IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOL WASHING APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Imray of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WOOL WASHING APPARATUS" communicated to him from abroad by La Société
Boca-Wulvéryck frères of Paris in the Republic of France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Imray at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1883.
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JOHN IMRAY of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOL WASHING APPARATUS [communicated
to him from abroad by La Société Boca-Wulvéryck fréres of Paris in the Republic
of France]
In the apparatus usually employed for washing wool to clear it from grease, the
wool is kept advancing through a bath by reciprocating forks which, moving it in
masses, are ineffective in separating it so as to expose all parts of the mass
sufficiently to the cleansing action. This invention relates to means of opening
and subdividing the masses of wool while they are advancing in the bath so that
the separate fibres become more rapidly and completely cleansed. For this purpose,
a pair of rocking shafts are mounted in bearings above the bath, both extending
side by side longitudinally over its middle line; these shafts are caused to rock by
cranks or eccentrics worked by suitable gearing from the shaft which moves the
usual working parts. From the two rocking shafts several pairs of forked arms
extend downwards side by side into the bath, and those of each pair reciprocating,
transversely in opposite directions have the effect of separating the masses of wool
advancing past them, so that the fibres are more completely exposed to the cleansing
action.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Imray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th November
1883.
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JOHN IMRAY of No 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane; in the county
of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOL WASHING APPARATUS A communication
to me from abroad by La Société Boca-Wulvéryck Frères of Paris in the Republic
of France
In the apparatus usually employed for washing wool to clear it from grease, the
wool is kept advancing through a bath by reciprocating forks, which, moving it in
masses, are ineffective in separating it so as to expose all parts of the mass
sufficiently to the cleansing action.
This invention relates to means of opening and subdividing the masses of wool
while they are advancing in the bath, so that the separate fibres become more
rapidly and completely cleansed. For this purpose, a pair of rocking shafts are
mounted in bearings above the bath, both extending side by side longitudinally
over its middle line; these shafts are caused to rock by cranks or eccentrics worked
by suitable gearing from the shaft which moves the usual working parts. From
the two rocking shafts, several pairs of forked arms extend downwards side by
side into the bath, and those of each pair reciprocating transversely in opposite
directions, have the effect of separating the masses of wool advancing past them, so
that the fibres are more completely exposed to the cleansing action.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view and fig. 2 is a transverse
section of wool washing apparatus with appliances, according to this invention, for
separating the fibres of the wool as it is made travel along the trough. These
appliances consist of two pairs of arms A B and C D, with tines a forming forks,
which are caused to oscillate to and fro transversely in the trough by mechanism
of the following kind. From a cross-shaft at OP carrying a bevil wheel Q
gearing with R, rotation is given to a pulley S, which, by a band connecting it
with a pulley T drives a shaft V V supported in a sleeve bearing W. On this
shaft are fixed opposite to each other two cranks X and Y which are linked by
connecting rods Z Z to arms M N on two rocking shafts K L. These shafts work
in bearings GHI attached to framing E F and have fixed on them the arms A B CD
of the forks, A and C being fixed on K, and B and D on L.
Having thus described the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents I
claim
In Wool washing apparatus, the use of forks caused to oscillate transversely so
as to separate the fibres of the wool as it is advanced along the trough, substantially
as herein described.
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In Witness whereof I the said John Imray have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
TAUNT