IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING YARNS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William James Hanson, of Bradford, in the County
of York, Manager, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING
YARNS,"
Sealed the 17th September 1867, and dated the 23rd March 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William James Hanson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd March 1867.
I, WILLIAM JAMES HANSON, of Bradford, in the County of York, Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PRINTING YARNS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to means of obtaining party coloured yarn by printing
or the application of colouring matters to some portions of such yarn whilst
the other portions remain unprinted or uncolored. Heretofore in order to
obtain or produce this effect the yarn after being spun or twisted had to be
unwound from the bobbins and reeled or formed into hank or into chain, or a
series of threads extended and placed together side by side to be printed, and
afterwards had to be rewound on to bobbins for use.
Now my improvements consist in printing yarns whilst being spun or twisted
or also whilst being reeled or wound. To.effect this I employ colour troughs
so placed and provided with printing rollers or blocks and supplied with
colouring matters that as the threads of yarn pass they are pressed upon or
into contact with the said printing rollers or blocks by other rollers, blocks, or

page_text: pads, to which rising and falling motion is given by either tappet, cam, crank,
eccentric, or other suitable means to act thereon at the proper time or times to
produce the desired effect on the yarn..
By this Invention a great saving is effected in labour and time, consequently
in the cost of printing yarns.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William James Hanson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd September 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JAMES HANSON, of Bradford, in the County of York, Manager, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William James Hanson, Her special licence that I, the said William
James Hanson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
1, the said William James Hanson, 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 of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING YARNS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William James Hanson, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 William James Hanson, 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 Sheet of Drawings (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to means of obtaining party coloured yarn by printing
or the application of colouring matters to some portions of such yarn whilst
the other portions remain unprinted or uncoloured.
Heretefore in order to

page_text: connecting rod R is attached to the said stem and to a lever S which may be
worked or operated by a suitable formed tappet. When the lever is lifted
the block or pad will be pressed thereby against the yarn in its passage, and
when the lever is lowered the block will be withdrawn, turned over, and pressed
upon a wire gauze or sieve placed over the colouring matter T in the trough
through which it receives a fresh supply of colour.
Fig. 5 is a cross section of a winding frame with my improvements applied
thereto.
A is the trough; B is the colour roller; C is the furnisher or printing roller;
and D is the pattern roller which may be cut to any particular design required.
Yarn E is supplied from bobbins F, and passing over the pattern roller and
betwixt it and the printing roller is thereby printed; it thence passes over the
guide roller G, and is wound on the spool bobbins or tubes H in the usual
manner by the rotation of the spindles I.
It will be observed that another pattern roller may be employed instead of
the printing roller herein shewn, if desirable, and also that various other modi-
fications may be made in the construction and arrangement of apparatus to be
employed for the purposes of this Invention.
In witness whereof; I, the said William James Hanson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William James
Hanson, in the presence of
W*. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
W. JAS. HANSON. (L.S.)
Halifax & Bradford.