Improvements in the Method of and Means for Imparting Lustre to Yarn and Textile Threads.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Imparting Lustre
to Yarn and Textile Threads.
I, WILLIAM HENRY RIDER, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a method of and means for imparting a lustrous
finish to yarns and textile threads.
It consists in the use of one or more, preferably two, heated cylinders of hard
smooth material in combination with a plurality of reciprocating rods or circular
bars which may be free to rotate and are likewise constructed of a smooth hard
material. These may be worked in the cold condition.
The yarn or thread may be drawn from a bobbin or beam which may be pro-
vided with a tension arrangement. Thence it passes around the first (or only)
above mentioned heated cylinder and around the reciprocating rods whence it
may pass to the winding on bobbins or the like, or, when a second heated cylinder
is used, it passes around this cylinder before arriving at the winding on bobbin.
Dated this 4th day of May A.D. 1898.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Imparting Lustre
to Yarn and Textile Threads.
I, WILLIAM HENRY RIDER, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer,
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 a method of and means for imparting a lustrous
finish to yarns and textile threads.
It consists in the use of one or more suitable heated drums or cylinders con-
structed of some hard smooth material such as polished metal, a series of recip-
rocating rods, rollers or the like also constructed of a hard smooth material, and,
if desired, an additional heated drum or additional heated drums.
The yarn or thread may be drawn from a bobbin or beam which may be pro-
vided with a tension arrangement. Thence it passes around the first mentioned
drum or drums, and around and between the reciprocating rods or rollers
whence it may pass to the winding on bobbin or the like. Should the additional

page_text: heated drum or drums be employed the thread may pass around it or them on its
way from the reciprocating rods to the winding on bobbin.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have hereto
appended a sheet of drawings to which reference will be made hereinafter.
Figure 1 illustrates diagrammatically a machine constructed according to this
invention.
Figure 2 represents the reciprocating rods or rollers in elevation.
A is a bobbin or the like containing the thread or yarn L which is to be
treated. B and C, shown in section, are flanged or recessed drums or cylinders
heated in some convenient manner, preferably by being mounted upon the steam
pipes which communicate with the interior of the drums. The drums have
their surfaces polished and may be fixed or may be adapted to rotate, in which
latter case their ends would be furnished with glands or stuffing boxes in any
well known manner. E is a double armed lever which has angular and recip-
rocal motion imparted to it in any suitable manner and by any convenient means,
such, for example, as the excentric I mounted upon the rotary shaft G. One
end of the lever E is formed or provided with a suitable series of rods or rollers H,
which are also illustrated in Figure 2. J is an additional heated drum which
may be employed if desired, and which may be placed between the reciprocating
rollers and the winding on bobbin.
The yarn or thread, indicated by the line L, passes from the bobbin A around
the cylinders or drums B and C, thence around the rollers or rods H to the cylin-
der J, (when this is employed) around which it passes to the winding on bobbin.
The thread may have one or more complete turns around each drum or cylinder,
and preferably passes over and around and between the rollers or rods H in the
manner indicated, that is, over the first roller, under the second, over and around
the third, over the second, under and around the first, and thence over them all
on its way to the winding on bobbin.
When the machine is set in motion the winding on bobbin is rotated from
the shaft G, or otherwise, and draws the thread from the bobbin A around the
various rollers or cylinders. The shaft G is also rotated and through the excen-
tric F effects the angular reciprocation of the lever E the outer end of which
moves to and fro between the drum C and the drum J or the winding on bobbin.
As shown in Figure 2 the end of the lever E carries on its opposite sides two
opposite sets of rollers or rods H and this arrangement I prefer to adopt, the
bobbins and drums being also arranged in pairs so that two threads may be
treated simultaneously.
It will of course be understood that, although the thread is shown as passing
over the drums B, C, on its way to the rods or rollers H, either one, three, or
more such drums may be employed, and more than one drum may be employed
between the rollers H and the bobbin K.
I am aware that prior to my invention thread finishing machines have been
constructed with reciprocating rods or rollers around which the thread or yarn
passed. I therefore make no claim to such rods or rollers.
. 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:-
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1. The method of imparting a lustre to yarns and textile threads, which con-
sists in passing the yarn around a heated drum or around heated drums, and
around or between reciprocating polishing rods or rollers, substantially as and
in the manner hereinbefore described.
2. Apparatus for imparting a lustre to yarns and textile threads, consisting
of a heated drum or of heated drums and a series of reciprocating polishing rods
or rollers, constructed and arranged substantially as herein before described and
as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. Apparatus for imparting a lustre to yarns and textile threads, consisting

page_text: of a heated drum or of heated drums, a series of reciprocating polishing rollers
or rods, and a further heated drum or drums, constructed and arranged substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of February A.D. 1899.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.