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3 Sheots-Sheet 1. 0 HALLENSLEBEN APPARATUS FOR WASHING WARPS.

No. 595,302. Patented Dec. 14Q1897.

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APPARATUS FOR WASHING WARPS. No. 595,302. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

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O. HALLENSLEBEN.

APPARATUS FOR WASHING WARPS.

No. 595,302. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

llniTnn STATES PATENT Unmet.

OT O HALLENSLEBEN, OF HILDEN, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR WASHING WARP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,302, dated December 14, 1897. Application filed May 17 1897. Serial No. 686,968. (No modem To (all 1071,0722 it ntm l concern.-

Be it known that I, Orro HALLENSLEBEN, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and a resident of Hilden, in the Province of the Rhine, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Steaming or Aging and XVashing the Colored Threads Intended for the Production of Smyrna Carpets and the Like, of which the following is an exact specification.

This invention refers in general to apparatus for treating and preparing threads that are intended for the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, and in particular to that kind of said apparatus in which a comparatively large number of threads, the number depending on the number of carpets that are to receive the same pattern, extend one parallel to the other in a straight line, and are similarly colored in that position by aid of rolls, rollers, small boards, or any other of the means known for this purpose. The threads are supported in said position by parallel wires or bars arranged reetangularly to the threads, the distances between said wires or bars being preferably made dependent on the unit of length of threadthat is to say, the shortest length which one color can be applied to if that color shall properly appear in the pattern.

Coloring the threads with the known apparatus before referred to has not made difficulties, but steaming and washing the colored threads was a hard task, because the apparatus in question was not designed for such purposes and could not, therefore, be used for the same. The threads, which, if they are intended for large carpets, have sometimes a length up to forty meters, had to be removed from the coloring apparatus and to be conveyed to and into the steaming apparatus, and thereafter they had to be taken up a second time for being washed. Handling threads of such or similar lengths is obviously very inconvenient, and there are in the case in question the great drawbacks that, first, on the freshly-colored threads being transported to the steaming apparatus the colors are rubbed one into another, and, second, on the steamed threads being moved to and fro in the washing-tub light colors could be stained by dark ones on coming in contact with the same.

Handling the threads with such care as is necessary for avoiding such occurrences caused a loss of time, which was the greater as the apparatus had to be stopped until the frame carrying the said parallel wires or bars, or supporting the threads by the latter, was refilled with fresh threads.

The object of my present invention is to do away with all these drawbacks, and I attain this purpose in general by, first, furnishing two of said thread -receiving frames with wheels; second, providing for these frames two pairs of horizontal rails, both pairs in the same straight line and located in one plane; third, arranging the steaming chamber or chest between said two pairs of rails and furnishing it also with two pairs of rails, one of these pairs being located outside the steaming chamber or chest and the other inside the same, and this pair extending also in the direction of and lying in a plane with the two pairs of rails first mentioned, and, fourth, providing means for moving the latter from their ordinary places opposite to the ends of the steaming chamber or chest to places opposite to the ends of the exterior pair of rails of this apparatus and for connecting the several pairs of rails with each other.

After one of the wheeled frames aforementioned has received the parallely-arranged threads to be treated and prepared for the purpose in question said threads are first colored in the ordinary way, then the neighboring door of the steaming chamber or chest is opened, the interior pairof rails of the sameis connected to the respective pair of rails carrying said wheeled frame,and the latter is moved into said casing, when the connection of the rails is broken, the door of the steaming-chest closed, and steam let enter the said casing, so that now the color is fixed. This being finished, the other door of the box or chest is opened, the interior pair of rails is connected with the respective other pair, and the wheeled frame is removed from the steaming box or chest and shoved upon said other pair, when the steamed threads are conveyed from the wheeled frame to a washing-trough, which is so arranged and constructed that the threads cannot possibly lose their proper relative position. During all this another wheeled frame has been covered with a fresh set of threads and brought upon the first pair of rails. The manner in which this is brought about will presently be described. After the wheeled frame first mentioned has been freed of the steamed threads the pair of rails carrying that frame at that time is so moved that it gets in line with the exterior pair of rails of the steaming box or chest. The wheeled frame is then shoved upon said exterior pairs of rails, whereas the other wheeled frame, with its threads, is shoved upon the interior pair of rails of the steaming-chest or is shoved into this chest, respectively. Vhile now the steaming is effected, the position of the movable pairs of rails is reversed, so that the first wheeled frame can be shoved upon the first pair of rails, whereas the second wheeled frame, with its steamed threads, can be shoved upon the other movable pair of rails, and so on.

In order to make my invention more clear,

I refer to the accompanying drawings, in

which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a side view of one end of the whole apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the other end of the same. Fig. 3 shows the left-hand part of Fig. 1 drawn on a larger scale, and Fig. 4 is a front view of this part. Fig. 5 is a side view of an end of the steaming-chest. Fig. 6 is a front view of this chest; and Fig. 7 is a vertical cross-section through the same, the section being Taken on line 14 15 of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 shows the right-hand part of Fig. 2 drawn on a larger scale. Fig. 9 is a plan of this part, and Fig. 10 is a vertical cross-section in line 16 17 of Fig. 8. Fig. 11 is a plan of an end of the wheeled frame. Fig. 12 is an end view of this frame, and Fig. 13 is a side view of a part of the same.

For the sake of distinctness I prefer to commence the detailed partof my specification with the description of the last-mentioned three figures-i. 6., with the wheeled frame that receives the threads. Said frame consists of two angular iron bars a 0,, arranged parallel one to the other and connected by flat iron bars ta The upper or horizontal parts of the angular iron bars are furnished with bearings a for the reception of flanged wheels at, and are further provided with pins a for holding the wires C66, that support the threads. The latter are indicated in Fig. 6 by a set of broken parallel lines. The length of the frame Ct at d amounts to about forty meters, and the breadth is such that from fifty to one hundred threads may their upper ends the rails e. The means for operating the movable parts e t'. e., for raising them together with the rails cwill be described hereinafter.

The steaming apparatus consists of a longish box or chest t', Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 7, which is supported by standards i, and is provided at each end with a door t Figs. 5 and 6. The latter is hinged to the chest 9; by the bolt 1' and is furnished with three sliding bolts '5 that are connected to a disk 1' by means of connecting-rods i The disk 2' Fig. 6, has attached to it a cog-wheel 2' Fig. 5, that meshes with a pinion i and the latter has attached to it a double-armed handlever 2', Fig. 6, by aid of which the sliding bolts may be moved to and fro, as will be clear without a further description.

The steaming-chest 1' is furnished with two pairs of rails, one pair, 0 0, Fig. 7, being arranged inside said chest, and the other, 0 0, Figs. 5 and 6, outside or above the same, said other pair of rails being supported by standards 0 While the wheeled frame a a (1 having the threads stretched out upon it, is supported by the rails e, the threads are colored in any of the known ways-for instance, as mentioned at the commencement of the preamble of the specification. The colors require, then, fixingi'. 6., the'colored threads require steaming-and for this purpose the wheeled frame is shoved from the rails e to and upon the rails 0 or into the steamingchest 2', respectively, the rails 0 being connected with the rails e by separate intermediate rails M, Fig. 1, which are connected with the rails e and o in any suitable manner.

After the wheeled frame, with the colored threads, has been shoved into the chesti the door i Fig. 1, is closed, and steam is allowed to enter the said chest, when the colors become fixed to the threads. The fixing being finished, the other door of the steaming-chest is opened and the interior rails o of said chest are connected, by aid of the intermediate rails 'Lb aforementioned, with the rails 1", Figs. 2, 8, and 10, that are also supported by vertical standards e 6 the parts e being stationary and the parts e being movable or displaceable within said parts 6, all exactly as has been described above with regard to Figs. 1 and 3.

As shown more distinctly in Fig. 10, the lower ends of the movable parts 6 of the standards are cogged or turned into racks, respectively. Each of these racks' meshes with a pinion r, secured to a shaft r The bearings r for this shaft are fixed to the stationary parts 6 of the standards. Each of the shafts r is furnished with a chain-wheel T and all the chain-wheels belonging to one set of standards are connected by a common chain r Figs. 2 and 8, so that all the shafts r Fig. 10, with theirpinions 7', maybe turned and all the racks 6 with the rails 1', may be raised at a time. All this refers also to the rails e and their standards, which are constructed in exactly the same manner as has just been described.

To operate the chains r in the manner described, the first of the standards e 6 Fig. 3, and the last of them, Fig. 8, is connected with a frame 8, that supports three shafts s 3 arranged one above the other. The shaft 3 has a pinion s, Fig. 9, and a crank The shaft 5 has a cog-wheel s meshing with the pinion s and a pinion The shaft .9 has a cog-wheel s meshing with the pinion s and a chain-wheel s", over which passes the chain "1' of the respective set of chainwheels 4'". Thus the respective chain 4' is moved in one or the other direction by turning the crank s correspondingly. A similar set of shafts and cogwheels is supported by the frame 3 and the other end of the apparatus, as distinctly represented in Figs. 3 and 4.

As shown in Figs. 2, 8, and 10, a trough 50 extends along the respective part of the ap paratus. Said trough is the washing-trough and contains a number of hook-like holders to, Fig. 10, which are hinged to brackets 50 and are oscillated by eccentrics 00 secured to a shaft 0c". The latter is connected with the driving-shaft .e' of the machine, Fig. 9, by bevel-wheels z The shaft c has a fast and a loose pulley 2".

After the wheeled frame a a a with the colored and steamed threads, has arrived upon the rails 7*, Figs. 2, 8, and 10, the threads are taken off the supporting-wires a, Fig. 11, of said frame and laid down into the hooks m, Fig. 10. Owing to the short distance between said frame and said hooks the threads may be transported from one place to the other without the least difficulty, and there is no danger whatever of the threads getting entangled or parts of different colors coming in contact with each other. After the whole length of the threads has been put down into the hooks the shafts .2 and 41: are caused to rotate so as to oscillate the hooks as by aid of the eccentrics :0 Of course the trough a: is filled with water and the threads are washed within that water, so that the inspissating substance present within the color is thereby removed. The washing-water is then led off and the threads are removed from the hooks :11, when they are dried and are carried off to the loom for being worked into Smyrna carpets and the like.

\Vhen the wheeled frame is empty of threads, the rails 1', together with said frame, are raised up to the height of the exterior rails o of the steaming-chest i by means of the wheelwork s .9 the chain 0 the chain wheels 7- the pinions r, and the racks e, and the said frame is then shoved upon said rails 0. IV hen in this position, the wheeled frame receives a fresh layer of threads.

There cooperates with the apparatus described not one wheeled frame but two. Durin g the time in which the steamed threads are taken off the respective frame and put into the washing-trough the other frame, which then has already been provided with a fresh layer of threads, stands on the rails e, and these threads are imprinted with the colors, and d uring the time in which the empty frame standing upon the exterior rails o of the steaming chest receives the fresh layer of threads the other frame is inclosed within said chest and the threads of this frame are subjected to the action of the steam. This being finished,the respective wheeled frame is transported to and upon the rails r and the respective set of threads is transported into the washing-trough, whereas the wheeled frame that was first in use is shoved upon the rails e, the latter having prior thereto been raised to theheight of the rails o by the means aforedescribed. The rails, together with the respective wheeled frame, are then lowered to their normal position and the work goes further on in the manner described.

Having thus fully described the nature of this invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intended for the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination with two pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane, means for supporting said rails, and a wheeled frame supported by the same, of a steaming box or chest arranged between said two pairs of rails in line with the same; two other pairs of rails arranged one inside, the other outside of, and parallel to, said chest, and means for displacing the first two pairs of rails so as to bring them in line with the last-mentioned pair; said wheeled frame being adapted to receive the threads, and the said chest being adapted to receive the said frame, for the purpose as described.

2. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intended for'the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination with two pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane, displaceable racks supporting said rails, standards guiding said racks, shafts supported by said standards, pinions secured to said shafts and gearing with the racks, means for rotating the shafts, and a wheeled frame supported by the rails, of a steaming box or chest arranged between said two pairs of rails in line with the same; two other pairs of rails arranged one within, the other above, and parallel to, said chest; said wheeled frame being adapted to receive the threads, and the said chest being adapted to receive the said frame, for the purpose as described.

3. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intended for the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination with two pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane, displaceable racks supporting said rails, standards guiding said racks, shafts supported by said standards, pinions secured to said shafts and gearing with the racks, chainwheels also secured to the shafts, a chain connecting all the chain-wheels belonging to one of said pairs of rails, another chain connecting all the chain-Wheels belonging to the other pair of rails, means for driving said chain-wheels, and a wheeled frame supported by the same, of a steaming box or chest arranged between said two pairs of rails in line with the same; two other pairs of rails arranged one inside, the other outside of, and parallel to, said chest; said wheeled frame being adapted to receive the threads, and the said chest being adapted to receive the said frame, for the purpose as described.

4. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intended for the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination with two pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane,

means for supporting said rails, and a wheeled frame supported by the same, of a steaming box or chest arranged between said two pairs of rails in line with the same, and a washingtrough arranged near and parallel to the second pair of said rails; two other pairs of rails arranged one inside, the other outside of, and parallelly to, said chest, and means for displacing the first two pairs of rails so as to bring them in line with the last-mentioned pair; movable hook like holders hanging down into said trough, and means for oscillating said holders, for the purpose as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribin g Witnesses.

OTTO HALLENSLEBEN.

\Vitn esses:

ERNEST ANDRE, W'ILLIAM ESSENWEIN.

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