Improvements in Airing and Beetling Starched Fabrics and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 9th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 12th July, 1887.
Improvements in Airing and Beetling Starched Fabrics and in
Apparatus therefor.
I, DANIEL MACFARLANE, of Underwood Road Dye Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to effect by mechanical means more expeditiously
and at lessened cost the operation usually performed by manual labour of "airing"
or clearing starched muslins and similar textile fabrics while more completely
impregnating the fabrics with the starch and so imparting greater stiffness and better
finish to the goods.
To that end I carry the starched fabric on reels through a long box-like chamber
which is heated by steam pipes or other means and wherein the fabric is aired and
partially dried by the action of a series of rotating paddles or fans which blow the air
upon the surface of the fabric. The fabric is drawn through said chamber by means
of a beam or roller whereon it is wound, the winding being effected by the action of
a rotating fluted roller upon which the cloth beam rests. The fluted roller which may
be formed of wood or metal is carried upon a spindle in suitable side frames and is
driven by a belt and pulley or other means, rotation being imparted to the cloth beam
by the fluted surfaces of the roller which give the beam a rapid up and down or
jigging motion and by striking the surface of the fabric as the beam descends, beetle
and press the starch into the body of the fabric.
Dated this Eighth day of Santember 1886
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.

page_text: Apparatus thereror.
I, DANIEL MACFARLANE of Underwood Road Dye Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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The object of my invention is to effect by mechanical means more expeditiously and
at lessened cost the operation usually performed by manual labour of "airing
clearing starched muslins and similar textile fabrics while more completely impreg-
nating the fabrics with the starch and so imparting greater stiffness and better finish
to the goods.
To that end I carry the starched fabric on reels through apparatus of the kind
represented in elevation at figure 1 and in detailed side and end views at figures 2
and 3 of the accompanying drawings, said apparatus consisting of a box like chamber A,
which is heated by steam pipes P, or other means and wherein the fabric F, is aired
and partially dried by the action of a series of rotating paddles or fans B, which blow
the air upon the surface of the fabric. The fabric which is carried by rollers C, is
drawn through said chamber by means of a beam or roller D, whereon it is wound,
the winding being effected by the action of a rotating fluted roller E, upon which the
cloth beam rests. As shown in figures 2 and 3 the fluted roller which may be formed
of wood or metal is carried upon a spindle e in suitable side frames G and is driven
by a belt H and pulley H, or other means, rotation being imparted to the cloth beam
by the fluted surfaces of the roller E, which give the beam D, a rapid up and down
or jigging motion and by striking the surface of the fabric as the beam descends
beetle and press the starch into the body of the fabric. As shown the fans or paddles B
may be driven by belting I, J, from pulleys on the shafting K, from which motion is
communicated to the beetling roller.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The airing and beetling of starched fabrics by means of apparatus arranged to
operate substantially as described.
2. The arrangement and combination of apparatus for airing or beetling starched
fabrics substantially as herein described.
3. In apparatus for airing and beetling starched fabrics the combination of the
winding beam or roller and the fluted beetling roller, substantially as described.
Dated this Seventh day of June 1887.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.