Improved Apparatus for Transferring Cloth and like Materials from One Machine or Place to Another, in Bleaching, Dyeing, Finishing, and other Works.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or. Improved Apparatus for Transferring Cloth and like
Materials from One Machine or Place to Another, in Bleaching,
Dyeing, Finishing, and other Works.
I, JOHN SMITH of 4 Ashton Street, Heywood, in the County of Lancaster,
Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
In bleaching, dyeing, finishing, and other similar works, it is frequently necessary
to transfer cloth from one machine or place to another. In the case of two parallel
machines for example, through which the cloth is to be caused to pass succes-
sively in opposite directions, the cloth is pleated upon a lurry or bogie as it
leaves the first machine, upon which it is transferred to the second machine. This
involves a considerable loss of time and labour which loss the adoption of my
improvements obviates. I also secure the further advantage that I niay, if needed,
subject the cloth to an intermediate process, such as running it through a dye bath
or the like, during the period of transfer.
.
The problem which my invention solves is, in short, to receive cloth arriving at
the apparatus, transfer or convey it continuously to the point desired, and deliver
it without twist to the machine or place desired.
For this purpose I employ an endless brattice, apron, rope or the like, travelling
at any desired angle to the direction of travel of the arriving cloth. This endless
brattice or the like extends to or beyond the point of delivery, where I arrange
above it a second shorter endless travelling brattice or the like.
The first travelling brattice or the like, at the delivery end, is caused to travel
upwards around the end of the second brattice, from above which it returns,
around suitable pulleys or rollers.
As the cloth arrives upon the first travelling brattice or the like, it is pleated
thereon, but, because of the motion of the brattice, each pleat is a little behind the
preceding one. The brattice therefore becomes covered with overlapping pleats
which at the delivery end are carried upwards and over the end of the second
brattice, upon which they fall. Being thus turned over, the pleats are in the
exact position to be taken off as they arrive.
If the first brattice be caused to pass through a pan, vat, or the like, the cloth
may, whilst on the brattice be subjected to any suitable treatment, such for example
as that of a dyeing or mordanting bath.
Dated this 10th day of April A.D. 1805
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: A New or Improved Apparatus for Transferring Cloth and like
Materials from One Machine or Place to Another, in Bleaching,
Dyeing, Finishing, and other Works.
I, JOHN SMITH of 4 Ashton Street, Heywood in the County of Lancaster,
Dyer, 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 :-
In bleaching, dyeing, finishing and other similar works, it is frequently necessary
to transfer cloth from one machine or place to another. In the case of two parallel
machines for example, through which the cloth is to be caused to pass successively
in opposite directions, the cloth is pleated upon a lurry or bogie, as it leaves the
first machine, and is thereupon transferred to the second machine. This involves a
considerable loss of time and labour, which loss the adoption of my improvements
obviates. I also secure the further advantage that I may, if needed, subject the
cloth to an intermediate process, such as running it through a dye-bath or the like,
during the period of transfer.
The problem which my invention solves, is, in short, to receive cloth arriving at
the apparatus and to transfer it continuously, and deliver it without twist, to the
machine or place desired.
For this purpose I employ an endless brattice, apron, rope or the like, travelling.
at any desired angle to the direction of travel of the arriving cloth. The endless
brattice or the like extends to or beyond the point of delivery, where I arrange
above it a second endless travelling brattice or the like.
The first travelling brattice is caused to travel upwards at the delivery end, and
around the end of the second brattice, from above which it returns, as hereinafter
more fully described.
one.
As the cloth arrives upon the first brattice, it is pleated or folded thereon, but,
because of the motion of the brattice, each pleat is a little behind the preceding
The brattice therefore becomes covered with overlapping pleats which, at
the delivery end, are carried upwards and over the end of the second brattice upon
which they fall. Being thus turned over, the pleats are in the exact position to be
taken off as they arrive.
If the first brattice is caused to pass through a pan, vat, or the like, the cloth
may, whilst on the brattice, be subjected to any suitable treatment, such for example
as that of a dyeing or mordanting bath.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner my invention may be
carried into practical effect, and are hereinafter described.
Figure 1 and Figure 1^ represent an apparatus constructed to embody my
improvements, in side elevation, Figure 1 representing the receiving end, and
Figure 1 the delivery end, part of this latter being represented as broken away.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal section of the apparatus drawn to a reduced
scale, and with a portion of the middle part broken away.
The endless travelling brattice, apron, rope or the like, hereinafter called the
brattice, may be of any known and suitable construction. As represented by the
drawings and as it would generally be employed, it consists of two side chains A
Figure 2, connected by the laths B, and forming a flexible endless travelling
table T. At the receiving end, the brattice passes over the pulley or roller C and
under the guide roller C₁ by which it is depressed into the trough D along the

page_text: bottom of which it travels to the delivery end. The trough D is constructed to
hold a dye or mordanting bath or the like, in cases where it is thought desirable
to provide means for subjecting the material upon the brattice to a liquid treat-
ment during its passage from one end of the apparatus to the other. In cases
where such treatment will never be required, the trough may be omitted, and a
fixed table or series of parallel transverse supporting rollers, be substituted
therefor. The guide roller C₁ also may or may not be omitted also in such
cases.
At the delivery end of the apparatus, the side chains of the apparatus come
upon two lateral guide pulleys, one of which only, E, is shewn in the drawings.
Above these pulleys there is a guide roller F around which the brattice passes to
the roller G, and thence, back under the trough to the roller H at the receiving
end, thus completing the circuit. Below the trough, there are a larger or smaller
number of supporting rollers i for the brattice. As in Figures 1, 1^, the supporting
rollers are few, and the brattice sags between them. If this sagging is undesirable
the rollers may be placed closer together, and the brattice will be kept thereby in a
horizontal path as shewn by Figure 2, where the rollers are not indicated, as the
chains are in this case supposed to travel on side rails, which also are not shewn.
To reduce friction, the brattice may be provided with friction rollers along each
chain or side.
The second brattice J, Figures 14 and 2, is parallel with and above the delivery
end of the first brattice, T. It travels around the rollers K L at the same speed
as the first. It will be seen that the roller L is concentric with the pulleys E, and
that they have such relative diameters that there is between the brattices at their
point of nearest approach sufficient space for the thickest accumulation of material
or series of folds, likely to come between them but not much more. Both brattices
move in the direction indicated by the arrows and are driven by belts rope or
gearing in the usual and well understood manner.
In the case illustrated, an open cloth a is supplied preferably by a pendulum
motion, to the brattice at P. The cloth is thus pleated or folded upon the moving
brattice, but, because of this motion, the folds lag one behind the other as indicated
by Figure 2. When the folds reach the point M, they are transferred to the
second brattice, and are by this action necessarily turned downside up, in which
position the cloth can be taken off, open, at N, without disturbing any of the
arriving pleats or folds, and without twisting.
Sagging of the upper brattice may be prevented by a series of rollers or by a
table such as O.
It will be understood that the motion of the apparatus and of the cloth may be
reversed in the directions opposite to those shewn by the arrows, in which case the
upper brattice receives the cloth, which is then delivered from the lower.
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
1. An apparatus for transferring cloth or like materials froin one machine or
place to another, constructed arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In apparatus for transferring cloth and like materials from one machine or
place to another, the combination and arrangement of a longer travelling brattice
with a shorter, the longer passing around and above one end of the shorter,
substantially as herein before described and .as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
3. In apparatus for transferring cloth and like materials from one machine or
place to another, the combination and arrangement of a longer travelling brattice
with a shorter, the longer brattice travelling around and above one end of the
shorter, and a trough through which the upper part of the longer brattice travels,

page_text: substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated thin 5th dow of Fab AD 1906
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.