US135518A - Improvement in apparatus for washing printed or bleached goods - Google Patents

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B. G. BRUKS.

Ppparatus for Washing Printed or Bleached Goods.

Patented Feb. 4,1873.

Naf 135,518

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IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR WASHING PRINTED 0R BLEACHED GOODS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,518-, dated February 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN G. BROOKS, of Manchester, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Washing Piece-Goods, of which the following is a specification My improvement relates, mainly, to the construction ofthe water-box, which is provided with one or more partitions or wears by means of which the height and velocity of the water are regulated, the foul water carried off, and pure water admitted; also in an apparatus for regulating the tension of the cloth as it passes through the Water, in order that light and delicate fabrics may be washed without being subjected to heavy strain.

The machine is intended for Washing printed or bleached goods, a large number of pieces being sewed end to end, forming one continuous length or chain; and it is very desirablel that the Washing be rapid, and that the drugs, dirt, and all impurities be at once carried out of the wash-box.

By the common mode of Washing piecegoods, the whole body of water in the tank or cistern is pervaded by the impurities, and to force these olf a great quantity of water is required. My machine does the'work with much less water, more rapidly, and With a very great saving of power, this last being the result, in part, of the mode of guiding and directing the cloth, together with the manner of adjusting and regulating the tension of the goods. The flow of the water is in a direction opposite to the progressive motion of the endless band or line of piece-goods.

In the drawing, making a part of this specication, Figure I is a sectional and end view of the machine. Fig. II is a front elevation.

The ends of the Water-box W, or a frame attached thereto, afford support to the rollers,

the beater, the quadrant-gears, and other attached parts. The box is divided lengthwise by the Wear H, the space between it and the side of the box being supplied with Water by the inlet-pipe N. From the top of the Wear a concave bottom, Q, extends to the top of a partition, I, that is parallel to the wear H, and of the same length. A narrow horizontal shelf between the partition H and the concave bottom Q supports the series of guide-rods M M. At ahout'one-half the height of the partition H there is a horizontal partition, K, extending the Whole length of the machine. This has numerous perforations, L, through which the water passes that is supplied by the feedpipe N. The foulwater flows ofi' at the discharge-pipe P. The gear B, supported in the frame T, drives the attached roller A and the pinion S, and the latter turns the beater G. The top roller B rests upon the roller A, and is turned by friction with it. The adjustable roller D and the fixed roller J above the perforated partition K extend the Whole length of the machine, and are deeply luted, as represented in Fig. I. The roller J keeps the cloth in position and at the right height. It is turn-ed by the cloth as it passes forward. The quadrant-gears E E' support the iluted roller D in bearings at each end. These gears are turned forward or back by the crank. and

Apinion C F. This imparts curvilinear motion to the roller D, and produces more or less tension upon the cloth. When the strain is properly adjusted, the pin O holds the quadrantgears in place.

The cloth to be cleansed is represented in heavy broken lines at Y, Fig. I. The arrows show the direction of its motion. The cloth is prit into the machine by passing the end un der the fixed roller J, the beater G, the adjustable roller D, and between the top rollers A and B. Between the roller .J and the beater G it passes through the spaces of the guidepins M M', &c.

It will be noticed that the cloth has alateral motion in the machine, for as each successive turn enters a separate space between the pins M it has a spiral movement, gaining one pin at each revolution of the cloth. The top roller B should be heavy enough to insure firm contact with the cloth that lies upon. thelower or driving roller A, in order that the cloth may be carried forward with a steady and uniform motion. VThe cloth runs but a little below the surface of the water, and there meets a rapid current flowing toward the Wear I and outlet-pipe P.

The machine may be driven by belt and pulleys, as shown in Fig. II; but gears are preferred.

The partition K, with its apertures L L', is for the purpose of ydiffusing the Water and rendering its 'now uniform throughout the'- Whole length of the machine.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

l. A water box or tank containing two vertical partitions or Wears parallel to each other and near to the opposite sides of the box, and having between them a concave bottom, G, asl geiein described, and for the purpose speci- 2. The combination of the double Wears and concave bottom with the inlet and outlet pipes,

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