IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STEAMING AND BOILING WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Webster, of Dowsbury, in the County of York,
Machine Maker, and Joseph Clegg, of Dewsbury, aforesaid, Cloth Finisher,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STEAMING
AND BOILING WOVEN FABRICS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Webster and Joseph
Clegg at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December
1881.
HENRY WEBSTER, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Machine Maker, and
JOSEPH CLEGG, of Dewsbury, aforesaid, Cloth Finisher, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STEAMING AND BOILING WOVEN FABRICS
"
This Invention has reference to apparatus employed in steaming and boiling
woven fabrics made in imitation of seal skins, or other goods.
Hitherto these materials have been wound on a solid metal roller, and placed in
a vertical position in a cistern containing water.
This cistern has then been supplied with steam and the fabrics have thus been
steamed and boiled, but in consequence of the rollers being solid they had to remain
in the cistern a long time in order that the inner or first fold of fabric wound on
the rollers had received the necessary amount of steaming and boiling.
Our Invention consists in using hollow rollers with perforated sides. After the
fabric has been wound on the said perforated rollers, we place them in a vertical
position in a cistern containing water, the bottom ends of the perforated rollers
being placed into a horizontal trough, pipe or other suitable article. Steam is then
admitted into the trough and passes up the hollow rollers through the perforations
and penetrates into and through the fabric by which means it is steamed and
boiled far more efficiently, and in a much less time, than by the present system.
In order to cool the fabrics the hot water is let off, and cold water may be admitted
into the trough and forced through the perforated rollers into the fabrics.
Our apparatus may effectively be employed in cleaning the fabrics, and the water
first put in the cistern may be utilized for this purpose.
The perforated rollers covered with the fabrics may be placed in an empty
cistern when commencing to steam and boil them, and water forced through the
fabrics to fill the cistern for the first operation, by this means the fabric will be
partially cleaned before the boiling operation.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Webster and Joseph Clegg in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th June 1882.
HENRY WEBSTER of Dewsbury in the County of York Machine Maker and
JOSEPH CLEGG of Dewsbury aforesaid Cloth Finisher IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STEAMING AND BOILING WOVEN FABRICS
This Invention has reference to apparatus employed in steaming and boiling
woven fabrics made in imitation of seal skins or other goods. Hitherto these
materials have been wound on a solid metal roller and placed in a vertical position
in a cistern containing water. This cistern has then been supplied with steam and
the fabrics have thus been steamed and boiled, but in consequence of the rollers
being solid they have had to remain in the cistern a long time in order that the inner
or first fold of fabric wound on the rollers might receive the necessary amount of
steaming or boiling. Our Invention consists in using hollow rollers with perforated
sides. After the fabric has been wound on the said perforated rollers we place
them in a vertical position in a cistern containing water, the bottom ends of the
perforated rollers being placed-into-a-horizontal_trough_pipe or other suitable
connection. Steam is then admitted into the trough or pipe which passes up the
hollow rollers through the perforations and penetrates into the fabric by which means
it is steamed and boiled far more effectively and in a much less time, than by the
present system. In order to clean the fabrics the perforated rollers covered
therewith may be placed in an empty cistern when commencing to steam and boil
them and water forced through the fabrics to fill the cistern for the first operation,
by this means the fabric will be partially cleaned before the boiling operation. In
order that this Invention may be more fully understood we herein give reference to
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the apparatus and Fig. 2 a vertical section of same.
Fig. 3 being a side elevation. A is the cistern for containing water in the bottom
of which are fixed a series of pipes B provided at intervals with nozzles C which
support the hollow perforated rollers D upon which the cloth is wound. The upper
ends of the rollers D are closed so that when steam is forced into them through the
series of pipes E and B it penetrates through the fabric and causes the water in
the cistern to boil and so the fabrics are steamed and boiled simultaneously. When
necessary to cool the fabrics the hot water is let off and cold water injected through
the series of pipes E and B and forced through the perforated rollers into the
fabric
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and shewn by Drawings]
how the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practice we would have
it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details of construction
or arrangement herein set forth but what we claim as our Invention and consider
to be new is-
The employment of apparatus for subjecting woven fabrics to the operations of
steaming and boiling simultaneously in manner substantially as herein shewn and
described.
In witness whereof I the said Henry Webster for and on behalf of myself
and the said Joseph Clegg have hereunto set my hand and seal this Twelfth,
day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and