IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BRONZING, COLOURING, OR OTHERWISE ORNAMENTING PAPER AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Leeming and Richard Ray, both of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Lithographers, and Francis
Gascoigne Lynde, of Hawes Wensleydale, in the County of York,
Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR BRONZING, COLOURING, OR OTHERWISE ORNAMENTING PAPER AND OTHER
MATERIALS."
Scaled the 9th April 1875, and dated the 27th October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Leeming,
Richard Ray, and Francis Gascoigne Lynde at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th October
1874.
We, THOMAS LEEMING and RICHARD RAY, both of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Lithographers, and FRANCIS GASCOIGNE LYNDE, of
Hawes Wensleydale, in the County of York, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR BRONZING, COLOURING, OR OTHERWISE ORNAMENTING PAPER AND OTHER
MATERIALS," to be as follows :-

page_text: referred to a travelling endless cloth or belt made of a piled fabric or
other suitable material which acts on the face of the paper or other
material to remove the excess of bronzing or other powder that has been
printed. This endless belt or band passes over guide pulleys, and is
driven by a band from the delivering or other roller, or from other
convenient part of the machine.
Another part of our Invention consists in applying a hammer to the
trough containing the bronzing or other powder for the purpose of
discharging a certain quantity of the powder on to the paper or other
material as it passes through the machine. The hammer is worked by 1
side rods, which are lifted by toothed pinions, and are brought down by
springs or other equivalents.
Our Invention consists also in applying a second trough under the
first trough to catch the bronze or other powder that is not deposited on
the paper or other material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Leeming, Richard Ray, and Francis
Gascoigne Lynde in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th April
1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
LEEMING and RICHARD RAY, both of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Lithographers, and FRANCIS GASCOIGNE LYNDE, of Hawes
Wensleydale, in the County of York, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Leeming, Richard Ray,
and Francis Gascoigne Lynde, Her special licence that we, the said
Thomas Leeming, Richard Ray, and Francis Gascoigne Lynde, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said

page_text: Thomas Leeming, Richard Ray, and Francis Gascoign Lynde, our
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 "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BRONZING, COLOURING, OR OTHERWISE ORNAMENTING
PAPER AND OTHER MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Thomas Leeming, Richard Ray, and Francis Gascoigne
Lynde, our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of our or their hands and scals, should par-
ticularly 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 we, the said Thomas Leeming, Richard Ray,
and Francis Gascoigne Lynde, 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) :-
Our Invention consists, first, in applying to the machines above
referred to a travelling endless cloth or belt made of a piled fabric or
other suitable material which acts on the face of the paper or other
material to remove the excess of bronzing or other powder from the
sheet that has been printed. This endless belt or band passes over guide
pulleys, and is driven by a band from the delivering or other roller, or
from other convenient part of the machine.
Another part of our Invention consists in applying a hammer to the
trough containing the bronzing or other powder for the purpose of
discharging a certain quantity of the powder on to the paper or other
material as it passes through the machine. The hammer is worked by
side rods, which are lifted by toothed pinions, and are brought down by
springs or other equivalents.
Our Invention consists also in covering the rollers or cylinders used in

page_text: carried into operation we will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 a side
elevation in section of a machine for bronzing, colouring, or otherwise
ornamenting paper and other materials, constructed according to our
Invention.
a is a box containing the rollers b and c, around which the endless
belt & travels; e is the trough containing the bronzing or other powder;
and is the rubbing roller, all of which form no part of our present
Invention. The paper or other material passes through the machine
from the right to the left, as shewn by the arrow in Fig. 1. Between
the roller and the end of the box a is the travelling endless cloth or
bclt I, which passes around the driving roller h, over the tightening
Foller, and under the guide roller j; this cloth or belt acts on the face
of the paper or other material to remove the excess of bronzing or other
powder from the sheet that has been printed and bronzed. The belt g
is made of piled fabric or other suitable material, and it is driven by a
bevel wheel on the axle of the roller f, gearing into the pinion / on
the axle of the roller . The belt is kept at the proper tension by the
spring which acts on the frame in which the roller i revolves, or in
any other convenient manner, and the guard ¹, see Fig. 1, serves to
guide the front edge of the paper or other material under the travelling.
belt g. The bronze or other powder that is brushed off the printed sheet
of paper or other material falls into the tray below.
The apparatus for agitating the trough e for the purpose of discharging
a certain quantity of the bronze or other powder on to the printed sheet
of paper or other material passing through the machine consists of two
ratchet toothed pinions c¹ fixed on the axle of the roller c; each pinion
acts on a side rod supported in bearings fixed to the inside of the box;
to these side rods are connected the hammers m by springs, and they
are lifted by the teeth of the ratchet pinions and brought down by
springs coiled around them; consequently as the roller c revolves it
actuates the lammers m and causes them to strike on the top edge of
the trough e, for the purpose described. The force of the blow of the
hammers can be regulated, or the hammers can be lifted completely

page_text: clear of the trough by the cams n¹ on the shaft n, which is turned partly
round when required by a handle, and causes the cams to act on the
shoulders on the side rods 1, or other equivalents may be used to effect
the same object.
The last part of our Invention is chiefly applicable to those machines
in which the printed sheet is carried through the machine by rollers or
cylinders; and it consists in covering the said rollers or cylinders with
india-rubber to prevent slipping..
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described the
manner of performing the same, we declare that we claim,—
First. The application of an endless cloth or belt acting at right angles
to the direction in which the printed sheet of paper or other material
travels, for removing the excess of bronzing or other powder, as shown
and described.
Secondly. Agitating the trough containing the bronzing or other
powder in the manner and for the purpose described.
And, lastly. Covering the rollers or cylinders of bronzing machines
with india-rubber, for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Ray, for myself and on
behalf of the said Thomas Leeming and Francis Gascoigne Lynde,
have hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of
April, One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five.
RICHARD RAV 401