Hosiery and other like Goods, and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1885

page_text: Hosiery and other like Goods, and in Apparatus therefor.
I, JAMES HENRY ASHWELL, of New Basford, near Nottingham, in the Borough
of Nottingham, Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF SCOURING BLEACHING AND DYEING HOSIERY
AND OTHER LIKE GOODS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a method of and apparatus for scouring,
bleaching and dyeing hosiery and other like goods.
I construct a wooden or other box of any convenient size, say for example, 4 feet
long 3 feet wide and 3 feet deep, and connect this with a pump at each end,
protecting the point of connection by a large perforated screen or guard. The
delivery pipe from the pump I also connect with the box or vat at one or more
points in the bottom and in each side near the centre.
The mode of utilising the apparatus is as follows: The hosiery being placed in
the box, and the: scouring, bleaching, dyeing or washing liquor being run in, the
pump is set in action, and thus a vigorous circulating action is maintained, the
liquor entering at the central part passing through the hosiery in a continuous
current and escaping again at the ends.
In some cases in place of connecting the box in this manner I may use syphon
pipes dipping into the false ends or behind the shields, for exhaust pipes, and one
or more flexible or other pipes dipping down into the central portion of the box,
and ending with one or more fixed or movable nozzles or roses which can be
adjusted to any part of the vat that is desirable. The advantage of making the
pipes movable in this way, is that by this means the box can be made portable and
a series of boxes can be used if desirable with one pumping apparatus, so that
when the operation is completed in the one box, the latter with its contents can be
wheeled to one side to be emptied and refilled, and another box ready filled can
be substituted in its place, or the pump itself can be used to exhaust the unspent
scouring or bleaching liquor in one finished box and pump it into the next, while,
the first box with its load of hosiery goes to a similar pumping mechanism supplied
with dyeing liquor, and the hosiery is dyed without break of bulk. In this way.
by passing from one pumping apparatus to another, each supplied with a separate
liquor, the materials can be scoured, bleached, dyed and washed without ever being.
handled from the time they are placed in the tank or box to the time they leave it..

page_text: Hosiery and other like Goods, and in Apparatus therefor.
I, JAMES HENRY ASHWELL, of Woodthorpe, in the County of Nottingham,
Dyer, 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 for its object a method of and apparatus for scouring and
dyeing hosiery and other like goods.
In my provisional specification I claimed the invention as applied to bleaching
but I have since become convinced that while applicable to bleaching there are
such a few circumstances in which it could be profitably employed for that purpose,
that I do not make any claim for bleaching.
Referring to the drawings, Figure is a longitudinal section, Figure 2 a plan,
Figure 3 cross section and Figure 4 end view of an apparatus made in accordance
with my invention.
In these, A is a wooden or other box of any convenient size, say for example,
6 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet deep, and connect this at each end by means of
pipe I with a pump not shewn in the drawing preferably a centrifugal pump,
protecting the point of connection by a large perforated screen or guard H. The
delivery pipe B from the pump I also connect with the box or vat at one or more
points in the bottom as at E, E, and in each side, as at CD, so as to spread the
influx equally over the entire box.
The mode of utilizing the apparatus is as follows: The hosiery having been
placed in the box, and the scouring, dyeing or washing liquor run in, the pump is
set in action, and thus a vigorous circulating action is maintained, the liquor
entering at the central part, passing through the hosiery in a continuous current
and escaping again at the ends, to be repumped back again till exhausted, or till |
the work desired has been completed.
In some cases, in place of connecting the box in this manner, I may use syphon
pipes, dipping into the false ends, or behind the shields for exhaust pipes, and one
or more flexible or other pipes dipping down into the central portion of the box,
and ending with one or more fixed or movable nozzles or roses which can be
adjusted to any part of the vat that is desirable. The advantage of making the
pipes movable in this way is that by this means the box can be made portable, and
a series of boxes can be used if desirable with one pumping apparatus, so that
when the operation is completed in the one box, the latter with its contents can be
wheeled to one side to be emptied and refilled, and another box ready filled can
be substituted in its place or in some cases after the goods have been first scoured
the box in which they are placed may be connected with similar pumping mechanism
supplied with dyeing liquor. This liquor is pumped through the goods in a similar
manner, and the hosiery is dyed without break of bulk. In this way, by passing
from one pumping apparatus to another, each supplied with a separate liquor, the
materials can be scoured, washed and dyed, without ever being handled from the
time they are placed in the tank or box to the time they leave it.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The improvement in the process of scouring and dyeing hosiery and other
like goods, which consists in placing the hosiery in a box or chamber such as
described, and causing the scouring, dyeing and washing liquors to be circulated
through the mass of material by introducing the liquor or each liquor successively
that may be used, into the chamber at various points among the goods, and
pumping it out at other points covered with wide perforated shields, substantially
as described.
2nd. The apparatus applicable for scouring and dyeing goods substantially as
herein described.