A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WASHING WOOL
Year: 1884

page_text: I LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH KGV Civil Engineer and Proprietor of the Patent
Industrial and Financial Agency 30 Finsbury Pavement London E.C. do hereby
declare the nature of said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
WASHING WOOL a communication to me from abroad by Alphonse Monchablon,
Historical Painter of N° 145 Avenue Malakoff in the City of Paris, in the
Department of the Seine and Republic of France to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to wash 'wool in such a manner that a better
product is obtained with less power and expense.
It consists of several vessels, two and two of which are placed together at
different levels. These vessels contain the baths arranged in such a manner that
two are always emptied simultaneously into two others at the lower level by
means of pipes in a very short time.
Air is injected into the baths by tubes placed horizontally at a certain distance
from the bottom of the vessels, and passing through the mass opens the wool, and
thus agitating it makes it fall across the grill formed by the said tubes..
To raise and move the baskets in which the wool is placed from one vessel to
another a double rail is placed above the centre of the vessels carrying a kind of
waggon maintained by a counter weight and a brake. Above this rail in the same:
vertical plan is placed a transmitting bar or axle on which apo fastened pulleys
provided with chains or rods the ends of which have rings in which the baskets
are hung.
By turning the axle and regulating the brake the baskets are raised or lowered
and can be moved in a longitudinal direction by reversing the transmitting axle
thus unrolling the cords and immersing the baskets in the next vessel while the
basket raised from the last vessel is emptied and the wool brought to the next
operation, pressing &c.
The baskets may have any form but the cylindrical one is the best.
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This apparatus suffices for washing the greater part of the wool but in cases
where it is very greasy and sticks together an oblong vessel is used into which air
is forced by high pressure through pipes by which the wool receives an undulatory
motion against a revolving table which brings it under rollers where the separation.
of the ends of the wool is completed when it falls into the aforesaid baskets.
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page_text: I LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH K.G.V. Civil Engineer and Proprietor of the Patent
Industrial and Financial Agency 30 Finsbury Pavement London E.C. do hereby
declare the nature of said invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
WASHING WOOL a communication to mo from abroad by Alphonse Monchablon
Historical Painter, of N° 145 Avenue Malakoff in the City of Paris, in the
Department of the Seine and Republic of France 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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The object of this invention is to wash wool in such a manner that a better
product is obtained with less power and expense.
It consists of several vessels A, A¹, B, B¹, C, C³, placed two and two together at
different heights These vessels contain the baths arranged so that two are always
emptied simultaneously into two others at a lower level by means of pipes in a
very short time thus C C empties into B B¹ which in turn empty into A A'
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Air is injected into the baths by tubes placed horizontally at a certain distance]
from the bottom of the vessels and passing through the mass opens the wool and
agitating it makes it fall across the grill formed by the said tubes.
To raise and move the baskets P, P1, P2, P3, P4, P³, P³, P', in which the wool is
placed, from one vessel to another a double rail E is placed above the centre of the
vessels, carrying a kind of waggon maintained by a counter weight F and a :
brake G. Above this rail in the same vertical plan is placed a transmitting bar or
axle H on which are fastened pullies H provided with chains or rods the ends of
which have rings in which the baskets are hung.
By turning the axle and regulating the brake the baskets are raised or lowered
and can be moved in a longitudinal direction by reversing the transmitting axle
thus unrolling the cords and immorsing the baskets in the next vessel, whilo the
basket raised from the last vessel is emptied and the wool brought to the next
operation viz: pressing.
The baskets may have any form but the cylindrical one is the best. This
apparatus suffices for washing the greater part of the wool but in cases where it is
very greasy and sticks together an oblong vessel O is used into which air is forced
by high pressure through pipes M by which the wool receives an undulatory
motion against a revolving table or endless band which brings it under rollers
where the separation of the ends of the wool is completed when it falls into the
aforesaid baskets.
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
1st The apparatus for washing wool consisting of baskets P P¹ &c suspended

page_text: weight F and brake G) above and by means of a transmitting rod provided with
pullies, immersed in a series of baths A, A, B, B₁, C, C¹, placed two by two at
different heights so as to empty into each other, whilo a series of perforated tubes
at the bottom of each bath injects air thus agitating and washing the wool.
2nd The oblong vessel O with tubes for injecting high pressure air, with
revolving band or table for greasy wool.