Improvements in Apparatus for Printing or Impressing Designs, Patterns, or Outlines for Garments on Fabrics or other Materials, or for analogous purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Printing or Impressing Designs,
Patterns, or Outlines for Garments on Fabrics or other Materials,
or for analogous purposes.
I, HENRI EDOUARD COUZINEAU, of 21 Boulevard Poissonniere Paris in the
Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to apparatus for printing or impressing designs patterns
or outlines of garments or parts of garments on fabrics or other materials and
generally for producing any desired impressions on fabrics or other materials.
An apparatus constructed according to my invention consists essentially in the
combination of a fixed table over which is placed or stretched the fabric or
material on which the printing or impressing is to be effected, and of a carriage
as hereinafter described which is moved over the fabric or material which carriage
supports the cliché or stereotype plate or other printing or marking device which
may be a thin plate of metal or other flexible inaterial and which is formed in
relief with the shapes to be printed or impressed. I will refer to it as the cliché.
The principal objects of the said carriage are to effect the inking of the cliché and
to provide the pressure necessary for printing or impressing, which pressure can
be regulated as hereinafter described. My invention also relates to further details
of construction of different parts of the said apparatus as hereinafter described
and claimed.
The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus for readily printing, or
impressing so as to dispense in a great measure with the hand-work which has
hitherto been necessary and enable very accurate printing or impressing to be
effected.
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated an apparatus constructed
according to my invention:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation;
Figure 2 an end elevation, and
Figure 3 a plan of the said apparatus,
Figure 4 is a diagram shewing the mode of actuating the cylinders between
which the cliché is passed as hereinafter described.
A is the carriage and B is a table fixed to a lower frame C.
The carriage A is formed of frames a connected together by cross pieces be
and d and carries the ink distributing and pressing cylinders m and n and the
inking roller o. Each of the frames a is provided with a cheek or bracket in each
of which are formed slots e. f. for the axes of the cylinders m and a respectively,
and a plummer block g is formed on each frame a for the axes of the roller o. The
slots e are made circular and concentric with the axis of the plummer block and
the slots are vertical.
The shafts of the cylinders m. . are connected together on each side by a
connecting rod H in one or both of the ends of which is formed a slot through
which pass the axes of the cylinder n, or the slot 4 may be formed in the other end
of the connecting rod and the axes of the cylinder m pass through it or the axes of
both cylinders may pass through shorter slots.

page_text: To the side of each frame a is jointed a lever I provided with a tail piece i¹
projecting beyond the axis on which it turns. The levers 1 are connected together
by cross pieces i and they operate in combination with the slots e. f. on the brackets
or cheeks to separate the cylinders m. n from each other and also to raise the
cylinder above the table B.
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When the lever I is turned in the direction of the arrow shewn in Figure 1 the
tail piece of the said lever, in the arrangement shewn nets upon axis of the
cylinder m and raises it in the slot e and the said cylinder m takes with it
the connecting rods H. When the said cylinder m begins its movement it
separates from the cylinder a by reason of the slot formed in each connecting
rod being capable of moving freely and independently on the axes of the
cylinder n. When however the slot renches the end of its course the snid
cylinder is raised vertically in the slot as shewn in Figure 4.
When the cylinders are in this position the carriage A can be moved along the
table B without the cylinder being in contact either with the table B or the
cylinder. On each of the frames aa lever K is centered, provided with an
adjustable counterweight, A, each lever K having a curved tailpiece & extending
beyond the fulcrum of the said lever, which tail piece passes each beneath one of
the axes of the cylinder a. By adjusting the position of the counterweights on
these levers K the pressure of the roller n on the fabric or material on the table B
can be regulated as desired.
Opposite the inking roller o an ink holder d is mounted on a carringe capable of
sliding on the cross bar b. Regulating screws taking into the cross har allow
the position of the ink holder to be adjusted against the cylinder and consequently
the amount of ink taken up by the said roller is regulated.
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The cross bare carries two sliding pieces y on which are mounted hinged guides Q
resting on the cylinder n. The said sliding pieces y can be fixed in any desired
position on the cross bar c (which may be suitably graduated) by means of clamping
screws. The hinged guides Q can thus be adjusted to the width of the cliché X
to keep it in position. The cross-bar e may also carry supports y at each end for
carrying a roller Y over which the cliché is guided before passing between the
cylinders and n.
The carriage A is provided on each side with grooved wheels & running on rails. L
carried on each side of the table Bon supporting blocks . The rails may be of any
suitable shape as shewn in the drawing they are shaped and are sented in
corresponding recesses in the supports . the central web of the rails taking into the
grooves of the wheels and so neting as guiles. The rails are connected together
at one end of the table by a cross-bar R to which are attached vertical rods r
terminating in hooks, for holding one end of the cliché.
The movement of the carriage A across the fixed table B may be effected in any
suitable manner but the following is a convenient mode: -At each end of the lower
frame Care shafts SS' carrying at each end a sprocket wheel (ss) over each pair
of which passes an endless chain F. One of the shafts S is provided with a cranked
handle for turning the shaft of the wheels and so operating the endless chains F.
One of the shafts S or S (for example the shaft S¹) is mounted in bearings
capable of moving in slots in the carrying brackets and thus the position of the
wheels can be adjusted by means of regulating screws st whose nuts bear against
the cross piece a fixed across from bracket to bracket. By screwing up the nuts
the said hearings can be moved away from the frame and consequently the tension
of the chains may be regulated as desired and kept constant. The carriage A is
caused to engage with the endless chains F by means of arms U attached at one
end to the said carriage and provided at the other end with a cramp or other
device which takes into each of the said chains F. The apparatus is worked in
the following manner:
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The fabric or material on which the outlines or tracings or the like are to be
printed is first placed on, or stretched over, the fixed table B, and then, in order to
pass the cliche X between the cylinders m and n, on the carriage A, the said

page_text: cylinders are placed in the position shewn in Figure 4 by operating the lever I as
already described. The carriage A being at the right hand side of the table, the
cliché is passed over the rollers Y and between the cylinders m and n and under the
cylinder n which is raised from the table 13. The cliché is then attached to
the hooks on the cross bar R. The lever I is then moved back to the position,
Figure 1, so as to press the cliché X between the cylinders m. n. and to give the
desired pressure on the fabric or material, which pressure may be regulated at will
as aforesaid by adjusting the counterweights . By turning the handle the
carriage A is moved over the stationary table B. The cliché is supplied with ink as
it passes between the cylinders in and n by means of the distributing cylinder m which
receives ink from the inking roller o turning against the open side of the ink holder.J.
During the advance of the carriage A the cylinder a continues to exert the desired
pressure on the cliché and the fabric or material so as to produce the imprint
thereon.
The weight of the carriage is supported by the rails L, the fabric or material only
receiving the weight of the cylinders m and a which may be regulated as desired by
means of the counter weights on the levers K. This invention is not limited to the
details of construction or to the particular means illustrated for transmitting motion
from one part of the apparatus to the other or for driving the same which are merely
described and shewn in the accompanying drawings, by way of example and the said
apparatus may be constructed of any suitable materials and of any desired size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. An apparatus for printing or impressing on fabrics or materials, outlines or
patterns for garments or for other purposes, characterized essentially by a fixed
table for the fabric or material and by a carriage moving over the said table and
carrying distributing and pressing cylinders and an inking roller, and an ink
holder, the axes of the distributing and pressing cylinders passing through slots in
the carriage and being connected together by slotted connecting rods in combination
with means for moving the cylinders and for traversing the carriage over the table
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. In an apparatus for the purposes described the arrangement of the carriage
formed by frames a having slots e. f. and plummer blocks or bearings g and
carrying cylinders m. n. whose axes pass through the said slots e. f. respectively
and are connected by a slotted connecting rod H and an inking roller o carried in
the blocks in combination with levers I for enabling the cylinders m. n. to be
separated from each other and the cylinder n to be raised from the table B
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
3. In an apparatus of the kind herein before described and claimed the application
on each side of the carriage of adjustable counter weighted levers K operating on
the axes of the cylinder n for adjusting the pressure on the fabric or material
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
4. In an apparatus of the kind herein before described and claimed the application
to the carriage of a cross bar e in combination with sliding pieces y adjustable on
the said cross-bar, the said sliding pieces carrying guides Q for guiding the
cliché X, the said cliché being fixed at one end to a point or fixed points
substantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
5. In an apparatus of the kind herein before described and claimed the arrauge-
ment for obtaining the movement of the carriage consisting in sprocket wheels
connected by endless chains, the axes of the wheels being movable so as to regulate
the tension of the endless chains in combination with an arm or cramp or the like

page_text: fixed on each side of the carriage engaging with the endless chains, the said
carriage being mounted on wheels running on rails fixed on each side of the table
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
6. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting the apparatus as a
whole substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of October 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.