US102256A

US102256A - Improved yarn-washing machine

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Publication number: US102256A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-04-26
Anticipated expiration: 1887-04-26

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E,.HAEFPELY. YARN WASHING MACHINE.

I I Patented Apr. 26; 1870. 1w

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE.

EDWARD HAEFFELY, OF LOWELL. MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED YA RNPWASHING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, EDWARD HAEFFELY, a resident of Lowell, of the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, but a citizen orsuhject of France, have invented a new and useful Mechanism for Washing Yarn in the Skeiu, it being also useful in the operations of either bleaching or dyeing of such yarn; and I do hereby declare the invention to be fully .described in thefollowing specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part thereof.

Of such drawings, Figure 1 denotes atop view, Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sections, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of a yarn or skein washer containing such invention.

. M In such drawings,Adenotes a vat or cistern for holding water or other proper liquid. Two spindles or shafts, B 0, arranged horizontally and parallel at the upper part of such cistern and supported'in fourboxes, a a b b, serve to support and make part of what I term the .skein-carrier's D D. Each of the said ourriers, as represented in the drawings, further consists of two circular heads, a c, and two bars 'or rods, (1 d, the latter being arranged parallel to each other and on opposite sides of their shal'tan d with respect to the heads in manner as exhibited in the drawings.

Each of the shafts at one end is supported by one of two movable centers or pivots, E E, which are pointed screws, to enter pivot-recesses in the shaft, and are screwed through two'boxes, F F, fixed on one end of the cistern.

. -At their opposite ends the two carrier-shafts B C have fixed to them two toothed pinions or gears, e e, which, when the shafts are in op; oration, engage with and are revolved by a larger gear, f, fixed on a driving-shaft, g, that is arranged between the shafts B O and is duly supported in proper boxes. A pulley, h, or a crank fixed ou the shaft g, serves to enable such to be put in revolution.

- The boxes b b of one of the shafts are supported by a lifter-frame or furcated lever H, which at the extremities of its opposite parts i or prongs, i i, is hinged to the cistern or vat close to the driving-shaft. 0n setting back into contact with it the 'two will be in situations to receive the skein of yarn, which may next be applied to them by passing the skcins over those heads of the carriers which'are next to the pivots, the same being so as'to cause each of the skeins to encompass thebars of the two carricrs,'in manner as represented at S in the drawings. Alter the carriers may have been charged with a sufficient number of the skeins S the lifter should be depressed, so as to cause the skeins to be extended'on the two carriers,

which to operate to good advantage should have their bars in one horizontal plane at starting. By revolving the drivingshaft both carriers simultaneously will be put in rotation in the same direction, and should the val; or cistern be suitably supplied with water or a cleansiug'liquid the skeins will be dipped into and drawn "out of the liquid and run through it in manner to cause them to be effectively cleansed by it. After the skeins may have been sufliciently cleansed the lifter should be raised, so as to bring its carrier nearer its fellow, in order that the skeins may be removed from the carriers.

The machine is specially designed for the washing of ske-ins of yarn after being colored or dyed and for the purposeot divesting them of loose or surplus coloring-matters. Heretofore it has been customary to accomplish this by manual labor or by the common forms of washing an article by hand and with soap and water.

The mechanism for revolving the carriers as or in manner as described consists of the driving-shalt, its pulley, and the three gears applied to such shaft, and the two carriershafts.

My machine has proved in practice a very successful automatic apparatus for the purpose for which it is designed.

I claim- 1. The combination and arrangement of the two rotary carriers D .D and mechanism for revolving them, as described, with a vat or cis tern, A, or its equivalent.

2. The combination and arrangement of the movable pivots E E with the two carriers and mechanism for revolving them, as described, such carriers being combined with or for application to a vat or cistern or its equivalent.

3. The arrangement and combination of the lifter H with the carriers D D and mechanism anism for revolvihg the two carriers so as to for revolving them, as described. cause them to operate substantially in manner j 4. The arrangement and combination of the when used for either ofthe purposes, as heremovable pivots E E, the pair of carriers D D, inbefore mentioned.

the lifter H, and mechanism for revolving the carriers, as described.-

5. The combination and arrangement of the Witnesses: tub or cistern A, the movable pivots E E, the J.W. REED, pair of carriers D D, the lifter H, and mech- D. HALL RICE.

ED. HAEFFELY.