AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOILING SIZE, AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, both of
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOILING SIZE, AND IN THE APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREIN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Livesey and
Thomas Abbott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 4th August 1869.
We, THOMAS LIVESEY and THOMAS ABBOTT, both of Blackburn, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOILING SIZE, AND IN THE
APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-

page_text: force the size through pipes contained in a steam chest. Now our
Invention consists in causing the steam and the size to be forced
together into perforated pipes placed in the cistern; by this means the
Bize is to a great extent or completely boiled before it is delivered
through the said perforated pipes into the cistern.
The apparatus which we employ consists of a connection between the
steam pipe and the size supply pipe, by which arrangement the current
of steam carries the size with it into the perforated pipes in the cistern;
some of these perforations are made larger than the others to allow for
the passage of the size into the cistern. The size may be forced into
the cistern by an ordinary pump, or by the current induced by the
steam, and the level of the size in the cistern is kept uniform by a float
acting on a tap in the size supply pipe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
LIVESEY and THOMAS ABBOTT, both of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of August, in the
year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, Her special
licence, that we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOILING SIZE,
AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas
Abbott, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):-
In boiling size it has heretofore been customary to force steam
through perforated pipes into the size contained in a cistern, or to
force the size through pipes contained in a steam chest. Now our
Invention consists in causing the steam and the size to be forced
together into perforated pipes placed in the cistern; by this means the
size is to a great extent or completely boiled before it is delivered
through the said perforated pipes into the cistern.
The apparatus which we employ consists of a connection between the
steam pipe and the size supply pipe, by which arrangement the current
of steam carries the size with it into the perforated pipes in the cistern ;
some of these perforations are made larger than the others to allow for
the passage of the size into the cistern. The size may be forced into the
cistern by an ordinary pump, or by the current induced by the steam;
and the level of the size in the cistern is kept uniform by a float acting
on a tap in the size supply pipe.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the Figures and letters
marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an elevation of part of an ordinary slasher or tape leg
sizing machine to which our improvements are applied; Figure 2 is a
plan of the same.
In Figure 1 a is one of the beams on which the yarn to be sized is
5 wound; the yarn from these beams is taken over the guide rollers b

page_text: and c, and under the immersion roller d, then between the two pairs of
squeezing rollers e and f, revolving in the size trough or cistern g; these
parts and the drying cylinder 7 are made in the usual manner; h is the
pipe for conveying the unboiled or partially boiled size from the supply
cistern to the size trough g; the tap h¹ is to open or close the com-
munication between the size pipe and the trough g. The lower end of
the pipe his connected to the centre pipe i, which extends nearly across
the size trough or cistern, as shewn in Figure 2. At the end of the
pipe is connected the cross pipe i, to the ends of which are connected
the perforated pipes j. The steam pipe is for supplying steam to the
size cistern and drying cylinders, one of which is partly shewn at 1; the
lower end of the pipe k is connected by the elbow pipe to the size
pipe h, the tap k opening or closing the communication between the
two as may be required.
The mode of operation is as follows:-When the taps 1 and k¹ are
open the size and the steam unite together, and the force of the steam
carries the size into and through the centre pipe i and through the cross
pipe into the pipes j, through the perforations in which the size and
steam pass into the cistern g; by this means an additional boiling is
given to the size before it enters the cistern; or if the size is unboiled
when supplied to the pipe the boiling will be effected during the
passage of the size through the pipes h, i, and ¹. The size may be
forced down the pipe by an ordinary pump, or the current induced
by the steam may be found sufficient to carry the size through the
pipes h, i, and i¹, and into the cistern. In some cases it may be desirable
"to increase the length of pipes through which the size and steam are
conveyed before they arrive at the perforated pipes; when such is the
case the pipe i may be taken two or more times along the trough or
cistern before it is connected to the perforated pipes j. The level of the
size in the cistern may be kept uniform by a fleat acting on a tap in
the size supply pipe.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described a
convenient manner of applying the same to sizing machines, we declare

page_text: And, secondly. The apparatus described, or any modification of the
same for combining the size and steam together.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas
Abbott, have hereto et our hands and seals, this First day of
February One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
THOMAS LIVESEY. (L.s.)
THOMAS ABBOTT. (L.S.)

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, both of
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOILING SIZE, AND IN THE APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Sealed the 28th January '1870, and dated the 4th August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Livesey and
c.
Thomas Abbott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on-the 4th- August 1869.
We, THOMAS LIVESEY and THOMAS ABBOTT, both of Blackburn, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOLLING SIZE, AND IN THE
APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
In boiling size it has heretofore been customary to force steam
through perforated pipes into the size contained in a cistern, or to

page_text: force the size through pipes contained in a steam chest. Now our
Invention consists in causing the steam and the size to be forced
together into perforated pipes placed in the cistern; by this means the
Bize is to a great extent or completely boiled before it is delivered
through the said perforated pipes into the cistern.
The apparatus which we employ consists of a connection between the
steam pipe and the size supply pipe, by which arrangement the current
of steam carries the size with it into the perforated pipes in the cistern;
some of these perforations are made larger than the others to allow for
the passage of the size into the cistern. The size may be forced into
the cistern by an ordinary pump, or by the current induced by the
steam, and the level of the size in the cistern is kept uniform by a float
acting on a tap in the size supply pipe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
LIVESEY and THOMAS ABBOTT, both of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, Her special
licence that we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF BOILING SIZE,
AND IN THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas Abbott, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of our or their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas
Abbott, do horeby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, -to-be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):-
In boiling size it has heretofore been customary to force steam
through perforated pipes into the size contained in a cistern, or to
force the size through pipes contained in a steam chest. Now our
Invention consists in causing the steam and the size to be forced
together into perforated pipes placed in the cistern; by this means the
size is to a great extent or completely boiled before it is delivered
through the said perforated pipes into the cistern.
The apparatus which we employ consists of a connection between the
steam pipe and the size supply pipe, by which arrangement the current
of steam carries the size with it into the perforated pipes in the cistern;
some of these perforations are made larger than the others to allow for
the passage of the size into the cistern.
The size may be forced into the
cistern, by an ordinary pump, or by the current induced by the steam,
and the level of the size in the cistern is kept uniform by a float acting
on a tap in the size supply pipe.
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the Figures and letters
marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an elevation of part of an ordinary slasher or tape leg
sizing machine to which our improvements are applied; Figure 2 is a
plan of the same.
:
In Figure 1a is one of the beams on which the yarn to be sized is
wound; the yarn from these beams is taken over the guide rollers b.

page_text: and c, and under the immersion roller d, then between the two pairs of
squeezing rollers e and f, revolving in the size trough or cistern g; these
parts and the drying cylinder 7 are made in the usual manner; his the
pipe for conveying the unboiled or partially boiled size from the supply
cistern to the size trough g; the tap, h¹ is to open or close the com-
munication between the size pipe and the trough g The lower end of
the pipe is connected to the centre pipe i, which extends nearly across
the size trough or cistern,, as shewn in Figure 2. At the end of the
pipe is connected the cross pipe ¹, to the ends of which are connected
the perforated pipes j. The steam pipe k is for supplying steam to the
size cistern and drying cylinders, one of which is partly shewn at 7; the
lower end of the pipe k is connected by the elbow pipe k¹ to the size
pipe h, the tap opening or closing the communication between the
two as may be required.
The mode of operation is as follows:-When the taps h¹ and k¹ are
open the size and the steam unite together, and the force of the steam
carries the size into and through the centre pipe i and through the cross
pipe into the pipes j, through the perforations in which the size and
steam pass into the cistern g; by this means an additional boiling is
given to the size before it enters the cistern; or if the size is unboiled
when supplied to the pipe h the boiling will be effected during the
passage of the size through the pipes h, i, and i¹. The size may be
forced down the pipe by an ordinary pump, or the current induced
by the steam may be found sufficient to carry the size through the
pipes h, i, and i', and into the cistern. In some cases it may be desirable
to increase the length of pipes through which the size and steam are
conveyed before they arrive at the perforated pipes; when such is the
case the pipe i may be taken two or more times along the trough ór
cistern before it is connected to the perforated pipes j. The level of the
size in the cistern may be kept uniform by a float acting on a tap in
the size supply pipe.

page_text: And, secondly. The apparatus described, or any modification of the
same for combining the size and steam together.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Livesey and Thomas
Abbott, have hereto et our hands and seals, this First day of
February One thousand eight hundred and seventy.