IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR REMOVING AND WRINGING HANKS OF THREAD.
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Eastwood, of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Machine Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR REMOVING AND WRINGING HANKS OF THREAD.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Eastwood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
19th May 1862.
I, JAMES EASTWOOD, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Machine.
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR REMOVING AND WRINGING HANKS OF THREAD
OR YARNS, AND ALL KINDS OF FABRICS WHEN SATURATED WITH LIQUID," to be.
as follows:-
I employ a framework of wood or metal, and place in its interior the vessel
containing the materials to be removed and wrung, and then bring over the
centre of the vessel a pair of rollers working in standards fixed to a shaft,
which can be worked by a handle, so as to bring the rollers over the vessel, or
remove them from it. Above the rollers there is a long screw and rod working
in a nut and bearing fixed to the upper part of the framework; or a worm
and rack may be employed if desired.. At the bottom of the screw there are

page_text: hooks or projections for holding the material, and at the top of the rod is fixed
a toothed wheel, which is turned by a handle and gearing, so as to cause the
rod and screw to revolve, and also by means of the nut to rise gradually above
the vessel, which double action raises the materials from the hot or cold
liquor, and also twists and wrings them effectually; the refuse liquor
returning through a funnel into the vessel.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said James Eastwood, in.
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
EASTWOOD, of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Eastwood, Her special licence that I, the said James
Eastwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said James Eastwood, 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,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REMOVING AND WRINGING HANKS OF THREAD OR YARNS,
AND ALL KINDS OF. FABRICS WHEN SATURATED WITH LIQUID," upon the express
condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Eastwood, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 on or before the
Twenty-second day of. November One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
NOW KNOW YE,.. that I, the said James Eastwood, do hereby declare
the nature of the .said. Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement, that is to say:-
My Invention has for its object improvements in machinery or apparatus

page_text: to be used for superseding hand labour wholly or partially in removing
and wringing hanks of thread or yarns, and all kinds of fabrics from the
dye or other vats or vessels when saturated with or other liquids. The
peculiar feature of the machine of my said Invention is that the yarns
or fabrics can be thereby lifted, pressed, or squeezed, and twisted and
wrung simultaneously, whether from cold, hot, or even boiling liquid, the
combined operations being instantly effected by the motion of simple levers
or handles. The apparatus consists of a suitable frame of any required
form and construction adapted to the vessel with which the machine
is intended to be used, and fitted with a lifting and wringing, single or
multiple, snatch hook, pressing rollers, running, lifting, and turning gearing.
When required, the machinery of the apparatus may be made of a portable
form, and mounted upon wheels or otherwise, so as to be capable of being used
with different vessels. The general forms of the vessel, frames, apparatus,
and gearing by which I propose to give a practical effect to the improvements
of my said Invention, are delineated upon the accompanying Drawing.
Figure 1 shews a front elevation of the apparatus; Figure 2, a side elevation
thereof; Figure 3, a plan at the line A, B, Figures 1 and 2; and Figure 4,
a plan of the apparatus at C, D. The same parts of the machine are lettered
with similar letters where the same are shewn in the respective illustrations,
it will be therefore understood that the following reference applies to each

page_text: rod is turned in the direction of the arrow head No. 4, these hooks descend
to or through and between the rollers d, d, which are then separated by
turning the handle in the direction shewn by the handle No. 5, so as to allow
the said hooks or clips before-mentioned, with the yarns or fabric to be lifted
and wrung to pass from the vessel below; as soon as the hook or clip with the
material suspended therefrom is lifted just sufficiently for the hook or clip to
clear the rollers, they are pressed forcibly together by the closing motion of
the handle i, and held in the required position by a ratchet and pawl on the
shaft h, or by a strong spring of india-rubber or other clip n, on the ends of the
two shafts e, e. The head frames o, o, of the machine carry two cross heads
p. p, in which the lifting and turning rod is fitted in the lower cross head,
a nut or female screw q. or rack and pinion is fixed, in and through which the.
screw or rack and pinion portion of the said rising and falling rod works; at-
the side of the body frame another vertical shaft is mounted, working in the
bearings s, &, at the bottom of this shaft a two-wheeled t is keyed or fixed,
motion being given thereto by the handle and two-wheeled u which gears there-
with; at the top of this shaft r, a spur wheel v is keyed, and upon a short
square or hollow shaft a mounted in a bearing at y; in the upper cross bar of
the head frame a similar spur wheel w is fixed, which gears with and is
turned by the wheel v, by turning the handle w motion is transmitted to the
rising and falling rod 1, the upper portion of which slides through the hollow
bush x, as it is raised or lowered by the screw collar q, and thus the yarns or
fabric suspended therefrom are subjected to a wringing twist, while they are
thereby also drawn through the rollers d, d, and are thereby subjected to a
further wringing between the roller surfaces in contact, the combined operation
being effected as before described by the two handles i and u, the inverted cone
or funnel c receiving and conducting the separated liquid into the vessel below.
The toothed gearing shewn upon the Drawing may be modified both in form
and arrangement, and if necessary pullies and bands may be used in lieu
thereof. When clips are used, the screwed portion of the rising and falling
centre shaft or suspension rod being screwed at the top, and the bottom portion
being formed so as to prevent it from turning, the fabric may be lifted and
wrung in a flat or double or folded form.
Having thus described the nature and object of the improvements of my
said Invention, and illustrated by Drawing the manner in which the same
may be carried into effect in practice, I hereby further declare that I do
not thereby intend to restrict the application of my said improvements to
the precise form of the machinery and apparatus shewn by the Drawing, the
illustrations thereon being intended to shew the principle upon which the said

page_text: improvements are founded, as it is obvious that the same combined operation
of lifting, wringing, and removing may be effected by various modifications
in the detail thereby illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Eastwood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
JAMES EASTWOOD. (L.S.)