upon Fibrous substances.
Year: 1886

page_text: upon Fibrous substances.
We ARTHUR BENN of Beckside Mills Great Horton, Manufacturer, and PRIESTLEY
FIRTH of 16 Lidget Place, Lidget Green, near Bradford, both in the County of
York, Overlooker, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING OIL OR OTHER LIQUIDS UPON FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to apparatus for distributing oil or other liquids over wool
or other fibres either in the fibrous state or during any stage of their manufacture,
and it consists of a new or improved apparatus which when in operation the
requisite amount of liquid is displaced at an uniform rate by a plunger entering
the containing vessel
To explain our invention we will describe the same as applied to an ordinary
gill box for oiling wool. The apparatus commonly in use for this purpose consists
of a cistern containing the oil to be distributed over the fibres in which revolves a
cylinder the underside touching the oil a certain quantity adhering to it is carried
round to the top where it is scraped off by thin plates resting on the periphery of
the cylinder and inclined down over the edge of the cistern. The liquid flowing
down the thin plates drops on to revolving brushes for distributing the same, or
directly on to the fibres. The chief deffect of this arrangement being that any
alteration of the temperature renders the oil more or less viscid therefore the
quantity adhering to the cylinder varies, thus the amount scraped off by the thin
plates is irregular.
To apply our improvements we employ a cistern preferably of rectangular form
fixed over the fibres as heretofore, the said cistern having oil passages or openings
at or near the top of the side, over the cistern a plunger is fitted provided with
suitable guides which by mechanism actuated from a convenient part of the gill

page_text: box is lowered at an uniform speed into the cistern containing the oil thus
gradually displacing an equal bulk of the oil from the cistern and causing it to
flow at an uniform speed from the oil passages on to the circular brush or directly
on to the fibres as the case may be.
To at once stop the flow of oil from the cistern when the machine is stopped a
small supplementary plunger is fitted over such cistern and is connected to the
starting lever of the machine being thereby automatically withdrawn from the
cistern when the machine is stopped thus lowering the oil below the level of
the oil passages.
On restarting the machine the small supplementary plunger is
lowered into the cistern thus raising the oil to the level of the oil passages.
Dated this 5th day of February 1886.

page_text: improvements in apparatus E
upon Fibrous Substances.
We ARTHUR BENN, of Beckside Mills, Great Horton, in the County of York,
Manufacturer and PRIESTLEY FIRTH, of 16 Lidget Place Lidget Green, near
Bradford in the aforesaid County, Overlooker do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING OIL OR OTHER
LIQUIDS UPON FIBROUS SUBSTANCES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to novel and useful improvements in apparatus for
distributing oil, or other liquids upon fibrous substances as they are passed through
a gill box, or other machine used for preparing, or operating on fibres, or fibrous
material.
The said invention consists of a plunger, actuated by mechanism connected with
the machine to which the apparatus is applied regularly entering the vessel
containing the liquid to be distributed; and thus displacing an equal bulk of such
liquid from the vessel, and causing it to uniformly flow, or drop, upon the fibres as
they pass through such machine.
Figure 1 in the accompanying drawing represents a side view of the upper
portion of the back end of a gill box fitted with our improved apparatus.
Figure 2 is a back view of the same.
The cistern A holding the liquid to be distributed is supported by brackets B
secured to the standards C, in which the back or feed rollers D are mounted. The
bottom roller is represented with the driving end of its arbor E broken off, to
enable the worm F keyed thereon to be seen in full in Figure 1. The said worm
engages with the worm wheel G secured on the inclined shaft H and such shaft
has a worm J keyed on its upper end which engages with the worm wheel K on
the horizontal shaft L. One end of the shaft L is carried in a bearing formed
in the bracket M secured to the cistern A, and the other end of such shaft runs in
an eccentric bush O, fitted in the top of the standard N. The said eccentric bush
enables the worm J and the worm wheel K to be placed in or out of gear by
turning the lever I cast with such bush; the set screw P being provided to retain
them in either position.
The bevel wheels Q communicate motion from the shaft L to the screw R, which
screw is mounted in a bearing formed in the bracket M and is screwed into the
plunger S.
The different parts of the apparatus are so arranged that when the gill box is in
operation the screw R is gradually unscrewed out of the plunger S; thus the
plunger is lowered into the cistern A containing the liquid to be distributed and
the level of such liquid is raised above the ports or openings T in the side of the
cisteru, the liquid therefore flows down the incline U and drops onto the fibres as
they are fed into the box.
When the plunger approaches the bottom of the cistern the worm J and the
worm wheel K are thrown out of gear by means of the eccentric bush O, and the
plunger is raised to its original position by turning the shaft L

page_text: The speed at which the plunger S is lowered relative to the speed at which the
gill box is operated may be regulated by substituting a larger or smaller worm
wheel for the worm wheel K, the brackets V and W forming the bearings for the
inclined shaft H being adjustable for that purpose.
A small plunger b₁ is suspended in the cistern A by the cord a passing over the
the guide pulleys e¹ and connected to the starting lever of the gill box g¹. The
small plunger b is so arranged that when the gill box is in operation such plunger
is immersed in the liquid contained in the cistern, but when the starting lever gl is
moved to stop the gill box the said small plunger is raised out of the cistern A by
means of the cord d', therefore the surface of the liquid contained in such cistern
is lowered below the level of the ports T and the supply or flow of the liquid is
immediately stopped.
In cases where it is requisite that the liquid should be very evenly distributed
upon the fibres a circular brush H2 is employed in conjunction with the apparatus.
The brush H is mounted on an arbor Je driven by mechanism connected with
the gill box, and the liquid drops from the incline U onto such brush the bristles
of which strike the arbor L2 thus causing the liquid to fly off in minute particles
onto the fibres.
It is obvious that with slight modification of the mechanism actuating the
plunger the hereinbefore described distributing apparatus may be applied to other
machines employed for operating upon fibres, or fibrous substances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare what
we claim is
(1.) In combination with a gill box or other machine employed for operating
upon fibres, or fibrous substances, the liquid distributing apparatus, consisting of a
cistern and plunger the said plunger operated by mechanism enters the cistern and
displaces the contents thereof substantially as herein shewn and described.
(2.) The combination with the said cistern and plunger of a small plunger
connected with the starting mechanism of the machine substantially as herein
shewn and described and for the purpose specified.
(3.) The arrangement and combination of the parts constituting the mechanism
for actuating the plunger S substantially as herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of Junn 1000,