Improvements in the Oleansing, Treating, or Washing of Wool and like Animal Fibres, and in Apparatus employed therein.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Oleansing, Treating, or Washing of Wool and
like Animal Fibres, and in Apparatus employed therein.
We, ALFRED AMBLER, SAMUEL AMBLER and FRANK AMBLER, all of
Prospect and Well House Mills Wilsden near Bingley in the County of York,
Spinners do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to certain improvements in parts of apparatus for
use in washing cleansing or treating wool and other animal fibres of the character
of that described in Letters Patent dated 29th August 1889 No. 13626 and
12th December 1890 No. 20267.
According to the present invention the ends of the conduits supplying the fibre
being cleansed and the cleansing liquid are controlled by means of a door or doors
secured and regulated by suitable screw and locking means, so that as desired the
door or doors can be opened and the tube or conduit washed and emptied or
thoroughly and conveniently cleansed.
Also we improve the construction and arrangement of the nozzle or delivery end
of conduit by inserting therein a perforated plate near the top of the incline with a
box or receptacle beneath and with a pipe, or pipes, connected thereto so as to be
adjustable in order that as may be desired, much or little water may be allowed to
flow over the bridge down an inclined plate or surface, which is cut in slits, or
provided with suitable interstices (say at half inch or other intervals) and curved
to suit any diameter of roller employed.
Deted the 17th day of November 1892.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Cleansing, Treating, or Washing of Wool and
like Animal Fibres, and in Apparatus employed therein.
We, ALFRED AMBLER, SAMUEL AMBLER and FRANK AMBLER, all of
Prospect and Well House Mills Wilsden near Bingley in the County of York,
Spinners 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 has reference to certain improvements in parts of apparatus for
use in washing cleansing or treating wool and other animal fibres of the character
of that described in Letters Patent dated 29th August 1889. No. 13626 and
12th December 1890 No. 20267.
According to the present invention the ends of the conduits supplying the fibre
being cleansed and the cleansing liquid are controlled by means of a door or doors
secured and regulated by suitable screw and locking means, so that as desired the
door or doors can be opened and the tube or conduit washed and emptied or
thoroughly and conveniently cleansed.
Also we improve the construction and arrangement of the nozzle or delivery end
of conduit by inserting therein a perforated plate near the top of the incline with a
box or receptacle beneath and with a pipe, or pipes, connected thereto so as to be
adjustable in order that as may be desired much or little water may be allowed to
flow over the bridge down an inclined plate or surface, which is cut in slits, or

page_text: provided with suitable interstices (say at half inch or other intervals) and which
allows the water or liquid used to drain away conveniently from the wool.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews an end view and Fig. 2 a side view of a portion of the tube or
conduit a (through which the wool, or other animal fibre and the cleansing liquid
are caused to pass to the squeezing rollers which express the remaining liquid from
the fibre) adjacent to the incline leading to said rollers. Fig. 3 shews an end view
and Fig. 4 a side view of a portion of the opposite end of such a conduit. Fig. 5 is
a side view and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the final inclines and squeezing rollers g, g¹
with the parts which complete the connection between the said conduit and these
rollers for the passage of fibre.
a', a³, as are sections of the conduit a superposed one above the other in the
manner described with reference to a similar conduit in the Specification 20267
already referred to, and b, b, bare doors leading into these sections. These doors
are held in their closed position by the lugs or ears b¹ being passed over screw
threaded stems & upon which stems are applied fly lock nuts and thus by loosening
the nuts removal of these doors is rendered simple and rapid, and by the clear way
thus afforded the cleansing of the sections can be most effectually effected.
a' is the final incline or delivery end of the conduit. a' is a reticulate or straining
plate for effecting the separation of the fibre and wash water to considerable extent
and this strainer admits the wash liquor to a chamber a below and this chamber is
connected to another chamber a' which is formed with hinged connections to a pair
of conducting pipes as a located on the pipe or chamber a' one on each side the
main conduit incline at; each of these hinged pipes a", a can be raised or lowered
at will so as to regulate the height at which overflow of wash liquor shall take place
from the said pipes down their T ends alo, a back to the tank (not shown) and
this height of delivery regulates the head of water preserved in the incline a' and
consequently the proportion of water to fibre that shall be allowed to pass to the
squeezing rollers. a, a" (only one being seen) are hooks, a¹, a" may be chains
or cords or equivalents passing from and connected to said hooks, to and around
pulleys a mounted on an axis a", which is capable of being rotated by a handle
wheel as, so as to wind up or unwind the said chains, c, c², c³ are a series of rollers
driven by gear wheels suitably mounted on their respective axes and these gear
wheels are by means of inter gearing wheels c³, call driven in unision the first gear
being driven by a chain c³, or band from one of the larger squeezing rollers gl.
Liquid thus separated by passage of the fibre between the rollers c, c¹, c³ is
allowed to fall back to a reservoir tank as is well understood for reuse.
Or the smaller rollers c to c³ may be replaced by a strainer plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what. we
claim is,:.
1. The combination or arrangement and use of doors, giving access to the
conduits of apparatus; for the cleansing, treating or washing of wool, of the
character set forth, with said conduits so as to enable them to be readily and
thoroughly examined and cleansed, substantially as described and shewn by the
drawings.
2. The combination or arrangement and use, in an apparatus of the kind specified,
of an inclined portion of a conduit for fibre and wash water of a filter plate or
strainer, a sub chamber, a hinged overthrow conducting pipe or pipes and means
for raising and lowering same, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth and
shewn by the drawings Figs. 5 and 6.
3. The combination or arrangement and use of the parts of apparatus for cleansing
treating, or washing, wool, or like animal fibre of the character described in the.
herein before recited former Specifications, with the improved devices. herein.

page_text: described and shewn for affording better access to the conduits and for better
regulating the head of wash liquid at the delivery bridge or the quantity or
proportion of liquid allowed to accompany the fibre to the squeezing rollers,
substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 14th day of August 1893.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.