Improved Means or Apparatus applicable for use in the Drying of Wool and other Fibrous Substances.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Oct., 1897
Improved Means or Apparatus applicable for use in the Drying of
Wool and other Fibrous Substances.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON of the Firm of W. Summerscales and Sons
Limited of Keighley in the County of York, Laundry Engineers and Machine
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is
to say:-
It has reference to improved means or apparatus applicable for use
in the drying of wool and other fibrous substances whereby said drying
operations are performed or carried out during the transit or transmission of said
fibrous substances from one place to another, and the object of this invention is
to produce means or apparatus that will operate efficiently and automatically
with little liability to derangement.
In carrying this invention into effect a shoot or hopper is formed to receive
the wool or other fibrous substance and guide it so that it will fall or pass into the
path of a current of heated air driven or circulated by a fan or otherwise, in orden
that said heated air may cause it to travel along a pipe or passage leading from
the shoot or hopper into which it is fed to any desired place of delivery such as to
an upper storey in the building or to any other room adjoining or at a distance
therefrom, into which room or place of delivery said wool or fibrous substance
will be thus deposited while the heated current of air which had carried it will
have dried it by absorbing the superfluous moisture therein so as to leave it in a
proper and suitable condition. The means or apparatus for heating the current
of air may be any of those well known and already in use, but the one preferably
employed is that described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 924 of 1896,
while the shoot or hopper herein before described is so formed and constructed that
it may occupy a position relatively with the fan and heating apparatus where or
from which the wool and other fibrous substances are carried without coming in
contact or in any way interfering with the said fan and heating apparatus. And
further said shoot or hopper is formed relatively with the other pipe or passage
that the current of heated air (in said pipe or passage) will cause or set up a
supplementary current through said shoot or hopper by which means the contents
of same are dragged or forced into said main current without requiring additional
means or mechanism for performing this operation.
The apparatus above described readily lends itself for use in connection with
wool washing machinery at present extensively employed, since by arranging its
receiving shoot or hopper to be in proximity with the squeezing or delivery
rollers of said machines the wool is deposited therein as it passes through said
washing machine and is therein taken, treated and delivered in any part of the

page_text: mill or works where next it is to be handled or acted upon ready for such operation
to be carried out.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1896.
HENRY C. LONGSDON.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
Improved Means or Apparatus applicable for use in the Drying of
Wool and other Fibrous Substances.
I, HENRY CROFTS LONGSDON, of the Firm of W. Summerscales and Sons,
Limited, of Keighley in the County of York, Laundry Engineers and Machine
Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner tha
same is to be -erformed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, that is to sav:
It has reference to improved means or apparatus applicable for use
in the drvin of wool or other fibrous substances whereby said drying
operations are performed or carried out during the transit or transmission of said
fibrous substances from one place to another, and the object of this invention is
to produce means or apparatus that will operate efficiently and automatically
with little liability to derangement.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings which are illustrative of this
invention:-
Fig. 1 is a plan or view of the improved apparatus as seen from above and as
arranged relatively with a wool washing machine.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of same as seen in the direction indicated by the arrow a
in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation thereof with certain of the parts omitted.
In carrying this invention into effect a shoot or hopper b is formed to receive
the wool (as when it falls or passes from the washing machine c) or other fibrous
substance and guide it so that it will fall or pass into the path of a current of
heated air in the pipe or conduit d driven or circulated by a fan f or otherwise,
in order that said heated air may cause it to travel along said conduit d, into
which it has been drawn by an induced supplementary current of air passing
through the hopper 6 and its bent neck b', to any desired place of delivery such
as to an upper storey in the building or to any room or place adjoining or at a
distance therefrom into which room or place of delivery said wool or fibrous
substance will be deposited after travelling through the conduit d, coming into
contact with the slowly revolving swift g (which rotates in the direction indicated
by the arrow h by being driven with the belt t from the shaft u as will be seen)
be deposited into the swivelling pipe k from and by which it is conducted in any
direction desired. And as the air passing through the conduit d is heated it
causes the moisture in the wool or fibrous substance which it is conveying, to be
evaporated, such evaporation being thoroughly effected by the wool (or fibrous
substance) being impeded in its passage by the swift g while the heated air travels
past or through to partly escape through the grating at m by the outlet pipe n,
carrying with it in this direction the bulk of the moisture it has evaporated from
said wool, by which means and by the remaining portion of the heated air passing
down the walls p of the box or casing surrounding the swift 9 into the swivelling
pipe the object desired is attained.
The means or apparatus as that at s for heating the current of air may be any

page_text: of those well known and already in use, but the one preferably employed is that
described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 924 of 1896, while the shoot
or hopper b is formed or constructed with its bent neck b' to occupy such a position,
relatively with the fan f and heating apparatus s so that neither of these are ever
interfered with by said wool or fibrous substances as these are at all times carried
from and not towards said apparatus, and consequently their functions are never
interfered with by said wool or fibrous substances.
The apparatus above described readily lends itself for use in connection with
wcol washing machinery at present extensively employed, the pan or bowl of such
being shown at c Fig. 1, since by arranging its hopper to be in proximity with
the squeezing or delivery rollers of said machines the wool is deposited therein,
as it passes through said washing machine and is taken therefrom, treated and
delivered in any part of the mill or works (the conduit d being shaped or made to
perform this duty according to what is desired) where next it is to be handled or
acted upon ready for such operation to be carried out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The mechanism for treating wool and other fibrous substances as herein
specified.
2. Iu mechanism for drying wool or other fibrous substances, the combination
of a fan, a hopper and a conduit constructed and arranged to operate substantially
as specified.
3. In mechanism for drying wool or other fibrous substance, a fan, a hopper,
a conduit and an impeding swift, the same being arranged to operate in com-
bination substantially as herein specified.
4. In mechanism for drying wool or other fibrous substances, heating apparatus,
means for producing a current of air through said apparatus, a conduit and other
parts the same being arranged in combination to attain the object specified
substantially a herein set forth.
;
Dated this 2nd day of September 1897.
HENRY C. LONGSDON.
Per Samuel Iley,
Agent.