Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Softening and Cleaning Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
TRUVIDIONAL MULTICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Softening and Cleaning
Textile Fabrics.
I, AUGUST MONFORTS, of München-Gladbach, Germany, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a machine or apparatus designed to render
textile fabrics supple or soft and at the same time to free the surface thereof from
small knots and impurities.
A machine for this purpose according to this invention is constructed with
working rollers provided with blades having sinuous or uneven working edges, and
if desired with one or more brushing rollers, the arrangement being such that fabric
passed through the machine will be brought in contact with the rapidly revolving
edges of the blades carried by the working rollers and with the brushing roller or
rollers if these be used, and will leave the machine over suitably arranged drawing
rollers. By this means a rapidly alternating sinuous motion will be imparted to
the fabric whilst being passed with a certain amount of tension over the roller
blades, with the result that the meshes of the fabric will be caused to become
alternately wider and narrower, and the fabric thereby rendered supple. At the
same time small knots and impurities that may be adhering to the fabric are
loosened, and can be the more easily and surely removed by the blades. The blades
of the working rollers may be arranged in planes containing the axis of the corre-
sponding roller, or be arranged in a helical direction around the axis of the roller.
Both constructions of rollers are suitable and may be employed in the same
machine.
The sinuous prominences or ridges at the edges of the successive blades of the
same roller are arranged to alternate in the direction of the axis of the roller, in
order to treat the entire surface of the fabric uniformly. With the same object,
the blades or their sinuous prominences in the one roller may be made to alternate
with those of the following roller.
The working edges of the blades instead of being made of sinuous form, may be
made of any other form that will impart a sinuous motion to fabric brought in
contact therewith. Instead of using blades having working edges of the kind
mentioned, a number of single knives may be employed adapted to impart a sinuous
motion to the fabric, and arranged next to one another.
The brushing roller has for.object to remove impurities such as fibres or dust
which may still loosely adhere to the fabrics after treatment by the working
rollers.
The machine may be constructed with any desired number of working rollers and
these rollers may be so arranged that fabric will be treated on both sides during
one passage through the machine. If desired the brushing roller or rollers may be
dispensed with.
Dated this 29th dor of August 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Softening and Cleaning
Textile Fabrics.
I, AUGUST MONFORTS, of München-Gladbach, Germany, Manufacturer, 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 a machine or apparatus designed to render textile
fabrics supple or soft and at the same time to free the surface thereof from small
knots and impurities.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a machine of this kind constructed according to this
invention.
Figs. 2 and 3 and Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively sections at right angles to one
another of two different forms of working rollers hereinafter referred to.
A machine for this purpose according to this invention is constructed with
working rollers W, W, provided with blades w having sinuous or uneven working
edges, (see Figs. 2 and 4) and if desired with one or more brushing rollers B the
arrangement being such that fabric entering the machine at S will in passing
through the machine over and under guide rollers T, be brought in contact with
the edges of the rapidly revolving blades we carried by the working rollers W₁ W2,
and with the brushing roller or rollers if these be used and will leave the machine
over suitably arranged drawing rollers Z, Z. By this means a rapid alternating
sinuous or undulatory motion will be imparted to the fabric whilst the same is
being passed, with a certain amount of tension, over the roller blades, with the
result that the meshes of the fabric will be caused to rapidly become alternately
wider and narrower, and the fabric thereby expanded and contracted and rendered
supple. At the same time small knots and impurities that may be adhering to the
fabric are loosened, and can be the more easily and surely removed by the blades.
The blades of the working rollers may be arranged parallel with the axis of the
roller on which they are mounted as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 or they may be
arranged in a helical direction around the roller as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.
arrangements are suitable, and may be employed in the same machine.
Both
The various rollers may be driven by a band or strap passing over a driving
pulley and over corresponding pulleys on the axles of the rollers. Alternate
rollers may be driven in opposite directions as in the arrangement shown.
The prominences or ridges at the edges of the successive blades of the same roller
are arranged to alternate relatively to each other in the direction of the axis of
the roller, in order to treat the entire surface of the fabric uniformly. With
the same object, the blades or their sinuous prominences in the one roller may
be made to alternate with those of the following roller.
The working edges of the blades instead of being made of sinuous form, may
be made of any other form that will impart a sinuous or undulatory motion to
fabric brought in contact therewith. Instead of using blades having working
edges of the kind mentioned a number of single blades may be employed adapted
to impart a sinuous motion to the fabric, and arranged singly in rows, the
blades in one row being opposite the spaces between the blades in the adjacent
rows.
The brushing roller B has for object to remove impurities such as fibres or dust
which may still loosely adhere to the fabric after treatment by the working
rollers.
The machine may be constructed with any desired number of working rollers,
and these rollers may be so arranged that fabric will be treated on both sides

page_text: during one passage through the machine. If desired the brushing roller or rollers
may be dispensed with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A machine for softening and cleaning textile fabrics constructed with rollers
provided with blades the edges of which are of such a shape that in the rotation of
the said rollers they will impart a sinuous or undulatory motion to the fabric passing
over and in contact with them substantially as herein described.
2. A machine or apparatus for softening and cleaning textile fabrics constructed
with working and brushing rollers arranged and operating substantially as described
and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of May 1893.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.