PRINTING WITHOUT HEAT UPON WOOD USED FOR CASES, BARS OR HEADS OF CASKS, AND PACKAGES OF ALL KINDS ANY MARK, COUNTERMARK, INSCRIPTION, OR DRAWING IN RELIEF, IN SUNKEN OR IN SURFACE IMPRESSION, IN ONE OR SEVERAL VARIED COLORS, AS WELL AS IN GOLD AND SILVER FOR TRADE PURPOSES GENERALLY, AND PARTICULARLY FOR THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE, IN LIEU AND PLACE OF THE MARKING OBTAINED BY HOT BRAND AND OPEN VIGNETTE
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Emmanuel Bartelemy de Léon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th October 1869.
I, EMMANUEL BARTELEMY DE LEON, of Bordeaux, and No. 37, Boule-
vart Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, in the Empire of France, Engraver, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "PRINTING WITHOUT
HEAT UPON WOOD USED FOR CASES, BARS OR HEADS OF CASKS, AND PACKAGES OF
ALL KINDS ANY MARK, COUNTERMARK, INSCRIPTION, OR DRAWING IN RELIEF, IN
SUNKEN OR IN SURFACE IMPRESSION, IN ONE OR SEVERAL VARIED COLORS, AS WELL
AS IN GOLD AND SILVER FOR TRADE PURPOSES GENERALLY, AND PARTICULARLY FOR
THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE, IN LIEU AND PLACE OF THE MARKING OBTAINED BY
HOT BRAND AND OPEN VIGNETTE," to be as follows:-*
The roller or cylinder press which I use for printing on wood is my
principal apparatus; it is illustrated Fig. 1 of the accompanying Sheet of
Drawing, and is composed of two cylinders with bearings (see 4 of the
Drawing), standards with slides and adjusting screws.

page_text: This press or apparatus is driven by steam by a large fly wheel (16)
fixed on the axle of the upper cylinder; ten thousand impressions or
even more may be made in one day. The impression is very clean, and
produces a better effect on wood than printing on paper. The depth of
the letters or of the design in the wood is greater or less according to
the degree of pressure given. The upper cylinder (2) is raised and
lowered at will by means of two adjusting screws placed between the
uprights or standards (3) of the press to facilitate printing on different
thicknesses of wood and give the requisite pressure; the lower cylinder
neither rises nor lowers. A curved or arched composing frame (18) with
bands open perpendicularly serves with the aid of screws and nuts to
secure the compositions, which are also curved. This frame is placed
on the upper cylinder, and is provided with toothed gearing serving to
draw along the bed plate (6), herein-after described, with regularity and
precision, this bed plate being itself furnished with corresponding toothed
gearing (17), which having more elevated cheeks on the sides ensure its
travelling in a straight line. The toothed gearing or racks fitted on the
bed plate can be raised and lowered by means of screws to suit the
thickness of the wood.
The compositions for printing always placed upon the composing
frame form only a single part if the printing is to be in one color,
but several distinct parts if several colors are used. Four rollers (5)
(two of which ink the composition of engraving, the other two being
distributors placed above the first) work with and are actuated by the
upper cylinder. The rollers rest by their axles on bearings fixed on
two small moveable slide plates (15). These plates resting on the
bearings of the top cylinder rise and lower with it according to re-
quirement and the thickness of the wood. A bed plate or table (6)
running between the two cylinders and carrying moveable with the
toothed gearing or racks above mentioned an iron square, and two
marks or guides rests on the lower cylinder and on two small rollers (7)
fixed in front and behind this cylinder. The square and the guiding
marks have been fitted moveable, in order to suit the various surface
dimensions of the wood. The screw (8) placed in front of the bed plate
is intended to prevent displacement of the guide marks and squares
when printing with several colors. The bed plate (6) on which the
wood to be printed rests is carried along by the pressure of the rotary

page_text: movement of the cylinders, and then by the toothed gearing (17); the
printing being done it at once returns alone by means of two weights (9)
fixed to chains which run on pulleys placed each side of the lower
cylinder. These chains are attached to the end of the bed plate. The
labour of printing is thus simplified to the extent of occupying only two
women or children, one to place the wood to be printed and the other
to withdraw it printed. The piece of wood of any kind (10) (to be
printed) is placed in the square on the bed plate resting on the marks,
which thus ensures great precision when printing in several colors. The
sheets of composition (11) engraved with designs or letters are of hard
metal, curved for the cylinder press, flat for lever press.
I stereotype many compositions for printing on soft wood in an
apparatus (12, Fig. 2) precisely similar to the stereotyped moulds of
type founderies, excepting that this apparatus is curved instead of being
flat for compositions to be placed in the cylinder press.
The alloy of metal for this stereotyping is composed of 75 parts lead,
10 of copper, and 15 of regulus. Other compositions are cast in zinc.
I operate in the same way for lever presses, beam presses, and fly
wheel and screw presses in printing on soft woods, but the stereotype
mould is flat instead of cylindrical.
This kind of stereotype offers great advantages by reason of its
economy and the facility of promptly executing and renewing the
compositions.
The colors for printing are the same as daily used in printing offices,
either in lithography or typography, and the same applies to gold and
silver.
The lever beam or fly wheel and screw presses which I use are the
same as those of these kinds now in use, they are worked by hand, and
I use them for impressions of small size.
The composing frame, (13, Fig. 3,) which serves for lever, beam, or fly
wheel and screw press, is in every respect similar to that of the cylinder
press, with the exception that it is flat instead of curved or arched, and
that it is placed on the lower plate or table. The board to be printed
upon is placed on the engraging, and the upper plate gives the requisite
pressure. For these lever, beam, or fly wheel and screw presses the
inking is the same as in type printing, the frame sliding in a groove

page_text: is withdrawn, the composition is inked, the wood to be printed is placed,
and the frame pushed back under the plate.
This Invention of printing in colors upon wood and without heat is
applicable not only to printing upon wood for cases, but for wooden
labels, signboards, and other purposes too various for enumeration.