US361921A

US361921A - Tomley

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Publication number: US361921A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-04-26
Anticipated expiration: 1904-04-26

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ISAAC I-I. BOTTOMLEY AND THOMAS BOTTOMLEY, OF SHELF, NEAR HALIFAX, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,921, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed June 23, 1886. Serial No. 206,051). (No model.) Patented in England September 13, 1884, No. 12,305.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Isaac HENRY Bor TOMLEY and THOMAS BOTTOMLEY, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at Shelf, near Halifax, in the county of York, England, have invented certain Iniprovements in Apparatus for Boiling and Setting \Voven Fabrics, (for which Letters Patent have been granted to us by the Government of Great Britain, No. 12,365, dated September 13, 1884,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is the construction of an apparatus that will be applicable for the combined operations of stretching, tentering, boiling, and setting woven fabrics; and it consists in forming a deep vessel or cistern with an open top, and mounting therein adjustable guides, in the grooves of which are placed traversing chains fitted with tenteringpins, and at some distance from the said vessel or cistern we mount a shaft, upon which adjustable chain-pulleys are placed for giving motion to the said chains. The fabric is fed onto the tentering-pins near the chain-pulleys, and, passing through the boiling liquor in a stretched condition,is boiled and set, so that when stripped of the pins by the strippingrollers it retains the width at which it has been set.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurelrepresents a side elevation of our improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3, a sectional elevation through line AB, and the remainder of the figures are enlarged details.

In all the fi gu res similar letters indicate similar parts.

The apparatus is driven by the pulleys on the revolving shaft upon which the pinion A is secured, the latter gearing with the teeth of wheel 13 on the main shaft 0, upon which are mounted two sliding chain-pulleys, D and D. Around each of these pulleys is an endless pitch-chain, E, having tentering-pins F fixed to the projecting flanges F. The links of the respective pitch-chains, after leaving the pulleys D and D, pass through the grooved slides G and G, which extend down into the vessel or cistern and back again to the said pulleys, both guides and pulleys being capable of adjustment sidewise to suit the width of the fab ric to be boiled and set.

The grooved slides G and G are connected together in several places by screws S, one portion of each screw, from the center toward the end, being cut with a left-hand thread, and the other portion with a right-hand thread, all the screws being coupled together by shafts H and wheels H and H so that by turning the handle J all the screws are actuated at the same time, thereby causing the grooved slides G and G to travel toward or from each other,

accordingvto the direction in which the said handle is turned.

In connection with the top screw, S, are two arms, K, one being on theleft-hand portion of the screw and the other on the right-hand, by which the pitch-chain pulleys D and D are moved in the same direction and at the same time as the grooved slides. The slides are set a little farther apart at LL than where the fabric is fed onto the tentering-pins at M M, by which arrangement the fabric is stretched and conducted at that width through the boiling liquor, by which it is set, and finally stripped from the tenteringpins by the rollers N and and N and wrapped around the roller N, the roller N being driven by the diagonal shaft and bevel-wheels K.

In order that the tentering-pins may take proper hold of each edge of the fabric as it is fed to the machine, we secure to each grooved slide a bracket, P, and joint to each a lever, one arm, It, of which is fitted with a circular disk, T, covered with indie-rubber or felt; or a strong circular brush may be used instead of the disk for pressing the fabric onto the said pins, the necessary pressure being obtained by the adjustable weight W on each arm It of the said levers.

The pitch-chains E are assisted through the grooved slides G and G by two small pitchchain pulleys, D and D", on the revolving shaft 0, driven by the belt Z on the pulleys Z and Z. The teeth of the wheels, engaging with the links of the said chains, assist in moving the latter through the grooves. The grooved slides are formed in two parts, as shown by the transverse section, Fig. 4, the recess in the slides being largest in the center for the reception of the links E of the pitchchains, each link having a projecting flange, F, which passes through the opening Q, and fitted with tentering-pins, as shown by details, Fig. 5, which represents a plan, and Fig. 6, a cross-section through the chain.

WVhat We claim as onrinveution is- 1. The combination of a tank and chainguides in the tank with tentering chains adapted to traverse the said guides, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a tank and laterallyadjustable chain-guides in the tank with tentering-chains traversing said guides, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a tank and ehainguides in the tank with pulleys and endless