Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Scouring, Bleaching, and otherwise Treating Yarn in Cop or other similar Compact Form.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Scouring, Bleaching, and
otherwise Treating Yarn in Cop or other similar Compact Form.
I, JOHN CHARLES HAMER, of Withins House, Radcliffe, in the County of Lan-
caster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dyeing mordanting,
scouring, washing, bleaching, steaming, drying and otherwise treating yarn in
cop or similar compact form, which apparatus is simpler in construction and
manipulation and whereby the use of perforated spindles is entirely obviated and
the said operations can be performed more speedily than heretofore has been
the case.
To this end I employ a cage adapted to be rotated very rapidly inside a casing,
which I may furnish with a cover, an annular space being provided between
and a space below the said cage and casing.
The inner periphery of the said cage I furnish with a number of rails arranged
each other or with other suitable
at suitable distances apart from
means, adapted to receive perforated receptacles in which the yarn
be treated is placed in cop or similar compact form.
to
These receptacles may be each formed with a lid and can be readily removed
from the said cage for the purpose of being emptied of and re-filled with cops.
When using a cover over the said casing I form same with a man-hole adapted
to be closed through which the said perforated receptacles can be placed into and
taken out of the said cage.
Inside the said cage I employ one or more pipes the sides of which facing the
said receptacles are perforated or slotted. This pipe or pipes are connected
with a circulating pump communicating with a supply tank and the space below
the said cage.
The said pump when set in operation draws the liquor or fluid from the
supply tank or from below the said cage and forces same through the said per-
forated or slotted pipe or pipes against and partially through the cops in the
said perforated receptacles. The said cage is then in the meantime very
rapidly rotated and the centrifugal force created thereby, forces the liquor or
fluid effectively through the cops in the receptacles into the annular space
between the cage and its casing, from whence it is returned to the said tank.
When using a cover for the said casing I employ an air pump in connection
therewith for the purpose of creating a vacuum in the apparatus before setting
the circulating pump in operation and thereby empty the cops of air and thus
facilitate the ultimate treatment of the same.
When the cops have been sufficiently treated with liquor or fluid the circulat-
ing pump is stopped whilst the rotation of the cage is continued for the purpose
of whizzing or expelling by centrifugal force from the cops in the said receptacles
the superfluous liquor or liquid.
The said casing is furnished with a pipe through which steam can be admitted
into the apparatus for the purpose of treating the cops with steam when desired.
Dated this 21st day of April 1899.
AATTIDD
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page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing, Scouring, Bleaching, and
otherwise Treating Yarn in Cop or other similar Compact Form.
1, JOHN CHARLES HAMER, of Withins House, Radcliffe, in the County of Lan-
caster, Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dyeing, mordanting,
scouring, washing, bleaching, steaming, drying and otherwise treating yarn in
cop or other similar compact form, which improvements render such apparatus
simpler in construction and manipulation and entirely obviate the use of per-
forated spindles without danger of the cops or the like loosing their shape and
enable the said operations being performed more expeditious than heretofore
has been the case.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, Fig. 4 a
sectional plan, and Figs. 5 & 6 perspective views of a detail of my improved
apparatus.
In carrying out my invention I employ a cage a, see Figs. 2 & 3, adapted to
rotate very rapidly inside a casing b, which I may furnish with a cover c, an
annular space
being provided between and a space e below the said cage and
casing, in which latter I employ a steam coil f.
The wall of the cage a only is perforated whilst its bottom g is solid and
rivetted to a hollow boss h, by means of which the cage is secured to its shaft i
mounted in the footstep formed on the bottom and in the bearing m on the
cover c of the casing.
The boss his surrounded by a hollow cone n carrying at its upper end a dish o
adapted to catch the oil dropping from the bearing m.
The shaft is rotated by means of bevel gearing p, p from the horizontal
shaft q which has motion imparted from the engine rattached to the casing b
of the apparatus.
s is a strap brake which serves to stop the cage a when required.
The inner periphery of the said cage I furnish with a number of rails t
arranged at suitable distances apart from each other or with other suitable means,
adapted to form compartments and receive perforated receptacles u in which the
cops or the like to be treated are packed.
These receptacles are each formed with a lid which can be readily removed
for the purpose of being emptied of and re-filled with cops or the like, see Figs. 5
& 6, the former showing the receptacles with lid removed and the latter with
lid secured thereto by skewers, w.
The cop or the like are packed into the said receptacle in a vertical position,
as shown in Fig. 5, or in a horizontal position so that the fluid will penetrate
from the sides and not from the ends thereof.
The cover c I form with a man-hole adapted to be closed, through which
the said perforated receptacles can be placed into and taken out of the cage a
when using the cover.
Inside the said cage I employ a pipe y (or pipes) the side of which facing
the said receptacles is perforated or slotted.
The bottom end of this pipe is closed and its upper end connected with a

page_text: supply tank 1 and also with a circulating pump z through pipes 2 & 3 respec-
tively, the said pump also communicating with the space e below the cage a
through pipes 4 & 5.
The working of the apparatus without the cover c is as follows:-
After the cage a has been charged with receptacles filled with cops or the
like the fluid is allowed to pass from the supply tank 1 into the perforated
or slotted pipe y.
The engine is then started, the cage thereby set in rotation and the circulating
pump in operation. Through the action of the latter the fluid is then forced
through the perforated or slotted pipe y against the cop receptacles and through
the centrifugal force created by the rotation of the cage assisted by the suction
of the pump, through the cops therein. The fluid having passed through the
receptacle and cops therein, runs into the space e below the cage from whence it
is re-used by the circulating pump or can be returned to the supply tank.
When using the cover c on the casing b I also employ an air pump 6 at the
side of the casing, communicating by means of the pipe 7 with the interior of
the same, for the purpose of creating a vacuum in the apparatus before setting
the circulating pump in operation and thereby empty the cops of air and thus
facilitate their ultimate treatment.
When the cops have been sufficiently treated with fluid the circulating
pump is stopped whilst the rotation of the cage is continued for the purpose of
whizzing or expelling from the cops in the said receptacles by centrifugal
force, the superfluous fluid which then accumulates in the space e below the cage a.
In order to be able of emptying the space e in the casing 6 of fluid whilst the
apparatus is at rest I furnish the pipe 5 with a tap positioned over a tank 8
formed at the side of the casing b at a lower level than its bottom, which how-
ever may also be used as a supply tank.
The casing b is also furnished with a pipe 9 through which steam can be
admitted into the apparatus for the purpose of treating the cops with steam
when desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1st. In apparatus for dyeing and otherwise treating yarn in cop or other
similar compact form, a rotary cage a with solid bottom, inside a casing b and
a fluid supply pipe y inside the said cage, the said cage being adapted to receive
perforated receptacles u holding the cops or the like to be treated and the said.
pipe to eject fluid under pressure against the said receptacles whilst the centri-
fugal action set up by the rotation of the said cage cause the ejected fluid to
pass through the said receptacles and thoroughly impregnate the cops or the like
therein and when the supply of fluid is cut off, whiz the superfluous fluid out of
the cops, all substantially as set forth.
2nd. In an apparatus for dyeing and otherwise treating yarn in cop or other
similar compact form, the cage a formed with compartments around its inner
periphery for the reception of cop or the like receptacles all substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 19th day of January 1900