IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING TEXTILE MATERIALS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Ferrie and John Murray, of Paisley, in
the County of Renfrew, North Britain, Dyers, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING TEXTILE MATERIALS."
Sealed the 5th January 1872, and dated the 28th October 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Ferric and John
Murray at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 28th October 1871.
We, ROBERT FERRIE and JOHN MURRAY, of Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Dyers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING TEXTILE MATERIALS," to be as
follows, that is to say :-
This Invention relates in part to the dyeing of textile materials in the
carly stages of their manufacture or when they are known as slubbings,
rovings, or slivers, and its application is more particularly advantageous
when the materials consist wholly or partially of animal fibres.
The Invention also relates to the dyeing of textile materials when in
the chain," or arranged as warps ready for putting on the loom beann.
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page_text: The Invention consists in placing the slubbings, rovings, slivers, or
chains in a distended (but not tightly stretched) condition on any
convenient form of frame or reel on which they can be immersed, and
worked or turned in the dye liquor. The slubbings, rovings, or slivers
may be put on the frame or reel in the hank like form in which they
are generally put up by the spinner when intended to be dyed at an
carly stage. The chains may be conveniently arranged in a continuous
or serpentino manner round the recl or round pairs of rods forming part
of the frame.
By these means the dyeing of these materials is rendered more
uniform and certain, and the results superior; whilst in the case of the
slubbings, rovings or slivers, the fibres will be less disarranged, and the
materials in a better condition for the subsequent spinning operations
than when dyed in the ordinary way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
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filed by the said Robert Ferrie and John Murray in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th April 1872.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
FERRIE and JOHN MURRAY, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, Dyers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of October in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Robert Ferrie and John
Murray, Her special licence, that we, the said Robert Ferric and John
Murray, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Robert Ferrie and John Murray, our 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 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING TEXTILE MATERIALS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Robert Ferric and
John Murray, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and scals 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 we, the said Robert Ferric and John Murray, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
Our said Invention relates in part to the dycing of textile materials
in the early stages of their manufacture, or when they are known as
slubbings, rovings, or slivers, and its application is more particularly
advantageous when the materials consist wholly or partially of animal
fibres.
Our said Invention also relates to the dyeing of textile materials when
in the "
chain," or arranged as warps ready for putting on the loom
beam.
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And in order that our said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood, we hereunto append a Sheet of
explanatory Drawings to be hercin-after referred to, and representing
a modification of the apparatus which we employ in practically carrying
out our improvements.
Our said Invention consists in placing the slubbings, rovings, slivers, .
or chains, in a distended (but not tightly stretched) condition on any
convenient form of frame or rcel on which they can be immersed and
worked or turned in the dye liquor. The slubbings, rovings, or slivers,
may be put on the frame or reel in the hank like form in which they
are generally put up by the spinner when intended to be dyed at an
carly stage, and the modification of apparatus shown in the accom-
panying Drawings is adapted for the materials when put up in that
form.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, and Figure 2 is a corre-
sponding transverse vertical section. In the ends of a long dye vat or
vessel 1; of wood or other suitable material, there are fitted grooved
picces 2 the bottoms of which serve as bearings for the ends of a
horizontal shaft 3. This shaft 3 has fixed on it three slotted metal

page_text: frame bars 4, which carry cach two cross bars 5, capable of being fixed
at any distance from the centre on the frame bars by means of clamps
and screw bolts. Each cross bar 5 is made with a number of half-round
recesses, and is provided with a covering bar 6 made with similar half-
round recesses, which recesses together form sockets for holding a series
of rods 7 to carry the hanks 8 of slubbings, rovings, or slivers. The
hanks 8 being arranged on the rods 7, so that the ends of each row of
hanks are held apart by a pair of rods in a manner that will be easily
understood from the Drawing. The rods are set in their sockets on the
cross bars 5, and are secured by placing on the covering bars 6, which
are fixed by means of buttons, or T headed holders. The frame which
can be suspended from any convenient hoist by means of the rods 9
fixed to the shaft 3 is lowered into the vat 1, and into the dye liquor in
which it is made to revolve slowly by gearing, which may conveniently
consist of a spur wheel 10 fast on the shaft 3, and in gear with a pinion
11 on a shaft 12 passing out through a stuffing box. The shaft 12
has fixed on it outside of the vat a bevil wheel 13, which is in gear with
a pair of bevil wheels (not shown) on a driving shaft which may con-
veniently run along past the ends of a number of vats, and which has
a clutch between the two bevil wheels to admit of the frame or recl
being turned in either direction. Cross bars 14 are fixed across the
middles of the end frame bars 4 to assist in keeping the end hanks in
their proper places. When dyoing a chain only four lines of rods 7.
are required at the corners, and either the frame or reel shown in the
Drawings may be used, or a simpler reel may be employed having four
permanently fixed corner rods. One end of the chain is fixed to a
corner rod close to one end of the frame or reel, and the chain is then
wound loosely round the reel in a continuous or serpentine manner;
until its other end is reached, which latter end is then fixed. Or the
chain may be wound in a similar manner round two, three, or other
convenient number of rods carried by a frame or reel.
By the means we have thus described the dyeing of the textile
materials is rendered more uniform and certain, and the results superior,
whilst in the case of the slubbings, rovings, or slivers the fibres will be
less disarranged, and the materials in a better condition for the sub-
sequent operations than when they are dyed in the ordinary way.
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Having thus particularly described our said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we have to state that we do not restrict

page_text: ourselves to the precise details hercin described or delineated, that we
do not claim any particular apparatus, but that what we believe to bo
novel and original, and claim as the Invention secured to us by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
1. The system of dyeing textile materials wherein such materials in
the form of slubbings, rovings, slivers, or in any similar form, or in the
form of chains are placed in a distended (but not tightly stretched)
condition on a frame or reel on which they can bo immersed, and worked
ar turned in the dye liquor substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Murray, on behalf of the said
Robert Ferrie and myself, have hereunto set my hand and scal,
this Twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
JOHN MURRAY. (L.S.)