A. MACHINE FOR PRINTING WITH COLORS ON CLOTH, AND WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PRINTING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAPER
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Duncan M'Nee, of Kirkintulloch, in the
County of Dumbarton, Calico Printer, for the Invention of
"A. MACHINE FOR PRINTING WITH COLORS ON CLOTH, AND WHICH IS
ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PRINTING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAPER."
Sealed the 24th January 1853, and dated the 3rd December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Duncan M'Nee
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 3rd December 1852:
I, DUNCAN MCNEE, Calico Printér, of Kirkintulloch, in the County
of Dumbarton, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A MACHINE POR PRINTING WITH COLORS ON CLOTH, AND WHICH IS ALSO
APPLICABLE FOR PRINTING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAPER," to be as
follows:-
The machine is portable, and is intended to supersede the
present mode of printing certain patterns by hand blocks. It
consists of a series or set of printing rollers, as many in number
as there are to be colours printed by it in the pattern. These
printing rollers are mounted in a proper frame, and are con-

page_text: nected together by toothed wheels or otherwise, so that they may all
move simultaneously, and have each the same speed, and thus preserve
the register of the pattern which is cut or engraved upon them.
There is also in connection with each printing roller, and carried
also in the same general frame, an apparatus consisting of sieve
rollers or distributing cloth, and colour box for supplying the parti-
cular colour to be printed by each particular roller of the set. The
fabric to be printed is stretched on a flat and horizontal table, on
which the machine is made to travel by hand, and the printing rollers
being in contact with the surface of the cloth all the colours of the
pattern are printed simultaneously as the machine is moved forward.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Duncan M'Nee in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
DUNCAN M'NEE, of Kirkintulloch, in the County of Dunbarton,
Calico Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Duncan M'Nee, Her
special licence that I, the said Duncan M° Nee, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Duncan
M'Nee, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "A MACHINE FOR PRINTING WITH COLORS ON CLOTH,
WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PRINTING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS ON PAPER,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Duncan
M'Nee, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,

page_text: should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Duncan M'Nee, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The nature of my said Invention consists of a combination of two
or more surface printing rollers, with certain mechanical parts, by
which a machine is constructed capable of traversing the fabric to
be printed, and by which the different parts of the pattern on the
several rollers are made to fit with correctness:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a cross section of a machine constructed according
to my said Invention; Figure 2, shows a side elevation of the
machine; a, b, c, are three surface rollers, each provided with means
of supplying color to an endless sieve d, by which color is trans-
mitted to the printing surfaces of the rollers a, b, c, as shewn; e, e,
are the side framings which carry the color apparatus, the positions
of which apparatus are capable of adjustment by means of screws
and nuts, as shewn. At each end of the frames e, e, are carrying
rollers e¹, which, when the machinė is being used to print, are raised
and retained up out of the way, but when the machine is to be
moved on as urface these rollers e¹ are to be brought down and
locked in their lower positions by the catches e², when the printing
rollers a, b, c, will be raised off the surface on which the machine is
moved. The machine is shewn to consist of three printing rollers,
but it will be evident that a machine may be constructed with two or
more than three printing rollers. And the rollers shewn are each
only arranged to work with one color; but where the work or pattern
is in longitudinal stripes two or more colors may be laid on to each
roller, and be printed by them, as is well understood. In order that

page_text: the parts of a pattern contained on the several printing rollers used
in a machine may be made to fit on the fabric it is of the greatest
importance that the surface speed of the several printing rollers
should at all times agree, and that provision should be made to
ensure that neither of the rollers moves without the other, as it will
be evident that if one or more moved round, and another only moved
partly round, when passing the machine over a fabric to be printed,
the printing surfaces would fail to fit the different parts of the pattern
on the several printing rollers. And my machine is arranged or
combined in such manner that the rollers being connected by their
axes one to the other, one cannot move faster or slower. than the
other fff; are cranks formed on the axes of the printing rollers
a, b, c, which cranks, by the bars g; g; are connected together, there
being, however, means of adjustment in respect to the bearings of the
axes of the printing rollers a, b, c, and also in respect to the con-
nections of the cranks with the bars g; g, all which will readily be
understood by reference to the Drawing:
I would remark. that, although I believe the mode of arranging
the color apparatus shewn to be the best for the purpose; I do not
confine myself to the details thereof; as the same may be varied
without departing from my Invention, and such is the case in regard
to other details of construction shewn by the Drawing, and I make
no claim to any of the parts separately. But what I claim is, the
combination or construction of a machine herein described.
In witness whereof; I,. the said Duncan M'Nee, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
Witness,
B. Gobey;
4; Old Square;
Lincoln's Inn.
DUNCAN M'NEE. (L:S.).