An Improved Device for Painting, Graining, or Applying Patterns or Designs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1899
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Painting, Graining, or Applying Patterns
or Designs.
We, HEINRICH MEIER, of ,36, Sternstrasse, Frankfurt a/M, Hotelkeeper, and
FLORIAN OBACHT, of 7, Mittelweg, Frankfurt a/M, Painter, 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:
This invention relates to a roller for applying colour having for object to
effect the application of the graining or design (which has hitherto been mostly
effected in a tedious and troublesome manner by hand) to painted wood, and
for producing the continuous or running border patterns on ceilings and walls
This is
of the rooms and so forth, in a mechanical, easy and rapid manner.
effected by the arrangement of two rollers in a handle, of which one roller
serves for the application of the coloured design to the article being painted,
whilst the other roller serves as a colour receptacle and for automatically
moistening the first roller.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation in half section.
Figure 2 is a side elevation. Figures 3 and 4 are views of special rollers.
On the handle A there is fixed a cross bar B upon which the vertical sup-
ports with their shoulder pieces c¹ are arranged in a movable and rotary
manner in the groove b¹. These vertical supports are fixed by means of the
screws 63 which extend through the slots 6 of the cross bar B. In the upper
hole of the supports C there is mounted the applying roller G by means of
its axle H. This roller consists of a solid core g of any suitable or desired
material which is covered with an envelope or jacket g¹ of vulcanised caout-
chouc, from which project ribs which extend around in a peripheral manner.
The ribs 92 and the jacket g¹ form a coherent inseparable entirety of a thickness
such that when it is in use it will have the necessary flexibility and elasticity
against pressure. The axle E can be adjusted to different heights in the angle
slots of the supports C by means of the screws F. Upon this axle E there
rotates the roller 1) which consists of a perforated cylinder d provided with an
encircling jacket d' of felt, wick material or the like, and which serves as a
colour receptacle, and which is provided at some suitable point in one of its
end walls with a charging opening d² that can be closed. The mode of use
and of operation of the same is as follows:-
First the roller D is filled with colour and then the rollers G and D are placed
into their bearings in the supports or uprights C in such a manner that the
roller G shall press against the roller D with sufficient force so as to take up
colour by means of its ribs g² from the jacket which is impregnated with
In this arrange-
colour that passes from the inside to the outside of the same.
ment the two supports C can be adjusted by means of the groove guidance be
along the cross bar B for any desired length of the rollers G and D by means
of the thumb screws 62. It must, however, be noted in this connection that it
is not at all necessary to make the two arms C adjustable, but that it is suf-
ficient if only one arm is made adjustable and the other arm is fixed. This has

page_text: the advantage that by suitably turning the apparatus the latter can always be
worked close up into the corners or angles of the border. It may also be men-
tioned here that under some circumstances it is advantageous to make the
handle A bent because then for example in treating the ceilings of rooms, this
affords a more convenient and much less tiring position for the hand. When
now the rollers G and D have been properly inserted, the roller G is rotated a
few times until the ribs g² have taken up sufficient colour, then the roller G
is placed upon one end of the work and then the said roller G is moved along
with suitable pressure over the whole length of the work, and of course, this is
repeated in strips or paths situated side by side as often as the length of the
roller G is contained in the breadth of the work. As this is a simple operation,
and it is easy to carry out, the result is not dependent on the personal talent of
the operator, but when once the ribs 2 have been arranged or are provided in
the proper arrangement for the production of oak graining or palisander grain-
ing, and so forth, even the slightest artistically gifted operator will, if he only
works neatly, be able by means of this apparatus to produce the desired graining
in the very shortest time and perfectly true to nature. In this operation, the
colour which is transferred by the ribs g² on to the work is continually Leing
replaced by the rolling movement of the ribs g2 upon the roller, and consequently
the graining will always have the same sharpness throughout the entire length
and breadth of the work. As now in the case of surfaces which extend down
very low, the apparatus cannot reach the corners at the commencement and at
the end of the longitudinal travel by reason of the round shape of the rollers, a
second small roller G (Figure 3) is provided in which the ribs g³ extend in
an axial direction. Then this roller after it has been inserted into the holder CBc,
is run along into the corners at the upper and lower parts of the work so as to
thereby complete the graining, whereby the axially directed ribs g³ produce in
this cross wise travel of the roller, impressions which run exactly in the same
manner as did previously the peripherally directed ribs g² in the longitudinal
movement of the roller. According to the relative positions which are given to
the ribs that project from the jacket g¹ there can be produced by means of this
apparatus the most varied designs upon flat, round, or polygonal bodies in end-
less extent and repetition, and therefore this simple hand apparatus has an
unlimited field of use for fixed or in fact any solid objects such as doors, walls
of houses, ceilings of rooms, and so forth, in the same manner as the ponderous
and complicated cylinder printing press for printing paper hangings and so
forth. Figure 4 shows a roller which serves for applying a chequered design
to the ceilings of the room. It is inserted in the frame in exactly the same
manner as the rollers Figures 1-3 and it differs from these rollers only by the
fact that its ribs are arranged so as to constitute the chequered design.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
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(1) Apparatus for applying continuous or running designs upon painted wood
surfaces, ceilings of rooms, walls of houses, and so forth, characterised by the
fact that a roller G which is mounted in an adjustable frame C Be and is
provided with the desired design to be printed, is made to roll when in use, upon
a second roller D which is mounted in the same frame and which takes colour
from a cylinder d that is provided with a jacket d' of felt, wick material or
the like, and is filled with colour, and which transfers said colour uniformly on
to the roller G.
(2) In an apparatus according to Claim 1, the special form of construction of
the roller G consisting of a solid core 9 with a surrounding jacket g¹ of vul-
canised caoutchouc, the outer peripheral surface of which jacket forms the
desired design in relief.

page_text: (3) In an apparatus according to Claim 1, for the special purpose of applying
longitudinal designs upon low lying surfaces, the arrangement of a change
roller G with a transversely arranged design for the purpose of printing the
borders that have been left unprinted in the corners or angles by the main roller,
with the correct continuation of the design.
Dated this 4th day of February 1800
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Chartered Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.