Improvements in Means and Apparatus for Producing a Fine Spray of Liquid Applicable to Machines for Damping Fabrics, and for other purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Means and Apparatus for Producing a Fine Spray
of Liquid Applicable to Machines for Damping Fabrics, and for
other purposes.
We, THE STANDISH COMPANY. LIMITED, of Worthington, near Wigan, in the
County of Lancaster, Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers, and ERNEST DUTCH, of
the same address, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
Our invention relates to improvements in means and apparatus for producing
a fine spray of liquid applicable to machines for damping fabrics and for other
purposes.
According to our invention we employ in place of the roller brush or other
damping apparatus hitherto in use a cylindrical or other suitable skeleton frame
formed of wood metal or other suitable material, and we so construct and arrange
such skeleton frame that it may be covered with wire gauze, perforated metal,
cloth or other woven fabric, or any other suitable material of a porous or absor-
bent nature. The skeleton frame may also be so formed as to allow of two or
more coverings or layers of the said materials being employed in conjunction
with one another and certain or all of such coverings or layers may be so arranged
as to be in close contact with one another or have any suitable space between
them.
Through the centre of the skeleton frame passes a perforated pipe or pipes so
arranged that it or they may be held stationary or may be rotated at any suit-
able speed in either direction. The skeleton frame is so mounted that it may
be rotated with or independently of the pipe or pipes at any desired speed, and
when it is set in motion and water is allowed to flow through the perforated
stationary or rotated pipe or pipes into the interior of the skeleton frame the
rapid rotation will cause a very fine spray to be produced.
According to a further part of our invention we dispense with the covering
or layer of porous or equivalent material and provide the skeleton frame with
any suitable number of arms or beaters of any suitable size and form which will
when such frame is rotated, act upon the jets of water issuing from the pipe or
pipes and cause them to be broken up into fine spray.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1897.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Means and Apparatus for Producing a Fine Spray
of Liquid Applicable to Machines for Damping Fabrics, and for
other purposes.
We, THE STANDISH COMPANY LIMITED, of Worthington, near Wigan, in the
County of Lancaster, Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers, and ERNEST DUTCH, of
the same address, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:—
Our invention relates to improvements in means and apparatus for producing
a fine spray of liquid applicable to machines for damping fabrics and for other
purposes.
According to our invention we employ in place of the roller brush or other
damping apparatus hitherto in use a cylindrical or other skeleton frame
formed of wood metal or other suitable material, and we so construct and arrange
such skeleton frame that it may be covered with wire gauze, perforated metal,
cloth or other woven fabric, or any other suitable material of a porous or absor-
bent nature. The skeleton frame may also be so formed as to allow of two or
more coverings or layers of the said materials being employed in conjunction
with one another and certain or all of such coverings or layers may be so arranged
as to be in close contact with one another or have any suitable space between
them.
Through the centre of the skeleton frame passes a perforated pipe or pipes so
arranged that it or they may be held stationary or may be rotated at any suit-
able speed in either direction. The skeleton frame is so mounted that it may
be rotated with or independently of the pipe or pipes at any desired speed, and
when it is set in motion and water is allowed to flow through the perforated
stationary or rotated pipe or pipes into the interior of the skeleton frame the
rapid rotation will cause a very fine spray to be produced.
According to a further part of our invention we dispense with the covering
or layer of porous or equivalent material and provide the skeleton frame with
any suitable number of arms or beaters of any suitable size and form which will
when such frame is rotated, act upon the jets of water issuing from the pipe or
pipes and cause them to be broken up into fine spray.
Fig. 1 is a sectional end view and Fig. 2 a sectional front view of a machine
for damping fabrics to which our improvements are applied. Fig. 3 is a sectional
view of part of the machine on an enlarged scale. Figs. 4 and 5 are two sectional
views of modifications of our invention.
In Figs. 1 and 2, 1 designates the frame of the machine, 2 a box contained
within the frame and provided with an outlet 3 and two adjustable shutters or
covers 4 formed of sheets of felt or other suitable material, with an open space
between them at the top. The spraying apparatus in this case consists of an
outer perforated pipe 5 surrounding an inner perforated pipe 6, see Fig. 3; to the
latter pipe are connected two liquid supply pipes 7 see Fig. 2, or it might be a
single supply pipe, and the pipe 5 is fitted to rotate in bearings in the frame 1,
and on this pipe is mounted securely a frame 8 formed of wood, metal or other
suitable material, arranged to be covered with wire gauze, perforated metal, cloth

page_text: or other woven or felted fabric 9, or any other suitable material of a porous or
absorbent nature, the pipes 5 and 6, frame 8 and cover 9 forming the spray pro-
ducing apparatus.
The outer perforated pipe 5 has a pulley 10 secured to one of its ends, to receive
a driving belt by which it and the frame 8 can be set to rotate at any desired
speed. The fabric to be damped is led over the machine by guide rods 11, under a
driven roller 12 on to a batch roller 13 upon which it can be wound; when start-
ing the machine, water or other liquid is admitted to the inner perforated pipe 6,
which pipe in this case is stationary, through the pipes or pipe 7, and as soon as
a quick rotary motion is given to the pipe 5 and frame 8, the water as it issues
from the perforations in the pipes. 6 and 5 will be broken up by the frame 8 and
forced outward by centrifugal force through the covering 9 in the form of very,
fine spray on to the fabric passing above.
In order to prevent waste of liquid we propose to connect the starting lever of
the machine to a valve or valves on the supply pipe 7 so that the water will be
turned on and off when the machine is started and stopped. If desired the pipe 6
might be connected to its supply pipe, or pipes 7 by stuffing boxes in which case
rotary motion might be given to it either in the same direction or in the contrary
direction to that given to the outer pipe 5, an additional belt and pulley or its
equivalent only being required.
Although we have in the above description referred to the pipe 6 as receiving
its supply of water or other liquid from any suitable source we may in some cases
keep a quantity of liquid in the box at a certain level and so arrange the supply
pipe 7 that by one or both of its ends being allowed to terminate below the level
of such water the pipe 6 might draw its own supply by means of centrifugal force
from the water in the box.
The frame may also be so formed as to allow of two or more coverings or layers
of the said materials being employed in conjunction with one another, and certain
or all of such coverings or layers may be so arranged as to be in close contact
with one another, or have any suitable space between them, as shown in Fig. 4,
in which three layers of coverings 9 out of contact with one another are shown.
In Fig. 5 a spraying frame without the outer coverings is illustrated and in
their stead we employ any suitable number of arms or beaters of any suitable size
and form which will when such frame is rotated act upon the jets of water issuing
from the pipe or pipes and cause them to be broken up into fine spray.
Although we have shown and described the spraying frame mounted upon and
rotating with the outer perforated pipe we wish it to be understood that the frame
may rotate independently of the pipe, and the latter may be stationary if preferred.
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 a machine for damping fabrics and for other purposes,
1. The use and application of a stationary or rotatory perforated pipe, or two or
more perforated pipes, supplied with liquid in combination with a rotatory frame
provided with a cover or covers of perforated metal, cloth or other fabric, or other
suitable material of a porous or absorbent nature, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
2. The use and application of a stationary or rotatory perforated pipe, or two or
more perforated pipes, supplied with liquid in combination with a rotatory frame
provided with beaters arranged to produce a fine spray substantially as and for the
purposes described.
3. The use and application of perforated pipes placed one within the other and
arranged that one, any, or all of the pipes may be rotated in the same or in con-
trary directions, in combination with a rotatory frame surrounding the pipes for
producing a fine spray substantially as and for the purposes described.

page_text: 4. The several combinations and arrangements of perforated liquid supply pipes
and rotatory spraying frames substantially as and for the purposes described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.