Improvements in Printing Designs or Patterns in Two or More Colours upon Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1892-4ccepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Printing Designs or Patterns in Two or More
Colours upon Textile Fabrics.
I, CHARLES IRVING EDMONDSON, of Deanwater, Woodford, near Stockport,
in the County of Chester, Engraver to Calico Printers,. do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in printing designs or patterns in two or
more colours upon textile fabrics such as cloths made of cotton, woollen, silk and
the like.
In the ordinary process of printing two or more colours upon such fabrics it has
hitherto been customary to employ as many engraved rollers as there are colours
to be imprinted upon the fabric and to engrave each roller with so much of the
pattern only as it is intended to cover with its particular colour.
The chief feature in my present improvements consists in the use and application
of what I term a key or master roller which roller is engraved with the complete
design or pattern and which therefore prints a complete single colour design or
pattern upon the fabric. The second colour is applied by means of a roller
engraved with an exact repetition of part of the design of the key roller, so that
the second colour is printed upon corresponding parts of the first colour applied by
the key or master roller. Each subsequent colour is applied in like manner
by means of a roller engraved with an exact repetition of part of the design of the
key or master roller so that each completed shade or colour in the finished design
or pattern is obtained by layers of two or more colours printed one upon the
other by means of engraved rollers each of which is a partial repetition of
the first.
It will be readily understood that by this improved method of colour printing an
infinite number of different effects and colour combinations can be obtained by
simply changing the base colour applied by the key or master roller.
Dated this 5th day of September 1892
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant._"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Printing Designs or Patterns in Two or More
Colours upon Textile Fabrics.
I, CHARLES IRVING EDMONDSON, of Deanwater, Woodford, near Stockport,
in the County of Chester, Engraver to Calico Printers, 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 invention relates to improvements in printing designs or patterns in two or
more colours upon textile fabrics such as cloths made of cotton, woollen, silk and
the like.
In the ordinary process of printing two or more colours upon such fabrics it has
hitherto been customary to employ as many engraved rollers as there are colours
to be imprinted upon the fabric and to engrave each roller with so much of the
pattern only as it is intended to cover with its particular colour.
The chief feature in my present improvements consists in the use and application
of what I term a key or master roller which roller is engraved with the complete
design or pattern and which therefore prints a complete single colour design or

page_text: pattern upon the fabric. The second colour is applied by means of a roller
engraved with an exact repetition of part of the design of the key roller, so that
the second colour is printed upon corresponding, parts of the first colour applied
by the key or master roller. Each subsequent colour is applied in like manner by
means of a roller engraved with an exact repetition of part of the design of the
key or master roller so that each completed shade or colour in the finished design
'or pattern is obtained by layers of two or more colours printed one upon the
other by means of engraved rollers each of which is a partial repetition of
the first.
'It will be readily understood that by this improved method of colour printing an
infinite number of different effects and colour combinations can be obtained by
simply changing the base colour applied by the key or master roller.
I also claim as arising out of my improved process of printing the use and
application of any roller engraved with an exact repetition of another or. part of
another roller for the purpose of printing an additional colour.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In printing designs or patterns upon textile fabrics, the use in combination
with a key or master roller engraved with the complete design or pattern, of as
many additional rollers as there are colours to be printed upon the fabric, each of
said additional rollers being engraved with an exact repetition of some part of the
design of the key roller all substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein
.described.
2. In printing designs or patterns upon textile fabrics, the use in combination
with an engraved roller for applying one colour, of as many additional rollers as
there are additional colours to be printed, each of said additional rollers being
engraved with an exact repetition of some part of the design of the first roller,
substantially as specified.
3. A textile fabric printed with a design or pattern in two or more colours, the
second and each additional colour being applied by a roller engraved with an exact
repetition of some part of the design engraved on the roller by which the first
colour was printed.
Dated this 20th day of December 1802
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.