US6932A - Apparatus for dyeing - Google Patents

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- UNITED sTATESi PATENT oEEioE.

EDWARD BRIERLEY, or LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

, two end frames A, B, are used, each of APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

Specication of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD BRIERLEY, late of England, but now of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Process of Dyeing Cloth in Fancy Patterns; and I do hereby declare t-hat the same is fully described and represented in the following descri tion and accompanying draw? ings, letters, Egures, and references thereof.

My process is particularly applicable to producing stripes or figures of various colors 1n cloth. It diieres essentially from the usual practice of producing such figures b imprinting them on the surface of the clotli as by my method they are dyed into and through t-he cloth during the process of dyemg it. Y i

In order to illustrate my mode of proceed-I ing I will now explain its application to the. production of striped goods.

Of the drawings above mentioned, Figure l represents a longitudinal and vertical sec-v tion of one of my` dyeing frames for dyeing, striped goods. ig. 2, is a transverse sec-I tion of it. Fig. 3, is an end view of it. Fig. 4, is a side elevation. Fig. 5, is atop view.`

In the said drawings, a, b, c, d, are plates of zinc or other proper material, each, excepting the two outer ones, having several strips or pieces of wood e, e, e, 8de, affixed to both sides of it, and parallel to one another as seen in Figs. 1, 2, and 6 the latter figure being made to exhibit the said strips as disposed at equal distances asunder and parallel to each other. The outer plates have said strips aixed to only one of their surfaces. When used these plates are disposed so as to bring their parallel strips together, or with respect to oneanother essentially as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. In connection with the series of plates and Strips the said frames being composed of two parallel bars f, f, and a series of connecting bars g, g, g, &c, extending-from one to the other and placed respectively at the same distances apart at which the parallel bars or strips e, e, &c, of each plate a, b, o, ci, are removed. These frames when used lare pressed against the strips e, e, e, and so that each vertical rangeof said strips abut being covered with 'a/strip of caoutchouc, as seen. at k, la, la, &c. v

The piece of cloth to be dyed in stripes is first laid between the contiguous strips 6,932, dated December 11, 1849.

of the two plates a and b, yas seen by the blue line at the line Z. Next, it is carried around the ends of the strips of ,the plate b, as Seen at m, thence over and upon the strips o-n the upper surface of the plate b. This being done, the plate c, is placed upon the cloth in vsuch manner that its lower series of strips e, e, e, may rest upon it and have each strip directly over a strip of the plate below, the piece of cloth being between the strips as seen at n. Next, the cloth is carrie up against the ends of the strips of the plate c as seen at o, thence over and upon the upper strips of said` plate as seen at p, and receives uponit the plate d, and its strips. This being eected the end frames A, B, are to be ap lied so as to bring their strips of rubber against the cloth wherever it p-resses against or in contact with the ends of the strips e, e. The whole series of horizontal and vertical frames is next to be confined down upon the cloth, or forced firmly together by means of Screw clamps or other suitable contrivances, applied to them with such force and in such manner as toaso compress thecloth between the strips immediately above and below it, as to prevenlt the dlyeing color, when the frame and cloth is immersed in the dye vat from penetrating those parts of the cloth pinched between the strips, although atthe same time allowing the coloring liquid to have free access to the remaining parts of the cloth- All this being done the dyeing frame p-rovided with cloth is to be immersed in a dye vat charged withl the color we may desire to produce in stripes longitudinally on the piece of goods, and after it has remained therein a proper time for the color to have done its oiice itis to be removed, and so placed that the extraneous liquid may run off or be evaporated, so as to dry the cloth on removal of the piece of cloth from the frames it will be found to have been dyed in parallel stripes running longitudinally in it.

- The next part of the process is to produce stripes transversel of the others. This iS effected by arranglng the cloth transversely upon the frames or winding it between them at'right angles to the direction in which' it was before wound, the same being as seenat 1', in Fig. 2, it being understood that where it is carried around the bars or strips e', e2, and e3, e4, as seen at s or s2, the depth of the vtwo strips e and e2 or e3 and e* iny, so

cluding the thickness of their connecting plate or c 'should be just equal to the width of one of the stripes. This when the frame is dipped into the vat roduces a stripe at s and s2. On the who e piece of cloth being thus laid between the sections or composing the dyeing frame they are clamped together and afterwards immersed in the dye vat containing the color which flofpenetrating those parts unprotected by the .str1pe e, e, thus forms stripes across those `previously roduced. In this manner, shawls, han kerchiefs or many other articles may be dyed in stripes or fancy patterne the main principle being by means of boards suitably cut to protect those parts .thereof which are not to be colored, while those parts which are to be dyed are left .free for the liquid to penetrate on to them.

What I claim as my invention is,

The above-specified mode or process of `producing either stripes or fancy patterns on or in cloth or fabrices of various kinds thesame consisting in the employment of :I .ene or more dye vats and a dyeing frame.,y

.so constructed as to prevent the dyeing lliquid from penetrating those portions of ,the cloth which we may not desire to color l.and at the same time allow the coloring liquid tol freely come in contact with the re- :mainder or those which it may be desirable 'lto color, all substantially as specified. And as auxiliary thereto I claim the employment of the vertical fra-mes A, B, in connection @,Withthe main dye frame i'n manner and for the pur se of protecting from contact with dyeing iquid those parts'of the cloth which may be strained directly over, against or on the ends of the horizontal strips of the main dye frame as set forth.

. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this twenty eighth day of May A.' D. 1849. y

i EDWARD BRIERLEY. Witnesses: S. B. CLARK,

ANDREW J. CAss.

Disclaimer.

State of Massachusetts, county of Middlesex, ss.

'On this twenty eighth day of May A. D. 1849, personally appeared before me the above named Edward Brierley and made oath that he does verily believe himself to be the original and first inventor of the improvements herein above s ecified, that he does not know or believe t e same to have ever before been known or used (that is before his invention thereof), land that he is a subject of Great Britain but has resided the year preceding in the United States of America and made oath of intention to become a citizen of the same.

' S. A. BROWN,

Justice of the Peace.

To the Commissioner of Patents The petition of JOHN HoLT, of Lowell in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, respectfully represents that he has by an assignment duly recorded in the Patent Office become the owner of all the right, title, and interest within the United States of America of Edward Brierley of Lowell, Massachusetts, in and to a certain improvement in apparatus for dyeing, (except a license originally granted to James Monarch and by him transferred to Edward N. Mason to use said improvement for five years from March 28th, A. D. 1850,) for which improvement Letters Patent of the United States were granted to said Edward Brierley dated the eleventh day of December A. D. 1849: that he has reason to believe that through inadvertence and mistake the claim made in the specification of said Letters Patent is too broad, including that of which the patentee was not the rst inventor.

Your petitioner therefore hereby enters his disclaimer to that part of the claim in the aforementioned specification whereb isclaimed any particular apparatus for yeiriig with liquid dyeing material by stopping o or excluding the same from certain portions of the cloth according to the design while it has free access to the other parts of the cloth independent of the vertical frames A, B as a part of said apparatus: meaning however still to claim the Inode of applying .said principle by means of the aparatus with the end frames A, B, as specied in said Letters Patent: which discla1mer is to operate to the extent of the interest in said Letters Patent vested in your petitioner, who has paid ten dollars into Treasury of t-he United States agreeably to the requirements of the act of Congress in that case made and provided. i

JOHN HOLT.

VVit-nesses F. A, BROOKS, J. M. PINKERTON.-

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