Printed Cotton Fabrics, and for Washing the same.
Year: 1885

page_text: Printed Cotton Fabrics, and for Washing the same.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR USE IN FIXING THE
COLOURS UPON PRINTED COTTON FABRICS AND FOR WASHING THE SAME
follows:-
to be as
This invention relates to a machine for passing printed cotton fabrics through
soap, tartar emetic, a chrome solution, or the like, and steam, and for washing them.
In carrying the said invention into practice I arrange a number of vats or tanks
in connection with a frame upon which are mounted a number of pairs of rollers.
These rollers are set in motion through the medium of belts and pulleys.
The fabric to be treated is placed upon a table. from which it is drawn over a
number of ledges through a vat containing a cold fixing solution or a soap solution.
As the fabric leaves this vat a pair of rollers press out the excess of liquid and the
cloth then traverses a water steam chamber in which the fixing liquid acts upon
the cloth. After leaving the steam chamber the fabric is passed through one or
more washing vats being passed between a pair of rollers after leaving each vat and
before entering, the next.
Rollers are arranged at the bottoms of the said vats under which the fabric
passes and also in the steam chamber. Two such apparatuses may be placed one
behind the other if desired in order to increase the effect. From this apparatus
the cloth passes directly to the drying machine.
The washing machines which form part of the apparatus consist of wooden vats
or tanks through which the fabrics pass over guiding rollers. The said vats or
tanks are provided with overflow pipes which effect a rapid change of water.
They are also provided with tubes for ejecting water spray upon the fabric and

page_text: with squeezing rollers having caoutchouc coverings all the said parts being
arranged in such a manner that the cloth leaves the apparatus thoroughly washed.
The advantages resulting from the use of this apparatus are
First: A great saving in the fixing substance because only the necessary quantity
of liquid remains in the fabric.
Second: The fabrics only pass through a cold soap solution or a fixing liquid
before they are subjected to the action of water.
The dyes upon the printed fabrics are thereby prevented from spotting and
running into one another and an energetic action of the fixing liquid takes place,
which was not the case with the appliances heretofore used.
Third: The guiding rollers in the steam chamber bear only upon the unprinted
side of the fabric whereby the dies are not damaged.
Dated thin 8th J of T700K

page_text: According to the said invention I arrange a number of vats or tanks B, I II, III,
in connection with a suitable frame upon which are mounted pairs of rollers
C, E, E and F, operated through the medium of the belts G and pulleys.
The fabric to be operated upon is placed upon a table A, from which it is drawn
over ledges a, a, and around the rollers b, 6 in the vat B, containing a cold fixing
solution or a soap solution. As the fabric leaves this vat it passes between the
rollers C which squeeze out the excess of liquid. The fabric then traverses
the steam chamber D, passing over the rollers H¹³, H, H, in which chamber the
fixing liquid is caused to act upon the cloth. After leaving the steam chamber,
the fabric is passed through the washing vats I, II, and III, the liquid being
squeezed out of the fabric after it leaves one vat, and before entering the next, by
the pairs of rollers E¹, E and F successively. From this apparatus the cloth passes
directly to the drying machine.
Two such apparatuses as described may be placed one behind the other in order
to increase the effect.
The washing vats or tanks contain guiding rollers b, b over which the fabrics
pass; and are provided with overflow pipes which effect a rapid change of water.
They are also provided with tubes for ejecting a water spray upon the fabric. The
squeezing rollers have caoutchouc coverings.
All the said parts are arranged in such a manner that the cloth leaves the
apparatus thoroughly washed.
The advantages resulting from the use of this apparatus are:-
1st A great saving in the fixing substance, because only the necessary quantity
of liquid remains in the fabric after squeezing.
2nd The fabrics only pass through a cold soap solution or a fixing liquid before
they are subjected to the action of steam. The dyes upon the printed fabrics
are thereby prevented from spotting and running into one another, and an
energetic action of the fixing liquid takes place, which was not the case with the
appliances heretofore used.

page_text: 3rd The guiding rollers H, H, H, in the steam chamber bear only upon the
unprinted side of the fabric so that the dyes are not damaged.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
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Apparatus for treating printed cotton fabrics, in which apparatus the fabric is
drawn through a cold fixing-liquid in a tank B; then through a chamber D in
which, by means of steam, the fixing liquid is caused to act; and then through one
or more washing vats, rollers being arranged to squeeze the liquid out of the fabric
after it leaves one vat and before entering the next.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
For the Applicant.