Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Drying, or otherwise Treating Yarn in the Hank.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1899
1000
1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Drying, or otherwise
Treating Yarn in the Hank.
I, JOSEPH HOLROYD BOLTON, of Leach House, Colne, in the County of Lan-
caster, Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed for dyeing drying or otherwise treating yarn in
hank form in continuous succession the hanks being so placed or arranged that
they are passed in succession into and out of a dye vat or liquor tank or
a drying chamber or the like and removed and replaced without stopping the
machine.
The machine is constructed with two or more endless or continuous chains
of suitable form or construction travelling parallel over a series of rollers pulleys
or the like.
The chains serve to carry rods or bars at right angles thereto. These rods
are made of brass wood or other material and are attached to the chains by
hooks links or other form of attaching device by which they can be attached
and detached. They may be about an inch in width and vary from one eighth
of an inch thick in the middle to a fine edge or they may be round oval or of
other form. They are the length of the space between the chain and hooked
or otherwise formed at each end to engage the chains.
A number of hanks are passed over two of these bars and the bars are
attached to the travelling chains.
The apparatus may be employed either in conjunction with dye or other
liquor vats suitable squeezing rollers being employed or in conjunction with a
drying chamber. Or a combined apparatus may be employed in which the
endless chains and transverse hank carriers travel first through the liquor vats
or tanks and then through the drying chamber and back again to the liquor
vats a fresh change of yarn having been supplied in the meantime.
When combined with dye vats or liquor tanks the drying machine may be
placed in any convenient position either on the ground floor or on the top floor.
The drying chamber may be heated by steam pipes or in another arrangement
the endless chains pass over and carry the hanks over heated drying cylinders.
On the rollers or pulleys are projections on which the chains catch and by
which they are driven.
Dated this 99th day of Ver 1800
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Drying, or otherwise
Treating Yarn in the Hank.
I, JOSEPHI HOLROYD BOLTON, of Leach House, Colne, in the County of Lan-
caster, 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:.
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This invention is designed for dyeing drying or otherwise treating yarn in
hank torm in continuous succession the hanks being so placed or arranged that
they are passed in succession into and out of a dye vat or liquor tank or
steaming chamber or drying chamber or the like and removed and replaced
without stopping the machine.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which it is shown as applied to the dyeing and drying of the hanks
as a continuous process.
Fig. 1. Sectional elevation.
Fig. 2. Part plan.
In the drawings an ordinary warp dyeing machine A is shown with a pair
of squeezing rollers B over each tank. The bottom rollers are provided with
chain wheels bat both ends and over these two endless or continuous chains C
and are passed.
Adjacent to the dyeing machine A or at any convenient distance from it is
a drying machine or chamber E heated with steam pipes F.
The two endless or continuous chains C & D travel parallel over the chain
wheels 6 of the rollers B and over a series of wheels or pulleys G in the drying
chamber and guide pulleys II to direct the chains C & D back to the dyeing
machine A.
Between the two chains C & D are removably attached at intervals a number
of transverse rods or bars or strong cotton tapes at right angles thereto over
which the hanks of yarn L are placed and carried forward through the machine
by the chains. The rods or bars K may be made of brass wood or other material
and are attached to the parallel chains (& D by links hooks or other form
of fastening by which they can be readily attached and detached. They may
be about an inch in width and about one eight of an inch in thickness at the
middle tapering towards the edges, or they may be round oval or of other suitable
form.
Over each pair of these bars K the hanks of yarn are stretched and these
are then attached to the chains one lot of hanks following close to each other
through the dyeing machine A and drying chamber E or round steam drying
cylinders.
As shown in the drawings the apparatus may be employed either in con-
junction with dye or other liquor vats suitable squeezing rollers being employed
or in conjunction with a drying chamber. Or a combined apparatus may be
employed in which the endless chains and transverse hank carriers travel first
through the liquor vats or tanks and then through the drying chamber and
back again to the liquor vats a fresh change of yarn having been supplied in
the meantime.
When combined with dye vats or liquor tanks the drying machine may be
placed in any convenient position either on the ground floor or on the top
Hoor. The drying chamber may be heated by steam pipes or in another arrange-
ment the endless chains pass over and carry the banks over heated drying
cylinders.

page_text: The dyeing apparatus and the drying apparatus may be made as separate
machines independent of one another each provided with an endless chain and
cross bars as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is―
1. In apparatus for the dyeing drying or other treatment of yarns in the
hank a pair of parallel endless chains in combination with removable trans-
verse bars engaging therewith to carry the hanks through the machine substan-
tially as described.
2. Apparatus for treating yarn in the hank constructed with parallel endless
travelling chains and transverse carrying bars substantially as described and
shown.
3. Apparatus for treating yarn in the hank having the several parts con-
structed and arranged in combination substantially as described and shown.
1040
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents.