IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR PADDING COLORS ONTO CALICOES OR OTHER WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George William Clayton
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April 1881.
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GEORGE WILLLAM CLAYTON of Nutsford Vale;, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR PADDING
COLORS ONTO CALICOES OR OTHER WOVEN FABRICS."
The object of this Invention is to dispense with the engraved pin-pad" roller
and also with the top bowl or roller and lapping, and, the blanket ordinarily
employed when "padding the surface of calico or other woven fabric with black
or other color.
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L'employ a color-trough and furnishing roller revolving therein; the furnishing
roller delivers the color onto a plain metal roller, which in its turns lays the color
onto the underside of the calico or fabric which passes over and in contact with it,
the cloth and the roller moving in the same direction.
In contact with this roller, and-driven at the same surface speed by means of
spur gearing. is a second plain metal-roller, which also runs in contact with the
surface of the calico or other fabric (as well as with the first plain roller), but
revolves in the reverse direction to both the first roller and also to the progress of
the fabric, so that the color-is laid on by the two rollers in different directions, and
by tliese means a very dense coating or padding of color outo the calico-or other
woven fabric is obtained.
The superfluous color is removed by a doctor plate placed behind the second
metal roller and falls again into the color trough..
The calico or other woven fabric is then carried by guide rollers round two steain
cylinders of large diameter to dry the same.
By the use of this machine as dense-a, black or other color can be padded on
by ouce passing through the machine as can be produced by passing twice through
the machine ordinarily employed for this purpose, at the same time that
improved machine is very much more simple and inexpensive both in construction
and in working
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George William Clayton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th October 1881.
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GEORGE WILLIAM CLAYTON, of Nutsford Vale, in the County of Lancaster,
* IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS FOR PADDING COLORS
ONTO CALICOES OR OTHER WOVEN FABRICS."
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The object of this Invention is to dispense with the engraved "pin pad"
* slash" roller, and also with the top bowl or roller and lapping, and the blanket
ordinarily employed when "padding" the surface of calico or other woven fabric
with black or other color.
Such being the nature and object of my said. Invention, I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly understood
I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have
marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in
the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 in the Drawing is a vertical section of the working parts of the apparatus:
and Fig. 2 is a similar view (on a smaller scale) of the entire machine.
I employ a color trough or box a, a (Fig. 1), with a furnishing roller b, revolving
therein.
The roller b, delivers the color onto a plain metal roller c, c, which in its turn
lays the color onto the underside of the calico or other woven fabric d, d, which
passes over and in contact with it, the cloth and the roller moving in the same
direction.
In contact with this roller c, c, (and driven at the same surface speed by means
of spur gearing) is a second plain roller e, e, which also runs in contact with the
surface of the calico or other woven fabric, d, (as well as with the first plain
roller c, e) but revolves in the reverse direction to both the first roller c,.c, and also
to the progress of the fabric, so that the color is laid on by the two rollers in
different directions, and by these means a very dense coating or padding of color
onto the calico or other woven fabric is obtained.
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The superfluous color is removed by a doctor plate f, f, placed behind the second
roller e, c, and falls back again into the color trough or box a, a.
For ordinary padding purposes the second roller c, e, may be dispensed with
and the paddling can be effected by the use of one roller c, c, only, as shown at
Fig. 2.
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The calico or other woven fabric is then carried by guide rollers y, g, round two
steam cylinders , h, of large diameter to dry the same.
By the use of this apparatus as dense a black or other color can be "padded "on
by once passing through the machine as can be produced by passing twice through
the machine ordinarily employed for this purpose; at the same time that my
improved machine is very much more simple and inexpensive both in construction
and in working
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the
construction and use of the apparatus hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
Drawing annexed for " padding colors onto calicoes or other woven fabrics, and
especially I claim the use of the plain metal roller or rollers whereby the ordinary

page_text: engraved "pin-pad” or "slash "roller, the top bowl or roller and lapping, and the
blanket ordinarily employed for such purpose are dispensed with.
In witness whereof, I, the said George William Clayton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
GEORGE WILLIAM CLAYTON. (L.S.)