A MACHINE FOR PRINTING OF PAPER HANGINGS, CALLICOS, COTTONS, AND LINENS IN GENERAL, WHEREBY ANY NUMBER OF COLOURS MAY BE PRINTED THEREON AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME; AND WHEREBY TEN TIMES AS MANY PIECES MAY BE PRINTED IN AS SHORT A SPACE OF TIME AS ONE PIECE IS NOW PRINTED BY THE COMMON METHOD
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACOB
BUNNETT, of the Parish of Saint Mary, Whitechapel, in the County of
Middlesex, Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Eighteenth day of March, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said Jacob Bunnett, His especial licence, that I,
the said Jacob Bunnett, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR
PRINTING OF PAPER HANGINGS, CALLICOS, COTTONS, AND LINENS IN GENERAL, WHEREBY
ANY NUMBER OF COLOURS MAY BE PRINTED THEREON AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME;
AND WHEREBY TEN TIMES AS MANY PIECES MAY BE PRINTED IN AS SHORT A SPACE
OF TIME AS ONE PIECE IS NOW PRINTED BY THE COMMON METHOD;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Jacob
Bunnett, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jacob Bunnett, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a machine

page_text: for printing of paper hangings, callicos, cottons, and linnens in general, is
described in the above Plan and description thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Bunnett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-six.

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the back and which screw has a hollow center to receive the center of the Iron axis which goes through the whole Cylinder and is taken
out to pu n fresh patterns at pleasure. B. B.B. are three Cylinders covered five or six times with flannel or other elastic matter and
over that a time Cloth or Linen painted with an Oil Color to pirvent the wet from passing through and over that a superfine Cloth.
Thise bylinders are C.C.C.
-charged with colour from the Guughs C. C. C. are three thoughs or sieves lottomect with Where or Canvass or
material cost convenient and must be of different Textures according to the state of the Atmosphere D.D.D. are three Screws at each
end to ru... or depress the colour Cylinders and give them proper bearing upon the Punting Cylinders E.E.E. three Cylinders covered
other soft matter to serve as beds for the Cylinders to print upon I represents six rollers round which the paper or other
material i rut to give it fiction and to prevent its wrinkling O is the puper or other material going to be printed II is the paper or
other material coming from the Machine printed I is the Block and wedge as in Figure 2.-K. is the Table on which it stands Is
the dotted = nes represent the outline of the frame in which the rollers run as described by Letter F.
with Cloth
Figure 2. A.A.A.A.A. represents three wheels on the end of the founting boyflinders and two (all of equal Diameters and equal number
of teeth to * between them and regulate them and to give them all motion at the same time B.B.B.B.B. are five wheels of equal
diameters and equal number of teeth to act in the same manner " as the wheels on the printing Cylinders C. C.C. represents the ends
of the trouts or sieves as mentioned in Figure 1 D. D. D. are three screws as in Figure 1st E. is a block of Wood in which the
Gudgeons & the Cylinders E. E.E. as mentioned in Figure 1st run (F is a wedge which raises or depresses that Block which is always
2.
dropped wh a there is nothing to be printed to prevent printing the Beds G is w Screw in the end of the wedge which goes through a hote
in the Pin I to prevent the wedge from going in too far and is regulated by the small dial at the end of the wedge H. is the crank
that puts & whole Machine in motion III are three wheels on the end of the Bids which run in three wheels on the ends of the
printing Genders to prevent the material from slipping which would much injure the work....
the colour which
may
• Figure 57 Represents the Apparatus used to colour the Paper 1. is a Cylinder, running in a hough of colour, covered with Cloth
to hold the colour B. B. are two Cylinders one to press the Papex to the Colour holl and the other to act under a brush to smooth
be worked by hand or by the Machine C' is the Brush acting repon the roll to smooth the Color D. is the
Trough wh. & holds the Colour It is the paper going to be colored, and F. is the paper coming out coloured
worked by a bank at G on Ciffinder B.
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This Machine is
BB Figur: 14 is drawn on a scale of One inch to a foot and Figure 2nd of 3 on & Seate of these Inches to a foot ...