IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRIC OR .MATERIAL
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Holliday, of Huddersfield, "in the County
of York, Color Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRIC OR
.MATERIAL."}
Sealed the 4th February 1868, and dated the 14th August 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Holliday at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th August 1867.
I, CHARLES HOLLIDAY, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Color
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRIC
OR MATERIAL," to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to means for producing spots and other forms or
figures on the surface of fabric or material, and they apply particularly to
printing with paint, japan,, varnishes, or other matters where a large amount
is required to be impressed, and which is of a semi-fluid or glutinous nature
the fluidity of which is increased by heat. When applying the matter by means
of projections or other surfaces-in-relief-from-block or roller-I-form-such-pro-
jections or other surfaces in relief to receive hot water or steam, or I apply to
them heat by gas jets or otherwise in order that the projecting surfaces inay
be heated at the time of receiving the matter to-be printed with, and thereby

page_text: increase its fluidity for the time, and when it is laid on or into the surface to
be printed by cooling it will thicken and more readily fasten and become
dry. I also apply the printing matter through holes, tubes, passages, or per-
forations from a reservoir of the material. Such holes, tubes, or passages
being at their outlet of the form desired to be impressed, and at other parts
of size adapted to the quantity desired to flow, and the tubes or passages as
well as the reservoir are provided with a jacket or chamber to receive heat of
steam, or hot water, or gas, or other heat may be applied. The printing
surface may be of a cylindrical character with heating chamber or heating
chambers. When the printing machine is not to be heated simple perforations,
tubes, or passages with their outlets of the form desired may be formed on
the cylindrical or other printing surface for the passage through of such
printing mixture, and the printing material may by its consistency or by
thickening matter applied to it be such as just to admit the quantity desired
through the openings, passages, or perforations to their outlets..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the sa Charles Holliday in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HOLLIDAY, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Color Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and' sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Holliday, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Holliday;
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Holliday, 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
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING WOVEN AND OTHER FABRIC OR MATERIAL,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Holliday, 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

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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 Sea! Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Holliday, 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':
The improvements relate to printing spots and other forms or figures on the
surface of fabric or material, particularly when using for the purpose paint,
japan; varnishes, or other matter of a semi-fluid or glutinous nature; the
fluidity of which is increased by heat so as to facilitate its application, and of
which comparatively large quantities are required to be' impressed at a time,
and the improvements consist in adaptations or combinations of means for
applying the heat required, and by which several different colors may be so
applied at the same time.
But that the Invention may be fully understood. I will, by the aid of the
accompanying Drawing, proceed to describe means pursued by me in carrying
the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING:
Figure 1 shows a section of a hollow block or chamber a with the
projections 6 thereon to receive the matter to be impressed formed hollow, so
as to be heated by steam or water, or by jets of gas contained in the chamber a.
These projections may be of various forms adapted to the figures desired to be
impressed, as is well understood, and the chamber a may have flexible or
other pipes communicating with it for the flow through it of the steam or
other heating media or of the gas for ignition. By the heat thus imparted
to the projections b, the printing matter may be rendered more fluid so as to
facilitate its impression on the fabric or material to which it is to be applied,
and when laid on to or into the surface by cooling it will more readily fasten
on to such surface and become dry.
Figure 2 represents a section of an arrangement in which the printing matter
is contained in the upper part of the printing block, and it is thence conducted
by tubes c, c, the lower ends or mouths c¹ of which are of the forms desired
-to-be-imparted; these tubes c pass through a chamber d, which may be kept
heated by means of steam or hot water caused to flow therethrough by
suitable flexible or other pipes, or by means of jets of gas. The upper part or
reservoir e for the color may also be divided when required into separate

page_text: compartments, as shown, so as to divide the pattern into series or figures as,
for instance, there may be a series of spots or other figures of the same or
different sizes in clusters or otherwise, one cluster of such spots or other
figures being of one color, and then other clusters of like or different forms
and of the same or other colors:
Figure 3 represents a section in which the..method of heating and of
supplying several colors is adapted to be applied from a cylinder. The same
letters are applied in this Figure as in the last to. indicate corresponding parts,
therefore further description of it may be unnecessary..
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in carrying
the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is,.
First. The method of heating impressing surfaces and passages for the flow
of the printing matter, substantially as described.,
And, secondly, I claim the method of arranging the printing surfaces so as to
give facility for the application of several colors at the same time, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Holliday, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
CHARLES HOLLIDAY (L.S.)