Improvements in Scouring or Dyeing Woollen Rugs or Skins with or without the Wool or Fur upon them, or any Woollen Fabric or Leather, and in Apparatus to be Used for the Purpose.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888.
Improvements in Scouring or Dyeing Woollen Rugs or Skins with
or without the Wool or Fur upon them, or any Woollen Fabric
or Leather, and in Apparatus to be Used for the Purpose.
WC, JOHN MORLAND, and JOHN COLEBY MORLAND, both of Glastonbury, in the
County of Somerset, Sheep Skin Rug Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
For scouring sheepskins from which the wool has not been removed we use a
revolving cylinder which has a number of brushes attached to its circumference
parallel with its axis.
The skin to be treated is laid on a table with the wool side uppermost, and whilst
held by the workman is drawn forward by the action of the brushes over the surface
of a roller, which is parallel with the brush cylinder and at such a distance from
it that the brushes as they revolve act against and brush the wool. The roller
may be prevented from turning by a pawl and ratchet wheel, so as not to allow
the skin to be drawn in too rapidly, but can freely turn in the opposite direction
when the skin is drawn back by the workman.
Above the roller is a perforated pipe by which water or other scouring liquid may
be allowed to run on to the wool to be cleaned; or if the wool is to be dyed or treated
with any other liquid, the dye or liquid may similarly be allowed to run onto the wool
through the pipe.
Woollen rugs, or skins, or furs of any description or leather or cloth may similarly
be treated.
Dated this 7th day of January 1888.

page_text: Improvements in Scouring or Dyeing Woollen Rugs or Skins with
or without the Wool or Fur upon them, or any Woollen Fabric
or Leather, and in Apparatus to be Used for the Purpose.
We, JOHN MORLAND and JOHN COLEBY MORLAND, both of Glastonbury, in the
County of Somerset, Sheep Skin Rug Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
For scouring sheepskins from which the wool has not been removed we use a
revolving cylinder which has a number of brushes attached to its circumference
parallel with its axis.
The skin to be treated is laid on a table with the wool side uppermost, and whilst
held by the workman is drawn forward by the action of the brushes over the surface
of a roller, which is parallel with the brush cylinder and at such a distance from it
that the brushes as they revolve act against and brush the wool. The roller may be
prevented from turning by a pawl and ratchet wheel, so as not to allow the skin to be
drawn in too rapidly, but can freely turn in the opposite direction when the skin is
drawn back by the workman.
Above the roller is a perforated pipe by which water or other scouring liquid may
be allowed to run on to the wool to be cleaned; or if the wool is to be dyed or
treated with any other liquid, the dye or liquid may similarly be allowed to run
on to the wool through the pipe.
Woollen rugs, or skins, or furs of any description or leather or cloth may similarly
be treated.
Figure 1 of the drawings hereunto annexed is a vertical section and Figure 2 an
elevation of apparatus constructed as above described.
A is a
revolving cylinder with brushes carried at intervals apart along its cir-
cumference. B is a fixed casing which encloses the cylinder. C is the roller
parallel with the cylinder and D the table in front of the roller. E is a perforated
pipe just above the roller C and F a pipe by which scouring or dye liquid is supplied
to this pipe to be delivered in numerous small jets on to the rugs or skins. The
roller C may as above described be prevented from turning by a pawl and ratchet
wheel so as not to allow the skins to be drawn in too rapidly but in most cases this is
unnecessary. G G₁ are fast and loose pullies on the axis of the cylinder A and Ha
fork lever for shifting the driving belt which works over these pullies from the fast to
the loose one or vice versa.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. Scouring or dyeing wool rugs or skins with or without the wool or fur upon
them or any woollen fabric or leather by submitting them to the action of brushes
carried by a revolving cylinder whilst at the same time a shower or spray of scouring
or dyeing liquid is supplied to them substantially as described.
2. The construction of apparatus for scouring or dyeing wool rugs or skins with
or without the wool or fur upon them or any woollen fabric or leather substantially
as herein before described.