CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHELORY AN ADDADAMING FOR PRIMING VADNS MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING YARNS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Heywood, of Ratcliffe Bridge, in the County
of Lancaster, Dyer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHELORY AN ADDADAMING FOR PRIMING VADNS
"
Sealed the 27th October 1854, and dated the 28th April 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Heywood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
April 1854.
J, JAMES HEYWOOD, of Ratcliffe Bridge, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING YARNS" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to printing such yarns as are required to be partially
printed in the "hank," leaving intermediate spaces blank, to be subsequently
employed in manufacturing clouded or speckled goods or fabrics.
Any convenient number of hanks of yarn are to be distended endwise, by
passing them over two side rods or rails contained in a suitable framework
for holding them, and such number of hanks presenting a flat horizontal
surface, capable of being printed upon when placed side by side.
The parts of the yarns not to be printed upon or to be left blank are to be
pressed or preserved between flat ribs or bars, so secured or held together (the
yarn being tripped between them, as entirely to prevent any of the printing

page_text: color being introduced upon such spaces, and consequently the spaces of the
yarn exposed between such ribs or bars are open to receive the printing colours.
The printing part of the apparatus is composed of small revolving printing
rollers or bowls, which furnish themselves with the color, placed in small colour
troughs underneath them, the whole apparatus being completed by a printing
table or board situated above all and over the yarn, this table being covered
with a printing blanket or bed.
The operation of printing is performed by passing the rollers along
longitudinal supporting rails under the yarns, (which are distended in hanks
crosswise,) from one end of the frame of yarn to the other, thus printing any
width or colour of stripe or pattern required, simply by a suitable arrangement
of the width of the retaining bars or strips, and a corresponding interposition
of the printing rollers operating between them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Heywood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HEYWOOD, of Ratcliffe Bridge, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer, send
greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Heywood, Her especial license that I, the said James Heywood,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Heywood, my 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING YARNS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Heywood, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Heywood, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (and accompanying Drawing, that is to say):-
My Invention relates to printing such yarns as are required to be partially
printed in the "hank," (leaving intermediate spaces blank), to be subsequently
employed in manufacturing clouded or speckled goods or fabrics.
Any convenient number of hanks of yarn are to be distended endwise, by
passing them over two side rods or rails placed or contained in a suitable frame-
work for holding them, and such number of hanks presenting a flat horizontal
surface, capable of being printed upon when placed side by side. But in order
that my Invention may be the better understood and explained in detail, I.have
attached to these Presents a Sheet of Drawing, made upon a scale of about two
inches to the foot, and having the same letters of reference placed on similar
parts of: the machinery or apparatus throughout. In the accompanying
Drawing I have fully illustrated the mode or method I adopt for printing
yarns in the "hank," but the same end, may be obtained by the parts of the
yarn not to be printed upon (or left blank) being tightly compressed between
laths or bars, and the color rollers allowed to pass between them. Fig. 1
represents a longitudinal section of the apparatus; and Fig. 2, a plan or top
view of the same; Fig. 3 exhibits two rods or bars with the hanks distended
over them and printed upon; the same Figure will apply, when ready to be
placed in the machine or apparatus, for the purpose of being printed upon. a, a,
represents the framing of the machine, the ends being formed of iron, and the
sides simply consisting of four longitudinal wooden bars b, b, secured at either
end of the iron framing. The upper pair of the bars b, b, carry two toothed
racks c, c, in and over which the spur wheels d, d, traverse, worked by means
of the winch handle e. f is the dye or color box containing the printing liquid;
and g, a set of bowls or small drums revolving in it, and having motion
imparted to them by friction from the upper bowls h, h. Beneath the dye
box fare two guides j, which travel over the rail k. These guides may be
dispensed with, and, if thought desirable, small grooved wheels may be adopted.
The rails k, k, are supported on longitudinal sleepers 1, 1, and may be shifted at
will to any width required. m, m, are slotted bearing plates secured to the
framing for the purpose of supporting the hooked bars or rods n, n, secured to
the bearing plates m, m, by the small fittings o, o; if thought advisable, springs
may be furnished in lieu of these fittings, and the proper tension of the yarns
be as readily attained. Suppose the color box to be charged with dye, I také
the hanks distended upon the two iron rods p, p, Fig. 3, and place them

page_text: between the hooked bars n, n, previously adjusted, to give a proper degree of
tension to the yarns; the operator then causes the winch handle to revolve and
the spur wheels consequently to traverse the racks c, c. The bearings of the
shaft of the spur wheels being secured to the color box, the color box neces-
sarily follows the direction of the traverse on the rack c, c:- Secured to and on
the same shaft as the spur wheels d, d, are the upper bowls, h, h, supported on
the peripheries of the lower or color bowls g, g. The whole of the peripheries
of these bowls I cover with any suitable material. It will now be evident, that
as the bowls and color box advance, the yarns are brought between the revolving
bowls h, h, and g, g, the lower bowls constantly supplying color through the
yarns to the upper ones. This operation is repeated backwards and forwards
until the yarns are sufficiently printed or saturated. Various sets of bowls
with regard to number may be employed in the color box or trough, and by
suitably dividing the trough two or more colors may be printed at the same
time. The machine or apparatus may be made of any desired length.
Having now particularly described the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which it is to be performed, I wish it to be particularly understood
that I claim the particular construction, arrangement, and combination of the
several parts of the machinery or apparatus, as herein particularly described and
set forth, and fully illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, for the purpose
of printing yarns, or any such slight modification or variation thereof, which
shall be substantially the same in operation or effect when used or employed
for the aforesaid purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Heywood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JAMES HEYWOOD. (L.S.)