IMPROVEMENTS ON A MACHINE FOR PRINTING CALICO's
Year: 1813

page_text: TO: ALL TO: WHOM; THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
BUSH,, of. Longford, in the County of Middlesex, Calico Printer, send
greeting:
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did; by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of
January, in the fifty-third year of His reign; give and grant unto me, the
said: Matthew Bush, my exors, admors, and assigns; His especial licence, full
power; sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Matthew Bush, my exors;
adiiors; and assigns,. should and lawfully might, during the term of years
therein mentioned; make, use; exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS ON A
MACHINE FOR PRINTING CALICO's;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained. a. proviso. that if I, the said Matthew Bush, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
scal, and: cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of

page_text: the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Matthew Bush, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained as follows, that is to say:
In the Drawings hereunto annexed are represented, by orthographic views,
or views of the nature of a vertical section, several parts of the machine at
present in common use for printing callicoes, and of my said improvements,
and of the arrangement or mutual dispositions of the same. And the parts of
the said machine in common use are coloured or tinted of a light brown
yellow, except the color box H; and the parts of my said improvements are
coloured or tinted lead colour or yellow, except the parts F, G, K, K, of
Fig. 1, and 2, 3, and 5, of Fig. 2; and the same letters of the alphabet and
numerical figures do, in each of the said Drawings denote the same parts or
thing.
A, A, A, A, is the principal or main frame. 1, 1, the standards.
B, B, B, B, rollers for supporting the rail or sliding frame, which carries
plank 19, for supporting and working the copper plate. C, C, the rail. D, a
stop or projection from the lower part or angle of the plank, against which the
enlarged part G, D, of the D roller acts during the time of making the
impression; and E is a similar stop or projetion from the upper part or angle
of the plank, which acts in succession against the stops L, M, N, O, P, Q, of
the top roller, and carries the work forward. G, F, is the D roller, moved
perpetually round in the direction by means of the wheels Æ and ŒE,
represented by the dotted lines, and of which the former wheel E has the
Ay &, &, &, upon its arbor, and the latter wheel Œ is fixed in the arbor of
the D roller itself. K, K, is the top roller, round which the endless webb of
blanket T, T, passes, and also the piece of goods S, S, S, from the roller R,
and in contact with the endless web 4, 4. 11 is the turnback, which is raised
at each turn by the lifting piece or nog 2, 3, and sets the work fair for the
joining. I is the colour box, at the end of the frame where the man stands
to feed the plate; and I is the doctor for cleaning off the redundant colour.
And the operation or effect of the said well-known machinery will not require
to be more particularly explained or described, because the same is in common
use and practice. U, 12, is a revolving piece, which carries a circular-faced
block for printing either upon its extremity U or 12, according to the size

page_text: required, as is more particularly shewn in Fig. 4, and also in Fig. 3, where
the manner of attaching the same by plates 15 and 16, screwed or fastened to
the carrying arms and to the back of the block, and also by the steady pins 18,
and screws 16, 16, is shewn, and the same revolving piece U, 12, is carried
round by connection with the D roller arbor by means of the wheels 6, 7,
and 8. V is a revolving furnishing sieve, which gives the color to the
block U or 12 in each revolution. W is a bearing and adjustable roller for
presenting the web in fair and good contact with the face of the block, by
which the pattern is impressed at each turn. X, 13, is a second revolving
piece for carrying a circular-faced block, in all respects, in construction and
operation, like the first or former revolving piece, and the block or blocks
therewith to be used; and the said second revolving piece is carried round by
the connecting wheels 9 and 10, and provided with its revolving furnishing
sieve Y, and its bearing and adjustable roller Z. 18 & 14 are adjusting parts
for the sieves; and 20, 21, the like for the axes of the revolving pieces and
blocks. And. I do so place and fix the said pieces and blocks upon the axes
thereof that the fitting of the several prints or impressions on the work shall
and may be good and perfect, and do dispose and adjust the said axis and the
sieves that the colors may be duly and respectively and in fit quantity be
given, and the impressions perfectly made; and moreover, in some kinds of
work, or in certain patterns calculated to be so printed, I do lay another color
(additional to those afforded by the afore-described plate and revolving blocks,
or by the plate only in the common machine,) by a block extending quite
across the piece, and applied by a man during the time while the piece is not in
motion; and for this use or purpose, when required, I do fix a platform or
table within the endless webb, in order to bear, sustain, and react against the
pressure of the block; and by preference I do fix the same at the part or
place where the work shall have immediately quitted the plate or revolving
block last in operation.
And lastly, as occasion may require, and will be indicated to any workman
by the nature and dimensions of the work, I do vary the dimensions and
parts of the said machine and of my improvements; and I do, if required, and
particularly when the top roller is made of large size, admit the rollers W, Z,
or one of them, and do cause and allow the revolving blocks, or one of them,
to act against the web upon the face of the top roller itself.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Bush, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
MATTHEW BUSH. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord. 1813, the aforesaid Matthew Bush came before our
said Lord the King, in. His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and..every thing therein, contained and specified, in form.
above written. And. also, the Specification aforesaid was stampt. according,
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to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose..
Inrolled: the Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our, Lord One,
thousand eight hundred and thirteen: