Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Finishing "Italian" Cloths and other suitable Fabrics.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 23th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Finishing
"Italian" Cloths and other suitable Fabrics.
We, JOHN KIRK, Dyer, and BENJAMIN LEE, Presser, both of Woodhouse
Dye Works, Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
:-
The object of our invention is to secure a more permanent finish than is produced
by the ordinary means.
Patent
After being dyed and prepared the goods are passed through our
Pressing Machine," No. 5999 dated April 23rd 1888 ou to a perforated cylinder
which is placed within a double cased cylinder or other suitable chamber; steam is
injected into the outer casing of the chamber, and steam and air into the inner
chamber outside the goods to be operated upon.
By this means the heat from the outer casing or steam chamber keeps the steam
in contact with the piece perfectly dry, and the steam and air may work at much
higher pressure than the steam in the outer case, the pressure being regulated to
suit the goods being operated upon.
Gauges with indicators are fixed to the steam pipes to indicate the pressures.
JOHN E. WALSH.
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Finishing
"Italian" Cloths and other suitable Fabrics.
We, JOHN KIRK, Dyer, and BENJAMIN LEE, Presser, both of Woodhouse
Dye Works, Leeds, in the County of York, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to secure a more permanent finish than is produced
by the ordinary meaus.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a front elevation in section of our apparatus for securing a permanency
of finish.
Fig. 2, is a plan of Fig. 1.
The goods after being prepared, dyed and pressed preferably by our "Patent
Pressing Machine," No. 5999, dated April 23rd 1888, are wrapped upon a perforated
cylinder A which is placed within a double cased cylinder or other suitable
chamber B. Steam is injected or passed into the outer casing C of the said double
cased cylinder by means of pipe Faud steam and air is injected or passed into the
inner chamber of the cylinder B by means of the pipes G and H, and circulates
around the outside of the goods D to be operated upon; by this means the heat
derived from the outer casing or steam chamber C keeps the steam within the inner
chamber of the cylinder B and circulating around and in contact with the piece of
goods D in a perfectly dry state, and the steam may work at much higher pressure
than the steam within the outer casing C, the pressure being regulated to suit the
goods being operated upon.
Stop cocks are provided at J, K and L for regulating the respective supplies,

page_text: also an outlet M through the chamber C for drawing off purposes. Gauges E with
indicators are fixed to the steam pipes to indicate the pressures.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the-same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. Obtaining a permanency of finish by forcing through the fabrics (under
pressure) dry steam such as shown and described.
2. A double cased vessel, having a steam chamber surrounding a steam and air
chamber, in which are placed the goods to be finished in the manner substantially as
and for the purposes such as shown and described.
3. The general arrangement and construction of apparatus such as shown and
described.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds, Agent for the Applicants.