Improvements in Apparatus for Washing, Soaping, Scouring, Bleaching, Dyeing, and otherwise similarly Treating Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1888

page_text: ate of Application, 29th Jec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing, Soaping, Scouring,
Bleaching, Dyeing, and otherwise similarly Treating Textile
Fabrics.
I JAMES POLLARD of Newton Bank Print Works Hyde in the County of Chester
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for washing soaping scouring
bleaching dyeing and otherwise similarly treating textile fabrics and consists mainly
in the construction use and application of an improved beater as a substitute for
the ordinary wince or revolving beater which in one form as now constructed is
a solid square wooden roller with projections or beating pieces fixed therein.
Now according to my Invention I construct a skeleton roller the periphery of which
is made up of say four or other number metal blades with scoops fixed upon discs
spider wheels or equivalents which are secured upon an axle and are driven in
any convenient manner. The front edges of these blades act as beaters when they
strike against the fabric and the scoops in revolving collect some of the water or
other liquid in which they dip and dash such liquid against the fabric.
Dated this 28th day of December 1888.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing, Soaping, Scouring,
Bleaching, Dyeing, and otherwise similarly Treating Textile
Fabrics.
1, JAMES POLLARD, of Newton Bank Print Works, Hyde, in the County of Chester,
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:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for washing soaping scouring
bleaching dyeing and otherwise similarly treating textile fabrics and consists mainly
in the construction use and application of an improved beater as a substitute for
the ordinary wince or revolving beater which in one form as now constructed is a
solid square wooden roller with projections or beating pieces fixed thereon.
Now according to my invention I construct a skeleton roller the periphery of
which is made up of say four or other number metal blades with scoops fixed upon
dises spider wheels or equivalents which are secured upon an axle and are driven
in any convenient manner. The front edges of these blades act as beaters when
they strike against the fabric and the scoops in revolving collect some of the water
or other liquid in which they dip and dash such liquid against the fabric.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation illustrating the application of my improved
rollers to a machine for washing soaping scouring bleaching dyeing or otherwise
similarly treating textile fabrics.
Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1 but with the top guide rollers removed in order to
show my improved rollers more clearly.
Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views showing one of my improved rollers on a larger
scale.

page_text: In Figs. 1 and 2-a designates the tank partially filled with the liquor for
washing or otherwise treating the fabric b; the roller over which the fabric b
passes into the tank a under and over two series of guide rollers d d' respectively,
the fabric passing finally out of the tank a over the guide roller e.
During its passage through the tank a the fabric b is subjected to the action of
a number of my improved rollers F. In the Drawing eight of these rollers Fare
shown but it is obvious that any number from one upwards may be employed.
Each roller F is constructed as best shown by the detail views Figs. 3 and 4
where designates the shaft or axle of the roller upon which are mounted discs
or spider wheels to which are bolted or otherwise rigidly affixed the four
blades shaped as shown best in Fig. 4; the front edges of these blades act
as beaters when they strike against the fabric in revolving while the scoops dash
against the fabric the liquid caught up by them as they revolve. The Drawing
shows four blades which is the number I consider most suitable and prefer to
employ although any other number might be employed. The position of the guide
rollers may be such that the beaters strike either the back or face of the cloth
or both the back and face.
I take care that the level of the liquid in the tank a shall be maintained at such
a height that the blades will always dip in the liquid as they revolve. I mount
the axles of the rollers F in suitable bearings supported by the sides of the tank
and I propose to gear the said axles together by toothed wheels g and drive them
from the shaft by means of the two pairs of bevel gears ii and jj respectively
as shown or by other suitable arrangement of gearing so as to drive the rollers
alternately in opposite directions.
I also propose to set the rollers F so that each blade fin revolving will come
opposite the space between the adjacent pair of blades" on the next roller as
shown in Fig. 1.
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. The improved roller (or any number of such rollers in combination) designed
for use in a machine for washing soaping bleaching or otherwise similarly treating
textile fabrics said roller being made up of a number of blades or scoops rigidly fixed
upon discs spider wheels or equivalents carried on a shaft or axle mounted in bearings
and caused to revolve in a tank containing liquid said blades being so formed and
shaped as to combine the functions of beaters to strike the fabric and scoops to. collect
the liquid in which they revolve and dash such liquid against the fabric under
treatment.
2. The several constructions combinations and arrangements of parts embodying
my improvements in apparatus for washing and similarly treating textile fabrics
substantially as herein described and as illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this 20th day of August 1900
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.