IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING AND PRESSING PAPERS ROLLED ROUND BOBBINS, AND IN MACHINERY MARON
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Antoine Julien Deblon, Manufacturer, of Lille, in the
Department of the Nord, France, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GLAZING AND PRESSING PAPERS ROLLED ROUND BOBBINS, AND IN MACHINERY
MARON"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Antoine Julien Deblon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th October 1880.
ANTOINE JULIEN DEBLON, Manufacturer, of Lille, in the Department of the
Nord, France. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING AND PRESSING PAPERS ROLLED
ROUND BOBBINS, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR
"
The apparatus comprises three cylinders, two being below and mounted on shafts
having the same horizontal plane, whilst the third or upper one is placed between
the two first.
The two upper cylinders are worked mechanically to and fro with a partially
rotary motion, and with a calculated amplitude, their shafts turning in the same
manner in cushions.
The upper cylinder has the same partially rotary motion right to left, and vice
versa, but it can also be moved up and down as desired. For this purpose the ends
of its shaft are adjusted in cushions capable of sliding.
Between the three cylinders or rollers the paper to be glazed is placed; this is
wound on a bobbin or mandrel. The upper cylinder is raised to insert the paper
and it is then replaced for pressing the paper, and in conjunction with the other
rollers contributes to the pressing and glazing of the paper.
When worked in this manner the paper is economically glazed and acquires a
finer appearance, and is of greater consistency.
By calendering printed matter, such as news papers the letters become very clear
and shining.
In calendering paper as described there are two methods; it can be rolled round
the mandrel, or supported by linen rolled with it at the same time, which also
receives the glazing action.
The three cylinders and mandrel may if desired be heated.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Antoine Julien Deblon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
April 1881.
ANTOINE JULIEN DEBLON, Manufacturer, of Lille, in the Department of the
Nord, France. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING AND PRESSING PAPERS ROLLED
ROUND BOBBINS, AND IN MACHINERY THEREFOR."
Up to the present time calenders generally speaking are exclusively employed
for glazing, calendering, and finishing tissues and stuffs. Whereas, the subject
forming the present application for Letters Patent is based essentially on the novel
application of the calender, especially the three cylinder one forming my Invention
for glazing and polishing paper on bobbins, cylinders, or mandrils.
In the accompanying Drawings the calender is represented in elevation at the
side of the mechanism forming the motive power; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of
the same machine, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the cylinders.
.
The calender comprises three cylinders a, a¹, a², between which is placed the
roller bearing the paper to be glazed a³. These three cylinders are mounted on the
axes b, b, b, and the paper as is wound round the roller a
The lower cylinders a, a¹, have their axes b, b', turning in cushions invariably
fixed to the frame B of the machine. The upper cylinder a³ is the pressing
cylinder, and can be raised or lowered as desired; its axis 6 turns in cushions p,
adjusted and sliding in bearings of the frame. For moving the cushions P two
pulleys q, q, are placed at the side, over these two straps are passed moving in
contrary directions; these bands are stretched by stretchers, so that it is easy to
actuate one or other of these pulleys, and consequently to turn the shaft to which
they are keyed either in one direction or the other.
On the shaft of the pulleys the pinion is fixed which gears with the conical
toothed wheels, which in its turn transmits motion to the spur wheel by the
pinion u. The axis x of the wheel is threaded to allow this wheel to rise and
descend in a swelling of the frame B, which serves as hollow screw to it.
The lower end of this axis is solid with one of the cushions p. The same arrange-
ment is repeated on the other side of the machine for the second cushion p¹, and
this mechanism receives motion from the first arrangement from the wheel y.] This
cog wheel y following those v, v¹, has its centre threaded and adjusted on the
screw zor axis.
The cylinders a, a¹, a³, are animated (for the purpose of glazing the paper on the
roller a³), with partially rotary motion passing from right to left, and vice versa,
which movement is continued till the work is completed. This backward and
forward rotary motion to an almost complete turn is produced as follows:-
On a lower horizontal axis c three pulleys d, d', d³, are mounted; the pulley &
only is fixed on the shaft c. With the pulley a bevil pinion e is cast, which
governs the conical wheelf when the transmitting band runs on the pulley d².
When the strap is on the pulley & the shaft c is rotated, and as a bevil pinion e¹ is
fixed to it it governs the conical wheelf by this pinion. The axis of the wheel f
bears the spur wheel g and a spur pinion h, both of which are loose on this axis.
The pinion gears with a large wheel i loose on the axis b of the cylinder a.
Behind the wheel i and part with it is the pinion j, which turns a wheel k keyed
on the axis b¹ of the second lower cylinder a¹. On the same axis b is also fixed a
cog wheel which governs the four wheels m, n, g, and o of the same diameter as
itself. The wheels m and g loose on their axes, are, as will be seen, the interme-
diaries between the governing wheel and the two other wheels n and o fixed on
the shafts band 62 of the cylinders a and a². This transmission effects the same

page_text: rotary motion of the three cylinders a, a', a², requisite for the perfect glazing of the
paper.
To produce the backward and forward motion of these cylinders the band is
displaced from the pulley d on to the pulley ; automatically a cleat t on the
wheel K presses on a lever t¹ with counter weight which governs the bar t², which
slides now to the right and now to the left, and bears the band of the pulley & on
to the pulley d by means of the conducting fork to. When the band is on the
pulley the machine is at rest. The intermediate wheel m of the wheels and n
is mounted on the shaft w, movable at w¹ and 6; it can thus move up and down
without interupting the movement. The paper to be glazed or satined rolled on
the wooden roller a or metal is introduced between the cylinders a, a, a, by the
side of the frame opposite to the transmitting mechanism above described, and at
the time the cylinder a² is raised, and it is again lowered by the combination of
the upper wheels r, u, v, vl, and y, and the requisite pressure is given.
The machine is then set in motion by passing or slipping the strap from the loose
pulley d' on one or other of the pulleys and d, and immediately the change in
the direction of the movement is produced automatically by the action of the
cleat t.
By calendering a mass of paper rolled on a bobbin or roller it is economically
glazed, it acquires the finest surface, and a greater and more equal consistance; and
the typographical, lithographic, or other printing subsequently effected thereon is of
a reinarkable clearness and purity.
If the glazing is done after printing, such, for example, as journals, periodicals,
and printed papers, the letters appear bright and very distinct. Calendering paper
rolled in bulk, as previously mentioned, the paper being simply rolled round a
roller a, or with the aid of a supporting lining rolled with the paper, and being
calendered with the paper together in a mass of 2000 meters and more. The
cylinders or rollers a, a, a, as well as the roller a³, may be heated, if in certain
cases the heating may be considered necessary.
Having thus described my Invention, and the method of putting it into practice,
I claim,
1st. The application of the three cylindered calender gifted with a partially
rotary backward and forward motion for glazing and calendering papers, either
previously printed or not, either before or after printing, and either with or without
the use of a doubler, whether the paper is in sheets wound round the roller or
mandril, or whether the paper is a continuous piece rolled round cylinders, drums,
or bobbins.
2nd. The application (for the purposes above mentioned) of the three cylinder
calender of my principle, the construction and action of which has been explained,
as well as of any other calender with partially revolving cylinders with a continuous
backward and forward motion, and having 2, 3, 4, and even a greater number of
cylinders.
3rd. The application of calenders on my principle or any other for glazing and
calendering papers rolled in a mass, or more or less quantity, without unrolling the
papers, under the conditions above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Antoine Julien Deblon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.