IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry William Ripley, of Montpellier Lawn, Chel-
tenham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING
FIBROUS MATERIALS."-A communication from abroad by Stanislas Vigo-
reux. residing at Reims, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 2nd October 1868, and dated the 29th April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry William Ripley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th April 1863.
I, HENRY WILLIAM RIPLEY, of Montpellier Lawn', Cheltenham, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
PRINTING FIBROUS MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for printing
fibrous materials, and the Invention is more peculiarly applicable to the .
printing of fibrous materials which are afterwards to be drawn and spun into
yarns, though fibrous substances may in like manner be printed after they
have been spun, and these improvements may be used separately or in com-
bination with suitable mechanism for drawing the fibrous materials before
they are caused to be spun. The printing liquid is applied to a roller, the
circumference of which is covered or coated with a porous cloth or material;
the printing liquid is applied in such manner as to prevent there being any
excess of color upon the surface of the roller, or excess of printing liquid may
be expressed_or_removed_from-the-outer-surface-of-the-soft-and-porous

page_text: covering of the roller, in order that fibrous materials, when they come in
contact with the roller in the process of printing, may not by the simple
contact have color transferred to them from the roller. The color is con-
veniently applied to the covered roller by means of another roller partly
immersed in the printing liquid, and revolving in contact with the covered
roller, so as to apply printing liquid thereto, and any excess of printing liquid
is expressed either by a third roller or otherwise from the soft and porous
coating of the covered roller. The printing is effected by means of a printing
roller or surface on which the desired device is raised or engraved; this
printing surface is employed to press the fibrous material against the covered
roller, and the raised parts of the pattern press the fibrous materials into the
soft and porous covering of the roller in which the coloring liquid is con-
tained, and the fibrous material then receives color from the roller. Generally
when printing fibrous materials which are to be afterwards drawn and spun,
the printing device consists of raised or projecting ridges, either parallel or
inclined to the axis of the printing roller, and these raised surfaces may be
roughened or grained.. In some cases two printing rollers are used, and the
printing liquid is applied to the raised surfaces of such rollers which coincide
one with the other) in the ordinary manner, but in place of the rollers simply
having a rotating motion, they each have also an endway to-and-fro motion, by
which the fibrous materials are rubbed between the raised printing surfaces of
the rollers, and thus the fibrous materials are rubbed between the surfaces,
and are so rendered less liable than they otherwise would be to adhere to the
printing surfaces, and the printing liquid is thereby more thoroughly pressed
into the fibrous material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry William Ripley in the Geat Seal Patent Office on the
27th October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WILLIAM RIPLEY, of Montpellier Lawn, Cheltenham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant. unto. me, the said
Henry William Ripley, Her special licence that I, the said Henry William
Ripley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others. as I, the said

page_text: Henry William Ripley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might maké, 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
APPARATUS FOR PRINTING FIBROUS MATERIALS," a communication to me from
abroad by Stanislas Vigoreux, a person resident at Reims, in the Empire of
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry William
Ripley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Henry William Ripley, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :—
This Invention has for its object improvements in "apparatus for printing
fibrous materials, and the Invention is more peculiarly applicable to the
printing of fibrous materials which are afterwards to be drawn and spun into
yarns, though fibrous substances may in like manner be printed after they
have been spun, and these improvements may be used separately or in com-
bination with suitable mechanism for drawing the fibrous materials before
they are caused to be spun. The printing liquid is applied to a roller, the
circumference of which is covered. or coated with a porous cloth or material;
the printing liquid is applied in such manner as to prevent there being any
excess of color upon the surface of the roller; or excess of printing liquid
may be expressed or removed from the outer surface of the soft and porous
covering of the roller, in order that fibrous materials, when they come in
contact with the roller in the process of printing, may not by the simple
contact have color transferred to them from the roller. For this purpose I
have in some cases used thick woollen cloth to cover the roller, and in other
machines the roller has been covered with india-rubber cloth, and over it thin
woollen cloth; both these modes of covering the roller have answered the
purpose, but other elastic porous coverings may be employed. The color is
conveniently applied to the covered roller by means of another roller partly
immersed in the printing liquid, and revolving in contact with the covered
roller, so as to apply printing liquid thereto,-and-any-excess-of-printing liquid

page_text: is expressed either by a third roller, or otherwise from the soft and porous
coating of the covered roller. The printing is effected by means of a printing
roller or surface on which the desired device is raised or engraved; this
printing surface is employed to press the fibrous material against the covered
roller, and the raised parts of the pattern press the fibrous materials into the
soft and porous covering of the roller in which the coloring liquid is con-
tained, and the fibrous material then receives color from the roller. Generally
when printing fibrous materials which are to be afterwards drawn and spun, the
printing device consists of raised or projecting ridges, either parallel or inclined
to the axis of the printing roller, and these raised surfaces may be roughened
or grained. In some cases two printing rollers are used, and the printing
liquid is applied to the raised surfaces of such rollers (consisting of longitudinal
ridges which coincide one with the other) in the ordinary manner, but in
place of the rollers simply having a rotating motion they each have also an
endway to-and-fro motion, by which the fibrous materials are rubbed between
the raised printing surfaces or ridges of the rollers, and thus the fibrous
materials are rubbed between the surfaces, and are so rendered less liable
than they otherwise would be to adhere to the printing surfaces, and the
printing liquid is thereby more thoroughly pressed into the fibrous material.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry William Ripley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
HENRY W. RIPLEY. (L.S.)