US1844907A - Textile processing machine - Google Patents

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Feb. 9, 1932.

J. H. SKITT 4 1,844,907

TEXTILE PROCESSING MACHINE Filed Sept. '7, 1929 INVENTR.

A TTORNEY Patented F eh. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE JAMES H. SKI'IT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SMITH, DRUM 86 COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA TEXTILE rnoonssme mom I Application filed September 7, 1929. Serial No. 890,992.

The present invention relates to textile ma chines and more particularly to the application of a liquid to textile material for dye ing, finishing, and other liquid treating operations.

Some of the objects of the present invention are to provide an improved machine for subjecting textile goods to a liquid treatment; to provide amore efficient and practical way of applying treating liquids to textile goods; to provide means for causing excess liquid to be directed against the material instead of falling directly into the main liquid tank; to provide means for applying liquid to textile material in the form of Thus the support 13 is held fast at the end which projects beyond the side of the tank while the-major portion thereof extends horizontally above the open top of the tank loops, skeins hanks and other forms wherep in uniform and equal distribution of the liquid takes place; to provide a device associated with a liquid applying means to vary the'position of material being treated with respect to the applying means; to providea material shifting device including means for directing liquid to the material;

and to provide other improvements as will hereinafter appear.

' In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 rep resents a side elevation of a texnle processing machine embodying one form of the present invention; Fig. 2 represents a. section on line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a plan of the support and certain associated parts.

Referring to the drawings one form of the present invention consists of a tank 10 for holding a supply of liquid 11, such as dye,

finishing solution, or any other treating liquid, and is preferably of open top construction to-allow the material to enter the tank and hang suspended above the treating liquid. In the present instance and by way of example, the material shown is in the form of hanks of yarn 12 andmay be of coarse material, such as wool or cotton, or of the finer grades of material, such as silk and rayons, all of which can be efiiciently treated by' means of the present invention,

For suspending the hanks 12 Within the tank and with the lower ends thereof above the treating liquid 11, a tubular support 13 is mounted to extend transversely across the 10 in such a position that when the hanks 12 are placed thereon the lower endswill a low the excess treating liquid to return to the main supply. The hanks 12 can be freely placed on or removed from the support 13 since its outer end is unobstructed and therefore can be inserted through the loops of material to permit the latter to be properly placed. In connection with the free end of the support 13 it will be noted that it is closed by a stationary hub 17 having a flange 18 of greater diameter than the support 13 to thereby serve as a holding guide to prevent the hanks from improperly working off of the end of the support.

In order to deliver the treating liquid to that portion of the hanks which rests upon the support 13 so that the individual skeins of ma terial are separated and uniformly saturated while the excessliquid can run down the skeins, the upper surface of the fixed support also provided with one or more rows of perforations 20. and the lower surface thereof also provided with one or more rows of perforations 21. In the preferred form of the invention there are four rows of perforations 20 lengthwise of the upper surface and three rows of perforations lengthwise of the lower surface. and the arrangement is such that the rows 20 discharge liquid directly against the material while the rows 21 indirectly deliver the liquid to the material. The fixed end of the support 13 is connected to and communicates with a pipe 22, here shown as vertically disposed and terminatingat its lower end in a connection 23 with the discharge end of a pump 2 A valve 25 may be mounted upon the end of the pipe 22 for drain purposes as pipes to the support 13 and from whence it is discharged by way of the perforations 20 and 21.

For the purpose of changing the position of the hanks 12 with respect tothe support 13 as occasion demands, a rotatable shifting means is provided consisting, in the present instance, of a rigid plate element 27 radially disposed with respect to the support 13 and extending substantially the length thereof. One end of this element 27 is connected to a plate 30 which is supported and journalled upon a bearing stud 31 which is threaded into the hub 17 in coaxial relation with the support 13, while the other end of the element 27 is connectedto a plate 32 formed as an integral extension of the hub 33 of a worm gear 34. This gear 34 is journalled for free rotation upon a sleeve 35 fixed to the support 13 and having a flange 36 which serves as a guide abutment for the hanks 12 at the opposite end of the support 13 from the flange 18. Motion is transmitted to the worm gear 34 by a worm shaft 37 extending lengthwise of the machine and supported by bearing brackets 38 fastened to the frame 15. This shaft 37 can be arranged to operate as many supports 13 as are used upon the machine. A collar 40 is fixed to the sleeve 35 by a set screw 41 to form with the flange 36 a channel in which the worm gear 34 travels. It will thus be seen that operation of the shaft 37 causes the element 27 to swing about the support 13 as an axis to thereby lift one side of a loop of material toadvance the loop relative to the'support 13 so that anotli'er portion is brought into contact with the support for direct treatment.

For the purpose of deflecting the liquid dis charged from the perforations 21, the element 27 is provided with a flange 42 positioned in close proximity to the support 13 and having the face 43 curved concentrically with the contour of the support .13. The spacing of the flange 42 from the support 13 is such as to provide a relatively'narrow clearance passage 44 through which the liquid can travel to discharge beyond the side edges of the flange.

These edges arepreferably spaced from the suspended loops of material to allow excess liquid to drop to a lower level. This level is fixed by a plate flange 45 provided at the lower-part of the element 27 and extends across the space between the sides of the material loops to contact therewith and. maintain them geparated while also at one side serving as a ing means when the element 27 is rotated.

It will thus be evident that the flange 45. is in position to intercept any liquid dripping from the flange 42 and cause it to flow laterally against the material and give a supplemental treatment by liquid which otherwise would return directly to the tank 10.

In the operation of the machine the hanks or other form of material are looped about the support 13 so that the material is suspended within the tank 10. The pump 24 is now started and the treating liquid circulated by way of the intake pipe 26, pump 24, connection 23, pipe 22 and support 13 from whence it is discharged by way of the perforations 20 and 21, the former delivering the liquid directly against the material while the latter delivers it against the deflector flange 42. The pressure of the discharged liquid issuing from the perforations 20 is such as to lift the skeins sufficiently to allow a film of the discharged liquid to flow between the hanks and the support 13 and into the individual strands of the yarn or other material as it is separated by the discharge pressure. Thus there is acontinuous flow of treating liquid from the perforations which coacts with the separated strands of material to give a uniform treatment throughout the body of the material. The liquid which is restricted in its flow through the perforations 21 by the face of the deflector flange 42 follows the clearance passage 44 and discharges laterally against the side of the material which hangs adjacent thereto. This supplements the action of the liquid discharged from the perforations 20 by again opening up the skeins to admit the liquid for treatment thereof and since the skeins are hanging vertical the liquid will flow downward thereon toward the tank. Any liquid which drops directly downward from the sides of the deflector flange 42 will be caught by the separating and lifting flange 45 and since this is in contact with the material it will divert this otherwise waste liquid to flow into and then downward of the skeins of material.

It will now be apparent that a complete unitary processing machine has been devised for efficientlyand economically treating skeins of cotton, wool, silk, rayon or any other material in any other form by the use .of a perforated support for supporting material and having associated therewith a relatively rotatable means for lifting the material at" predetermined intervals to change its position upon the support. Furthermore a more even and uniform treating of the material; takes place due to the fact that provision is made for delivering the treating liquid to the.

' material at several different places, each successive treatment supplementing that which has preceded. -A higher percentage of the circulated liquid thus becomes effective for treating "purposes and reduces the amount which has to be recirculated.

While only a single form is shown in which this invention may be embodied, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited I to any specific construction, but might be applied to various forms without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my IIIVGIItlOH; I

claim: q

1. A textile processing machine comprising the combination of a support arranged to suspend material to be treated, said material directly contacting with said support, means to discharge a treating liquid upon said ma-, terial, supplemental discharge means for liquid to treat said material intermediate of its length, and an element normally located below said support and movable relative to said support for changing the position of said material relative to said support.

2'. A textile processing machine comprising the combination of a support arranged to suspend material to be treated, said support having perforations in the top portion thereof opening against the supported mat.e rial and perforations in the bottom portion thereof opening into the space between suspended portions of said material, a deflector mounted in juxtaposed relation to said bottom perforations to cause liquid to be discharged laterally against said material,

means for introducing liquid into said support and an element movable relative to said support for changing the position of said material relative to said support.

3. A textile processing machine comprising the combination of a support arranged to suspend material to be treated, said support having perforations in the top portion thereofopening against the supported material and perforations in the bottom portion thereof opening into'the space between suspended portions of said materiahmeans for introducing liquid into said support, an element movable relative to said support for chang ing the position of said material relative to said support, and a deflector carried by said element and normally opposed to said bottom perforations to cause liquid to be discharged laterally against said material.

4. A textile processing machine comprising the combination of a tubular support having discharge outlets respectively at its top and bottom, a. deflector arranged opposite said bottom outlets, means for introducing liquid into said support under pressure to discharge throughsaid top outlets against material suspended on said support and through said bottom ,outlets against said deflector to be directed laterally against said material, and means movable relative to said support for changing the position of said material relative to said support.

5. A textile processing machine comprising the combination of a tubular support having discharge outlets respectively .at its top and bottom, a deflector arranged opposite said bottom outlets, and means for introduc ing 1i uid into said support under pressure to disc arge through said top outlets against 1 material suspended on said support and through said bottom outlets against said deflector to be directed laterally against said material.

6. A textile processing machine com rising the combination of a tubular support aving discharge outlets therein, means for in,- troducing liquid under pressure into said support to discharge through said outlets against material suspended upon said support, and a material lifting device arranged to be swung about said support to change the position of said material, said device having a part located to catch liquid dropping from said support 1and direct said liquid against said materia 7. A textile processing machine compris-.

of Aug, 1929.

. JAMES H. SKITT.

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