Improvements in Dividing Long Lengths of Pottery Transfer Paper into Two or More Narrower Widths.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Oct., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dividing Long Lengths of Pottery Transfer Paper
into Two or More Narrower Widths.
We, THOMAS PHŒNIX, of Liverpool Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the County
of Stafford, Paper maker, and GEORGE KIRK, (administrator of the personal estate
and effects of Mary Ann Lamb, Widow, paper manufacturer, deceased) of Uttoxeter,
in the same County, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
In the manufacture of transfer tissue paper it is desirable to make it in wide
widths and to slit or divide it longitudinally to make it into a number of narrower
strips of the widths required for the various designs to be printed.
Slitting apparatus such as ordinarily used for slitting paper cannot be used for the
purpose owing to the want of substance in the paper rendering it difficult to cut.
To slit broad widths of such thin tissue paper into narrow widths we cause the paper
to be wound into a roll around a roller divided crosswise into lengths equal to the
widths into which it is desired to divide the one width of tissue paper.
The several divisions of the roller are threaded side by side on to a square or
other shaft and the paper as it comes from a paper making machine is wound upon it
into a roll.
Afterwards the shaft of the roller is mounted in a lathe and revolved and a thin
cutting blade is brought against the roll of paper upon it so as to divide the roll into
lengths coinciding with the divisions in the wooden roller. When this has been done
the shaft is withdrawn from the wooden roller and the lengths into which this roller is
divided then separate one from the other. Each of the narrow rolls can then be
separately mounted on a short shaft and the narrow width of paper be drawn off from
it for being printed or otherwise acted on.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1889
THOS. PHOENIX.
GEO. KIRK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dividing Long Lengths of Pottery Transfer Paper
into Two or More Narrower Widths.
We, THOMAS PHOENIX of Liverpool Road Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County
of Stafford Paper Maker and GEORGE KIRK (Administrator of the personal estate
and effects of Mary Ann Lamb Widow, Paper Manufacturer deceased) of Uttoxeter
in the same County, Gentleman 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:—
In the manufacture of transfer tissue paper it is desirable to make it in wide
widths and to slit or divide it longitudinally to make it into a number of narrower
strips of the widths required for the various designs to be printed.
Slitting apparatus such as ordinarily used for slitting paper cannot be used for the
purpose owing to the want of substance in the paper rendering it difficult to cut.
To slit broad widths of such thin tissue paper into narrow widths we cause the
paper to be wound into a roll around a roller divided crosswise into lengths equal to
the widths into which it is desired to divide the one width of tissue paper.
The several divisions of the roller are threaded side by side on to a square or
other shaft and the paper as it comes from a paper making machine is wound upon it
into a roll.

page_text: Afterwards the shaft of the roller is mounted in a lathe and revolved and a thin
cutting blade is brought against the roll of paper upon it so as to divide the roll into
lengths coinciding with the divisions in the wooden roller. When this has been done
the shaft is withdrawn from the wooden roller and the lengths into which this roller
is divided then-separate une from the other. Each of the narrow rolls can then be
separately mounted on a short shaft and the narrow width of paper be drawn off from
it for being printed or otherwise acted on.
In order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
the snart is withdrawn from the wooden romer and the lengths into WHICH THIS roner
is divided then-separate une from the other. Each of the narrow rolls can then be
separately mounted on a short shaft and the narrow width of paper be drawn off from
it for being printed or otherwise acted on.
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In order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows the shaft on which the rollers are carried; it is square in section
except at the ends where it is provided with necks to be received into bearings for
the winding operation; it is also provided with two moveable collars which can be
clipped upon it when the rol'ors are upon it.
Figure 2 shows the shaft with the rollers threaded upon it. The rollers are preferably
of wood although other materials may be used.
Figure 3 shows the shaft and rollers with the paper wound into a roll thereon. The
winding operation is couducted in the usual manner.
Figure 4 shows the roll of paper divided at the intervals between the rollers.
Figure 5 shows one of the rollers removed from the shaft with the strip of paper
which is now of the required width wound around it.
Figure 6 is an end view of the coll shown in Figure 5.
Figure 7 is a side view of the la.he in which the cutting is effected.
The shaft with the rollers and paper upon it as in Figure 3 is shown in its place
mounted between the head stock and the back centre of the lathe so that it can be
rapidly rotated. The rest employed to support the knife is also shown in this figure.
It will be observed that the drawing shows two circumferential slits in the paper
to have been already made, a third is in progress and a fourth has yet to be
coinmenced.
It will be understood however that the
desired number of strips, but in every case
correspond with the width of the strips.
roll of paper may be divided into any
the lengths of the wooden rollers is to
Figure 8 is a plan of the parts shown in Figure 7; the knife employed, which is
simply a keen steel blade with a handle to be held in the hand is also represented in
this figure.
Figure 9 is a transverse section of the lathe with the roll mounted in it; in
this figure also the knife and the rest with which it is used are clearly shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The process for preparing pottery transfer paper in narrow widths consisting in
assembling a series of rollers of wood or other appropriate material upon a shaft;
then winding a broad paper thereon into a roll, then dividing the roll circumferentially
at the intervals between the rollers and finally removing the rollers from the shaft
each with the paper thereon.
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