Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling out Glass Sheets with Designs or Patterns upon the Surface.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1890-Accepted, 30th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling out Glass Sheets with
Designs or Patterns upon the Surface.
I, ALEXANDER DRUMMOND of 35 Montrose Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Glass
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for rolling out glass sheets
with designs or patterns upon the surface.
In carrying out my invention I employ the usual glass table and large smooth
roller for rolling out the glass sheets to the required thickness. The large roller is
followed by a small roller having the required design or pattern thereon. This small
design impressing roller is preferably detached or separate from the large roller and
is pushed along the table by means of a long shaft or handle which is fitted to a cross
bar fitting in or attached to two arms projecting from the ends of the small roller.
These arms have, preferably, small wheels, pulleys or rollers fitted in or to them for
facilitating the pushing of the small roller along the table. These wheels or pulleys
may run on rails at each side of the table or in grooves made in the strips used on
glass rolling tables for determining the thickness of the glass sheets. The handle or
shaft for pushing the design impressing roller may rest on a small roller secured in a
movable or fixed bracket at the end of the table.
In some cases the small roller may be attached to the large roller and be revolved
from it by means of a chain working or not in a toothed wheel or by a band. Or
gearing may be used to revolve the small roller.
Dated this 24th day of October 1880
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling out Glass Sheets with
Designs or Patterns upon the Surface.
I, ALEXANDER DRUMMOND of 35 Montrose Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Glass
Merchant, 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 improvements in apparatus for rolling out glass sheets
with designs or patterns upon the surface.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon
Fig. 1 is a side elevation.
Fig. 2 a plan, and
Fig. 3 an end elevation of the glass rolling apparatus.
In carrying out my invention I employ the usual glass rolling table A and large
smooth roller B for rolling out the glass sheets to the required thickness. The large
roller is followed by a small roller Ů having the required design or pattern thereon.
Under this invention the small design impressing roller C is preferably detached or
separate from the large roller B as shown and is pushed along the table by means of
a long shaft or handle D which is fitted to a cross bar E fitted in or attached to two
arms projecting from the ends of the small roller C. The arms F have, preferably
small wheels, pulleys, or rollers G fitted to them for facilitating the pushing of the
small roller Calong the table. These wheels or pulleys may run on rails H at each

page_text: side of the table, or in grooves made on the strips generally used on glass rolling
tables for determining the thickness of the glass sheets. In conjunction with the
aforesaid glass rolling apparatus there may be fixed or removably attached to the
end of the table A a bracket J in which is carried a small roller I or its equivalent
for the shaft or handle D to rest on. By having the roller I as hereinbefore described
the pushing of the roller C is facilitated and at the same time the handle D is kept
up off the glass sheet.
In some cases the small roller may be attached to the large roller and be revolved
from it by means of a chain working or not in a toothed wheel or by a band. Or
gearing may be used to revolve the small roller.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
1. The herein before described apparatus for rolling out glass sheets with designs or
patterns upon the surface.
2. The combination with the hereinbefore described glass rolling apparatus of the
bracket J having a roller I or its equivalent carried therein substantially as and for
the purposes set forth.
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H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.