Improvements in Roller Machines for Washing and Scouring Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roller Machines for Washing and Scouring Textile
Fabrics.
We, CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON, of Wharf Foundry, Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of the same place,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in machines commonly called "spiral
roller washing machines" in which cloth in the form of a rope travels spirally
(round rollers in and out of a water box) and our improvements consist chiefly in
the application to such machines of an arrangement of beaters substantially the
same as that described for an open soaping and washing machine in the Specifica-
tion to Letters Patent numbered 909 of 1893 granted to us.
We prefer to employ a double set of beaters placed above the water level and
arranged in pairs at each end of the water box to act on both sides of the ropes of
cloth as they leave the water whilst travelling spirally on the rollers from the ends
towards the middle of the machine where they pass upward and out of the
machine through the bowls or squeezing rollers.
The beaters may be triangular as described in the aforesaid Specification or of
other suitable shape and may be driven by gearing from the axle of the bottom
bowl or otherwise in any convenient manner.
Dated this 12th day of September 1896
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Roller Machines for Washing and Scouring Textile
Fabrics.
We, CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON, of Wharf Foundry, Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of the same place,
Enginer, 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:―
Our invention relates to improvements in machines commonly called "spiral
roller washing machines" in which cloth in the form of a rope travels spirally
(round rollers in and out of a water box) and our improvements consist chiefly in
the application to such machines of an arrangement of beaters substantially the
same as that described for an open soaping and washing machine in the Specifica-
tion to Letters Patent numbered 909 of 1893 granted to us.

page_text: We prefer to employ a double set of beaters placed above the water level and
arranged in pairs at each end of the water box to act on both sides of the ropes of
cloth as they leave the water whilst travelling spirally on the rollers from the ends
towards the middle of the machine where they pass upward and out of the
machine through the bowls or squeezing rollers.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is an end elevation and Figure 2 a front elevation, both partly in
section, of a "spiral roller washing machine" fitted with our improvements.
the
In these views, a designates the standards and framing of the machine,
bottom bowl or squeezing roller supported in bearings c, d the upper adjustably
weighted squeezing roller, e the water box and f the roller mounted therein.
The ropes of cloth g follow the course indicated in Fig. 1, that is to say, a rope of
cloth is passed through a pot eye at each end of the machine and down into the
water box e under the roller f, thence upward to the bottom squeezing roller b,
through the nip of the pair of rollers b, d, and down again to the water box
roller f and so on in a spiral until it approaches the middle of the machine whence
it passes upward and out of the machine as shown in Fig. 1.
According to our improvements we employ a double set of beaters i, k, each
heater or being constructed substantially as described in our aforesaid
Specification and the beaters being preferably arranged in pairs at cach end of the
machine so as to act on both sides of the ropes of cloth as they pass upward out of
the water in the box e. . We prefer to drive the beaters from a spur wheel m fixed
on the axle of the bottom squeezing roller band this spur wheel m drives a gear n
fixed on the axle of the beaters k on which is also fixed a gear o which drives a
gear fixed on the axle of the beaters i.
In order to regulate the action of the beaters ik on the ropes of cloth we prefer
te mount the axle of the beaters i in bearings in links or arms q which are
supported on the axle of the beaters & and one of these links q as shown in Fig. 1, is
geared by a toothed sector q' with a pinion s fixed on a shaft t which is controlled
by a band wheel, not shown, so that by turning the hand whee! and pinions the
inks can he raised or lowered and the beaters caused to act on the cloth ropes
with more or less effect as required.
The beaters may be triangular as described in the aforesaid Specification or of
other suitable shape and may be driven by gearing from the axle of the bottom
bowl or otherwise in any convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of or sal
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is―
We declare that what we claim is :-
In a "spiral roller washing machine" the combination with the squeezing
rollers b, d, the water box e and its roller f, of a pair or pairs of revolving
beaters i, k, arranged to operate on the ropes of cloth substantially as herein set
forth.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.