Selvidges and to Impart Stripes of Colour to Velvet and other Fabrics.
Year: 1885

page_text: Selvidges and to Impart Stripes of Colour to Velvet and
other Fabrics.
We EDWARD WEILD of 7 Weymouth Street Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester,
Engineer and HENRY RICKARDS of 2 Ash Bank, Northenden, in the County of
Chester, Velvet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this our said
invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR COLOURING THE EDGES
OR SELVIDGES AND TO
OF COLOUR TO VELVET AND OTHER
IMPART STRIPES
FABRICS," to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction and arrangement of mechanism
whereby the edges or. selvidges of velvets or other fabrics can be coloured or
stripes of colour imparted to other parts of such fabrics with its face downwards.
In performing our invention we take the material off the roll and lead it with
its face downwards over a table with adjustable sides to guide the cloth beneath
an iron roller by preference covered with india-rubber or other suitable yielding
material. Beneath this roller is mounted at each side an adjustable stencil or
slotted plate in which revolves the brush for laying on the colour and which brush
is caused to revolve at the desired speed by strap or gearing. This brush takes its
colour from a roller beneath which is geared by preference intermittently to a roller
running in the colour box and fitted with docter plates at each side. This arrange-
ment of the colour brushes permits the same to be raised or lowered say for the
purpose of adjustment or to supply fresh colour without disturbing the adjustment
of the cloth above-and also permits the brushes to be adjusted in distance froin
each other to suit the various widths of material.
For materials which are of constant and regular widths we mount the brush or
brushes in a cradle or swinging frame at one extremity thereof and cause the cloth
to pass over a roller mounted at the other extremity of such frame whereby we can
adjust the pressure upon the brush or brushes according to the take-up.
1000

page_text: Improvements in and Machinery for Colouring the Edges or
Selvages and to Impart Stripes of Colour to Velvet and
other Fabrics.
We EDWARD WEILD of 7 Weymouth Street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester,
Engineer, and HENRY RICKARDS of 2 Ash Bank, Northenden in the County of
Chester, Velvet Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of our invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND MACHINERY FOR COLOURING THE EDGES OR SELVAGES
AND TO IMPART STRIPES OF COLOUR TO VELVET AND OTHER FABRICS," and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the construction and arrangement of mechanism
whereby the edges or selvages of velvets or other fabrics can be coloured or
stripes of colour imparted to other parts of such fabrics with its face downwards...
: On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a side view Fig. 3
a side sectional view and Fig. 4 a plan of our improved mechanism. Fig. 5 is a
front sectional view one half through the colour box and pressure roller and the
other half through the adjustable guide. Fig. 6 is a plan shewing the adjustable
guide and slotted plates. Fig. 7 is a side sectional view on an enlarged scale
through the colour box and adjustable slotted' plates. Fig. 8 is a front view,
Fig. 9 a back view and Fig. 10 a sectional plan of the same colour box. In per-
forming our invention we take the fabric or material z off the roll and lead it
under and over rails a a provided with adjustable flanges a with its face
downwards then having passed between a pair of pressure rollers b it proceeds
over a table c with adjustable guides d to guide the fabric z beneath an iron or
wooden roller e by preference mounted at the extremity of swinging arms et covered
with india-rubber or other suitable yielding material. The cloth then proceeds in
the direction of the arrow over the table and between the pressure or drawing
rollers A and is received upon the beam B The adjustable guides & are actuated
by the right and left hand screw d' and hand wheel d² (see Fig. 6). Beneath this
roller e is mounted in V slide' at. each side an adjustable stencil or slotted plate f
beneath and in the slots of which revolve the brushes g for laying on the colours
or stripes to the cloth whilst passing over such slots. These brushes take their
colour from a roller h beneath running in the removable colour box i and fitted
with adjustable doctor plates p at each side as seen more clearly in Figs. 7 and 10.
The colouring matter employed (which forms no part of the present invention)
may be any desired pigment mixed with analine or mixed to the desired con-
sistency and body with turpentine, glue, paste, or other similar material or bronze,
gold, silver, platinumi, copper tin or other metal either mixed with gum or other
suitable adhesive substance or applied separately.
In Fig. 8 is seen more clearly the adjustable fixed stencil plates g¹ between
which the colour brush g revolves the whole being carried by the slotted adjustable
slide plate f guided in the V slide f¹. The driving shaft m for revolving the
colour brush receives its notion from the drawing off roller shaft A¹ through the

page_text: spur wheel C and such shaft m is slotted (see Fig. 9) to permit the driving wheel n
to travel sideways to and fro with the colour box and still to revolve and drive the
colour roller and through the spur gearing o o¹ o' to drive the colour brush at an
accellerated speed beyond the surface speed of the cloth which we find advisable
in order to lay on a proper body of colour. This arrangement of the colour brushes
permits the same to be raised or lowered by means of the screw j and the wheel j¹
say for the purpose of adjustment or to supply fresh colour without disturbing the
adjustment of the cloth. above-and also permits the brushes to be adjusted in
distance from each other by means of the right and left hand screw k to suit the
various widths of material.
For materials which are of constant and regular widths we mount the brush or
brushes in a cradle or swinging frame at one extremity thereof and cause the
cloth to pass over a roller mounted at the other extremity of such frame whereby
we can adjust the nip or pressure upon the brush or brushes according to the
take up.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st The improved method of colouring the edges or selvages and imparting
stripes of colour to velvet and other fabrics substantially as hereinbefore described.
2nd The general combinatin and arrangement of mechanism substantially as
and for the purposes described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
3rd The adjustable guides mounted and operated substantially as and for the
purposes described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
4th The adjustable slotted stencil plates in conjunction with the colour boxes
and revolving brush working beneath substantially as and for the purposes
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
5th The method of mounting and driving the revolving colour brush and at an
accellerated speed substantially as hereinbefore described.
Gth Mounting the improved colour brush in a cradle or swinging frame substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein before described.
Doted th: 70th of Oataher 100K
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for Applicants.