Improvements in Rotary Fulling, Milling, Scouring, and other like Machinery Employed in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics or Materials.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Sept., 1887.
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[Communicated from abroad by PIERRE FRANÇOIS CLÉRISSE BARETTE and AMÉDÉS
ALEXANDRE BARETTE, both of Romilly-sur-Andelic (Euro), in the Republic of
France, Fullers.]
France, Fullers.]
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Improvements in Rotary Fulling, Milling, Scouring, and other like
Machinery Employed in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics or
Materials.
1 JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object simplifying fulling milling and other analogous
operations in the manufacture of textile fabrics or materials economising labour and
producing a superior effect to that obtainable with the machines heretofore employed.
The cylinder or roller fulling or milling machines heretofore employed have the
disadvantage of creasing certain fabrics. Many means have been devised for removing
this defect which is very serious and prejudicial to the sale of the goods and the most
effective method heretofore discovered for accomplishing this object is to cut the
stitches and pass the piece again through the machine but in the opposite direction.
This method has the serious disadvantages of increasing the manual labour causing
loss of time wearing the edges of the cloth and retarding the fulling considerably
owing to the chilling of the piece during the changing. The loss of time and increased
labour are frequently the cause of the piece not being passed through in the opposite
direction as many times as it should be in order to obtain a good result.
The machine constructed according to this Invention entirely obviates these
disadvantages by means of a special arrangement of mechanism hereinafter described
whereby the direction of motion of the parts of the machine is enabled to be reversed
without reversing that of the cloth or materials and the reversal is enabled to be
effected readily and without loss of time. The fulling or other operation can
consequently be repeated as often as the nature of the piece may require without the
necessity for sewing and unsewing or even taking the piece out of the machine. The
piece may be measured at the same time by means of a counter connected with the
machine.

page_text: This Invention is applicable to rotary or Cylinder fulling milling scouring softening
and other like machines employed in treating or finishing textile fabrics or materials
and in which it is desirable to obtain a movement of the cloth or other material in
opposite directions alternately.
A rotary fulling machine for example constructed according to this Invention is
provided with two Cylinders or rollers the lower of which is flanged and carried on
a shaft provided with a toothed wheel gearing with a toothed wheel on the shaft of
the upper Cylinder and with two pairs of fast and loose pulleys whereby the direction
of motion can be readily reversed by means of a crossed belt. Pressure is applied to
the axis of the lower Cylinder by means of a Counterweight acting on the bearings
by the intervention of a suitable arrangement of levers. On each side of these rollers
there are provided fixed boards or supports and small rollers upon which the piece
rests. The counter indicating the length of the piece may be operated by a worm on
the axis of one of these rollers. Above the fixed boards or supports there are provided
pressing blocks acted separately on by a weight on the end of a lever and so arranged
as to admit of being brought into action alternately by shifting the weight. On each
side of the machine there is a board sliding in inclined guides. These two boards are
connected together by a link or links so that they can be shifted simultaneously and
their outer edges are cut away towards the middle in the form of curves, merging into
a long open slot or recess. A trough or gutter placed under the cylinders catches
the water dripping from the cloth and the entire apparatus is enclosed in a suitable
casing provided with openings closed by doors and provided with rollers at the edges
to prevent injury to the cloth. This casing is preferably made of wood with a cast
iron frame and a curved bottom.
When the crossed driving belt is shifted on to the loose pulley and the machine is
driven by the uncrossed belt the cloth is drawn through the machine in one direction
say from right to left and in order to reverse the direction of motion it is simply
necessary to shift the uncrossed belt onto the loose pulley and put the crossed belt in
gear. The parts on one side of the Cylinders are duplicates of those on the other side
and are so arranged as to admit of being brought into action alternately according to
the direction in which the cloth is drawn.
The reversing may evidently be effected by any other suitable mechanical arrange-
ment which may be substituted for the crossed and uncrossed belts herein before
described.
DIL: ALL
1000
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rotary Fulling, Milling, Scouring, and other like
Machinery Employed in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics or
Materials.
I JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention which has been com-
municated to me from abroad by Pierre François Clérisse Barette and Amédée
Alexandre Barette both of Romilly sur Andelle (Eure) in the Republic of France
Fullers and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention has for its object simplifying fulling milling scouring and other
analogous operations in the manufacture of textile fabrics or materials, economising
labour and producing a superior effect to that obtainable with the machines heretofore
employed.
The Cylinder or roller fulling or milling machines heretofore employed have the
disadvantage of creasing certain fabrics. Various means have been devised for
removing this defect which is very serious and prejudicial to the sale of the goods and
the most effective method heretofore discovered for accomplishing this object is to cut
the stitches and pass the piece again through the machine but in the opposite direction.
This method has the serious disadvantages of increasing the manual labour causing
loss of time, wearing the edges of the cloth and retarding the fulling considerably
owing to the chilling of the piece during the changing. The loss of time and increased
labour are frequently the cause of the piece not being passed through in the opposite
direction as many times as it should be in order to obtain a good result.
The machine constructed according to this invention entirely obviates these
advantages by means of a special arrangement of mechanism hereinafter described
whereby the direction of motion of the parts of the machine is enabled to be reversed
in place of reversing the motion of the cloth or materials and the reversal is enabled
to be effected readily and without loss of time. The fulling or other operation can
consequently be repeated as often as the nature of the piece may require without the
necessity for sewing and unsewing or even taking the piece out of the machine.
The piece may be measured at the same time by means of a counter connected with
the machine.
This Invention is applicable to rotary or cylinder fulling milling or scouring
softening and other like machines employed in treating or finishing textile fabrics or
materials and in which it is desirable to obtain a movement of the cloth or other
material in opposite directions alternately. The principal advantages of this invention
are obviating creasing or wrinkling of the material a great saving of time and labour
less wear and tear of the cylinders and greater production, the handling involving the
chilling of the material being rendered unnecessary.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a longitudinal section of a rotary

page_text: fulling machine constructed according to this Invention and Figure 2 is an end
elevation of the same.
This machine is provided with two cylinders or rollers A A' the lower of which
marked A is flanged and carried on a shaft B provided with a toothed wheel C gearing
with a toothed wheel C on a shaft B₁ carrying the upper cylinder A' and with two
pairs of fast and loose pulleys 6 b¹ whereby the direction of motion can be readily
reversed by means of straight and crossed belts. The cylinders A A' are pressed
together by suitable means such as a counterweight P acting on the bearings of the
shaft B' through the intervention of a suitable arrangement of links and levers p.
On each side of these rollers there are provided fixed boards or supports S and small
rollers R R over which the piece is drawn through the machine. The counter
indicating the length of the piece may be operated by a worm on the axis of one
or both of these rollers. Above the fixed boards or supports S and capable of vertical
motion between side plates or guides J there are provided pressing blocks M acted on
separately by a weight L on the end of a lever L or L2 and so arranged as to admit
of being brought into action alternately according to the direction of motion of the
machine by shifting the weight from the lever L to the lever L' and vice versa.
each end are feed boards N N¹ one of which is shown detached in figure 3 sliding in
inclined guides (figure 1) these two boards are connected together by a link or links n
so that they can be shifted simultaneously and their outer edges are cut away towards
the middle in the form of curves merging into a long open slot or recess figure 3.
A trough or gutter m placed under the cylinders A A¹ catches the water dripping
from the cloth and the entire apparatus is enclosed in a suitable casing provided with
openings closed by doors 0, 0¹ and provided with wooden rollers at the edges to
prevent injury to the cloth. This casing is preferably made of wood with a cast iron
frame and a curved bottom as shown in the drawing.
At
When the crossed driving belt is shifted on to the loose pulley of the pair 6 and
the machine is driven by the uncrossed belt working on the fast pulley of the pair b¹
for example the cloth is drawn through the machine in one direction say
from right to left and in order to reverse the direction of motion it is simply
necessary to shift the uncrossed belt on to the loose pulley of the pair b
at one end of the shaft B and put the crossed belt on to the fast pulley of the pair bat
the other end of the shaft. The parts on one side of the cylinders A A' are duplicates
of those on the other side and are so arranged as to admit of being brought into
action alternately according to the direction in which the cloth is drawn. The belts
may be arranged to be shifted by hand or automatically.
The reversing of the motion may evidently be effected by any other suitable
mechanical arrangement which may be substituted for the crossed and uncrossed belts
herein before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is,
First Constructing rotary fulling, milling, scouring and other like machinery
employed in the manufacture of textile fabrics or materials with means for reversing
the direction of the motion of the machine substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
Second-An improved rotary machine for fulling milling, scouring or other like
operations in the manufacture of textile fabrics or materials constructed and operating
substantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of August 1887.