CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF DYEING OR STAINING WOVEN OR PIECE GOODS OR FABRICS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR SUCH OR SIMILAR OPERATIONS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DAVIES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the ninth year of Her reign,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Davies, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said John Davies, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said John Davies, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, an Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF DYEING
OR STAINING WOVEN OR PIECE GOODS OR FABRICS, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR SUCH OR SIMILAR OPERATIONS," being a communication
from a Foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that I, the said John Davies, shall cause a particular description of
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Davies, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and following explanation
thereof (that is to say):-
These Improvements in the Method of Dyeing or Staining Woven or Piece
Goods or Fabrics, and in the Machinery or Apparatus to be employed for such
or Similar Operations, apply to that particular style of dyeing or staining
whereby the color is deposited upon the goods or fabrics in longitudinal stripes,
(either straight or waved,) such stripes being darker in the centre, and
gradually shaded or softened off towards the edges of the same, and known
in the trade by the term " rainbowing." The Invention consists in the ap-
plication, employment, or use of a tube or tubes having small fountain jets or
spouts through which the colouring matter is forced (either heated or other-
wise), over which the cloth or fabric to be dyed or stained is caused to pass.
The colouring matter is thus deposited upon or forced through the cloth or
fabric in stripes, corresponding in number and distance apart with the said
fountain jets or spouts, the capillary attraction causing the dye or colour to
spread, and gradually shading and softening it off towards the edges of the
stripe.
Such being the nature and object of this Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of carrying the same into practical effect; and in order
more distinctly to shew the mechanical construction of the apparatus, and
more clearly to describe the same, I have attached to these Presents a
Drawing representing in three distinct views the application of this Invention
to the above-named purposes, and have marked the same with figures and
letters of reference corresponding with the following description thereof, the
same letters of reference pointing out similar parts of the apparatus in all the
Figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of an arrangement of machinery
or apparatus designed for the purpose of dyeing or staining piece goods or
fabrics in the particular style herein-before mentioned, called "rainbowing."
Figure 2 is a plan or horizontal view, and Figure 3 a transverse section of
the same, the lower end of the framework being removed. a, a, is the main
framing of the machine, standing at a convenient height for the attendance of
the workman, to which the bracket b is fixed, supporting the vessel c con-
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page_text: is kept heated by being enclosed in a steam jacket or casing d or otherwise.
To the vessel c is attached the tube e, communicating through the tap f with
the main tube g. This tube is furnished with several small fountain jets or
spouts h, h, h, h, which furnish the colouring matter to the cloth. These jets
may be moveable so as to be adjustable in width apart, and may be furnished
with stops or taps as desired. The cloth or fabric to be dyed or stained is.
lapped upon the roller i, and passed under the tension rollers k, k, and over
the fountain spouts or jets h, h, to the roller l, to which it is made fast.
The tap f in the tube e is then opened, which will allow the color to flow
or rise with considerable pressure through the fountain spouts or jets h, h,
and thus stain or dye the cloth or fabric, which is caused to pass over them
and lap upon the roller by turning the winch handle m, or by any other
convenient means. Thus the cloth or fabric will be dyed or stained in lon-
gitudinal stripes, extending from end to end of the piece, the capillary attrac-
tion causing the colour to spread, and gradually shading or softening it off
towards the edges of the stripe. n, n, is a trough for the purpose of catching
the superfluous coloring matter, and conveying it into a vat or other convenient
receptacle below. The cloth or fabric under operation must be passed and
repassed through the machine until the required depth of color or dye in
the centre of the stripe is obtained. If it be desired to produce the stripes
in waved or other (instead of direct) lines, a suitable traverse motion must
be given the cloth rollers, or to the tube 9. Two or any desirable number
of the tubes g, g, and sets of spouts or jets h, h, may be used if preferred, in
which case the cloth or fabric will not have to be passed through the machine
so often, and a diversity of colours may be readily worked, either apart or
in close contact with each other, by providing separate tubes and fountain
jets for such colors, as will be understood by the practical operative.
Having now described the nature and object of this Invention, together
with the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark, in
conclusion, that what I claim. as constituting the principal feature of novelty
in this Invention, as communicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing
abroad, is, the application, employment, or use of the tube or tubes g, g,
provided with fountain spouts or jets h, h, for the purpose of dyeing or
staining woven or piece goods or fabrics, in the manner herein-before par-
ticularly described and exhibited in the Drawing annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Davies, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-six.
JOHN (L.S.) DAVIES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
April, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Davies came before
our Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year above written.