Improvements in Apparatus for Mercerising Yarns.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1900-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1800
Improvements in Apparatus for Mercerising Yarns.
A communication by ALFRED WYSER, of Aarau, in the Republic of Switzerland,
Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., Agent for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of War-
wick, and 322, High Holboru, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for mercerising yarns.
In this improved apparatus, the hanks of yarn to be mercerised are exposed on
a revoluble reel to the action of inercerising liquid, said reel being provided
with two real rods or bars which are also revoluble. The revolubility of the
reel bars which is obtained by star wheels being placed on the reel bars, which
star wheels during the rotation of the reel come into engagement with fixed
parts and are turned by these latter, has for its object to enable the yarn hanks
on the reel to be evenly wetted by the mercerising liquid.
A further improvement of the mercerising apparatus consists in a vessel with
two laterally perforated tubes being arranged in addition to the vessel for receiv-
ing the mercerising liquid, on which tubes the reels may be placed which are
removably mounted on the vessel for receiving the mercerising liquid, liquid
being spurted out of the perforations in the pipes with the object of cleaning
the hanks of yarn situated on the reel.
In the accompanying drawings, a form of construction of the object of the
invention is shown as an example,
Figure 1 being a front elevation partially in vertical section; and
Figure 2, a plan view.
The
A shaft c of a reel is mounted in bearings on a trough shaped vessel a.
hearings & cousist each of two halves, the upper one of which is attached to the
under one by means of hinges .r and may be turned back on the latter so that
the shaft b may easily be removed from the bearings. Hinges d are mounted on
the shaft and links e are connected to said hinges and to other hinges of mounted
on two reel bars g. Two links are pivoted to two opposite links at one end
and are pivoted on a nut i. The nut i may be adjusted by means of a hand-
wheel k, on a thread of the shaft thus allowing of an adjustment of the reel
bars relative to the shaft by means of this arrangement of links.
f
The reel bars are revolubly mounted in the links and each carries a star
wheel 1. Contacts or catches m are provided which when the reel is revolved
engage in the teeth of the star wheels to rotate the latter which after passing
the same may revolve to a certain extent with the reel bars, said contacts being
arranged on the sides of the vessel a in the track of the reel bars and star wheels
(on the rotation of the reel on the shaft c).
The banks of yarn situated on the reel may consequently, when the reel is
turned, constantly change their position on the reel bars so that all parts of the
varn hanks may be immersed in the mercerising fluid contained in the tank a
and wetted therewith.

page_text: The reels may be driven from a shaft located at the star wheel end of the
tank by means of a worm p which engages with a worm wheel
mounted on
the shaft c. A vessel ris also added to the apparatus, which vessel
has perforated
pipes s at both sides.
The reel may be taken out of its mounting on the tank and placed in a
similar mounting on the tank where it may be operated in a similar manner
to what it was on the tank a. A suitable fluid may be spurted from the per-
forations of the pipes s onto the yarn hanks for their further treatment (for
instance for the purpose of cleaning them).
Dated this 6th day of November 1899.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
A communication by ALFRED WYSER, of Aarau, in the Republic of Switzerland,
Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., Agent for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of War-
wick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 relates to improvements in apparatus for mercerising yarns.
In this improved apparatus, the hunks of yarn to be mercerised are exposed on
a revoluble reel to the action of mercerising liquid, said reel being provided
with two reel rods or bars which are also revoluble. The revolubility of the
reel bars which is obtained by star wheels being placed on the reel bars, which
star wheels during the rotation of the reel come into engagement with fixed
parts and are turned by these latter, has for its object to enable the yarn hanks
on the reel to be evenly wetted by the mercerising liquid.
A further improvement of the mercerising apparatus consists in a vessel with
two laterally perforated tubes being arranged in addition to the vessel for receiv
ing the mercerising liquid, on which vessel the reels may be placed which are
removably mounted on the vessel for receiving the mercerising liquid, liquid
being spurted out of the perforations in the pipes with the object of cleaning
the hanks of yarn situated on the reel.
In the drawings accompanying the Provisional Specification, a form of con-
struction of the invention is shown as an example,
Figure 1 being a front elevation partially in vertical section; and
Figure 2 a plan view;
C
The
A shaft of a reel is mounted in bearings 6 on a trough shaped vessel a.
bearings & consist each of two halves, the apper one of which is attached to the
under one by means of hinges and may be turned back on the latter so that
the shaft may easily be removed from the bearings. Hinges are mounted on
the shaft and links e are connected to said hinges and to other hinges mounted
on two reel bars g. Two links are pivoted to two opposite links f at one end
and are pivoted on a nut 2. The nut i may be adjusted by means of a hand-
wheel k, on a thread of the shaft e thus allowing of an adjustment of the reel
bars relative to the shaft by means of this arrangement of links.
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page_text: The reol bars are revolubly mounted in the links and each carries a star
wheel. Contacts or catches m are provided which when the reel is revolved
engage in the teeth of the star wheels to rotate the latter which when passing
the same may revolve to a certain extent with the reel bars, said contacts being
arranged on the sides of the vessel a in the track of the reel bars and star wheels
(on the rotation of the reel on the shaft c).
The hanks of yarn n situated on the reel may consequently, when the reel is
turned, constantly change their position on the reel bars so that all parts of the
yarn hanks may be immersed in the mercerising fluid contained in the tank a
and wetted therewith.
The reels may be driven from a shaft located at the star wheel end of the
tank by means of a worm p, which engages with a worm wheel mounted on
the shaft c. A vessel is also added to the apparatus which vessel has perforated
pipes s at both sides.
The reel may be taken out of its mounting on the tank a and placed in a
similar mounting on the tank where it may be operated in a similar manner
to what it was on the tank a. A suitable fluid may be spurted from the per-
forations of the pipes s onto the yarn hanks for their further treatment (for
instance for the purpose of cleaning them).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declure that what I claim is:-
1. An apparatus for mercerising yarn comprising a horizontally mounted
revoluble reel carrying two revoluble reel bars (9), star wheels (/) mounted on
suid reel bars, and fixed contacts (such for instance as m) adapted to engage said
star wheels on the rotation of the reel and thus rotate said star wheels and reel
burs so that the yaru (n) fixed over the reel bars (9) during the revolution of the
reel glides over the reel bars (g) and thereby all parts of the hanks of yarn are
evenly wetted with mercerising liquid, pipes (s) being also provided for this
purpose, which are perforated laterally in such a way that liquid, for example
water, can be sprinkled out of the holes for washing the hanks of yarn revolv-
ing with the reel, substantially as herein before set forth.
2. In apparatus for mercerising yarn, a horizontally mounted revoluble lever
carrying two reel bars (g) which are revoluble round the geometrical axis of the
reel on the one hand and round their own axes on the other hand, said reel
bars lying opposite to one another with the axis of the reel in the centre, and
said reel being so mounted on a tank which serves for the reception of the mer-
cerising liquid that on the revolution of the reel, the yarn passes rapidly through
the liquid contained in the receiver (a) substantially as described.
3. An apparatus for mercerising yarn, comprising two adjacent troughshaped.
horizontal tanks (a and r), one (a) for the mercerising liquid, and the other (r)
for the washing liquid, and a revoluble reel adapted to be easily mounted on
either of said tanks, which reel carries two reel bars (9) revoluble round the geo-
metrical axis on the one hand and their own axes on the other hand, and the
washing tank being provided with perforated pipes (s), by means of which any
suitable liquid may be spurted against the reel, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
4. The improved apparatus for mercerising yarns, constructed and operating,
as a whole, substantially as described and illustrated.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.