Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Dec., 1894
We, EDUARD ESSER, and PAUL SCHEIDER, of Reichenberg, Bohemia,
Austria-Hungary, Makers of Machinery, 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 :-
The present invention relates to a machine which has for its object to soften
a heavily dressed material without the textile fabric itself being thereby injured.
The machines heretofore employed for the purpose of effecting this object do
more or less break up the dressing on the material but perform this work mostly in
an unsatisfactory manner because either they break up the dressing in the warp
threads only or they crease and rumple the material for which reason it has been
found necessary to subject material that has been treated in such machines to
a subsequent smoothing process which latter is unnecessary with our improved
machine.
The simple practical construction of this machine is illustrated in the
accompanying drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, and
Fig. 2 a plan of the machine.
Fig. 3 is a cross section illustrating the breaking knives on their supports.
The material to be treated is passed over the roller a under the straight steel
knife A; the material then passes under B₁ and over B to the symmetrically
inclined knife-beams B and C over the steel knives C¹ and under C' then under D'
on the knife-beam D whence the material passes over the guide-roller 6 and is
drawn away by means of any suitable drawing-off or taking-up apparatus.
The inclined position of the knife-beams B and C causes the weft threads and
the warp threads to be diverted from each other in directions at right angles or
thereabouts to each other at one and the same time with the result that the dressing
adhering to the threads is broken thereby.
The knife beams B and C can be moved towards or away from each other
by the screw spindles S by means of the hand-wheel H through the medium of
the rods Z the arrangement being such that the knife beams with their steel
knives are rotated about the pivot X so that the dressing in the weft threads
can be broken up to a greater or less extent entirely at the will of the operator.
The knives which are arranged horizontally in the machine herein before
described may also be arranged vertically side by side whilst the same result is
produced.
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 in a machine for treating textile fabric as herein described
of a set or series of knives or blades arranged obliquely and adjustable in relation
to each other substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set
forth.
2. The improved machine arranged constructed combined and acting substantially

page_text: in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 17th day of November 1894.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.