Machinery for the Purpose.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 24th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th Apr., 1887.
Machinery for the Purpose.
We, HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY, and ISAAC HENRY STOREY, of the firm
Storey Brothers and Co. of the Town and County of Lancaster, Table Baize and Oil
Cloth Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be
as follows:-
Our improvements in the manufacture of marbled oil cloth will be understood from
the description of the combination of machinery by which we carry the same into
effect.
The cloth is first prepared in the ordinary manner as a plain oil cloth, and is then
passed through our combination of machinery to have the marbling ornamentation
imparted to it, and is then passed directly in to a room to be hung up to dry in loops.
The prepared plain oil cloth is placed in a roll on suitable bearings, and then passes
between a copper "pin" roller, and a roller having its surface formed of wood or
other suitable material covered with cloth or other elastic material.
The "pin" roller rotates in a color box, or is or may be supplied from the color
box by another roller rotating in the color, a docter being used to keep back
superfluous color, which forms the ground color of the marble.
From the elastic surface roller the cloth passes close to and over the upper surface
of a box or chest heated with steam to partially dry the color and then passes between
an elastic surface roller in suitable bearings, and a roller having the pattern of the
veins of the marble upon it in relief which latter printing roller is supplied with color
by rollers and a blanket from a color box. Then after being printed with veins the
cloth passes over the surface of a table, across which there is a stationary brush which
is arranged so as to be adjustable so as to come more or less in contact with the
printed vein colors and slightly brush them as the cloth passes under the bristles of
the brush.
The cloth next comes to brushes carried on two endless belts which work upon
pulleys on two shafts above the table one on each side of the cloth and having their

page_text: axis in the line of the lengthway of the cloth the brushes thus act upon and across
the fabric as it passes over the table.
The ends of the brushes when operating and passing across the fabric, slide upon
rails, and these rails and the bearings for the shaft carrying the belts for the brushes
are adjustable so as to cause the brushes to act more or less upon the surface of the
cloth as required.
The cloth when leaving the table passes over a roller covered with card or other
teeth which acts upon the textile material forming the back of the oil cloth and it is
this roller which draws the cloth from the other operating rollers and mechanism.
The rollers and mechanism above described are geared up and driven in any
convenient manner, and the cloth after leaving the card or toothed roller is arranged
to descend into a drying room below where it is caused to hang in loops to dry.
Dated this Fifteenth day of July 1886

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Marbled Oil Cloths and in
Machinery for the Purpose.
Wo HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY and ISAAC HENRY STOREY of the firm
Storey Brothers and Co. of the Town and County of Lancaster, Table Baize and Oil
Cloth 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:-
Our improvements in the manufacture of marbled oil cloth will be understood from
the description of the combination of machinery by which we carry the same into
effect.
The cloth is first prepared in the ordinary manner as a plain oil cloth, and is then
passed through our combination of machinery to have the marbling ornamentation
imparted to it, from which machinery it passes directly in to a room to be hung up to
dry in loops.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and fig. 2 a plan illustrating a machine according to our
invention. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached sectional end view showing the "pin"
roller, the trough which supplies it with color and the "doctor" for removing the
surplus color from the pin roller.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged detached end elevation of the printing roller, the endless
blanket for supplying it with color, the trough for supplying color to the blanket and
the doctor for removing the surplus color from the blanket.
a is the roller having the prepared oil cloth upon it, which roller is arranged to
rotate in suitable bearings on the side frames.
The prepared oil cloth passes from the roll on the roller a over two carrier rollers
c and c extending across the machine and rotating in suitable bearings on the side
frames and over or against what is termed a pin roller d which rotates in suitable
bearings on the side frames. Below the pin roller there is a color trough d' extending
the length of the pin roller and a little past each end so as to contain the color forming
the ground of the marble to be imitated, the lower side of the pin roller rotating
in the color (see fig. 3).
The doctor d² is a thin plate of steel secured to a bar or shaft extending across the
machine and having bearings at each end in a carrier d' arranged to slide on a side
bracket ds.
Each bracket d has the end of a screw d' connected to it but so as to rotate only
and not move endways, this screw having a milled head by which it is rotated and
screwed through a projection from the carrier d'.
By means of these screws de, the doctor d2 is adjusted to the pin roller d.
There is an arm d' on the axis of the bar for the doctor, at one end thereof, secured
thereto by a set screw.
The arm d' has one end of a cord dx attached to it which is then passed over a
pulley d on a stud secured in any suitable stand or part of the framing, the other
end of the cord having a weight 12 attached to it by which a fixed pressure is thus
brought to press the doctor d² against the surface of the pin roller d.

page_text: The pin roller d applies the color to the prepared face of the oil cloth x which is
pressed upon the surface of the pin roller by an impression roller d³ in suitable
bearings the axis of which is parallel to the axis of the pin roller.
The surface of the impression roller d³ is formed of cloth or other elastic material
and there are adjusting screws m, one at each end to act on the sliding bearing of the
roller d³ to force its surface with the desired pressure against that of the pin roller d.
From the impression roller d³ the cloth a passes over another carrier roller c² and
then close over the upper surface of a hollow iron chest e heated by steam, there being
one pipe at one end to convey steam to, and another pipe at the other end to draw off
steam and condensed steam from the other end of the steam chest.
The cloth after the ground coat of color has been partly dried by the steam chest
passes between an impression and pattern roller, or roller with a pattern in relief.
The impression roller fis in suitable bearings on the side frames and has its surface
formed of cloth or other elastic material.
The cylinder or roller f¹ has the pattern of the veins of the marble to be imitated
formed upon its surface in relief by engraving or any other known method of forming
a printing surface in relief.
The pattern roller has its bearings arranged so that it can by screws ƒ'¸be
adjusted to press more or less as required upon the cloth passing over the impression
roller f.
Fig. 4 shows best how the pattern roller f¹ is supplied with color by an endless
blanket working upon two rollers and fin suitable bearings.
The axis of the two rollers 3 and 4 are in brackets on the side frames. The
brackets, one on each side, carrying the roller is arranged to slide on a
bracket secured to the side frames.
Each bracket is adjusted by a screw f* arranged to rotate in bearings in the
bracket but not to move endways, the screw screwing through a part upon the
sliding bracket f³.
It is by these screws fx (one on each side) that the blanket passing round the
roller f³ isdjusted with more or less pressure to the printing surface of the pattern
roller f¹.
The axis of the other roller is in bearings on a bracket f¹ which is arranged to
slide on the bracket 1.
There is a screw n for each bracket f¹ which can rotate in a projecting bearing but
does not move end ways therein, this screw n screws into a projection or nut on the
other bracket carrying the bearings for the roller 3. It is by the screws n that
the brackets and 1 can be separated more or less to adjust the tightness of the
endless blanket f2 upon the rollers.
The bracket falso carries the trough ƒ for the color into which the blanket f² dips
in passing over the trough.
On to the blanket there are slide bearings n' one at each side of the machine to
carry the journals of the bar to which the doctor f is secured.
By means of screws n² one at each end of the bar n' rotating in upright projections
from the bracket but not moving endways, and screwing into a part from the
slide n carrying the end of the shaft for the doctor the latter is adjusted to and from
the blanket f².
This doctor keeps back the surplus color upon the endless blanket which falls
from the blanket or doctor back to the color trough f³.
There is an arm d' from the doctor shaft having a cord d* secured to it, which cord
passes over a pulley d" and has a weight d¹ attached to it, as and for the purpose
herein before described in reference to fig. 3.
After leaving the veining or pattern rollers fand f¹ the cloth passes over the
surface of a flat table g, above and across which a stationary brush h is arranged.
To each end of the back of the brush a screw is fixed, which screw by nuts is
secured to a bracket 2 fixed to the framing at each side of the machine, the brush h
thus being suspended upon the screws and being adjustable by the screw nuts to cause

page_text: the bristles of the brush to press more or less upon the veined surface of the oil cloth
as it passes over the table and under the brush.
The cloth after leaving the stationary brush h passes along the surface of the table
and under brushes & moving across the cloth.
Two shafts are used having their axes in the lengthway of the table and cloth,
and in suitable bearings. Each shaft has two pulleys kupon it for two endless
belts k to work upon.
To the endless belts k³ bars k are attached which extend between and across the
belts 3, and to these bars the backs of brushes k are secured.
On each side of the endless belts, brackets are secured to the table to carry
vertical adjusting screws ke, and these screws, screw through brackets which carry a
rail A7, that is, two screws & carry one rail on one side, and two screws kª carry
another rail k on the other side of the endless belts k³.
These rails k are above and clear of the cloth a passing over the table below them,
and the upper surfaces of the rails form a slide and guide for the ends of the
bars k, on the endless belt, to move upon when the brushes are operating upon the
cloth, and by means of the screws the brushes k are made to press more or less
upon the face of the cloth as required.
After the cloth has passed the moving brushes k it passes or may pass under
another stationary brush arranged as hereinbefore described.
The cloth passes finally from the table over a roller covered with card teeth, or
other suitable roller, which roller acts on the underside of the fabric and it is rotated
from the driving power and draws the cloth a along.
The cloth which has been operated upon as above described descends from the
machine into a room below, where it is hung up in loops to dry in a manner well
known and used for drying ordinary oil cloths in the process of manufacture.
The shaft is the first motion driving shaft in suitable bearings on the framing,
upon one end of which fast and loose belt driving pulleys are placed, bevel wheels
are used to give rotary motion from the shaft 6 to a vertical shaft 61, in suitable
bearings, which rotates by bevel wheels, a horizontal shaft 2 passing lengthway of the
machine in suitable bearings.
This shaft by a pulley and belt drives a pulley 48 on a counter shaft having
bearings on the framing and a pulley on this counter shaft by a belt k° drives a
pulley on one of the endless belt shafts ¹ for the brushes k.
There is a spur pinion on one end of the shaft b that drives a wheel p on the pin
roller shaft d, and a pulley at the other end of this shaft by a belt p¹ drives the
impression roller which by spur wheels at one end drives the pattern roller f³, and
the spur wheel on the latter drives a wheel on the blanket roller f³.
A cross belt a working on a pulley on one end of the impression roller f, and on
another pulley on the end of the roller drives the latter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
we declare that what we claim is,
1. The manufacture and ornamenting of oil cloth in imitation of marble,
substantially as herein before described.
2. The combination and arrangement of machinery for the manufacture and
ornamenting of oil cloth in imitation of marble, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this Twenty third day of Marsh 1887