IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING BOULINIKON, LINOLEUM, KAMP- TULICON, CORK CARPET, CORIUM, OIL AND OTHER FLOORCLOTHS, BAIZES, LEATHER CLOTHS, OILED AND OTHER PAPERS, INDIA-RUBBER GOODS, WOOLLEN, COTTON, LINEN, AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hull and George Hibbert, of Partington,
in the County of Chester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING BOULINIKON, LINOLEUM, KAMP-
TULICON, CORK CARPET, CORIUM, OIL AND OTHER FLOORCLOTHS, BAIZES,
LEATHER CLOTHS, OILED AND OTHER PAPERS, INDIA-RUBBER GOODS, WOOLLEN,
COTTON, LINEN, AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 17th January 1871, and dated the 19th July 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hull and George
Hibbert at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 19th July 1870.
We, JOHN HULL and GEORGE HIBBERT, of Partington, in the County
of Chester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING BOULINikon, Linoleun,.
KAMPTULICON, CORK CARPET, CORIUM, OIL AND OTHER FLOORCLOTHS, BAIZES,.
LEATHER CLOTHS, OILED AND OTHER PAPERS, INDIA-RUBBER GOODS, WOOLLEN,
COTTON, LINEN, AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as follows :—
This Invention has for its object the dispensing with the ordinary
blocks now used for printing the above-named fabrics, and to accomplish

page_text: this we employ a frame running on wheels carrying a number of printing
rollers designed and arranged according to the desired pattern. Each
printing roller is supplied with color by an intermediate roller in contact
with a color roller running in the color trough, the quantity of color
being regulated by means of a doctor, so that the intermediate roller
supplies the necessary amount of color to the printing roller according
to the pattern. The cloth or material to be printed is laid on a table
fixed to the framework of the machine, and when the carriage is put in
motion, either by hand or power, and passed over the material the
printing rollers print the desired pattern thereon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Hull and George Hibbert in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
HULL and GEORGE HIBBERT, of Partington, in the County of Chester,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy, Number 2029, in the thirty-fourth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said John Hull and George Hibbert, Her special
license that we, the said John Hull and George Hibbert, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Hull
and George Hibbert, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRINTING
BOULINIKON, LINOLEUM, KAMPTULICON, CORK CARPET, CORIUM, OIL AND OTHER
FLOORCLOTHS, BAIZES, LEATHER CLOTHS, OILED AND OTHER PAPERS, INDIA-RUBBER
GOODS, WOOLLEN, COTTON, LINEN, AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the
condition, amongst others, that we, the said John Hull and George
Hibbert, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or their hands and seals, or one of their, should particularly

page_text: 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 we, the said John Hull and George Hibbert,
do hereby declare the nature of our 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, reference being had to the
longitudinal elevation on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is
to say) :-
This Invention has for its object the dispensing with the ordinary
blocks now used for printing the above-named fabrics, and to accomplish
this we employ a frame running on wheels and carrying a number of
printing rollers designed and arranged according to the desired pattern.
Each printing roller is supplied with color by an intermediate roller or
endless jacket in contact with a color roller running in the color trough,
the quantity of color being regulated by means of a doctor, so that the
intermediate roller or endless jacket supplies the necessary amount of
color to the printing roller according to the pattern. The cloth or
material to be printed is laid on a table, and when the carriage is put
in motion, either by hand or power, and passed over the material the
printing rollers print the desired pattern thereon.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings a represents the printing
rollers, the shafts of which are placed in bearings on the iron carriage b,
which carries as many color troughs c, color rollers d, and intermediate
rollers e (or endless jackets) as there are printing rollers. Each trough
is filled with color, and the roller d carries a body of color upon it, the
quantity being regulated by means of the doctor f, and this roller d
deposits the color upon the intermediate roller e, or upon an endless
jacket, which furnishes the printing roller a with color. The floorcloth
or other material is laid upon the flat table g, constituting part of the
machine, and the carriage 6 is then drawn over the cloth by an endless
bandh on each side of the table, by which means the printing rollers
deposit the colors upon the floorcloth or other material.
The carriage b
5 consists of an iron frame with a number of V wheels running on V rails
along each side of a padded iron or wooden table, or over the table on
strong iron or wooden beams, and when desired we make the frame

page_text: which carries the rollers. stationary, and give moveable or revolving
motion to the table or cylinder which carries the material to be printed.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we desire it
to be understood that we claim, the improved machinery or apparatus
for printing boulinikon, linoleum, kamptulicon, cork carpet, corium,
oil and other floorcloths, baizes, leather cloths, oiled and other papers,
india-rubber goods, woollen, cotton, linen, and other textile fabrics, as
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Hull and George Hibbert,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 14th day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
JOHN HULL.
(L.S.)
GEORGE HIBBERT. (L.S.)