US106844A - Improved reel for dyeing and finishing silk and velvet woven fabrics - Google Patents

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E. MAFAT.

Reel for Dyeing and Finishing Silk and Velvet Woven Fabrics.

No. 106,844. Patented Aug. 30, 1870.

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EDWARD MAFAT. orjnnw YORK; N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 106,844, dated August 30, 1870; antedated August 25, 1870.

IMPROVED Rem. .E'OR nYEme AND rmrsnme SILK AND VELVET-woven rename.

.The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD'MAFAT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Volute' Reel for Dyeing, Scourmg, and Finishing Silk, Velvet, and other Woven Fabrics; and I hereby declare the nature. of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be constructed, so that the, public may fully understand the nature thereof, and those skilled in the mechanic arts be enabled to build and operate the same, to wit:

Figure 1 is a perspective. drawing of my voluie reel.

A'is the dyeing and scouring-tube.

B is the woven fabric-of silk or other material to be dyed or scoured, and is secured to the volute or spiral tenter-bars C and O, at each end of the tube, by means of tenter-hooks or .pins upon the outer periphery of the volute bars. I

D and D. are the supporting-wheels, which are adjusted upon the square shaft N N, and held in their proper positions by the slotted gauge-bars E and E, which are secured to the outer periphery of the wheels 1) and D by set-screws O 0', for the purpose of expanding or contracting the length of the reel to suit the different widths of silk or woven fabric B to be dyed or cleaned.

R is the crank or other power to operate the reel.

. S S S" S" are small spiral or other suitable springs, which secure the volnte bars 0 O O tov the wheels D and D.

These volute tenter-bars or reel are adj nstable, also, upon'the axis or square shaft N N, consequently, when the silk or other cloth B is strained tightly upon the re- .volving volnte reel or bars 0 0'0", the flexible springs S S S" S' allow the volute bars 'to be drawn toward each other without tearing the fabric; hence, it is a flexible reel.

clearly showing the flexible springs S S S" S.

The nature of my invention consists'in the con strnction of two volute or scroll-bars, provided with any suitable number of tenter-hooks or pins, for the purpose of stretching the woven fabric around the entire scroll or outer, periphery thereof, so that each V coil or layer of silk or velvetis kept separate from the others 'dun'ng the whole process of dyeing or scouring the same, thus avoiding the many difliculties attending the ordinary process forsiich work.

Another point of novelty is the flexible springs, ar ranged insuch a manner that the volute reel or bars yield 'tot-he strain of the fabric, thus preventing its tearing during the process of dyeing. Hence, I believe my invention to be of great value to the dyeing trade and the public. Therefore, 1.

What I claim as novel and useful, andwhat I wish to secure by 'Letters Patent of the United States,

books or pins on the outer periphery of the spiral curve, and flexible springs S S S and adjustable supporting-wheels D and D, with slotted gauge-bars E and E, secured by set-screws O O to the adjustable wheels upon the shaft or axle N N, all arranged and operating in 'the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereun to subscribe my name in the presence of two witnesses. E. MAFAT.

Witnesses:

S. Monro-omens, JAMES P. MGLEAN.

A volute reel or bars 0 C O", proyided with tenter-

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