Improvements in Apparatus for Printing Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Printing Woven Fabrics.
I JAMES VALENTINE HULME of 220 Great Western Street Moss Side
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements upon the printing machine for
which Letters Patent No. 1799 of 1891 were granted to me and is designed
principally to enable the cloth to be lifted out of contact with the printing rollers
at intervals so that it can be either printed with cross borders or stripes, or left
blank at intervals as required and so that the goods can afterwards be cut up into
scarfs, shawls, or similar articles.
For this purpose I propose to use two printing rollers one for the ordinary
pattern and the other for the cross border and I fix a stud wheel on the axle of
each printing roller or rollers around which passes and hangs loosely an endless
chain which is provided at the necessary intervals with pegs or pins; as the chains
revolve the pegs or pins come beneath and raise a lever fixed on a shaft mounted
on the frame of the machine on which shaft is also fixed a cross rod or bar which
passes from one side of the machine to the other underneath the cloth being
printed. Thus whenever the pins on the chains raise their respective levers they
cause the cross rod to raise the fabric off the printing rollers alternately which
causes a certain amount of the cloth to be printed with the ordinary pattern roller
and also the cross or transverse border roller alternately as required. Or in some
cases the cross border roller may be dispensed with altogether in which case the
cloth may be left blank at certain intervals.
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I also propose in some cases to print a fringed cloth, that is a cloth with a certain
amount of warp without weft somewhat similar to towels, and for this purpose
propose to use an arrangement of levers whereby the fringed part of the cloth is
thrown off or moved out of contact with the printing roller as it passes through
the machine, and held out of contact with it for a certain definite time. As the
space between the fringes is not always woven exactly the same length I propose
to effect this object by means of a lever provided with prongs or feelers which are
kept against the surface of the cloth by springs or weights and as soon as the edge
of the fringe presents itself the prongs or feelers pass through between the warp
threads and cause or allow the lever to oscillate and the other end of the lever
throws a wheel into gear which causes the cloth to be raised off the roller until
the fringe has passed for a certain distance and then brings it again in contact with
the printing roller, by which means I am enabled to keep the fringe and a certain
definite distance beyond the edge thereof, imprinted notwithstanding any
irregularity that there may be in the exact length left between the fringes.
Dated this 1st day of March 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMITII SI MOIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Printing Woven Fabrics.
I JAMES VALENTINE HULME of 220 Great Western Street Moss Side
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, 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 certain improvements upon the printing machine for
which Letters Patent No. 1799 of 1891 were granted to me, and is designed
principally to enable the cloth to be lifted out of contact with the printing rollers
at intervals, so that it can be either printed with cross borders or stripes, or left
blank at intervals as required, and so that the goods can afterwards be cut up into
scarfs, shawls, or similar articles.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I have annexed hereunto
a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and have marked the same with figures and
letters of reference corresponding with those in the following description.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan view, of so much of a printing machine
as is necessary to illustrate my invention.
I use two printing rollers, one a for the ordinary pattern and the other a¹ for the
cross border, and I fix a stud wheel, on the axle of each printing roller a a' or
rollers, around which passes and hangs loosely an endless chain cc', which is
provided at the necessary intervals with pegs or pins dd. As the chain c c¹
revolves, the pegs or pins d or d¹ come beneath and raise a lever e or el fixed on the
shaft for f, mounted on the frame of the machine on which shaft for f¹, is also
fixed a cross rod or bar g or g', which passes from one side of the machine to the
other underneath the cloth being printed. Thus whenever the pins d or d¹ on the
chain c or c¹ raise their respective levers e or e¹, they cause the cross rod g or g¹ to
raise the fabric off the printing rollers a a¹ alternately see Fig. 1; which causes
a certain amount of the cloth to be printed with the ordinary pattern roller a
and also the cross or transverse border roller a¹ alternately as required; the
number of the consecutive pins or pegs d provided on the chain c corresponding
with the length of the pattern required on the scarf or shawl and the number of
pegs or pins d¹ on the chain c¹ corresponding with the breadth of the border
required.
Or in some cases the cross border roller a¹ and its adjuncts may be dispensed
with altogether in which case the cloth may be left blank at certain intervals.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination of chain, pegs, lever, and cross rod, or bar, for raising the
fabric from the printing roller, or rollers, as required substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 30th day of November 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.