Improvements in or Applicable to Machinery for Scouring and Washing Wool and other Fibrous Materials.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 23rd Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
Improvements in or Applicable to Machinery for Scouring and
Washing Wool and other Fibrous Materials.
We JOHN MCNAUGHT and WILLIAM MCNAUGHT Junior, of St. Georges Foundry
Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers and Machinists, do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements are made and based upon the mechanism for washing wool and
other fibrous materials described in the specifications of Letters Patent Numbered 983
A.D. 1882 and 9676 A.D. 1885.
In these specifications is described a toothed frame extending the lengthway of the
washing trough, and having an up and down and forward and backward movement for
immersing the fibrous material in the liquor, in the washing trough and propelling it
along and delivering it from the same, this toothed frame being rigid from end to
end, in one modification, or it is made with that part of the pronged frame that
delivers the fibrous material from the trough, jointed to the other part, in another
modification.
In the specification No. 9676-1885 a part of the rows of toothed prongs are
jointed to the frame, and arranged to have additional motion imparted to them to give
more or less agitation to the fibrous material to be operated upon according to its
character and condition.
Our present improvements relate to a more effective, simple and less expensive
combination of mechanism than that described in specification No. 9676-1885, for
effecting the objects therein referred to, and consists in employing the toothed frame
extending the lengthway of the trough according to either of the modifications
described in our said specification No. 983-1882, and arranging and working the
same in like manner, the said toothed frame having rows of prongs at the feeding
end where the wool or other fibrous material is immersed in the washing liquor and
also prongs at the delivery end to discharge the fibrous material from the trough,
but the rows of prongs for propelling between those at the feeding end and those at
the delivery end are not secured to this the main frame but to a separate and
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page_text: independent frame which is arranged either to be locked or fixed to the main frame or
to slide or move to and fro lengthway upon it.
When the independent toothed frame is locked to the main frame it will simply
have the ordinary movement of the main frame, but when the two frames are unlocked
from each other additional to and fro movement will be imparted to the independent
toothed frame by suitable mechanism such as a cam of suitable shape geared up with
the mechanism giving the ordinary movement to the main frame.
By disconnecting this mechanism giving the additional movement and locking the
independent toothed frame to the main frame the latter will act as if the rows of
prongs were directly attached to it.
PETER J LIVSEY,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Machinery for Scouring and
Washing Wool and other Fibrous Materials.
We, JOHN MCNAUGHT and WILLIAM MCNAUGHT Junior, of St. Georges Foundry
Rochdale in the County of Lancaster, Engineers and Machinists, 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 :-
Our improvements are made and based upon the mechanism for washing wool and
other fibrous materials described in the specifications of Letters Patent Numbered 983
A.). 1882 and 9676 A.D. 1885.
In these specifications is described a toothed frame extending the lengthway of the
washing trough and having an up and down and forward and backward movement
for immersing the fibrous material in the liquor in the washing trough and propelling
it along and delivering it from the same, this toothed frame being rigid from enl to
end, in one modification, or it is made with that part of the pronged frame that
delivers the fibrous material from the trough jointed to the other part in another
modification..
In the specification No. 9676-1885 a part of the rows of toothed prongs are
jointed to the frame, and arranged to have additional motion imparted to them to give
more or less agitation to the fibrous material to be operated upon according to its
character and condition.
Our present improvements relate to a more effective, simple and less expensive
combination of mechanism than that described in specification No. 9676-1885, for

page_text: effecting the objects therein referred to, and consists in employing the toothed frame
extending the lengthway of the trough according to either of the modifications
described in our said specification No. 983-1882, and arranging and working the
same in like manner, the said toothed frame having rows of prongs at the feeding
end where the wool or other fibrous material is immersed in the washing liquor and
also prongs at the delivery end to discharge the fibrous material from the trough,
but the rows of prongs for propelling between those at the feeding end and those at
the delivery end, are not secured to this main frame but to a separate and independent
frame which is arranged either to be locked or fixed to the main frame or to slide or
move to and fro lengthway upon it.
When the independent toothed frame is locked to the main frame it will simply
have the ordinary movement of the main frame, but when the two frames are unlocked
from each other, additional to and fro movement will be imparted to the independent
toothed frame by suitable mechanism such as a cam of suitable shape geared up with
the mechanism giving the ordinary movement to the main frame.
By disconnecting this mechanism giving the additional movement and locking the
independent toothed frame to the main frame the latter will act as if the rows of
prongs were directly attached to it.
Fig. 1, is a longitudinal section of a washing trough showing the toothed frames
and mechanism for carrying and actuating them and fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation
of the toothed frames detached.
a, is the washing trough; a¹ the false or perforated bottom, a² is a mud or sediment
chamber; b, squeezing rollers; c, standards from the sides of the washing trough to
carry the bearings of the cross shafts d and d', having the pulleys d' upon them to
which the chains d³ are attached for suspending and giving the vertical movements.
to the toothed frames.
e,
is the shaft rocked to and fro by a crank pin upon a shaft ƒ, having a die sliding
in the slot in an arm on the rocking shaft e.
shaft
e,
9, is one of the connecting rods each jointed to one of the two arms on the rocking
at one end and to the side bars h of the main toothed frame at the other end.
i, are belt pulleys which by a pinion on one pulley drives a wheel f" on one end of
the crank shaft, and the same pinion also drives a wheel j¹ to which the cams are
attached.
The delivering toothed frame k is jointed to the main frame kat k¹, and the outer
end of this delivery toothed frame k is sustained and actuated by a chain k².
The mechanism above described by letters of reference and that for suspending the
main toothed frame h, and actuating it up and down and to and fro, is the same or is
similar to that described in the specifications of Letters Patent hereinbefore
referred to.
The upper end of the chain &² for sustaining the delivery toothed frame k, passes
over a guide pulley k³, on a stud or shaft carried upon projections from the standards c,
and the end of the chain is secured to an excentric pulley or partial pulley * on
the shaft d¹.
d, is the ordinary chain between one pulley on one shaft d, and a corresponding
pulley on the other shaft d¹ to transmit motion from one shaft to the other.
, are rows of teeth carried on the side bars h of the main frame at the feeding end,
and 2 are rows of prongs carried at the other end of the main frame h.
13, are the side bars of the movable toothed frame carried upon the main frame /,
the two side bars h³ of the movable frame being connected with cross bars, the ends
of which are each secured in a casting 1, in each of which castings there is a pivot for a
pulley, the periphery of which rests and runs upon the upper surface of the side
bars h, for the main framing, so that the toothed frame h³ can move to and fro
end ways upon the main frame h.
To a bracket h, on one of the cross bars h*, one end of a rod is jointed, the other
end of which rod has an open slot or gab, that can take upon a pin or stuḍ m² in one
end of a bent arm m from a hollow tube or axis having its fulerun bearing free on
the cross shaft d, another arm m² from this hollow axis is jointed with the upper end

page_text: of a rod m which at its lower end is jointed with one end of a lever m* having its
fulcrum m on a bracket attached to the side of the trough.
This lever m receives lifting movement from a cam m acting upon a bowl in a
stud in the lever the descending movement being given to the lever by a rod m
jointed to the lever m which rod m has weights m suspended upon it.-This
last described arrangement gives the frame ³ a to and fro movement in addition
to the up and down movement of the main frame.
By disconnecting the gab on the end of the rod from the stud m' in the arm m,
and turning the rod back to connect the gab on it with a rod * between the two
main side frames h, the movable frame 3 and the main frame h, are then locked
and moved together as if one frame.
it
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n, is a weight lever jointed to the arm m the weight resting upon the gab to keep
upon the pin m' when working.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is,―
1. The combination and arrangement of a toothed frame (h³) carried by the main
toothed frame (h) and arranged to bave either the movements of the main toothed
frame (h) or movements to and fro in the lengthway of the main toothed frame in
addition to the movements of the main toothed frame, substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described.
2. The combination and arrangement of toothed frames and the mechanism for
actuating the same substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
I
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.