Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing and otherwise Treating Wool.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1890-Accepted, 12th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing and otherwise Treating
Wool.
I, SAM MASON, jun., of 2 St. Anne's Place, Manchester in the County of Lancashire,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dyeing and otherwise
treating wool, and has for its object to provide neaus whereby wool can be dyed or
otherwise treated in top form in a kier or other hermetically closed vessel.
My improvements consist in the application and combination with a kier or other
herinetically closed vessel, of a number of perforated pipes on which the wool tops to
be treated are placed, in connection with a liquor tank and vacuum source and
elevator and rotary or other suction pump, by means of which the liquor can be
circulated through, or extracted from the wool tops, or returned to the liquor tank as
may be desired.
This I preferably carry out by employing a hermetically closed kier or other vessel
of iron or other suitable material according to requirements of the colours and
operation to be performed.
This kier or other hermetically closed vessel, is formed at its bottom with four
channels, each of which is in communication with a vertical perforated pipe,
projecting through a perforated false bottom, employed in the kier or other
herinetically closed vessel, on which the wool tops to be treated are placed.
The said channels have a joint inlet, in communication with a pipe arranged below
the same, and provided on each side of the inlet with a valve, respectively, in
connection with a liquor tank and an elevator and rotary or other suction pump.
This liquor tank is arranged at a level higher than the liquor level in the kier, or
other hermetically closed vessel, and the said elevator and rotary or other suction
pump is brought into connection by means of another pipe and valve, with the top of
the kier or other hermetically closed vessel, the top of which is also connected to the
vacuum source and other supply pipes, and formed with a man-hole which can be
hermetically closed, and facilitates the placing and removing of the wool tops onto or
from the perforated pipes.
Below the top inlet of the kier or other hermetically closed vessel, a distributor
is arranged, and on the outside near the top thereof a liquor gauge.
To facilitate the draining or washing of the kier a waste pipe may be connected to
the pipe underneath the same.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-
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After placing the wool tops to be treated, onto the perforated pipes, one on top
of the other, the same are subjected to a vacuum, during which time communication
with the liquor tank and elevator and rotary or other suction pump, is cut off. The
valve leading to the liquor tank is then opened, which causes the liquor to rush
through the perforated pipes and wool tops.
When the latter are fully immersed in the liquid, which can be ascertained by the
gauge glass, the valve leading to the liquor tank is closed, and the valve leading to
the elevator and rotary or other suction pump, opened, which conducts the liquor
through the top of the kier onto the distributor, whereby a continuous circulation of
the liquor through the wool tops can be maintained, and when the operation of dyeing
is completed the liquor can be brought back into the tank by means of a branch
pipe.
Dated this 1st day of June 1889.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Dyeing and otherwise Treating
Wool.
I, SAM MASON, jun., of 2, St. Anne's Place, Manchester, in the County of Lacashire,
Eugineer, 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 stateinent :-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dyeing and otherwise
treating wool, and has for its object to provide means whereby wool can be dyed
or otherwise treated in "top" form in a kier or other hermetically closed vessel.
My improvements consist in the application to and combination with, the interior
of a kier or other hermetically closed vessel, of a number of perforated pipes, on which
the wool tops to be treated are placed, in connection with a liquor tank and vacuum
source and elevator and rotary or other suction pump, by means of which the liquor
can be circulated through, or extracted from the wool tops, or returned to the liquor
tank as may be desired.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section, Fig. 2 an end view and Fig. 3 a sectional plan of my
improved apparatus for dyeing or otherwise treating wool tops.
In carrying out my invention, I preferably employ a hermetically closed kier <<
or other vessel of iron or other suitable material according to requirements of the
colours and operation to be performed.
This kier a or other hermetically closed vessel, is formed at its bottom with four
channels 61, 62, 63, 64, (preferably cast therein) each of which is in communication
with a vertical perforated pipe b, respectively fitted into sockets, formed on the
bottom and projecting through a perforated false bottom c, employed in the
kier.a or other hermetically closed vessel, above the bottom a¹, on which the wool
tops to be treated are placed.
The said channels 61, 62, 63, have a joint inlet and outlet f, in communication
with a pipe arranged below the same, and respectively in connection with an
elevator and rotary or other suction pump and a liquor tank i by means of the
pipes and f
The liquor tank i is arranged at a level higher than the liquor level in the kier a,
or other hermetically closed vessel, and the said elevator k and rotary or other suction
pump are brought respectively into connection with the top or inlet o of the kier a,
or other hermetically closed vessel, by means of the pipe 3 and another.pipe f* and
valves m, m¹. The said inlet o or top of the kier «, is also connected to a vacuum
source or other supply pipes p, and formed with a man-hole a², which can be
hermetically closed, and facilitates the placing and removing of the wool tops d on to
or from the perforated pipes b.
Below the inlet o or top of the kier a or other hermetically closed vessel, a dis-
tributor is arranged, and on the outside thereof a liquor gauge 1.
To facilitate the draining or washing of the kier t, a waste pipe 8, furnished with
a valve &, may be connected to the pipe f¹ underneath the saine.
For such colours as require the liquor to be heated or boiled, to fix the dye, the
kier is provided with a circular steam coil t arranged close to its inner surface,
and the supply tank i may be heated in a similar manner or by an open steam jet.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-
After placing the wool tops d to be treated, onto the perforated pipes b, one on
top of the other, in the kier a, the same are subjected to a vacuum during which
time communication with the liquor tank i and elevator
suction pump, is cut off by means of the valves m, m¹ & i.
to the liquor tank i is then opened, which causes the liquor to
and rotary or other
The valve i¹ leading
rush into the kier a

page_text: through pipes f² & fi and inlet f and through the perforated pipes b and wool
tops d.
When the latter are fully immersed in the liquor, which can be ascertained by the
gauge glass r, the valve leading to the liquor tank i is closed, and the valve m
leading to the elevator k or the valve m¹ leading to the rotary or other suction
pump respectively opened.
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The elevator is then set to work, where the nature of the liquor and the
operation will permit it, otherwise the rotary or other suction pump 1, is used,
which raises aud conducts the liquor from below, by pipe for f³ through the top
or inlet o of the kier a, onto the distributor q, whereby a continous circulation of
the liquor through the wool tops d can be maintained, and when the operation of
dyeing is completed the liquor can be brought back into the tank i by means of the
rotary or other suction pump and the branch pipe and valve m², which latter
otherwise remains closed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
"In apparatus for dyeing or otherwise treating wool tops."
1st. The general arrangement and combination of parts, operated substantially as
and in the manner hereinbefore specified.
2nd. The application to and combination with the interior of a kier a, or other
hermetically closed vessel, of a number of perforated pipes b, which serve to
receive the wool tops d to be treated, for the purpose of effecting the circulation
of the liquor through the same, substantially as and in the manner herein before
described.
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