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UNITED SrA'rEs ENT OFFICE.-

WILLIAM CARTER, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 93,596, dated August 10, 1869.

d' To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CARTER, of Columbus, in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Device for Applying Steam to Wool in Process of Carding and Spinning, and to Cloth in Process of Finishing; and I do hereby declare that the following is such a full, clear, and exact description thereof as will enable skilled artisans to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in device for applying steam to warm and soften wool in process of carding and spinning, and to cloth in process of iiuishing, and other similar purposes, and has for its object to more completely modify and control the force with which the steam issues upon the wool or cloth, to render it of the proper hygrometric condition, and to provide for more eil'ectually drawing oi' the water of condensation from the device; audit consists in surrounding a steaminduction pipeleading from a boiler, or other steam-generating vessel, with a series of two or more concentric tubes or jackets, arranged in suitable relation to the carding-machines, spinning-jacks, or cloth finishing machines, the steam-pipe and surrounding jackets being perforated to admit of the escape of the steam upon the slubs, roping, or cloth as they pass into or through the machine, and, in connection therewith, the arrangement of eduction-pipes furnished with stop-cocks, and connecting the induction pipe, and the several chambers formed by the surrounding jackets, each separately with the waste-pipe, by means of which not only the water of condensation may be drawn from each separately, butthe pressure or force of the steam in each may also be regulated as may be required, thereby obviating the chief difcnlties heretofore experienced in the application of steam to these purposesviz., to prevent the water oi' condensation from being ejected upon the Wool and cloth, and to subdue the force of the steam, and reduce it to the proper hygrometric condition to produce the desired effect upon the wool and cloth.

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved device for the above speciiied purpose, showingV the parts and the manner in which they are arranged, taken on the line 4r, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of Fig. l, taken on the line y y.

The same letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

Ais a steaminduction pipe, connecting with any suitable steam-boiler or other steam-generating vessel. Portions of this pipe, suitably situated iu connection with the machines to which it is to be applied, are pierced with small holes along its top for the escape of the steam into the surrounding chamber B,formed by the concentric tube C. i

The tube C is pierced with small holes along its side for the escape of the steam into the surrounding chamber D, formed by the external concentric tube E, from which it issues through a longitudinal slit or small holes in the top of tube E upon the slubs, roping, or cloth as they are fed into, or passing through, the machine. The device, as here shown, is composed ot the induction-pipe A, concentric tubes or jackets C and E, and eduction-pipes- F G H. rIhe tubes C and E are screwed to anges on the heads J, and the induction-tube A passes through both heads, as shown.

In order to draw ofi' the water of condensation from, and regulate the pressure and hygrometric condition of the steam in each ofthe chambers and the induction-tube, they are connected separately by the eduction-tubesF, G, and H, each being furnished with a stopcock, with the Waste-pipe I, the construction, arrangement, and operation of Wh ich will now be described.

A great `portion of the water of condensation is produced in the induction-pipe A, which,

in other inventions for a similar purpose, is

allowed to escape into the surrounding chamber through the perforations in the pipe, these perforations being situated in the bottom of the pipe, and thus water is frequently carried up by the force of the steam, and ejected upon the Wool and goods to their great injury; hence the necessity for arranging the perforations for the escape of the steam along the top of this pipe, and providing an eduction-pipe, F, to convey the water directly from the induction-pipe, in order to prevent its escaping into the surrounding chamber.

G is also an eduction-pipe, provided with a stop-cock and connecting-chamber, B, as shown, with lthe waste-pipe I, and has no connection with either pipe A or chamber D. This pipe subserves the purpose of conveying olf the Water that may be condensed inchamber B, and by means of the stop-cock in this pipe both the pressure and hygrometric eondition of the steam in chamber D may be reg ulated. When the steam is too moist and the pressure too great, the cock should .be opened a little, and when the steam is too dry and the pressure too` Weak, it may' be regulated by closing the cock partially.

H is an eduction-pipe furnished with a stopcock, and connects chamber D with wastepipe I, and has no connection with either chamber B or pipe A, and is mainly employed to convey oi the Water of condensation from chamber D, the hygrornetric condition and pressure of the steam in which may also be regulated, to some extent, by the stop-cock, in a similar manner as by the stop-cock in pipe G.

The admission of" steam into the device is regulated by a stop-cock, K, in theinduetonupe.

l Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-.

The combination and arrangement of induction-pipe A, the surrounding perforated pipes or jackets C and E, forming the chambers B and D, and head J with flanges to which the jackets are screwed, and the eduotion-pipes F, G, and H, furnished with stop-cocks, and connecting the inductionpipe A and chambers B and D with the Waste-pipe I, all combined and arranged to operate in the manner sub-v stantially as set forth.

WILLIAM CARTER.

Witnesses 0. F. MAYHEW, WM. H. WEEKS.

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