Improvements in Starching and Finishing Textile Fabrics and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 5th Jan., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Starching and Finishing Textile Fabrics and in
Apparatus therefor.
I ROBERT WILSON THOM, of Birkacre, Chorley in the County of Lancaster, Calico
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
STARCHING AND FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR, to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the operation of finishing textile fabrics which are to be
starched or finished on both sides, and consists chiefly in passing the fabric through
the backing and starching machines and reversing it in one continuous operation, my
object being to avoid the delay and expense of latching or plaiting the fabric after it
has passed through the backing machine and before it reaches the starching bowl
which is now the customary method of reversing the fabric. The disadvantages of
the ordinary method of continuous finishing without reversing being that the back of
the fabric passes next to the starching roller and in cases where the cloth is heavily
filled with china clay or other substance the starch has little effect upon the fabric.
To accomplish my object I dispense with the batching roller or plaiting apparatus
above mentioned and instead I employ guide rollers or rods between the backing and
starching machines, these rollers or rods being so arranged as to reverse the fabric and
guide it directly from the backing machine to the starching bowl whence it passes to
the drying rollers in the ordinary manner.
H. B. BARLOW,
4, Mansfield Chambers,
17, St. Ann's Square,
Manchester,
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Starching and Finishing Textile Fabrics and in
Apparatus therefor.
I ROBERT WILSON THOM, of Birkacre, Chorley, in the County of Lancaster, Calico
Printer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
STARCHING AND FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to the operation of finishing textile fabrics which are to be
starched or finished on both sides and consists chiefly in passing the fabric through
the backing and starching machine and reversing it in one continuous operation my
object being to avoid the delay and expense of hatching or plaiting the fabric after it
has passed through the backing machine and before it reaches the starching bowl
which is now the customary method of reversing the fabric. The disadvantages of
the ordinary method of continuous finishing without reversing are that the back of
the fabric passes next to the starching roller and in cases where the cloth is heavily
filled with china clay or other substance the starch has little effect upon the fabric.
To accomplish my object. I dispense with the batching roller or plaiting apparatus
above mentioned and instead I employ guide rollers or rods between the backing and
starching machines these rollers or rods being so arranged as to reverse the fabric and
guide it directly from the backing machine to the starching bowl whence it passes to
the drying rollers in the ordinary manner.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying diagram, reference being had to the figures
and letters marked thereon.
The fabric after having been backed on one side in an ordinary backing machines
leaves the drying cylinders a and then passes over the usual guide roller or rod to
the new and additional guide rollers or rods e by which the fabric is reversed and
guided on to the starching bowl d in the required direction for the starch to act upon
the unfinished surface of the fabric; from the starching bowl d the fabric passes over
the main driving roller e and thence to the rollers of the ordinary drying machine
where the fabric is finished.
In this manner and by these means the fabric is finished on one side reversed
starched on the unfinished side and then finished all in one continuous operation
whereas by the customary methods and by the ordinary machinery the fabric after
leaving the backing machine is either passed directly from the guide roller to the
starching roller d unreversed as indicated by the dotted line or is reversed by a
batching or plaiting process effected by an independent apparatus placed between the
guide roller and the starching bowl d.

page_text: 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
1. In starching and finishing textile fabrics reversing the fabric after it leaves
the backing machine and before it reaches the starching bowl by means of guide
rollers rods or equivalents in such manner that the fabric is backed reversed starched
and finished on both sides all in one continuous operation.
2. In machines for starching and finishing textile fabrics the combination with the
backing machine and the drying machine of guide rollers or rods c or equivalents for
reversing the fabric substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.