Improvement in Drying Bags, Yarns, Cloth, and other Textile Materials.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Drying Bags, Yarns, Cloth, and other Textile
Materials.
We WILLIAM LOW of 5 Spring Garden Place Stepney "Carpenter" and DAVID SHARP
of 9 Grosvenor Street Stepney, "Mill Manager" 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 :-
Our invention consists of two hot chambers through which travels, in each of the
chambers an endless sheet of wire gauze & arranged so that the said sheet of wire
runs over a drum at each end of the chamber, which said drums are worked by a
strap run over a pulley constructed outside the apparatus. At one end of the apparatus
are provided with steel fluted rollers worked by a driving wheel which is used to
squeeze out a portion of the moisture, as the bags requiring to be passed through the
apparatus enters at one end & travels on the endless wire gauze, the said bag passed
out at the other end perfectly dry & in order that our invention may be thouroughly
understood we now proceed to describe the accompanying drawings thereof-Reference
being had to letters & figures marked thereon-Figure 1. represents a longitutinal
section of the apparatus with the hot chamber marked A & the flue marked B.
the top of the apparatus marked D. the chimney C the pulleys E-on which the
chain works to pull up the doors 1, by the weight F.
The hand wheel J is
for pressing down or raising (indicated by dotted lines,) the roller K, on or off
the roller N, when the bag is between the said rollers, to squeeze out a portion
of the moisture. The ledge L, and the drums 0, 0, on which the endless wire
sheet gauze P, works; with the fire lump plates V, and the furnace K, and the
wall S. Dotted lines indicate the cog wheel or driver on the shaft N¹ and the
follower on the shaft 0. Figure 2 denotes a plan showing the arrangement of
the flues for heating the apparatus: S are the walls of the apparatus R the furnaces,
U the flues, and the smoke flue marked B. Figure 3 is a transverse section with
the walls marked S and the drums marked 0, the endless wire sheet gauze P.
The driving toothed wheel W₁ and the follower W2 is worked by the driving
pulley W, on the shaft marked N¹.
Like letters refer to like parts in each of the figures.
A the hot chambers. B smoke flue. C chimney. D top. E pullies. F weight.
I doors. J hand wheel. K the fluted roller. L the ledge or table. N the
bottom fluted roller. O the revolving drums. R furnaces. S the walls. U flues.
V fire lump plates. W driving pulley. The apparatus to be driven by steam or
any other power.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed we claim as new and novel the
following.
First The combination of the apparatus for the purpose of drying bags, yarns,
cloths, and every other description of textile materials in a less time than is now

page_text: commonly expended in drying such articles substantially herein described and
according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly: We claim the apparatus to be driven either by steam or any other power
for the purpose of revolving the endless sheet of wire over the drums inside the hot
chamber and to carry the material required to be dried through the apparatus passing
in at one end wet and come out at the other perfectly dry substantially herein described
and according to the accompanying drawings.