Apparatus for Singeing Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by ROBERT HENRY HAWORTH, of Danelova,.
Moscow, in the Russian Empire, Engineer.]
Apparatus for Singeing Fabrics.
I, JOHN IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Consulting Engineer, and Chartered Patent Agent, 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 relates to apparatus for singeing fabrics so arranged that the
fabric, instead of always moving over one part of the heated metal, which part
is thereby more or less cooled is caused while it travels onwards, to move over
different parts of the metal which are thus kept at the heat required for singeing.
The accompanying drawing is a transverse section of apparatus according to this
invention arranged with two singeing stoves A A' which extend longitudinally as
far as is necessary for the greatest width of fabric that is to be singed.
At each end of the stoves A A' there is a frame E which, by means of chains
passing over pulleys F or otherwise, can be raised or lowered in guides G. The
frame E consists of two circular segments united, each segment having two circular
slots L in each of which is engaged a pin I projecting from each of two oscillating
frames H H. A shaft B caused to revolve by any suitable motor has at each end
of the stove structure a crank C, the crank pin of which is connected by a link D
to the oscillating frame H'.
Each of the frames H H carries a pair of round bars K, which might be
rollers, each bar extending from the oscillating frames at the other end.
The stoves A A¹ are covered by metal plates M M¹ nearly semicylindrical,.
which are maintained at the glowing heat necessary for singeing.
The fabric W to be operated on is caused by suitable draw rollers to travel
continuously over the stationary bars N and guide rollers R and under the bars K
by which it is made to bear tangentially on the hot plates M M' and as the
frames H H oscillate to and fro the spots where the fabric tangentially bears on
the plates are continuously changed so that every such spot, after one contact of
the fabric with it, has time to become heated again before there is another contact.
By lowering the frames E the extent of contact of the fabric with the hot plates.
can be increased, and by raising E it can be lessened or the fabric may be taken
entirely out of contact with the plates.
Although I have shewn two stoves and oscillating frames in duplicate, obviously
only one set, or more than two sets of stoves and frames may be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Apparatus for singeing fabrics, consisting of a frame guided to oscillate in a
circular arc approximately concentric with cylindrical heated stove plates, the
oscillating frame having guide bars or rollers by which fabric, as it travels, is
caused to move to and fro tangentially over the heated plates substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant..