Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Dyeing or Washing Hanks of Yarn.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
:
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Dyeing or Washing
Hanks of Yarn.
We JAMES ASHWORTH and FREDERICK SCHOLES, Dyers and Manufacturers and
ROBERT HUNT, Dyer all of Eton Hill Mill, Radcliffe in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to that claas of machines employed for dyeing or washing
hanks of yarn, in which revolving rollers are employed for supporting the yarn in
the vat or cistern of liquor and is designed to simplify the construction thereof.
We propose to make the machine double, that is with two sets or series of revolving
rollers or winces"
on each side thereof and two vats or cisterns.
The invention consis in the first place in a simplified method or means of driving
the machine, and secondly in an improved construction of the rollers or "winces."
For this purpose we mount a central shaft on bearings running the whole length of
the machine and driven by a band and pulley on the end thereof.
This shaft is provided with "worms" at certain distances apart (say about one
foot) which gear into and drive wheels keyed on corresponding shafts set at right
angles thereto on the framing of the machine. On each end of these latter shafts is fixed
a disc provided with prongs or rods which form the skeleton "wince or roller over
which the yarn passes.
"
These rollers have usually been made solid with squared sides, but instead of this
we simply fix three metal prongs or rods on the face of the disc about equal distances
apart, a line drawn from each point of which would form a triangle. This is found to
be a very important feature of the invention inasmuch as the skeleton form of the
"wince allows the air to circulate freely underneath the hank and consequently a
more even and better color is produced, besides which the yarn will always hive an
angle to rest upon which will give it a better grip and prevent the yarn from slipping
back when working.
"
Dated th: oth
1000
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Dyeing or Washing
Hanks of Yarn.
We JAMES ASHWORTH and FREDERICK SCHOLES, Dyers and Manufacturers, and
ROBERT HUNT Dyer, all of Eton Hill Mill Radcliffe in the County of Lancaster
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 that class of macbines employed for dyeing or washing
hanks of yarn in which revolving rollers are used for supporting the yarn in the vat
or cistern of liquor and is designed to simplify the construction thereof.
We propose to make the machine double, that is with two sets or series of revolving
rollers or
"winces" on each side thereof, and two vats or cisterns.
The invention consists in the first place in a simplified method or means of driving
the machine, and secondly in an improved construction of the rollers or "winces."
And in order that our invention may be clearly understood we have annexed

page_text: hereto a sheet of 'drawings illustrative thereof and have marked the same with figures
and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following description.
Fig. 1. is a transverse section and
Fig. 2. a partial side elevation of a dyeing and washing apparatus constructed
according to our invention.
We mount a central shaft a on bearings b running the whole length of the machine
and driven by a band and pulley c on the end thereof.
"
This shaft a is provided with " worms d at certain distances apart (see Fig. 2)
which gear into and drive wheels e keyed on corresponding shafts set at right angles
thereto on the framing of the machine.
On each end of these latter shafts is fixed a disc g provided with prings or projecting
rods 9 which form the skeleton "wince" or roller over which the yarn passes.
These rollers have usually been made solid with squared sides but instead of this
we simply fix three metal prongs on rods on the face of the disc about equal
distances apart as shown at Fig. 2.
This is found to be a very important feature of the invention inasmuch as the
skeleton form of the "wince "allows the air to circulate freely underneath the hank
and consequently a more even and better color is produced, besides which the yarn
will always have an angle to rest upon, which will give it a better grip and prevent
the yarn from slipping back when working, and the prongs or rods being free at one
end the hanks can be easily removed when required, an advantage not possessed by
other forms of skeleton rollers or winces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :—
1. The construction and arrangement of machinery for dyeing or washing hanks of
yarn as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
2. The improved form of "wince" herein before described consisting of a single
disc at the end of a shaft provided with prongs or projecting rods.
Dated this 9th de 1000
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.