Improvements applicable to Cloth Drying Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr. 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to Cloth Drying Machines.
ALBERT MITCHELL of Croydon Terrace Manchester Road Bury in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist and Consulting Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
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This invention relates to an arrangement of cooling and straightening winces
to be fixed at the delivery end of cloth drying machines the object being to
deliver the cloth from the said machine perfectly cool, clean, and straight at the
selvedges to the "plaiter down."
According to my invention I mount vertically or otherwise between the last
drying cylinder and the "plaiting down" apparatus two or more winces made of
rails set around rings.
The winces are of suitable diameter according to that of the heated drying
cylinder and they will air the cloth on both sides as it leaves the drying
apparatus and guide it perfectly cool and straight at the selvedges to the
"plaiter down."
I also mount inside each wince a longitudinal fan blade or a series of longitudinal
blades of tinned iron or other suitable material carried by the wince ring arms,
or they may be carried by separate arms. The said blades are set radially or to
any suitable incline or curve so as to act as a fan, gathering air and throwing it
outwards against the cloth and as the latter passes alternately first over one side
of the first wince and then over the opposite side of the next wince the air will
be thrown against both sides of the cloth which will thus be cooled and cleared and
delivered straight, clean, and quite cool to the "plaiter down."
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These improved winces may be also applied as carrier winces on the underside
of cloth drying machines with single tiers of cylinders, or for vertical machines
also as a quicker and additional nieans for cooling airing and conditioning in
such machines.
In some cases propose to carry the fan blade or blades on a separate shaft or
shafts mounted in and moving with the wince, and rotated by suitable means say
for example by a pinion or pinions running round and gearing with a fixed
circular toothed rack or wheel, so that the fan or fans may be made to revolve
very rapidly in the wince.
Dated thie 27th dow of Anvil 1892
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to Cloth Drying Machines.
1 ALBERT MITCHELL of Croydon Terrace Manchester Road, Bury in the
County of Lancaster, Machinist and Consulting 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:-
This invention relates to an arrangement of cooling and straightening winces
to be fixed at the delivery end of cloth drying machines, the object being to
deliver the cloth from the said machine perfectly cool, clean, and straight at the
selvedges, to the "plaiter down."
The said invention will be readily understood on reference to the two accom-
panying sheets of drawings and the following explanation thereof.

page_text: Fig. 1 Sheet 1 shews the delivery end of a cloth drying machine with my
invention applied thereto.
Figs. 2 and 3 Sheet 2 are sectional views of two of my improved winces here-
after described.
According to my invention I mount vertically one above the other (as shewn on
the drawings) or otherwise, between the last of the drying cylinders a and plaiting
down apparatus b two or more winces made of rails c set around rings d.
The winces are of suitable diameter according to that of the heated drying
cylinders a and they will air the cloth on both sides as it leaves the drying
apparatus and guide it perfectly cool, and straight at the selvedges, to the "plaiter
down" b.
I also mount inside each wince a longitudinal fan blade or a series of blades e of
tinned iron or other suitable material carried by the wince ring arms d' as seen in
the lower wince shewn on Figs. 2 and 3 or they may be carried by separate arms,
or otherwise.
The said blades e are set radially, tangentially, or to any suitable incline or curve,
so as to act as a fan, gathering air and throwing it outwards against the clothy
(see Fig. 1) and as the latter passes as shewn alternately first over one side of the
first wince and then over the opposite side of the next wince, the air will be
thrown against both sides of the cloth, which will thus be cooled and cleared and
delivered straight, clean, and quite cool to the "plaiter down."
In some cases I propose to carry the fan blade or blades e on a separate shaft
or shafts e' mounted in and moving with the wince round the central axis i as seen
in the upper wince shewn on Figs. 2 and 3. The fan or fans thus formed is or are
rotated by any suitable means, say for example, by a pinion or pinions 9 running
round and gearing with a circular toothed rack which carries one end of the
axle of the wince, so that the fan or fans may be made to revolve very rapidly
in the wince. I prefer to use the uppermost or last wince in every case of this
latter construction.
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I also propose to close the ends of the wince as seen at Fig. 3, so that the air
cannot escape therefrom but will be gathered in by the fan or fans between the
lags or rails c where the same are not covered by the cloth.
My improved winces may also be applied as carrier winces, on the underside of
cloth drying machines which are made with single tiers of cylinders, or for vertical
machines also, as a quicker and additional means for cooling airing and conditioning,
in such machines.
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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
claim is :-
1. The combination with the delivery end of a cloth drying machine and the
plaiter down thereof of a series of two or more winces placed between them and
constructed of rails mounted on rings and fitted with internal fans substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2. The improved wince consisting of a series of rails mounted on rings and
carrying a fan blade or blades inside the said wince substantially as herein before
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved wince consisting of a series of rails mounted on rings, and
carrying a shaft or shafts provided with a fan blade or blades and driven at a
suitable speed inside the said wince substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated on Sheet 2 of the drawings annexed.
Dated this 26th day of January 1894.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.