A NOVEL MACHINE AND PREPARATION FOR DRESSING AND FINISHING CLOTH
Year: 1867

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
January 1867. A communication from abroad by Alphonse Porée, of 39,
Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11,
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NOVEL MACHINE AND
PREPARATION FOR DRESSING AND FINISHING CLOTH," (a communication to me
from abroad by Alphonse Porée, of 39, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France,),
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a novel machine for dressing and finishing cloth.
fulled with flock or waste wool, "molletons" or swanskins, castorinas,. and
drapery of every description; also in a novel dressing and finishing prepara-
tion.
The machine is illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing forming
part of this Provisional Specification, Figure 1 being a plan view, and Figure 2
a section at A, B, Figure 1. The frame may be of cast iron, of wood, or any
suitable material. The machine is composed of seven fluted cylinders turning
two and two in inverse directions, and plunging into a reservoir containing the
dressing preparation of which use is made; they are sufficiently near to each
other to draw along the stuff to be finished by a press roller movement, and to fix
the flock by means of the preparation intended for this purpose; these cylinders
are furnished at one of their ends with pinions gearing with a toothed wheel

page_text: which partly dips in the preparation. Three other cylinders, made of wood
and arranged outside the reservoir, guide the cloth at its entrance upon and
as it leaves the fluted cylinders. The dressing bath is heated by means of
steam brought into the bath by a pipe from a generator placed near it. A
reservoir placed at an upper level communicates by a pipe with that above
mentioned, and feeds it with the dressing preparation, thus constantly main-
taining the same level. The apparatus is set on a table slightly inclined
towards one of its angles; this table is arranged so as to receive the pieces of
cloth as they issue from the bath, and directs their droppings or drainings into
a reservoir placed near it for this purpose, and at a lower level. Motion is
communicated to the machine from a motor of any description working within.
or without the workshop, according to the space at disposal.
Baths for Feeding the Machine.-Firstly, have a reservoir to contain about
44 gallons ("200 litres"); secondly, for 22 gallons ("100 litres"); of water
take 22 lbs. ("10 kilos") of Colza, 22 lbs. of linseed, and 17 ozs.
("500 grammes") of alkali, or thereabout; boil the whole during an hour,
and then place it in the 44 gallon reservoir; then fill the boiler with water,.
and dissolve in it 22 lbs. of glue, 11 lbs. (" 5 kilos.") of pure soap, 4 lbs. 6 ozs.
(2 kilos) of starch, 17½ ozs. ("500 grammes") of borax, and 17 ozs. of
salammoniac, or thereabout; pour the whole into the 44 gallon reservoir, and
keep it in motion by means of a scraper; then pass the whole through a filter
and place it in the reservoir of the machine, which should be capable of holding
about 220 gallons ("1000 litres").
By this process cloths will be obtained strong, glossy, supple to the touch,.
and without dust or powder..