Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Finishing Lace and other Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Finishing Lace and
other Fabrics.
I, ALFRED PEACH of Willoughby Street, Lenton, in the Borough of
Nottingham, Engineer and Millwright, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for stretching, drying and
calendering lace or other fabrics.
The framing carrying the tentering chains is widened or narrowed by the action
of right and left hand screws engaging with the adjustable parts of the framing
and carried near the centre in fixed bearings; the screws are preferably provided
with worm wheels engaging with worms secured on a longitudinal shaft by means
of which the whole of the screws are operated simultaneously and both parts of the
framing will be adjusted so as to always be the same distance from the centre of
the frame.
The drying rollers are arranged preferably in a horizontal plane and may be
carried in bearings secured to the framing; two or more of the rollers next the
tentering frame being preferably carried in bearings sliding in vertical guides
secured to the framing and raised out of contact with the fabric or lowered to the
desired extent by means of screws preferably passing through nuts formed in
the upper part of the vertical slides, their lower ends being connected to the
bearings.
If desired the whole of the screws may be simultaneously operated by a suitable
arrangement of shafts and gearing so that the whole of the bearings may be raised
simultaneously.
Motion is preferably imparted to the drying rollers by a longitudinal shaft
carried in bearings secured to the framing provided with worms working in engage-
ment with worm wheels secured on the ends of the rollers.
At the end of the framing carrying the drying rollers employ a set of
calendering bowls or rolls carried in bearings secured to or carried in vertical
guides secured to the framing; they may be rotated simultaneously with the
drying rollers by a worm secured on the shaft actuating the drying rollers
engaging with a worm secured on the end of one of the calendering bowls.
With this arrangement the fabric after passing over the drying rollers may be
passed through the calender and the fabric finished at once instead of being wound
on a beam or roller and afterwards calendered by a subsequent operation as
heretofore.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1891
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Finishing Lace and
other Fabrics.
I, ALFRED PEACH of Willoughby Street, Lenton in the Borough of
Nottingham, Engineer and Millwright, 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 improvements in apparatus for stretching drying and
calendering lace or other fabrics.

page_text: It will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan showing the application of my
invention.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings."
The drying rollers a are preferably arranged as shown and some are carried in
bearings, secured to the standard c and two or more of these rollers a next the
end of the tentering frame may be carried in bearings d adjustable vertically in
brackets e secured to the standards e which bearings d are raised or lowered by
the screws working in nuts in the upper parts of the brackets e so that the end
rollers a may be raised out of contact with the fabric or lowered to the desired
position. If desirable the whole of the screws may be simultaneously operated
by a suitable arrangement of shafts and gearing so that both ends of the rollers
may be raised or lowered simultaneously by one attendant.
Motion is imparted to the drying rollers a by a shaft carried in bearings
secured to one of the standards c. Secured to the shaft are worms engaging
with worm wheels secured to the ends of the shafts of the rollers a.
is connected to the main driving shaft by a short vertical shaft
wheels k¹. At the end of the standards c are arranged a set of calendering bowls
or. rolls carried in bearings mm sliding in vertical guides in the brackets n
secured to the standards c. The bowls are immediately above the end drying
roller a with which the lower roll is in peripheral contact and from which it
receives its motion. The upper bowl is raised and lowered by screws-o: passing
through nuts o in the upper part of the brackets n, their lower ends being
connected to the bearings m¹ of the upper bowl P.
The shaft h
and bevel
The bearings m of the lower bowl may be connected to the bearings m¹ by
links so that by means of the screws o the upper bowl m' may be raised clear of
the lower bowl m and by still further raising the bearings m' the lower bowl will
be raised clear of the end drying roller a.
With the foregoing arrangement the fabric after passing between the drying
rolls a may be passed through the calendering bowls and the fabric finished at
one operation instead of being wound on a beam or roller and afterwards calendered
by a subsequent operation as heretofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
In apparatus for finishing lace and other fabrics the combination in the same
machine with drying rollers a of calendering bowls such as substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this First day of F
of January 1892
on ILT Orita n
ALFRED PEACH.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.
ALFRED PEACH.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,.
Agents for the Applicant.