IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL ROLLERS FOR PRINTING FABRICS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles James Appleton of Lower Broughton, Salford in
the County of Lancaster for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL
ROLLERS FOR PRINTING FABRICS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles James Appleton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd March 1883.
CHARLES JAMES APPLETON of Lower Broughton, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, "IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL ROLLERS FOR PRINTING FABRICS
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My Invention relates to engraved printing rollers. Previously to my invention
such rollers have been made of copper and in some cases iron rollers have been
coated with copper and the copper surfaces have been subsequently engraved.
The object of my invention is to obtain a durable and efficient roller at a cost less
than that of the ordinary copper roller. To this end I make the roller of malleable
iron or of mild or homogeneous steel or of annealed steel or of wrought iron that.
is to say of a form or condition of iron or steel suitable to the engraving process.
I may make use of solid drawn tubes of such inetal or metals.
I turn or prepare
the rollers in the ordinary or in a suitable manner and form the required design or
acting surfaces upon the rollers by engraving, milling, etching, punching or other
ordinary or suitable process and I then electro plate the engraved or prepared
surface by depositing thereon a thin coating of nickel or of silver or other suitable
metal or alloy. I consider the most suitable coating to be an electro deposit of
nickel applied in accordance with the invention for which provisional protection
number 88 of this current year has been granted to David Appleton.. In some cases:
I may make an electro deposit of soft iron upon an iron roller to obtain a surface
suitable for engraving and after the engraving deposit a thin coating of nickel or
other suitable metal. In some cases when making the roller of de-sulphurised iron
I dispense with the electro plating or coating with another metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles James Appleton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st September 1883:-
CHARLES JAMES APPLETON of Lower Broughton, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL ROLLERS FOR PRINTING FABRICS "
My Invention relates to engraved printing rollers Previously to my invention
such rollers have been made of copper and in some cases iron rollers have been
coated with copper and the copper surfaces have been subsequently engraved.
The object of my invention is to obtain a more durable and efficient roller at a
cost less than that of the ordinary copper roller. To this end I make the roller
of malleable iron or of mild or homogeneous steel or annealed steel or of
wrought iron that is to say of a form or condition of iron or steel suitable to the
engraving process. I may make use of solid drawn tubes of such metal or metals.
I turn or prepare the rollers in the ordinary or in a suitable manner and form the
required design or acting surfaces upon the rollers by engraving, milling, etching,
punching or other ordinary or suitable processess and I then electro plate the
engraved or prepared surface by depositing thereon a thin coating of nickel or of
silver or other suitable metal or alloy. I consider the most suitable coating to be
an electro deposit of nickel applied in accordance with an Invention for which
Letters Patent bearing date the sixth day of January in this present year and
numbered 88 have been granted to David Appleton. In some cases I may make
an electro deposit of soft iron upon an iron roller to obtain a surface suitable for
engraving and after the engraving deposit a thin coating of nickel or other suitable
metal. In some cases when making the rollers of desulphurised iron I dispense
with the electro plating or coating with another metal.
Having, now fully set forth and indicated the nature of my said Invention and
the manner in which I carry the same into effect I would have it to be understood
that I claim as my Invention :-
First. The production of metal printing rollers by engraving, etching or other-
wise producing the so termed engraved design upon an iron or steel roller and
rendering such rollers suitable to be used in printing by coating the engraved
surface with a thin deposit of nickel or of copper or other metal suitable for the
purpose substantially as herein before set forth and indicated.
And secondly. The employment of engraved iron rollers in the printing of
fabrics.
In witness whereof I the said Charles James Appleton have hereunto set my
hand and seal this thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-three
Signed, sealed, and, delivered,
in the presence of
EDWARD K. DUTTON
41 John Dalton St, Manchester.
€ J AFFLETON
(LAS.)