Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Facilitating the Finishing of Yarns.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Facilitating the
Finishing of Yarns.
I, RICHARD CLARENDON WILLEY, of Trafalgar Mills, King Cross, Halifax, in the
County of York, Worsted Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to arrange an apparatus by which the finishing of
yarn is more expeditiously carried out, by combining with a yarn winding or other
suitable machine, certain mechanism in such a manner that by the arrangement and
combination of the parts, the yarn is scoured and "set," singed, dried, and wound on
to the bobbins, at one operation, and by one machine, ready for the subsequent
operations of finishing.
I accomplish my object in the following manner. In a convenient position,
extending the entire length of the machine, I fix a trough and fill the sanie with
scouring solution, which is heated to the necessary scouring temperature by steam
or other means. In suitable positions on the said trough are fixed a series of brackets,
which carry the bobbins containing the yarn to be finished; the brackets being so
arranged, that the said bobbins and yarn are immersed a certain depth in the solution
by which the yarn is scoured and "set."
The yarn is afterwards conducted between pressure rollers by which the superfluous
moisture is removed, and afterwards through one or more series of gas flammes which
are made to traverse in accordance with the yarn guides; the yarn afterwards
passing over a heated revolving drying cylinder, throngh another series of gas jets
to the winding bobbins, or direct to the latter as the case may be, according to the
nature of the yarn.
By manipulating the yarn in the manner described, and keeping it in a stretched
condition during the operation, it is scoured and any curl therein removed by the
hot solution; the loose or projecting fibre being singed by the gas jets from the body
of the yarn, thereby making it quite smooth, ready for the final washing and drying
which may be carried out in the usual manner.
Dated this 11th day of February 1889.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Facilitating the
Finishing of Yarns.
I, RICHARD CLARENDON WILLEY, of Trafalgar Mills, King Cross, Halifax, in the
County of York, Worsted Spinner, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to arrange an apparatus by which the finishing of
yarn can be more expeditiously carried out, by combining with a yarn winding or
other suitable machine, certain mechanism in such a manner that, by the arrangement
and combination of the parts, the yarn is scoured and "set," dried, singed and wound
on to bobbins by one machine ready for the subsequent operations of finishing.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1. represents a section through a portion of an
ordinary winding frame with my improvements attached, all old parts not necessary
to make clear my invention are omitted from the drawing, and Fig. 2. represents a
front view of some portion of the same."
I

page_text: My improvement is applicable to most winding frames now in common use, to
which is attached in a convenient position below the front rollers A. a trough B.
extending the length of the machine and which is filled with scouring solution heated
to the necessary temperature by steam in pipes C. or by other well known means.
In suitable positions along the side of the trough B. are fixed a series of brackets D.
for supporting the bobbins E. containing the yarn to be finished, the bobbins E.
being carried by removable spindles which rest upon the said brackets arranged so
that the bobbins E. and yarn thereon are immersed a certain depth in the hot scouring
solution by which the yarn is scoured and "set."
The yarn Y. on leaving a bobbin E. is conducted between the pressure rollers A. A.
by which the superfluous moisture is removed, and afterwards over a heated revolving
drying cylinder or over a steam heated plate F. by which the yarn is dried. On the
yarn leaving the heated cylinder or hot plate F. it is conducted over a serios of small
multiple grooved pullies G. in the direction of the arrows, and whilst passing between
the grooved pullies, the yarn is subjected to flames from the gas burners II and H³
by which it is "singed," and after thio yarn leaves the grooved pullies it is conducted
to a winding bobbin J. rotated in the usual manner by revolving pulley K.
By manipulating the yarn in the manner described and keeping it in a stretched
condition during the operation, it is scoured and "set," any curl in the yarn being
reinoved by the hot solution; and on the yarn pa-sing over a steam hoated cylinder
or hot plate it is dried, and by passing it through gas jets the loose or projecting fibre
is singed or burnt from the holy of the yarn thread, thereby making it quite smooth,
ready for the final washing and drying which may be carried out in the usual
manner.
It will be easily understood by persons conversant with the spinning and finishing
of yarns, that any of the well known detector motions may be used for removing the
top roller A. clear of the bottom roller whenever any thread of yarn passing between
the pair is broken, or that on the bobbin in the trough exhausted; or an apparatus
by which the yarn is severed at some point between the front rollers A. and trough
whenever the yarn is severed by burning; these motions being ordinary and well
known are not shown on the drawings and I make no claim to them as forming part
of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invon-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a yarn finishing machine the combination of a scouring trough B. rollers A.
drying cylinder or heated plate E. grooved pullies G. gas burners H and H¹ and
winding pulley K. all for the purpose as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 11th day of November 1889.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.