Materials.
Year: 1886

page_text: Materials.
I GUSTAV IAGENBURG of Rydboholm, Sweden, 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:-
In all machines hitherto employed for washing cotton and other textile materials
the material is kept in constant motion by means of rotating or reciprocating forks
in the quantity of water necessary for the purpose but the material thus treated
generally becomes so entangled that in most cases it cannot, by carding, be brought
straight again and the production of an even and good thread is thereby rendered
impossible.
By my invention this objection is entirely overcome the washing of the material
being effected by water being alternately poured thereon and pressed out again no
stirring operation being employed.
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In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is a side
elevation and figure 2 a plan of a machine for washing cotton and other textile
materials constructed according to my invention.
The machine is constructed of a long carriage A, running on rails and provided
with a perforated bottom B (or the said bottom may be made of rods or wire-
gauze). Above the carriage A one or more cylinders C, are mounted in suitable
bearings with their peripheries resting upon the bottom of the carriage; the
cylinders C can rise in their bearings and thereby adapt themselves to the thickness
of the material lying upon the bottom of the carriage A. On each side of the
rollers C is a pipe D which is perforated or provided with a narrow slot along the
whole length of the roller through which perforations or slots water is constantly
poured down upon the material and is then again pressed out by the roller or
rollers.
I provide suitable mechanism for imparting a reciprocating motion to the
carriage. The mechanism which I have found it advantageous to use is shewn in
the drawing and consists of a chain H, secured at both ends of the carriage A and
running over the chain pulleys E, F and G. Motion is communicated to the
pulley F, by means of bevel and toothed gearing. Each of the two pinions of the
bevel gearing is fixed to a separate driving pulley so that the motion of the carriage

page_text: can be reversed by transferring the driving band from one to the other of the two
pulleys by means of a fork K fixed upon a movable bar I. One of two arms M
and N secured to the same shaft is connected to the bar I and the other arm is
actuated by two projections O and P on the carriage whereby the said reversing
motion is caused to take place automatically.
The operation is as follows.-
The material to be washed is first. spread upon the bottom of the carriage and
water is then turned on through the pipes D and the carriage is set in motion.
The weight of the cylinder C will press out the water from the material at each
backward and forward movement of the carriage A and the machine is continued
to be operated in this manner until the material has been cleaned. Instead of
employing a rectangular shaped carriage as shewn in the drawing it can be made
of a circular or annular form. In this case the roller or rollers C are made conical
and the carriage can then run continually in one direction. Further the carriage
may be fixed whilst the roller or rollers are caused to move backwards and
forwards or in a circle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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1. A machine for washing cotton and other textile materials consisting of a
perforated bottom (or a bottom formed of a series of rods) on which the material
to be washed is placed, water being constantly poured thereon and pressed out
therefrom by means of a pressing roller or rollers such as C running over the
bottom, which roller or rollers may be arranged in stationary bearings in which
case the bottom forms part of a rectangular carriage having a reciprocating motion
or of a circular carriage to which a rotatory motion is communicated or the said
roller or rollers may have a reciprocating or a circular motion communicated to
them in which case the bottom of the machine is stationary substantially as
set forth.
2. The improved machine for washing cotton and other textile materials herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
BOT
UNITO
11000