IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN TENTERING OR STRETCHING AND DRYING FABRICS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT
PATENT to James Lee Norton, of No. 38, Belle Sauvage Yard,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
USED IN TENTERING OR STRETCHING AND DRYING FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Lee Norton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd October 1860.
I, JAMES LEE NORTON, of No. 38, Belle Sauvage Yard, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS USED IN TENTERING OR STRETCHING AND DRYING FABRICS," to be
as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used in ten-
tering or stretching and drying fabrics, and consists in applying heating boxes
or chambers suitably formed for receiving steam or other hot fluid to tentering
or stretching machines, which are arranged in such manner that the tentering
pins or hooks and the fabric thereon pass in zig-zag directions in going from
the entering to the delivery parts of the machine in place of passing in a con-
tinuous line from end to end of the machine, and such heating boxes or
chambers are placed and fixed in the zig-zag spaces left between the fabric. By
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page_text: these means the heating boxes or chambers may come on each side of the
alternate bendings of the fabric, as the same is caused to move through a
machine in a zig-zag course.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Lee Norton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
LEE NORTON, of No. 38, Belle Sauvage Yard, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Lee Norton, Her special licence that I, the said James Lec
Norton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said James Lee Norton, 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
Invention for
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED IN TENTERING OR STRETCHING AND DRYING
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Lee
Norton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 I, the said James Lee Norton, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say:-.
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus used in ten-
tering or stretching and drying fabrics, and consists in applying heating boxes
or chambers suitably formed for receiving steam or other hot fluid to tentering

page_text: and the heating boxes or chambers come on each side of the alternate bend-
ings of the fabric, as the same is caused to move through the machine in a
zig-zag course.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1 and 2 shew the two opposite sides of a zig-zag tentering, stretch-
ing, and drying machine fitted, according to my Invention, with hollow plates
to receive steam or other hot fluid; Figure 3 is a longitudinal section; and
Figure 4, a transverse section of the machine.
a, a, are the lower, and b, b, the upper side frames, they are bolted to the
hollow castings c, c, which are furnished with flanges for the purpose, as is
clearly indicated at Figure 4; a section of one of the plates c is shewn on a
larger scale at Figure 5. At the top and bottom of the machine, axes
marked d and e respectively, are mounted in suitable bearings; the axes d are
all geared together by spur wheels f, f; and to give motion to these there are
mounted on the axes of two of them larger wheels g, g, gearing with pinions
h, h, on the axes of which are bevilled wheels i, i, driven by bevilled pinions
on the axis j; and this is actuated by a band passing round a pulley ¹ at its
end. On the axes d and e, rollers h, k, k, are mounted, and over them, and
also over other rollers l, m, at the end of the machine endless chains n, n,
pass; these are furnished with pins, and the selvages of the fabric to be ten-
tered, stretched, and dried are placed thereon. The fabric in entering the
machine passes over the rollers o, o, and the beam p, which extend it and keep
it tight, and it is then pressed on to the pins by the small rollers g; the fabric
after passing through the machine is stripped off by the rollers r, r. In order
to keep the fabric stretched the chains are caused to pass between guides, and
these guides on one side of the machine are moveable; the rollers k, k, also
at the same side are capable of sliding on their axes. The moveable guides
can be moved towards or from the fixed guides by screws s, s, passing through
nuts connected with the guides; and these screws have screw wheels at their
ends, and are worked by worms t, t, on the axes u, u, which through bevilled

page_text: gear, as shewn, can be moved by the hand wheel v. The castings c, c, are
closed in at the bottom by covering plates c', and they are each fitted with a
steam pipe at one side and a pipe to allow of the escape of the condensed
water at the other. Hot water may be substituted for steam, arrangements
being made to cause the water to circulate between the plates; I prefer, how-
ever. to employ steam.
gear, as shewn, can be moved by the hand wheel v. The castings c, c, are
closed in at the bottom by covering plates c¹, and they are each fitted with a
steam pipe at one side and a pipe to allow of the escape of the condensed
water at the other. Hot water may be substituted for steam, arrangements
being made to cause the water to circulate between the plates; I prefer, how-
ever. to employ steam.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Lee Norton, have, hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
J. L. NORTON. (L.S.)