A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR LINING OR COVERING PASTEBOARD, CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD, PAPER, AND OTHER ARTICLES WITH LINEN, FANCY PAPER, AND SIMILAR MATERIALS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Black, of Anstey, in the County of
Leicester, Cigar Merchant, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR LINING OR COVERING PASTEBOARD, CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD,
PAPER, AND OTHER ARTICLES WITH LINEN, FANCY PAPER, AND SIMILAR
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 14th March 1873, and dated the 17th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Black at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th September 1872.
I, JAMES BLACK, of Anstey, in the County of Leicester, Cigar Mer-
chant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR LINING OR COVERING PASTEBOARD, CARDBOARD,
STRAWBOARD, PAPER, AND OTHER ARTICLES WITH LINEN, FANCY PAPER, AND
SIMILAR MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention consists of an apparatus or machine for performing the
operation of lining or covering all kinds of paper, cardboard, and similar
materials used in the manufacture of the various kinds of fancy and

page_text: other articles where a lining or covering is required, and is described as
follows:-
A table or frame made of wood or iron standing upon legs, and having
rollers fixed at each end, around which revolves an endless band made of
cloth or other suitable material. On this revolving hand is placed the
cardboard or other material to be pasted and lined. Above the band, at
or near one end, is fixed a receiver containing paste or like material,
having brushes so placed beneath that they receive the paste and act as
pasting brushes. At the opposite end is another brush for smoothing
and preparing the pasted material for passing beneath a third or finishing
roller fixed near the same end, which effectually presses it and allows it
to pass out smoothly and thoroughly pasted, and it is then run on to a
board ready for the operation of drying.
In lieu of the pasting brushes above mentioned rollers may be used
if found desirable, but similarly supplied with paste.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Black in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BLACK, of Anstey, in the County of Leicester, Cigar Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said James Black, Her special licence that I, the
said James Black, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Black, my 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 of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle

page_text: of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR LINING
OR COVERING PASTEBOARD, CARDBOARD, STRAWBOARD, PAPER, AND OTHER ARTICLES
WITH Linen, FaNCY PAPER, AND SIMILAR MATERIALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Black, my exccutors 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 James Black, 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: -
This Invention consists of an apparatus or machine for performing the
operation of lining or covering all kinds of paper, cardboard, and similar
materials used in the manufacture of the various kinds of fancy and
other articles where a lining or covering is required, and is described as
follows:-
A table or frame made of wood or iron standing upon legs, and having
rollers fixed at each end, around which revolves an endless band made
of cloth or other suitable material. On this revolving band is placed the
cardboard or other material to be pasted and lined. Above the band, at
or near one end, is fixed a receiver containing paste or like material,
having brushes so placed beneath that they receive the paste and act as
pasting brushes. At the opposite end is another brush for smoothing
and preparing the pasted material for passing beneath a third or finishing
roller fixed near the same, but which effectually presses it, and allows it
to pass out smoothly and thoroughly pasted, and it is then run on to a
board ready for the operation of drying and cutting into the various sizes
that may be required, which is performed by means of the pasted
material being passed over one or more drying cylinders, after which
again passing through two rollers, so as to give a smooth and
proper finish to the materials. It is then passed on between revolving
circular knives for cutting into the required number of widths, and then
on again, if required, between two small rollers to a revolving knife for
cutting into the required lengths.

page_text: This portion of the Invention applying to paper, cloth, or other
material in length or rolls, but material in sheets of any size can be also
treated, but the rolls of material and the cutters would not be required.
In lieu of the pasting brushes above mentioned rollers may be used,
if found desirable, but similarly supplied with paste or like material.
This apparatus or machine can be worked cither by hand or steam
power as required.
Now in order that the principle of this Invention may be readily
understood, reference is made to the accompanying Drawings and the
letters of reference thereon, which shews a sectional elevation of the 1
machine or apparatus.
A is a roll of material to be covered or lined, which is unwound and
passes on to a table or flat surface B on to an endless band C under a
paste receiver D, the paste or like material passing through an aperture
or groove at the point E. A brush or brushes F, which may be either
stationary or moveable, distributes the pasting material generally on the
surface. The lining or covering is introduced at this point from the
roller F¹ which passes on the endless band under a brush either fixed or
revolving G for smoothing the lined material, which then passes between
two rollers H, H, for the purpose of pressing. The lined material now
passes over a small roller I, and round the drying cylinder K, then over
I', and then round cylinder K' finally passing over roller I' from these
through rollers L, L, for smoothing or finishing. And for cutting into
widths it passes between revolving knives M, M, and again between
guide rollers N, N, to a longitudinal knife O for cutting into the length:
required; P, P, are two guide rollers, which number may be increased
or diminished as circumstances may require.
The paste or other adhesive material may also be made to pass or
percolate through the pasting brushes, if required, in lieu of passing
through the aperture E in the trough D.
The drying and cutting portion of the above described apparatus may
be so arranged as to be used separate, if required, in such case being
divided as shown by the cross line A, B. The paste or other material
used may be transferred to the article to be lined by means of a groove

page_text: If desired, the paste receiver may be placed above or below the table,
and in such case a roller covered with any suitable material working in
or below such receiver containing the adhesive matter, by which it is
transferred to the sheets or rolls of paper, cloth, or other material. The
material if used in sheets is brought up to the table by means of guides,
which may be either stationary or moveable.
This apparatus or part thereof can be also placed in connection with a
paper making machine, and the operation carried on direct from it, and
in the pasting portion of the process I may sometimes dispense with the
endless band.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, I declare that what I claim and desire
to be secured to me by the heroin-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the general arrangement and combination of parts forming my Inven-
tion of a new or improved machine for lining or covering pasteboard,
cardboard, strawboard, paper, and other articles with linen, fancy paper,
and similar material, substantially as herein described, and as shown on
the accompanying Drawing, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Black, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.