Improvements in Self-acting Stopping Motions, Applicable to Bleach- ing, Dyeing, Washing, Finishing, or other Analogous Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Stopping Motions, Applicable to Bleach-
ing, Dyeing, Washing, Finishing, or other Analogous Machines.
We, WILLIAM BRADBURY, Agent, of 44 Cross Bank Street, Oldham, and JOSEPH
BEASON, Licensed Victualler, of the Waggon & Horses, Hollinwood, both in the
County of Lancashire, do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as
follows:-
In bleaching, dyeing, washing, finishing or other analogous machines for treating
fabric or yarn in rope form, the fabric or yarn is generally introduced into the
machine by passing it through a fixed guide, hole, or eye at a rapid speed, which
causes the fabric or yarn often to get in knots, or entangled around the said guide,
hole, or eye, and thereby becoming damaged, owing to the great strain exerted
thereon, by reason of the roller continuing to draw the fabric or yarn into the
machine.
Our object is to overcome these defects by providing bleaching, dyeing, washing,
finishing, or other analogous machines where the fabric or yarn is treated or
introduced in rope form, with a stopping motion, which self-actingly stops the machine
or any desired portion thereof on the fabric or yarn becoming entangled or knotted
on being introduced into the machine, thus preventing a great deal of trouble and
damage to the fabric or yarn, as heretoforo has been the case.
Our invention consists principally in the employment of a ring, eye, slide or lever,
or other equivalent, arranged in contact with the ingoing fabric or yarn, and
operating, by convenient connections, a suitable disengaging gear, friction or other
clutch, employed on the driving shaft or other suitable part of the machine.
This we prefer to carry out by passing the fabric or yarn on running into the
machine through two stationary guides or eyes, and raising, drawing, or depressing
it loop-like, by means of a ring, slide, or lever, or their equivalent connected to a band
or chain running over guide pullies, and connected to a convenient form of disengag-
ing gear, friction or other clutch, employed on the driving shaft or other suitable
part of the machine.
When a knot forms itself or the fabric or yarn gets entangled, and thus interrupts
its passage, the fabric or yarn at once assumes a straight course between the said
stationary guides and thereby actuates the lever, slide, eye, or equivalent aforesaid by
reason of being in contact therewith, and the continued rotation of the rollers of the
machine.
The action of the lever, slide, eye, or equivalent, then causes the disengaging gear,
friction or other clutch, to be operated and the machine to be instantly and self-
actingly stopped for the purpose of freeing the fabric or yarn from the knots or
entanglements.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Stopping Motions, Applicable to Bleach-
ing, Dyeing, Washing, Finishing, or other Analogous Machines.
WILLIAM BRADBURY, Agent, of 44. Cross Bank Street Oldham, and JOSEPH
BEASON, Licensed Victuller of the Waggon & Horses, Hollinwood, both in the
County of Lancashire, 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 :-
In bleaching, dyeing, washing, finishing or other analogous machines for treating
fabric or yarn in rope form, the fabric or yarn generally introduced into the
machino by passing it through a fixed guide, hole, or eye, at a rapid speed, which
causes the fabric or yarn often to get in knots, or entangled around the said guide,
hole, or eye, and thereby damaged, owing to the great strain exerted thereon, by
reason of the roller continuing to draw the fabric or yarn into the machine. Our
object is to overcome these defects by providing bleaching, dyeing, washing, finishing
or other analogous machines, where the fabric or yarn is treated or introduced in rope
form, with a stopping motion, which selfactingly stops the machine or any desired
portion thereof on the fabric or yarn becoming entangled or knotted on being
introduced into the machine, thus proventing a great deal of trouble and damage to
the fabric or yarn, as heretofore has been the case.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings representing a perspective view and
showing one form of our invention, applied to the class of bleaching, dyeing, washing
or finishing machine, known as a mangle.
A is the frame-work, B the rollers, the liquor trough, D the friction disengaging
gear, E the driving shaft.
In carrying out our invention, the improvements consist principally in the employ-
ment of a ring or eye a, slide, or lover, or other equivalent, arranged in contact
with the ingoing fabric or yarn b, and operating, by convenient connections, a suitable
disengaging gear, friction or other clutch D, employed on the driving shaft E, or
other suitable part of the machine.
This we prefer to carry out by passing the fabric or yarn 6 on running into
the machine, through two stationary guides or eyes c, c', and raising, drawing or
depressing it loop like b', by means of a ring or eye a, slide or lever or their equivalent,
connected to a band or chain running over guide pullies, or preferably to a lever d,
with or without a link d'. The lever d is fixed on a shaft e, mounted in suitable
bearings e¹ near the top, and furnished with another lever 2, fixed at an opposite
angle and connected, by means of a rod f to another lever g, fixed on a shaft g',
mounted in suitable bearings g2 near the bottom of the machine.
The shaft g' by means of the wheels h, h, and the shaft i and rod i', is in connection
with a convenient form of disengaging gear, friction or other clutch D, employed on
the driving shaft E or other suitable part of the machine,
The action of the stopping motion described is as follows:-
When a knot forms itself or the fabric or yarn gets entangled, before entering the
machine, its passage gets interrupted on coming into contact with and moves the
eye a and lever d in the direction of the arrow, the fabric or yarn then at once begins
to assum a straight course between the said stationary guides or eyes c, cl, see dotted
lines and thereby draws the lever, slide, eye a or equivalent forward, in the direction
of the arrow, by reason of the entangled part coming into contact therewith, and of
the continued rotation of the rollers B of the machine.
The action of the ring or eye a, slide, lever or its equivalent, then raises the rod f
and lever g, which causes the disengaging gear, friction or other clutch D, to be
operated and the machine to be instantly and selfacting stopped for the purpose of
freeing the fabric or yarn from the knots or entanglements.

page_text: The drawing annexed, illustrates the application of a single stopping motion only,
but it will be well understood that the same may be increased according to the
number of fabric or yarn ends b which may be run through from either side of the
machine, see full and dotted lines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the particular arrangement and combination of the
stationary guides or eyes c, c², as the same may be adpted and arranged in various
ways without departing from the nature of our invention, but what we claim is :-
"In self-acting, stopping motions for bleaching, dyeing, washing, finishing or other
analogous machines."
1st. The general construction, adaption and combination of parts operated, substan-
tially as set forth and for the purpose specified.
2nd. The employment of a ring or eye a, slide, lever or other equivalent, through
which the ingoing fabric or yarn passes and which, on the latter becoming knotted
or entangled therewith operates by convenient connections, a suitable, disengaging
gear D, suitably employed in the machine and causes the stoppage of the machine,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 5th day of Anomst 1889
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.