Improved Process of and Apparatus for Producing Designs upon Paper, Woven Fabrics and the like by means of Template Printing.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1898
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1.000 Ancantad 6th May 1800
Date of Application, 20th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1900 Accepted, 6th May, 1800
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Process of and Apparatus for Producing Designs upon
Paper, Woven Fabrics and the like by means of Template
Printing.
I, WILHELM FRANZ TOIFEL, of XIII Lainz No. 9, Vienna, Austria, Pattern
Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore for producing patterns on paper (paper-hangings) or on woven fabrics
and the like there were used preferably dies or printing rollers, having the pattern
embossed or engraved on its surface, which rollers were supplied with colours, and
transferred these onto the surface to be ornamented.
The method of printing by means of templates was but rarely employed, because
there was hitherto no practical device for stretching sufficiently the template and
for pressing it tightly upon the surface to be printed, in such a manner that the
colour could not enter on or under the edges of the pattern cut out, whereby the
outlines were injured.
The object of this invention is an improved printing process for ornamenting
continuous paper, woven fabric and the like by means of templates, both for a
single colour, and for several colours; this process consists mainly in transporting
or guiding the paper or fabric to be printed at the same speed as the endless
template between a colour printing-roller or a colour band (pressed against the
template) and an abutment roller or table, so that the colour-roller (being pressed
against the template) transfers the colour through the openings of the template
upon the material below to be printed.
By providing several printing devices either one after the other or arranged in
a circle round a common printing cylinder, as well as by interposing suitable
drying devices I am enabled to print the continuous material with two, three or
more colours.
The apparatus which I employ for carrying out the above described method of
operating consists, according to one arrangement, of a cylinder formed by two
side cheeks between which the template is mounted as a cylindrical surface.
Within the cylinder is mounted the colour roller bearing against the inner
surface of the template and pressing this against an external roller or table be-
tween which and the template passes an endless web partly surrounding the
cylindrical template, and made to travel at the same speed therewith.
The inner colcur roller being supplied with colour from a trough and endless
travelling cloth passing over rollers also within the cylinder, it will be seen that
on passing the continuous paper or other fabric between the cylinder template
and the surrounding web, it will be carried round between them at the same
speed to the point where the colour roller is situated and where consequently the
colour will be transferred from the roller through the open pattern of the template
on to the paper, which will then be carried round. to the point where it issues
from between the cylinder and travelling web.

page_text: Two or more such apparatus may be arranged in a row and the paper &c. be made
to pass from the one apparatus to the next one which would print thereon with a
different colour, the paper being led by means of an endless cloth through or over
a heating roller or other apparatus for drying the colour before it passes on to
the next printing apparatus.
Instead of constructing the endless template as a cylindrical surface, it may be
made as an endless flexible band that is stretched over an upper and a lower roller
between which is the colour trough from which the colour is taken by an endless
band that passes round the lower roller between this and the template band so as
to transfer the colour through the pattern of the latter onto the paper &c. travel-
ling at the same speed together with an endless cloth between the template and an
abutment roller or table.
According to another arrangement the endless template band is stretched over
two rollers arranged horizontally, which rollers are each in contact with another
roller and over these rollers is stretched an endless web which consequently
travels together with the template band, at the same speed from the one pair of
rollers to the other, over a fixed table between the two. At an intermediate point
between the two pairs of rollers is arranged the colour roller bearing upon the
inner surface of the template band, so that the paper &c. being passed between
the one pair of rollers and being carried along between the template band and
endless web, will have the pattern printed thereon as it passes the colour roller.
According to another modification a number of endless template bands each
stretched over two rollers as described are arranged radially round a central
cylinder, and between each two bands is arranged a drying apparatus consisting
of heated rollers or chambers.
The inner roller of each template band presses the template against the central
cylinder, and colour is supplied to the template by an endless cloth fed with colour
from a trough and passing between the roller and the template. The paper &c.
being passed inward between the one template band and the central cylinder, so
as to receive a colour impression therefrom, it is then passed outward and over the
next drying roller, from which it again passes inward to the next template where
another colour is printed thereon, and so on in succession, alternately under one
of the templates and over one of the intermediate drying apparatus, until it issues
at any desired point with the requisite different colour impressions thereon.
Dated this 20th day of June 1898.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Process of and Apparatus for Producing Designs upon
Paper, Woven Fabrics and the like by means of Template
Printing.
I, WILHELM FRANZ TOIFEL, of XIII Lainz No. 9, Vienna, Austria, Pattern
Draughtsman, 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:-
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Heretofore for producing patterns on paper (paper-hangings) or on woven fabrics
and the like there were used preferably dies or printing rollers, having the pattern
embossed or engraved on its surface, which rollers were supplied with colours, and
transferred these on to the surface to be ornamented.

page_text: The method of printing by means of templates was but rarely employed, because
there was hitherto no practical device for stretching sufficiently the template and
for pressing it tightly upon the surface to be printed, in such a manner that the
colour could not enter on or under the edges of the pattern cut out, whereby the
outlines were injured.
The object of this invention is an improved printing process for ornamenting
continuous paper, woven fabric and the like by means of templates, both for a
single colour, and for several colours; this process consists mainly in transporting
or guiding the paper or fabric to be printed at the same speed as the endless
template between a colour-printing roller or a colour band (pressed against the
template) and an abutment roller or table, so that the colour-roller (being pressed
against the template) transfers the colour through the openings of the template
upon the material below to be printed.
By providing several printing devices either one after the other or arranged in
a circle round a common printing cylinder, as well as by interposing suitable
drying devices I am enabled to print the continuous material with two, three or
more colours.
The improved apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,
Fig. 1 is a side view of a machine for one colour template printing, in which
the material to be printed is carried below a printing cylinder.
Fig. 2 is a side view of a template printing machine for one colour printing in
which the printing effected upon a table if necessary against a counter roller.
Fig. 3 is also a side view of a table printing machine to which a counter roller
may be applied.
Fig. 4 is a side view of a machine for printing six colours the printing devices
being arranged round a stationary or revolving printing cylinder.
The machine Fig. 1 consists of a frame a a in which is journalled the shaft c
carrying the two discs 6 which rotate in the direction of the arrow.
Between these discs is mounted the template h in form of a cylindrical surface
held to the discs at its edges by rubber bands and resting upon small rollers d,
which are attached to the inner stationary cylinder e at intervals round the whole
cylinder except at the open part el. Within the cylinder e is situated the colour
feeding device. The lateral rollers f carry the endless band g which receives the
material S to be printed and conveys it beneath the template in the direction of
the arrow.
By means of suitable gearing the material and the template h are made to move
with the same velocity below the printing roller i, which prints the colour upon
the template and therefore on the material below through the openings in the
template.
The colour is carried upon an endless band k to which it is supplied from the
colour trough by means of roller m. The discs carrying the template h, and
the rollers are geared together, so that they revolve at the same surface speed,
and rollers and m m are revolved at the same speed by frictional contact.
Fig. 2 represents a modified form of single colour template printing machine for
printing upon endless paper &c.
The machine is constructed as follows:
In the frame are provided four cylinders n and n³ of equal diameter geared by
toothed wheels.
Around the cylinders n runs the endless template h which is stretched by the
tension rollers o in the top frame and is conveyed by an endless band q, running
below the template around the rollers o and guide rollers o¹.
Around the cylinders n' runs an endless band p conveying the material to and
from the machine.
In order to give to the printing roller i a solid support or rest for the pressure, I
provide a table r across which the endless band material and pattern travel below
the printing roller i; or I arrange a counter-roller in an opening in the table
below the roller i.

page_text: The cclour is conveyed on the band to which it is transferred from the
trough by the colour rollers m m¹.
In the machine Fig. 3 the endless template his stretched over the two cylin-
ders s and t and the guide rollers f¹ f. The upper cylinder t is light and hollow
and has a groove on its surface on pins in which the template is guided being
held between perforated steel bands.
The lower cylinders is covered with a thick caoutchouc layer and is filled with
some heavy material, for it acts as a pressure roller.
Between the two cylinders is the colour trough from which the colour is
transferred by rollers m and m' to the endless band which then passes over a
brush u on the trough, which brush uniformly distributes the colour.
During the further travel of the band it gets thoroughly wetted with the colour.
The colour band passes with the same velocity as the template beneath the
printing cylinder s, below which runs the material S to be printed; at the moment
when the template arrives with the colour band at the lowest point of the
cylinders and the latter exerts its heaviest pressure the colour is expressed from
the colour band, and is printed on the material at those places where are open
parts of the template.
The colours used must not be too thin but should have the consistency of syrup
in order to prevent them from being pressed out below under the printing
cylinders and to secure a more rapid drying.
The template must be cut of a thin material so that it may be pressed by a
not too strong pressure as nearly as possible into the plane of the material.
Fig. 4 shews the half of a template printing machine for printing with, for
example, 6 colours upon endless paper; it is constructed as follows:
In the frame a are mounted two concentric rings and ; the ring = carries the
guide cylinders and the ring carries the smaller printing cylinders s; over
the two cylinders s and t and the guide rollers f¹ is stretched the endless tem-
plate h..
The drum D has on its periphery a wheel (not shown) covered with rubber and
upon this rests the paper, cloth &c.
Between each pair of cylinders s and t there is a colour feeding device similar to
that already described in connection with Fig. 3.
As in this machine the colours are to be printed in succession, there is provided
between each pair of cylinders st a drying apparatus a.
This consists of a hollow box extending between the rings and 1 and a light
roller cylinder on the ring, through which hot air is circulated. The material
being printed travels over the box and roller during its passage from one
cylinders to the next succeeding one. The material is fed at I into the machine,
is six times printed with colour on the printing cylinders s, is six times dried by
running over the drying apparatus r, and is discharged at II, printed with six
colours.
The rotation of the cylinders s and is effected by gearing from a wheel (not
shewn) mounted upon the drum shaft D', and in their turn rotate the colour
feeding device by the endless colour-band.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A process for printing designs on paper, cloth or the like by means of
template consisting in moving uniformly and at the same speed the material to
be printed and the template between a printing roller and counter roller or table
the said template being in the form of an endless band passing over rollers and
the colour being supplied by an endless band kept wet with the colour and passing
between the printing roller and the template so that the pressure of the printing
roller on its counter roller or table squeezes the colour from the endless band
through the template on to the material to be printed substantially as described.

page_text: 2. In apparatus for printing by means of templates the combination of a dry
printing cylinder working against a counter cylinder or table, with an endless
band kept wet with the colour to be printed passing between the said printing
cylinder and the template and over a suitable guide roller or rollers, the said
parts being arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. The apparatus for printing by means of templates herein described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of March 1800