Improvements in Hank Scouring and Dyeing Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hank Scouring and Dyeing Apparatus.
I, TOM BENTLEY, of 10, Almond Street, Leeds Road, in the City of Bradford,
Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines or apparatus for scouring
and dyeing hanks of yarn, slubbing or other material in the hank.
To carry out my invention I mount the hanks horizontally, or approximately
horizontally, side by side a suitable distance apart upon a frame or holder of a
convenient size to be passed through the dyeing vessel or dye vat. A number
of tiers of hanks are arranged in this way according to the height of the frame and
depth of the dye vat. The hanks may be hooked at each end on to hooks or their
equivalent or they may be tied or other wise secured thereto. Intermediate
supports are provided to support the hanks at intervals between the ends and these
are hinged to or slide in the frame so that they may be moved clear of those
below.
The frame or holder thus filled with hanks is suspended from a cross bar or the
like carried by wheels or runners running in or upon suitable guides adapted to
guide the runners through such a path that the frame is drawn from end to end
of the dye vat then raised out of the vat and carried back to the other end and is
again immersed. The runners may be driven by endless chains or bands at each
side and a number of frames or holders arranged with sufficient space between them
to prevent them fouling each other when in work may be supported and operated by
the same guides and chains. Provision is made for detaching and removing the
frames or holders at a convenient point whilst they are raised out of the dye vat.
Provision may be provided for reversing the movement of the frames at intervals.
Dated this 29th day of June 1898.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hank Scouring and Dyeing Apparatus.
1, TOM BENTLEY, of 5, Plantation Place, Sticker Lane, in the City of Bradford,
Dyer, and late of 10, Almond Street, Leeds Road, Bradford, aforesaid, 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 improvements in machines or apparatus for scouring and
dyeing hanks of yarn, slubbing or other material in the hank.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.

page_text: Figure 1, represents a side view of one end of a dye vat fitted with my
improvements.
Figure 2, is an end view of the same.
Figures 3 and 4, are two views of one of the supports or trays for holding the tiers
of hanks.
A standard A is fixed near to each corner of the vat B and the standards on
each side are connected together by the top guide bar A2 and the bottom guide A³.
These guide bars have their ends A and A bent to a curve concentric with the
sprocket wheels and C². The wheels Care merely guide wheels and are mounted
upon studs I fixed in the top of the standards and the wheels C3 are fixed on the
inner ends of short shafts mounted in bearings formed in the standards. The
wheels at the other end of the vat corresponding to the wheels C and C2 are
each mounted upon studs D) in a similar way to the wheel C.
An endless chain E is mounted upon the sprocket wheels on each side of the vat
and at suitable intervals these chains are provided with large links E² and the
two chains are connected together at these links by cross bars F. On the outer
ends of these cross bars flanged wheels G are mounted which run upon the guide
bars and A. The shafts C are driven by their worm wheels C actuated by
the worms G on the shafts G2 and G³ driven by the bevel wheels G from the
cross shaft G³. The shaft G5 is driven by a fast pulley Go and two loose
pulleys G, Gare employed, one for a straight and the other for a crossed belt in
order that the motion of the chains E can be readily reversed by using first one belt
and then the other to drive the pulley G6.
The hanks to be treated are laid side by side along the curved wirework or
reticulated trays H placed one upon the other in the metal frames J. The hanks
may be held down upon the trays by cords stretched over the ends of the hanks and
secured to the sides of the frame in any convenient way. The trays are made
to lift bodily out of the frame and with the exception of the bottom one are provided
with feet H at each corner to rest upon the tray beneath.
The frames have a hook J2 at each side by which they can be hooked onto the
cross bars F. Eyes J³ are formed above the hooks by which the frames can be
lifted on and off the bars F. When the machine is set in motion the frames J after
being submerged are slowly drawn along from end to end of the vat, they are then
lifted out of the liquor and are carried back along the top and again submerged.
This motion is continued until the scouring or dyeing is completed. The vat can
be made long enough to accommodate three or more frames.
When the machine is used for dyeing or scouring slubbing or the like the sliver
need not be made into hanks as it can be "cuttled" to and fro along the trays
and when one tray is filled in this way the sliver can pass to the tray above, thus
the frames J can be filled with a continuous length of sliver if desired.
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, The combination with a frame arranged to be alternately submerged in the
vat and raised therefrom, of a number of trays fitting therein one above the other
and adapted to hold the material to be treated, substantially as herein shewn and
described and for the purpose specified.
2, The combination with a scouring or dyeing vat of the endless chains and
driving mechanism all arranged and operating, substantially as herein shewn and
described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 29th day of March 1899.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.