Improvements connected with the Soaping of Broken up Cop Bottoms, Hard Waste, and the like Materials.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec, 1891
PROVISIONAL TUIFICATION.
Improvements connected with the Soaping of Broken up Cop Bottoms,
Hard Waste, and the like Materials.
We, JOHN BARLOW and JOSEPH BARLOW, of Sunny Bank and Albert Mills,
Helmshore, near Manchester, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
"
The improvements refer to the process known as "soaping" in reference to the
breaking up of cop bottoms, hard waste, and the like, intended for conversion into
cotton "laps," and have for object the soaping of these materials in such a manner
as to simplify the subsequent treatment, whether in preparation for spinning or
other purposes.
The soaping operation, as at present employed, consists in bringing the broken
hard waste or other material, as it emerges from the breaking up machine, into
contact with a revolving brush, which imposes a layer of soft soap or soap emulsion
upon the surface of the waste. The material thus treated cannot well be made into
"laps" ready for the carding engine direct, as the surface of soap on each fold
would adhere to the under side of the previous fold, and cause on unfolding a
disintegration or flaking of the mass. As a consequence the material is not by this
method capable of being lapped until after it has been subjected to the "blowing
or "scutching" process.
"
To render the lapping possible directly after soaping, thereby enabling the
material to be moved at once to the carding engine, and thus obviating the necessity
of blowing or scutching, and to effect our improvements, we attach in connection
with, or mount within, the breaking up machine, a suitable nozzle, whereby a spray
of liquid soap or soap emulsion is blown, by steam or air, amongst the flakes of
material, at the same time as they undergo the breaking up process.
Or we may, and do by preference, employ a suitable exhauster or blower in con-
nection with a breaking up machine, and thus by creating a partial vacuum we
draw the soap or emulsion through the waste contained therein, and being operated
upon. By this method, the material, as it emerges, is very equally soaped, and
scutching or blowing may be avoided or saved.
The machine with its nozzles, tubes, and exhauster, or injector, may be composed
of the ordinary or suitable materials, and variations, in form and arrangement, may
be made without departing from the peculiar character of the invention..
Dated this 21st day of May 1891.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
- COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with the Soaping of Broken up Cop Bottoms,
Hard Waste, and the like Materials.
We, JOHN BARLOW and JOSEPH BARLOW, of Sunny Bank and Albert Mills,
Helmshore, near Manchester, Manufacturers, 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 improvements refer to the
known as
process
soaping," in reference to the
breaking up of cop bottoms, hard waste, and the like, intended for conversion into
cotton "laps," and have for object the soaping of these materials in such a manner

page_text: as to simplify the subsequent treatment, whether in preparation for spinning or
other purposes.
The soaping operation, as at present employed, consists in bringing the broken hard
waste, or other material, as it emerges from the breaking up machine, into contact
with a revolving brush, which imposes a layer of soft soap, or soap emulsion upon
the surface of the waste. The material thus treated cannot well be made into
"laps" ready for the carding engine direct, as the surface of soap on each fold
would adhere to the underside of the previous fold, and cause, on unfolding,
disintegration or flaking of the mass. As a consequence the material is not, by
this method, capable of being "lapped ” until after it has been subjected to the
blowing" or "scutching" process.
a
To render the lapping possible directly after soaping, thereby enabling the
material to be moved at once to the carding engine, and thus obviating the necessity
of blowing or scutching, and to effect our improvements, we attach in connection
with, or mount within, the breaking up machine, a suitable nozzle or nozzles,
whereby a spray of liquid soap, or soap emulsion, is blown, by steam or air, amongst
the flakes of material, at the same time as they undergo the breaking up process.
Or we may, and do by preference, employ a suitable exhauster or blower in connec-
tion with a breaking up machine, and thus, by creating a partial vacuum, we draw
the soap or emulsion through the waste contained therein and being operated
upon.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrating one mode of applying our
invention,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan view of our improvements, and so
much of the breaking up machine as is necessary to the proper elucidation of the said
improvements.
a. a. is a portion of the range of pipes communicating with the supply of soap or
emulsion, and b. 1. the pipe providing the blast of air or steain, while e. c. are the
nozzles for spraying the liquid amongst flakes of material in the machine.
By preference, we arrange an automatic stop valve at any convenient point in the
range of pipes a. a, which valve is actuated by the ordinary stopping and starting
gear, so as to stop the spray when the machinery is at rest; but this may be effected
by a hand valve, and the stop valve can be regulated to the desired supply, as will
be readily understood.
The soap emulsion may either be pumped from the reservoir, or simply be allowed
to gravitate to the nozzle or nozzles from a higher level.
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 :-
:-
In breaking up machines for treating cop bottoms, hard waste, and the like
materials, the combination of apparatus for spraying or injecting liquid soap or soap
emulsion amongst the flakes of material within the machine, for the purpose and in
manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 29th day of October 1891.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.