IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PAINTING LATHS FOR VENETIAN BLINDS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO PAINTING OTHER THIN STRIPS OF WOOD OR METAL."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Collier, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
"
Window Blind Manufacturer, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PAINTING LATHS FOR VENETIAN BLINDS,
APPLICABLE ALSO TO PAINTING OTHER THIN STRIPS OF WOOD OR METAL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Collier at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th February 1876.
GEORGE COLLIER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Window Blind
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PAINTING LATHS
FOR VENETIAN BLINDS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO PAINTING OTHER THIN STRIPS OF WOOD
OR METAL."
In my improved machinery or apparatus the lath to be painted is placed vertically
as regards its section in a guide, and is thrust or conveyed forward between two
brushes, and when this has been done to a certain extent another lath placed upon
the said guide is caused to continue its motion, whereby the whole length becomes
painted. When this has been done the painted lath rests upon a rail similar to a
ladder, the spaces of which allow superfluous paint to run into a trough formed in
the frame of the machine, along which it flows, and from thence through an aperture
into a vessel placed to receive it. A suitable stop is adapted for preventing the
painted lath from being thrust off the above-mentioned ladder. The paint is
delivered to the brushes from a can placed above them, provided with an aperture
or apertures through which the said paint may drip, and the quantity thereof is
regulated by a tap or valve.

page_text: SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor by Joseph Collier, Administrator of the
said George Collier, deceased, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
September 1876.
JOSEPH COLLIER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Administrator of
George Collier, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Window Blind Manu-
facturer, who departed this life the sixteenth day of August 1876. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PAINTING LATHS FOR VENETIAN BLINDS, APPLI-
CABLE ALSO TO PAINTING OTHER STRIPS OF WOOD OR METAL."
In this improved machinery or apparatus the lath to be painted is placed vertically
as regards its section in a guide, and is conveyed or thrust forward between two
brushes, and when this has been done to a certain extent another lath or other such
strip placed upon the said guide is caused to continue its motion, whereby the
whole length becomes painted; when this has been done the painted strip rests
upon a rail similar to a ladder, the spaces of which allow the superfluous paints to
run into a trough formed in the frame of the machine, along which it flows, and
from thence into a receptacle adapted to receive it; and in order that the Invention
may be more clearly understood, I proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine, and Fig. 2 a plan view. At 1 is the
framework, which in Fig. 1 is shewn broken off, and upon this frame is a box 3;
within this box are plates 4, 5, capable of being adjusted by screws 6, 7, and of
being guided in such adjustments by pins 8, 8*. To the plates 4, 5, are attached
brushes 10, 11, the bristles of which are shewn in the plan view as at each end
only, so as not to hide other parts, but they extend throughout the whole length.
These brushes may be considered at present as simply extending along the machine,
as shewn at each end of the plan view, but I shall hereafter point out a certain
angular position of the bristles which is adopted. On each side of the frame are pro-
jecting parts 12, 12*, within which are bars 13, 13*, having a space between them, the
bottom of which space at 13 is constituted by a roller 14, and that at 13* by cross
pins 15. Beneath the casing 3 is a dish 16 communicating at 17 with the space
beneath the pegs 15, and provided with a tap 18. On the top of the casing 3 is a
cistern 19 (removed in the plan view) provided with a tap 20 for conveying paint
to the feed end of the brushes 10, 11, such paint being guided downward by a
funnel 21. The operation of the machine is as follows:-The attendant places a
lath or other strip of material upon the rollers 14, and pushes it forward between
the brushes 10, 11, which are as before mentioned fed with paint from the cistern 19,
the quantity being regulated by the tap 20. The lath or strip being thus pushed
forward becomes painted over its entire surface, the last part of such operation
being effected by the attendant pushing it forward through the medium of the
next lath or strip to be painted; as this operation takes place the superfluous
quantity of paint falls from the brushes into the trough 16, and when the entire
length of a lath or strip has been painted, it rests upon the pegs 15 of what may be
called the ladder, and from thence may be removed, but as it passes on to tho
ladder any extra quantity of paint drops through the spaces between the pegs 15,
and passes at 17 into the trough 16, and thus any number of laths or strips are
painted by successively passing them through the machine. I will now describe
the construction of brushes which are used. The said brushes 10, 11, are divided
into four parts, as shewn in the diagram Fig. 3, such diagram shewing the said
parts separate from each other, but in the machine they are close to each other,
forming two continuous brushes. The two first parts a, b, have their bristles
pointed downward, and the other parts c, d, have their bristles pointed upward,
and these bristles may vary in fineness as may be desired. By means of the
screws 6, 7, the brushes may be set so as to bear more or less upon the lath
or strip.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood that I
claim under the above in part recited Letters Patent and for the purposes above
set forth,-
Firstly. Passing the laths or strips vertically as regards their section between the
part recited is latent and for the purposes above
set forth,-
Firstly. Passing the laths or strips vertically as regards their section between the
two brushes.
Secondly. The use of the ladder 13*, 15, and parts connected therewith for
receiving refuse paint.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Collier, as such administrator as afore-
said, have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Thirteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
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