US1037461A

US1037461A - Apparatus for cleansing, washing, or dyeing woolen, cotton, and other yarns.

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Publication number: US1037461A
Application number: US63506411A
Authority: US
Inventors: Paolino Fincato
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-06-24
Filing date: 1911-06-24
Publication date: 1912-09-03
Anticipated expiration: 1929-09-03

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P. PINGATO. APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING, WASHING, 0B DYEING WOOLEN, COTTON, AND OTHER YARNS.

Patented Sept. 3,1912,

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IPAOLINO FINCATO, OF MILAN, ITALY.

APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING, WASHING, OR DYEING WOOLEN, COTTON, AND OTHER YARNS.

7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

Application filed June 24, 1911. Serial No. 635,064.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAOLINO FINOATO, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at No. 6 Via Tamburini, Milan, Italy, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleansing, Washing, or Dyeing l/Voolen, Cotton, and other Yarns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention hasreference to improved apparatus for cleaning, washing, or dyeing, woolen, cotton, and other yarns, and it has for its objects to provide means whereby all the requirements connected with the washing, cleaning and quick absorption of dye stuff, of and by yarns of all descriptions will be fulfilled, including the cleansing and freeing of the raw strands from grease, in order to prepare them' for further treatment, dyeing et cetera, and to avoid the entanglement and creasing of the strands.

By the method of hand washing, previously adopted, the hands are seriously affected by the constant use of soap and alkali, and the results obtained are of an unsatisfactory nature, while with the existing machines which are fitted with a rotating collar, on which the strands are hung,

no regular driving of the strands over the rollers can be relied upon, and further, no actual immersion in the fluid takes place, as is the case in washing by hand, when the strands are pressed and rubbed together.

The objects of the present invention are obtained, and the disadvantages above referred to, avoided, by the use of apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is front elevational view of the machine, certain details being omitted for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the driving mechanism. Fig. 3 is a detail plan View of the rolls and their associated mechanism. Fig. 4: is a detail view of the machine in side elevation. Fig. 5 is a detail plan View of the roll-displacing means. Fig. 6 is a detail elevational view of the means for adjusting the rod 2'. Fig. 6" is a vertical sectional view taken through the rectangular portion of the rod 5, in Fig. 6. Figs. 7 8 and 9 are detail views of the reversing mechanism.

tion.

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine, in which details are omitted, to illustrate more clearly the arrangement of the two rows of rollers. These rollers 01. and b are supported on a framing A and may be of glass, earthenware, or enameled metal and have longitudinally corrugated surfaces and projecting rims, which reverse automatically. The yarn to be cleaned is hung on the rollers a and b, and above these rollers is arranged a second row 0 and at, similar in all respects, excepting that they are without projecting rims, but of equal peripheral velocity. The distance between the rollers a and c and the rollers b and d can be altered as desired while the machine is in mo- The rolls exert a pressure on the hanks in such a manner that they can be regulated as desired, as will be subsequently described herein. The pipes e, proceeding from the pedestal A are provided with numerous side holes for the emission of the cleansing water, or fluid,.which is fed from a common conduit, though the right and left hand sides are quite. independent of each other. These pipes distribute the fluid, in a number of jets, in the required directions, over the yarn.

Fig. 2 is a detail plan view illustrating the driving power of the machine which is situated in the central portion of the frame A, motion being transmitted to the rollers by means of wheels f, f, which are coupled up to any suitable source of power, and thence through the wheels 9, g, as shown in plan in Fig. 8. The lever-7b with movable clutch coupling, serves to arrestthe motion without the necessity of stopping the driving power; two other similar levers (not shown in the drawings for the sake of clearness) enable the motion of one, or other, of the two rows of rollers to be interrupted independently of each other. B, B, are the tanks for the fluid into which the yarns are plunged at their lower ends. These tanks may be raised, as required, either by mechanical means, or by hand, as desired to suit local, or special, requirements.

Fig. 4: is a detail side view illustrating the disposition of the rollers a, c, on the left side of the machine, a being shown as lowered to a and the higher, or raised, position, indicated by dotted lines. All the rollers on one side may be simultaneously displaced by the adjusting rod 2', which slides on its supports a" (Fig. 5) and can be brought into action while the machine is working, by means of the adjusting wheels j, situated at the extreme end of the apparatus; the adjusting wheel operating upon the end of c, which is provided with a worm as shown in Fig. 6. Each roller can be regulated separately beforehand in order that during the working each can exercise the desired pressure independently of the others, this being obtained by moving the pieces 76 as required along the gearing 71, the pieces is being provided with a projecting finger Z which comes into contact with the arm m, of the movable bell-crank that supports the upper roller 0, as shown in Fig. All the rollers have changeable rotary motion, as illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, and 9. The middle shaft (1, first sets in motion the three bevel wheels at, 0, and p, which are loose bevel wheels and always turn in their normal directions. On the countershaft between the wheels 0, and p, is fixed a double clutch coupling g, provided with a double sided catch which gears alternately with the bevel wheels 0, and p, and as these always turn in opposite directions to each other, the running of the cog wheel a", is caused to be reversed and the reversing movement thereby transmitted to the whole machine.

Referring to Fig. 7 wherein the mechanism which produces the reversals and alternations is illustrated: D is the supporting frame, .9 the counterpoise adjusted on the beam 8, which is pivoted at 8. To the countershaft is also fixed the cog wheel 16, which sets the shaft u in motion through the cog wheel t. The shaft u is provided with a screw thread which imparts a regular movement, in either direction, to the carriage 'v. m, w, are check blocks against which the lower end of the rod, or beam 8, strikes alternately. When, in consequence of this arrangement, the rod, or beam, 8 passes be yond the plumb line, or its center of gravity, it falls, thereby displacing g and producing the desired reversal of motion. This can be effected more or less frequently by means of the regulating device y, which has two screw threads running in opposite directions, whereby the distance between a, x, can be regulated, thereby reversing the motion, more or less rapidly as desired, and in a regular and simultaneous manner. 2 is the stud, or projection, on the double clutch coupling 9, which moves within the slotted quadrant on the lever arm or beam, 8, whereby the double sided cat-ch on g, is caused to gear alternately with one or the other of the bevel wheels 0, 39. Any number of rows of rollers as may be desired can be united on one pedestal and they can be arranged on both the longitudinal sides, so that rollers on each side may be driven by a common power.

The method of operation is as follows: The hanks are hung by hand on the lower corrugated rollers and then the upper pressure rollers are set the required distance therefrom. On motion being imparted, each pair of rollers turn automatically to the right and to the left at the set distance from each other, the washing fluid being conducted by the pipes e and discharged on the yarn. The slide blocks as, w are moved along by the collar *0 until the weighted lever s, is moved over to the opposite position, which throws the coupling 9 into gear with the other bevel Wheel, when the rotation is reversed andthe movements repeated until the cleansing of the yarn is complete. The tanks under the rollers serve to receive the cleansing liquid as it falls from the syringe pipes 6. This machine can be used equally well for the dyeing of hanks of yarn, the operation being precisely the same. In this case the pressure rollers serve to distribute the coloring liquid and to squeeze out the superfiuous dye-stuff while the tanks receive the dyeing liquid.

I claim:

1. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising a frame, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, means for simultaneously varying the distance between the rollers of each of said sets, and perforated pipes operatively associated with said sets of rollers to convey fluid to the material supported by said rollers.

2. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising a frame, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, bell-cranks supporting one of the rollers of each of said sets, a rod operatively connected to said bell-cranks and adapted to actuate the same, means for adjusting the position of said rod, and perforated pipes operatively associated with said sets of rollers to convey fluid to the material supported by said rollers.

3. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising a frame, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, means for simultaneously varying the distance bet-ween the rollers of each of said sets, perforated pipes operatively associated with said sets of rollers to convey fluid to the material supported by said rollers, and means for varying the direction of rotation of said rollers.

4. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising a frame, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, means for simultaneously varying the distance between the rollers of each of name to this specification in the presence said sets, perforated pipes operatively as of two subscribing Witnesses.

sociated with said sets of rollers to convey fluid to the material supported by said PAOLINO BINCATO' 5 rollers, and means for automatically vary- Witnesses:

ing the direction of rotation of said rollers. LIUGI BONTEMPINI,

In testimony whereof I have signed my FELsIo LARIVEO.

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