US904173A - Finishing and lustering machine. - Google Patents

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X. BOSSART. FINISHING AND LUSTERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1906.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

INVENTOR, 76 M,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XAVER BOSSART, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SILK THREAD FINISHING 00., OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

FINISHING AND LUSTERING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 22, 1905.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Serial No. 251,442.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Keven Bossau'r, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing in Paterson, county of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Finishing and Lustering Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for finishing, lustering and winding silk and other textile filaments, and it has for its object to improve on apparatus of this nature at present in use with a view to increasing the efficiency of the apparatus and to bringing out better results in the quality of the product.

To this end, my invention consists in treating the filaments to finish and luster the same, as well as in the several novel features and certain combinations and arrangements thereof.

Iteferring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the apparatus; and, Fig. 2 is a plan view.

It will be understood that suitable means is provided for drawing the threads longitudinally from the supply therefor over the apparatus shown in the drawings.

In said drawings, (Z is a suitable support on which rests a steam-chest (Z d designates brackets carrying a receptacle (Z which'is divided into two compartments by a partition (Z the receptacle may be adjusted vertically by nuts 6 screwed onto threaded stems e which support blocks 6 e on which the receptacle d directly rests. The threads are led from their supply through eyelets e on the block 6 then down under a rod f, which rests in sockets f below the level of a suitable liquid in the receptacle, then through a reed f then over a sponge f disposed in a trough f on partition Z then over a rod 9 covered with felt g or other absorbent material, then through another reed 9 (not shown in Fig. 2). The threads are thus caused to take up some of the solution, the superfluous portion of which is afterward successively removed by the sponge f and felt covered rod g. The trough f is perforated as at 9, so that the portion of the solution which is wiped off by the sponge and collects in the trough runs into a. different compartment of receptacle d from that in which the solution is primarily placed. After passing through reed 9 the threads extend over a steamchest 9 which is perforated at the top (Fig. 6) so that live steam moistens the threads. Such moistening may have different effects, according to the nature of the solution used; in the adaptation shown it. is intended to assist in the removal of more of the superfluous solution clinging to the threads by softening it, such superfluous portion of the so lution being taken up by an absorbent belt h which is passed around the steam-chest g and dips into a vessel 7L2 containing water or other cleaning solution. From time to time, as the belt becomes laden with the solution, it may be advanced on the steam-chest g to presenta fresh surface to the threads.

h is a felt pad on chest (Z over which the threads next pass, and 72; is an inlaid plate of copper or some such metal affected by heat differently from the metal of the steamchest. The purpose of the steam-chest g, and the devices 71, and 7% is to gradually heat the threads on their way from the bath to the top surface of the steam-chest d over which they finally pass, so that they are not subjected to a shock of a sudden change of temperature.

For some purposes, according to the solution used, it may be desirable to moisten the threads after they leave the steam-chest (Z For this purpose, another perforated steamchest 7L and absorbent belt 13, corresponding to the steam-chest and belt h, may be placed at the farther end of the steam chest, as seen in Fig. 6.

2' denotes the piping by which the steamchests are supplied with steam.

As the threads are not intended to engage the steam-chest g in case the belt h is not used, the receptacle (Z may be adjusted vertically so that the threads fully clear the steam-chest.

It will be understood that the parts 9 and h operate as well as the parts 7L3 and 71, to

make the rise in tennaerature of the threads 1 gradual as the threads proceed from the solution-containing receptacle to the point where they receive the highest heat effects from the steam chest. But this is not the only function of parts 9 and 71.; these parts,

- by subjecting the threads to heat and moisture (in the form of steam) at a point intermediate that where the threads take up the solution and that where they receive the highest heat effects from the table, make the solution on the threads take a more regular character and smoother condition than it we as it comes from the receptacle before it can dry on contact with the steam chest, so that any tendency for the solution to dry on the threads in globules or other irregular form, tending to make the threads uneven and rough as heretofore, is prevented.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine for finishing and lustering textile filaments, the combination, with a bath for containing liquid in which the fila ments are to be immersed, and a heated thread contact surface over which the filaments are arranged to travel, of an absorber arranged between the bath and the contact surface, said absorber being provided internally with heating means, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for finishing and lustering textile filaments, the combination, with a bath for containing liquid in which the filaments are to be immersed, and a heated thread contact surface over which the filaments are arranged to travel, of a heated absorber arranged between the bath and the contact surface and comprising a felt covered steam pipe, substantially as described.

3'. In a machine for finishing and lustering textile filaments, the combination, with a bath for containing liquid in which the filaments are to be immersed, and a heated thread contact surface over which the filaments are arranged to travel, of a heated absorber arranged between the bath and the contact surface and comprising a felt covered perforated steam pipe, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a suitable support, a heated thread-contact surface, a solutioncontaining receptacle, and means for subj ecting the threads to a temperature intermediate between that of the solution and that of said heated surface and for simultaneously moistening the threads, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a suitable support, a heated thread-contact surface, a solutioncontaining receptacle, and means for sub jecting the threads to a temperature intermediate between that of the solution and that of said surface and for steaming the threads, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a suitable support, means for treating the threads in a suitable solution, a heated thread-contact surface, and means for subjecting the threads to a steam bath subsequent to receiving the solution treatment and before reaching said heated surface, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a suitable support, a heated thread contact surface, a solutioncontaining receptacle, means for subjecting the threads to a temperature intermediate between that of the solution and that of said heated surface and for simultaneously moistening the threads and means for removing the superfluous portion of the solution upon the threads leaving said receptacle, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of February, 1905.

XAVER BOSSART. Witnesses ALFRED GARTNER, JOHN W. STEWARD.

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