CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR, STAMPING AND EMBOSSING TEXTILE FABRICS.
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Shakespear Shaw, Merchant, and Henry Fishwick,
Warehouseman, both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR, STAMPING AND
EMBOSSING TEXTILE FABRICS.".
Sealed the 20th October 1864, and dated the 3rd May 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Shakespear Shaw and
Henry Fishwick at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 3rd May 1864.
We, SHAKESPEAR SHAW, Merchant, and HENRY FISHWICK, Warehouse-
man, both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
STAMPING AND EMBOSSING TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The ordinary stamping process employed for printing patterns or trade
marks upon calicoes or other piled fabrics consists in the use of a stamp or
die which is held by the workman, who first dips it into a solution or powder
of indigo or other color, after, which he stamps it upon the piece of calico,
which not only leaves an imperfect impression, but often transfers a portion
of color to the layer of calico immediately underneath.
Our present improvements not only expediate the process of stamping, but
also leave a perfect dry impression upon the top layer of the piece without the
slightest injury to the layer underneath, the peculiar arrangement and con-
struction of mechanism we employ being as follows:-Firmly secured to one

page_text: end of a sliding table holding the calico is a small inking roller similar to
those used by letter-press printers; this roller, as the table is shot along,
leaves a portion of ink upon a dye or stamp placed in vertical slides and
attached to a lever, screw, or other mechanical equivalent, so that when having
received a supply of ink from the afore-mentioned roller, it is forced down
upon the piece of calico submitted to its action, whereupon a perfect mark or
pattern is transfered.
The operation of stamping may be thus described :-The piece of goods
prior to receiving its impression or "trake mark" is placed upon the sliding
table, which is immediately pushed forward under the stamp, after. which the
stamp recedes, and the table is shot forward to deliver the piece, at which
time, and during the table's progress, the afore-mentioned inking roller passes
underneath the stamp, leaving sufficient ink upon its surface for the next
impression; the table is then returned to receive another piece, which under-
goes the same operation, and so on continuously until the whole number of
pieces to be stamped or embossed is completed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Shakespear Shaw and Henry Fishwick in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SHAKESPEAR
SHAW, Merchant, and HENRY FISHWICK, Warehouseman, both of Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, send' greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Shakespear Shaw and Henry Fishwick, Her special license that we, the
said Shakespear Shaw and Henry Fishwick, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such. others as we, the said the said Shakespear Shaw and Henry
Fishwick, our 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA-
RATUS FOR STAMPING AND EMBOSSING TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Shakespear Shaw and Henry Fishwick,

page_text: our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
one of our, 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 Shakespear Shaw, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
The ordinary stamping process employed for printing patterns or trade
marks upon calico or other piled fabrics consist in the use of a stamp or die
which is held by the workman, who first dips it in a solution or powder of
indigo or other color, after which he stamps it upon the piece of calico, which
not only leaves an imperfect impression, but often transfers a portion of color
to the layer of calico immediately underneath.
Our present improvement not only expedite the process of stamping, but
also leaves a perfect dry impression upon the top layer of the piece without
the slightest injury to the layer underneath, the peculiar arrangement and
construction of mechanism we employ being as follows:-Firmly 'secured to
one end of a sliding table holding the calico is a small inking roller similar to
those used by letter-press printers; this roller, as the table is shot along,
leaves a portion of ink upon a die or stamp placed in vertical slides, and
attached to a lever, screw, or mechanical equivalent, so that when having
received a supply of ink from the afore-mentioned roller, it is forced down
upon the piece of calico submitted to its action, whereupon a perfect mark or
pattern is transferred.
The operation of stamping may be thus described:-The piece of goods
prior to receiving its impression or "trade mark" is placed upon the sliding
table, which is immediately. pushed forward under the stamp, after which the
stamp recedes, and the table is shot forward to deliver the piece, at which
time, and during the table's progress, the afore-mentioned inking roller passes
underneath the stamp, leaving sufficient ink upon its surface for the next
impression; the table is then returned to receive another piece, which under-
goes the same operation, and so on continually until the whole number of pieces
to be stamped or embossed are complete.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, we have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon scale of

page_text: about three inches to the foot, similar letters of reference being marked upon
corresponding parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of the improved apparatus for stamping
or marking piece goods, and Fig. 2 represents a front view of the same.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, is the framing of the apparatus, in which the fulcrum
of the lever b is supported; c is the stamp bearing the name, trade mark, or
design with which the piece is to be impressed, such stamp being secured by
nut and screw to the vertical sliding bar d, which is connected to the lever b
by the link e, the stamp being capable of removal in order to substitute or
names or devices if necessary. The carriage f runs upon wheels beneath the
stamp, and carries an ordinary printer's inking roller g, so that as the roller
passes beneath the stamp it becomes inked, and after the roller has passed, if
the handle of the lever be brought down, the stamp will descend and mark the
piece of goods at any part required between the inking roller and the end of
the carriage.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I claim, the application and use of a self-inking stamp for
marking or stamping certain descriptions of fabrics made up as "pieces" and
called "piece goods," and also the combination of mechanism for effecting
the said object, as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the
Drawings attached..
In witness whereof, I, the said Shakespear Shaw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
SHAKESPEAR SHAW. (L.S.)