IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND COLORING PAPER, CHINTZ, AND OTHER FABRICS, AND MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alphonse Nicolas Saleres, of No. 170, Rue de
Charonne, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, Paper Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND COLORING
Sealed the 25th February 1862, and dated the 2nd September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alphonse Nicolas Saleres
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd September 1861.
I, ALPHONSE NICOLAS SALERES, of No. 170, Rue de Charonne, in the City
of Paris, in the Empire of France, Paper Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND COLORING
PAPER, CHINTZ, AND OTHER FABRICS, AND MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THAT
PURPOSE," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed for printing or coloring in one color or any
number of different colors, paper, chintz, and other fabrics, of any design or
pattern, by the aid of improved machinery or apparatus, of the following con-
struction-To a suitable framing I connect a series of cylinders, say, four,
capable of revolving by toothed gearing; the foremost of these cylinders carries
the fabric to be printed or colored, and the hindermost cylinder works in a
trough containing coloring matter; the surfaces of all the cylinders are in con-
tact with each other. Over the foremost cylinder aforesaid I adapt a V-shaped
trough divided into numerous compartments, the bottoms of which are open,
and rest upon the cylinder aforesaid; and I so connect said trough with certain
mechanism as to impart thereto,, when desired, a reciprocating movement

page_text: lengthwise of said trough, so that supposing the fabric intended to be printed
or colored to be moving round with the cylinder on which it is placed, and end
movement imparted to the divided trough aforesaid containing the coloring
matter, wavy or undulating lines or stripes of different colors may thus be pro-
duced, or one entire tint of the same color may be spread over the surface of
the fabric, and upon this or the striped colored ground aforesaid, devices,
designs, or patterns may be printed of any color through the medium of an
engraved cylinder supplied with coloring matter from the hindermost cylinder
before described; or, instead of using cylinders, flat surfaces could be so
arranged and actuated as to receive the coloring matters and printing
impressions.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alphonse Nicolas Saleres in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALPHONSE
NICOLAS SALERES, of No. 170, Rue de Charonue, in the City of Paris, in the
Empire of France, Paper Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Iler reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Alphonse Nicolas Saleres, Her special licence that I, the said Alphonse Nicolas
Saleres, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alphonse Nicolas Saleres, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any timo 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PRINTING AND COLORING PAPER, CHINTZ, AND OTHER FABRICS, AND MA-
CHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THAT PURPOSE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alphonse Nicolas Saleres, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alphonse Nicolas Saleres, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say:-
This Invention is designed for printing or coloring in one color or any
number of different colors, paper, chintz, and other fabrics, of any design or
pattern, by the aid of improved machinery or apparatus of the following con-
struction: To a suitable framing I connect a series of cylinders, say, four,
capable of revolving by toothed gearing; the foremost of these cylinders carries
the fabric to be printed or colored, and the hindermost cylinder works in a
trough containing coloring matter; the surfaces of all the cylinders are in
contact with each other. Over the foremost cylinder aforesaid I adapt a
V-shaped trough divided into numerous compartments, the bottoms of which
are open, and rest upon the cylinder aforesaid, and I so connect said trough
with certain mechanism, as to impart thereto, when desired, a reciprocating
movement lengthwise of said trough, so that supposing the fabric intended to be
printed or colored to be moving round with the cylinder on which it is placed,
and end movement imparted to the divided trough aforesaid, containing the
coloring matter, wavy or undulating lines or stripes of different colors may
thus be produced, or one entire tint of the same color may be spread over the
surface of the fabric, and upon this or the striped colored ground aforesaid,
devices, designs, or patterns may be printed of any color, through the medium
of an engraved cylinder supplied with coloring matter from the hindermost
cylinder before described; or, instead of using cylinders, flat surfaces could be
so arranged and actuated as to receive the coloring matters and printing
impressions.
And in order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved machinery or appa-
ratus; Figure 2, a transverse and vertical section thereof through A, B, at
Figure 1. I employ similar letters of reference to denote corresponding parts

page_text: axes; G, a trough of metal or other suitable material divided into vertical
compartments a, a, distinguished by dotted lines at Figure 1, each of which
may contain coloring matter of a different color or shade of color; II, a frame
for supporting the trough G by means of the bars b, b, affixed thereto; I, I,
pieces of metal working between guides for maintaining the horizontal move-
ment of said trough, imparted thereto by the rod K, connected to the crank
arm L, set in motion by wheels c, d, e,f,g; M, M, screws, and N, N, toothed
wheels for raising and lowering or adjusting the framing O which carries the
guides, so as to set the bottom edge of trough (which is formed open) at any
desired distance from the surface of the material which is to be colored, said
material passing over the roller B; motion being imparted to this roller by tho
wheels h, i, k, and which gear into each other; P is a trough containing
coloring matter, in which the roller E revolves, and in doing so deposits said
coloring matter upon revolving pads on the roller D, the color being trans-
ferred thence to the surface of the cylinder C, which is engraved or otherwise
ornamented with a device or pattern.
The operations of this machine are as follows:-As the cylinder B revolves,
it advances the material, which becomes colored either in undulating stripes
by the reciprocating movement of the trough G, or in straight stripes if the
said trough be stationary, or entirely covered with coloring matter; the
material then receives an impression from the pattern cylinder C, and passes
thence to be dried.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in Printing and Coloring Paper, Chintz, and
other Fabrics, and Machinery or Apparatus for that Purpose," together with
the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect,
I hereby declare my Invention to consist in, and I claim, printing and coloring
paper, chintz, and other fabrics, substantially as above described; also the
novel machinery or apparatus employed for that purpose, as represented by
the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alphonse Nicolas Saleres, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ALPHONSE NICOLAS SALERES. (L.S.)