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Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ignace Joseph Silbermann, junior, of Paris, in the
Empire of France, and of 32, Essex Street, Strand, London, for the
Tion of "T™ Der OF ANY KIND OF SURFACES."
A
Sealed the 16th November 1855, and dated the 21st May 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st May 1855.
I, IGNACE JOSEPH SILBERMANN, jun', of Paris, in the Empire of France,
and of 32, Essex Street, Strand, London, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING ON ANY KIND OF SURFACES
be as follows, viz. :-
My Invention relates to a novel means of printing on any kind of plane or
curved surface, and consists in producing the pressure required by injecting
gas, steam, or any fluid or liquid into a bag or flexible holding capacity or
vessel which acts as a press. This flexible bag may be made of materials that
are naturally impervious, such as caoutchouc, gutta percha, or of such as are
rendered impervious by any of the known processes. This novel means of
printing may be applied to several branches of industry; for instance, it may
be used in the manufacture of terrestrial or celestial globes of any dimensions,

page_text: by means of the interior surface of a sphere of copper or of steel which has
the required representations engraved upon it, and against which, by the above
mentioned injection, I press the surface of a flexible and elastic globe or
balloon of caoutchouc, gutta percha, gold-beater's skin, or any fabric whatever.
This novel process may also be applied to printing maps, lithographs, calico, or
any fabrics or surfaces whatever, the essential feature of this Invention being
the application to any kind of printing whatever of the above means, which
consists substantially in injecting air, steam, or gases, into a bag or other
capacity in such manner that said.capacity may be used as a press.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, in the Great Seal Patent Offico
on the 21st November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, IGNACE
JOSEPH SILBERMANN, jr., of Paris, in the Empire of France, and of No. 32,
Essex Street, Strand, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the 21st day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, jr., Her special licence that I, the said
Ignace Joseph Silbermann, jr., my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, jr., 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 ON ANY KIND
OF SURFACES, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Ignace
Joseph Silbermann, jr., by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 Ignace Joseph Silbermann, jr., do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-*
My Invention relates to a new mode of printing on any kind of curved or
plane surfaces, and is grounded on this principle, that a pressure on any point
of the bulk of an enclosed liquid, steam, or gas will be exactly and equally.
transmitted to every point of the said bulk, and consequently to every point
of the interior surface of the vessel or recipient which contains the liquid,
steam, or gas, whatever may be its form or shape.
Supposing the interior surface of the vessel or recipient being wholy or
partly elastic, the pressure on any point of the enclosed liquid, steam, or gas
will be directly transmitted on and by every point of the said surface.
This new mode of printing may be applied to several branches of industry;
it may be used, for instance, in printing terrestrial or celestial globes of any
dimensions. For this I use two hemispheres, of copper or steel, or any suit-
able substance, which have the required figures engraved in their interior
surfaces. When the inking is properly effected, 1 insert through the polar
opening of one of the two hemispheres the small neck of the globe to be
printed, which may be of caoutchouc, gutta percha, gold-beater's skin, or
any fabric whatever, and this being done and the said globe enclosed I adjust
the two hemispheres by any suitable means.
When the globe to be printed is thus secured in the inside of the engraved
sphere, I blow it, by admitting compressed air, steam, gas, or any fluid till the
pressure or expansion of the elastic globe is sufficient for a good printing being
obtained, when the two hemispheres are separated and cleaned for a new work-
ing. These globes, besides they are cheaper, have still the advantage of being
unblown, kept, and carried in a pocket book.
For printing on plane surfaces, the above-mentioned printing process may
be equally used with great advantage. This apparatus consists of a box or vessel
of a hard substance, with one side of which made of vulcanized caoutchouc or
any equivalent material. The said vessel is filled with air, gas, or liquid, and
the pressure is effected by means of either a water press, or a compressed air
chamber, or a steam boiler. When the plato is inked, and the paper or fabric
to be printed suitably laid on a plane, table, or surface, I apply on it the elastic
part of the vessel, securing it by any suitable means; then by opening a cock
the compressed air, steam, or any other liquid or fluid is admitted within th
compressing apparatus; printing is effected on every point of the surface,
whatever may be its size, with a perfect uniformity.
My process, which is applicable to copper-plate engraving, basso-relievo, on
plane surfaces, and in black or any color, may be applied to ornamental glass

page_text: labels for bottles, phials, pots of all descriptions; for that the same moulds
which serve for the shaping of the vessel by blowing are to be previously
engraved & inked with indelible substances, such as are commonly used in
printing, or tracing out, or painting on china, glass, &. My process also
allows the perfect inking of all engraved surfaces, and of all forms, curved or
plane, and principally of the rollers used for inking the engraved cylinders
for printing fabrics. My inking surface is caoutchouc, plane, curved, spherical,
or cylindrical, as required for the surface engraved. The pressure is obtained
by the same means above described.
Having thus set forth the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which it is or may be carried into effect, I wish it to be distinctly understood
that what I claim as novel, and being secured to me by the herein-before in
parts recited Letters Patent, is, producing a pressure by air, gas, steam, or a
liquid, either through one or several of the said mediums, in the interior part
of a recipient or holding capacity made wholy or partly elastic, for the purpose
of inking or printing on any surfaces, either curved or plane.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ignace Joseph Silbermann, j', have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
(L.S.) ICE JOSEPH SILBERMANN,
CADET.