Improvements relating to the Dyeing or Treating of Bobbins of Wool and other Textile Materials, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1893—Accepted, 12th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Dyeing or Treating of Bobbins of Wool
and other Textile Materials, and Apparatus therefor.
I, EMILE GÉNARD, of 3 Place de Brouckere, Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The purpose of the present invention is to provide for the dyeing of textile
materials or their impregnation and treatment by means of solutions of dyes or any
other matters with which it is desired to treat such materials when found in the
form of bobbins of convenient shape.
The improvements are principally intended to be applied to the impregnation
of bobbins of combed wool with solutions of dyes and to do away with the
inconveniences of former means for this purpose in which the impregnation could
not be watched and the removal and insertion of each charge of bobbins required
the removal of a well secured cover or a similar dislodgement of a part of the
impregnating chamber.
According to the present invention a suitable number of tubular bobbin holders
each of diameter sufficiently small to pass into and through the cavity in each
bobbin of wool, are arranged upon a floor plate and communicate by pipes or
otherwise with the pump by which the dye solution is forced through the wool.
These tubular holders which are of a length sufficient to receive several
bobbins strung upon each of them are perforated with a number of holes so that
the liquor forced into them may pass out into the bobbins in all directions so that
the latter may become impregnated.
To avoid the issue of liquor otherwise than through the wool each tube contains
a stopper sliding within it under slight friction and intended to be moved by hand
so as to shut off that part of each tube which stands freely above the bobbins from
that surrounded by the bobbins.
Each tube is provided with two diametrically opposite longitudinal slots and a
cross pin traverses the aforesaid stopper and extends out through the slots. When
the stopper is lowered this cross pin comes to rest upon or across the uppermost
bobbin and the stopper is supported thereby in the desired place.
The stopper may be provided with a book or spring fingers or a screw threaded
rod with nut or any suitable device to maintain it temporarily at the end of the tube
until it is required to be brought into use.
As the bobbin is held by means interior to the bobbin the course of impregnation
may be seen and watched.
It is obvious that the same method and apparatus are applicable to the treatment
by fluid impregnation of any textile matter wound into the form of a bobbin or
reel and capable of being held upon a central perforated tubular holder.
Dated this 26th day of April 1893.
R. HADDAN,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Dyeing or Treating of Bobbins of Wool
and other Textile Materials, and Apparatus therefor.
EMILE GÉNARD of 3 Place de Brouckere, Brussels in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Engineer 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 purpose of the present, invention is to provide for the more convenient
impregnation of bobbins of any textile material, but usually wool, with liquid or
gas with which they are to be saturated; and it consists principally in a holder of
the construction hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.
Among operations in which this invention is applicable are dyeing, bleaching,
removing fatty matter, mordanting, cleaning, oxydising, steaming or drying
materials in the form of bobbins or the like which can be put upon a tube.
In the drawings hereto annexed
Fig. 1 represents a vertical section of the holder showing four bobbins thereon
arranged in a receptacle for an impregnating liquid, the section being upon the
plane of the line X Y in Fig. 3.
Fig. 2 is a similar section of the upper part of the holder and bobbins thereon
on the line V W Fig. 3 with parts in a different position.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the plane of the line T V Fig. 1 of the holder
showing the bobbins thereon in plan.
The holder consists of a tube A. the external diameter of which is not greater
than that of the passage way through the centre of the bobbins to be placed
thereon. At one end of the tube, at a little distance from its extreme end is a
flange G serving as a support for the bobbins H and from near above this flange G
to nearly the other end of the tube A the latter is pierced with a number of
holes A Two slots B B extend longitudinally along the tube A parallel to its
axis and diametrically opposite to each other for the passage of a cross pin C.
This cross pin C is in connection with a stopper D of any suitable form adapted to
slide with a slight friction inside the tube A so that it cuts off that part of the
tube A which is surrounded by the bobbins placed thereon from that part which is
not so surrounded, when the cross pin C rests upon the end most bobbin. By this
means any liquid or gas which passes from the outside into the tube A. or from the
tube A through its perforations to the outside must pass through the bobbins on the
tube. The pin C is made withdrawable to permit of insertion or removal of
the bobbins and the stopper D is provided with small pins D' engaging in the
aforesaid slots B B to prevent it from turning so as to displace the axis of the
hole C through which the pin C passes from that plane in which the slots B B lie.
The stopper D is provided with a screw threaded spindle E adapted to pass through
a hole E in the end of the tube A to be secured by a nut K to maintain the
stopper D raised while the pin C is removed and the bobbins are being threaded
thereon or removed. The tube A is also provided near its upper end with two
lateral holes L and the pin E may at an equivalent place be enlarged into an
annular form as at L1 Fig. 2 to permit of the passage of a hook or suitable device
for suspending or afterwards withdrawing the tube from the vessel in which it is
placed. The vessel M is of any suitable form to contain one or more tubes A which
are fixed temporarily each in the upwardly directed mouth of the tube I passing
through the floor of the vessel M.
In using this apparatus, the tube A. being removed from the vessel M, the pin C
is raised by hand carrying with it the stopper D until the spindle E of the latter
projects at the end of the tube A where it is then secured by the nut K. The
pin C is then withdrawn and the bobbins H are strung on. When the desired
number has been thus placed in position, the pin C is again inserted and the nut K

page_text: is removed and the pin C is pushed down onto the uppermost bobbin across which
The stopper D moves down with the pin.
it rests.
The tube A is then fitted in the pipe mouth I in the vessel M.
If the latter be now filled with solution of a dye or other liquid it will pass by
gravity into the pipe A through the bobbins H and so flow out of the vessel. Å
similar effect may be produced by using a suction pump attached to the pipe I. If
a force pump be attached to this pipe the liquid will be forced through the bobbins
from inside the pipe A into the vessel M but in such case a weight F such as an
annular block of lead must be placed over the pin C around the tube A to prevent
the stopper D from being forced outward.
The apparatus may be most usefully employed with a pump which may be
connected from a force to a suction pump and vice versa, so that the liquid may be
alternately forced and drawn. and thus caused to traverse the bobbins repeatedly
as often as may be necessary.
All the pipe mouths I may be connected to one and the same pump.
Air or other gas can be forced or drawn in like manner by pump or equivalent
apparatus through the bobbins in such operations as oxydising, drying, steaming
and the like.
Although I have herein before referred only to a threaded spindle and nut to
maintain the stopper raised, I may use any form of hooked rod or spring fingers
attached to the stopper or to the tube end so that when the stopper is raised this
hook or fingers may suitably engage the stopper temporarily in the end of the
tube.
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.
1. A bobbin holder consisting of a perforated tube A having a flange G, two
longitudinal slots B B, a stopper D adapted to slide in said tube and a cross pin C
traversing the said slots B B and stopper D in combination substantially as set
forth.
2. A bobbin holder consisting of a tube A with perforations A' and two
longitudinal slots B B, a flange Ga stopper D adapted to slide in said tube A, a
removable cross pin C traversing said slots B B and stopper D and means for
engaging said stopper D temporarily in the end of the tube A in combination
substantially as set forth.
3. The combination of a vessel M an open pipe mouth I in the base thereof, an
open tube A adapted to be fitted in said pipe mouth, the said tube A being
perforated at A' and having two longitudinal slots B B, a base flange G on said
ube A, a stopper D adapted to slide in said tube A having tongues D' D'
ngaging in said slots B B and a removable cross pin C adapted to traverse the
aid slots B B and stopper D substantially as set forth and for the purpose
lescribed.
Dated this 29th day of June 1893
R. HADDAN,
Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18. Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.