Improvements in Apparatus for Impregnating Textile Fabrics with Liquor.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1895-Accepted. 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Impregnating Textile Fabrics with
Liquor.
I, JOHN SMITH, of 4 Ashton Street, Heywood, in the County of Lancaster,
Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to apparatus for impregnating textile fabrics with
liquids for different purposes, as in washing, scouring. or dyeing, and other
operations connected with the manufacture and treatment of textile material, and
has for its object to provide apparatus by which the impregnation of the material
with the liquid may be rapidly effected by a machine occupying little space and
using little liquor.
According to this invention I employ in a vessel a number of rollers some of
which are arranged vertically over one another, whilst others are arranged in the
horizontal plane. The material is passed over one of the upper rollers down to
the bottom of the apparatus, then up and over another roller at the top and
down again through the liquor between the aforesaid lower roller and another
above it, and then up again over another roller at the top and down again through
and under another roiler in the liquor; and, if desired, under further rollers in a
similar manner.
The material in passing between the immersed rollers is nipped
or pressed, and is thus subjected to two or more passages through the liquor, an:
two or more nippings or pressings. By thus treating by one passage through
the machine, the complete treatment in the way of completely saturating the
material with the liquor, is effected.
The vessel in which the liquor is contained is so made, and the rollers are so
arranged, that a small quantity of liquor will be needed to fill it and used at a time,
and thereby the obviation of waste of liquor is effected by the invention.
In some cases,
nay use with the apparatus above described, a conveyor on
which material being treated may be accumulated or piled, and slowly conveyed
from one side of the machine to the other. The leading end may be taken, when
so moved, from the conveyor to the same side of the apparatus as it was introduced,
and by attaching it to the rear edge of the piece, it may be again passed through
the liquid in endless form. If this conveyor-which in one arrangement is under
the vessel above described-be slowly moved, a large quantity of material may be
treated.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Impregnating Textile Fabrics with
Liquor.
I, JOHN SMITH of 4 Ashton Street, Heywood, in the County of Lancaster,
Dyer, 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 :--
This invention has reference to apparatus for impregnating textile fabrics with
liquids for different purposes, as in washing, scouring, or dyeing, and other
operations connected with the manufacture and treatment of textile material, and
has for its object to provide apparatus by which the impregnation of the material
with the liquid may be rapidly effected by a machine occupying little space and
using little liquor.
According to this invention, I employ in a vessel a number of rollers, some of
which are arranged vertically over one another, whilst others are arranged in the
horizontal plane. The material is passed over one of the upper rollers, down to
the bottom of the apparatus, then up and over another roller at the top, and down
again through the liquor between the aforesaid lower roller and anotlier above it,
and then up again over another roller at the top, and down again through and
under another roller in the liquor; and, if desired, under further rollers in a similar
manner. The material in passing between the immersed roller is nipped or pressed,
and is thus subjected to two or more passages through the liquor, and two or more
nippings or pressings. By thus treating it by one passage through the machine,
the complete treatment in the way of completely saturating the material with the
liquor, is effected.
The vessel in which the liquor is contained is so made, and the rollers are so
arranged, that a small quantity of liquor will be needed to fill it and used at a time,
aud thereby the obviation of waste of liquor is effected by the invention.
In some cases, I may use with the apparatus above described, a conveyor on
which material being treated may be accumulated or piled, and slowly conveyed
from one side of the machine to the other. The leading end may be taken, when
so moved, from the conveyor to the same side of the apparatus as it was introduced,
and by attaching it to the rear edge of the piece, it may be again passed through
the liquid in endless form. If this conveyor-which in one arrangement is under
the vessel above described-be slowly moved, a large quantity of material may be
treated.
The drawing illustrating this invention hereto annexed is a sectional elevation of
a machine provided with my improvements. In this drawing, a is the vessel in
which the liquor is contained, and in which the rollers referred to are disposed.
At the bottom of the vessel is a large roller b; and above it are the three
rollers c, d, and c, each successive roller being of smaller diameter; and all of
which are disposed within the vessel a. is the fabric under treatment.
h is a con-
veyor disposed below the vessel, on which the width of fabric f is piled, and is
conveyed from one side of the vessel to the other.
6;
In action, the fabric passes into the vessel a over a roller i, then under the
roller b, and then up and over the roller j; then down again under the roller and
between and d; theu up and over the roller k, and down again under d, and
between it and the roller c; then up again over the roller and down again under e
and between e and d; and then finally up between the nipping rollers m and out of
the vessel. From this roller m the fabric passes over the roller n, and theu down
onto the slowly moving conveyor h, where the slack is piled, and in this form passes
to the other side of the apparatus, from whence it is taken up by the roller o, fron

page_text: which it passes into the vessel again, over the roller i. By this combination, an
endless fabric or material of great length can be treated by the apparatus.
In some cases, the conveyor h is not used; whilst in other cases a number of
apparatus, ie. a number of vessels a and internal rollers, are arranged or combined
in series, and the material passed from one to the other. If, in such a case, the
liquors in the different vessels be different, different actions or operations may be
performed in succession upon a fabric passing through these vessels.
As above stated, as now will be seen by the drawing, the amount of liquor, for a
given amount of material being subjected to the treatment in the vessel, and the
vessel itself, will be small; and consequently, a corresponding economy will be
afforded.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
--
1. The herein described improvement in apparatus for impregnating textile
fabrics with liquor, consisting of a vessel having within it a number of superposed
rollers, and a number of rollers at the upper part, over which sets of rollers the
material to be treated is passed up and down in a plurality of turns; for the
purposes described.
2. In apparatus for impregnating textile fabrics with liquor, the combination
with a liquor containing vessel having superposed rollers within it as described, of
a conveyor beneath it on which the fabric is delivered, and moved to the opposite
side of the said vessel; substantially as and for the purposes set forth and as shewn
in the drawings.
Dated this 1st day of June 1895.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.