| Description | Crank Engines. (22 items).
363. Daintry Ryle & Co. / Wood Daintry & Wood, Macclesfield (Z). Apr. 1804, Feb.-Apr., Aug.-Dec. 1805. 22 items.
14 horse power crank engine, with 20¾ inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod. Engine originally made for the Proprietors of the Commercial Archway, London.
Also boiler, pipes, stoves, apparatus etc. for bleaching and dyeing, printing, sizing and drying warps.
Pipes, stoves etc.:
Letter from James Lawson dated Manchester, 19 Feb. 1805, sending three drawings and describing the apparatus. The 3 drawings are as follows:
1 - Plans and sections of bleaching and dyeing works showing pipes, kiers, stoves etc. to be worked from a 30 horse boiler.
2 - plans and sections of printing house and apparatus, showing pipes, valves, "cylinder printing machines etc.".
3 - plans and sections showing stove and pipes for drying warps, small boilers for sizing etc.
Letter from William Creighton to James Lawson dated Manchester, 25 Feb. 1805, with sketches of pipes for the print shops and sketch of iron casing and cock for copper boilers for dyehouse.
"List of articles to be furnished to Messrs. Daintry Ryle & Daintry, 27 Feb. 1805" - lists 30 horse boiler and apparatus, pipes, boiler cases, cocks, stove, pipes for the printing works, drying stove and sizing boiler etc. In John Southern's hand?
Letter from John Southern to William Creighton dated Newcastle, 26 Mar. 1805, about steam boxes for Daintry Ryle & Daintry.
Press copy sketch plans of the pipes, apparatus etc. for the bleaching and dyeing house and the printing works, 1 Aug. 1805. Both drawings bear letter codes.
Rough pencil sketch plan of the bleaching and dyeing house by James Lawson, 14 Sep. 1805.
Plan and elevation of the drying stove and pipes, 7 Oct. 1805.
Plan of the dyehouse pipes, 4 Nov. 1805.
Plan and elevation of the heating pipes for the drying stove mounted above the boiler of the 32 horse engine, 9 Nov. 1805.
Reverse drawings of stop valve, full size, 21 Dec. 1805 This and the above three drawings bear letter codes.
Engine:
Drawings made for the Commercial Archway:
Reverse plans and sections of the engine house and boiler, Apr. 1804.
Drawings made for Daintry Ryle & Co.:
Press copy sketch of the engine and boilers dated 20 Mar. 1805; sections and plans of the engine, engine house and boilers, dated Manchester, Apr. 1805.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 534. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 104.
For Daintry Ryle & Co. Cotton mills, Macclesfield. The firm's full name was Daintry Ryle & Daintry. Early in 1805 they became T. S. Daintry & Co., then Wood Daintry & Wood. The Catalogue of Old Engines calls them "Daintry Wood & Daintry".
The various apparatus and pipes were ordered in Feb. 1805. The bleaching and dyeing works was about 1 mile away from the main mill, and Boulton Watt & Co. provided a boiler, apparatus, pipes and casings for heating kiers and other dyeing vessels. The printing works was powered by steam from the three boilers of the 40 horse power crank engine erected in 1802-1803 [see Portfolio 5/312]. Boulton Watt & Co. provided pipes and steam boxes for drying the cloth once it had passed through the printing machines. The stove for drying warps and the sizing boilers were powered by steam from the firm's first engine, the 32 horse power sun and planet engine erected in 1801 [see Portfolio 5/221].
While the above apparatus was on order, in Mar. 1805 Daintry Ryle & Co. bought the 14 horse power engine which had been made for the Proprietors of the Commercial Archway in London.
Published references: Tann, p. 53, 54 - drawings of bleaching and dyeing works and printing house. |