IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES OF TRANSFERRING DESIGNS ON TO WOVEN TEXTILE OR OTHER FABRICS, OR ON PAPER, AND IN THE MACHINERY USED FOR SUCH PURPOSES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Gedge, of No. 4, Wellington Street South,
Strand; in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES OF TRANSFERRING DESIGNS ON TO
WOVEN TEXTILE OR OTHER FABRICS, OR ON PAPER, AND IN THE MACHINERY USED
FOR SUCH PURPOSES."-A communication.
Sealed the 25th September 1855, and dated the 27th March 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Gedge at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th March
1855.
I, JOHN GEDGE, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES OF TRANSFERRING DESIGNS ON TO WOVEN
TEXTILE OR OTHER FABRICS, OR ON PAPER, AND IN THE MACHINERY USED FOR SUCH
PURPOSES," a communication to me by a certain foreigner, to be as follows:-
I propose
to make cylinders or rollers of that stone used for lithographic
purposes to transfer on to such cylinders the design sought to be printed on
fabrics or paper, and to print with moveable tables; the cylinders or blocks
on which the design is prepared, engraved, or transferred, to be fixed, and the
table with the fabric spread thereon, presented or pressed by suitable machinery
against or up to the printing surfaces, so that when one impression is taken the
table may be retired, and revolving or moving forward, as the case may require,
be again presented to the printing surface, until the fabric be covered with the
design required to be transferred.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said John Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
September 1855.
TO ALL TO, WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GEDGE, of 4, Wellington Street South, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Gedge, Her special license that I, the said John Gedge, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Gedge, my
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OR MODES OF TRANSFERRING
DESIGNS ON TO WOVEN TEXTILE OR OTHER FABRICS, OR ON PAPER, AND IN THE
MACHINERY USED FOR SUCH PURPOSES," (a communication from a foreigner
abroad), upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said John Gedge, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Gedge, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed and forming
part of this my Specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,
to denote similar parts where such parts appear or can be seen in each of
the Figures respectively; Figure 1 being a side elevation, and Figure 2 an
end view, shewing the series of rollers used in transferring according to this
Invention.
The Invention consists in a new mode of printing patterns of lace or other
designs on silk, satin, paper, or other fabric.
Figure 1 is. a side elevation of the machine as it would appear when in use;
a being the trough which is to contain the printing ink, inside of which and

page_text: resting upon bearers at both ends thereof is a roller b, which is at all times to
be in close proximity to or touching the ink; above this roller is placed another
roller c, whose bearings work in (about) the centre of a lever d, fastened by a
pin or bolt to the frame of the machine, and which lever has at its extreme end
a weight for the purpose of pressing the roller upon the inking table, hereafter
described. An inking table e is here introduced with a curved prong fat cach
side, so that when the two rollers b and c have revolved and become properly
covered with ink, the prong f coming in contact with the roller c forces it
upwards and into the table e, which is made to travel by a rack being fixed
under it, and a stationary pinion working therein either by steam power or hand.
The table is then made to travel on rollers in the ordinary direction until it
reaches the roller g, which then takes a coating of ink from the table, as may
be seen by the dotted lines. The roller 9 then supplies the one above it h,
which imparts the ink to a circular German or lithographic stone or zinc roller
i, placed above. This stone or zinc roller has the necessary design drawn thereon.
The fabric now to be printed is wound upon a loose roller j, and the end thereof
passed over the roller i; the roller k is then screwed down, so as to take the
pressure of the roller i, which is now made to revolve either by hand or steam
power. The fabric passing through is received on the opposite side by and
wound upon another roller 7, for the purpose of keeping the material tight and
preventing its being creased. When the top roller is not in use it is then
unscrewed, and by means of a spiral spring m it is lifted up to prevent its
coming in immediate contact with the stone, which if it did would dirty the
reverse side of the material next acted upon. Levers n, n, with weights
attached are applied to the bearers of the rollers g, h, for the purpose of
keeping them close up to the stone roller. But as it would appear that the
stone roller is only made to revolve in the direction of the arrow, and the two
lower rollers revolving alternately in different directions by the action of the
table below them, a rod o is fixed to the levers n, n, in an upright position, the
top of which rod is connected to another. lever p, which (by the downward
motion of the hand upon the handle thereof, is used to lift the levers n, n, and
consequently lower the rollers g, h, until they are again required, when by letting
go the handle of the lever p the rollers are again raised to their required position.
q, q, are two dampers, covered with felt or other suitable material, for the
purpose of damping the stone. These dampers have levers and weights r, r,
attached, so as to keep them close to the stone roller, and are supplied with
water by a pipe, perforated in a similar manner to those used on the common
road watering carts, the supply of water being regulated by a valve or other
available means.

page_text: Figure 1 is a front view of the different rollers, which may be made of any
length, according to the width of material to be printed.
Having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to me, and
the means by which it is carried into practical effect, I desire it to be distinctly
understood that I lay no claim to the exclusive use of any of the parts or
portions of machinery, apparatus, or otherwise, I have herein described or
shewn, taken as parts or portions and not in combination for the purposes of
this Invention; nor do I confine myself to the exact modifications herein
described or shewn, as such may and indeed must be varied or altered to suit
the various fabrics intended to be operated upon; but I claim the exclusive
use of the combination of parts herein-before described, and illustrated by or in
the Drawing, forming when so combined improved means of transferring designs
on to woven textile or other fabrics or on paper.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Gedge, have hereunto affixed my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEORGE LAPHAM,
5, Wellington Street, Strand,
London..
JOHN GEDGE. (L.S.)