Improvements in Crabbing Machines, Wet Finishing Machines, or any other like Machines Employed in the Process of Wet Finishing Dyed or Undyed Fabrics.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Crabbing Machines, Wet Finishing Machines, or
any other like Machines Employed in the Process of Wet
Finishing Dyed or Undyed Fabrics.
We, ARTHUR WILLIAM KIRK, of Old Lane Dye Works, Halifax, Yorkshire, Dyer
and Finisher, and THOMAS WILLIAM STEAD, of Waterside, Halifax aforesaid,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements have reference to that class of machine called crabbing or
wet finishing, and employed in the finishing of dyed or undyed fabrics. Hitherto
fabrics passing through these machines have been wound upon the bottom of two
rollers, the upper roller being composed of solid metal, working in loose journals,
rising and falling therein as the diameter of the bottom roller increased or diminished
by the fabric wound thereon. This upper solid pressing roller has not imparted to
the fabric the finish desired. We therefore propose to make the upper roller hollow
or chambered out, which we heat by means of gas, steam, or other heating media,
by which means a much better finish is given to the fabric, whilst the finish is
set" or fixed upon the fabric. The hollow upper pressing roller may be made to
bear with pressure upon the lower one, by means of weighted lovers or other
suitable mechanical means.
1888
Dated this 8th day of November 1889
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
SPECIFICATION.
COMPLETE
Improvements in Crabbing Machines, Wet Finishing Machines, or
any other like Machines Employed in the Process of Wet
Finishing Dyed or Undyed Fabrics.
We ARTHUR WILLIAM KIRK, of Old Lane Dye Works, Halifax, Yorkshire, Dyer
and Finisher, and THOMAS WILLIAM STEAD, of Waterside, Halifax aforesaid,
Machine Maker, 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 improvements have reference to that class of machine called crabbing,
squeezing, or any wet finishing machine of like character, employed in the finishing
of dyed or undyed fabrics.
Hitherto fabrics passing through a crabbing machine have been wound upon the
bottom of two rollers, but in the case of a squeezer machine the fabric bas passed
between the two rollers, the upper roller being composed of solid metal, or not, as
required.
In a crabbing machine the upper roller works in loose journals capable of rising
and falling as the diameter of the bottom roller is increased or decreased by the
fabric wound thereon, but in the case of a squeezer machine, the upper roller is
caused to bear heavily upon the bottom one by means of weighted lovers, or by its
own weight alone. The upper pressing roller referred to above, though imparting
some finish to the fabric, does not for all classes of goods impart enough.
therefore propose to make the upper pressing roller hollow or chambered out,
which we heat by means of gas, steam, or any other heating media, by which
means a much better finish is given to the fabric than hitherto obtained upon fabrics
requiring such finish.
We

page_text: Such being the nature and object of our invention, we will now proceed to describe
the same moro fully, and for that purpose make reference to the accompanying sheet
of drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 shews cross section of a crabbing machine wherein A represents the
bottom roller and B the top squeezing roller, which we make hollow as shewn in
the drawings, and heat by means of gas, steam, or any other means.
The fabric to
be operated upon passes through the crabbing machine as indicated by dotted lines
in Fig. 1. The upper hollow roller B is made to bear with pressure on the lower
one by means of weighted levers in the ordinary and well known manner.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of a five hole squeezer, the dotted lines shewing the fabric
passing single fold through the machine.
In Fig. 3 we have shewn the application of the heated hollow pressing roller
working between rollers A and C.
Although we have shewn and described the application of a heated hollow upper
pressing roller to a crabbing machine, and to a five hole squeezer, it will be under-
stood that the heated hollow pressing roller may be applied to any other form of
machine employed in the wet finishing of dyed or undyed fabrics.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
In machines employed in wet finishing dyed or undyed fabrics, the combination
therewith of a heated hollow squeezing roller for purposes herein described.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1889.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.