Improvements in Machinery for Stamping, Printing, or Embossing Woven or other Fabrics and Materials with a Single Colour or Two or more Colours Simultaneously.
Year: 1889

page_text: 1889
Date of Application, 8th Feb.,
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Stamping, Printing, or Embossing
Woven or other Fabrics and Materials with a Single Colour or
Two or more Colours Simultaneously.
I FRANCIS PRESTON of Nothorfield House Kirkburton in the County of York
Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
:-
My improvements consist chiefly in the arrangement and application of a self acting
appliance for supplying ink or colour to the pad or bad by which such ink or colour is
furnished to the printing block or type.
In stamping machines for printing trade marks or other devices on fabrics in
which the block or type is caused to move on to an inking pad and is then moved
away and brought down on the fabric to be stamped it is now customary to apply the
ink or colour to the pad by hand. The chief objection to this in addition to the
labour and loss of time it entails is that the pad is apt to be inked irregularly and
so bad work results.
In carrying my improvements into effect I employ an inking roller which is
supplied with ink or colour from a trough or equivalent and is by a suitable
arrangement of mechanism traversed to and fro on the inking pad or bed after the
printing block or type has moved away from the same. If it be desired to print in
two or more colours I use an equivalent number of rollers with corresponding inking
troughs and pads. I prefer to arrange the rollers upon a similar principle to that
adopted in the well known "Evan Leigh's top roller" used in spinning machines so
that each section of the roller supplies a separate colour to a suitably divided pad.
This last named arrangement for supplying two or more colours may be used with
advantage in other printing machinos besides the stamping machines above
mentioned.
I propose to arrange the ink troughs or equivalents so that by adjusting their
position the supply of ink to the rollers can be regulated at will.
Dated this 7th day of February 1889.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Stamping, Printing, or Embossing
Woven or other Fabrics and Materials with a Single Colour or
Two or more Colours Simultaneously.
1, FRANCIS PRESTON, of Netherfield House, Kirkburton in the County of York,
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My improvements consist chiefly in the arrangement and application of a self
acting appliance for supplying ink or colour to the pad or bed by which such ink or
colour is furnished to the printing block or type.
In stamping machines for printing trade marks or other devices on fabrics in which
the block or type is caused to move on to an inking pad and is then moved away and
brought down on the fabric to be stamped it is now customary to apply the ink
or colour to the pad by hand. The chief objection to this in addition to the labour
and loss of time it entails is that the pad is apt to be inked irregularly and so bad
work results.
In carrying my improvements into effect I employ an inking roller which is supplied

page_text: with ink or colour from a trough or equivalent and is by a suitable arrangement of
mechanism traversed to and fro on the inking pad or bed after the printing block or
type has moved away from the same. If it be desired to print in two or more colours
I use an equivalent number of rollers with corresponding inking troughs and pads.
1 prefer to arrange the rollers upon a similar principle to that adopted in the well
known Evan Leigh's top roller" used in spinning machines so that each section of
the roller supplies a separate colour to a suitably divided pad. This last named
arrangement for supplying two or more colours may be used with advantage
in other printing machines besides the stamping machines above mentioned.
I propose to arrange the ink troughs or equivalents so that by adjusting their
position the supply of ink to the rollers can be regulated at will.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect will describe the accompanying Drawing which represents in end elevation
a machine fitted with my improvements.
The machine illustrated is of a well known type in which the printing block or
platen a is mounted on a movable frame which is jointed to two arms e kayed upon
rocking shafts d. Motion is given to the shafts d and arms e by means of toothed
whoelse which are koyed on the shafts d and are actuated by a reciprocating
rack which is moved to and fro in alideways g', secured on the machine
frame, by means of a connecting rod / crauk í and rotating crankshaft j.
All the foregoing parts are of the ordinary construction and their action is well
understood namely that as the sliding rack travels in one direction the arms e move
the frame which descends from the position shown until the platen a comes in
contact with and takes its ink or colour from the pad or bed k and when the rack/
moves in the reverse direction the frame brises to the position shown in the Drawing
and then descends upon the other side until the platon a prints upon the fabric
resting on the table m.
My improvements consist as hereinbefore stated in employing a roller n which is
supplied with ink or colour from a trough o and is traversed to and fro on the pad k
after the platen a has moved away from the same. A convenient arrangement for
traversing the roller n consists in pivoting two arms p to the ends of the movable
frame and to the ends of the roller n so that as the said framo moves the
roller is traversed to and fro and applies the ink or colour taken from the
trough o to the pad k.
It is obvious however that various other arrangements might be employed
for traversing the roller n; but I prefor the arins p as being simple and
reliable.
To regulate the amount of ink or colour furnished to the roller n I have two arms
pivoted one on each side of the machine just in front of and near each end of the
colour trough o. On a transverse shaft extending across the machine helow the
colour trough o are fixed two eccentrics one below each arm 7 and a worm whool s.
In gear with this worm wheels is a worm t' at one end of a shaft t at the other end
of which is a hand wheel w. By turning the hand wheel the eccentrics can bo
moved to raise the arms and support the roller so as to raise it as required
either slightly or altogether clear of the colour in the trough o as shown in the
the Drawing
colours 1 prefer to make the
For a machine designed to print with two or more
roller n pad and trough o in sections there being as may sections in each of theso
parts as there are colours.
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Each section of the roller a would then take its colour from one of the sections of
the trough a and apply it to the corresponding section of the pad k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a machine of the type specified the combination with an ink or colour pad,
of a self acting arrangement for furnishing ink or colour by means of a traversing

page_text: roller to said pad substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying
Drawing.
2. In a colour printing or embossing machine the combination with the ink or
colour pad divided into two or more sections, of a self acting roller divided into two
or more sections each section taking its ink or colour from a separate section of
the colour trough and applying it to the corresponding portion of the divided
pad substantially as herein set forth.
3. The combined arrangement of parts embodying my improvements substantially
as described and as illustrated by the Drawing annexed.
Dated this 6th dow of Novemba 1000
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.