IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PRINTING IN COLORS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR PRINTING IN COLORS."-A communication from abroad
hy Martin Mosalen of Guebwiller France
Sealed the 22nd December 1865, and dated the 26th June 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th June 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PRINTING IN COLORS, to be as
follows:-
"
The subject of this Invention is a machine for carrying out the continuous
and successive printing of fabrics and other articles in several colors in the,
best conditions, regular and easy in its working. The results are obtained by
and the Invention consists in a particular arrangement of the driving gear by,
means of a single or a double series of lateral toothed wheels imparting
motion to the inking and printing rollers, continuous rotation is thus obtained,
allowing of an indefinite number of colors.

page_text: The fabric or material to be printed is wound upon a roller, the
motion of which is regulated by the working of the machine. At the
opposite end of the machine is a receiving roller. The fabric as it comes
from the roller is directed between the first pair of rollers, whereby the
first color is printed. One of the pair of rollers carries the design in
relief, on which the color is spread by rollers dipping in a color trough;
the impression is effected by the other roller pressing the fabric against it.
The fabric then passes on between another pair of rollers fed with a different
color for a second impression, and so on. An essential characteristic in this
Invention is the particular arrangement for the transmission of movement
to be imparted to each series of printing and coloring rollers. Upon one side
or upon both sides of the machine series of toothed gear regulating the
rotation of the printing and coloring rollers are fitted. A main wheel or
pulley driven by some prime mover transmits its motion through a pinion on
its axis to a first series of toothed wheels, above which there is a second series
of less diameter than the wheels in the first series in order to increase the
speed. These wheels drive the color and printing rollers. The adjustment
of the machine comprises, as in all machines of the same class, the com-
bination and position of the reliefs upon the printing rollers, as well as the
distance between these rollers. This distance must be proportioned to the
diameter of the rollers, to the arrangement of the pattern, and effect of the
colors.
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 23rd December 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth 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 4, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and

page_text: 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 MACHINERY FOR PRINTING IN COLORS," (communicated to me
from abroad by Martin Moeglen, of Guebwiller, France), '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 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 Drawing hereunto
aunexed, that is to say:-
The subject of this Invention is a machine for carrying out the con-
tinuous and successive printing of fabrics and other articles in several
colors in the best conditions, regular and easy in its working. The results
are obtained by, and the Invention consists in, a particular arrangement
of the driving gear by means of a single or a double series of lateral
toothed wheels imparting motion to the inking and printing rollers, con-
tinuous rotation is thus obtained, allowing of an indefinite number of colors.
The fabric or material to be printed is wound upon a roller, the motion of
which is regulated by the working of the machine. At the opposite end of
the machine is a receiving roller. The fabric as it comes from the roller is
directed between the first pair of rollers, whereby the first color is printed.
One of the pair of rollers carries the design in relief, on which the color is
spread by rollers dipping in a color trough; the impression is effected by the
other roller pressing the fabric against it. The fabric then passes on between
another pair of rollers fed with a different color for a second impression, and
so on.
The accompanying Drawing represents a machine constructed according
to this Invention. 6, 61, are rollers between which the fabric or material
passes before and after being printed. The fabric is directed between the
first pair of rollers c, c¹, whereby the first color is printed. The roller c¹
carries in relief the design to be printed, on which the color is spread by
rollers, dipping in a color trough as before mentioned. The impression is

page_text: effected by the other roller c pressing the fabric against the roller c. The
fabric then passes on between the next pair of rollers c, c', fed with a different
color for a second impression, and so on through between all the rollers c, c'.
An essential characteristic in this Invention is the particular arrangement
for the transmission of movement to be imparted to each series of printing and
coloring rollers. Upon one side or upon both sides of the machine series of
toothed gear regulating the rotation of the printing and coloring rollers are
fitted.
A main wheel or pulley d, driven by some prime mover transmits
its motion through a pinion f on its axis to a first series of toothed wheels g, g,
above which there is a second series of toothed wheels h, h, of less diameter
than the wheels g, g, in the first series, in order to increase the speed. These
wheels h, h, drive the color and printing rollers c, c. The adjustment of the
machine comprises, as in all machines of the same class, the combination and
position of the reliefs upon the printing rollers, as well as the distance between
these rollers. This distance must be proportioned to the diameter of the
rollers, to the arrangement of the pattern, and effect of the colors. The
frame B of the machine is therefore arranged so as to allow of the easy and
perfect adjustment of the working parts.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim arranging the gear
for driving the coloring and printing rollers in machinery for printing in colors
substantially as herein-before described, and represented in the accompanying
Drawing, whereby the continuous and successive printing of fabrics and other
articles in several colors is effected.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
bereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)