Improvements in Apparatus for Treating Textile Yarns and Fabrics Prior to Sizing, Dyeing, Scouring, Filling or the like..
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Treating Textile Yarns and Fabrics
Prior to Sizing, Dyeing, Scouring, Filling or the like..
We, CICERO SMITH and WALTER SMITH, of Joshua Smith Limited, Frost
Holme Mill, Cornholme, near Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Maufacturers, JAMES HODKINSON, of the same address, Manager, and JOHN
CHRISTMAS CHORLEY, F.I.C. and F.C.S., of Lodge Lane, Bewsey, Warrington, in
the said County, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for treating textile yarns
and fabrics prior to sizing, dyeing scouring, filling or the like, and the object
of our improvements is to prepare and condition textile yarns and fabrics before
entering the size trough, dye vat or other vessel used for like purposes so that the
fibrous materials may be in a better condition for the sizing, dyeing, scouring,
filling or similar process.
In carrying our invention into effect we pass the yarns or textile fabrics
through a heated chamber placed immediately in front of and preferably as close
as possible to the sizing, dyeing, scouring or filling trough of the machine; this
chamber is heated by means of steam pipes or hot air and the yarns and fabrics
are caused to pass close to the pipes over which they may pass once or two or
more times.
The ordinary manner of sizing, dyeing and filling textile yarns and fabrics
is to send them into the trough containing the size, dye or filling material in a
cold and unprepared state, and the materials being in this cold condition, at their
first entrance thereto reject and chill the size, dye &c. and do not commence to
absorb the size &c. until the yarns or fabrics are opened and heated up to the
same temperature as the size &c. they have to absorb.
By our invention the effect of treating yarns and fabrics in the manner
described is that the heat acts upon the whole of the yarn or fabrics and causes
the fibres to expand and open equally and freely in all directions and enter the
size, dye or filling trough in a heated and open condition and therefore better
prepared to absorb and retain the size, dye or filling material which may be hot
or cold.
Dated this 27th day of January 1899.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Apparatus for Treating Textile Yarns and Fabrics
Prior to Sizing, Dyeing, Scouring, Filling or the like.
We, CICERO SMITH and WALTER SMITH, of Joshua Smith, Limited, Frost
Holme Mill, Cornholme, near Todmorden, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
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page_text: Maufacturers, JAMES HODKINSON, of the same address, Manager, and JOHN
CHRISTMAS CHORLEY, F.I.C. and F.C.S., of Lodge Lane, Bewsey, Warrington, in
the said County, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for treating textile yarns
and fabrics prior to sizing, dyeing, scouring, filling or the like, and the object
of our improvements is to prepare and condition textile yarns and fabrics before
entering the size trough, dye vat or other vessel used for like purposes so that the
fibrous materials may be in a better condition for the sizing, dyeing, scouring,
filling or similar process.
In carrying our invention into effect we pass the yarns or textile fabrics
through a heated chamber placed immediately in front of and preferably as close
as possible to the sizing, dyeing, scouring or filling trough of the machine; this
chamber is heated by means of steam pipes or hot air and the yarns and fabrics
are caused to pass close to the pipes over which they may pass once or two or
more times.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in section of part of a machine made according
to our invention for sizing warps, yarns and woven fabrics, Fig. 2 is a detail view
of part of the same and Fig. 3 is a front view of Fig. 1 omitting the cloth rollers.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation partly in section of a modified arrangement of Fig. 1.
In Fig. 1, a is the frame which supports warp beams b, the yarn c from which
passes over a guide roller & under a tension roller e guided and free to slide in a
frame f; from this roller the warp passes over another guide roller into a
heated chamber which contains several rows of pipes i fed with steam through a
pipe j, the exhaust steam and water passing away at k. We prefer to divide the
chamber h into two compartments by means of a partition as shown in Fig. 1 in
order to prevent the vapour arising from the yarn passing over the first line of
heated tubes coming in contact with the yarn passing over the two remaining
rows of heated tubes. The yarn passes from the roller g under and around a
similar roller / at the bottom of the chamber h and then over and under guide
rollers m, n, o, from which it passes in a heated and open condition into the size
trough under a roller in the size trough and then between a pair of squeezing
rollers r, s, which remove the surplus size. The size trough is preferably heated
and a convenient means of effecting this is to pass steam through either or both
of the rollers 9 or r. After the yarn has been sized and passed through the
squeezing rollers it is taken to the usual drying cylinders and then wound upon a
beam.
Woven fabrics may be treated as already described, and by substituting a dye
vat or other vessel in place of the size trough, yarns and fabrics may be dyed,
scoured or otherwise treated in the machine.
Fig. 4 illustrates a modified arrangement of heated chamber for the yarns or
woven fabrics to pass through immediately before they enter the size trough, dye
vat or the like. In this case the pipes are enclosed in a casing or chamber h
and the path of the material to be treated is indicated as passing under and over
guide rollers into the vessel p.
The ordinary manner of sizing, dyeing or filling textile yarns and fabrics
is to send them into the trough containing the size, dye or filling material in a
cold and unprepared state, and the materials being in this cold condition, at their
first entrance thereto reject and chill the size, dye &c. and do not commence to
absorb the size &c. until the yarns or fabrics are opened and heated up to the
same temperature as the size &c. they have to absorb.
By our invention the effect of treating yarns and fabrics in the manner
described is that the heat acts upon the whole of the yarn or fabrics and causes!
the fibres to expand and open equally and freely in all directions and enter the
size dye or filling trough in a heated and open condition and therefore better

page_text: prepared to absorb and retain the size, dye or filling material, which may be hot
or cold.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The combination with a size trough, dye vat or the like for treating textile
yarns and fabrics, of a chamber heated by steam pipes or equivalents so that the
yarns or fabrics travelling through said chamber are brought into a heated
and open condition by the application of dry heat immediately prior to the sizing,
dyeing or other operation, substantially as herein set forth.
:ALני.
1000
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.