Improvements in Apparatus for Scouring and Dyeing Hanks of Yarn or Fibrous Material.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Scouring and Dyeing Hanks of Yarn
or Fibrous Material.
I, HARRY BENTLEY, of 21, Osborne Street, Bradford, in the County of York,
Dyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for scouring and dyeing
hanks of yarn, hanks of wool, slubbing" and other fibrous material.
For this purpose I use a vat or vessel of suitable dimension to receive a
rectangular frame-work preferably mounted upon wheels. This frame-work is
fitted along the top at one side with a number of sockets geared together and
adapted to receive the square ends of sticks similar to those usually employed to
support hanks of yarn etc. in vats. The other ends of the sticks are fitted with
metal journals (screwed into and capped over the end) which rest in bearings
formed in the frame-work at the other side and provision is made to confine these
journals longitudinally in their bearings and so keep the other ends in their
sockets until they require to be removed when provision may be made to release
the whole of the journals at once. The ends of the sticks fitting the sockets may be
faced or capped with metal. A similar arrangement is provided below to receive
a bottom set of sticks.
To turn the sticks a driving shaft is fitted at one end of the vat and is connected
by suitably arranged toothed wheels with the wheel or wheels on the end socket
or end sockets.
To lift the apparatus out of the vat I prefer to fit a windlass at or to one end
of the vat the chain from which passes over a pulley on a trolley or carriage above
preferably supported on two girders or rails. A hook or other attachment is
provided upon the trolley to engage the apparatus when it is wound up so that
when the windlass chain is slackened or removed the trolley supporting the
apparatus may be pushed along away from the rat. A pawl and rack or similar
arrangement is provided for locking the trolley in position when it is required to
lower or raise the apparatus by the windlass chain.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1896.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Scouring and Dyeing Hanks of Yarn
or Fibrous Material.
I, HARRY BENTLEY, of 21, Osborne Street, Bradford, in the County of York,
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 relates to improvements in apparatus for scouring and dyeing
hanks of yarn, hanks of wool, slubbing" and other fibrous material.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheets
of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation, partly in section, of a vat fitted with my
improvements.
Figure 2, is a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, is a side elevation of the over-head apparatus for lifting the framework
out of the vat or vessel.
Figure 4, is a plan view of the same.
The vat or vessel A has a shaft A2 mounted on one side of it in bearings
formed in brackets A¹ fixed outside of the vat. The shaft A2 is driven by the
countershaft A3 and bevel wheels A4 and A5 the latter of which is connected to the
shaft A2 by the cone clutch A. It has not been deemed necessary to show the
lever for putting this clutch in and out of gear. Along the top of the vat a number
of pinions B geared together are provided. The short shafts or arbors B2 of these
pinions are mounted in bearings 1 fixed to the top of the vat and their inner
ends B are square and project a little beyond the bearings. A few of the pinions B
have worm wheels 13 connected to them by which they are driven. These worm
wheels are driven by worms A7 on the shaft A2.
The framework C is made to lift in and out of the vat and is provided' with
vertically adjustable lower rails D, along each side in which bearings D are
formed for the ends of the lower sticks or rollers E round which the hanks pass.
The lower rails are horizontally divided diametrically through the bearings D³ and
the upper part may be secured to the lower part by the hooks or catches D¹.
This division in the lower rails is to facilitate putting the sticks in position as the
hanks are placed in the frame.
The upper sticks E3 supporting the hank are preferably made square as usual
and the ends next to the arbors B32 are fitted with square metal sockets or recesses
to fit the projecting ends of the arbors B. When the hanks are placed on the
sticks E the latter are supported by the upper rails 13 and D and after the
framework is placed in the vat the sockets are each slipped onto the square ends
of the arbors and consequently when the latter revolve the sticks E are rotated.
The other ends E of the sticks E are made cylindrical and fit the bearings D
formed in the rail D' and to facilitate introducing the ends E into their bearings
the rail D is horizontally divided diametrically through the bearings and the
upper part is hinged to the lower part by the hinges D6 so that it can be turned
down out of the way. Wheels A8 are fitted to each corner of the frame to facilitate
moving it about.
The lifting mechanism consists of a windlass barrel F mounted in brackets FB,
F on the end of the vat. A worm wheel F3 is fixed on the barrel shaft F and
this worm wheel is driven by the worm F on the short shaft Fe mounted in
bearings formed in the bracket F. The short shaft Fe is driven by the mitre wheel Fe

page_text: fixed on its outer end and engaging the two mitre wheels N loosely mounted on
the counter shaft A³. A double friction clutch A is mounted on the shaft A3 by
which either of the wheels N may be made to revolve with the shaft according to
the direction it is required to drive the barrel F.
A trolley G is mounted on over head rails or girders H, H and the chain J passes
from the barrel F over the pulley H2 (mounted upon a cross piece H³ fixed
between the rails) then over the pulley G on the trolley G and is connected below
to the framework C. Whilst the framework is being lifted or lowered the trolley
is fixed by the hook G3 to one of a series of studs or projections H' on one of the
rails H. When the framework is lifted high enough to clear the vat the fixed
hook G on the trolley is hooked into the link J2 of the chain J then the chain
above is slackened to permit of the trolley being moved along the rails to carry
the framework to any required place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The combination with the framework C adapted to hold the hanks of material,
of the driving mechanism, substantially as herein shown and described.
2. The combination with a hank dyeing and scouring machine of the type herein
described of the lifting and lowering apparatus substantially as herein shown and
described.
3. The combination and arrangement of hank dyeing and scouring apparatus
herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1897.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.