An Improved Machine or Apparatus for Pressing, Stamping, Embossing, or Finishing Plush, Velvet, Cloth, or other Fabrics, Paper, Leather, or other Analogous Materials.
Year: 1885

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An Improved Machine or Apparatus for Pressing, Stamping,
Embossing, or Finishing Plush, Velvet, Cloth, or other
Fabrics, Paper, Leather, or other Analogous Materials.
I, CHARLES COGET, of No. 15, rue Salneuve, Paris, in the republic of France,
Finisher do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE OR APPARATUS FOR PRESSING, STAMPING, EMBOSSING, OR FINISHING
PLUSH, VELVET, CLOTH, OR OTHER FABRICS, PAPER, LEATHER, OR OTHER ANALOGOUS
MATERIALS" to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction and employment of a machine for
pressing, stamping, embossing, or finishing plush, velvet, cloth, or other fabrics,
paper, leather, or other similar materials. The improved machine serves to press
the materials over their whole surface or over certain parts and according to the
required pattern in such a manner as to produce the effect of the press by lightly
glacing them over their whole surface or on a part of their surface.
The improved inachine is mainly constructed of a cylinder or roller either plain
or engraved, and kept at the temperature of the surrounding air, or cooled or
heated, in combination with a jointed surface in the form of a flexible trough
surrounding as required more or less of the surface of the cylinder. The cloth,
fabric, or other material may or may not be preliminarily moistened by means of a
jet of steam drawing with it a certain quantity of water which is effected by
arranging at the bottom of a receiver over which passes the material to be
moistened, a tube in which steam circulates, and which tube is provided with
openings which discharge the steam in such a manner as to cause it to suck in
water coming from a series of bent tubes arranged in the usual manner.
If the fabric, paper, or other material is velveted, before submitting it to the
pressure of the cylinder it is passed under a cylindrical brush which in rotating
lays the pile in the required direction to facilitate the pressing of the same.
Around the cooled or heated cylinder I arrange a cylindrical jointed flexible
jacket or trough, constructed of a series of bars of trapezoidal section and connected
by means of an inner or outer flexible jacket and which can be brought nearer to
or removed further from the cylinder. This trough is heated in any suitable
manner, preferably by means of a series of gas burners which can be moved to or

page_text: from the trough as required. The material (which may be protected or not by
a covering of any suitable fabric) is drawn along either by the revolution of the
cylinder or by means of an endless cloth guided or not by means of rollers and
passes between the cylinder, or the flexible or jointed surface or trough which
is lined with suitable sheet metal or other material.
With this machine provided with a plain or smooth cylinder I can glace or press
fabrics, leather, paper, or other material and thus do away with the ordinary
work of the hydraulic presses. With the same machine provided with an engraved
cylinder I can effect the stamping or the embossing with the peculiarity that
I produce the effect of a satin surface on the parts operated on or pressed.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Embossing, or Finishing Plush, Velvet, Cloth, or other
Fabrics, Paper, Leather, or other Analogous Materials.
I CHARLES COGET, of N° 15, rue Salneuve, Paris, in the republic of France
Finisher, 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:→
My improved process consists in embossing or stamping fabrics by pressing them
by means of a heated jacket against an engraved or plain cylinder kept at the
temperature of the surrounding air the fabrics being previously moistened by
means of a jet of steam mixed with water.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing which is a vertical section of a
machine constructed according to my invention for pressing, stamping, embossing
or finishing plush, velvet, cloth or other fabrics, paper, leather or other similar
materials.
The fabric after passing round the rollers P, Q, R, (or without being first passed
round these rollers) is passed over a vessel N, open at the top and containing wet
steam for moistening the fabric. The wet steam issues from a series of steam jets
arranged along the pipe O. Each of these jets is projected over the opening c, of
a curved tube a, placed in water so as to force the water upwards in the form
of spray.
The fabric thus moistened passes under a brush L, which serves to lay the pile
of the velvet, plush or the like in the proper direction.
When a smooth fabric is to be operated on the brush may be dispensed with if
desired. The fabric then passes over the roller B¹, or other suitable arrangement
and is drawn round a plain or engraved cylinder A. The cylinder which rotates
on a shaft Z, may be heated or not and if required can be cooled by a current of
air or of cold wafer according to the kind of fabric being operated on.
For the purpose of giving the fabric the required pressure on the cylinder A
I employ a flexible strip or plate D, of suitable sheet metal on which are screwed
iron rods or bars E, of trapezoidal section arranged around a portion of the
cylinder A in a similar manner to the voussoirs of an arch. A sheet of thin
metal F fixed at F', and having its other end free is interposed between the
iron bars or rods E, E, E, and the wrong side of the fabric. For determining and
regulating the pressure of the flexible strip or plate D, and the bars or rods E, E, E,
two rods n, and n', placed at each side of the apparatus and provided with screws
and nuts c, c', are fixed in supports on the frame of the machine and can be screwed
or unscrewed as may be required. The lower part of the jacket or trough D is
heated externally by means of two tubes H, H³, provided with gas jets (the gas
being mixed or not with air) or by other suitable means. These tubes can be
moved towards or away from the jacket D as required.

page_text: The fabric on leaving the cylinder passes over a guide roller B and round
cylinders T, U, V, or instead of passing over the cylinders T, U, V, it may
pass direct from the cylinder A.
For the purpose of facilitating the passage of the fabrics and of preventing
the glacing of the wrong side thereof I sometimes employ a support or lining
(continuous or endless) of linen, felt, or other suitable material which is always
interposed during the revolution of the cylinder between the bottom of the trough
and the fabric to be embossed, pressed, or the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The herein described method of embossing consisting in pressing the fabric or
material by means of a heated jacket on an engraved or plain cylinder, maintained
in a hot or cold state during its revolution, the said fabric or material being
previously moistened by means of a jet of steam mixed with water in the form
of spray, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The herein described machine for pressing, stamping, embossing or finishing
plush, velvet, cloth, or other fabrics, paper, leather or other analogous materials
consisting of an apparatus for moistening the fabrics by means of a jet of steam
mixed with water; a cylindrical brush for laying the pile of the moistened fabrics
before being embossed, an engraved or plain revolving cylinder enclosed by a
heated and fixed, flexible, or jointed jacket or trough which presses the right side
of the fabric to be stamped against the surface of the cylinder thereby producing
on velvets and plushes the effect of a satin surface on the parts operated on
or pressed by the cylinder substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.