Improvements in Printing Paper-hangings, Calicoes, and the like, and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 4th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1898
Improvements in Printing Paper-hangings, Calicoes, and the like,
and in Apparatus therefor.
We, THOMAS WALSH STATTER, JOHN YATES SHORROCK, and JOHN CHRISTOPHER
STATTER, all of Brunswick Mill, Heywood, near Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Paper-hanging Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
This invention relates to an improved method of and apparatus for printing paper-
hangings calicoes and the like (especially that class of paper-hangings known as
"Sanitary" paper-hangings) whereby we are enabled to dispense entirely with the
use of the blankets ordinarily employed and also with the covering or "lapping" of
the bed-roller with "linsey-woolsey " or the like as usually practised.
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In the first place we use as a "bed-roller a hard smooth surfaced roller .or.
cylinder (preferably of metal) without any covering or "lapping" whatever, and in
combination therewith we employ a surface printing roller with the pattern raised
or embossed thereon, the raised portion being composed of india rubber .or other
suitably soft and pliable material. This roller we can make by covering a plain
wooden or other suitable cylindrical roller with sheet rubber or other pliable material
or composition, and then removing the portions of the latter corresponding with the
ground of the design leaving the pliable pattern standing out in relief.
To furnish this relief printing roller with the necessary color or pigment we use
a metal furnishing roller which is engraved all over with a "pin-point
similar pattern like what is known as a pad roller."
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or other
This engraved furnishing roller revolves in a color trough supplied with the
necessary color or pigment and is provided with a "doctor" for taking off the super-
fluous color, and revolves in contact with the lower side of the pliable surface or relief
printing cylinder above named.
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The hard smooth "bed roller" and a series of the pliable or yielding "surface
printing" rollers, and of the "pin point or "pad" furnishing rollers, are all
mounted in bearings in a suitable frame and are driven at the same surface speed by
suitable gearing so that they revolve in contact in the usual manner, and means are
provided for setting the furnishing and printing rollers to and from each other
and to and from the bed roller.

page_text: Improvements in Printing Paper-hangings, Calicoes, and the like,
and in Apparatus therefor.
We, THOMAS WALSH STATTER, JOHN YATES SHORROCK, and JOHN CHRISTOPHER
STATTER, all of Brunswick Mill, Heywood, near Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Paper-hanging Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 an improved method of and apparatus for printing paper-
hangings, calicoes, and the like, (especially that class of paper-hangings known as
"Sanitary" paper hangings) whereby we are enabled to dispense entirely with the
use of the blankets ordinarily employed and also with the covering or "lapping" of
the bed-roller with "linsey-woolsey" or the like as usually practised.
The manner of carrying our invention into practical effect will be readily under-
stood on reference to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following
explanation thereof.
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Fig. 1 is a vertical section and Fig. 2 a partial elevation of so much of a six-color
printing machine as is necessary to illustrate our invention, a being part of the
framing the "bed-roller," c the printing rollers and d the color-furnishing rollers.
In the first place we use as a "bed-roller a hard smooth-surfaced roller or
cylinder 6 (preferably of metal) without any covering or "lapping" whatever and
without any blanket, and in combination therewith we employ surface printing
rollers c with the pattern raised or embossed thereon, the raised portion being com- 1
posed of india rubber or other suitably soft and pliable material.
These rollers we can make by covering plain wooden or other suitable cylindrical
rollers with sheet india rubber or other pliable material or composition, and
then removing the portions of the latter corresponding with the ground of the design,
leaving the pliable pattern standing out in relief; or they may be made in any
other convenient manner.
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To furnish these "relief" printing rollers c each with the necessary color or pig-
ment we use metal furnishing rollers d which are engraved all over with a "pin-
point" or other similar pattern like what is known in the trade as a pad-roller."
Each of these engraved furnishing rollers d revolves in a color trough e supplied
with the necessary color or pigment, and is provided with a "doctor"f, for taking
off the superfluous color, and revolves in contact with the lower side of one of the
pliable surface or relief printing cylinders c above named.
The hard smooth " bed-roller" b, and the series of pliable or yielding "surface-
printing" rollers c, and of the "pin-point" or "pad" furnishing rollers d, are
mounted in suitable bearings g in the frame a and are all driven at the same surface
speed by means of suitable spur gearing hand i from the main driving shaft k so
that they revolve in contact and "register" correctly in the usual manner, and
means are provided (as usual) for setting the furnishing and printing rollers c and d
to and from each other and to and from the "bed-roller" b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven"
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
First: The improvement in printing paper-hangings calicoes and the like by
dispensing entirely with the "blanket" usually employed, and using a hard smooth-

page_text: bination with "relief" pattern printing rollers made with a yielding surface, and
color-furnishing rollers of metal engraved with a "pin-point
" or other suitable
"pad" pattern, and
Secondly. The improved apparatus for printing paper-hangings, calicoes, and the
like constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
by the drawings annexed.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.