An Improvement in Hank Dyeing Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hank Dyeing Machines.
HARRY BENTLEY, Dyer, of 21, Osborne Street, Park Road, Bradford, Yorkshire,
and JOHN WILLIAM BURGOYNE, Innkeeper and Grocer, of 82, Earl Street, Bradford,
Yorkshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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A perforated cloth, or netting to fit on the sticks rods, or rollers, in hank, in hank
dyeing machines. The cloth is circular, and is placed so as to cover the whole surface of
the sticks, rods or rollers, enclosing both top and bottom sticks, rods, or rollers.
The cloth being so placed supports the hanks and acts as carriers, thus preventing
all lapping, breaking or undue stretching of the hanks of silk cotton or worsted
yarns and slubbing. We do not confine ourselves to the use of any particular make
of cloth or netting, or restrict ourselves to the use of any kind of material of which
the cloth or netting may be made.
Dated this 26th day of March 1897
JOHN WM. BURGOYNE.
HARRY BENTLEY.
An Improvement in Hank Dyeing Machines.
We, HARRY BENTLEY, of 21, Osborne Street, Bradford, in the County of York,
Dyer, and JOHN WILLIAM BURGOYNE, of 133, Horton Lane, Bradford, aforesaid,
Worsted Inspector, late Grocer and Innkeeper, of 82, Earl Street, Bradford, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to machines for dyeing
hanks of slubbing and woollen, worsted, silk, cotton and other yarn; and its object
is to prevent the hanks "lapping," that is to say: winding directly on to the sticks
or rollers.
Our improvements consist in the employment of a netted cloth or an openwork
or reticulated carrier mounted (preferably under more or less tension) upon the
sticks or rollers inside the hanks and adapted to move round with the hanks and
form a guard to prevent the hanks "lapping."
To fully describe our invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet of
drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side view partly in section of a portion of the hank dyeing
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page_text: machine described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 23718 of 1896 fitted
with our presen't improvements.
Figure 2, is a cross section of the same.
Figures 3 to 5, are views of detail hereinafter referred to.
The endless carriers N are made of openwork cloth or netting of any suitable
fibrous material that will not effect the dye or colouring matter in the vat A. They
are made almost the width of the distance between the side frames G (a portion only
is shown in Figure 2) and are supported upon the sticks E2 and pass under the
rollers E at the bottom by which means they may be kept under more or less
tension. The hanks are placed upon the sticks over the carriers and consequently
when the sticks are turned in any usual way the carriers move with the hanks and
entirely prevent "lapping."
Instead of making the carriers of fibrous material we may employ metal carriers.
Figure 3, represents a cross section of one of the sticks E en a larger scale with
a portion of a metal carrier thereon.
Figure 4, is a plan view of the same and
Figure 5, is a view of a portion of the carrier only.
This metal carrier consists of cross wires 0 the full width of the carrier linked
together by links P which links are kept the proper distance apart by spacing
tubes R mounted upon the wires O. The links P are preferably made of such u
length or pitch that they fit against the sides of the sticks E2 as shown in Figure 3.
The metal carrier may be made with other forms of links and they may be made
sufficiently heavy to keep the hanks submerged therefore the bottom rollers may be
dispensed with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
The combination with a hank dyeing machine of an endless carrier adapted to
lie inside the hanks and pass round with them, substantially as herein shown and
described.
Dated this 24th day of December 1897