Improvements in Machinery for Scouring and Dyeing Hanks of Yarn.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Scouring and Dyeing Hanks
of Yarn.
We, EZRA SYKES and DAVID SYKES, of Turnbridge Machine Works,
Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine Makers, and ExOCH HEPPEN-
STALL, of Huddersfield, aforesaid, Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed for the purpose of making a cheap and effective
machine for dyeing and scouring hanks of yarn. The machine comprises a
suitably shaped vessel, in which is made to revolve a spider wheel or face plate,
driven slowly by worm and wheels or other suitable gearing. The spider wheel
or face plate is provided with a suitable number of rollers or rods arranged
parallel to the axis and projecting from the face of the revolving wheel. The
hanks to be treated are passed over two of such said rollers or rods, arranged
radially or otherwise to the centre of the revolving wheel. The hanks are thus
carried around with the revolving wheel and immersed in the dyeing or scouring
liquor contained in the vessel, and in order to change the position of the hanks
upon their carrying rollers, we fix toothed wheels on the axle of the outer
roller and cause it to revolve by a chain taking into the teeth of the said, toothed
wheels. The chain is driven at such a speed as to cause the rollers to revolve
slowly, such rotary motion of the rollers being imparted independently of the
rotary motion of the face plate, and the chain may be in gear with only a
portion of the toothed wheels, or in gear with each of them so that the move-
ment given to the hanks may be continuous or intermittent. The machine is
enclosed within suitable framework provided with a door so that the operative
can readily have access to the rollers for the purpose of putting on or removing
the banks, and this can be done whilst the wheel is revolving. The bottom.
roller carrying the hanks is capable of adjustment so that the distance apart of
the rollers can be regulated to suit various lengths of hanks.
Dated this 24th day of December 1890
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax and Huddersfield, Agents.. :)
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Scouring and Dyeing Hanks
of Yarn.
We, EZRA SYKES and DAVID SYKES, of Turnbridge Machine Works,
Huddersfield, in the County of York, Machine Makers, and ENOCH HEPPEN-
STALL, of Huddersfield, aforesaid, Dyer, 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 :-
This invention is designed for the purpose of making a cheap and effective
machine for dyeing and scouring hanks of yarn. The machine comprises a
suitably shaped vessel, in which is made to revolve a spider wheel or face plate,
driven slowly by worm and wheels or other suitable gearing. The spider wheel
or face plate is provided with a suitable number of rollers or rods arranged
parallel to the axis and projecting from the face of the revolving wheel.
hanks to be treated are passed over two of such said rollers or rods arranged
radially or otherwise the centre of the revolving wheel. The hanks are thus.
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page_text: carried around with the revolving wheel and immersed in the dyeing or scouring
liquor contained in the vessel, and in order to change the position of the hanks
upon their carrying rollers, we fix toothed wheels on the axle of the outer
roller and cause it to revolve by a chain taking into the teeth of the said toothed
wheels.
Such being the the nature and object of our invention, we will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the annexed drawings wherein Fig. 1 is sectional
elevation of one side of our improved machine and Fig. 2 is sectional elevation of
another side thereof. A represents the vessel or cistern for containing the scouring
or dyeing liquor, and B is a spider wheel or disc mounted on the shaft C and driven
at a suitable speed by worm wheel. D and worm E from the niain shaft F. The
spider wheel B carries a number of hank carrying rollers & suitably mounted in
fixed bearings, the said wheel B also carries another and corresponding number of
hank carrying rollers H mounted in a double bracket I capable of adjustment
nearer to or further from the centre of the wheel by means of the screwed nuts a so
that hanks of varying lengths may be placed thereon. The hanks to be treated
are passed over a pair of rollers G and H, and as the wheel B revolves, the said
hanks are carried around thereby and submerged in the liquor, but in order to
change the position of the hanks upon the rollers so that every portion of each
hank can be equally treated, we impart to the outer rollers G a positive rotary
motion, and this is effected by placing on the axle of each roller G a toothed
wheel which is made to gear with a chain K, therefore as the wheel B revolves,
carrying with it the toothed wheels J, it follows that they will be made to revolve
so as to change the position of the hanks as desired. If the chain K is stationary,
the pinion wheels J may be made to revolve unnecessarily quick, therefore to
obviate this we cause the train to travel with the pinions so that the speed of the
said pinions is reduced. The chain K is driven by means of a toothed wheel L
which receives its rotary motion by a chain or strap M driven by wheel or pulley
from shaft C. The chain K may be in gear with cach toothed wheel J as shewn
in Fig. 1, in which case a continuous rotary motion will be imparted to the hank
carrying rollers G and H, but if the said chain K is held clear (by guide rollers)
of each alternate toothed wheel, then they would impart an intermittent motion to
the hanks.
The machine is enclosed within suitable framework provided with a door so tha
the operative can readily have access to the rollers for the purpose of putting on o
removing the hanks, and this can be done whilst the wheel is revolving.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what w
claim is :-
In machines for scouring and dyeing hanks of yarn, the employment therein of
chain or equivalent device for imparting either a continuous or intermittent rotar
motion to the hanks, independently of or in addition to being carried around by
wheel or face plate, all substantially as shewn and described.
11901
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax and Huddersfield, Agents.