Improvements in Apparatus for Printing Yarns such as are used in the Manufacture of Carpets.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application; 2nd May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1900
TROYINAL DIEVITICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Printing Yarns such as are used in
the Manufacture of Carpets.
We, ALGERNON FREEMAN FIRTH, Carpet Manufacturer, and ARTHUR OSWALD)
SHAW, Mechanic, both of Clifton Mills, Brighouse, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus employed in the printing
of yarns such as are used in the manufacture of carpets such yarns being wound
on a drum and printed or coloured by means of a wheel or disc in a trough of
colour which is caused to travel across the drum so that the colour is laid in
transverse parallel lines on the yarn. The object of this invention is to force
the colour evenly into and onto the yarn and without objectionable ridges of
thick colouring matter being left thereon after the ordinary colour roller has
passed.
According to this invention we employ the ordinary and well known colour
trough with its disc or wheel and operate same in the usual manner. Fixed to
each end of the colour trough is an upright or block each of which carries a roller
or runner loosely mounted in bearings such bearings blocks or rollers being
normally held up or supported in spring bearings so that the periphery' of the
roller is about linable with the periphery of the colour disc or wheel so that
when the colour has been laid on the yarn by the disc the roller follows it and
forces the colour onto and into the yarn and if any colour is left in' the form of
ridges one of such ridges may be removed by a plough-like plate which squeeze
both ridges into one and into the yarn from one side of the line of colour to the
other and at the next passage of the roller the remaining ridge if any is forced
into the yarn.
Dated this 1st day of May 1800
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicants
Improvements in Apparatus for Printing Yarns such as are used in
the Manufacture of Carpets.
We, ALGERNON FREEMAN FIRTH, Carpet Manufacturer, and ARTHUR OSWALD
SHAW, Mechanic, both of Clifton Mills, Brighouse, in the County of York, 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 follow-
ing statement:
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This invention relates to improvements in apparatus employed in the printing

page_text: of yarns such as are used in the manufacture of carpets such yarns being wound
on a drum and printed or coloured by means of a wheel or disc in a trough of
colour which is caused to travel across the drum so that the colour is laid in
transverse parallel lines on the yarn. The object of this invention is to force
the colours evenly into and onto the yarn and without objectionable ridges of
thick colouring matter being left thereon after the ordinary colour roller has
passed.
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Such being the nature and object of our said invention the following is a com-
plete description of same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in
which:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the carriage and its fixtures....
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Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.
According to this invention we employ the ordinary and well known colour
trough 1 with its disc or wheel 2 and operate same in the usual manner. At
each end of the colour trough carriage 3 is an upright bracket or block 4 ánd
to each of these is pivoted a bearing block 5 which carries a roller or runner 6;
and such runner 6 is normally held up or supported by the spring 7 bearing on
the cranked arm 8 of the bearing block 5 so that the periphery of the runner
or roller 6 is slightly higher than the periphery of the colour disc or wheel 2 so
that when the colour has been laid on the yarn by the disc 2 the roller 6 follows
it and forces the colour onto and into the yarn.
Referring, to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the runners or rollers 6 are not in line
with the disc 2, but slightly off one side of same so that the runner or roller 6
following the wheel 2 and pressing on the streak of colour laid by the latter
forces it into the yarn and also entirely removes one of the ridges of colour left
by one edge of the wheel or disc 2 by squeezing it into the yarn, and as there is
a runner or roller 6 at each end of the carriage or trough the colour, as laid on
by the disc or wheel 2, is at the same operation, and by the mechanism herein
described so squeezed and pressed into the yarn that one ridge only at the edge
of each different shade of colour is left, as each successive ridge is, as made, on
one side of the wheel or dise 2 forced into the yarn on the drum 9. At 10, 10
are troughs into which the surplus colour falls and escapes by way of the
spout 11, 11.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
(1) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts consti-
tuting the improved apparatus whereby the colour after being laid on the yarn
is forced or squeezed therein as and for the purpose herein described and substan-
tially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(2) The use in combination with the colour applying disc or wheel 2 of the
roller or runner 6 pivotly mounted on an upright and held in contact with and
pressed against the yarn covered drum 9 as and for the purpose herein described
and substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
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ALGERNON FREEMAN FIRTH,
ARTHUR OSWALD SHAW;
By their. Agents,
Brierley & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax,
ALGERNON FREEMAN FIRTH,
ARTHUR OSWALD SHAW;
By their. Agents,
Brierley & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax,