Apparatus for Treating Textile Materials with Liquids, Gases, or Vapours.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1887.
Apparatus for Treating Textile Materials with Liquids, Gases,
or Vapours.
I, WILLIAM MATHER, of Salford Iron Works, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In my Specification No. 8793 of 1885 I have described apparatus for treating
textile materials with liquids, gases or vapours. The apparatus referred to consists
of a closed chamber into which are run lattice trucks containing fabrics, yarns or
such like objects to be treated, each truck having in its middle a perforated partition
which, when the truck is moved to its position in the chamber is put in communication
with a pipe fixed in the chamber and connected with a pump or reservoir. When
liquor is delivered at the top of the chamber, it passes in all directions through
the goods in the truck, collects in the central partition and escapes by the pipe which
is then in communication with it. For several kinds of goods to be treated it
is found advantageous to make the liquor pass vertically through the mass uniformly
over the whole surface. My present invention relates to a modified construction
of trucks adapting them for the treatment of goods in this manner. I make the
truck not of lattice or open framing but with closed sides, an open top and a bottom
perforated uniformly all over its surface. Under this perforated bottom I form
a chamber which is in communication with the fixed pipe. In operating with this
apparatus, the liquor poured or sprinkled on the upper surface of the goods in the
truck soaks through them, passes through the perforated bottom in to the chamber
below and thence by the pipe to the suction pump which may be made to maintain a
partial vacuum in the chamber and so promote the flow of the liquor through the
goods.
"
11
Qui 1
1002

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Treating Textile Materials with Liquids, Gases,
or Vapours.
I, WILLIAM MATHER of Salford Iron Works, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer 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 my Specification No. 8793 of 1885 I have described apparatus for treating
textile materials with liquids, gases or vapours. The apparatus referred to. consists
of a closed chamber into which are run lattice trucks containing fabrics, yarns or
such like objects to be treated, each truck having in its middle a perforated partition
which when the truck is moved to its position in the chamber is put in communication
with a pipe fixed in the chamber and connected with a pump or reservoir. When
liquid is delivered at the top of the chamber it passes in all directions through the
goods in the truck, collects in the central partition and escapes by the pipe which
is then in communication with it. For several kinds of goods to be treated it
is found advantageous to make the liquor pass vertically through the mass uniformly
over the whole surface. My present invention relates to a modified construction
of trucks adapting them for the treatment of goods in this manner as I will describe
referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a transverse section of a chamber and truck arranged as above described,
and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of one of the trucks and the end part of
the chamber, which may be of such length as to hold one, two, three or more
trucks in line.
A is the chamber made as a cylindrical boiler placed horizontally and closed at the
one end or at each end by a sluice door B which being slid down as a wedge with its
sides engaged in inclined guides C makes a tight joint with the end face of the
chamber A. In the upper part of the chamber there is a perforated ceiling D, and
in the lower part of the chamber are laid rails R which when the sluice door B
is raised are made continuous with external rails by bridge rail R¹; there are also
steam pipes P by which the interior of the chamber A can be heated. In the middle
between the rails is fixed in a position suited for each truck a pipe L the upper
surface H of which is flat and smooth, this flat part terminating at one end with
a slope G.
The truck T has a perforated bottom E (on which may be laid filtering materials)
and under this a compartment through the bottom M of which there is an aperture
fitted with a telescopically sliding tube F that is urged downwards by a spring S.
When the truck T is run towards its place in the chamber A, the tube F passing
along the slope G is pressed upwards in opposition to the spring S, and when
the truck rests in its position the spring thus compressed forces the tube F closely
down on the surface H so as to prevent lateral leakage. The compartment under

page_text: each truck being thus put in communication through the pipe L with a pump, vacuum
vessel or pressure reservoir, when liquid is poured through the perforated ceiling D
on the materials in the truck it is drawn through them and through the perforated
bottom E and conveyed away by the pipe L or liquid sent through pipe L'is caused
to pass in the opposite direction through the materials in the truck.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
=-
In apparatus for treating textile materials with liquids gases or vapours, the
construction and use of trucks with perforated bottoms and compartments under them
fitted with spring telescope tubes by which these compartments are put in
communication with the fluid supply or discharge pipes, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1887.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.