USRE6981E - Improvement in machines for steaming cloth - Google Patents

Description

w. HIEBDON.

, MACHINE FOR STEAMING FLUTE, No. 6,981. Reissued March 7,1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HEBDON, OF BOSTON, MASS1 X(JHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR STEAMING CLOTH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,674, dated January 20, 1874; reissue No. 6,981, dated March 7, 1876; application filed December 21, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HEBDON, of Boston, in the county of Sufl'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Im provements in Machine for Steam-Sponging Cloth, of which the following is a specification In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a central vertical transverse section of my improved steamsponging and listing machine. Fig. 2 represents a front view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a plan view of one of the steam-boxes; and Fig. 4 a view showing the windingspit detached from the machine.

The invention has for its object, first, to provide for those engaged in finishing or sponging woolen cloth an improved machine adapted to unwind cloth, steam it on both sides, remove its selvages or listings, and wind it on an accumulating roll, and its selvages or listings on another secondly, to provide means for enabling cloth tobe removed in a compact form from a machine for steaming cloth, and obviating the necessity of unrolling the cloth in order to remove it. i

To these ends, my invention consists, first,

in the combination, in a machine for steamsponging cloth, of certain devices whereby cloth is steamed on both sides, separated from its selvagcs, and wound on an accumulating spit or roll, the selvages being wound on a separate roll. It consists, secondly, in the em ployment in a machine for sponging or otherwise operatiug on cloth of an accumulating roll or spit, adapted first to be removed with the cloth wound thereon from its hearings in the frame-work of the machine, and, secondly, to be removed from the accumulation of cloth without unwinding the latter, the cloth being thus removed in a compact roll from the machine, all of which I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A represents the frame-of the machine, which is preferably composed of two side pieces A, connected by bars or rods 0. D is a spit or mandrel extending across the frame A, and having journals which have bearings in recesses it in the frame, the spit being adapted to be; removed bodily from the machine. The spit l) is composed of two parts d d adapted to be disconnected from each other, each being slightly wedge-shaped longitudinally, the two being placed together with the thick end of one against the thin end of the other, as shown in Fig. 4. The bear ings of the spit D are made on the part (Z, which is also provided with a gear-wheel, E,

and crank, F, or other means for rotating the spit D. Below and in the rear of the rolleror spit D is located a listing or selvage roller, G, provided with a cog-wheel, H, that meshes with, and is operated by, the cog-wheel E. In advance of the roller G is an unwinding roller, I, turning in the frame. A, and having at one end a cog-wheel, J, that meshes with, and is operated by, the cog-wheel H. In the center, supported at each end of the frame A, and located one above the other, are steam-boxes, K K,'each having a semicircular or other curved bottom, and a perforated tube, (2 extending longitudinally within an outer metal casing, 6, having an upper horizontal partition, f, to prevent the forcing out of the water condensed from the steam onto the cloth or other material, the said partition being formed with a suitable number of orifices to allow the escape of steam above the said partition to a passage or chamber formed between it and a perforated top or cover, It. Each of the boxes K is provided with an eduction-pipe, I\'I,N,N,O,L,L,and M are guide-rollers jourualed in the frame A, in such relation to the steam-boxes K K as to guide the cloth over said boxes, substantially as shown in Fig. 1. Connected with they tubes of the steam-boxes K K are branchpipes j j provided with suitable, faucets, and connected with an induction-pipe, 70, through which steam is admitted to the tubes.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The cloth to be steamed is guided from the unwinding-roller I to the winding-spit I) by the guide-rollers N N O L M in such manner as to subject first one side of the cloth and then the other to the action of the steamboxes K K, substantially as shown in Fig. 1. When the end of the cloth reaches the spit or winding-roll D, its selvagcs or listings are separated from the cloth at the end of the piece and conveyed to the listing-roller G, and by the rotation of the spit and listing roller the cloth is accumulated upon the spit and the selvages or listings upon the listing'roller, the selvag'es being automatically separated from the cloth by the rotation of the spit and listing-roller. The spit E is rotated by its crank F, or otherwise, rotary motion being imparted at the same time to the. rollers G I by means of the cog-wheels E II J. The cloth is thus drawn over the steam-boxes, cfi'eetnally steamed on both sides, and,at'tcr steamiiig'. is divested of its selvages or listings, and wound compactly on the windingspit E, all

the operations being performed on the same 1 machine. The cloth after being wound on the spit is adapted to be removed from the machine without unwinding, for the following reasons: First,the spit is removable from the machine, its journals resting in the notches or recesses a in the frame A. Second,

chine, and subsequently rcwinding' or rolling it for future use. By this means the cloth is enabled to be cooled slowly, whiehI have found to he a decided advantage.

I claim as my invention- 1.- In a machine for steanrsponging cloth or other material, an unwinding-roller, I, a listing; or sol age roller, G, and a winding; spit or roller, D, in combination with suitable guide-rollers and a supporting-irame, all arranged and operating substantially as described.

2. The steam-boxes K K, combined with rollers I G D, guide-rollers L M, &c., and frame A, all arranged and operating substantially as described.

3. In a machine for steaming cloth, the combination, with the steaming apparatus, of a removable winding-spit, D, composed of two parts, d d, adapted to be disconnected from each other and removed from a roll of cloth, substantially as described, for the purpose specified;

\VIL'IJIAM I-IEBDON.

Witnesses:

O. F. BROWN, A. E. DENIsoN.

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