AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR' FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Luc Emile Luzeau-Coudrais of Pimlico in the County,
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of Middlesex Gentleman for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR'
FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS a communication from Auguste Vincent a
person resident at Chateaubriant in the Republic of France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Luc Emile Luzeau-Coudrais
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th December 1882.
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LUC EMILE LUZEAU-COUDRAIS of Pimlico in the County of Middlesex Gentleman
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS [a communication
from Auguste. Vincent a person resident at Chateaubriant in the Republic of
France]
My invention consists of an improved machine for finishing textile fabrics or
tissues of wool silk or cotton and the like or mixtures of such materials whether
the said fabrics be in pieces or in lengths
The said machine is constructed as hereinafter described. A wooden roller for
rotatory cylinder (termed the "bobbin ") around which the fabric to be treated is
wound is mounted in centres carried by supports mounted on a bar or rod and
capable of adjustment thereon. One of the said centres in which the bobbin is
mounted is fixed in its support and the other is capable of being advanced and
withdrawn by means of a screw in order to cause the said bobbin to turn freely or
stiffly as required. In proximity to the bobbin two other cylinders are mounted
one (which is free to turn) being of wood and the other (which is fixed) being of
cast iron and hollow. Above the latter cylinder is a pressing roller carried by a
weighted lever and between the said wooden and iron cylinders a perforated copper
casing covered with a thick woollen fabric is arranged and in proximity to the
said iron cylinder a revolving hollow copper cylinder is mounted in bearings the
said copper cylinder being capable of being raised and lowered by means of screws
connected to its bearings. The said iron cylinder and the perforated copper casing
and the copper cylinder are furnished with connections by which steam may be
admitted to them and the iron cylinder is so arranged as to be capable of being
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page_text: caused to bear against the copper cylinder with any required amount of force by
means of weights or weighted levers and of being withdrawn from the said copper
cylinder when pressure between the two is not required
The iron cylinder and the copper cylinder are partly surrounded by a length of
cloth (termed the "carrier") which passes over guide rollers and is attached at its
ends to other rollers on one of which it is coiled before starting the machine and
from which it is drawn off and coiled on the roller at its other end by the action of
the machine when in motion. The shaft of the latter roller which is termed the
"working shaft" is so geared with the driving shaft of the machine that the said
working shaft and its roller may be caused to turn in either direction or be discon-
nected from the driving shaft to which motion is communicated either by means of
a treadle or from any suitable motor
The method of using and the action of the machine are as follows.
The piece or pieces of fabric to be be treated having been wrapped around the
bobbin and steam having been admitted to the perforated casing and iron cylinder
and copper cylinder the machine is set in motion and the end of the piece or of one
of the pieces of fabric is inserted between the iron cylinder and the pressing roller
above it. The said piece of fabric is then drawn by the motion of the carrier over
the perforated casing and over the fixed iron cylinder and between it and the
copper cylinder and round the said copper cylinder and passes from the machine
into a suitable receptacle. In passing over the perforated casing the fabric becomes
moistened by the steam issuing from the perforations therein and in passing between
the iron cylinder and pressing roller the said fabric is dried by the heat of the
steam in the said iron cylinder and smoothed by the pressure of the said pressing
roller and by being pressed between the said iron-cylinder and copper cylinder and
carried round the latter the said fabric is completely finished.
In treating a considerable length of fabric in the machine herein before described
the carrier may be dispensed with the fabric to be treated being itself in such case
attached at its ends to the carrier rollers..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters-Patent filed
by the said Luc Emile Luzeau-Coudrais in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th June 1883.
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LUC EMILE LUZEAU-COUDRAIS of Pimlico in the County of Middlesex Gentleman
AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS
" A communication
from Auguste Vincent a person resident at Chateaubriant in the Republic of
France.
This invention consists of an improved machine for finishing textile fabrics or
tissues of wool silk or cotton and the like or mixtures of such materials whether
the said fabrics be in pieces or in lengths.
The said machine is constructed as hereinafter described. A wooden roller or
rotatory cylinder (termed the "bobbin ") around which the fabric to be treated is
wound is mounted in centres carried by supports mounted on a bar or rod and
capable of adjustment thereon. One of the said centres in which the bobbin is
mounted is fixed in its support and the other is capable of being advanced and
withdrawn by means of a screw in order to cause the said' bobbin to turn freely
or stiffly as required. In proximity to the bobbin two other cylinders are
mounted one (which is free to turn) being of wood and the .other (which is fixed)
being of cast iron and hollow. Above the latter cylinder is a pressing roller
carried by a weighted lever and between the said wooden and iron cylinders a
perforated copper casing covered with a thick woollen fabric is arranged and in
proximity to the said iron cylinder a revolving hollow copper cylinder is inounted
in bearings the said copper cylinder being capable of being raised and lowered by
means of screws connected to its bearings. The said iron cylinder and the
perforated copper casing and the copper cylinder are furnished with connections
by which steam may be admitted to them and the iron cylinder is so arranged aš
to be capable of being caused to bear against the copper cylinder with any
required amount of force by means of weights or weighted levers and of being
withdrawn from the said copper cylinder when pressure between the two is not
required.
The iron cylinder and the copper cylinder are partly surrounded by a length of
cloth (termed the "carrier") which passes over guide rollers and is attached at its
ends to other rollers on one of which it is coiled before starting the machine and from
which it is drawn off and coiled on the roller at its other end by the action of the
machine when in motion. The shaft of the latter roller which is termed the
working shaft" is so geared with the driving shaft of the machine that the said
working shaft and its roller, may be caused to turn in either direction or be
disconnected from the driving shaft to which motion is communicated either by
means of a treadle or from any suitable motor. The parts of the machine herein-
before described are mounted and work in a suitable framing.
Having thus described the nature of this invention I will proceed to describe the
manner in which it is to be performed with reference to the accompanying drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon. The same letters and figures of
reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine and Figures 2 and 3. are elevations
of the right and left side thereof respectively.
A A' A² is the frame of the machine M is the wooden roller or cylinder termed
the "bobbin " the ends of which are conical 22 are the adjustable standards in

page_text: which the bobbin works 1 is the bar on which the said standards are mounted and
on which they may be adjusted towards or from each other and on which they
may be secured in the required position by means of set screws 44 A conical
depression is formed on the inner side of the upper part of the standard 2 and a
block having a conical depression formed in it is fitted in the standard 2ª in which
depressions the conical ends of the roller M are engaged. The block in the
standard 2 is so fitted as to be capable of being advanced by turning the screw 3
in one direction and of being withdrawn or allowed to retire by turning the said
screw in the opposite direction. The roller M may thus be caused to turn stiffly
or freely as required. N is the wooden roller mounted in proximity to the
"bobbin" or roller M. G. is the hollow fixed iron cylindrical casing or drum O is
the perforated copper casing which is covered with a thick woollen fabric and is
arranged between the roller N and casing G, P is the pressing roller which is
carried by levers P¹¹ jointed at P3 P3 to standards P P formed on sliding
carriages 5 5 which support the bar 1 roller N and casings G and O and which are
mounted on the frame A' A2 of the machine and are actuated as hereinafter
described P¹ P¹ are adjustable weights carried by the levers P P by which the
pressure of the roller P on the cylindrical casing G may be varied H is the hollow
copper cylinder which is capable of revolving in bearings h¹ RR are the screws
by which the cylinder H is raised and lowered as required the said screws passing
through blocks which support the bearings h and work in slides formed in the
frame of the machine. The screws R R are worked by means of the shaft Q which
being turned in the required direction by means of the crank V communicates
motion to the said screws through the bevil wheels q¹ q' and r¹¹. When the
cylinder. H is not required it is raised by means of the screws R R to the level of
the recesses T in the frames A' A2 and its bearings are then pushed into the said
recesses and secured there by means of the pins t! t¹. When the cylinder is in this
position it is or may be prevented from turning by engaging the pawl h² with
the teeth of the ratchet ³. The cylinder in this position is indicated at S
Figures 2 and 3.
Steam for heating the casings G and .O and the cylinder H is conveyed to the
machine by suitable tubes connected to the cocks X X¹ and the said cocks aro
connected by means of flexible tubes to nozzles g h which project from the axes
of the casing G and cylinder H respectively From the casing G the steam passes
to the casing O by means of a suitable conduit.
.
The arrangement for. causing the cylindrical casing G to bear against the
cylinder H consists of weights K K suspended by chains secured to and
passing around pulleys ²² keyed to a shaft ³ to which shaft levers / ke are also
keyed which levers engage with 'lugs 66 on the sliding carriages 5. 5. The said
sliding carriages supporting the casing G are thus pressed by the action of the
weights K K in the direction of the cylinder H and the force with which the
cylindrical casing G bears against the cylinder H may be varied by increasing, or
decreasing the number of weights K K. When the casing G is not required to be
pressed against the cylinder H the levers J J are depressed until the pawis k
engage with the notches in the pulleys the weights K K are thus,
supported by the said pawls and have no action on the sliding carriages 5 5.
7.is the cloth termed the "carrier" (not shown in Figures 1 and 3) which
consists, of a length of about 20 yards of calico arranged in the machine as
hereinafter described. One end of the length of calico is; secured to a cylinder E¹
provided with a crank e and the whole length is then wound around the said,
roller. The free, end. is then passed over the roll F and between the casing O and
the casing G over the said casing G and round the cylinder H to the rolls I
thence to the roll,E2. to which it is secured. The shaft of the said roll E2 is termed,
the working shaft and to it motion is communicated from a treadle B through the
connecting rod .C crank c¹ shaft c pinion D¹ toothed wheel D2 pinion D and
toothed wheel D. the latter being secured to or engaged with the said working

page_text: shaft as hereinafter described The shaft c² carries a fly wheel y. The pinion D
is capable of being slidden on its shaft out of engagement with the toothed
wheel D³ by means of the lever Z' and the wheel D5 is capable of being engaged
with or disengaged, from the shaft E2 by means of the clutch ¹ worked by the
lever Z. The said levers Z and Z' are not shown in Figures 1 and 2
The gearing by which the motion of the treadle is communicated to the working
parts of the machine is not shown in Figure 2.
The method of using and the action of the machine are as follows:-
The pieces of fabric to be finished are sized, and dried unless they be all wool in
which case the sizing may be dispensed with if a very fine finish be not required.
The several pieces of fabric to be treated are then connected end to end and one of.
the end pieces is secured to the hobbin or roller M around which a piece of cotton
cloth has been previously sewn. The whole is then rolled round the roller M as
shown at M' and the said roller M is then secured in the machine as hereinbefore
described. Steam is then allowed to pass into the cylinder H and casings G and O.
The free end of the roll of fabric on the roller M is then placed on the casing G
and the pressing roller P is lowered The machine is then started and the roll of
pieces of fabric is gradually unwound from the roller M and carried by the carrier 7
round the cylinder H over the rolls II and falls from the machine into a suitable
receptacle. Irregularly cut pieces are separately guided onto the casing. G by hand.
When by the action of the machine the whole or nearly the whole length of the
carrier has been unwound from the roll E¹ it is rewound thereon by turning the
crank e¹
When the fabric to be treated consists of one long piece the carrier may be
dispensed with the said length of fabric being in this case sewn at its ends to
pieces of calico secured around the rollers M and E2
For finishing fabrics consisting of hard wool or thready mixtures which it is
necessary to elongate considerably the arrangement of parts of the machine is
modified as follows:-
The carrier is disconnected from the roller M and wound onto the roller E
The cylinder H is raised and secured in the position indicated in dotted lines
at S (Figures 2 and 3). A roll (indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2 and
marked E) is then set in the machine and so engaged with the shaft on which
the wheel De is mounted as to turn with the said shaft the said roll E' pressing
against the cylindrical casing G. The free end of the carrier 7 on the roller E
is then passed under a roll L (see Figures 2 and 3) and between the casing or
dum G and a roll F (see Figures 2 and 3) and between the casing O and drum G
and over the latter to the roll E to which it is connected. The carrier thus
arranged is indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2. The pieces of fabric to be
treated are connected to the carrier as hereinbefore described the wheel D³ is dis-
connected from the shaft E2 and the pinion D4 is slidden out of gear therewith.
The machine is then set in motion and the fabric under treatment becomes wound
with the carrier on the roll E. When the carrier is entirely wound thereon it
is thrown out of gear with the driving mechanism and the roll E² is put into
gear and the carrier is rewound thereon the fabric carried by it being removed
as the carrier is unwound from the said roll E
By raising the cylinder H to the position indicated in dotted lines in Figures 2
and 3 fabrics such as silk goods handkerchiefs ribbons plush velvets twilled silks
and all light tissues may be sized or gummed while being finished the said fabrics
while damp being passed over the said cylinder which is moderately heated.
If desired the machine hereinbefore described may be driven by steam or other
power instead of by means of the treadle B.
Having thus described the nature of this invention and the manner in which it
is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the
precise details herein before described as they may be varied without departing
from the nature of the said Invention but I claim as the said Invention The

page_text: general combination and arrangement of parts constituting the improved machine
for finishing textile fabrics herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings
In witness whereof I the said Luc Emile Luzeau-Coudrais have hereunto
set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of June in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.