US1799421A

US1799421A - Beam dyeing machine

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Publication number: US1799421A
Application number: US754369A
Authority: US
Inventors: William P Hornbuckle; Robert F Craig
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-12-06
Filing date: 1924-12-06
Publication date: 1931-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 1948-04-07

Description

April 7, 1931.

W. P. HORNBUCKLE ET AL BEAM DYEING MACH INE Filed Deo. 6, .1924 3 Sheets-Sheet. 1

April 7, 1931.l w. P. HoRNBucKl- E E'r AL 71,799,421

BEAM DYEING MACHINE April 7, 1931. i wl P. HoRNBUcKLE E'r AL '1,799,421

BEAM DYEING MACHINE Filed Dc. 6, 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 25 below the partition,

Patented Apr.y 7, 1931 UNITED STATES -1 .1\.Tl?.1\iT OFFICE 'WILLIAM P. HRNBUGKLE AND ROBERT F. CRAIG, STANLEY, NORTH CAROLINA BEAM :DYEING MAcnINE Application filed December 6, 1924. Seriall No. 754,369.

The invention comprises improved apparatus for dyeing or otherwise treating yarn or other material in wound masses.

In the drawings Figure-1 shows in top plan, beam dyeing apparatus embodying the invention, parts being broken away; Figure 2 is a vertical section wherein most parts appear in elevation, some portions of the structure being broken away; Figure 3 is a vertical section throu h one of the valve mechanisms; IFigure 41s a horizontal section on the line 4- 4 of Figure 3.

In Fig. 2 of the drawin s, 1 is a support' for the carryin of any esired number o -kiers 2, each o the latter being shown as having itstop covered by a hinged lid 3 held closed by clamping) means 4. Each Vkier is constructed at'its ase with a transversely 42 extending partition 5 having a central opening, and with a tube 6 extending between the partition and the bottom ofthe kier.' The kier contains the usual chamber 7, above the partition, and an annular compartment 8,

the transversely extending partition having any desired number of o enings 9 serving tion between the chamber 7 and the comartment 8. The numeral 10 marks a loom i eam including a foraminous body 11 and p only one of such heads being shown, it having a yshort tubular extension resting in a depressed seat on the partition 5 around the central opening of the latter, and the beam being clamped in place by the lid 3, if desired.

With the bottoms of the kiers 2 are assembled depending connections 15, communicating with the tubes 6 and with a pipe 16 extending lengthwise of the series of kiers.

Lateral connections 17 on the kiers 2 establish communication between the compartments 8 and a pipe 18 the latter also extendin lengthwise of the series of kiers. va ve casing 19 is provided. A branch pipe 2O leads from the pi e 16 to oneside `of the valve casing 19. team may be in- 20' through a pipe troduced into the p1pe 21. A branch pipe 22 extends between the heads 12,

pipe 18 and the oppositeside of the valve to establish communicaentially thereof.

' tablished a circuit comprising the pump 26, @the pipe 23, the passage 36 in the valvu 3 casing 19. The parts 15--16-20-2a-18- 17 may be alluded to as a first conduit in communication at one end with the kier and the beam, centrally of the latter andi in lcommunication at the other end through the opening 9 with the space between the wall.

of the kier andthe body 11 of the beam 0C- cupying the kier.

A pipe tion of the valve casing 19 and a pump 26. A pipe 27 extends between the pump and the side portion of the valve casing 19. The

pipes

27 and 23 constitute a pump conduit wherein the pump 26 is interposed, the casing 19 being interposed Ab oth in the pump conduit, and in the irst conduit-'above vdefined. The pipe 23 has a lateral branch 24 at a point between'the pump 26 and the casing 19 and under the control of a hand valve 2.5. A pipe 28 branched olf from the pipe 27 extends to the bottom of a mixing tank 30 Wherewith the pipe 28 communicates, the mixing tank being carried by the support 1. A check-valve the said mixing tank. Liquid contained in the tank 30 passes into the circulatory sysbeing expelled from the interior of the apparatus upward through pipe 28 into the mixing tank by internal. pressure of steam within the apparatus when steam is admitted into the kier through pipes (not shown) for heating up the liquid as customary in practice.

A valve 33 is rotatable inthe casing 19 and is operated by a stem 34. The valve 33 has a transverse passage about half way around the valve, circumfer- Thevalve -33 has an L- shaped passage 36 which opens at one end through the side of the valve, and at the other end through the bottom ofthe valve.

When the valve 33 is disposed as shown in Figures 3 and 4, the passage 36 in the valve 29 in pipe 28 closes toward 35 which extends I miv is 1n communication with the

pipes

20 and 23, the passage 35 being in communication with the

pipes

27 and 22. Then there is esthe pi e 20,\ the pipe 16, the couplings 15, the tu es 6 in the kiers 2, the beams 10, the

chambers 7, the openings 9, the annular come partments 8, the couplings 17, the pipe 18, the branch pipe 22, the pa-ssage 35 in the valve 33, the pipe 27 and the pump 26. By the circulation established thereby the dye is caused to pass from the center of the beams outwardly through the thickness of the material upon the beams.

When it is desired to secure a reversal in the direction of the flow of the dye, that is to say, from the chambers 7 inwardlythrough the material on the beams to the central openings of thel beams, the valve 33 is so set that the passage 35 communicates with the

pipes

27 and 20, the passage 36 communicating with the

pipes

23 and 22. Then there is established-a circuit comprising the pump 26,

the pipe 23', the passage 36 in the valve 33,

the pipe 22, the pipe 18, the couplings '17,

` the annular compartments 8, the openings 9,

the chamber 7, the material wound on the barrels 11 of the beams 10, the tubes 6, the connections 15, the pipe 16, the pipe 20, the passage 35, the pipe 27 and the pump 26. f

From the two paragraphs last preceding it will be obvious that a iow from the inside of a beam 10 to the outside thereof, or from the outside of the beam to the inside thereof, may be secured at the will of an operator, a thorough dyeing of the yarn on the body 11 of the beam being secured, and it being unnecessary to unwind the yarn from the section beam in order that the yarn may be dyed.

Suppose that it i-s desired to draw 0E the dye. Then the valve 33 is so set that the pas-v sage 36 does not communicate with the

pipe

20, 22, or 27, but is closed at its upper end by the wall of valve-casing 4, as will be apparent from Fig. 4, the passage 35 communieating with the

pipes

20, 22' and 27. The dye fromv the kiers 2 Hows through the pipes 18 and16. From the pipe 18, the dye passes through the pipe 22, and from the pipe 16, the dye passes through the pipe 20. From the

pipes

20 and 22, the dye traverses the passage 35 in the valve 33 and, flowing through the A through the pipe 27 is carried by the pump 26 into that portion of the-pipe 23 which 1s adjacent to the pump 26, the dye owing away, to. any suitable place of storage or discharge, pipe 24, the valve 25 having been opened. Y

Air under pressure may be introduced into the pipe 20 through a ipe 21 for the purpose of expelling some of t e dye liquor from the material carried by the beams, after the completion of the dyein operation and following the emptying of t e kiersof dye liquor.

The lid 3 of every kier 2 carries-an inverted U-shaped pipe 31 wherein a handvalve 32 is interposed, the said pipe 31 extending downwardly into, the top of the mixing tank 30. Only one pipe 31 and its valve the kiers again for the purpose of circulation through the mixing tank and kiers; another is to provide an air-vent to facilitate drawing-01T the liquid contents of the kiers. By means of valve 32 the rate of feed through pipe 31 may be regulated, and thereby the rate of the circulation through the mixing tank and kiers. One or more of the pipes 31 may be opened now and then to permit a little dye to run through the same into the mixing tank 30, so that the attendant may ascertain, by noting the colorthereof, how much the liquor'has decreased in strength through absorption of the dye by the material operated upon.

What is claimed is f 1. In dyeing, etc., apparatus comprising kier constructed to receive a support for a wound mass, and a conduit having a branch which communicates with the interior of the kier and with the interior of the said wound mass, and havingy alsof a second branch communicating with the interior of the kier externally of the wound-lmass, the combination therewith' of a valve-casing having three ports in its shell, with one of which one of said conduit-branches communicates and with a second of which the other of said branches communicates, a pump, a pump-conduit having' one branch in communication with ythe third port of the said shell, and a valve-cylinder rotatably mounted within said casing having a through-way includin a port in one end of'such cylinder in reglster with a second branch of said pump-conduit'and a lateral port adapted to register in different angular positions of the cylinder with the two ports first mentioned of the valve-Casin alternately, and a second through-way whic in the die'rent angular positions of the valvecylinder connects the first and second ports of the valve-casing, alternately, with the said third port and thereby with the pump-conduit branch first mentionedv leading to the pump.

2, The combination with a closed *kier the kiers into the mixing tank 30 and into esv apparatus.

In testlmony that we claim the foregoig as our own, we have hereto axed our signatures.

^ WILLIAM P. HORNBUGKLE.

ROBERT F. CRAIG.