IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR apparatus FOR STEAMING WOVEN FABRICS.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Horatio Stead, of Halifax, in the County of
York, Engineer, and Bennett Appleyard, of Wakefield, in the same
County, Crabber and Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR apparatus FOR STEAMING WOVEN FABRICS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Horatio Stead and
Bennett Appleyard at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 2nd June 1875.
We, HORATIO STEAD, of Halifax, in the County of York, Engineer,
› and BENNETT APPLEYARD, of Wakefield in the same County, Crabber
and Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR STEAMING WOVEN FABRICS,".
to be as follows :-
A series of guide and stretching rollers
forated steam cylinder upon which it is
conduct the fabric to a per-
wound and steam forced or
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blown through the perforations in the cylinder; the fabric is then

page_text: unwound from the first cylinder and wound upon a second similarly
constructed, those portions of the fabric which were furthest from the
surface of the cylinder in the first instance being nearest thereto in the
second, whereby every portion is equally steamed.
unwound from the first cylinder and wound upon a second similarly
constructed, those portions of the fabric which were furthest from the
surface of the cylinder in the first instance being nearest thereto in the
second, whereby every portion is equally steamed.
If desirable before being wound upon the steam cylinders the fabric
may be passed underneath a roller immersed in a vessel containing
boiling water.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Horatio Stead and Bennett Appleyard in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HORATIO
STEAD, of Halifax, in the County of York, Engineer, and BENNETT
APPLEYARD, of Wakefield, in the same County, Crabber and Finisher,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Horatio Stead and Bennett
Appleyard, Her special licence that we, the said Horatio Stead
and Bennett Appleyard, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Horatio Stead and Bennett Appleyard,
our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR STEAMING WOVEN
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Horatio
Stead and Bennett Appleyard, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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,

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Horatio Stead and Bennett
Appleyard, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, and
accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say) :—
On suitable framework we mount two perforated steam cylinders, and
the piece or fabric to be steamed is wound upon one of the cylinders
and steam forced through the perforations thereof; the fabric is then
unwound from the first cylinder and wound upon the second, those
portions of the fabric which were furthest from the first cylinder being
nearest to the second, so that all portions of the fabric are equally
steamed.
In connection with this apparatus is a vessel for containing hot water,
through which the fabrics may be passed before being steamed.
In order that this Invention may be more fully understood we herein
give reference to an accompanying Sheet of Drawings marked with
figures and letters of reference, and representing side elevation of our
improved apparatus.
A is the framework, upon which are mounted two perforated steam
cylinders B, B. Steam is admitted to these cylinders through the
pipes a, and rotary motion is communicated to them from the pulley C
by means of belts or straps D. The cylinders are mounted in bearings
consisting of two friction pulleys c, c, placed nearly close together, the
axis of the cylinder resting upon them, so that the friction upon the
axis is as little as possible.
The piece or fabric to be steamed passes over the tension rods D',
under the roller E in the hot-water vessel F, over the rod f, and is then
wound on the cylinder B, the pressure being regulated by means of the
roller G mounted in the bell-crank lever g, to which is attached the cord
or chain and weight H. On leaving the first cylinder the fabric passes
over the guide rollers h and between the pressing roller J and steam
cylinder B¹, being wound upon the latter, those parts of the fabric which
were nearest to the surface of the first cylinder being furthest from the
surface of the second, so that all parts are equally steamed. The pressing

page_text: roller J is counterbalanced by the weight K at the end of the lever L.
On leaving the second cylinders. the fabric passes between the drawing-
off rollers M, and is cuttled by the usual apparatus N.
As soon as the fabric has been once or twice passed round the first
cylinder steam may be forced through it and the steaming may be con-
tinued until it finally leaves the second cylinder.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and shewn by
Drawings how the same is to be performed or carried into practice, we
would have it understood that we claim, the construction and use of
machinery or apparatus for steaming woven fabrics, substantially as 1
herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Horatio Stead, for and on behalf of
myself and the said Bennett Appleyard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
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HORATIO STEAD. (L.S.)