Iм- IN APPARATUS FOR AGEING OR STEAMING WOVEN OR OTHER PROVEMENTS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

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LETTERS PATENT to Edward James Jones, of the Firm of James
Black and Company, Calico Printers, of Dalmonach Works, in the
County of Dumbarton, North Britain, for the Invention of "Iм-
IN APPARATUS FOR AGEING OR STEAMING WOVEN OR OTHER
PROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward James Jones
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st August 1875.
I, EDWARD JAMES JONES, of the Firm of James Black and Company,
Calico Printers, of Dalmonach Works, in the County of Dumbarton,
North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AGEING OR STEAMING WOVEN OR OTHER
WEB FABRICS OR YARNS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention has principally for its object to economise cost, labor,
and time in the construction and working of apparatus for ageing or

page_text: steaming woven or other web fabrics or yarns, and the improvements,
whilst especially advantageous in connection with calico printing, are
also more or less beneficially applicable in connection with dyeing and
other processes to which fabrics or yarns may be submitted.'
In applying the improvements in the case of a common existing
arrangement of ageing apparatus, in which a woven fabric is passed in a
continuous manner through a heated or a heated and moist chamber, and
round upper and lower rollers alternately, so as to hang in a series of
vertical lines in the chamber, one or more of the ordinary rollers are
removed or disused at the top and the bottom, and the space between iş
occupied by a cage or light open framework of wood or other suitable
material. The fabric is led into the top of the cage, and is drawn off
from the bottom of it, but the drawing off is at the commencement of
operations delayed after the leading in to such an extent that the fabric
becomes piled in loose folds within the cage, so that although the move-
ment of the fabric is continuous as before a very much larger quantity
occupies the cage than what previously passed through the same space
in only two or more vertical lines. The bottom of the cage is formed
with an inclined side to facilitate the egress of the fabric through a slit"
at the bottom of the incline, the fabric next passing round a guide roller
below the slit. The roller at the top over which the fabric is led into
the cage should be driven, and a light roller should work in contact
above it to slightly nip the passing fabric, and insùre its proper move-

page_text: In erecting new ageing chambers these may, if wished, be made much
smaller than heretofore for subjecting goods for a given time to the
ageing process.
For steaming purposes the cage is arranged in the same way as for
ageing, but the chamber and the apparatus for leading the goods into and
out of it are arranged as in existing steaming apparatus, so as to prevent
a too great egress of steam at the openings, and so that any water con-
densing from the steam may not drop on the goods.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward James Jones in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th February 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JAMES JONES, of the Firm of James Black and Company, Calico Printers,
of Dalmonach Works, in the County of Dumbarton, North Britain, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward James Jones,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward James Jones, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward James
Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
" IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AGEING OR STEAMING WOVEN OR OTHER
WEB FABRICS OR YARNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Edward James Jones, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal, Patent Office within

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward James Jones, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
My said Invention has principally for its object to economise cost,
labor, and time in the construction and working of apparatus for agcing
or steaming woven or other web fabrics or yarns; and my improvements,
whilst especially advantageous in connection with calico printing, are
also more or less beneficially applicable in connection with dyeing and
other processes to which fabrics or yarns may be submitted.
In applying my improvements in the case of a common existing
arrangement of ageing apparatus, in which a woven fabric is passed in a
continuous manner through a heated chamber or through one having an
atmosphere both moist and heated, and round upper and lower rollers
alternately, so as to hang in a series of vertical lines in the chamber;
one or more of the ordinary rollers are removed or disused at the top and
bottom, and the space between is occupied by a cage or light open
framework. The fabric is led into the top of the cage, and is drawn off
from the bottom of it in such a way that there is always a quantity of it
piled in loose folds within the cage.
With my improvements existing ageing chambers may be made to
age a much larger quantity of goods than heretofore, whilst the goods.
may be led into and out of the chamber continuously, and yet each part
be a much longer time in the chamber, and subjected to the heated
atmosphere or steam.
In crecting new ageing chambers these may, if wished, be made much
smaller than heretofore for subjecting goods for a given time to the
agcing process.
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For steaming purposes the cage is arranged in the same way as for
ageing, but the chamber and the apparatus for leading the goods into
and out of it are arranged as in existing steaming apparatus, so as to
prevent too great egress of steam at the openings, and so that any water
condensing from the steam may not drop on the goods:

page_text: And in order that my said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a Sheet with
an explanatory Drawing to be herein-after referred to and representing
steaming apparatus as made with my improvements. In this Drawing
the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
The accompanying Drawing is a longitudinal vertical section of a portion
of a steaming chamber 1, and shows two of my cages 2, 3, as fitted in it.
The fabric 4 passing through the chamber is shown by blue lines,
and the direction of its movements by arrows.
The chamber 1 is repre-
sented as fitted with the usual upper and lower rows of rollers 5, 6, the
upper rollers 5 being driven in the usual way through bevil gearing 7
from a longitudinal shaft S. Some of the rollers 5, 6, are not used where
the cages 3, 3, are placed, and may of course be omitted when con-
structing new chambers to be fitted with the cages. The fabric 4 is
entered into the chamber 1 in the usual way, being drawn out of a
truck 9, and passed into the chamber through a narrow opening 10.
After passing over and under one or two rollers 5, 6, the fabric is led
into the open top of the first cage 2, which is shown as in vertical
section, the other cage 3 being in elevation. Each cage consists of a
light open framework of wood or other suitable material, the sides being
formed by long laths, which are separated from each other by spaces (or
it might be any suitable open network), allowing of a free circulation of
the heated atmosphere or steam within the cage. The fabric 4 is with-
drawn from the cage 2 through a slit 11 formed in the bottom of it, but
when the fabric is first led into the cage the withdrawal of it from the
bottom thereof is delayed until a quantity is piled in loose folds inside
the cage, as shown in the Drawing. The side 12 of the cage, near the
top of which side the fabric enters, is by preference inclined as shown,
so that the lower part of the cage is wider, this preventing the fabric
catching against that side, and facilitating its falling into folds with
sufficient regularity. If preferred, or necessary in any case, a vibrating
folder may be fitted at the top of the cage to regulate the piling of the
fabric in the cage. The bottom 13 of the cage is by preference shaped
as shown, with a part horizontal and a part inclined to facilitate the
withdrawal of the fabric through the bottom slit 11. That one of the
upper rollers 5, from which the fabric 4 descends into the cage 2, has a
roller 14 placed above it, so as to rest on the fabric, and slightly nip it

page_text: In witness whereof, I, the said Edward James Jones, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.