IMPROVE- MENTS IN DYEING YARNS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Ferrie and John Murray, of the Firm of
Ferrie and Murray, Dyers, and Adam Wilson, also Dyer, all of Paisley,
in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN DYEING YARNS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Ferrie, John
Murray, and Adam Wilson, at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th April 1865.
We, ROBERT FERRIE and JOHN MURRAY, of the Firm of Ferrie and Murray,
Dyers, and ADAM WILSON, also Dyer, all of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew,
North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DYEING YARNS," to be as follows, that is to say:
This Invention relates to the dyeing of woollen, worsted, indiana, wincey,
mobair, alpacca, silk, cotton, flax, linen, jute, and other yarns in an improved
manner, and more uniformly than hitherto; and the Invention consists in
stretching the yarns in the hank form whilst subjecting them to the dyeing
liquor. In practising the Invention the banks may be stretched in any con-
venient way, as, for example, upon rods which can be passed through the
hauks and be set in sockets in a frame, which frame can then be lowered into

page_text: the dyeing vat or vessel and be turned or otherwise worked therein if the
dye requires it. The stretching of the yarns keeps every part of them in the
same condition, and they take up the dye in a more uniform manner than
when dyed in a loose condition as heretofore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Ferrie, John Murray, and Adam Wilson, in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 26th October 1865.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
FERRIE and JOHN MURRAY, of the Firm of Ferrie and Murray, Dyers, and
ADAM WILSON, also Dyer, all of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Robert Ferrie, John Murray, and Adam Wilson, Her special
licence that we, the said Robert Ferrie, John Murray, and Adam Wilson, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert
Ferric, John Murray, and Adam Wilson, our 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 DYEING YARNS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Robert Ferrie, John Murray, and Adam
Wilson, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Ferrie, John Murray, and
Adam Wilson, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :-

page_text: Our said Invention relates to the dyeing of woollen, worsted, indiana,
wincey, mohair, alpacca, silk, cotton, flax, linen, jute, and other yarns in an
improved manner, and more uniformly than hitherto; and our said Invention
consists in stretching the yarns in the hank form whilst subjecting them to
the dyeing liquor. In practising our Invention the banks may be stretched
in any convenient way; but by way of example we have delineated a suitable
modification of apparatus upon a Sheet of explanatory Drawings which is
hereunto appended.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is a longitudinal vertical section representing a
dyeing vat as fitted with the stretching apparatus. The dyeing vat is in this case
a plain rectangular wooden vessel 1, the ends of which are fitted internally with
guides 2, to receive between them bearing blocks 3, for the end spindles 4, of a
frame or reel 5; this reel consists of an open rectangular wooden frame, with
the spindles 4 fixed to the middles of its end pieces, and with cross bars 6,
7, 8, fixed transversely to it at the four corners, and at the middles of its long
sides. The four end cross bars 6, 8, have round holes formed part way
through them from their inner faces to receive the ends of rods 9. The
middle bars 7 are formed with half sockets for the inner ends of the rods 9,
and these rods are held in their places by covering pieces 10, also formed
with half sockets. The rods 9 are about half the length of the reel, and
meet end to end in pairs on the middle bars 7, and the covering pieces 10 of
both bars 7 lift off towards the same side. The hanks are arranged on tho
rods 9 in a manner that will be easily understood from the Figure, one half
of the rods being shown without banks in Figure 1. The reel is made of a
size suitable for stretching the banks, different reels being used for different
sizes of banks, or one reel may be constructed so that the cross bars 6, 7, 8,
can be adjusted more or less asunder means of screws, to suit different
sizes of banks. Screws 11 are fitted to the spindle blocks 3 for raising or
lowering the reel 5, and one of the spindles 4 projects through the side to
receive a handle 12, or pulley 13, for turning the reel by hand or by power,
so as to carry the stretched banks down through the dyeing liquor. The
stretching of the yarns in this way keeps every part of them in the same
condition, and they take up the dye in a more uniform manner than when
dyed in a loose condition as heretofore.
Having thus particularly described our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be efficiently performed, we have to state that we
do not restrict ourselves to the precise details herein-described and delineated;
but that what we believe to be novel and original, and claim as the Invention
secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Lettors Patent is, the dyeing

page_text: of yarns
in a superior and more uniform manner by stretching them in
the bank form when being dyed, by means of apparatus substantially such as
is herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Ferrie and Adam Wilson, on
behalf of ourselves and of the said John Murray, have hereunto set
our hands and seals, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
ADAM WILSON.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)