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T. G. UHARLESWURTH.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING BANKS 0F WOL.

No. 315,910. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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T. G. GHARLESWORTH. APPARATUS POR DYEING BANKS 0F Wool.. No. 315,910. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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THOMAS GlLLOTT CHARLESWOR-TH, OF LECESTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR DMYEING HANKS OF WOOL.

SPEGIFICATIOBT forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,910, dated April 14, 1885.

Application tiled August 26, 1854. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, Trroims GILLo'rT CHARLnswonrn, a subject of the Queen of England, residing at Leicester, England, dyer, have invented a new and useful Improved Method or Process and Apparatus for Printing or Dyeing Hanks of Wool, Cotton, and Silk, and the like, whereof the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a general perspective View ofthe machine for carrying myinvention into practice, the feedingchains, Soc., being removed. Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine, partly in section, and Fig. 3 is a sectional side view.

A A are any suitable standards or frame work. B is a trough or equivalent, in which revolves the divided roll or series of rolls C, fixed upon the shaft D, driven by the pulley D or in other convenient manner. Upon the other end of shaft D is a gear-wheel, D2, meshing with another wheel, E', upon shaft E, which is revolved at the same rate as D, but inthe opposite direction. Gear-wheels may be placed upon both ends of the shafts, if desired.

Upon shaft E is another divided roll or series of rolls, F, corresponding with that upon shaft D, and suitable mechanism-such as the screws (nl-may be employed for the purpose of regulating the pressure upon the rolls or for liftingthe upper set. The spaces H between the rolls may be of any required breadth and depth, and where diiierent colors are being used the trough is divided into independent sections by divisions (not shown in the drawings) which pass up into the spaces H between the lower rolls, orl separate troughs may be used. If only one color is being used," these divisions are not required. The rolls are best covered with felt or similar soft absorbent material, and the two sets are generally in contact. The trough B contains the liquid color mixed with gum or size, &c., in the usual manner to make it adhere to the material to be dyed or printed, each division of the trough having its separate color, unless one color only is being used. There may be as many rolls upon each shaft and correspond ing divisions in the trough as maybe required, though only three are shown in the drawings.

The method of feeding the hanks to the rolls will be understood by reference to Figs. 2and8. pulleys L at front and back of the machine. These chains pass clear of the ends of the rolls, the line of traverse of the upper section of the chain coinciding, or nearly so, with the point of contact of the two sets of rolls, as shown. These chains K carry hooks M upon the edges facing the rolls, and the hanlrs (which areleft out of the drawings for the sake of clearness) are hooked upon them so that they are fed sidewise to the rolls. The hanlzs are placed upon the hooks at the front of the machine and removed at the back after passing once through the rolls.

Motion is given to the chains in any suitable manner, as by the chain-wheel N, round which a corresponding chain-wheel upon the baclr chain-wheel shaft, O, a third endless chain, passes.

For supplying the top rolls with color a supplemental rod, P, is provided, touching rolls F and revolved by toothed wheel fixed on the end of shaft/,and meshing with wheel on shaft E, and dipping into a color-trough, R. This roll P is divided to correspond with F, and the trough R is also divided into sections for the different colors.

S is a hand-wheel connected, by ashaft with bevel-wheels, to two right and left handed screw-shafts, one in front and one on back of rollers F and C, for opening or closing the two endless chains to suit any length of hanlrs, as they Vary according to quality.

The operation is as follows: The haul; of wool or other material is fed between the rolls, as above described. In passing through the rolls the haul; is dyed or printed, the portion between each pair of rolls C F taking the particular color contained in that portion of thc trough into which that rollC dips. Thus any number of different colors equal to the number of rolls upon shaft D may be simultaneouslyimparted to the hanlgthe spaces H leaving that portion of the haul( which opposes them undyed, with very pretty effect among the bright colors, the width of these being regulated by the width of the spaces H. Before entering the machine the hank is lirst carefully combed, so as to separate each thread from its fellows and facilitate the dyeing pro- The endless chains K pass over chain- L 3. The combination, with the divided rolls F C and divided trough B, of the endless traveling chains K, having on their inner or opposing edges the hooks M, on which the wool is suspended and fed sidewise to the rolls, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. i

THOMAS GILLOTT CHARLESWORTH.

Witnesses:

WM. HARPER REEvE,

Sol., Leicester. H. RICHARD BROWN. Leicester', Gentleman.

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