IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING CALICOES AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
DALGLISH, Junior, of Glasgow, Calico Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty, and in the first year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert
Dalglish, junior, His especial licence, that I, the said Robert Dalglish junior,
my exors, adiiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Dal-
glish, junior, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING CALICOES AND OTHER
FABRICS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said Robert Dalglish, junior, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to

page_text: be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Dalglish, junior, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
and the manner in which it is to be performed. These are particularly
described and ascertained as follows:-
The Invention consists in adapting to a common cylinder printing machine
or other machine which may be used for printing calicoes or any other fabric,
an apparatus or addition to such printing machine, which apparatus, passing
through the said machine in the act of printing along with the cloth meant to
be printed, but not attached to the said cloth, prevents such part or parts of the
cloth as I may wish from receiving the impression or colour which is com-
municated generally to the piece of cloth in passing through the printing
machine; or my Invention is a contrivance by which, while a piece of cloth is
in the act of being printed, a part of it is covered by covers not sewed on or
otherwise attached to the cloth, and which covers are of any form or dimen-
sion that I may think fit, so that the part covered shall not be affected by
the operation of printing, but shall be left to be used as borders, or to be filled
up afterwards, as may be seen fit. My said Invention may be performed in
different ways, but it has proved most successful in the manner shewn in a
certain Plan or Drawings lodged along with this Specification, and hereby
declared to form a part thereof. Number 1 of the said Drawings is a side
view or elevation of a common printing machine, with a side view of In-
my
vention connected therewith. Number 2 is a ground view of the upper part of
the said machine and Invention, with this limitation, that the cylinder of the
printing machine appears by the perspective on a level with the upper part of
the machine, whereas it is truly in the situation shewn in Number 1. Number 3
represents a piece of cloth after having been printed by the machine with the
addition of the Patent Invention, the aforesaid covers employed having been
straight bands.
I now proceed with the description of the Drawings. In Drawings
Numbers 1 and 2, the improvements invented by me are colored blue. In
the Drawings Number 1 and 2, A, A, &c., represent an endless pitched
chain, to which the cross straps K, K, &c., on Number 2 are attached;
B, B, represent a cloth on a beam prior to printing; N represents the
same cloth passing towards and into the printing machine R, R, &c.; in
Numbers 1 and 2 is the cloth after printing or after passing thro' the

page_text: machine; D, the copper rollers, which put the color on the cloth; E, the
seive, from which the surface roller F receives the color; F, the surface
roller for putting the color on the cloth; G, color boxes from which the seive E
receives the color; II, blanket, upon which the piece of cloth is printed;
I, I, &c. the pitched wheels on which the endless pitched chain A, A, &c. is
carried round; L, L, steam boxes, for drying the blanket and cloth; K, K, &c.
cross straps or covers attached to the pitched chain A, A, which covers, as
already mentioned, may be made of any form or size thought suitable. The
endless chain A, A, is put in operation or works in the following manner :-
On each end of the cylinder C is attached a pitched wheel I, I, into which the
chain works; when the machine is put in motion, the pitched wheel I, I, on
the cylinder C, communicates motion to the endless chain A, which turns the
other pitched wheels I, I, I, I, &c.; altho' I have represented in the said
Drawings a printing machine of one of the forms at present employed, I do
not claim the said machine as any part of my improvements or Invention
The essential part of my improvement consist of the cross straps or covers
K, K, &c. These enter the machine along with the cloth, but are not attached
to it. The covers intervene between the cloth and the roller or rollers: The
cloth would receive colour.from the rollers, if not protected by the said covers
or straps. The spaces protected by the covers K, K, remain unprinted, while
these covers receive the impression which would otherwise have been commu-
nicated to the cloth if the covers K, K, had not intervened. The uncovered part
of the cloth, on the other hand,. receives the impressions or pattern intended to be
communicated by the operation of printing. The letters A, I, shew the move-
ment or apparatus by which the said covers or straps K, K, are carried through
the printing machine along with the cloth, or the form in which I have carried
the Invention into practice, altho' the same effect may be obtained by other means.
The essential part of my Invention being, as already stated, the application of
covers to a piece of cloth while undergoing the operation of printing, without
attaching these covers to the cloth by sewing, tying, or other means of fixture.
In the plan a printing machine for applying four colours is represented, but the
Invention is applicable to one colour or an indefinite number of colours.
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely
new and never before used within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to my Specification
of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth
comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the provision
in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained, wherefore

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In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Dalglish, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Gideon Colquhoun, of the Old Jewry, City of London, Merchant, maketh
oath, that he is acquainted with the handwriting of Robert Dalglish,a Justice
of the Peace in the County of Lanark, and this deponent further saith that the
signature to the acknowledgment of the accompanying Specification is in the
handwriting of the said Robert Dalglish, and that he was a Justice of the
Peace at the time of taking such acknowledgment.
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Gideon Colquhoun
the Specification aforesaid was inrolled word for word as above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one.