IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DYEING AND DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS."
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Cooke, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR DYEING AND DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Cooke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th March 1856.
I, HENRY. COOKE, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for IMPROVED
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR DYEING AND DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS," to be as
follows:--
My Invention consists in the application or adaptation to dressing machines
(commonly employed for dressing and sizeing yarns, of dyeing or coloring troughs,
rollers, and drying apparatus, for the purpose of dyeing the yarns in the dressing
machine, and simultaneously with the ordinary processes of dressing yarn.
This introduction of the process of and apparatus for dyeing the yarn in
connection with the ordinary-dressing machine enables me to perform these
operations at one and the same time, and thus considerably economize the time
and cost of winding the yarns, as the rollers or beams of yarns as prepared by
the beaming machines are placed in the dressing machines (as usual, and the
yarns are at once passed through the dyeing or coloring trough and rollers

page_text: where they become stained or dyed, and by passing over a drying cylinder are
carried on through the ordinary dressing machine, when it is wound (after
being dyed and dressed) upon the beam or roller ready for "looming."
This novel application of apparatus is equally applicable to all ordinary
dressing or sizeing machines, but more particularly to that called "Kenworthy's
tape-leg," and also to yarns of all descriptions, whether of cotton, silk, or other
fibrous substances, and is not limited or confined to one colour only, as by simply
dividing the colouring apparatus into separate compartments and of suitable
widths any required varieties of colours may be employed, and any number or
divisions of the yarns or threads may be similarly dyed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Cooke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
COOKE, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Cooke, Fer especial license that I, the said Henry Cooke, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Cooke, my 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 IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR DYEING AND DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS, upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said Henry Cooke, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 I, the said Henry Cooke, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: to be particularly described and ascertamed in and by the following statement
and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in the application or adaptation to dressing machines
(commonly employed for dressing and sizeing yarns) of dyeing or coloring
troughs, rollers, and drying apparatus, for the purpose of dyeing the yarns in
the dressing machine, and simultaneously with the ordinary process of dressing
yarns.
This introduction of the process of and apparatus for dyeing the yarn in
connection with the ordinary dressing machine enables me to perform these
operations at one and the same time, and others considerably to economize the
time and cost of winding the yarns, as the rollers or beams of yarns as prepared
by the beaming machines are placed in the dressing machines (as usual), and
the yarns are at once passed through the dyeing or coloring trough and
rollers, where they become stained or dyed, and by passing over a drying
cylinder are carried on through the ordinary dressing machine when it is
wound (after being dyed and dressed) upon the beam or roller ready for
"looming." This novel application of apparatus is equally suitable to all
ordinary dressing or sizeing machines, but more particularly to that known in
the trade as Kenworthy's tape-leg," and also to yarns of all descriptions,
whether of cotton, silk, or other fibrous substances, and is not limited or confined
to one color only, as by simply dividing the coloring apparatus into separate
compartments and of suitable widths any required varieties of colors may be
employed, and any number or divisions of the yarns or threads may be similarly
dyed.
In order that this Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have attached to these Presents a Sheet of Drawing, upon a scale of
about one inch and a quarter to the foot, and having similar letters of reference
inarked upon corresponding parts of the apparatus in the various Figures
shewn.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved machinery or apparatus for
dyeing and dressing yarns or threads as applied to an ordinary dressing
machine, or that known as "Kenworthy's tape-leg," shewing the position of
the vessels containing the dye and sizeing mixture. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal
sectional elevation of the same, illustrating more clearly the passage of the
yarns or threads to be dyed through the said dyeing and sizeing vessels.
Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing of a dressing and sizeing machine; and b, b, are
the vessels containing the dyeing liquid, which may be increased or diminished
in number as required; is a steam or other drying cylinder supported in
the framing a, a; and d is a vessel containing the size with which the cloth
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is to be impregnated. After the process of dyeing, the number of these
vessels containing the sizeing liquid may also be varied, as may be required.
In Fig. 2 the yarn is shewn in blue passing under, the rollers e, which are
capable of being raised or lowered by the rack and pinion gearing ff, thence
between the rollers 9, g, which are driven by the mitre wheels h, h, and the
mangle rollers i, i, and thence passing upwards over the rollers k, k, and
downwards into the next dye vessel. The operation, will be more readily
understood upon referring to Fig. 2 and the following description thereof:-
The yarns or threads to be dyed and sized are brought first from the yarn
beams (as shown in Fig. 1), and into the first dye vessel under the roller e
between the mangle rollers g, i, thence upwards over the roller., whereby the
yarn is partly dried before entering the second dye vessel, after. which it
descends into the next vessel, and so on, through as many vessels as may be
required. When it has become thoroughly saturated with dye, it passes under
the drying cylinder c, and over a guide roller into the size. vessel - round a
similar arrangement of rollers as are used in the dye vessel, thence through as
size vessels as are required to impart the proper, degree of stiffening.
many
After leaving the sizeing vessel, it proceeds through the ordinary arrangement
of dressing machinery, as will be seen in Fig. 1.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together
with one method of performing the same, I would remark, in conclusion, that
I claim,-
First, the novel employment, application, and use of the process of
dyeing,
in combination with that particular description of dressing machinery above
described, so that yarns or threads may be dyed and dressed or sized simul-
taneously; and also the arrangement of apparatus by which such process as
.performed, as herein-before described, and fully set forth and exhibited in the
Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Cooke, have hereunto put my
hand. and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
HENRY COOKE. (L.S.)