IMPROVEMENTS IN COTTON SIZING MACHINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENDERING THEM APPLICABLE FOR THE. SIZING OF WOOLLEN OR WORSTED WARPS
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carlos Delattre at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th April
1872.
I, CARLOS DELATTRE, of Roubaix, France, Manufacturer, do hereby.
3 declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COTTON
SIZING MACHINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENDERING THEM APPLICABLE FOR THE.
SIZING OF WOOLLEN OR WORSTED WARPS," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in certain improvements in cotton sizing
machines for the purpose of rendering them applicable for the sizing
of woollen or worsted warps or yarns. The annexed Drawing shows a
longitudinal vertical sectional view of my improved sizing. machine,
which consists of a suitable frame provided with bearings for the axis
of the various rollers, drums, and fan blowers to turn in; the warp is
represented by a red line, whereas the blue lines show the transmission
of motion to the various parts. The warp delivered from the warping
rollers R is conducted over two small rollers r and r², and through the
lease reed r², and passes into the size trough divided into two compart-
ments by the partition S; in this trough the size is kept in the boiling
state by means of perforated steam pipes V, V, V, V, and the warp is

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caused to dip into the size by means of open worked rollers P and P¹
and to pass between one or more pairs of squeezing rollers E, e
and E, e; from these latter the warp is conducted over a series of
drying pipes a, a, a, a
a, heated by steam, and over a large
light open worked drum T, provided over the outside with a series
of longitudinal wooden ribs fixed at the required distance apart for
allowing the free exit of the superfluous moisture to be expelled from
the warp by a fan blower U revolving in the inside of the said drum T,
from which latter the warp passes over a second similar drum T
provided with a fan blower U¹, and is finally conducted by means of
the guide rollers M, M', and N to the warp beam O.
The required revolving motion is transmitted from any suitable prime
mover to the warp beam O for drawing the warp and winding it slowly
on this beam, and also to the fan blowers U and U₁ fixed on their
respective arbors y and y¹ in the inside of the drums T and T¹, which
latter are fitted nearly loose, viz., with but very little friction on the
arbors Y and y¹, for the purpose of allowing the warp of being drawn
forward over the drums by the traction of the warp beam O, and without
exerting any notable strain on the warp, the small amount of friction
of the arbors y and y¹ causing the drums T and T to revolve in the
same direction as their respective fan blowers U and U¹. Drying
pipes x, x, x, x . . . . . .
. . . x, heated by steam, are situated parallel to and
within the circonvolutions of the warp, by which means the fan
blowers U, U¹, as well as those A, A1, A2, will project heated air on
the warp.
B is a large heating pipe situated at the outside of the
warp, and the machine is provided with a self-acting marker and other
appliances generally made use of in sizing machines.