US664275A

US664275A - Machine for mercerizing.

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Publication number: US664275A
Application number: US64107397A
Authority: US
Inventors: Adolf Kertesz
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1897-06-16
Filing date: 1897-06-16
Publication date: 1900-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1917-12-18

Description

(No Model.)

Patented Dec. l8, I900.

A. KEBTESZ.

MAGHl-NE FOB MERCEBIZING.

(Application filed June 16, 1897.)

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MACHINE FOR MERCERIZING.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrics.

ADOLF KERTESZ, or MAINKUR, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR MERCERIZING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,27 5, dated December 18, 1900.

Application filed June 16,1897. serial No. 641,073. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLF KERTESZ, a citizen of Germany, residing in Mainkur, near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stretching-Frames for Mordanting, Finishing, and Drying Textile Fabrics, of which the following, with the accompanying drawings, is a description.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple arrangement of apparatus whereby textile fabrics can be mordanted or finished, stretched, mercerized, and dried by a continuous process without any interruption between the sizing or glossing or like process and the stretching and drying process, as heretofore, and whereby also a saving of labor is effected.

According to this invention the trough or vessel containing the sizing or glossing, mordanting, or like liquor is arranged close to the stretching or tentering frame, and the said trough or vessel, as Well as the space between the squeezing-rollers and the stretching-frame, is provided with rollers furnished with spikes, pins, frictional surfaces, or other equivalent mechanism or means adapted to engage the fabric and keep it stretched while passing through and as it leaves the trough or vessel containing the glossing or like liquor and while feeding it to the tentering or stretching frame.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side sectional elevation of my invention for mordanting or finishing, stretching, and drying tektile fabrics; and Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, but provided with an additional tank in which the mercerized fabrics can be washed in a stretched condition. Fig. 3 gives a general view of the machine, showing how the motive power is applied; and Fig. 4 is a detail on section-line 4 4: of Fig. 3, and will be hereinafter more fully described.

Referring more especially to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, A is a trough or vessel containing the finishing fluid, mordant, or the like with which the fabric B is to be treated, the said trough or vessel being provided in the interior with rollers a a, clothed or partially clothed with teeth or spikes similar to those of card-clothing or otherwise roughened to engage with the fabric as it passes through the trough, the said fabric passing beneath and-in contact with the said rollers, which are immersed in the fluid. The fabric after passing from beneath the rollers a a passes between squeezing-rollers b b b", by which superfluous finishing fluid or the like is pressed out of the fabric, and the latter on leaving the rollers 19 b enters between another pair of rollers c 0, having roughened surfaces or clothed with card-teeth like the rollers a a. On leaving the rollers c c the fabric is directly engaged at its edges by the hooks or clips of a tentering or stretching frame (shown diagrammatically at O) by which the fabric is stretched, after which it is conducted by guide-rollers f to a beam or roller 6, on which it is wound. The fabric is dried in its passage through the stretching-frame and on its wayto the beam or roller c.

When the apparatus is used for mercerizing and stretching fabrics, a trough G, containing water or diluted acid, is provided beneath the tentering or stretching frame, as shown in Fig. 2, through which the fabric is caused to travel while still maintained in its stretch ed condition by the tenteringmachine, so that the fabric while still stretched is rinsed and cleansed from any lye it may contain before it passes to the winding beam or roller 6. The roller 1), between which and the roller b the fabric passes after leaving the trough A, may be mounted in sliding bearings which are connected by a cord or chain 11 to a counterweight b which will prevent the roller 1) from pressing too forcibly upon the fabric,

and thus preserve the fabric from damage while being stretched.

Poweris supplied to the apparatus,as shown in Fig. 3, by means of the pulleys Z and their belts, one to the pulley Y and the other to the pulley T. The pulley Y by a train of gears drives the gears X, X, and X, attached to the squeezingrollers 19, b", and b, and by means of the pulleys W and V and the belt between them drives the mechanism for winding the cloth after it has passed through the machine. The pulley T drivesatrain of gears between it and the sprocket S, which latter gives motion to the conveying-chains of the tenter-frame. Fig. 4 is a transverse section showing the cloth B stretched between the hooks, as here shown, of the tenter-chains on either side and the construction to retain the chains in position.

The more special use of my improved machine is in the process known as mercerizing, where it is of great importance to keep the fabric stretched to its full width owing to the rapidity with which it otherwise shrinks under the influence of the chemicals used; but, as intimated above, the machine is also advantageous in other processes of treating fabrics. To accomplish the purposes of the invention, the several portions of the machine are brought close together, so as to leave as little space as possible for the fabric to travel through in passing from one toanother. Thus the rollers a a in the trough A are arranged in close proximity one to another; but their exact relative positions are not of controlling importance, but may be much varied. In like manner the trough A, with its rollers, as a whole is located close to the squeeze-rollers b b I)", and they in turn are brought as near the tenter-frame as possible, with the small rollers c 0 preferably interposed between them.

The fine spike-points covering the rollers, either in whole or onlyin part upon the ends of each, as preferred, or equivalent surfaces, prevent the cloth from shrinking in width while it is passing over the rollers, and the close proximity of one roller to another in a series from the time the cloth enters the trough until it is taken upon the tenter-frame also gives the chemicals as small an opportunity as possible to act upon the cloth when not held by the roller-surfaces. I have found that with the arrangement described I am en abled to subject the cloth to even the mercerizing process and its great tendency to shrink the goods with comparatively small loss in width by shrinkage before it enters the tenter-frame and to regain all or nearly all of this loss before it leaves the tenter. In this series of rollers other rollers without the spike-points or equivalent surfaces may be inserted for special purposesas, for instance, the. squeezing-rollers here shownand plain rolls may also at times and in some processes probably be used in a part of the series without seriously affecting the beneficial results of the arrangement.

A convenient and effective way of applying the spiked points to the rollers is by bronze collars fitting onto the ends of the rollers, which are made smaller in order to receive them, these collars being furnished with short sharp points of the same metal. In this way the rollers are furnished with the points where the edges of the cloth to be treated run over them, which is sufficient to prevent its shrinkage while passing over the rollers.

The rollers covered or provided with teeth or points similar to card-clothing may be replaced in many cases by rollers acting by adhesion or frictional contact, the material employed in their construction being, for

instance, India-rubber or some suitable metal casing, capable of acting on the fabric much in the same way as the spiked rollers. The number of these rollers may also be varied as occasion requires.

\Vhen this apparatus is employed for mercerizing, the fabric is carried by the tentering or stretching device into and through a tank G, Fig. 2, containing water or diluted acid to remove from the fabric while stretched the lye contained therein.

The mordanting or finishing, stretching, and drying operation effected by this improved apparatus requires the attendance of only one person, whose duty it is to feed the fabric at the commencement into the trough or vessel containing the mordanting or finishing substance, from whence it passes directly onto the tentering or stretching frame, in which it is stretched, so that the fabric cannot of itself become displaced.

In subjecting fabrics to the mercerizing and stretching operation by means of this device the whole process can be carried outin a continuous manner, the fabric being passed through the trough containing soda lye, stretched, and rinsed in one continuous operation.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a machine for mercerizing cloth, the combination of a tenter-frame and its conveying-chains, a trough for containing liquid for the treatment of cloth placed in front of the tenter and through which trough the cloth to be treated passes before entering the tenter, and a continuous series of rollers in close proximity one to another between the point where the cloth enters the trough and where it is taken upon the tenter-frame, around which rollers the cloth passes on its way through the trough and from which it passes directly to the tenter, most atleast of the rollers of said series being provided with fine spike-points whereby the cloth is treated and dried in one continuous operation.

2. In a machine for mercerizing cloth the combination of a tenter-frame and its conveying-chains, a trough for containing liquid for treating the cloth, rollersaround which the cloth is intended to pass arranged to 1'0- tate in the trough below the surface of the liquid and provided with fine spikepoints, pressingrollers between which the cloth passes after leaving the liquid, and rollers provided with fine spike-points which receive the cloth from the pressing-rollers and dcliver it directly to the tenter-chains,whereby the [Fabric is treated and dried in one continuous operation.

In a machine for mcrcerizing cloth the combination of a tenter-frame and its conveying-chains, a trough for containing liquid for treating the cloth, rollers around which the cloth is intended to pass arranged to rotate in the trough below the surface of the liquid and provided with fine spike-points, pressing rollers between which the cloth passes after leaving, the liquid, rollers promyinvention I-have signed my name, in presvided with fine spike-points which receive ence of two witnesses,this 10th day of March, 10 the cloth from the pressing-rollers and deliver 1897. it directly to the tenter-chains, and a second 5 trough to contain Water or dilute acid through which the neuter-chains pass so that the cloth Witnesses: is finally washed while still stretched. PAUL A. HEIGIS,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as JEAN GRUND.

ADOLF KERTESZ.