Improvements in Machinery for Separating Yarns or Threads in Hanks from each other, and Cleaning the same after Dyeing, Bleaching, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov,, 1889
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Separating Yarns or Threads in
Hanks from each other, and Cleaning the same after Dyeing,
Bleaching, and the like.
I HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents, of 18
Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me
from abroad by Jose Riera of S. Martin de Provensals, Barcelona, Spain, Manufac-
turer and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The threads of this textile fibres during dyeing or bleaching in skeins or hanks
adhere together through the gummy substances which are placed in the dye or
wash.
The object of the present invention is to remedy this inconvenience and it consists
of the following apparatus. Referring to the accompanying drawing illustrating
the same Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan.
By a pulley A motion is given to a toothed wheel which gears into the wheel k
carrying on its shaft the cylinder a.. d is a brush of animal or vegetable bristle or
metal capable of describing part of a circle around the axis of the wheel k by means
of lever m actuated by means of the crank wheel u which rotates the rod s, conical
gear t, and the screw v.
By the wheel n movement is transferred to a brush e of animal or vegetable
bristle or it may be made of soft metal wires which revolves. The cylinder c c is
moved horizontally by means of the guide blocks ff which are operated by
screws 99, put in motion by the conical wheels and the fly wheel'; which carries
the rod i i.
The working is as follows:-
The machine being in the position shown in Fig. 1, motion is given to the fly-
wheel the cylinder c is made to approach the brush e. Then the skein is placed
over the cylinder, a and c and the brush e, then by the fly-wheel; the cylinder is
returned to its original position as shown in Fig. 1. The tensioned skein bis arranged
so that the threads place themselves between the bristles of the brush e. In this
position, with the fly-wheel u and the conical gears t, the shaft r is made to revolve,
then the nut p moving, the arm v', which pivoted in p, pulls over the brush d on the
skein inserting its bristles into the threads of the skein."
The driving strap is then placed over the propelling pulleys A which by revolving 1
and k turns a, which, by tension of the skein sets c in motion, and the skein b rotates
passing through the bristles of the brushes which are rotated by the wheels on and
gradually insert their bristles between the threads.
The skein is stretched as much by the motion of a and c as by the rotation of the
brushes, which separates the threads and removes from the same the foreign matter
which adheres to it so that it can be easily woven without leaving any dust in the
weaving looms. The cylinder a, may also be made movable like the cylinder c &
in the same way. The axis of the brush e may be moved also.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In machines for the separation of threads in skeins or hanks of any textile fibre,
the two rotating cylinders a and c, one stationary and the other movable or both
novable if desired for tensioning and moving the skein.

page_text: 2. The upper and lower brushes d, e, of animal or vegetable bristles or of soft metal
wires having rotary motion and a shifting of their axes. All substantially as described
and illustrated for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 1st dov of October 1889
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Agents to Applicant.