IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDING AND OILING APPARATUS USED IN PRINTING OR DYEING WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Alexander Paterson of Lennoxtown in the
County of Stirling North Britain Calico Printer for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDING AND OILING APPARATUS USED IN PRINTING OR
DYEING WOVEN FABRICS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Alexander Paterson
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at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th April 1883.
CHARLES ALEXANDER PATERSON, of Lennoxtown, in the County of Stirling,
North Britain, Calico Printer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDING AND OILING
APPARATUS USED IN PRINTING OR DYEING WOVEN FABRICS
"
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This Invention has for its object to improve the construction and action of
certain apparatus used in connection with the printing or dyeing of woven fabrics,
the special function of the improved apparatus being the padding of the fabrics,
or the application to them of oiling or other liquor.
The improved apparatus comprises a rectangular box or vat into which the
oiling or other liquor is poured. This box is fitted with two rows of rollers, one
row of the rollers being near the bottom and the other at the top; and the fabric
is passed under and over the lower and upper rollers alternately, going down into
and through the liquor when passing under each lower roller and rising out of the
liquor when passing over each upper roller. The fabric having been just previously
washed is passed through the apparatus in a gathered or rope-like condition and
when entering the apparatus is passed between a pair of squeezing rollers arranged
to work with heavy pressure. The fabric is also passed between squeezing rollers
on leaving the apparatus, but these latter rollers are not so heavily pressed as the
entering rollers. In the case of each pair of squeezing rollers one roller is mado
with a groove and the other with a projecting rib or flange entering partly into
the groove, the fabric being compressed in the groove whilst passing between the
rollers.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Alexander Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th October 1883.
CHARLES ALEXANDER PATERSON, of Lennoxtown, in the County of Stirling,
North Britain, Calico Printer "IMPROVEMENTS IN PADDING AND OILING APPARATUS
USED IN PRINTING OR DYEING WOVEN FABRICS
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction, and action of
certain apparatus used in connection with the printing or dyeing of woven fabrics,
the special function of my improved apparatus being the padding of the fabrics,
or the application to them of oiling or other liquor
My improved apparatus comprises a rectangular box or vat into which the
oiling or other liquor is poured. This box is fitted with upper and lower rollers
round which the fabric is led in a manner to insure its becoming thoroughly
saturated with the liquor. The fabric having been just previously washed is
passed through the apparatus in a gathered or rope-like condition; and before
entering the liquor is passed between a pair of squeezing rollers arranged to work
with heavy pressure. The fabric is also passed between squeezing rollers on
leaving the liquor, but these latter rollers are not so heavily pressed as the entering
rollers. In the case of each pair of squeezing rollers one roller is made with a
groove and the other with a projecting rib or flange which enters partly into the
groove of the companion roller, the fabric being compressed in the groove whilst
passing between the rollers.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and representing apparatus arranged for carrying out my
Invention.
Figure 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a side elevation of the
squeezing apparatus through which the fabric is passed before entering the liquor.
Figure, 2, is a vertical section showing the vat in which the fabric is treated with
the liquor, and the second pair of squeezers. Figure, 3, is a sectional detail a
showing the acting parts of the squeezers. In these drawings the same reference
numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
The squeezing apparatus shown in figure, 1, is of a kind known as "Birch's
patent" and it is therefore unnecessary to give here a detailed description of its
construction. The freshly washed fabric shown throughout by a peculiarly dotted
line, 4, and drawn into a gathered form or rope-like chain is entered into the
squeezing apparatus as at the left-hand side of figure, 1, and passing off from a
guide roller, 5, at the other side proceeds to a guide roller, 6, placed over the
liquoring vat, 7, shown in figure, 2. In the liquoring vat, 7, the fabric, 4, first
descends to and pusses under a lower guide roller, 8, next passes up to and over an 4
upper guide roller, 9; and then again descends and passes under two lower guide
rollers, 10, 11, afterwards passing up to and over an upper roller, 12, The fabric, 4,
next passes under a guide roller, 13, in the vat and thence up to an upper guide
roller, 14, from which it passes between the second pair of squeezers, 15, 16, and
finally up to a guide roller, 17, from which it proceeds to other apparatus. The 4
second pair of squeezers, 15, 16, figure 2, are constructed and arranged like the
first pair shown in figure, 1.
In working the apparatus the wet or damp cloth in the gathered or rope-like
condition is first subjected to the severe pressure of the first squeezers, figure, 1,
and is thereby put into a condition to properly absorb the liquor in the vat 7, 5

page_text: figure. 2, and the second squeezers, 15, 16, remove superfluous liquor and leave the
cloth in a condition in which it may be advantageously submitted to the subsequent
operations which it has to undergo.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention and the manner of
performing the same I have to state that I do not restrict myself to the precise
details herein described and delineated and that I do not claim the construction of
the squeezing apparatus for which any other suitable construction can be
substituted; but that what I believe to be novel and original and claim as the
Invention secured to me by and in terms of the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent is.
The improved padding and oiling apparatus; and more particularly the
combination consisting of a liquoring vat fitted with guide rollers to lead the
fabric through the liquor, also of a pair of squeezers to operate on the fabric
before entering the liquor, and a second pair of squeezers to operate on the fabric
after leaving the liquor, the various parts being constructed or arranged to act on
the fabric when in a gathered or rope-like condition-substantially as hereinbefore
described.
In Witness whereof I, the said Charles Alexander Paterson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.