IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PRINTING AND STAMPING. WALL PAPERS OR OTHER SUBSTANCES FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES.”
Year: 1875

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LETTERS PATENT to William Fothergil Batho, of the City of
Westminster, Engineer, and John Treadway Hanson, of "Thames
Chambers," Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Architect, for.
the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PRINTING AND STAMPING.
WALL PAPERS OR OTHER SUBSTANCES FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Fothergil
Batho and John Treadway Hanson at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th August
1875.
We, WILLIAM FOTHERGIL BATHO, of the City of Westminster,
Engineer, and JOHN TREADWAY HANSON, of "Thames Chambers,"
Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Architect, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PRINTING
AND STAMPING WALL PAPERS OR OTHER SUBSTANCES FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES,”.
to be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to an improved method of printing or stamping

page_text: wall papers or other substances by means of blocks, which class of
printing is usually performed by hand:
It consists of a cast-iron table carried on suitable framework, upon
the one side of which the paper having the ground already laid on
travels intermittently in order to receive succeeding impressions from a
sliding block fitted to a V guide above the table, the other side of the
table being fitted with a self-acting arrangement for laying the color on
the block either by means of the ordinary slush box having a self-acting
reciprocating motion to suit the movement of the sliding block, or by
means of one or more rollers fitted in a color trough over which the
block passes before giving an impression.
The sliding block above referred to moves with a reciprocating motion
on a V guide similar to an ordinary lathe bed, such motion being caused
by a screw revolving inside a nut fixed in the slide and driven by bevil
gear actuated by friction clutches and cam, so arranged that there is a
pause in the reciprocating motion of the slide both over the slush box
and the paper, during which pause the block is caused to descend
alternately on the paint or on the paper, and at the same time pressure
is communicated to the vertical spindle of the horizontal slide by levers
actuated by cams revolving on a spindle driven by gearing or belting, as
the case may be, such pressure being variable by springs and set

page_text: stroke of which is adjustable to the size of pattern or block, and is
actuated by means of a moveable pin in a disc acting upon a swinging
lever.
1070.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
FOTHERGIL BATHO, of the City of Westminster, Engineer, and JOHN
TREADWAY HANSON, of "Thames Chambers," Adelphi, in the County
of Middlesex, Architect, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors
give and grant unto us, the said William Fothergil Batho and John
Treadway Hanson, Her special licence, that we, the said William Fothergil
Batho and John Treadway Hanson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said William Fothergil Batho and
John Treadway Hanson, our executors, administrators, and assigns
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PRINTING AND
STAMPING WALL PAPERS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Fothergil
Batho and John Treadway Hanson, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing. under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William-Fothergil Batho and John
Treadway Hanson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the accompanying three Sheets of Drawings and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say :-
Treadway Hanson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the accompanying three Sheets of Drawings and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say :-
The Drawing on Sheet 1 represents a plan of a stamping and printing
machine constructed according to this Invention.
On Sheet 2 is repre-.
sented a side elevation; and on Sheet 3, an end elevation of the same.
The machine is arranged so as to print on a continuous length of
paper or other material in "length," the impressions being given by a
block having the required pattern.
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The construction of this machine we shall now proceed to describe :-
It consists of a cast-iron framing A which carries a cast-iron table A¹ on
about one half of its width, the other half being arranged to allow of the
travel of a reciprocating "slush" or color box B. The paper or
substance to be printed on is passed across the table A', and is held
between rollers C, C¹, C, C¹¹, placed at each end of the table A¹. The
engraved block, which may vary in width, is fitted concentrically in a
case D, and held securely at the ends by means of angle irons D¹, D",
and set screws d adjustable by means of slots e¹, e", cast in the case D,
to which they are attached by bolts e¹¹¹, e. The block case D is also
furnished with slots at each side d², d³, to which are attached adjustable
pieces E¹, E", having projections within which are radial slots ƒ¹, ƒ¹,
whose centres are points in the line which forms the extreme edge of
the engraved block, the pieces E¹, E", being adjustable to suit any size
of block. Within the radial slots f¹,f", are inserted radial projections
from the ends of bent bars F, F', the other ends having slots f" in
which the ends of the cross bar G are inserted, having screws by which
the bars F, F, may be held when in their correct position by tightening
up the nuts, the position being determined by the adjustment of the
pieces E¹, E. From the block case D to the cross bar G is attached a
spring g which gives the block an angular position when in its normal
state. When pressure is being applied the apex of the angle forms the
centre round which the block is made to take a horizontal position by
reason of the pieces E¹, E", and bent bars F, F¹. The slide H is fitted

page_text: with with a tube h, inside of which a spindle h¹ having a forged collar ¹¹
of sufficient diameter to overlap a spring which is placed round the tube h,
and is compressed when pressure is given to the spindle ¹, such pressure
being variable by adjustment of a set screw h¹ tapped in the collar k¹¹.
The tube is carried through the slide and connected to the cross bar G
while the spindle is continued through it, the end being furnished with
a curved cap to suit itself to varying angles of 'the block. The
normal angle the block may assume can be regulated by means of nuts
on the spindle ¹ below the cross bar G, which impinge on it when the
maximum angle required shall have been reached by the block after
pressure has been taken off it. When the angle has been adjusted in
this way it will be found necessary to adjust the set screw to suit.
On the cross bar G and in front of the bent bars F, F¹, are fitted two
rods I, I, one at each side, which when pressure is being applied to the
block over the paper or other substance to be printed or impressed acts
on small shaft i, i", fitted with levers i¹, 2, 3, ', and springs, these levers
and springs being pressed on the paper or material by means of the
rods I, I, until the block shall have risen fairly off the paper or material.
Pressure is given by cams J¹, J", levers J, J, to the spindle 7', the position
of the levers J, J³, and cams J¹, J", being concentric with the printing
table A¹ and color box B, the levers J, J³, being centred on pins carried in
brackets 1, 12, 13, 14, bolted on to the slide guide L. The cam shaft Ţ
has bearings L, L", L, L, formed by brackets bolted to the slide
guide Land at the standards a¹, a¹¹, at each side of the frame A. It
derives relative motion to the other machinery by means of a worm
wheel m working in conjunction with a worm m³ on the main pulley
shaft M. The slide H is fitted on a V guide L, which extends across
the total width of the machine, and is carried on two standards a¹, a¹¹,
fixed on the frame A. It carries within it a screw L', which works in
a nut attached to the slide, a reciprocating and intermittent motion
being given to the screw L¹, and the slide by means of a friction
clutch n being put in gear with the bevil wheels n actuated by means
of a cam n
The block receives its color for printing by pressure from the surface
of a color box B, which has been previously colored by hand or other-
wise. The color box B is made of sufficient length to accomodate twice
the width of the largest block used, and is made to take a reciprocating
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page_text: intermittant motion by means of belting O from the main pulley
shaft M' to a countershaft O', on which are fitted bevil wheels o and
friction clutch o', the motion governing the movement of the clutch o¹
being obtained by pulley and belting o" from the cam shaft J to a
countershaft p, on which is keyed a cam P working a fork p₁ connected
by a rod p" to a fork p¹ in the friction clutch o'. The bevil wheels q
in connection with the friction clutch o' transmit motion to bevil
gearing in connection with a screw q", which works in a nut Q
attached to the under side of the color or slush box B. At one extremity
of the slush or color box B is attached a tank B¹ for the purpose of
washing the blocks when occasion requires it. By withdrawing a pin
which holds the spring on the block case D the block descends round
the radial slots f¹, ƒ", and projections on the bent bars F, F.
The feed motion is given to the paper by a disc R revolving on the
cam shaft J having a slot », in which is inserted a stud capable by
adjustment to impinge more or less on swinging levers R', R", or bars,
which are connected by links to a pawl and wheel, the pawl
being so arranged (by a stud fitted in the links) that it can give motion
to the wheel 711 in one direction only. The wheel is connected with
gearing c, c', and positive motion is given to a shaft on which a roller c
is centered having flanges with a distance between equal to the width of
the paper. Needle points are provided on the edges of the roller C. so as
to catch the paper only on the margins.
The paper itself is supplied by a roller C¹ working underneath the
roller C, but is constantly brought to bear on its surface by means of
weights S, S¹, attached to its bearings s, s¹, which are guided in slots
cast in brackets $11, 11, the weights being connected to the bearing by
means of chains passing over pullies t, t". The shaft on which the
roller is fixed is connected by means of bevil gearing u and shaft u¹ to
a roller C" of exactly the same size as the roller C, and provided in a
similar manner with needle points, but is hollowed out for the width of
the pattern, so as not to smear the color; a friction roller C¹¹¹ is also
provided with a handle u" for the purpose of winding back the paper if
a bad impression should have been taken at any time. The bevil
wheel giving motion to the roller shaft is provided with an extra
tooth in order to always keep the paper tight. V, V₁, are rails formed
by tec irons, on which the color or slush box B travels when actuated

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Having now described the construction of the various parts for.
effecting the movement of coloring the block, printing and moving the
material to be treated, we will now proceed to describe the means by
which these parts are put in operation at the various periods when they
are required for the proper action of the machine.
On the main driving shaft M are fitted conical pulleys, and a friction
clutch n' is fitted on a feather between the two bevil wheels running
loose on the shaft. By means of this arrangement reciprocating and
intermittent motion is given to the screw L' working in a nut attached
to the slide H. The friction clutch is governed by a cam, which is made
to revolve at its relative speed by means of intermediate bevil gearing.
The reciprocating motion of the screw actuates the slide, which carries
the engraved block in an angular position, such position being due to
the spring g attached to the cross bar G and the block case D.
Supposing that the slide and block just occupy a position over the
centre of the material under treatment, as shown in Sheets 1, 2, and 3,
and to have just received pressure through the spindle in the slide, the
cam shaft, which continues to revolve in one direction the whole time
that the machine is in motion will at this point release the levers from
pressure, which allows the spring in the slide to lift the block off the
material.
The block will rise from the paper or material at an angle, the spindle
rising first and so allowing the spring to lift one end of the block before
the other, the spindle being lifted up when the nuts on it come in
contact with the boss of the cross bar. The cam will now have
caused the friction clutch to gear with one of the bevil wheels, and the
slide will travel from the printing table to a position exactly over the
centre of the slush or color box at the moment the friction clutch is
put out of gear, and the cam gives pressure through the lever to the
spindle, causing the block to descend into color box which has been
previously colored; the lever and spindle are then released, and the
block again rises; at this moment the friction clutch is put in gear
with the other wheel, and the screw rotates, bringing the slide from the
color box to a position over the paper or material under treatment.
Pressure is now given to the spindle, which depresses the block on the

page_text: material; pressure is then taken off, and the same motion-as-described is
repeated.
Immediately the block has taken its color from the surface of the
color box and risen its greatest height the box moves rapidly away
to receive its coating of paint ready for the next impression, the other
half of the color box which has been already colored taking a position
ready for the block on its next depression.
In printing it is found necessary that the block should be occasionally
washed; for this purpose a tank is attached to the end of the slush box,
which when required for use can be moved under the block by a hand
wheel, having first stopped the machine, and put one of the`spur wheels
in connection with the main machinery out of gear.
The reciprocating and intermittent motion of the slush box is obtained
through a screw and nut actuated by gearing, friction clutch, and cam
driven by belting from the shaft, the motion of the box being governed
by the friction clutch and cam in precisely the same manner as
described for the slide motion, the color box always remaining stationary
while the block is in contact with it. In this machine it is necessary
that the material treated should remain stationary while the block is
giving off its impression, and that then the material should advance
exactly the width of the pattern on the block used; this feed is obtained
by means of a disc having a slot cast in it for the reception of a stud, the
slot being graduated to show the position of the stud for any length of
paper; this stud according to its eccentricity acts on swinging bar
more or less, and by a pawl and gearing regulates the amount of
material fed. This feed motion is timed by gearing to come into action
immediately after the block has given its impression to the material. A
band gear is connected with the feed rollers, so that any portion of the
material may if necessary be again subjected to another impression.
A modification of this machine can be made to print two or more
colors by the introduction of two or more blocks on either side of the
table, the material to be printed being carried across in the centre of the
frame instead of as in the machine shown in Sheets 1, 2, and 3, at the
sides.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, we claim the

page_text: substances for decorative purposes as herein described and shewn on
the accompanying three Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Fothergil Batho and
John Treadway Hanson, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.