CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING AND FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS OR OTHER LIKE SURFACES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Bury, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING AND FINISHING TEXTILE FABRICS
OR OTHER LIKE SURFACES."
Sealed the 29th November 1859, and dated the 2nd June 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Bury at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
June 1859.
I, SAMUEL BURY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING AND FINISHING TEXTILE
FABRICS OR OTHER LIKE SURFACES," to be as follows:-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of producing an even and lustrous
plain or embossed finish upon certain descriptions of textile fabrics throughout
the entire piece, and the improvement consists in the employment of an
engraved or plain roller revolving upon another roller which is stationary, or
upon a flat, convex, or concave, or other shaped bed, or using a revolving
bowl & a stationary engraved surface, so as to obtain the necessary rubbing

page_text: action upon the surface of the fabric as it is passed between such frictional
surfaces. The fabric is to be fed or delivered to the roller and bed in a zig-zag
or vibratory diagonal manner, which it may receive by passing over a roller or
bar partaking of such motion.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Bury in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd December 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
BURY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manager, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
'unto me, the said Samuel Bury, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Bury, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Samuel Bury, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EMBOSSING AND FINISHING
TEXTILE FABRICS OR OTHER LIKE SURFACES," upon the condition, amongst others,
that I, the said Samuel Bury, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Bury, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say)-
My improvements are designed for the purpose of obtaining or producing
an even, bright, or lustrous embossed or plain finish, and consists in imparting
a horizontal, lateral, reciprocating motion either to the engraved or pattern
roller or rollers, or to the bowl or bed roller during their revolution, in order

page_text: to attain a rubbing action upon the surface of the fabric as it passes between
them to be embossed and finished. The rollers are to be drawn in the same
manner as ordinary, and at one uniform speed, both rollers running or
revolving in the same direction, in contradistinction to driving them at different
speeds to obtain the frictional action required. The surface of the embossing
roller or cylinder or cylinders, if more than one is required, is either to be
engraved or indented in the direction of its length (which is to be preferred)
or around its circumference, and the fabric may be fed or delivered to the
rollers in a zig-zag or vibratory diagonal manner, which is to be imparted
thereto as it passes over a roller or bar partaking of the said motion.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about one inch and a half to the foot, and having similar letters of reference
placed upon corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents an end view of an embossing, finishing, or calendering
machine; and Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, shewing the arrangement of
cams for effecting the reciprocating lateral motion imparted to the pattern
cylinder. In Fig. 1, a, a, is the framing of the embossing or calendering
machine, in which the embossing cylinder b, the bowl c, and the roller d, are
supported, the portion a¹ of such framing being moveable for the removal of
the bowls or cylinder. The cams e, e, are secured upon each end of the
cylinder b, which is driven by the tooth wheelf from the driving shaft and
pinion g, the said cams being so calculated that by their action upon the
antifriction bowls h, h, upon the framing, they communicate to the pattern or
embossing cylinder the horizontal lateral reciprocating motion required to
produce the rubbing action upon the surface of the fabric as it passes between
them, the bowls and cylinder being kept in contact by means of the screws i, i,
as usual. I would here remark, that the bowl c is shewn as ordinarily used,
but in some instances it may be necessary to impart the reciprocating motion
to the bowl or bed instead of to the cylinder or to both, in which instance the
bowl will be furnished with the necessary cams and apparatus, and also two or
more heated embossing cylinders may be employed in the embossing and
finishing of certain descriptions of fabric.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim embossing and finishing textile fabrics or other like
surfaces by means of a revolving pattern or plain cylinder or cylinders par-
taking of a reciprocating lateral motion across the fabric, the said cylinders

page_text: being in combination with a "bed" or bowl, and constituting my improvements
in machinery or apparatus for the above-named purpose, and which has
been herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings
attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Bury, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
SAMUEL BURY. (L.S.)