DRYING AND FINISHING HOSIERY
Year: 1885

page_text: I WILLIAM DAVIDSON WATSON 8 Justice Mill Lane, Aberdeen Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for DRYING AND FINISHING HOSIERY
to be as follows:-
It has hitherto been the practice to finish stockings, socks and half hose and
similar articles of hosiery, by the use of boards and presses and the application of
heat to the outside of the fabric.
The object of the present invention is to dry and finish such articles from the
inside. A series of hollow moulds of suitable shapes made of brass or other
suitable substance is supplied with steam, hot air, or hot water, at a suitable pressure.
Over these moulds the articles to be dried or finished are drawn and allowed to
remain till the process of drying or finishing is complete.
According to one arrangement the steam or other heating medium is made to
circulate throughout the moulds, or by another is simply introduced into the ends
of the moulds. The moulds are fitted to a suitable bench and the apparatus is
fitted with the necessary supply and discharge pipes and stop valves &c.

page_text: I, WILLIAM DAVIDSON WATSON, of 8 Justice Mill Lane, Aberdeen N.B. 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:-
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It has hitherto been the practice to finish stockings, socks and half hose and
similar articles of hosiery by the use of boards and presses and the application of
heat from the outside of the fabric.
The object of the present invention is to dry and finish such articles from the
inside. For this purpose I employ hollow moulds of suitable shapes made of brass
or other suitable substance which are supplied internally with steam, hot water or
air at a suitable pressure. Over these moulds the articles to be dried or finished
are drawn and allowed to remain till the process of drying or finishing is complete.
According to one arrangement the steam or other heating medium is made to
circulate through the moulds, or by another it is simply introduced into the end
of the mould. The moulds are fitted to a suitable bench and the apparatus is
fitted with the necessary supply and discharge pipes, stop valves &c.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing shews a side elevation and Fig. 2 a cross
section of one arrangement of my said apparatus. A are the hollow metal moulds,
of the shape of a stocking, which are fixed upon branches B¹ of a closed tube or
box B, within which is a pipe C having branches C¹ passing up within the moulds,
and supplied with steam or other hot fluid through the cock D. The condensed or
cooled fluid passes down into the box B, from which it can be discharged either
periodically or continuously through the cock E. The box B may be made of any
desired length for receiving a number of the moulds. In some cases the pipes C C¹
may be dispensed with and the hot fluid be made to pass directly into the box B
and thence into the moulds A, but I prefer to convey the hot fluid into the centre
of the mould by the internal pipes as shewo.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
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The use, for drying and finishing hosiery, of hollow moulds over which the
articles are drawn and which are heated internally by hot air, steam or other hot
fluid, substantially as herein described.