IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WOVEN FABRICS."
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Buckley, of Horwich, in the County of
Lancaster, Calico Printer, Orlando Greenhalgh, of the same Place;
Manager, and Robert Hutchinson, of the same Place, Mechanic, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING
WOVEN FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Buckley, Orlando
Greenhalgh, and Robert Hutchinson at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th March 1859.
We, JOSEPH BUCKLEY, of Horwich, in the County of Lancaster, Calico
Printer, ORLANDO GREENHALON, of the same Place, Manager, and ROBERT
HUTCHINSON, of the same Place, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR
PRINTING WOVEN FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates to an arrangement of printing machine, whereby we
are enabled to produce the pattern with accuracy on both sides of the fabric,
Two cylinders are placed horizontally, the cloth to be printed passing over one
of them is printed on one side, from whence it proceeds to the other cylinder
and is there printed on the other side. Between each of these cylinders and
the "white cloth" we cause a blanket and sheet of grey cloth to pass, so that
the "white cloth" after leaving the first cylinder is received by the grey cloth,
and conducted forward with accuracy to the printing rollers for the second
printing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Buckley, Orlando Greenhalgh, and Robert Hutchin-
son in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPHI
BUCKLEY, of Horwich, in the County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, ORLANDO
GREENHALGH, of the same Place, Manager, and ROBERT HUTCHINSON, of the
same Place, Mechanic, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Joseph Buckley, Orlando Greenhalgh, and Robert Hutchinson, Her
special licence that we, the said Joseph Buckley, Orlando Greenhalgh, and
Robert Hutchinson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Joseph Buckley, Orlando Greenhalgh, and Robert Hutchinson,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any t 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WOVEN FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that wo, the said Joseph Buckley, Orlando Greenhalgh, and Robert Hutchinson,
by an instrument in writing und our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, 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 Joseph Buckley, do hereby declaro
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
Our Invention relates to an arrangement of printing machine, whereby wo
are enabled to produce the pattern with accuracy upon both sides of the fabric.
The accompanying Drawing represents so much of a printing machine as will
serve to explain the improvements. The cylinders over which the cloth passes
while being printed, are shewn at a, a, mounted as will be perceived in a
horizontal position, and b, 6, are the printing cylinders or surfaces. The

page_text: colour boxes and their adjuncts are not shewn, they being of the ordinary
construction. A blanket, such as is commonly used in machines, which print
upon one side of the fabric, is shewn at c, and drawn in blue colour; this
blanket is endless and after passing around the cylinder a, returns over the guide
roller d. In like manner another blanket e, also shewn by the blue line,
passes over the cylinder a*, and guide roller f. At 9 is a roller charged with
gray cloth h, shewn by the red line, which cloth is of corresponding length to
the fabric to be printed upon; it is conducted by guide rollers or rails, i, k, l,
to the cylinder a, upon which it travels in conjunction with the blanket c, and
from thence around the roller d, and other rollers m, n, to be re-wound by the
drum o.
Another length of grey cloth is shewn at p, passing over a guide
roller 9 and from thence travelling with the blanket e, around the cylinder a*,
after which it passes over a guide roller r, to be re-wound at s. The roll of
white cloth to be printed upon is shown at t, from whence it passes over guide
rollers or rails u, v, w, l, at which last-mentioned situation it is received by
the grey cloth and blanket, and conducted by them into contact with the
printing cylinders or surfaces b, after which it is conveyed onward and received
by the other grey cloth and blanket e, p, so as to be brought into contact with
the printing cylinders or surfaces 6*, by which the other side is printed, it then
passes upwards and proceeds from a roller y, to any convenient situation. In
the Drawing above described, the driving wheels are not shewn; they may be
arranged in any convenient manner, as will be readily understood by all com-
petent persons.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it to be
understood that we claim as secured to us under the above in part recited
Letters Patent (and for the purpose of printing on both sides of the fabric),
the general arrangement and combination above described, and particularly the
horizontal position of the two cylinders a, a, and the use of blankets in
the said printing on both sides of the cloth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Buckley, have hereunto set
band and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
my
JOSEPH BUCKLEY. (L.B.)