IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING GAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SINGEING OR DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS AND PROAL
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustav Lindemann, of Manchester, in the County.
of Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLYING
GAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SINGEING OR DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustav Lindemann at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
February 1862.
I, GUSTAV LINDEMANN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPLYING GAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SINGEING OR DRESSING YARNS OR
THREADS AND WOVEN FABRICS, AND FOR OBTAINING HEAT FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to
be as follows:-
My Invention consists in submitting yarns or threads and woven fabrics to
the action of the flame of gas, which is caused to rotate by giving an axial
motion to the burner; and I also apply the said revolving flame to plates used
for drying, or to other purposes where heat is required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gustav Lindemann in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUSTAV
LINDEMANN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Gustav
Lindemann, Her special license that I, the said Gustav Lindemann, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Gustav
Lindemann, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPLYING GAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SINGEING OR DRESSING YARNS OR THREADS
AND WOVEN FABRICS, AND FOR OBTAINING HEAT FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon
the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Gustav Lindemann, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 I, the said Gustav Lindemann, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in submitting yarns or threads and woven fabrics to
the action of the flame of gas, which is caused to rotate by giving an axial
motion to the burner; and I also apply the said revolving flame to surfaces
used for drying, or to other purposes where heat is required.
The particular manner. of applying my Invention will of course vary to
some extent according to the purpose in view, or to the arrangement of
apparatus to which it is to be connected. I will, however, by way of examples,
describe certain applications thereof.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 represents in section, a machine to

page_text: be used for singeing or dressing woven fabrics; and Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5, are
views, upon an enlarged scale, of the revolving burner detached. Upon a
framework a are mounted rollers b, c, over which the material passes in the
direction of the arrows, as shewn by the dotted line within a space partly
enclosed by the rollers c is a hollow cylinder, d, the periphery of which is
provided with a number of slits upon which the gas burners e are mounted,
the end of the axis of the cylinder d turns in a bearing; the other end is
hollow, and also turns in a bearing, beyond which the sex axis extends, and
passes into a stuffing box, the part z thereof being provided with a gas supply
pipe z'. When therefore the gas is turned on it fills the cylinder d, and issues
from the long strip-like burners e. Upon the axis of the cylinder d is a small
pulley driven by a band from the shaft h, and thus a rotatory flame is produced,
which as it revolves plays upon the material during its passage through the
machine. The arrangement of rollers b, c, constitutes no part of my Invention,
and they may be caused to revolve so as to carry the material through the
flame by any ordinary means, their speed being regulated according to the
rapidity with which the material is to travel, as is well understood.
Fig. 6 represents a polygonal instead of a cylindrical revolving gas chamber,
provided as before with burners e.
Fig. 7 represents my Invention applied to apparatus for drying woven or,
other such fabrics. Ati is a cylindrical casing, within which is a cylinder k of
wire gauze, or other such material, which cylinder is caused to revolve by any
suitable arrangement, so as to convey the fabric (shewn by the dotted line)
from the situation marked to the delivery end at b. The revolving gas
burners' constituting my Invention are at e, and the details thereof are shewn
at Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11. The burners formed as before in long slits are at e
mounted or formed upon pipes d; these pipes are carried by end pieces m,
and are connected in the middle by a chamber n, which communicates by means
of openings o with the interiors of the said pipes. On each side of this chamber
is a boss p, attached to the pipes d, and carrying on one side a solid axis f,
and on the other side a hollow axis g. The latter runs in a bearing provided
with a stuffing box, and a pipe leading from the gas supply as in Fig. 4, which
gas can therefore flow into the pipes d, and from them to the burners e.
Upon the axis g, f, is a pulley, which by being driven from the motive power
causes the gas burners to revolve during the burning of the gas, and thus heat
is generated which passes through the gauze cylinder k and fabric to be dried,
escaping finally through the chimney q.
Fig. 12 shews at d another form of pipe that may be used instead of the

page_text: Fig. 13 represents my Invention in another form, and as applied to apparatus
for boiling fluids; and Figs. 14 and 15 shew the burners detached upon an
enlarged scale. The vessel to contain the fluid to be boiled is shewn at i,
within which is a series pipes r surmounted by a dome s, and on the inside
of these pipes is a conical chamber t enclosing the revolving gas burners
constructed as follows:Atf is a pipe constituting an axis which runs in a
ing at u, provided with a stuffing box or other suitable apparatus for
allowing gas to flow into the said hollow axis from a pipe connected with the
gas supply. This axis f is connected to a hollow ring w by a pipe v, from
which there extend a series of pipes d provided with burners e. The axis f is is
driven by a pulley at w*, or by other suitable means, and the burners therefore
are caused to revolve. At a is a shield for causing the air to enter at the
inside of the burners.
I have in the foregoing described certain applications of my Invention, and
also certain methods of constructing the same, but I desire it to be understood
that they are illustrations only, and that I do not confine myself thereto; that
which I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent;
and for the purposes of singeing or dressing yarns or threads and woven fabrics,
or for obtaining heat for other purposes, being the use of a revolving gas burner
or burners.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gustav Lindemann, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.