IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE WASHING AND CLEANSING AND DYEING YARNS AND WOVEN, KNITTED, OR FELTED FABRICS OR PIECES
Year: 1879

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Arthur William Kirk and John Leeming in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th May 1880.
ARTHUR WILLIAM KIRK, of Halifax, in the County of York, Dyer, and JOHN
LEEMING, of Bradford, in the County aforesaid, Machine Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINES OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE WASHING AND CLEANSING
AND DYEING YARNS AND WOVEN, KNITTED, OR FELTED FABRICS OR PIECES."
This Invention relates to improved apparatus to be employed in the washing and
cleansing pieces or yarns in the hank, and for dyeing pieces or fabrics and yarns in
the bank.
According to this our said Invention in the washing and cleansing of pieces or
fabrics we employ a wash vat or vessel divided into compartments, and provided
with guide and squeezing rollers over and between which the piece is passed; a dip
pipe communicates with the water in the vat or other source of supply; there is
another pipe at right angles to the dip pipe, the whole forming a T; to one arm of
the T pipe is connected a perforated pipe extending across the washing vessel, the
other arm has a conical aperture, and in connection with which is a steam pipe. On
steam being turned into the head of the T pipe it exhausts and draws water from
and by way of the dip pipe which water is forced through the apertures in the
perforated pipe, the piece being conducted by the guide roller over or close to the per-
forations; the water is thus driven through the fabric, cleansing the same thoroughly.
In the dyeing of pieces a like construction of apparatus will be employed for
forcing dye liquors into and through the piece.
In the washing and cleansing and in the dyeing of yarns by means of the
apparatus above described, the hanks of yarn will be placed upon or over slowly
revolving creels, and exposed to the action of water or dye liquor, as described in
reference to the washing and dyeing piece goods or fabrics.
As the apparatus above described by the use of but little steam gives great
pressure to the jets of water or dye liquor to be forced through the piece, fabric, or
hanks, it is specially valuable for dye works situate at high levers, or where there
is not water supply under requisite pressure.
After the piece or fabric is operated upon it passes to a "cuttle" and is folded as
ordinary.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will now proceed
to describe same in detail, and that the Invention may be fully understood we have
hereunto annexed one Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of part of vat or washing cistern.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same; Figure 3 is a detail of part of the
apparatus.
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At 1 is a wash vat or vessel divided into compartments and provided with guide
rollers 2 and squeezing rollers 3 and 3, over and between which the piece 4 is passed;
a dip pipe 5 communicates with the water in the vat or other source of supply;
there is another pipe 6 at right angles to the dip pipe the whole forming a T; to
one arm of the T pipe is connected a perforated pipe 7 extending across the washing
vessel 1 and parallel with the rollers 3, 3, the other arm 8 of the T 6 has a conical
aperture, and in connection with which is a steam pipe 9.
On steam being turned into the head of the T pipe it exhausts and draws water
from and by way of the dip pipe 5, which water is forced through the apertures in
the perforated pipe 7, the piece or fabric being conducted by the guide roller 2 close
to the perforations in the pipe 7, the water is thus driven through the fabric,
cleansing the same thoroughly.

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur William Kirk, of Halifax, in the County of
York, Dyer, and John Leeming, of Bradford, in the County aforesaid, Machine
Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE WASHING AND CLEANSING AND DYEING YARNS AND
WOVEN, KNITTED, OR FELTED FABRICS OR PIECES."
91 May 1880 and deted the 25th November 1879
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur William. Kirk and
John Leeming at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th.
November 1879.
ARTHUR WILLIAM KIRK, of Halifax, in the County of York, Dyer; and JOHN.
"IMPROVEMENTS
LEEMING, of Bradford, in the County aforesaid, Machine Maker.
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE WASHING AND CLEANSING
AND DYEING YARNS AND WOVEN, KNITTED, OR FELTED FABRICS OR PIECES,"
This Invention relates to improved apparatus to be employed in the washing and
cleansing pieces or yarns in the hank and for dyeing pieces or fabrics and yarns in
the hank..
According to this our said Invention in the washing and cleansing of pieces or
fabrics we employ a wash vat or vessel divided into compartments and provided
with guide & squeezing rollers over and between which the piece is passed; a dip
pipe communicates with the water in the vat. or other sourse of supply; there is
another pipe at right angles to the dip, the whole forming a T; to one arm of
the T pipo is connected a perforated pipe extending across the washing vessel, the
other arm has a conical aperture, and in connection with which is a steam pipe.
On steam being turned into the head of the T pipe it exhaust and draws water
from and by way of the dip. pipe, which is forced through the apertures in the
perforated pipe, the piece being conducted by the guide rollers over or close to the
perforations; the water is thus. driven, through the fabric, cleansing the same
thoroughly. In the dyeing of pieces a like construction of apparatus will be
employed for forcing dye liquors into and through the piece.
In the washing and cleansing and in the dyeing of yarns by means of the
apparatus above described, the hanks of yarn will be placed upon or over slowly
revolving creels and exposed to the action of water or dye liquor, as described in
reference to the washing and dyeing piece goods or fabrics. After the piece or
fabric is operated upon as described it passes to a "cuttle" and is folded as
ordinary.
As the apparatus above described by the use of but little steam gives great.
pressure to the jets of water or dye liquor to be forced through the piece, fabric, or
Thanks, it is specially valuable for dye works situate at high levers or where there
is not water supply under requisite pressure.

page_text: In the dyeing of pieces a like construction of apparatus will be employed for
forcing dye liquors into and through the piece.
The tap 10 is used only when water or dye liquor under pressure is employed,
an ordinary dip pipe is equally effective.
In the washing and cleansing, and in the dyeing of yarns by means of the
apparatus above described, the hanks of yarn will be placed upon or over slowly
revolving creels, such as 2, and exposed to the action of water or dye liquor, as
described in reference to the washing and dyeing piece goods or fabrics.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, we would have it understood that what we claim as our Invention
is,-
The use of the apparatus comprising parts 7, 8, and 10, in combination for
purposes and as herein described and as illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Leeming, for and on behalf of myself
and the said Arthur William Kirk, have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Twenty second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
JOHN LEEMING. (L.S.)