MENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING AND CUTTING CARD- BOARD
Year: 1865

page_text: MENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING AND CUTTING CARD-
BOARD."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Haigh at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
May 1865.
I, WILLIAM HAIGH, of Reddish, in the County of Lancaster, Paper Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING AND CUTTING 'CARD-
BOARD," to be as follows:-
"
The Invention relates to a new and improved arrangement of mechanism
or apparatus for manufacturing the description of material called cardboard,"
"millboard," or similar articles from several continuous lengths of paper, and
also to the cutting of the same when required to be made into short lengths
or squares, in contradistinction to making such lengths or squares of boards
from separate pieces of paper as now practised.
The improvements consist in arranging a series of rolls of paper in a frame,
so that when such rolls are delivering the paper each alternate continuous
sheet shall be passed under rollers immersed in a sizing trough by means of a
guide, or be operated upon by sizing brushes or other sizing apparatus
whereby both surfaces of such alternate lengths shall receive a coating of
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page_text: adhesive material; after which operation they are to be brought into contact
with the remaining dry or unsized lengths of paper by means of pressure
rollers, thereby making one compact or solid board, which as it is being
delivered from the pressure rollers becomes operated upon and cut into lengths
by a knife actuated by a cam or other equivalent.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Haigh in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HAIGH, of Reddish, in the County of Lancaster, Paper Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing daic the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Haigh, Her special license that I, the said William
Haigh, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Haigh, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereaiter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands. and Isle of Man, an Invention for
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING AND CUTTING
CARDBOARD,'" upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Haigh, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I. the said William Haigh, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
The Invention relates to a new and improved arrangement of mechanism
or apparatus for manufacturing the description of material called "cardboard,"

page_text: "millboard," or similar articles from several continuous lengths of paper, and
also to the cutting of the same when required to be made into short lengths
or squares, in contradistinction to making such lengths or squares of boards
from separate pieces of paper as now practised.
The improvements consist in arranging a series of rolls of paper in a frame,
so that when such rolls are delivering the paper each alternate continuous
sheet. shall be passed under the rollers immersed in a sizing trough by means
of a guide, or be operated upon by sizing brushes or other sizing apparatus,
whereby both surfaces of such alternate lengths shall receive a coating of
adhesive material; after which operation they are to be brought into contact
with the remaining dry or unsized lengths of paper by means of pressure
rollers, thereby making one compact or solid board, which as it is being
delivered from the pressure rollers becomes operated upon and cut into lengths
by a knife actuated by a cam or other equivalent.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale
of about one inch and a half to the foot, similar letters of reference being
marked upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents a longitudinal section of a machine for delivering and
pasting or attaching together three continuous lengths of paper, which
becoming united form "cardboard" or "pasteboard," and is shewn as an
example. This view also shews one arrangement of a knife or cutting appa-
ratus that is employed for the purpose of severing the cardboard (as it is
delivered) into short lengths as required. Fig. 2 is a plan view representing
one description of the varying cutters that may be employed to sever the con-
tinuous lengths of pasteboard into shorter lengths as desired.
In Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing of the machine, on which are secured brackets
arranged in suitable positions to support the varying rollers herein-after
described, and employed to contain the several papers to form "cardboard."
The rollers b, c, and d, contain the separate continuous lengths of paper, which
are delivered therefrom in the following manner:-The under roller b, shewn
in red, and the top roller d, also shewn in red, contain the lengths of paper,
which ultimately form the outside surfaces of the cardboard, and are of better
quality; and the roller c, shewn in blue, contains the intermediate layer or
thickness of paper of inferior quality. The three lengths of paper are
delivered at one uniform speed, and proceed in separate lengths until they
arrive at the pressure and drawing rollers e and f; the intermediate sheet
before arriving at these rollers passes between a pair of sizing rollers, a great
portion of the under roller g revolving in a sizing trough, and as it revolves

page_text: distributes a layer of adhesive material completely over the under surface of
the intermediate sheet, the upper surface of which receive a similar coating
from the pipe h, the size from which (as it becomes delivered on to the paper)
is distributed over its surface by the roller i, and in this condition the sized
paper proceeds with the two lengths of paper delivered from the rollers b and
d; and the three are brought into contact and pass between the pressure
rollers e and in one continuous sheet of cardboard, which is carried on the
travelling cloth to the second pair of pressure rollers and m; after leaving
these rollers the board is cut into short lengths by the reciprocating cutter n.
These lengths of finished board are then delivered by the rollers o and p into
the receptacle q.
It will readily be understood that any desired thickness of board may be
manufactured on this principle by so arranging the rolls of paper that each
alternate sheet shall receive a coating of size, in order that the separate
lengths of paper delivered from the rollers when brought into contact and
passed between the pressure rollers may be combined into one sheet, and
divided into smaller lengths.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim,-
First. the employment and arrangement of rollers containing paper in
combination with the means for applying the adhesive material to the upper
or lower surfaces of the paper.
Secondly, I claim the general arrangement and construction of the appa-
ratus for supplying, pasting, and consolidating the lengths of paper together
to form cardboard.
And, lastly, I claim subdividing the lengths of cardboard so manufactured
into smaller pieces by knives or blades with serrated edges, actuated by
manual labor or mechanical means, as herein-before described, set forth, and
fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Haigh, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
W. HAIGH. (L.S.)