Improvements in Split Rollers for Printing on Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1895
*Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Split Rollers for Printing on Woven Fabrics.
We CHARLES FREDERICK PIKE, of 124 Broughton Lane, Salford, Salesman,
GEORGE HENRY GRAY of Manor House, Urmston, Buyer, and ROBERT
DONALDSON of Albert Road, Levenshulme, Designer, all in the County of
Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to engraved copper or like rollers known as split rollers,
which are employed for printing calico, cloth, handkerchiefs, or other woven
fabrics. The object of this invention is to enable two or more patterns to be
printed from the same roller at the same time, and to change said patterns.
In this invention we construct rollers such as hereinbefore named, in sections,
each of said sections having a complete, or part of a complete pattern, engraved
thereon: We fit two or more of these sections on to a mandril or spindle to which
they are secured in the same manner as the rollers which have hitherto been used.
The adjoining ends of each section are preferably dovetailed or otherwise inter-
locked, and by these means practically form one roller.
In applying our invention we place on a mandril or spindle two or more sections
of rollers, each having engraved thereon a pattern, or part of a pattern, that is
required to be printed on a piece of cloth or woven fabric, the length of said
section corresponding proportionately to the width of cloth to be printed; by these
means a wide width of cloth or woven fabric may be printed with more than one
pattern, side by side at the same time, and afterwards split in the usual manner
into narrower widths each of said widths being of a different pattern although
printed at the same time by one operation. If required two separate pieces of
cloth may be printed with different patterns side by side at the same time.
By these means the patterns are interchangeable, and not confined to two
patterns on one complete roller as now employed.
Dated this 16th day of February 1895.
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53 Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Split Rollers for Printing on Woven Fabrics.
We CHARLES FREDERICK PIKE, of 124 Broughton Lane, Salford, Salesman
GEORGE HENRY GRAY, of Manor House, Urmston, Buyer, and ROBERT
DONALDSON of Albert Road, Levenshulme, Designer, all in the County of
Lancaster, 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 :-
This invention relates to engraved copper or like rollers, which are employed
for printing calico, cloth, handerchiefs, or other woven fabrics, and known as split
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page_text: The object of this invention is to enable two or more patterns to be printed from
the same roller at the same time and subsequently to change one or more of said
patterns and substitute others on the same roller without necessitating all of the
patterns being changed.
We
attain this object by the means hereinafter described, reference being made
to the accompanying sheet of drawings: In the several views shown therein,
similar letters refer to similar parts: In this invention we construct rollers such as
herein before named by placing two or more copper or other metallic shells as a
Figs. 1 and 2 or Fig. 3, on to a mandril b to which they may be secured either in
the ordinary manner or by other mechanical equivalents, each of said shells being
formed of a length adapted to suit the width of the particular pattern engraved
thereon: Figs. 4 and 5 represent two of the aforesaid shells forced tightly on to a
slightly tapered mandril 6 in the manner ordinarily employed': Figs. 6 and 7
represent the shells a placed on a parallel mandril in which grooves as é, e¹, and e²
Fig. 8 are formed, and into which the projections ff and which are parts of
the shell a may slide, said shells being firmly secured to the mandril or spindle b
and retained by means of and between a nnt g and a collar; that is formed on the
opposite end of the mandril.
In order to ensure perfect joints between the meeting ends of the shells, we
place a hard india rubber or other washer between the said ends, or form the ends
in the manner shown in Fig. 9, the removeable projections k fitting into the
recesses. By these means when a certain pattern is required to be printed either
n large or small quantities it is not necessary that another pattern should be
printed to the same extent as either of the shells may be removed and others
substituted without removing or changing all the patterns on the roller. A wide
width of cloth or woven fabric may be printed with more than one pattern side by
side at the same time and afterwards split in the usual manner into narrower
widths, each of said widths being of a different pattern although printed at the
same time by one operation: If required two separate pieces of cloth can be
printed with different patterns side by side at the same time: By these means the
patterns are interchangeable and not confined to two patterns on one complete
roller as now employed. A separate colour furnisher may be applied to each
length of shell on one mandril when different colours are being printed on either
conjoined or separate fabrics that may be running through a machine at the same
time.
We do not confine ourselves to the precise mode of affixing the aforesaid shells
to a mandril or spindle, as other means than those described and shown on the
drawings may be preferred whereby the shells a may be attached to a mandril, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention, and in. what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
In engraved copper or like rollers known as split rollers, such as are employed
for printing calico, cloth, Handkerchiefs, or other woven fabrics, the construction
of said rollers with two or more shells in sections, affixed to a mandril or spindle
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 20th day of March 1895
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53 Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicants.