A New or Improved Manufacture of Articles in Glass, Tile; Pottery, Metals, and like Substances, by a Process for Producing thereon Letters, Figures, or Designs in Permanent Colors.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
OVISIONAL
GIFT
ION.
A New or Improved Manufacture of Articles in Glass, Tile; Pottery,
Metals, and like Substances, by a Process for Producing thereon
Letters, Figures, or Designs in Permanent Colors.
We, JAMES JACQUES of 3 Springfield Street, in the Town and County of
Lancaster, Glass Artist, and WILLIAM EDWARD MCCALLA of 24 Sun Street, in
the same town, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said invention, to be as follows:-
Our invention is more particularly intended for producing letters, figures or
ornamental designs on glass in colors which will be permanent, but is also
applicable to producing similar effects in permanent colors on tiles, pottery, metals
and other hard substances such as will stand furnace heat in order to make the
colors imprinted thereon combine with the glass or other like substance, and will
thus make them permanent and lasting, and so as not to be affected by heat or
atmospheric changes.
The articles to be produced by our invention are such as have flat or in some
cases cylindrical surfaces so as to be capable of receiving the letters, figures
or designs in colors which are imprinted thereon by passing in contact with suitable
rollers.
The colors, matters or enamels to produce the letters, figures or designs are such
as can be burned into or made to adhere permanently to the glass or other substance,
to which such colors enamels or matters are to be applied.
We print such colors, enamels or matters as above referred to upon the glass or
other similar substance by means of an engraved roller similar to those used for
calico printing, such engraved roller being supplied with color, enamel or other
material, by arrangements similar to those used for calico printing, and the color
or matters are impressed upon a suitable elastic composition roller which is in
contact with and transfers the same to the glass or other like substance to be
printed upon.
Or in some cases the colors, enamels or matters may be imprinted directly from.
the pattern roller on to the glass by elastic surface rollers having the design
in relief, such rollers being supplied with the color or matters in a similar manner
to that for such printing rollers when used for other purposes.
Several colors may be printed in succession or simultaneously.
The printing machinery may be arranged in a variety of ways so that the glass
or other similar substance may pass in contact with the printing roller or rollers to
receive it or their impressions.
When the letters, figures or designs have been printed on the glass or like
substance it is taken to a suitable oven, stove or kiln for burning the colors into
the glass or like material thus making the colors permanent.
Dated this Twent fourth dor of Januar 1806
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.

page_text: A New or Improved Manufacture of Articles in Glass, Tile, Pottery,
Metals, and like Substances, by a Process for Producing thereon
Letters, Figures, or Designs in Permanent Colors.
We, JAMES JACQUES of 3 Springfield Street, in the Town and County of
Lancaster, Glass Artist, and WILLIAM EDWARD MCCALLA of 24 Sun Street, in
the same town, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer 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 invention is more particularly intended for producing letters, figures or
ornamental designs on glass in colors which will be permanent, but is also
applicable to producing similar effects in permanent colors on tiles, pottery, metals
and other hard substances such as will stand furnace heat and fuse to the required
extent in order to make the colors imprinted thereon combine with the glass or
other like substance, and will thus make them permanent and lasting, and so as not
to be affected by heat or atmospheric changes.
The articles to be produced by our invention are such as have flat surfaces
so as to be capable of receiving the letters, figures or designs in colors which
are imprinted thereon by passing in contact with suitable rollers or other moving
surfaces.
The colors, matters or enamels to produce the letters, figures or designs are such
as can be burned into or made to adhere permanently to the glass or other
substance, to which such colors, enamels or matters are to be applied..
We print such colors, enamels or matters as above referred to upon the glass or
other similar substance by means of an engraved roller similar to those used for
calico printing such engraved roller being supplied with color, enamel or other
material, by arrangements similar to those used for calico printing, and the color or
matters are impressed upon a suitable elastic composition roller or endless or other
surface which is in contact and which moves with and transfers the same to the
glass or other like substance to be printed upon.
Or in some cases the colors, enamels or matters may be imprinted directly from
the pattern roller on to the glass by elastic surface rollers or endless bands having
the design in relief, such rollers or endless band being supplied with the color
or matters in a similar manner to that for such printing rollers when used for
other purposes, or a roller or rollers having the design upon it in relief, may
imprint upon an elastic or endless band that transfers to the article to be
ornamented.
Several colors may be printed in succession or simultaneously.
The printing machinery may be arranged in a variety of ways so that the glass
or other similar substance may pass in contact with the printing roller or rollers,
surface or surfaces to receive it or their impressions.
When the letters, figures or designs have been printed on the glass or like
substance as above explained, it is taken to a suitable oven, stove or kiln for
burning the colors into the glass or like material thus making the colors
permanent.
In carrying out our invention we cause the sheet of glass or other article to
be ornamented to be carried by rollers or an endless apron or lattice towards
and to come in contact with the printing roller or rollers, surface or surfaces, and
the rollers or endless apron have a surface speed equal to that of the printing
surfaces.
The articles are placed in succession upon the rollers or endless apron or lattice

page_text: to marks thereon, so as to meet the printing surfaces to receive the impression
giving the required margin.
Or there are stops against which the front edge of the glass or article to be
ornamented is placed when upon the rollers or endless apron, and these stops hold
back the article until the exact time for releasing it to be carried forward to the
printing surfaces, these stops being actuated by a cam, and are similar to
arrangements and devices used in letterpress printing machines.
When in the act of being printed upon, the back of the article is supported by
an elastic surfaced roller or blanket or impression roller or cylinder which rotates
or moves at the same surface speed as the printing cylinder or surface, and gives
the required pressure upon the article to press its face which is to be printed upon,
with the desired force against the printing roller or surface.
The printing surface and arrangement is or may be a roller or cylinder having
an india-rubber or other suitable elastic periphery to receive the imprinted pattern
or design and transfer it to the article to be ornamented, this roller or cylinder
receiving its impressions from an engraved copper roller or cylinder similar to
those used for calico printing which is supplied with color same as those for calico
printing or the transfer roller or surface receives its impressions from a roller
having the pattern or design in relief, and such pattern roller is supplied with color
from suitable rollers similar to the inking rollers and arrangements used for
letterpress and other printing from relief surfaces.
In some cases we employ an endless band of india-rubber or an endless band
faced with india-rubber or other suitable material, in place of a transfer roller
or cylinder, this endless transfer surface or band passing over say, three rollers,
one of which is opposite the impression cylinder, so that the imprinted face
of the endless band presses upon the article and transfers it thereto, while the
opposite side of it is passing against and is supported by the impression roller.
Another roller round which the endless transfer band passes, is opposite the
roller engraved like a calico priuting roller or it is opposite a roller having the
design in relief.
Or the back of the endless transfer band passes and rubs against a flat supporting
and guiding surface, and its face receives the impression from the pattern or design
roller, which in this case is opposite the flat supporting surface at the back of the
endless band.
In some cases we carry out our invention, by a sunk pattern roller, or one
having the pattern in relief which prints upon a suitable web of transfer paper
passing from a roll round an impression or blanket cylinder, to another roll, both
on suitable rollers, one roller being driven to wind up the web as it is drawn from
the other roller passing through the printing mechanism.
In passing over the impression or blanket cylinder, the pattern or design printed
upon the web of transfer paper is transferred to the glass or other article to be
ornamented, which is arranged to pass between the upper side of the blanket
cylinder, and the lower side of an elastic impression cylinder or roller placed above
the blanket cylinder against which the impression from the pattern roller is printed,
the transferred design or pattern thus coming on the under side of the article to be
ornamented.
Designs or patterns may also be printed on a web of suitable transfer paper in
a separate machine and the printed web may then be passed between elastic
surface rollers with the printed face towards and against the glass to which the
impression is to be transferred which is passing at the same time between the
elastic surface rollers.
The design or pattern may in some cases be imprinted directly upon the glass
or article by an elastic surfaced pattern roller say of india-rubber, having color
applied by rollers as in letterpress and other relief printing.
Two or more sets of printing arrangements are or may be made to operate in
succession upon the article, to which the article successively comes passing from one
to the other.

page_text: The arrangements are or may also be made according to our invention to print
or transfer to both sides of the article being operated upon when passing between
two opposite elastic transfer or printing rollers, one of which also acts as the
impression cylinder for the other.
The pattern may also be imprinted from a transfer roller or surface on one side
receiving imprinted color from a sunk engraved pattern roller and upon the
opposite side by direct printing from an elastic surfaced pattern roller having the
design or pattern on its surface in relief..
The colors used are such as when subjected to suitable heat in a furnace or oven,
will fuse and combine with the fixed surface of the glass or article upon which the
design or pattern has been imprinted. These colors and materials are well known
being the same or similar to those used in ornamenting pottery.
When the glass or other articles have been printed upon according to our
invention as above described and with colors that will fuse by heat, they are
placed in "muffles" and subjected to heat in a suitable oven or furnace, which
arrangements and overs are the same as or similar to those used for the like
purpose in pottery and glass staining.
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 :-
The application of letters, figures, patterns or ornamental designs to flat articles
of glass, and to tiles and other flat articles of similar materials, which will fuse to
the required extent when subjected to heat, by printing thereon in colors or
materials that will also fuse by heat, by means of rollers or surfaces that will move
with the article being printed upon as it travels through the machine, and the
burning of such articles when so printed upon in a suitable oven or furnace to fuse
the coloring matters and surface of the material to which it is applied, and thus
combine the two and make the letters, figures or ornamentation permanent,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty-third day of October 1896.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.