IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR BLEACHING, DUNGING, AND SOAPING TEXTILE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION IN ANPEN STATE AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS OPERATIONS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Gibson Junior of Mottram in the County of Chester
and John Platt of the firm of Mather and Platt Salford Iron Works
Manchester in the County of Lancaster for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR BLEACHING, DUNGING, AND SOAPING TEXTILE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Gibson, Junior, and John
Platt at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November
1882.
JOHN GIBSON Junior, of Mottram in the County of Chester and JOHN PLATT of
the firm of Mather and Platt, Salford Iron Works Manchester in the County
of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR BLEACHING,
DUNGING, AND SOAPING, TEXTILE FABRICS IN AN OPEN STATE AND FOR OTHER
ANALOGOUS OPERATIONS.
"
Our invention relates to machines containing liquor or liquid through which
fabrics are passed during or subsequent to the operation of bleaching, dunging,
soaping, dyeing and other analogous operations.
At the top of the machine we fit a beater or beaters provided with flexible flaps
which in revolving strike the surface of the fabric as it is passing over the rollers
at the upper part of the machine or we place the beater or beaters in other con-
venient part of the machine, but in all cases the flaps of the beaters strike the
fabric as it is passing over or round rollers or guides. We use solid or perforated
rollers or guides and make them of rigid or yielding material.
By this invention we are enabled to perform the above operations very efficiently
and with greater facility than has hitherto been done.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Gibson, Junior, and John Platt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th May 1883.
JOHN GIBSON, Junior, of Mottram in the County of Chester and JOHN PLATT of
the Firm of Mather and Platt, Salford Iron Works, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR BLEACHING,
DUNGING, AND SOAPING TEXTILE FABRICS IN AN OPEN STATE AND FOR OTHER
ANALOGOUS OPERATIONS"
Our invention relates to machines or apparatus containing liquor or liquid
-through which fabrics are passed during or subsequent to the operation of soaping
or dyeing.
The object of our Invention when applied to soaping is to get rid of the
thickening which has been used as a vehicle to carry the colour or mordant when
printing thereby leaving the colour only in the fabric: when applied to dyeing our
-object is to cause the colouring matter in the liquid to thoroughly impregnate the
fabric and our improvements enable us to perform such operations very-efficiently
-and-with greater facility than has hitherto been done.
In performing our Invention we fit at the top of the machine a benter or beaters,
provided with any number of flexible flaps which in revolving strike the surface
of the fabric as it is passing over-perforated, fluted or corrugated rollers at the
upper part of the-machine,-or-we-place_the_beater or beaters in other convenient
part of the machine.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings
reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is n sectional elevation of part of a soaping machine. Fig. 2 is an end
elevation of dyeing apparatus to which our Invention is applied and Fig. 3 is an
'end elevation of a modification of our Invention applied to dyeing.
In Fig. 1.-a is a tank containing soaping liquor: bb are perforated, fluted or
'corrugated rollers or guides at the upper part of the machine over which the
fabric c passes, after passing under the guide rollers d d in the lower part of the
tanke is a revolving beater provided with any number of flexible flaps f which
strike against the fabric while it is passing over the rollers bb and remove the
dirt and impurities rapidly and effectually: the perforations in the rollers b b allow
dirt and impurities to pass through them and the inequalities in the surface of the
'rollers accelerate the action of the machine.
Any number of beaters and rollers may be used and in any convenient position
provided always that the beaters strike the fabric while it is passing over the
perforated rollers b b.
In Fig. 2-a is the dye vat which is or may be of the usual construction: bb
are two batch rollers or beams on which the fabric c under operation is wound.
The fabric c passes from the roller b round guide rollers d in the dye vat where it
-is immersed in the dyeing materials and thence to the roller 6 on which it is
wound or batched; e is a revolving beater provided with a number of flexible
flaps finade of india rubber or other suitable substance that strike against the
fabric on the rollers bb' and thoroughly impregnate it with the dyeing materials.
Any number of beaters and rollers may be used. The shaft of the beater e is
mounted in bearings on two vibrating levers (not shown in the drawing) one of
which is pivoted at each side of the vat and on these levers are mounted presser
rollers g g which bear against the fabric on the rollers b b' to regulate the position

page_text: of the levers and ensure an uniform action of the beaters on the fabric. The fabric
is wound on to the rollers b and b' alternately and passed through the dye vat as
often as may be necessary to impregnate it thoroughly with the dye liquor.
In Fig. 3.-The fabric o to be dyed passes from the batch roller b over the upper
guide roller d into the dye vat a round the lower guide roller d' to the perforated,
Buted or corrugated roller bª round the guide roller d' and over the perforated
roller b' from which it passes round other guide rollers d³d' to the batch roller b'.
The flexible flaps f of the revolving beater e strike against the fabric while it is
passing over the perforated rollers b³ 6 and ensure its being thoroughly impregnated
with the dyeing materials.
Having stated the nature of our Invention and described the manner of performing
the same
We declare that we claim
1. In a machine for soaping textile fabrics the combination with perforated
fluted or corrugated rollers or guides of a beater or beaters which will act on the
fabric while it is passing over the rollers or guides substantially in the manner and
for the purpose herein set forth.
2. In apparatus for dyeing textile fabrics, the use of a beater or beaters which
act upon the fabric after it has been passed through the dyeing material while it is
being batched as and for the purpose herein described.
3. In apparatus for dyeing textile fabrics, the combination with the perforated
rollers b b of a beater or beaters which act on the fabric while it is passing over
the said rollers substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof I the said John Platt for myself and on behalf of the said
John Gibson, Junior, have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of
May One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
TAUN DI ALTVT