinal bars to permit the dried hanks thereon to be removed and wet hanks
put into their place when the jaws carrying the roller or stick can be put back
again into the first set of notches just mentioned. If therefore the hank carrying
rollers have been provided with hanks and they have passed through the machine
and dried the workman operates a lever and moves the jaw (which is mounted on
the top of an oscillating lever) towards the roller or stick lodging in the first:
notches in the bottom longitudinal bars, the said jaw seizing hold of a roller
or stick in the middle thereof where it is divided for that purpose whereupon the
workman then withdraws the jaw and with it the charged roller or stick which
permits him to remove the dried hanks from off the free ends of the said rollers and
put in their place undried hanks. The jaw is then put back towards the machine
placing both ends of the roller or stick into the first pair of notches in the lower
longitudinal bare, the action or effect of which (by suitable mechanism) sets the
machine into motion self-actingly. At this point a face plate or crank operates a
rod connected to a pinion in gear with two racks one of which is stationary, whilst
the other, which is twice the length of the former, is capable of moving vertically,
and in addition to sliding downwards it is made to oscillate upon a fulcrum
permitting certain hooked lugs to come under 'the ends of the roller or stick
carrying the wet hauks last put into the machine, after which the rack is raised by
the crank and pinion lifting the roller or stick full of wet hanks up to the top pair
of longitudinal notched bars oscillating forward again and dropping the roller with
the wet banks into the first pair of notches in the top longitudinal bars by which
means the wet hanks and rollers are lifted and transferred one at a time from the
lower range to the upper range. A similar arrangement of apparatus is provided
at the other end of the machine save and except the oscillating jaw, the rollers and
banks are thus removed one by one from the upper range to the lower range.
When the machine is set in motion each time the jaw places a wet hank carrying
roller into the feeding end of the machine a set of revolving discs with notches in

page_text: their peripheries, lifts the whole series of top and bottom rollers and hanks bodily
out of one set of notches in the longitudinal bars and transfers the whole series of
rollers with their banks into another notch thus they are handed forward one
notch at a time every time the machine is set in motion and it is by this means that
the hanks are made to advance.
It must be understood from the above description that the rollers and hanks are
delivered out of the machine at the same point at which they enter and that the
hanks never leave the machine except to be stripped at each end of the roller and
as the rollers are free at each opposite end the dried hanks are easily removed and
wet ones substituted.
The rods or sticks may be provided with longitudinal strips or projections so that
the hanks do not rest upon the upper surface of the rollers but only upon the
projections and this I do for the purpose of permitting air to impinge against all
parts of the hanks.
The whole of the machine or apparatus is enclosed in suitable metal sides' and
framework and hot air is given off by heated pipes and made to circulate by the use
of a fan.
If required the rollers upon which the banks rest may have intermittent
rotary motion imparted to them to change the position of the banks upon the said
rollers. By means of my invention hanks are introduced into the machine into the.
first notches of the bottom pair of longitudinal bars, they are then raised to the top
range of bars and after being conveyed forward notch by notch by the rotating
face plates or discs they are then carried down on the opposite end of the lower
range of longitudinal bars and notch by notch traverse back to the point at which
they first entered, for the purpose of leaving the machine.
Dated this 30th day of December 1895.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield, Patent Agents.
Improvements in Machines for Drying Hanks of Yarn, Slivers of
Wool, Tops, and other Fibre.
I, WILLIAM WHITELEY, of the Firm of William Whiteley and Sons, Limited,
of Lockwood, Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine. Makers, 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 has reference to a new form and construction of machine for
drying hanks of yarn in a distended state upon rollers or sticks also for drying
slivers of wool; tops, and other fibre.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS :-
Fig. 1 is front elevation of my new or improved machine arranged and
constructed for drying hanks of yarn.
Fig. 2 is sectional end elevation of same.
Fig. 4 an enlarged view of the feeding end of the machine, and
Fig. 5 a sectional plan view of same, taken through the line 1-2 of Fig. 4.
The machine is enclosed in a wrought iron or other chamber 3 and it is provided
with steam pipes 4 for heating the said chamber, 5 being an exhaust fan for.
drawing air through the chamber. At each side of the machine, there are
arranged an upper pair of notched stationary bars 6 and another and lower pair of.
notched stationary bars 7. These notches receive the ends or axles of rollers,

page_text: bars or winches 8 around which the hanks 9 are slung as indicated in Figs.
and 2, one end of such rollers or winches is shewn in Fig. 3 and they are divided
midway of their length by two discs or plates 10 see Fig. 2 and they are so divided
for the purpose of being seized hold of at that particular part by a jaw 11 attached
to the upper end of an oscillating lever 12, which jaw together with the said lever
is capable of being moved forward towards the feeding end of the machine for
purposes and in manner hereinafter more fully described. When commencing to
use the machine all the notches in the bars 6 and 7 are supplied with rollers or
winches, the jaws 11 occupying the position shewn in dotted lines gripping the
winch between the discs 10 lodging in the first notch 17.
The attendant then removes sneck 13 from notch 15 formed in the radial arm 14
after which he pulls the jaws back as shewn in full line. The dried hanks are now
removed and the wet hanks are slung on to each end of the winch when the
operative pushes the said jaw forward as indicated in dotted lines so that the sneck
enters the notch 15, the pin 16 acting as a stop piece to prevent the jaws moving
too far.
When the said jaws have been moved forward, the outer ends or axles of the
winch drop into the first notch 17 of the lower notched bar 7, and simultaneously
with this movement, the lever 12 which is fast upon shaft 18 causes the said shaft
to rock in doing which the short lever 19 is brought down pulling the rod 20
downwards and, operating the bell crank lever 21 making the horizontal rod 22 to
move forward end wise whereby the strap fork 23 attached thereto, slides the
driving strap from the loose pulley 24 to the fast pulley 25 consequently the
machine is set in motion self actingly every time a fresh roller is. put into
the machine. When the machine has been thus set in motion, the spur wheel 26 is
made to rotate from pinion 27, which pinion receives its motion from the bevil
gearing 28 and horizontal shaft 29 and spur wheels 30 driven from the main
shaft 31. When the spur wheel 26 revolves, the connecting rod 32 attached
thereto causes the pinion 33 to revolve and to roll in the teeth of the stationary
rack 34 but the other rack 35 is free to slide up and down in the slide 36, and this
is effected through the medium of the connecting rod 32 and pinion 33.
This
Soon after the rack 35 commences to descend, the cam 37 at the back of
wheel 26 operates the vertical rod 38 connected by studs 39 to the slide 36.
cam 37 and rod 38 are employed for the purpose of making the slide 36 rock upon
the stud 39, and this is done so that the lug 40 can get hold of a winch lodging in
notch 17 of bar 7 and lift the said winch up and deposit it into notch 41 of the top
bar 6 therefore when the rack 35 is descending the said slide 36 is made to oscillate
upon the fulcrum 39 causing the lower end of the slide to come inward and the
upper end to go outward so as to permit the hooked lug 40 to get below and
underneath each end of a winch 8 when lodging in notch 17 of the lower notched
bar 7, and when this is effected, i.e. when the lug 40 on rack 35 has got hold of a
winch the toothed wheel 26 will have arrived at such a position in its rotation,
that the connecting rod 32 begins to ascend taking the sliding rack 35 together
with the winch charged with wet hanks upwards until the lug 40 gets above the
first notch 41 in the top notched bar 6. When this has been accomplished the
cam 37 causes the lower end of the slide 36 to go outwardly and the upper end of
the said slide to be moved inwardly so as to drop the ends of the winch in the first
notch 41 of the top notched bar 6. After this operation has taken place which is
performed with one revolution of the wheel 26, a finger 42, caused to rotate upon
the shaft 43 driven by chain 44 from the chain wheel 45 on the shaft 46, the said
finger 42 lifts the forward end 47 of the strap fork rod 22 from off the holding
pin 48 whereupon a spiral spring 49 shewn in Fig. 5 draws the strap fork from the
fast to the loose pulley and stops the machine self actingly.
Whilst these various motions just described are being performed a second pair
of top and bottom horizontal notched bars 50 and 51 have been transferring (if the
machine was full) the whole series of winches together with their hanks from.one

page_text: notch to another notch in the stationary bars 6 and 7, and this is effected in the
following manner :-
Horizontal shaft 52 and 53 driven by bevil wheels 54 from the bottom shaft 29
are employed, and on these shafts 52 and 53 are bevil wheels 55 and 56 driving
other bevil wheels 57 and 58 carrying eccentrics 59 and short lever 60 the opposite
end of which short lever is connected to the movable notched bars 50 and 51 by
stud a, which notched bars are lifted upwards by the levers 60, the notches in said
bars seizing hold of the axles of the winches and carrying them half a revolution
and dropping the axles of the said winches into the next succeeding notches, this
being done for the purpose of causing the winches and hanks to be traversed or
handed forward through the machine, this operation taking place simultaneously
with both the top and bottom series. At the completion of each revolution of
wheel 26 and when the machine has been stopped, the endmost notch 41 in the top
notched bar 6 will be empty as the winch of wet hanks which has just been lifted
from the bottom notched bar 7 will have been transferred into the second notch in
the top bar. The notch 17 will at this time contain a winch of dried hanks which
have just been transferred by the lifting bar 51, the jaw 11 having hold of the
said winch. The workman then withdraws the jaws 11 as indicated in full line
Fig. 4, when he will strip the dried hanks, replacing them with wet hanks, and
afterwards he will put the said winch back again into notch 17.
This operation restarts the machine causing the rack 35 to descend as already
explained to take hold of the newly charged winch to lift it up to notch 41, when
the machine will again be stopped self actingly. This stopping and restarting of
the machine goes on so long as the machine is at work.
The modus operandi is as follows:-
If the machine has been at work, all the winches are charged with hanks the
jaws 11 having hold of the winch in the notch 17.
The workman then withdraws the jaws together with a winch charged with dried
hanks, which are stripped and wet ones substituted.
The workman then transfers the newly charged winch into the first notch 17 of
the bottom bar, the rack 35 then comes down placing the lug 40 underneath the
ends of the winch, but to permit this to he done the slide 36 oscillates on its
fulcrum for the hook to get past the winch, when by the continued rotary motion
of the machine the lug 40 lifts up the hank to the first notch 41 in the top bar 6
meanwhile the slide 36 moves as explained to permit this to be done, and simul-
taneously with that movement the notched bars 50 and 51 are transferring the
whole series of winches in both top and bottom sets of bars from one notch to
another in the direction of the arrows, the machine then stops self actingly as
described when the operation of removing dried hanks and placing wet ones in the
first notch is again performed. When the hank carrying rollers have been
transferred from notch to notch by the lifting notched bars 50 and 51, the end hank
roller A with hanks are transferred from the endmost notch B in the top range
to the endmost notch C in the lower range, the operation being performed in the
same manner as at the feeding end of machine excepting that in this case instead of the
hanks being raised they are lowered, the tappet 37 wheel 26 and connecting rod 32
correspond to those already described at the feeding end of the machine. It will
be understood from the above description that the rollers and hanks are delivered
out of the machine at the bottom row at the same point at which they enter, and
the hanks never leave the machine except to be stripped, which is easily done as
the rollers are free at each end, whilst wet hanks can also be easily substituted.
The whole of the machine or apparatus is enclosed in suitable metal sides and
framework and hot air is given off by-pipes 4, such hot air being made to circulate
by the use of fan 5. It will be obvious that instead of the hanks being transferred
from one notch to another by the notched bars 50 and 51 that the latter may be
dispensed with and endless chains employed instead.
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Although have shewn and described the machine as being applicable for
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page_text: drying hanks of yarn, slivers, tops and other fibre may be effectually dried in the-
same machine.
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 :-
Firstly. In a machine for drying hanks of yarn and other fibre, the combination.
of stationary notched bars and hank lifting and lowering racks arranged and
operating substantially in the manner herein shewn and described.
Secondly. In a machine for drying hanks of yarn and other fibre, the use therein.
of stationary notched bars, lifting and lowering racks in combination with winch.
holding jaws arranged and operated in the manner substantially as herein shewn
and described.
Thirdly. In a machine for drying hanks of yarn and other fibre, the use of
stationary notched bars, lifting and lowering racks in combination with the winch.
lifting bars 50 and 51 operated as described.
Fourthly. In a machine for drying hanks of yarn and other fibre the use of
stationary notched bars, lifting and lowering racks, and oscillating slide 36 arranged
and operated as herein shewn and described and for purposes set forth.
Fifthly. In a machine for drying hanks of yarns and other fibre, the combina-.
tion of stationary notched bars, lifting and lowering racks, hank transferring
notched bars 50 and 51 in combination with self acting stopping and starting
mechanism arranged substantially as herein shewn and described.
Lastly. In a machine for drying hanks of yarn and other fibre, the general
construction and combination of mechanism where the hank carrying rollers are-
traversed through the machine and raised from a lower to an upper range and
back again from the upper to a lower range in the manner substantially as herein.
shewn and described.
Dated this 29th day of September 1896.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield, Patent Agents..