IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM CHESTS AND OTHER ARTICLES USED IN PRINTING. DYEING. AND BLEACHING
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Turner, of the Firm of Turner, Norris, and Turner,
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of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, and John Ruscoe,
of Hyde, in the County of Chester, Engineer, for the Invention of IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM CHESTS AND OTHER ARTICLES USED
IN PRINTING. DYEING. AND BLEACHING.”
Sealed the 29th July 1879, and dated the 5th February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Turner and John
Ruscoe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th February
1879.
HENRY TURNER, of the Firm of Turner, Norris, and Turnier, of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, and JOHN RUSCOE, of Hyde, in the County
of Chester, Engineer. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM CHESTS
"
AND OTHER ARTICLES USED IN PRINTING, DYEING, AND BLEACHING."
Our Invention consists in applying enamel to the surfaces of cast and wrought
iron steam chests for drying fabrics in or after the processes of printing, dyeing,
and bleaching. Our Invention consists also in applying enamel to the surfaces of
drying cylinders, colour boxes, dye vats, bleaching kiers, and other articles or
utensils used in printing, dyeing, and bleaching.
The object of applying enamel to the surfaces of the articles above referred to is
to prevent the injurious effects of the contact of the fabrics with the surface of
metal. In performing our Invention we apply the enamel to the articles by any
of the well known processes employed in enamelling cooking utensils, baths, and
other articles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Turner and John Ruscoe in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 29th July 1879.
HENRY TURNER, of the Firm of Turner, Norris, and Turner, of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, and JOHN RUSCOE, of Hyde, in the County
of Chester, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM CHESTS
AND OTHER ARTICLES USED IN PRINTING, DYEING, AND BLEACHING.".
Our Invention consists in applying enamel to the surfaces of cast and wrought
iron steam chests for drying fabrics in or after the processes of printing, dyeing,
and bleaching. Our Invention consists also in applying enamel to the surfaces of
drying cylinders, colour boxes, dye vats, bleaching kiers, pipes, and other articles
or utensils used in printing, dyeing, and bleaching. The object of applying enamel
to the surfaces of the articles above referred to is to prevent the injurious effects of
the contact of the fabrics with the surface of the metal.
In performing our Invention we apply the enamel to the articles to be coated
when they have been heated in furnaces or stoves and got up to a high temperature,
which expands the metal and opens out its pores and thus makes it absorb the
enamel, which when thus applied adheres firmly and imparts a smooth, glossy
surface; the enamel used is the same that is usually employed for enamelling
cooking utensils, baths, and other articles.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, we wish it to be understood
that we do not claim enamelling the guide rings used in bleaching and dyeing, as
such enamelled rings were used many years ago; but what we claim is, enamelling
the surfaces of cast and wrought iron steam chests, drying cylinders, colour boxes,
dye vats, bleaching kiers, pipes, and other articles or utensils used in printing,
dyeing, and bleaching, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ruscoe, for myself and on behalf of the
within named Henry Turner, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty fifth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.