Improvements in or connected with Machines for Dyeing, Scouring, or Drying Hanks of Yarn or Tops.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Machines for Dyeing, Scouring,
or Drying Hanks of Yarn or Tops.
I, EDWIN BROOK of the Firm of William Brook and Sons of Slaithwaite Dye
Works, Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Dyers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers more especially to "Klauder's skein dyeing machine," but
is also applicable to other descriptions of skein dyeing machines, and relates to the
sticks employed therein for carrying the skeins of yarn, or tops, to be dyed, scoured,
or dried, and to bearings for same.
In the above named class of machine two discs or spider wheels are employed
adapted to revolve partly in and partly out of the liquor in the machine, and
between the said discs or wheels and supported in bearings thereon are arranged
two series of sticks, an outer and an inner series, between which the hanks are
distended. The outer sticks are preferably made square in cross section and at one
end engage with devices employed to partly rotate the said sticks intermittently so
as to frequently change the position of the hanks thereon, while the opposite ends
of said sticks are rounded or "turned" down to a smaller diameter and are inserted
into corresponding openings on the periphery of the wheel or disc, in which said
openings they are free to rotate.
The aforesaid "turned" ends weaken the sticks and, by reason of the weight
of yarn thereon, they frequently break off, especially after the sticks have been
"boiled" by passing through the hot liquor, thereby letting down the yarn and
necessitating the introduction of a new stick.
My invention is intended to obviate these breakages and consists in dispensing
with the turned ends referred to and making the sticks square or angular up to the
end so that they shall not be weakened. In order to enable the sticks so con-
structed to rotate, I provide suitable pedestals or brackets on the periphery of the
wheel or disc supporting said ends of the sticks, and secured in these pedestals and
free to rotate therein are flanged bushes, collars or tubes provided centrally with
square or angular openings or recesses adapted to receive the ends of the sticks,
which, when inserted therein are capable of being freely rotated by the means at
present in use and for the same purposes.
In thus mounting the sticks in revolvable bearings at one side of the machine
and dispensing with the small turned ends, breakages are obviated and the expense
of repairs and renewals considerably reduced.
Dated 22nd day of February 1893
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Machines for Dyeing, Scouring,
or Drying Hanks of Yarn or Tops.
"
I, EDWIN BROOK, of the Firm of William Brook and Sons, of Slaithwaite
Dye Works, Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Dyers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
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performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention refers more especially to "Klauder's skein dyeing machine" but
is also applicable to other descriptions of skein dyeing machines and relates to the
sticks employed therein for carrying the skeins of yarn or tops to be dyed scoured
or dried and to bearings for same.
In the above named class of machine two discs or spider wheels are employed
which revolve partly in and partly out of the liquor in the machine and between
the said discs or wheels and supported in bearings thereon are arranged two series
of sticks, an outer and an inner series, between which the hanks of yarn are
distended. The outer series of sticks are made square in cross section and at one
end engage with devices for giving motion to the said sticks so as to frequently
change the position of the hanks thereon, while the opposite ends of such sticks
are rounded or "turned" down to a smaller diameter and are inserted into corre-
sponding openings on the periphery of the wheel or disc in which they are free to
rotate.
The aforesaid turned ends considerably weaken the sticks and, by reason of the
weight of yarn thereon, especially after being "boiled" by passing through the
liquor, they frequently break off thereby letting down the yarn and necessitating
the introduction of new sticks.
My invention is intended to obviate these breakages and consists in dispensing
with the turned ends referred to and making the sticks square or angular up to
the extreme end so that they shall not be weakened. In order to enable the sticks
80 made to rotate, I provide suitable pedestals or brackets on the periphery of the
disc or wheel and secured in these pedestals and free to rotate therein are flanged
bushes collars or tubes provided centrally with square or angular openings or
recesses adapted to receive the ends of the sticks which are thus capable of being
freely rotated.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood reference is herein
made to the accompanying drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 is cross section shewing a portion of one of the discs or spider wheels
employed in the before mentioned class of machine, having my improved bearing
for one end of the hank carrying roller applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is longitudinal elevation of same, and
Fig. 3 is enlarged section taken on line a, b, of Fig. 1, of the said bearing.
A, A', represent the discs or spider wheels supporting the opposite ends of the
two series of sticks B, B', of which only one pair is shewn in Fig. 1, said sticks
being arranged radially around the discs for carrying the hanks, of yarn or tops
which are placed around and distended between them as indicated at C. The
outer series of sticks B are made square or angular up to one end thereof and at
the opposite ends are turned as at present so as to enter and engage with the means
for giving a continuous or intermittent rotary motion to the sticks for the purpose
of changing the position of the hanks thereon as shewn at Fig. 2, or in any other
ordinary manner adopted in these machines.
On the periphery of the wheel or disc A are secured or formed brackets or
pedestals D, one for each stick, and in said pedestals are secured flanged bushes
or tubes E which are free to rotate therein. A square or angular opening F
corresponding in size and shape to the stick B is formed centrally through the
bush E and into the said opening the square or angular end of the stick is inserted
when filling the machine, said bush thus forming a revolvable bearing for the
square end of the stick and permitting the latter to be rotated as at present.
By means of the before described revolvable bearings the sticks are not weakened
at one end as is now the case, and are much less liable to breakage after being
"boiled" and when loaded with yarn, consequently a considerable reduction is
effected in the expense of renewals and repairs.
In cases where the sticks A are provided centrally with a pulley or small disc or
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page_text: wheel by which to give the requisite motion thereto, each disc or wheel A, A',
may be provided with revolvable bearings to receive and support both ends of
the sticks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be carried into effect, I declare that what
I claim is :-
In machines for dyeing, scouring or drying hanks of yarn or tops, the com-
bination, with square or angular sticks A having unturned ends, of flanged bushes
or tubes journalfed in suitable brackets on the periphery of the spider wheel or
disc and adapted to receive the angular or square ends of the sticks and revolve
therewith in manner and for purposes substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1893.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield, Agents.