Improvements in the Construction of Centrifugal Machines or Hydro Extractors.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1894
omplete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Centrifugal Machines or
Hydro Extractors.
I, JOHN LAIDLAW, of the Firm of Watson Laidlaw & Co., of 98 Dundas Street,
South, Glasgow, North Britain Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of centrifugal machines
kuown as hydro extractors, and is more particularly applicable to those machines
which are constructed to dry textile materials such as cloth, yarn, etc. The object
of my invention is to construct the machine in such a manner that the cloth or
other material will be less liable to come over the top lip of the revolving basket.
My invention may be applied to machines driven either from above or below.
In carrying out my invention I form a lip projecting downwards on the inner edge
of the cover or top ring of the revolving basket. By this arrangement, after the
basket is filled in the usual way, the loose ends of the cloth or other material to be
dried are pressed downwards within the lip so as to be held in that position until
the machine is set in motion.
Dated this 20th day of November 1894.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
Improvements in the Construction of Centrifugal Machines or
Hydro Extractors.
1, JOHN LAIDLAW, of the Firm of Watson Laidlaw & Co., of 98 Dundas Street,
South, Glasgow, North Britain, Engineers, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of centrifugal machines
or hydro extractors, and is more particularly applicable to those machines which
are constructed to dry textile materials such as cloth, yarn etc. The object of my
invention is to construct the machine in such a manner that the cloth or other
material will be less liable to come over the top lip of the revolving basket. My
invention may be applied to machines driven either from above or below.
In carrying out iny invention I form a lip projecting downwards on the inner
edge of the cover or top ring of the revolving basket. By this arrangement, after
the basket is filled in the usual way, the loose ends of the cloth or other material to
be dried are pressed downwards within the lip so as to be held in that position until
the machine is set in motion.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended three explanatory sheets of drawings, in the
several figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.

page_text: Figure illustrates a centrifugal machine formed with a lip and top ring
projecting downwards, and as shown would be driven from above; but the same
construction of basket lip is applicable to baskets driven from below.
Figure 2 is a similar view of a somewhat modified arrangement of centrifugal
machine having a lip projecting downwards while the top ring is made flat or level
or nearly so with the top of the centrifugal.
Figure 3 is a further modified arrangement of centrifugal machine formed with a
lip projecting downwards, but having the upper ring of radial or dome-like con-
figuration, and as shown would be driven from below; but the same construction of
basket lip is applicable to baskets driven from above.
B is the basket, having an inclined bottom C. D is the top ring, and E the lip
projecting downwards. The cloth or other material to be dried is placed in the
basket through the opening F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
In centrifugal machines or hydro extractors, the construction of a lip projecting
downwards on the inner edge of the cover or top ring of the revolving basket,
substantially as described.
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BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.