US660402A

US660402A - Apparatus for dyeing.

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Publication number: US660402A
Application number: US684400A
Authority: US
Inventors: Norbury L Smith
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-02-28
Filing date: 1900-02-28
Publication date: 1900-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 1917-10-23

Description

No. 660,402. Patented octzs, i900. N. L. smn'u.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

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APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

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APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

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INVENTOI? UNITED STATES- PATENT, ()FFICE.

NORBURY L. SMITH, OF WATERFORD, NEW YORK.

APPARATUDSFOR DYEING.

fiPECIFIOATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 660,402, dated October 23, 1900. Application filed Feb'rnary 28,1900. Seria11Io..6,844. (N0 model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, NORBURY L.SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Waterford, in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Dyeing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for dyeing yarn or the like in skeins; and the object is to provide a machine of simple construction and having a means for automatically moving the skein or skeins into and out of the dye,and also for causing a rotary movement of the skein or skeins while in the dye, thus permitting all parts of the material to be uniformly dyed.

I will describe a dyeing-machine embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to'the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a dyeing-machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Figz l. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a driving-wheel employed, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the machine.

Referring to the drawings, 4 designates a dye vat or tub. Movable vertically in this vat or tub is a skein-carrying frame comprising end uprights 5 6, connected at the bottom by a bar 7 andconnected between the ends by two bars 8 9, which are spaced apart to permit the sprocket-wheels 10 to rotate between them. The uprights 5 and 6 are movable in guides 11 12, respectively arranged at the ends of the tub. The upright 5 has a rack portion 13, engaging with a gear 14, having its shaft-bearings in the guide 11 and meshing with a worm-shaft 15, attached to which is a sprocket-wheel 16, from which a sprocket-chain 17 extends to a sprocketwheel 18 on a counter-shaft 19, passing underneath the vat or tub and lengthwise thereof. On the opposite end of this shaft 19 is a sprocket-wheel 20, from which a chain 21 passes to a sprocket-wheel 22 on a wormshaft 23, which engages with a gear 24, supported by the guide 12 and meshing with a sisting of a shaft 27, adapted for removable connection with its sprocket-wheel. I have here shown the shaft as made angular in cross-section to engage in a correspondinglyshaped opening 28 in a hubof a sprocketwheel 10, the said hubs being mounted to rotate in boxes supported on the bars 8 and 9.

The several sprocket wheels Not the series are connected with and are operated hya chain 29. Each reel 26, in addition to its shaft 27, consists of three or more rods 30, connected at the ends with wheels or spiders 31, attached to the shaft. These rods 30 preferably consist of glass, porcelain, bronze, or the like, while the other portions of the reel consist of metal not liable to be afiected by the dye.

The hanks or skeins a: are passed around the reels, as indicated in Fig. 1, and also around rollers 32, supported in the lower portion of the skein-carrying frame. The said rollers are supported by a bar 33, which is adjustable in the frame, so that the distance between the rollers and the reels may be accommodated to the size of the banks orskeins. The bar 33 may be held as adjusted by any suitable means. I have here shown pins 34 for passing through perforations in upwardlyextended end portions of the bar33 and into either one of a series of perforations formed in the uprights 5 6.

I will now describe means for causing vertical movements of the skein-carrying frame and also for causing rotary movements of the skeins. A driving-shaft 35, supported in arms 36, attached to one end of the vat or tub, has loosely secured to it two bevel-gears 37 38, both of said bevel-gears being in mesh with a bevel-wheel 39, attached to the wormshaft 23. The driving-shaft 35 may be r0- tated in any desired manner. I have here shown it as provided with a sprocket-wheel 40, engaged by a chain 4]. Attached to the shaft 35 is another sprocket-wheel'42, from which a chain 43 extendsto asprocket-wheel 44, mounted on a shaft 45, having bearings in arms 46, extended inward from the top of the vat or tub. Also on this shaft 45 is-apinion 47, adapted to be engaged at certain times by a gear-wheel 48, secured to a shaft 49, ex-, tended from one of the sprocket-WheelslO.

It is designed to alternately lock the

wheels

37 and 38 in engagement with the shaft-35. For this purpose I have shown a clutchsection consisting of a sleeve 50, movable longitudinally on the shaft 35, but adapted to rotate therewith. This clutchsection 50 is adapted atone end to engage with a clutchsection 51 on the bevel-gear 37 and at the other end with a clutch-section 52 on the bevel-gear 38.

As a means for automatically shifting the clutch-section 50 I employ a lever 53, which is pivoted to a stud on the guide 12 and has at its lower end a pin or pins which pass into a circumferential channel formed in the clutch-section. At its u pper end the shiftihglever 53 has an upwardly and outwardly in clined lug 53, adapted to engage with a pin 54 on the upright 6, and arranged below the upper end of said lever is a downwardly and outwardly inclined lug 55, adapted to engage with a pin 56, also on the upright 6.

In operation after the skeins are placed on the reels and rollers carried by the frame motion imparted to the driving-shaft 35 will operate the gears 14 and 24 to cause vertical movementof the skein-carrying frame. Du ring this movement of course the gear-wheel 48 will be moved out of its engagement with the pinion 47. This pinion, it will be understood, is continuously rotated from the shaft 35. As the skein-carrying frame approaches its upper position the lug 55, by engaging the pin 56, will shift the lever 53, consequently moving the clutch member 50 out of engagement with the wheel 38 and into engagement with the wheel 37, so that the worm-shaft 23 will be rotated in the opposite direction, causing the frame to move downward, and when in its lowermost position the gear 48, by engaging with the pinion 47, will cause a rotary movement of the sprocket-wheels 10, reels 26, and rollers 32, causing the several skeins to move a certain distance in the dye. When at this lowermost position, the lug 53 engaging with the pin 54 will shift the clutchsection 50 to again engage with the gear 38, causing the frame to move upward, as before described.

It is obvious that the rotary movements of the skeins will permit all portions thereof to be at some time within the dyeing fluid, and during the non-rotary movements of said skeins the superfluous fluid will drain off.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure hy Letters Patent 1. A skein-dyeing machine, comprising a dye-vat, a frame movable vertically in the vat. reels mounted to rotate on the frame,sprocketwheels having engagement with the reels, a

sprocket-chain engaging with the several sprocket-wheels, a gear-wheel attached to the shaft of one of said sprocket-wheels,a pinion having bearings in a bracket attached to the vat and adapted to be engaged by said gearwheel when in its lowermost position, the gear-wheel and pinion being disengaged when the gear-wheel with the frame is moved upward and means for rotating said pinion, substantially as specified.

2. Adyeing-machine,comprisingadye-vat, a frame for carrying the material to be dyed, a driving-shaft, gear-wheels loosely mounted on said shaft, a shaft for causing vertical movements of the frame, a gear-wheel rigidly attached to said shaft, and meshing with both of the first-named gear-wheels, a clutch-section slidable on the driving-shaft, and means for moving said clutch-section to lock either one of the gear-wheels in rotary connection with the driving-shaft, substantially as specified.

3. A skein-dyeing machine, comprising a dye-vat, a frame movable in said dye-vat and consisting of upright end portions each provided with rack-bars, two bars connecting the upper portions of said uprights, sprocketwheels supported to rotate between said two bars, reels attached to the sprocket-wheels, a chain connecting with the several sprocketwheels, means for moving said chain to rotate the sprocketwheels, gear-wheels engaging with the rack portions of the frame, and means for rotating said gear-Wheels alter nately in opposite directions, substantially as specified.

4. In a dyeing-machine, a dye-vat, guides arranged vertically in said dye-vat, a frame movable in said guides and adapted to carry the material to be dyed, gear-wheels engaging with rack portions of the frame, a driving-shaft, gear-wheels loosely mounted on said driving-shaft, a worm-shaft engaging with the firstnamed gear-wheels, a gearwheel on one of said worm-shafts and engaging with the gear-wheels on the driving-shaft, a driving connection between the two wormshafts, a clutch-section on the driving-shaft and adapted for engagement with either one of the gear-wheels thereon, a shifting-lever pivoted to one of the guides, and cam-1n gs on said lever adapted for engagement with pins on one of the uprights ofthe frame for moving the clutch-section, substantially as specified.

5. A dyeing-machine, comprising adye-vat, a frame for carrying the material to be dyed, racks on said frame, gear-wheels connected with said racks at opposite ends of the vat,

1 rev-shaft extended underneath the vat, two subscribing witnesses.

Worm-shafts engaging with the gear-wheels, In testimony whereof i have signed my sprocket-Wheels on said Worm-shafts, a oounname to this specification in the presence of sprocket-wheels on said counter-shaft,spr0cket-chains connecting the sprocket-wheels of- Witnesses: an end, and means for imparting motion to GEORGE T. OWEN, the worm-shafts, substantially as specified. GEORGE E. SMITH.

NORBURY L. SMITH.