IM- IN FINISHING VARN AND THREADS AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED 5 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael Shillito, and
John Ireland Speed, of the Firm of Shillito, Rhodes, & Co., Yarn
Finishers, Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention of " IM-
IN FINISHING VARN AND THREADS AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED
5
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes,
Michael Shillito, and John Ireland Speed at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 20th April
1875.
We, SAMUEL GIBSON RHODES, MICHAEL SHILLITO, and JOHN IRELAND
SPEED, of the Firm of Shillito, Rhodes, & Co., Yarn Finishers, Leeds, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FINISHING YARN AND THREADS AND IN APPARATUS
CONNECTED THEREWITH,” to be as follows, that is to say :-

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael Shillito, and John
Ireland Speed, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th October
1875.

page_text: the Firm of Shillito, Rhodes, & Co., Yarn Finishers, Leeds, in tho
County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenticth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael
Shillito, and John Ireland Speed, Her special licence, that we, the said
Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael Shillito, and John Ireland Speed, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael Shillito, and John Ireland Speed, 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, usc,
excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN FINISHING YARN AND THREADS AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED
THEREWITH," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael Shillito, and John Ireland Speed, 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 calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Gibson Rhodes, Michael
Shillito, and John Ireland Speed, 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 state-
ment, reference being had to the annexed Drawing and to the figures
and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
The said Invention relates to setting and giving lustre to yarn and
threads in banks and on bobbins, doing away with the present plan of
washing and drying after gassing. For this purpose we employ a steam
jacketed cylinder or jacketed cistern, to which is fitted a steam pipe and

page_text: heated temperature in the inside C of the cylinder, when hermetically
closed of about two hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, but we may
employ a pressure to produce a higher superheated temperature.
The yarn after having been gassed is placed either in hanks D or on
bobbins in an open receiver or basket E and put inside the jacketed
cylinder A, a cover F is then placed on the cylinder or cistern and
hermetically closed, and secured by means of one or two cross bars G,
passed through lugs H fitted on the cylinder sides, and acted on by a
screw or screws I or by other suitable moans, a ring J is screwed in the
cover F to which is attached a rope K or a chain which is passed over
a pulley to lift up the cover F.
The yarn in hanks is kept in the cylinder or cistern about fifteen
minutes and yarn on bobbins about five minutes, thoroughly setting the
yarn, threads, or braid.
The yarn, or bobbins, or braid, can be wetted or dry; to wet them and
give the required weight we place some water L in the bottom of the
cylinder, which by the superheated temperature produces steam, or wo
fit a pipe M to the jacket of the cylinder to which is fixed a tap O
having another pipe N fitted to it and fixed to the inside cylinder; by
turning the tap O steam from the jacketed part of the cylinder is allowed
to enter in the inside C of the cylinder in such quantity as to give the
required weight to the yarn, bobbins, or braid. By these means we
produce setting and lustre to yarn, threads, or braid, removing the dust
produced by the gassing, finishing the yarn threads or braid, and doing
away with washing and drying.
The pressure in the inside of the cylinder or cistern when hermetically
closed is about two pounds on the square inch, but will increase with
the pressure of the steam employed; a safety valve is fitted on the
cylinder or cistern.
Having thus described our improvements and shewn by Drawings
how the same are to be carried into effect, we would have it understood
that what we claim as our Invention is,-
Firstly. The employment of a superheated temperature for finishing,
setting, and giving lustre to yarn and threads, substantially as herein-
hofora desenihod