IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING OR STAINING WOVEN FABRICS AND PAPER."AL SP
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Berry, of Horwich, near Bolton, and
Thomas Booth, of Chorley, both in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Printers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING OR STAINING WOVEN FABRICS AND PAPER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Berry and
Thomas Booth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 28th April 1853.
We, JAMES BERRY and THOMAS BOOTH, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR PRINTING OR STAINING WOVEN FABRICS AND PAPER "
follows:-
Instead of the usual fixed or moveable surface tables, and the pres ent
method of furnishing the engraved roller with the necessary colouring
matter by bowls or rollers made of hard and solid materials, we pro-
pose to use a large centre cylinder, around which the material to be
printed is conveyed by any of the usual methods of conducting it over
surface tables by cloths, blankets, &c., and then to have the engraved
cylinders revolving on their axes outside the said centre cylinders and

page_text: the material thus staining or printing the pattern upon it with any
reasonable number of colours; but instead of having the color roller of
hard material, we propose to make it of a flexible or yielding material,
such as india-rubber, gutta-percha, or similar substance, by which we
shall overcome the many difficulties that have hitherto stood in the
way of carrying out this operation to the accuracies required. The im-
provements will be clearly understood by any one conversant with the
art of printing, by reference to the accompanying outline sketch of our
machine, in which we have shewn the general construction, as far as
one view can shew it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Berry and Thomas Booth, in the Great
Seal Patent Office, on the 25th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
JAMES BERRY, of Horwich, near Bolton, and THOMAS BOOTH, of Chorley,
both in the County of Lancaster, Machine Printers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said James Berry and Thomas
Booth, Her especial licence that we, the said James Berry and Thomas
Booth, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said James Berry and Thomas Booth, our executors, administrators,
or 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 of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING OR STAINING WOVEN FABRICS AND PAPER,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Berry
and Thomas Booth, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature

page_text: of our said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or
under the hand and seal of one of us, 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 Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Berry and Thomas Booth,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement (that is to say):
In surface printing, instead of using intermediate and furnishing
rollers with loose sieves to convey the colouring matter from the color
box to the printing surface, we arrange them so that the peripheries of
the color or sieve roller are in immediate contact with the printing
surface to which the color is thus conveyed; and instead of making the
color or sieve rollers of metal or hard material, we make them of flexible
or yielding material, as india-rubber, gutta-percha, or a composition of
any materials that will form a yielding substance, such as is ordinarily
used by letter-press printers for conveying the ink to the type. The
fabric to be printed is conveyed in the usual manner by back cloth or
blanket over guides, rollers, &c., through the machine, and thus receives
the required pattern or impression. The method of using these our
flexible color or sieve rollers in the ordinary printing machine will be
easily understood by reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings,
in which the same letters of reference are used to represent similar parts
where different views or diagrams are shewn.
Fig. 1, is a section of part of a printing machine, shewing our
elastic sieve rollers in contact with the printing rollers; and Fig. 2,
in a plan of the color box and color or sieve roller. A, represents the
cylinder on which the fabric or paper to be printed rests; B, the
color boxes; C, the elastic color or sieve rollers; and D, the printing
rollers.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of our said
Invention, we desire it to be distinctly understood that we do not
confine ourselves to any particular number of colors to each machine,
neither do we claim the position of the color or sieve roller in contact

page_text: with the printing roller, as we know that has already been done with
metal rollers; but we claim as our Invention, and which, to the best of
our knowledge and belief, has not been hitherto used within this realm,
the use of sieve rollers made of elastic substances or materials working
in contact with the printing rollers.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Berry and Thomas Booth,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-second day
of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named James Berry and
Thomas Booth in the presence of-
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JAMES BERRY. (L.S.)
THOMAS BOOTH. (L.S.)