IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND STENCILLING, AND IN THE APPARATUS OR MACHINERY USED THEREIN; ALSO FOR CERTAIN APPLICATIONS OF SUCH PRINTING AND. STENCILLING
Year: 1859

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Morgan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th January
1859.
I, WILLIAM MORGAN, of 31, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND STENCILLING, AND IN THE APPARATUS
OR MACHINERY USED THEREIN; ALSO FOR CERTAIN APPLICATIONS OF SUCH PRINTING
AND. STENCILLING," to be as follows:-
I connect with wheels or wheeled or other vehicles one or more cylinders or
segments thereof, which are to revolve on points or axles. These cylinders are
to be moved by means of adhesion bands, toothed wheels, or pinions. On the
surface of these cylinders I fasten types or letters, and figures and designs, such
types or raised figures and letters being made of metal, wood, gum, felt, leather,
cork, asphalte, or composition of glue with other substances or combinations of
any of these or other materials. The said cylinders to be made to revolve by the
action of the wheels, or otherwise, when moving the vehicle on the ground or
elsewhere, or by means of any pressure on a surface, or by any other means,
and the said cylinders, their raised surfaces being previously inked, as herein-
after explaned, are rolled on the surface to be printed on, by which the ink
will be left on such surface.
Other cylinders placed parallel or otherwise with the cylinders first men-
tioned will supply ink in the usual way to the raised letters or surfaces on the
first-mentioned cylinders. It will be desirable sometimes to place the before-

page_text: mentioned types, letters, or figures on bands, by rivets, screws, glue, or other
adhesive substances; these bands may be made of leather, gutta pērcha, linen,
woollen, or other material. These bands are to pass under the cylinders first
mentioned, and round, over, and under other cylinders; ink to be supplied to
such letters or figures as before mentioned, or by other means, the object
being to extend the surface beyond that of the circumference of the wheels or
cylinders when requisite to do so, in order to print at great distances, that is
to say, that great spaces should sometimes be between each impression. It
may also be necessary to have rollers of composition or other material, or
brushes supplied with ink or coloring matter connected to any part of the
machinery for supplying ground or shading for the printing, in order to render
such printing conspicuous, or to give colored representations or designs.
Instead of type or raised letters, inscriptions or designs may be placed or
engraved on the cylinders or bands before mentioned; the object may also be
effected by having fixed or moveable stencil plates with revolving inking rollers
or brushes, and such rollers or brushes may be made to act in printing or
inking the spaces of the stencil plates by machinery to be moved by hand;
such stencil plates may be in the form of bands, one or more being used at
the same time, the ink being supplied as before mentioned, or in any other
convenient mode. By the last arrangement I form endless stencilling plates.
In my Complete Specification I shall shew Diagrams of the before-mentioned
machinery or apparatus.
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My chief applications of the foregoing modes of printing and stencilling will
be to common roads, streets, pavements, walls, palings, and the exterior of
houses, for the purpose of advertising or ornamenting.
The foregoing types, figures, engravings, and letters may be placed or
engraved on a plain, horizontal, or vertical moveable or fixed surface, to be
inked as before mentioned, to be brought in contact with the surface to be
printed upon by lever or levers. Revolving brushes will be used sometimes
to clean the surface to be printed on, and also for cleaning the raised or
engraved cylinders or surfaces from dirt or clogging matter. Diagrams will
also be given of these last-mentioned appliances and variations with my
Complete Specification.
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