IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBOSSING OR INDENTING TISSUE OR OTHER PAPER WITH A PATTERN IN "
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Roger Crompton, of Elton, in the County
of Lancaster, Paper Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
EMBOSSING OR INDENTING TISSUE OR OTHER PAPER WITH A PATTERN IN
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Roger Crompton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 5th November 1864.
I, JAMES ROGER CROMPTON, of Elton, in the County of Lancaster, Paper
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN EMBOSSING OR INDENTING TISSUE OR OTHER PAPER WITH A PATTERN IN
IMITATION OF LAID WATER MARKS OR OTHER DESIGNS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in passing the web of paper, after leaving the wire cloth
of the paper machine, between two or more rollers arranged either in pairs, or
so as to allow of any convenient number of rollers to work against or on the
circumference of one roller. Some of the rollers have thier surfaces engraved
or otherwise prepared with the desired pattern I wish to be visible, and in
imitation of laid water marks. When one roller containing the whole of the
pattern or design is used, the paper passes between it and another roller,
covered by preference with paper or other elastic material, so as to form a

page_text: cushion for the said web of paper to be pressed upon by the roller containing
the pattern or design. When the pattern or design is of such a nature that
it is more convenient to impress it upon the web of paper at two or more
operations, I divide the complete design between as many rollers as may be
desirable, and these rollers all acting on the said web of paper during the time
it is on the circumference, or a part thereof, of the roller containing the elastic
material which acts as a cushion, completes the desired pattern or design in
imitation of laid water marks as desired. I place the before-mentioned
rollers in such a position that the web of paper may be acted upon while it
is still in a damp state, and either before or after the said web of paper has
passed over a drying cylinder or drying cylinders as may be found to give the
best results.
The principal obiect of my Invention is to imitate or nearly so the laid
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Roger Crompton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th May 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
ROGER CROMPTON, of Elton, in the County of Lancaster, Paper Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord-
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said James Roger Crompton, Her special licence that I, the
said James Roger Crompton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said James Roger Crompton, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 EMBOSSING OR INDENTING TISSUE
OR OTHER PAPER WITH A PATTERN IN IMITATION OF LAID WATER MARKS OR
OTHER DESIGNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Roger Crompton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe

page_text: 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 calender months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Roger Crompton, 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 following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in passing the web of paper, after leaving the wire
cloth of the paper machine, between two or more rollers arranged either in
pairs or so as to allow of any convenient number of rollers to work against or
on the circumference of one roller. Some of the rollers have their surfaces
engraved or otherwise prepared with the desired pattern I wish to be visible
and in imitation of laid water marks. When one roller containing the whole
of the pattern or design is used, the paper passes between it and another
roller, covered by preference with paper or other elastic material, so as to
form a cushion for the said web of paper to be pressed upon by the roller
containing the pattern or design. When the pattern or design is of such a
nature that it is more convenient to impress it upon the web of paper at two
or more operations, I divide the complete design between as many rollers as
may be desirable, and these rollers all acting on the said web of paper during
the time it is on the circumference or a part thereof of the roller containing
the elastic material which acts as a cushion completes the desired pattern or
design in imitation of laid water marks as desired.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawing shows the position of the principal
rollers and drying cylinders of a paper machine with an application of
my improvements thereto. The wire cloth containing the paper in a
state of pulp is shown at e, and the said wire cloth passes round the
roller a and between the rollers b, c, and round the roller c, and is
guided and kept tight by the rollers q, n, o, p. The paper in a moist
state is delivered from the wire cloth as it passes round the roller c, and
received on the felt f, passing round the roller r, and conveyed over the
roller 3, and between the rollers d, e; the felt continues to pass round or
over the rollers v, x, w, t, r, which are used for the purpose of keeping the
felt stretched and guiding it in the desired direction. The paper is freed from
the felt as soon as it passes between the rollers d, e, and is conveyed to and
between the rollers f, g, as shown at ; a felt g₁ passes round the rollers
f, y, z. After the paper i, has passed between the rollers f, g, it is conveyed
over the drying cylinder h, and while it is still moist passes between the

page_text: rollers i, k and l, k, and over the other drying cylinder m, and is wound on:
rollers ready for passing to the cutting machine. The roller k is encased with
paper or other elastic material, and the roller i is engraved or otherwise
prepared with the whole or part of the design to be made on the paper in
imitation of laid water marks, and when the said roller i contains only a part
of the design the other roller contains the other part; and if the design
be of such a nature as to require more rollers to form it, the number of
rollers, so required are made to act on the paper as it passes over the roller k.
I place the before-mentioned rollers in such a position that the web of
paper may be acted upon by the roller or rollers containing the design while
it is still in a damp state, and either before or after the said web of paper has
Rassed over a drying cylinder or drying cylinders as may be found to give the
best results.
The principal object of my Invention is to imitate, or nearly so, the 'laid
water marks of cigaret paper, or other paper of a similar appearance.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that what I
claim as of my Invention is, the apparatus and combination of parts for
preparing paper in imitation of laid water marks, as herein described and set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Roger Crompton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JAMES DOCED CROMPTON
Witness,
THOMAS BALDWIN,
Bury,
Lancashire.
JAMES ROCT
ADOMDTON
VATIVA AY