AND MACHINERY FOR GOFFERING OR IMPRESSING. COLORING AND GILDING, OR OTHERWISE COVERING WITH METAL, LEATHER AND FABRICS, AND SUBSTANCES IN A SHEET STATE
Year: 1860

page_text: OF AND MACHINERY FOR GOFFERING OR IMPRESSING. COLORING AND GILDING,
OR OTHERWISE COVERING WITH METAL, LEATHER AND FABRICS, AND SUBSTANCES
IN A SHEET STATE."-A communication from abroad by Jacques Michel
Dulud, of Paris, in the French Empire.
Sealed the 18th January 1861, and dated the 23rd July 1860
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd July 1860.
1, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR GOFFERING OR IMPRESSING, COLORING AND
GILDING. OR OTHERWISE COVERING WITH METAL. LEATHER AND FABRICS, AND
SUBSTANCES IN A SHEET STATE," communicated to me from abroad by Jacques
Michel Dulud, of Paris, in the French Empire, to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is the goffering or printing in relief and in
color, and in gold, or other metal, of leather, cloth, and other fabrics in a sheet,
state, and the whole at one operation. Or parts may be colored in one or
more colors, or may be partly colored and partly gilt, or wholly gilt, or the
whole may be simply printed in relief.
The printing in relief is effected by passing the material to be treated

page_text: between a pair of rollers, one of which is in metal and has the desired pattern
sunk or cut out, while the other is the counterpart, and is formed of pulp,
gutta percha, or a mixture of gutta percha and caoutchouc, or cther like
materials with the pattern in relief.
For printing in color, and in one color only, a distributing roller is placed
in contact with the counterpart roller, and in the rotary motion imparted to
the latter, it becomes charged with color from the distributing roller, which
itself derives the color from a color roller in contact with which it revolves
For several colors the Inventor uses what he terms "cliché" rollers, they
are of gutta percha, and have been prepared in a similar manner to the
counterpart roller, with only such parts as they are to color preserved in
relief. Supposing two colors to be desired, red & green, for instance, the
first cliché roller will be supplied with red color from a distributing roller, and
the second cliché roller will be supplied simultaneously with the green color,
and the colors will be supplied to the counterpart roller and so on for as many
colors as may be desired.
For gilding or covering with other metal the metal is in a state of powder,
and first a roller is used for depositing over such parts as are to be coated with
the powder a size or mucilage, other rollers then follow, which take their
supply from a trough filled with the powder to be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal l'atent Office
on the 23rd January 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
l'atent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign.
did. for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, ny 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

page_text: of Great Britain and Ireland, the Chaunel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "A METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR GOFFERING OR IMPRESSING,
COLORING AND FILDING, OR OTHERWISE COVERING WITH METAL LEATHER AND
FABRICS AND SUBSTANCES IN A SHEET STATE." (a communication from abroad
by Jacques Michel Dulud, of Paris, in the French Empire,) upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my
or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof. reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is the goffering or printing in relief, and in
color, and in gold or other metal, of leather, cloth, and other fabrics in a
sheet state, and the whole at one operation. Or parts may be colored in
one or more colors, or may be partly colored and partly gilt, or wholly gilt,
or the whole may be simply printed in relief.
The printing in relief is effected by passing the material to be treated
between a pair of rollers, one of which is in metal, and has the desired pattern
sunk or cut out, while the other is the counterpart, and is formed of
pulp, gutta percha, or a mixture of gutta percha and caoutchouc, or other
like materials with the pattern in relief.
For printing in color, and in one color only, a distributing roller is placed
in contact with the counterpart roller, and on the rotary motion being imparted
to the latter, it becomes charged with color from the distributing roller, which
itself derives the color from a color roller in contact with which it revolves.
For several colors the Inventor uses what he terms "cliché "rollers, they
are of gutta percha, and have been prepared in a similar manner to the
counterpart roller, with only such parts as they are to color preserved in relief.
Supposing two colors to be desired, red and green, for instance, the first cliché
roller will be supplied with red color from a distributing roller, and the second
cliché roller will be supplied simultaneously with the green color, and the
colors will be supplied to the counterpart roller, and so on for as many
colors as may be desired.

page_text: For gilding or covering with other metal, the metal is in a state of powder,
and first a roller is used for depositing over such parts as are to be coated
with the powder a size or mucilage, other rollers then follow, which take
their supply from a trough filled with the powder to be used.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a sectional elevation, and
Figure 2, a plan of an apparatus constructed according to the foregoing
description.
a is a frame fixed to a base plate; b, b, are bolts securing a socket or
support c to the frame a.. This support carries two strong uprights d, d;
e, e, are lugs on each side of the support c, receiving the movable frame f;
g, h, are rollers made of the materials before described, adjusted in slides
formed in the uprights d, d, and it is between these rollers that the material
to be treated is passed; i is a screw-threaded shaft passing through a screw
nut j and the support to keep the slides at the required height; is a
toothed wheel mounted on the shaft i; k is a similar wheel in gear with the
wheel; and is a crank for communicating motion to the said wheels when
it is required to increase or diminish the distance between the rollers g, h; a
bolt on the top of the uprights maintains the rigidity of the slides and of the
rollers g, h. A is a fly wheel mounted on a shaft supported in bearings n
at the side of one of the uprights d. The frame f supports shafts carrying
rollers arranged in the following manner: -o is an ink trough fixed on the
frame f, but capable of adjustinent thereon; p is the first roller of the series,
which receives ink from the trough and transfers it to the second roller or
table I, from which it is taken by a roller (made of gutta percha or other
equivalent material), which in its turn transmits it to another roller s, the
latter being free to come in contact with another roller t. A second series of
rellers u, v, and a, mounted on shafts working in the support slide B fixed to
one of the uprights d takes ink from the last roller of the first series and
transfers it uniformly to the upper roller g, which latter has the pattern to be
produced sunk or cut on its surface. The first, u, of these rollers is made of
wood, and the two marked v, r, are made wholly or partially of skin. The
roller a is only used when it is desired to priut in two colors, as will be here-
after more fully described. A series of toothed wheels marked respectively
1. E, communicate motion to all the rollers and tables. The apparatus is
driven from the wheel A, and for this purpose the axis or shaft on which it is
mounted carries a toothed wheel in gear with other wheels, as shown by red
ink lines in Figure 1. y is an eccentric on the frame a below the frame /,
which serves, by means of the handle, shown in blue lines in combination
with the segment of a circle, to bring nearer to or farther from one another

page_text: the first series of rollers with that of the second series. When it is desired
to print in two colors, a frame similar to that described is fitted with all its
rollers and tables on the opposite side of the frame f; in this case the roller x
acts in a similar manner to that described for the roller v. The position
of the movable frame can be regulated so that printing and goffering may
be carried on simultaneously.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the method of
and machinery for goffering or impressing, coloring and gilding, or otherwise
covering with metal, leather and fabrics, and substances in a sheet stato,
substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman,have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.B.)