IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC- TURE OF ROLLERS, CYLINDERS, OR TUBES, FOR PRINTING FABRICS OR OTHER MATERIALS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Peyton, of Birmingham, in the County
UPON TEXTILE
of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF ROLLERS, CYLINDERS, OR TUBES, FOR PRINTING
FABRICS OR OTHER MATERIALS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 18th September 1869, and dated the 24th March 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Peyton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th March 1869.
I, EDWARD PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS, CYLINDERS, OR TUBES FOR PRINTING
TEXTILE FABRICS OR OTHER MATERIALS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOзES," to be as
follows:-
UPON
My Invention relates to the manufacture of rollers or cylinders
employed for printing upon textile fabrics or other materials for im-
pressing designs on various materials, or in the manufacture of paper,
or for calendering textile fabrics, paper, or other substances, or for other
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page_text: purposes. My Invention is also applicable to the manufacture of
metallic tubes.
According to my Invention a hollow cylinder made of a comparatively
base metal or alloy, such as spelter, brass, or other suitable metal or
alloy is combined with a surrounding surface of superior material
such as copper, or a superior quality of brass or alloy, so that the
superior metal or alloy and the baser metal or alloy are united by fusion
at the part where they come together.
In carrying my Invention into practice I have found that the object
may be effected by various methods slightly differing in detail, but pro-
ceeding upon the same principle of working. For example, I cast a
hollow cylinder of the baser metal or alloy, and then in a suitable mould
I cast a copper or superior brass alloy surface upon such hollow cylinder.
The molten copper or superior alloy in the process of casting fuses or
partially fuses the hollow cylinder of baser metal, or the surface
thereof. In some cases a hollow cylinder, or a sheet of copper, or other
superior metal or alloy may be placed within the mould, so as to
surround the hollow cylinder of baser metal or alloy, and leave a space
for the molten copper or superior alloy to enter between and unite by
fusion both with such outer sheet or hollow cylinder and the inner
cylinder of baser metal or alloy. After the combined roller or ingot is
formed as above described it may be drawn, hammered, pressed, or
otherwise treated to condense and prepare the roller or cylinder for use,
or it may be drawn into a tube. Sometimes I first form the inner
hollow cylinder of baser metal or alloy with perforations, and place such
hollow cylinder in a mould formed of iron, so as to leave an annular
space around such hollow cylinder, such annular space being closed at
the upper end. I fill the central space within the hollow cylinder and
surround the exterior of the iron mould with sand. At the lower end
of the mould and below the annular space around the hollow cylinder
I form an annular channel communicating with a "get" or "gets."
Upon pouring molten copper or other superior metal or alloy into the
gets such copper rises into the annular space surrounding the hollow
cylinder and between it and the iron mould until such space is filled
with molten copper, fusing or partially fusing the hollow cylinder and
uniting therewith, the air and gases escaping through the perforations
formed in the hollow cylinder. The iron mould may be cooled during
the process by suitably arranged water chambers. Before placing the

page_text: hollow cylinder in the mould as above described, it may be surrounded
by a sheet of copper or other metal, or a surface of copper may be
deposited thereon by the electrotyping process.
I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the above
described methods of carrying my Invention into practice, as a variety of
means may be adopted for forming rollers, cylinders, or tubes having
a surface of copper or superior alloy fused on to a cylinder of baser
metal or alloy.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Edward Peyton in the Great Seal Patent Office ou
the 21st September 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One housand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Peyton, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Peyton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Peyton, 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
THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLERS, CYLINDERS, OR TUBES FOR PRINTING UPON TEXTILE
FABRICS OR OTHER MATERIALS, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Peyton, 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 Edward Peyton, 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:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of rollers or cylinders
employed for printing upon textile fabrics or other materials for
impressing designs on various materials, or in the manufacture of paper,.
or for calendering textile fabrics, or paper, or other substances, or for
other purposes. My Invention is also applicable to the manufacture of
metallic tubes.
According to my Invention, a hollow cylinder made of a comparatively
base metal or alloy, such as spelter, brass, or other suitable metal or
alloy is combined with a surrounding surface of superior metal, such
as copper, or a superior quality of brass or alloy, so that the superior
metal or alloy and the baser metal or alloy are united by fusion at the
part where they come together.
In carrying my Invention into practice I have found that the object
may be effected by various methods slightly differing in detail but
proceeding upon the same principle of working. For example, I cast a
hollow cylinder of the baser metal or alloy, and then in a suitable mould
I cast a copper or superior brass alloy surface upon such hollow
cylinder. The molten copper or superior alloy in the process of casting
fuses or partially fuses the hollow cylinder of baser metal, or the surface
thereof. In some cases a hollow cylinder, or a sheet of copper or other
superior metal or alloy may be placed within the mould, so as to
surround the hollow cylinder of baser metal or alloy, and leave a space
for the molten copper or superior alloy to enter between and unite
by fusion both with such outer sheet or hollow cylinder and the inner
cylinder of baser metal or alloy. After the combined roller or ingot
is fórmed as above described it may be drawn, hammered, pressed,
or otherwise treated to condense and prepare the roller or cylinder for
use, or it may be drawn into a tube. Sometimes I first form the inner
hollow cylinder of baser metal or alloy with perforations, and place such
hollow cylinder in a mould formed of iron, so as to leave an annular
space around such hollow cylinder, such annular space being closed at
the upper end. I fill the central space within the hollow cylinder and
surround the exterior of the iron mould with sand. At the lower end
of the mould and below the annular space around the hollow cylinder I

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form an annular channel communicating with a "get" or 'gets."
Upon pouring molten copper or other superior metal or alloy into the
gets such copper rises into the annular space surrounding the hollow
cylinder and between it and the iron mould until such space is filled, the
molten copper fusing or partially fusing the hollow cylinder and uniting
therewith, the air and gases escaping through the perforations formed
in the hollow cylinder. The iron mould may be cooled during the
The inner hollow
process by suitably arranged water chambers.
cylinder of baser metal may also be so formed and arranged as to
contain water in the interior of such hollow cylinder, and so prevent the
fusion of the interior part thereof when the superior metal is poured into
the mould, so as to surround the inner hollow cylinder of baser metal or
alloy. Before placing the hollow cylinder in the mould as above
described, it may be surrounded by a sheet of copper or other metal, or a
surface of copper may be deposited thereon by the electrotyping.
I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the above
described methods of carrying my Invention into practice, as a variety
of means may be adopted for forming rollers, cylinders, or tubes having
a surface of copper or superior alloy fused on to a cylinder of baser
metal or alloy.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and means whereby
the same may be carried into operation, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the manufacture of rollers, cylinders, and tubes with
the interior part of a comparatively base metal or alloy, and the exterior
part of a comparatively superior metal or alloy, united by fusion at the
part where the inferior and superior metals or alloys come together,
substantially as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Peyton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine:
Witness,
JOHN R. C. TAUNTON.
EDWARD PEYTON. (L.S.)