US2005517A - Cloth finishing - Google Patents

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US2005517A
US2005517A US546088A US54608831A US2005517A US 2005517 A US2005517 A US 2005517A US 546088 A US546088 A US 546088A US 54608831 A US54608831 A US 54608831A US 2005517 A US2005517 A US 2005517A
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Sanford L Cluett
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06C—FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
    • D06C21/00—Shrinking by compressing

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  • Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic side elevation of-other aims to provide improved methods and mechancloth finishing apparatus embodying the invenism adapted for the finishing of a web of cloth tion; and on both of its surfaces.
  • the improvements ef- Fig. 6 is a plan of the cloth reversing device fected by this invention are particularly applicontained in the apparatus of Fig. 5.
  • a cloth web w is shown as traveling web in a state of mechanically proentering the apparatus from a tentering maduced preshrinkage; in this aspect my invention chine l l at the right of the figure, from whence is an improvement on the processes and appait passes around and between driven input rolls ratus disclosed in my copending applications Sel2 and it, through a moistening chamber it, 10 rial No. 445,300, filed April 18, 1930, (now Patent over spray jets M and over cloth spreading rolls No. 1,861,422) and Serial No. 516,973, filed Febor bars l5.
  • 1931 now Patent No.
  • the warpwise dimension of the web includes a flexible endless
  • the present invention provides for the applica- Web-holding belt or band ll running on parallel tion of substantially equal degrees of finish to rotating heated drums l8 and W, the belt ll beboth sides of the cloth without detriment to ing guided between the drums by guide rolls 2t preshrinkage, and provides for more effectively to 28 inclusive, so disposed as to cause the endfixing in the preshrunken but moist web a conless belt to embrace the major portion of the densed or compressed condition of the yarns insurface of each of the heated drums. The warP- Jerusalem wrinkled by such preshrinkage.
  • the present, invention provides for of the portion of the belt ll passing from the increasing the usefulness of ironing machines of roll 28 to the heated drum IS.
  • the endless belt type by enabling them to give Following this contraction in surface of the 30 the same degree of finish to both sides of the cloth, the cloth is fixed in its contracted state cloth web, provides for enabling the belt of such by being pressed against the heated drum It.
  • Fig. l is a side elevation, mainly diagramblocks 3! bearing on the cloth as the cloth and matic, illustrating cloth finishing apparatus embelt ll pass over roll 28, and so shaped as to bodying the present invention; confine the cloth to the belt until the cloth Fig. 2 is a vertical section, through the parts and belt pass onto the drum la.
  • the roll 28 is of the mechanism of Fig. l which serve to conpulled toward the drum M3 by the tension in dense or compress the cloth in warpwise dimenthe belt ll; thus the cloth and belt l! are nipped sion, this section being taken on a plane parallel between the roll 28 and drum ill at the point of to that of Fig. l; departure of the cloth from the block 30.
  • Fig. l is a side elevation, mainly diagramblocks 3! bearing on the cloth as the cloth and matic, illustrating cloth finishing apparatus embelt ll pass over roll 28, and so shaped as to bodying the present invention; confine the cloth to the belt until the cloth
  • Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the cloth reassing from roll 28 onto drum l8 the curvav device taken on t e ne -3 f gture of the belt is reversed, its surface which Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the principal contacts with the clothweb shortens accordparts of the cloth reversing device contained in ingly, and the cloth, since closely confined to the apparatus of Fig. 1; the belt, shortens to the same extent.
  • a bracket 31 This bracket 31 is' pivoted to the machine frame at a point 38 above the roll 28; the effect of supporting the roll 28 in this manner is to cause the belt I! to pull the roll 28 toward the drum l8, thus producing the nipping action between the roll 28 and drum l8, as mentioned above.
  • the several heated ironing blocks 38 are held by gravity against the upper surfaceof the cloth passing over the roll 28.
  • the nipping action of the roll 28 may further be increased by associating with each bracket 31 a spring 39 or its equivalent, arranged to urge the bracket and hence the roll 28 toward the axis of drum iii.
  • each block may be provided with a rearward extension 40 which is engaged by a spring 4
  • the present invention provides for applying a substantially equal finish to both sides of the cloth and for better fixing the longitudinal pre-shri'nkage of the cloth by the ironing of both sides of the cloth.
  • the preferred mode of thus reversing the cloth between the two drums involves the interposition therebetween of guide members each adapted to alter the direction of travel of the cloth, and inclined at such angles to each other that in causing the cloth to change its direction of travel an odd plurality of times the cloth will again be directed toward the second. drum.
  • the cloth after being separated from the carrier belt by passing over a rotatable roll 5
  • a diagonal guide member 53 then serves to direct the cloth in a transverse direction to the left, as shown, following which the cloth passes around a vertical guide member 54, turning back upon itself and traveling in the opposite direction, still transverse to the cloths general path of travel between the two rolls.
  • a second diagonal guide member 55 then returns the cloth approximately to its former general direction of travel toward the upper drum 19. The cloth now has its reverse or unironed side outermost. From this second diagonal member 55 the cloth is taken off by a rotating roll 56 and fed onto the traveling carrier belt I! as the latter approaches the upper drum l9.
  • the guide members 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56 occupy parallel planes and are so disposed that the various runs of cloth passing therebetween travel in substantially parallel planes. It is thus assured that the cloth will not be skewed or twisted, with attendant stretching, loss of preshrinkage, or inequality in structure from edge to edge.
  • the guide members 52, 53, 54 and 55 are herein illustrated as polished bars or tubes; in some cases it may be desirable to mount these guide members for rotation, as rollers.
  • the guides 52, 53, 54 and 55 when in the form of bars or tubes, as shown, may be fastened together by any suitable means such as clamps at their points of crossing, to form a framework suitably affixed to the machine.
  • a vertical member 54' opposite to vertical guide 54 preferably serves to complete this framework, although forming no part of the reversing mechanism.
  • roll 22 is preferably yieldingly urged toward drum l9, so that the cloth w and belt I! are nipped between the roll and drum; thus itis assured that the cloth will be fed to the drum iii without accumulation of cloth between this drum and drum is.
  • a pressure roll I90 is preferably associated with the belt running on the other roll is, and performs the same function as pressure roll Mia described above.
  • the cloth has been subjected to drying by the first drum is and has there lost much of its initial moisture content. However, a considerable part of the moisture remains temporarily in the cloth and carrier belt ill as steam and vapor; by feeding the cloth quickly to the second drum, sufficient of this steam and vapor remains for successful ironing action by the second drum.
  • the second drum 09 since acting on cloth already ironed onone side, need not be as large as the first drum l8, but may be materially smaller as shown in Fig. 1.
  • the cloth After passing around drum l9, the cloth is separated from the carrier belt by a driven roll 59 from whence it passes to any suitable distributing mechanism such as indicated at the left of Fig. 1.
  • Roll 59 may be driven by a pulley 60 and belt 69 from the drum 6 9.
  • Roll 55, as well as the cloth distributing mechanism at the left of Fig. l are likewise driven through another belt 63 from pulley 50.
  • FIG. 5 and 6 A modification of the cloth finishing apparatus of Fig. 1 is illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 wherein corresponding parts are designated by the same reference characters as in previous figures.
  • the apparatus of Figs. 5 and 6 includes two cloth finishing pre shrinking units such as are described and claimed in my copending application, Serial No. 516,973, (Patent No. 1,861,424) and which are like the apparatus of Fig. l of this application except for the omission of provision for ironing the cloth on the upper drums 99. Instead, in the apparatus of Figs.
  • the cloth after being subjected to a preshrinkage operation and to ironing on one of its sides in the first finishing unit is conveyed to the reversing device (indicated diagrammatically at R) and from thence to a second similar finishing unit wherein it is subjected to a second preshrinkage operation and to ironing on its reverse side.
  • the amount of warpwise condensation obtained by this arrangement may thus be double that obtained in a single finishing unit, while by providing the reversing mechanism between the two units, equal treatment of both sides of the cloth is obtained.
  • a cloth finishing machine having therein a pair of ironing drums and a flexible endless belt running thereon in combination with means operable on a cloth Web leaving the first ironing drum to reverse the said web with relation to the belt for subsequent ironing of the reverse side of the web by the second drum.
  • a cloth finishing machine wherein a cloth web to be finished is held in contact with a.
  • a cloth finishing machine having therein a pair of heated ironing elements and a fiexible endless belt running thereon, means for causing a cloth Web to be confined by the belt against one of said ironing elements with one surface of the web in contact therewith, means for effecting such reversal of the web and belt as to cause the previously ironed surface of the web to contact with the belt, and means for causing the web to be confined by the belt against the second ironing element.
  • a cloth finishing machine having therein an endless traveling belt, means for placing a cloth web on said belt for travel therewith, means for removing the web from the belt, means for replacing the web on the belt with the side of the cloth which formerly faced the belt now facing away from the belt, and means cooperating with the belt to iron in turn the two successively outwardly facing sides of the web.
  • A. cloth finishing machine having therein two rotating ironing drums and an endless belt running thereon, in combination with guiding means disposed to receive a web ironed on the belt by the first drum for placing the web on the belt with its previously ironed side facing the belt in position to be ironed on its reverse side by the second drum.
  • a cloth finishing machine having therein two rotating ironing drums and an endless belt running thereon, in combination with guiding means disposed to receive a web ironed on the belt by the first drum for placing the Web on. the belt with its previously ironed side facing the belt in position to be ironed on its reverse side by the second drum, said guiding means having two guiding surfaces each disposed to direct the cloth through approximately 90 turns between approximately parallel planes, and means for causing the cloth to reverse its direction of progress between said guiding surfaces.
  • a cloth finishing machine having therein two rotating ironing drums and an endless belt running thereon, in combination with guiding means disposed to receive a web ironed on the belt by the first drum for placing the web on the belt with its previously ironed side facing the belt in position to be ironed on its reverse side by the second drum, said guiding means having two guiding surfaces each disposed to cause the cloth to turn between approximately parallel planes, transversely from its previous direction of travel, and means for causing the cloth to reverse its general directionof motion.
  • a cloth finishing machine having therein two rotary ironing drums turning about substantially parallel axes, and an endless belt running on said drums, means for supplying a cloth web to the belt to be held thereby against the first drum, and guiding means for conducting the web from the first drum to the belt in position to be held thereby against the second drum,
  • said guiding means having therein means for said two drums, so as to present the reverse side of the cloth to the second drum.
  • Cloth shrinking process in which a web of cloth is pressed against a heated relatively hard surface by a softer surface while the softer surface is contracting, is forced by said pressure to partake of the contraction of the softer surface, and is discharged from between said surfaces with a shorter length than upon entering therebetween, characterized in that the face of the cloth which initially contacted with the said softer surface is thereupon pressed against a heated relatively harder surface by a softer surface acting on the other face of the cloth, to equalize the effects of the process on the opposite faces of the cloth.
  • Cloth shrinking process in which a web of cloth is pressed against a heated metallic surface by a fabric surface while the fabric surface is contracting, is forced by said pressure to partake of the contraction of the fabric surface, and is discharged from between said surfaces with a shorter length than upon entering therebetween, characterized in that the face of the cloth.'which initially contacted with the fabric surface is thereupon pressed against a heated metallic surface by a fabric surface acting on the other face of the cloth, to equalize the effects of the process on the opposite faces of the cloth.
  • Cloth shrinking mechanism comprising means for causing an endwise compression of the cloth, said means including a belt traveling in a path of varying curvature and of such thickness that the change in curvature produces a substantial endwise contraction of a surface of the belt, and means contacting with the cloth to press it against the said belt surface while said surface is contracting, said cloth-contacting means presenting a smooth surface against which the cloth is adapted to slip during endwise compression by said belt, the relation between said belt and cloth-contacting means permitting the cloth to be discharged from between these elements with a shorter length than upon entering therebetween, in combination with means operating on the discharged and shortened cloth, to press the previously belt-contacted face of the cloth against a smooth surface, thereby to equalize the effects of the process on the two faces of the cloth.

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NL34890D NL34890C (en(2012)) 1931-06-22
BE389105D BE389105A (en(2012)) 1931-06-22
US546088A US2005517A (en) 1931-06-22 1931-06-22 Cloth finishing
FR41942D FR41942E (fr) 1931-06-22 1932-06-08 Procédé et appareil pour rétrécir les tissus, et tissu prérétréci résultant
GB16189/32A GB389686A (en) 1931-06-22 1932-06-08 Improvements in cloth finishing
CH176618D CH176618A (fr) 1931-06-22 1932-06-09 Installation pour le rétrécissement des tissus.
DEC46544D DE672286C (de) 1931-06-22 1932-06-14 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Schrumpfen von Waeschestoffen o. dgl.

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US2660428A (en) * 1947-05-22 1953-11-24 Standard Register Co Strip feeding apparatus
US3015146A (en) * 1958-01-08 1962-01-02 Compax Corp Method and apparatus for compacting web materials, such as fabrics
US3195210A (en) * 1960-11-02 1965-07-20 L & L Mfg Inc Process and apparatus for controlling shrinkage in tubular fabrics
US3277552A (en) * 1964-10-30 1966-10-11 Cluett Peabody & Co Inc Method and apparatus for the compressive shrinking of textile fabrics
US3691600A (en) * 1970-12-10 1972-09-19 Cluett Peabody & Co Inc Method of finishing of greige woven fabrics
US3694870A (en) * 1970-10-30 1972-10-03 Cluett Peabody & Co Ltd Apparatus for the compressive preshrinkage of fabrics
US5108022A (en) * 1988-05-18 1992-04-28 Man Roland Druckmaschinen Ag Universal web turning system, particularly for printed webs derived from a rotary web-type printing machine

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GB461258A (en) * 1934-08-23 1937-02-15 Cluett Peabody & Co Inc Improvements in or relating to cloth treating apparatus

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US2660428A (en) * 1947-05-22 1953-11-24 Standard Register Co Strip feeding apparatus
US3015146A (en) * 1958-01-08 1962-01-02 Compax Corp Method and apparatus for compacting web materials, such as fabrics
US3195210A (en) * 1960-11-02 1965-07-20 L & L Mfg Inc Process and apparatus for controlling shrinkage in tubular fabrics
US3277552A (en) * 1964-10-30 1966-10-11 Cluett Peabody & Co Inc Method and apparatus for the compressive shrinking of textile fabrics
US3694870A (en) * 1970-10-30 1972-10-03 Cluett Peabody & Co Ltd Apparatus for the compressive preshrinkage of fabrics
US3691600A (en) * 1970-12-10 1972-09-19 Cluett Peabody & Co Inc Method of finishing of greige woven fabrics
US5108022A (en) * 1988-05-18 1992-04-28 Man Roland Druckmaschinen Ag Universal web turning system, particularly for printed webs derived from a rotary web-type printing machine

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