Improvements in Colouring, Printing, or Staining Paper or other Material and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Colouring, Printing, or Staining Paper or other
Material and Apparatus therefor.
FRANK WALTER HAYWARD 23 Upper King Street Norwich Watchmaker do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of colouring, printing, or staining,
any material such as paper, with a pattern, or design, or letters, or both, the pattern
or design &c. being of one tint, and the rest of the paper of another tint of the same
colour, or there may be one colour and the rest white from one vat or duct of dye,
or colouring matter, the designs appearing on both sides of the paper,
For the purposes of my invention I pass paper, or other material through
colouring matter, such as aniline dye dissolved in water, then I pass the paper-
quite wet with dye on its surfaces-between two rollers, one of these rollers being
plain & smooth, the other having any design on it: the design may either stand
in relief from the roller, or be sunk into the roller. These rollers are held pressed
together, and when the paper with the wet dye on its surfaces is passed between
these rollers, by the revolving of the rollers, they press the dye into, and through
the paper from surface to surface on the parts where the rollers would come in
contact if the paper was not between, making the paper of a darker colour on the
pressed parts, thus leaving the design of the roller, on and through the paper.
The paper is then passed between rollers, preferably with wool wound round
them, or between scrapers, or brushes, &c., to remove the superfluous dye still
If it is
adhering to the surfaces of the paper where it has not been pressed.
intended that only the one colour where it has been pressed by the rollers shall
appear on the paper, it may be passed between rollers, scrapers, and brushes in
water, and so wash off all colour from the unpressed parts. If the design is sunk
in the roller, the groundwork of the design on the paper, will be the darker tint,
rather than the design itself.
If the design on the roller stands in relief, the design on the
the darker, and the groundwork the lighter.
paper
will
appear
In some cases I carry out this same process of colouring, printing, & staining
paper &c., by using stamps with designs &c. on them to press the colour through
the paper, instead of using rollers as herein described.
Dated this 7th day of September 1892.
FRANK WALTER HAYWARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Colouring, Printing, or Staining Paper or other
Material and Apparatus therefor.
FRANK WALTEr Hayward, Watchmaker, 23 Upper King Street, Norwich,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to an improved method of colouring, or printing, or staining
any such material as paper, with a pattern, or design, or letters, or both, the design &c.
being of one tint, and the rest of the paper of another tint of the same colour,
or there may be one colour, and the rest white, from one vat of dye or colouring
matter. The design appearing on one side of the paper in one case, and on both
sides of the paper in other cases.

page_text: By the accompanying drawing it will be seen for the purposes of my invention
I pass paper A, or other material for easy passage under a roller B, through
colouring matter C, such as anyline dye dissolved in water in vat N, then
I pass the paper A, quite wet, with dye on its surfaces, between two rollers D,
one of these rollers being plain & smooth, the other ID, having any design
on it the design may either stand in relief from the roller, or be sunk
into the roller. All the rollers are held pressed together by levers E,
and weights F. When the paper A, with the wet dye on its surfaces is passed
between rolls D, they press the dye into, and through the paper, from surface to
surface, on the parts where the rollers would come in contact if the paper was not
between, of course the rollers must be made to revolve to do this. As these rollers
revolve, the paper A is passed on to another pair of rollers G, scrapers, or brushes
may be used instead of rollers G, but I prefer rollers and covered with wool in the
following manner, a hole, or an eye is put at both ends of each roller, wool, such as
Berlin wool, is fastened by means of eye, as through the hole at one end of roller,
then wound spirally round the roller from one end to the other, and then fastened
to the eye, or hole that is at the other end of the roller. As the paper passes between
the wool covered rolls G, nearly all the dye on the surface of paper is taken off,
having the paper but just damp, except where the rolls D had pressed it quite into
the paper.
The paper is now of two tints, dark where the rolls D had pressed in the design
on roll ID, and of a lighter tint where the rolls G have taken off all superfluous
dye. If it is wished to take off all colour except where rolls D presed it in, the
paper A is now passed into another vat J, containg water, under a roll H, and again
between two wool covered rolls K.
All the rolls are geared together so as to pass the paper through in a uniform
manner, this gearing is not shown in the drawing, as toothed wheels, or straps, or
any ordinary method of making the rolls revolve at the same rate of speed will
answer.
Where the design is intended to appear on one side of the paper only I remove
some of the dye from vat N until it just touches the under side of roll B thus
causing the dye to touch but one side of the paper A and so causing the design to
appear on but one side of the paper.
This process may be varied by dipping paper in dye or other suitable colouring
matter and then placing it under a die the die having a design on it, or under type
letters, and using pressure to press the design or letters into the paper, afterward
wiping or washing off the superfluous dye that is left on the surface of the paper.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The process of putting or spreading in a convenient manner dye or other
suitable colouring matter on the surface of paper and then pressing some of the dye
or colouring matter that is put on the surface of the paper, into the paper, so as to
form a design or letters, or both design and letters.
2nd. The process of taking off the superfluous dye or other colouring matter that
is not wanted on the surface of the paper by means of wool covered rollers after the
design or letters have been pressed into the paper.
3rd. The wool covered rolls as herein discribed.