Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1886
Complete Left, 17th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 17th Jan, 1888
RESERV
I, THOMAS GARE, of 25 Booth Street, Edgeley, Stockport in the County of Cheshire
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention has for its object to render a pantograph, useable for copying any
design accurately, enlarged or reduced in one or more colours simultaneously or
alternately on fabrics or articles of metal, wood, glass or other material or substances,
and also for engraving on such articles, or cutting fabrics or leather, or other materials
to pattern, as well as for profiling sculpture, etc.
The invention consists in the first place in the combination of one or more suitable
bottles, or other suitable receptacles, filled with a specially prepared colour or substance
which easily fastens to the fabrics or articles, with a pantograph, suitably attached to
the latter, in place of the ordinary pen or pencil.
The invention consists in the second place in the combination of a rotary tool
suitable for the intended operation, rotated by means of a flexible shaft, shaft with
universal joint, flexible band or otherwise, or combination of a non-rotating tool with
a pantograph suitably attached to the same.
The fixed end or point of the pantograph, may be formed with a hinge so as to
permit the other end to which the tool is attached, to be easily raised and lowered,
when used for profiling, in which case a double pantograph may be employed.
Dated 1TRAL J
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Copying Designs and Profiling.
I THOMAS GARE, of 25 Booth Street Edgeley Stockport in the County of Cheshire,
Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, 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 :-
The invention has for its object to render a pantograph usable for copying any
design accurately, enlarged or reduced, in one or more colours simultaneously or
alternately on fabrics or articles of metal, wood, glass, or other materials or substances,
and also for engraving on such articles, or cutting fabrics or leather or other materials
to patterns, as well as for profiling.
And in order that my invention may be better understood I have caused to he
appended hereunto four sheets of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts throughout the various figures.
Fig. 1 Sheet 1 is a sectional side elevation, Fig. 2 a plan thereof, and Figs. 3 & 4,
side elevations. Figs. 5 & 7 Sheet II sectional side elevations, and Figs. 6 & 8,
sectional plans respectively. Figs. 9. Sheet III, and 11, Sheet IV, are front views, &
Figs. 10, Sheet III, & 12, Sheet IV plans, respectively of my improvements.
The invention consists in the first place, see Figs. 1 & 2 Sheet I, & Figs. 5, 6, 7
& 8, Sheet II in the combination of a receptacle a serving to hold and to conduct
colour onto articles to be ornamented, with a pantograph, in place of the ordinary pen
or pencil.
Instead of employing only one bottle or receptacle a, several may be connected
together radially, and arranged to be revolved, to permit of using alternately or
successively, different colours, which latter are specially prepared so as to fasten easily
to fabrics or articles to be ornamented.
The bottle or receptacle a, the lower end of which is pointed, and has an opening to
conduct the prepared colour or substance to be applied onto the fabric or article, may
be formed with one or more divisions a¹, see dotted lines Fig. 1, so as to form different
compartments a³ and to permit of using a number of different colours, successively or
simultaneously.
This may be carried out in various ways; the bottle a see Figs. 5 & 6. Sheet II,
may be formed with a suitable number of radial divisions a¹ which divide the bottle
or receptacle a into a corresponding number of compartments a³ each compartment at
the lower end, being contracted so as to form a small opening and independant
conduit, through which the colour is permitted to flow by gravitation, the amount of
which can be regulated or interrupted by providing each of the said compartments
with a valve a or its equivalent, thus enabling the use of one or more colours
successively or simultaneously by opening or closing the respective valves a³.
Instead of forming the end of the bottle or receptacle a, with independent conduits
as described, the same may be formed with only one conduit, see Fig. 7 Sheet II,

page_text: communicating with a suitable number of the aforesaid compartments, a² by making
the lower end of the division a shorter than the respective end of the bottle or
receptacle a. This arrangement will also facilitate the mixing of the colours, if
desired, on gravitating into the lower part of the conduit of the bottle or receptacle a.
The division a¹ described may be replaced by cylindrical compartiments a² as shown
in Fig. 8.
The bottle or receptacle a described may also be used for applying liquid colour,
sand, or other powder by means of a blast of air suitably admitted into the said
receptacle a, and which projects the colour, sand, or other powder, onto the article on
which the desired design or drawing is to be produced.
The invention consists in the second place, see Figs. 3 & 4 Sheet I, in the combina-
tion of a rotary tool c of a shape suitable for the intended operation, viz., engraving,
carving or profiling, or a tool having a chisel movement imparted by means of a
rotating flexible shaft d, shaft with universal joint, flexible band or other equivalent,
with a pantograph b suitably attached to the latter, in place of the ordinary pencil,
the pantograph being connected to the fixed or stationary end or point 6', by means
of a hinge b².
The rotary tool c may be of any convenient shape and driven vertically by a flexible
shaft, as shown in Fig. 3, or horizontally as shown in Fig. 4. In the latter case, the
arm or bracket which carries the cutter c may be arranged to swivel on the pantograph.
The tool aforesaid having a chisel movement may consist of one or inore chisel
formed cutters suitably arranged in a stock & having a chisel movement imparted
thereto by a cam or cams rotated by means of the aforesaid flexible shaft or its
equivalent.
For cutting fabrics, leather or such like materiui, a rotary knife will be employed
in place of the cutter c.
Figs. 9 & 10 Sheet III, illustrate the general employment of the rotary tool c und
aforesaid hinge, in the pantograph, and flexible shaft or equivalent, for engraving,
carving or profiling purposes.
b is the pantograph, 6 the fixed end or point, & the hinge of the same, b³ the tracer,
6 a rest, if required, and c, the rotary tool (or bottle receptacle a, when used for
producing designs or drawings, enlarged or reduced). d the flexible shaft or its
equivalente is the object to be engraved, carved or profiled, e' the object from which
the design or profile to be engraved or carved, reduced, is obtained, both being fixed
horizontally adjustable on a shaft mounted in bearings g and capable of being
rotated by means of a hand wheel
The rotary tool c which is suitably fixed at 6º in place of the pencil of an ordinary
pantograph, is made only half the size of the tracer 6, and the fixed or stationary end
or point formed with a hinge b' which causes the design to be engraved or carved at a
depth in proportion to the reduction of the design for which the pantograph is set, the
hinge 6 permitting the rotary tool c or its equivalent, to descend or ascend with the
tracer, in proportion to whatever the pantograph may be set at.
Figs. 11. & 12 Sheet IV show the application of my improvements for profiling
sculpture.
The fixed end or point 6' of the pantograph is also provided with a hinge 6 and
with a rotary tool c or its equivalent, driven from a flexible shaft d or equivalent.
The object e to be profiled and the object e' from which the outlines are obtained, on
which the tracer 6 rests, are fixed in a line between the ends or centres of the shaft f
by means of adjustable nuts, both objects being arranged to be rotated simultaneously
by means of the hand wheel f
The hinge which forms a fulcrum for the pantograph b enables the rotary tool c
or its equivalent to follow the vertical movement of the tracer, viz., ascent, or descent,
according to the proportion to which the pantograph is set.
The pantograph described for engraving carving or profiling purposes is worked by
causing the tracer 6 with one hand, to follow the design or outline of the object e,
and turning the latter simultaneously with the object e to be engraved or profiled,
with the other hand, by means of the hand wheel f¹ thus causing the rotary cuiter c

page_text: or its equivalent to follow the movement of the tracer 6³, proportionately as required,
& the design or profile, or outline to be re-produced.
It will thus be seen that any object with regular or irregular design or outlines
such as busts, or shoemaker's lasts, may be re-produced in a variety of sizes from one
design or model by simply setting the pantograph to the desired proportion.
When providing a pantograph with a bottle or receptacle a, as described for
producing drawings or designs on fabrics or other objects, the hinge 6 of the
pantograph is not required and the tracer 6³, rest b', & bottle a are in length made all
alike.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1st. The general arrangement & combination of parts constituting my improvements,
for the purpose and substantially in the manner herein before described and shown.
2nd. The combination of a bottle or receptacle a, with a pantograph 6 fixed
suitably to & in substitution for the pencil of an ordinary pantograph, for the purpose
of applying liquid or other colouring matter, in producing, copying, enlarging, or
reducing designs, substantially as set forth.
3rd. The combination of a rotary tool c or tool having a chisel movement driven
from a flexible shaft d, or equivalent, with a pantograph in place of the ordinary
pencil, such pantograph being connected to the stationary end or point 6' by means of
a hinge b', for the purpose of copying, engraving, profiling, enlarging, or reducing
designs, or objects with regular or irregular outlines, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 16th day of Sentemben 1887