Improvements in Apparatus for Bleaching or Dyeing Textile Materials and Fabrics, or otherwise Treating the same with Liquids or Gases.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Bleaching or Dyeing Textile
Materials and Fabrics, or otherwise Treating the same with
Liquids or Gases.
I, DUNCAN STEWART, of London Road Iron Works, Glasgow, in the County.
of Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to provide improved apparatus for bleaching
or dyeing textile materials and fabrics or otherwise treating the same with liquids
or gases; the said improved apparatus being specially designed so as to allow of
the goods operated on being subjected to pressure or vacuum.
In carrying out my invention 1 provide a strong inverted or open-bottomed
casing or vessel, supported upon and held by pillars above an upwardly acting
hydraulic press the platen of which is constructed so as, when raised, to close
tightly against the flanged bottom edge of the inverted vessel. I also provide a
perforated shell or basket to receive the goods to be operated on, and which may
be made with an inner perforated shell the space for the goods being thus made
annular. The shell when filled with goods is run on a truck or on wheels on to the
platen and is then raised by the bottom hydraulic press up into the inverted vessel.
The vessel has connected to it pipes connected to vacuum pumps, to a steam boiler,
to reservoirs or vessels for supplying bleaching, dyeing or other liquids or gases,
and to vessels for receiving used liquids or gases. If desirable for expressing
liquids from the goods or for other purposes a piston may be arranged within the
vessel to be actuated by means of an hydraulic cylinder at the top thereof, and to
be forced down upon the goods within the perforated shell or basket.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of September 1891.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Bleaching or Dyeing Textile
Materials and Fabrics, or otherwise Treating the same with
Liquids or Gases.
I, DUNCAN STEWART, of London Road Iron Works, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :—
My said invention has for its object to provide improved apparatus for bleaching
or dyeing textile materials and fabrics, or otherwise treating the same with liquids
or gases; the said improved apparatus being specially designed so as to allow of
the goods operated on being subjected to pressure or vacuum.
An example of my improved apparatus is shown on an accompanying sheet of
explanatory drawings, of which,
Figure, 1, is an elevation with ground details shown in vertical section, and
Figure, 2, is a vertical section.
In carrying out my invention I provide a strong inverted or open-bottomed
casing or vessel, A, supported upon and held by pillars, B, above an upwardly
acting hydraulic press, C, the platen, D, of which is constructed so as, when raised
to close tightly against the flanged bottom edge, E, of the inverted vessel, A. I

page_text: also provide a perforated shell or basket, F, to receive the goods to be operated on,
and which may be made with an inner central perforated shell or tube the space
for the goods being thus made annular. The shell, F, when filled with goods is run
on a truck or on wheels, G, on to the platen, D, and is then raised by the bottom
hydraulic press, C, up into the inverted vessel, A. The vessel, A, has connected to
it pipes, one, H, connected to vacuum pumps, a second, J, to a steam boiler, and
others, K, L, M, N, to reservoirs or vessels for supplying bleaching, or dyeing or
other liquids or gases, and to vessels for receiving used liquids or gases. If
desirable for expressing liquids from the goods or for other purposes a piston, P,
may be arranged within the vessel to be actuated by means of an hydraulic
cylinder, Q, at the top thereof, as shown in Figure, 2, and to be forced down upon
the goods within the perforated shell or basket, F.
When the shell or basket, F, is made with a central perforated shell or tube
there may be as shown in Figure, 2, a central perforated pipe, R, provided for
-injecting bleaching, dyeing, or other liquids within such central perforated shell
or tube, so that such liquid may pass radially outwards through the goods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
-claim is :-
The improved apparatus comprising an inverted vessel, an hydraulic press
arranged for closing the bottom of the vessel and lifting up into it a shell or basket
containing goods to be bleached or dyed or otherwise treated with liquids, and pipe
connections for supplying and withdrawing fluids and producing vacuum or pressure
inside of the vessel, with or without a piston moved downwards by hydraulic
pressure, the parts being combined and operating substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of June 1892.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.