An Improved Appliance for Steaming and Drying Cotton or other Fabrics or Cloth in the Processes of Stretching in Width, Calendering, Finishing, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Steaming and Drying Cotton or other
Fabrics or Cloth in the Processes of Stretching in Width,
Calendering, Finishing, and the like.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND of Perseverance Works, Allum Street, Ancoats, in the
City of Manchester, Finisher and Calenderer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for drying steaming or similarly treating
cloth or fabric especially during or in. connection with stretching calendering
finishing and similar operations.
The apparatus consists of a series of preferably flattened pipes over which the
cloth passes and which are alternately connected together at their opposite ends so
that any steam air or water passing through the series flows through adjacent
pipes in opposite directions. The unions by which the pipes are connected together
permit of rotation or partial rotation so that the series of pipes may be extended
or closed to suit different widths of fabric:
The ends of the pipes rest upon suitable rails upon which they slide during the
extension or closing. For some of the purposes. for which they may be used the
pipes may be perforated to allow of the escape of the air steam or water.
If desired two or more tiers of pipes may be employed the corresponding pipes
of the two tiers being joined at their opposite ends so that when they are extended
the pipes of one tier cross those of the other.
The under sides of the pipes are preferably covered with some material which is
a poor conductor of heat.
1000
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Steaming and Drying Cotton or other
Fabrics or Cloth in the Processes of Stretching in Width,
Calendering, Finishing, and the like.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND of Perseverance Works, Allum Street, Ancoats, in the
City of Manchester, Finisher and Calenderer, 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 for drying steaming or similarly treating
cloth or fabric especially during or in connection with stretching calendering
finishing and similar operations.
The apparatus consists of a series of preferably flattened pipes over which the
cloth passes and which are alternately connected together at their opposite ends
so that any steam air or water passing through the series flows through adjacent
pipes in opposite directions. The unions by which the pipes are connected together
permit of rotation or partial rotation so that the series of pipes may be extended
or closed to suit different widths of fabric.
The ends of the pipes rest upon suitable rails upon which they slide during the
extension or closing. For some of the purposes for which they may be used the
pipes may be perforated to allow of the escape of the air steam or water.
If desired two or more tiers of pipes may be employed the corresponding pipes
of the two tiers being joined at their opposite ends so that when they are extended
the pipes of one tier cross those of the other..
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under sides of the pipes are preferably covered with some material which is
a poor conductor of heat.
I will more particularly describe my invention and in what manner the same
may be performed with reference to the accompanying drawings in which―
Figure 1 is a plan of the apparatus expanded.
Figure 2 is a plan of the pipes alone the apparatus being supposed to be
.contracted.
Figure 3 is a sectional end view of the apparatus as shewn by Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a sectional end view of the apparatus as shewn in Figure 2.
Figures 5 and 6 are a plan and vertical section respectively of the duplex pipe
connection. And
Figures 7 and 8 are similar views of a single pipe connection.
In the drawings I have shewn two tiers or series of pipes A A³ arranged in the
manner of a "lazy tongs" but I do not limit myself to this arrangement, as a single
tier or series may be employed.
For low pressures, the tubes A A' may be constructed in the flattened form
illustrated, but for high pressures I may employ circular tubes or in substitution
for each of the flattened tubes, a horizontal group of two or more circular tubes
connected together at their ends.
In each horizontal series of the tubes A, the liquid is caused to circulate from
one end of the series to the other. Thus, it may enter through a flexible or
telescopic connection B, flow through the series, and leave at B'. To enable this
circulation to be effected, and to permit the motion of the tubes as required for
the purposes of the invention, I employ the connections illustrated by Figures 3
to 8 inclusive. At the inlet end, one of the connections C Figures 7 and 8 of the
single type is used. At intermediate points, the duplex connections D Figures 5
and 6 are employed, and at the outlet another of the single connections.
To permit the necessary motion in the connections, they are formed after the
manner of a plug tap as shewn, provision being made however for the non-closing
of the connection by its motion. In the case of the duplex connection, there need
be only one plug or rotary part E.
The connections C and D are most conveniently secured to the under side of
their respective pipes, and rest upon the cross rails F F each of which is
sufficiently wide to support the bottoms of the connections C D in all positions
which they may occupy.
The effective width of the system of pipes is variable by means of the right and
left handed screws G G which work in corresponding nuts fixed in the side
rails H H to which the ends of the series of pipes A A' are connected. At the
outer end of each of the screws G G there is fixed a bevel wheel I which gears
into another bevel wheel J on the shaft K, which is rotatable in either direction
by hand. If then the shaft K be rotated, the screws G G will be rotated thereby,
and the rails HH' will be caused to approach to or recede from each other and
thus cause the contraction or expansion of the series of pipes. The limit of motion
in the narrowest direction is illustrated by Figure 2 which shews the position of
the pipes when they have been closed up to the utmost.
It will be obvious that other well known means may be adopted for the
purpose of expanding and closing up the series of pipes, but the means and method
which I have described is that which I have found to give the best results in
practice.
Only one set of the pipes is shewn by the drawings, but two or more of such sets
may be employed, one beyond the other in a horizontal direction, according to the
description of the work to be done.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
..claim is―
1. Apparatus for steaming and drying textile fabrics, constructed arranged and

page_text: operated substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
2. In apparatus for steaming and drying textile fabrics, the combination with a
series of pipes in zig-zag arrangement, of connecting joints between the pipes and
right and left hand screws or equivalent means for expanding and closing up the
series of pipes, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of March A D 1802
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.