Improvements in Tentering or Drying Machines for Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
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Improvements in Tentering or Drying Machines for Textile
Fabrics.
We JOSEPH HORTON and WILLIAM HORTON, of Copley near Halifax in the County
of York, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows
Our improvements consist in forming an extended partition at each inner side of
the chain race of the machine, whereby all dirt and grease is prevented from coming
in contact with the fabrics being dried.
Also in an improved form of reversible rail having four recesses or races for the
chain, which gives four times the wear of the ordinary rails, the chains being also
extended to suit the extended partition.
The eccle plates or gills which hitherto had straight joints and consequently broken
lines of pins, we now make the joints bevelled or angular by which means we are
enabled to get a continuous and even row of pins.
A guide plate is also placed on the underside of the top race to prevent the grease
and dirt from dropping on to the bottom race.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of March 1889.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tentering or Drying Machines for Textile
Fabrics.
We JOSEPH HORTON and WILLIAM HORTON, both of Copley, near Halifax, in the
County of York, Engineers, 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 :-
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a section in elevation of our improvements applied to an ordinary tentering
machine.
Fig. 2. is an enlarged detail of eccle-plates or gills.
Fig. 3. shows construction of rail having four recesses or races for the chain.
Our improvements consist in forming an extended partition A at each inner side
of the chain race B of the machine (, whereby all dirt and grease is prevented from
coming in contact with the fabrics D being dried.
Also a guide plate H, is placed on the underside of the top race to prevent the
grease and dirt from dropping on to the bottom race.
We also employ an improved form of reversible rails E baving two or four
recesses or races for the chain F, which gives four-times the wear of the ordinary
rails, the chains F being also extended at G to suit the extended partition.
The eccle plates or gills J which hitherto had straight joints and consequently
broken lines of pins, are now made with the joints bevelled or angular as at K. by
which means we are enabled to get a continuous and even row of pins. L is a plate
to enclose the hot air as required in tentering machines for some classes of fabrics.
The action of the machine is as ordinary.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. In tentering machines the extended partition A, guide plates H, with extended
chain F. G, for the purposes substantially as shown and described.
2. The construction of the eccle-plates or gills J, substantially as shown and
described.
3. The improved reversible rail E, with chain races B therein, as and for the
purposes substantially as shown and described.
4. The general arrangement and construction of our improvements in tentering
machines substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of December 1889.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.