IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR GASSING YARNS AND FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Manchester, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, and William Alfred Turner, of Pendleton, in
the same County, Cotton Manufacturers, for the Invention of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Manchester and
William Alfred Turner at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 2nd July 1874.
WC, JOSEPH MANCHESTER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
5 and WILLIAM ALFRED TURNER, of Pendleton, in the same County,
Cotton Manufacturers,, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR GASSING YARNS AND FABRICS," to be
as follows:-

page_text: Now our Invention consists in causing the yarn or fabric to pass over
a long horizontal burner which is provided with slots or openings covered
with wire gauze for the escape of the gas flame, and these slots or
openings are closed or partially closed to increase or reduce the length or
volume of flame acting on the yarn or fabric.
A convenient apparatus for effecting the object consists of a horizontal
tubo, to which the inflammable gas and air are admitted by one or more
supply pipes. This horizontal tube is provided with slots or openings
covered with wire gauze; these slots or openings are closed or partially
closed as required.
In case of an obstruction the yarn or fabric is moved laterally by a
handle or treadle acting on the side rails in which the thread guides aro
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Joseph Manchester and William Alfred Turner in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
MANCHESTER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, and WILLIAM
ALFRED TURNER, of Pendleton, in the same County, Cotton Manufac-
turers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Iler heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Joseph Manchester and William Alfred
Turner, Her special licenco that we, the said Joseph Manchester and
William Alfred Turner, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Joseph Manchester and William Alfred Turner,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during:
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Ix-
PROVEMENTS IN Apparatus for GasSING YARNS AND FABRICS," upon the condition'

page_text: (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Manchester and William Alfred
Turner, our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of our or their hands and scals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Manchester and William
Alfred Turner, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is
to say) :—
In gassing yarns and fabrics it is very desirable to be able to regulato
the length or volume of the flanic according to the nature or quality of
the yarn or fabric to be gassed.
Now our Invention consists in causing the yarn or fabrics to pass over
a long horizontal burner which is provided with slots or openings covered
with wire gauzo for the escape of the gas flame, and these slots or
openings may be closed or partially closed in any desirable manner in
order to increase or reduce the length or volume of flame acting on tho
yarn or fabric.
A convenient apparatus for effecting the object consists of a horizontal
tube, to which the inflammable gas and air are admitted by one or moro.
supply pipes; this horizontal tube is provided with slots or openings
covered with wire gauze. These slots or openings are closed or partially
closed as required.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood, and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of an ordinary gassing frame, to which our
improvements are applied; and Fig. 2 is a plan of part of the same;
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a plan of our improved
burners; Fig. 5 an end view, and Fig. 6 a plan of part of the same.
In-Bio-1-a-a-om the hobbins containing-the-voirm or thread to be

page_text: has been gassed; these bobbins & are turned round by the friction of the
drums c, and the yarn or thread is distributed on the bobbins 6 by the
guide rail d, as usual. The inflammable gas is supplied to the burners
by the pipes 2, and these pipes have upright sockets with à regulating
tap for each burner, as now customary. The improved burners shown
in Figs. 3 and 4 consist of an elbow pipe or tube e, the vertical portion
of which fits on an upright from the pipe l, and in this vertical portion
is a series of holes for tho admission of air, the quantity of air admitted
to mix with the gas being regulated by the tube f, which can be moved
up or down to cover or uncover the holes. The horizontal part of the
elbow pipe e is also provided with two or more series of holes of any
convenient shape or size, one scries near cach end, and intermediate ones
if required, through which the inflammable gas mixed with air escapes.
Both or all these series of holes aro covered externally with wire gauze
to distribute the flame, and they are opened or closed internally by the
plugs and h, or covered externally by a sliding cylinder or other
equivalent means. The plug is hollow, and is furnished with a
diagonal slot, as shewn best in Fig. 6, and by turning this plug partly
round the holes in the tube e may be entirely closed or opened or partially
closed. The plug can be moved endwise to and fro for the same
purpose. It is evident that both plugs may be alike.
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When the machine is at work the yarn or thread is drawn off the
bobbins a, passes over the guide rod or pulloy i, then passes through the
guide fork fixed to the end of the tube e, then through the guide k
fixed to the plug.h, as shewn, and thence to the drum c, by which it is
wound on the bobbin b. " It has been found in practice desirable to leavo
more of the holes uncovered at the right hand end of the pipe e than at
the other end so as to produce a greater volumic of flame at the end
where the yarn or thread enters than at the other end, but the volume
of flame can be varied at each end by changing the position-of-the-plugs g
and h or their equivalents, as above described. By means of this
improved apparatus the yarn or thread is sufficiently gassed by passing
once through the flames, whereas in the ordinary gassing frames the
_yarn or thread is taken over guido pulleys and crossed so as to pass
several times through the flame. There is consequently a great economy-
of time in piccing up, and the result obtained is better, as the friction in
the ordinary gassing frames raises a nap on the yarn or thread, which is
not the case when it passes straight through the flames.
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page_text: We wish to remark that a similar apparatus on an enlarged scale is
applicable for gassing fabrics.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described the
mode of performing the same, we wish to remark that we make no claim
to the admixture of air and inflammable
gas for gassing yarns and fabrics,
as the same has before been used for the same and for various other
purposes, but that we limit our claim to the improved apparatus described
and shewn in the Drawings, whereby the supply of air and inflammable
gas can be regulated according to the nature and quality of the yarn or
fabric to be operated upon.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Manchester and William
Alfred Turner, have hereto set our hands and scals, this Thirtieth
day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JOSEPH MANCHESTER.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM ALFRED TURNER. (L.S.)