Im- PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING SHAWLS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING SHAWLS AND OTHER ARTICLES."
-A communication from J. M. Firnstahl, of Vienna.)
Sealed the 18th March 1859, and dated the 22nd September 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd September 1858.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING SHAWLS AND OTHER
ARTICLES," (communicated to me by J. M. Firnstahl, of Vienna,) to be as
follows:-
These improvements consist in constructing apparatus for printing shawls
and other articles in the following manner:-An impression table and a
colouring table, or two or more impression tables and colouring tables are
employed, one or more of them being fixed, and one or more of them
movable. The movable tables, whether impression or colouring tables, are
each supported upon a horizontal frame or platform, which rests upon rollers
carried at the extremities of levers. These levers are mounted eccentrically
upon centres, and have their opposite extremities connected by links to other
levers, which are again connected by levers to the end or ends of a beam or
beams. When this beam or these beams is or are caused to rock by means

page_text: of a suitable hand lever, or otherwise, the several links and levers impart an
upward and downward motion to the platform or frame, and through it to the
table, the motion being rendered smooth and easy by the rollers on which the
platform or frame immediately rests. The printing blocks or other printing
surfaces are supported upon wheels which run on rails and are successively
passed over the colouring tables and the impression tables which are suc-
cessively forced up to them by means of the parts before described. Provision
is made for fixing the printing surfaces before the shawl (or other article)
extended upon the impression table is brought up against it, and also for
adjusting the shawl and bringing the desired portions of it successively beneath
the same printing surface. When the colouring table is fixed, a colour roller
is connected to it and arranged in such manner that it will turn when the
printing surface moves over it in one direction and remain at rest when that
surface moves over it in the opposite direction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd March 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E.C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 APPARATUS FOR PRINTING SHAWLS AND OTHER ARTICLES,"
(a communication from J. M. Firnstahl, of Vienna,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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

page_text: 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
These improvements consist in constructing apparatus for printing shawls
and other articles in the following manner:-An impression table and a
colouring table, or two or more impression tables and colouring tables are
employed, one or more of them being fixed, and one or more of them movable.
The movable tables, whether impression or colouring tables, are each supported
upon a horizontal frame or platform, which rests upon rollers carried at the
extremities of levers. These levers are mounted eccentrically upon centres,
and have their opposite extremities connected by links to other levers, which
are again connected by levers to the end or ends of a beam or beams. When
this beam or these beams is or are caused to rock by means of a suitable hand
lever or otherwise, the several links and levers impart an upward or down-
ward motion to the platform or frame, and through it to the table, the motion
being rendered smooth and easy by the rollers on which the platform or frame
immediately rests. The printing blocks or other printing surfaces are sup-
ported upon wheels which run on rails, and are successively passed over the
colouring tables and the impression tables, which are successively forced up to
them by means of the parts before described. Provision is made for fixing
the printing surfaces before the shawl (or other article) extended upon the
impression table is brought up against it, and also for adjusting the shawl and
bringing the desired portions of it successively beneath the same printing
surface. When the coloring table is fixed, a color roller is connected to it,
and arranged in such manner that it will turn when the printing surface moves
over it in one direction, and remain at rest when that surface moves over it in
the opposite direction.
In the Drawings hereunto annexed I have represented a machine con-
structed according to this Invention. Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in
section, and Figure 2 a plan of the same. Both Figures have been broken
and shortened near the middle, in order to bring them within the prescribed
limits without too greatly reducing the scale of the Drawings. A is the frame
of the machine; B and C are coloring tables; and D a movable impression

page_text: table. The principal motions of the apparatus proceed from the beam E,
which is put in motion by means of the lever F. The beam E is supported
by two bearings a, a, and connected by two cranks b, b, to the levers G, G,
which again are connected by two bands of iron c, c, to the levers H, H, of
the excentric wheels or cylinders J, J. The extremities of these levers have
upon them the wheels e, e, which bear upon the beams d. This mechanism
acts as follows:-When the lever F is moved towards the table of impression D,
the left limb of the beam E is depressed, the cranks b, b, and bands c, c, at the
same time drawing down the levers G, G, H, H. By these movements the
eccentric wheels J, J, are caused to turn in their supports, and thus raise the
wheels e, e, and again raise the frame K, and this carries up the impression
table D. The coloring table C is furnished with an arrangement of levers,
&c. similar to that just described, whereby it is raised when the lever F is
moved towards the said table C. In order to put the two tables C and D in
equilibrium, the lever G of the coloring table C is connected by the band 23
to the lever 20 and the balance weight 21. This lever 20 is movable in the
bearings 22. The frame K placed beneath the table of impression is furnished
with four vertical triangular rails or guides regulated by a screw g¹. On the
frame K is fitted a rim or disc L, then another rim or disc M, above which is
the table of impression D. The two rims are grooved together, as shown in
Figure 1, in order to make the surface of the table D turn equally, and to
cause it to fit into the corner pieces i, i, accurately. In place of the pieces i, i,
cylindrical pieces may be employed. The cylinder j, conical at the surface is
attached to the interior of the frame of the table D. The chock k, attached
to the table D, falls on the cylinder j in order to set and withdraw lightly
the top of the table D, and to produce an exact application of the design.
Four screw bolts 24 are placed at the centre of the sides of the table D, by
which is adjusted the frame covered with the stuff to be printed. Each of the
coloring tables B and C have frames carrying the chases 5 and 6, furnished
with triangular rails 1. Beneath the chases is mechanism for taking the
colors separately. The balance N, with the arms m, n, produces the
principal motion, and the remainder of the parts are for the most part like
those applied to the impression table. When the lever h is moved to the
right, the arm m moves down and draws with it the lever o by means of the
lever p, and the levers by means of the rod r. This operation raises the
excentric t fixed to the support d, as well as the wheel u. By this means
the chase 5 is carried up to take the color. When the lever h is drawn to
the left, the arm n moves down and draws with it the lever w by means of the
rod v, as well as the lever a by means of the rod y. By this operation the

page_text: excentric is moved upwards in the support d with the wheel u, and at
the same time raises the chase 6 to take up the color. In the chases 5 and 6
are disposed four circular springs, attached to a button of wood, and fitted
upon a pin or axle. A cord attached to the button passes through the interior
of the spring, and is wound upon the cylinder z, which is furnished with a
toothed wheel 3, and a pawl 4, serving to regulate the height of the springs.
The ends of these springs project above the frame, and the chases, which are
covered with flannel and oilcloth rest upon them. Upon the frame of the
machine rails 8, 8, are laid for the wheels P, P, of the table carriages O, O', to
run upon. Each of the printing carriages is fitted with two flaps fitted upon
hinges R, R, and latches or fastenings S, S, which flaps may be opened in
order that the printer may see if the pattern surfaces are properly adjusted, or
that he may adjust them if need be. Each coin or corner piece of the
impression table is furnished with a stop or lug u, and when the carriage is
placed over the impression table, the bolts or pins v fixed to the carriage enter
these stops or lugs u at the same time as the supports w₁ fall between the two
locks, whereby the carriage is securely fixed in its place. Each carriage has a
mechanism for spreading the color in the chases, with two frames q for_the
cylinders. The carriages have also movable clasps 10, furnished with a
regulating screw 11, working in a nut 12. By means of the screw 11, which
presses upon, but cannot penetrate the plate 13, the roller 14 may be raised
and lowered in order to cause it at will to press the coloring material upon
the chases. The roller 14 is covered with cloth, and furnished with trunnions,
with a toothed wheel 15, and with a pawl 16. When the carriage is advanced
from the impression table towards the coloring table, the pawl 16 prevents
the rotation of the roller, and causes it to pass over the coloring material
without turning; on the contrary, the pawl ceases to act when the carriage is
withdrawn after it has put the colors on the table of impression, and the
roller is consequently allowed to turn to efface the figures left by the printing
surface upon the chases. In the corners of the chases are fitted triangular
projections, on which are mounted rails reaching up to the frames.
rails on which the roller 14 is received as the carriage moves to and fro. In
addition to Figures 1 and 2, I have shown detached views of several parts of
the apparatus, with letters indicating what they are marked upon them.
25 are
The machine shown is for printing four colors, and has one impression
table and two coloring tables. It might, however, for the same number of
colors be constructed with two tables of impression and two coloring tables.
For two colors it might be made with one impression and one coloring

page_text: table.
modified.
The arrangement of the machine might be otherwise variously
The method of operating with the machine is as follows:-Half an hour
before the work begins, the color is put in the chases, and before the printing
commences, this supply of color is removed and replaced by a fresh supply.
The shawl or other article to be printed is then placed in position, and the
pattern blocks or surface is adjusted in the left corner of the impression table,
and by raising the latter, by means of the lever F, the said surface is forced
between the table and the printing surface of the carriage, and is attached by
the screws 17 to the flaps of the carriage; the flaps are then opened to
examine if the parts of the pattern surface are properly adjusted. This being
done, the said surface is drawn by means of the carriage over the coloring
table, and by lightly lifting the chases by means of the lever h, it is made to
take color; it may then be advanced a little and touched a second time
with color; it is then moved over the impression table, and the lever F is
then moved so as to press the shawl up firmly against the colored surface;
the impression table is then raised sufficiently to allow of the second portion
of the shawl being printed, and the manipulation is repeated. The second of
the four colors is then applied by means of the same carriage, and the
remaining two by means of the other carriage in like manner. The four
colours being properly arranged, the printing can be continued without
interruption.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the construction
and method of action of apparatus for printing shawls and other articles
essentially as herein-before described, and illustrated in the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.