IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELLING AND ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Paul Pfleiderer, of 37, Farringdon Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELLING
AND ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS
FOR THE SAME" A communication from abroad by Lewis Wells Broadwell, of
Paris.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Paul Pfleiderer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th February 1880.
PAUL PFLEIDERER, of 37, Farringdon Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELLING AND ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, JARS,
AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE SAME." (A communication
from abroad by Lewis Wells Broadwell, of Paris.)
or
This Invention has for its object a mode of labelling and ornamenting bottles,
jars, and similar articles without the aid of machinery or complicated apparatus by
simply rolling them over an inked or coloured "cliché" or pad prepared and fixed
in the manner hereinafter described. A further object of the Invention is to
combine all the working parts in a box or case, as hereinafter described; also the
composition used and the method employed in the preparation of the "cliché"
pad, as hereinafter described, and also the ingredients used, and the method
employed in preparing the ink or colour for the printing, as hereinafter described.
The simple apparatus consists of a box or case composed of two parts connected
together by a hinge or hinges in such a manner that it can be closed after use,
while when open for use it forms a kind of working table or bed, on which is fixed
a "cliché" or pad with the negative of the respective label embossed on it, and
with guides or bars, which can be adjusted to the positions required to suit the
dimensions or shape of the bottle or jar to be labelled. On the other part of the
opened box or working table is fixed an ordinary lithographic inking slab, on
which the inks or colours are prepared, and these are transferred to the "cliché" or
pad by means of an inking roller, when the bottle or jar can be labelled or
ornamented by merely rolling it between the guides over the surface of the “cliché”
or pad.
By making the box or case in two portions, connected by a hinge joint, all the
necessary working parts, such as the "cliché" or pad, blocks for fixing the same,

page_text: bottle guides, ink, inking roller, ink slab, and other appurtenances can be kept
in a compact manner and readily carried about as required, and the box need only
be unfolded in order to provide a working table conveniently fitted up with all the
requirements for labelling or ornamenting bottles or jars ready for use.
The "cliché" or pad is prepared in the following manner.:-A composition is
made with from 50 to 60 parts of best glue (by preference that obtained from calf's
head skin), about 40 parts of distilled water, and 40 to 50 parts of glycerine (of
about 30 degrees Reaumur), mixed with from 1 to 2 parts of olive oil. The glue is
first dissolved in the water,, and the glycerine added by degrees and thoroughly
mixed, when the olive oil may be added. The resulting liquid after being thoroughly
mixed is poured out on slabs in thin layers or cakes and left for about a fortnight
to dry and harden.. This composition is again dissolved in a bath of water (by
preference sea-water) and cast in a mould containing an electro of the negative of
the label or ornament to be applied to the bottle or jar. By this means a clear and
sharp "cliché" is obtained, which has the requisite elasticity and great durability
for printing large numbers of labels on hard bodies. The elastic "cliché' or pad is
by preference secured to a backing of wood or other suitable substance, which
should be flat for cylindrical bottles, but may be dished or hollowed out as required
in order to suit any particular irregularity in the shape of the bottles or jars
required to be printed.
'
As a rule the label is first engraved on wood, or it may be set in type, but
in every case, especially when engraved on wood, it is important to cast the
composition not on the wood direct, but on an electro taken from the same.
The printing inks intended to be used are mixed on the slab from finely
pulverized colours of any required shade with copaival balsam to a pastey
consistency, then about 10 per cent. of Venetian turpentine, 30 to 50 per cent. of
resinous oil are admixed, and also some dryers to give the ink the required
consistency for use.
Also colours made for impressions without heat are composed of about 2+ lbs.
avoirdupois of balsam copivi, the same quantity of English coburg varnish, and half
the quantity of fatty oil. Afterwards is added the colour in the state of impalpable
powder, and it is rendered liquid according to the purpose required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Paul Pfleiderer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th August
1880.
"
PAUL PFLEIDERER, of 37, Farringdon Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer. IMPROVEMENTS IN LABELLING AND ORNAMENTING BOTTLES, JARS,
AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE SAME." A communication.
from abroad by Louis Wells Broadwell, of Paris.
This Invention has for its.object a mode of labelling and ornamenting bottles,
jars, and similar articles without the aid of machinery or complicated apparatus
by simply rolling them over an inked or colored "cliché" or pad prepared and
fixed in the manner hereinafter described. A further object of the Invention is to
combine all the working parts in a box or case, as hereinafter described; also the
composition used and the method employed in the preparation of the "cliché" or
pad, as hereinafter described, and also the ingredients used and the method
employed in preparing the ink or colour for the printing, as hereinafter described.
The simple apparatus consists of a box or case composed of two parts connected
together by a hinge or hinges in such a manner that it can be closed after use,
while when open for use it forms a kind of working table or bed, on which is fixed
a "cliché" or pad with the negative of the respective label embossed on it, and
with guides or bars, which can be adjusted to the positions required to suit the
dimensions or shape of the bottle or jar to be labelled. On the other part of the
opened box or working table is fixed an ordinary lithographic inking slab, on
which the inks or colors are prepared, and these are transferred to the "cliché "
or pad by means of an inking roller, when the bottle or jar can be labelled or
ornamented by merely rolling it between the guides over the surface of the "cliché"
or pad.
By making the box or case in two portions, connected by a hinge joint, all the
necessary working parts, such as the "cliché" or pad, blocks for fixing the same,
bottle guides, ink, inking roller, ink slab, and other appurtenances can be kept in
a compact manner and readily carried about as required, and the box need only bo
unfolded in order to provide a working table conveniently fitted up with the
requirements for labelling or ornamenting bottles or jars ready for use.
The "cliché" or pad is prepared in the following manner :-
A composition is made with from fifty to sixty parts of best glue (by preference
that obtained from calf's head skin), about forty parts of distilled water, and forty
to fifty parts of glycerine (of about thirty degrees Reaumur), mixed with from one
to two parts of olive oil.
The glue is first dissolved in the water, and the glycerine added by degrees and
thoroughly mixed, when the olive oil may be added. The resulting liquid after
being thoroughly mixed is poured out on slabs in thin layers or cakes, and left for
about a fortnight to dry and harden. This composition is again dissolved in a bath
of water (by preference sea-water) and cast in a mould containing an electro of the
negative of the label or ornament to be applied to the bottle or jar. By this means
a clear and sharp "cliché" is obtained, which has the requisite elasticity and great
durability for printing large numbers of labels on hard bodies. The elastic "cliché"
or pad is by preference secured to a backing of wood or other suitable substance,
which should be flat for cylindrical bottles, but may be dished or hollowed out as
required in order to suit any particular irregularity in the shape of the bottles or
jars required to be printed.
As a rule the label is first engraved on wood, or it may be set up in type, but in
every case, especially when engraved on wood, it is important to cast the composi-
tion not on the wood direct, but on an electro taken from the same.

page_text: The printing inks intended to be used are mixed on the slab from finely
pulverized colours of any required shade with copaival balsam to a pasty con-
sistency, then about ten per cent. of Venetian turpentine, and from thirty to fifty
per cent. of resinous oil are admixed, and also some dryers to give the ink the
required consistency for use.
Also colours made for impressions without heat are composed of about two and a
quarter pounds avoirdupois of balsam copivi, the same quantity of English coburg
varnish, and half the quantity of fatty oil. Afterwards is added the colour in
the state of impalpable powder, and it is rendered liquid according to the purpose
required.
In the accompanying Drawing is represented in perspective the box or case
above referred to, and which is shewn as open ready for use. This box or case is
composed of two parts A and B, connected together by hinges C, C, so as to admit
of the box being closed when out of use; D is the "cliché" or pad with the negative
of the label embossed upon it; E, E, are guides or bars, which can be adjusted
in position and form to suit the dimensions and shape of the bottle or jar F required
to be labelled.
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On the part B of the opened box or working table is fixed a lithographic inking
slab G, on which the inks or colours are prepared, and they are transferred to the
cliché” or pad D by means of an inking roller, as shewn at H. When the parts
are thus prepared the bottle or jar F can be labelled or ornamented as required by
merely rolling it between the guides E, E, over the surface of the inked or coloured
cliché" or pad D.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention communicated to me from
abroad, as aforesaid, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby
declare that what I claim as of the said Invention is,-
First. The mode of labelling and ornamenting bottles, jars, and similar articles
without machinery or complicated apparatus by simply rolling them over a
cliché" or pad prepared, fixed, and inked or coloured in the manner hereinbefore
described.
Secondly. The combination of the "cliché" or pad D, the guides E, E, the inking
slab G, and the other parts represented in the Drawing so as to form a simple box
or case, as herein before described..
And, lastly. The composition used and the method of preparing the "cliché " and
the printing ink or colour for the purpose of carrying out this Invention as bercin-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Pfleiderer, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.