Improvements in the Method of and Means for Impressing and Printing Wood.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 10th May, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Impressing and
Printing Wood.
We, THOMAS TYZACK JONES and WILLIAM JONES, of the firm of Jones Brothers,
Cigar-box manufacturers, of Broad Marsh, Nottingham, in the County of Notting-
hamshire, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in the method of and means for impressing
and printing on common wood, such as deal, for the purpose of imitating cedar or
other fancy woods.
In carrying out our invention the improvements consist in the simultaneous
operation of and means for impressing and printing and thereby imitating, on
deal or other common wood, the grains of cedar or other fancy wood in a continuous
or intermittent manner by either rotary or reciprocating means, after previously.
suitably staining and glossing the wood to receive the imitation.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a sectional and Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a plan and Fig. 4 a front
view of a machine of one form of our invention.
Referring to the figures generally, we mount on the frame a in suitable bearings b, c,
respectively an impressing and printing roller 61, and a carrier roller c¹ below the
sume. The periphery of the impressing and printing roller 61, we ingrave or other-
wise form, so as to represent the grain of the wood to be imitated and facilitate the
simultaneous indenting and printing of the same on the wood. The bearings b, of
the impressing and printing roller 6', are suspended from the cross piece a¹ and made
vertically adjustable in the frame a by means of screwed rods e. The bearing c
of the carrier roller c are also suspended and made vertically adjustable in the
frame a, by means of the looped rods e¹, the upper ends of which pass through the
cross beam and are furnished respectively with a collar g and a spring g', which
latter bears against the collar 9 and the cross beam f, whereby the carrier roller c¹ is
always drawn tightly against the impressing and printing roller b' and permits of
various thickness of wood w being passed through the machine always in close contact
with the impressing and printing roller b'.
In order to regulate the amount of tension of the said spring g¹, according to the
thickness of wood to be passed through the machine, the cross beam f is connected to
the cross piece a¹ by means of a screwed spindle h, furnished with a hand wheel h¹.
At the back extremity of the frame a, an ink or color roller i is arranged in suitable
bearings, which on one side is in contact with an ink or color regulating plate i¹ and
on the other side with an oscillating roller 3, which latter is mounted on the levers *
and tightened to the roller i by means of the spring k. The said plate is made
adjustable in the end pieces a³ by means of the screws a³ and forms a trough at for
the ink or color, which may be supplied to the impressing and printing roller 61 in
any suitable quantity, by either raising or lowering the plate and thus bring it in
more or less contact with the roller i and consequently permit the same of taking up
more or less ink or color. Between the reciprocating roller and the impressing and
printing roller b³, another roller is mounted in suitable bearings on the frame a,
which carries on its axis, two radially adjustable levers, between their upper extremity
of which are mounted a pair of ductor rollers m, m2, m being in contact with the
roller and m¹ with the impressing and printing roller b¹.
On the shaft * of the impressing and printing roller 6' is fixed a spur wheel 63 by

page_text: means of which and the wheel n, pinions n', n³; and wheel n³ rotary motion is
transmitted respectively to the rollers 1 & i.
The ink or color to be used is received from the trough at by the roller and is
intermittently transmitted to the roller 1, by means of the reciprocating roller,
which by means of the cams n', and spring k on the shaft n of the roller i, is brought
in alternate contact with the roller l.
By means of the ductor rollers m, m', the ink or color is then supplied to the
impressing and printing roller and by means of the radially adjustable levers
the ductor rollers m¹ may be brought in more or less contact with the impressing and
printing roller as may be required.
In lieu of effecting the simultaneous impressing and printing of wood in a
continuous manner as described, viz., by rotary means, the same result may be also
accomplished intermittently, by means of a reciprocating block giving the desired
impression and print, the supply of ink or color to the said block being effected
similarly as in a platen printing machine, or in any other convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is :-
1st. The method of imitating cedar or other fancy wood, consisting in simultaneously
impressing and printing, and thereby causing printed indents, on deal or other
common wood, in a continuous or intermittent manner by rotary or reciprocating
means, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The employment of a roller b adapted to simultaneously impress and print
and thereby cause printed indents on wood, in combination with a carrier roller c',
between which the wood to receive the imitation is passed, substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
3rd. The carrier roller c¹, mounted in bearings c which are suspended by means of
rods e from the cross beam fand frame a, a¹, which rods e are under the influence of
springs k, adapted to keep the wood to receive the imitation always in close contact
with the impressing and printing roller 61, substantially as set forth.
4th. The plate in combination with the ink or color roller i adapted to form an
ink or color trough a' and permit of supplying more or less ink or color to the roller i,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 7th day of April 1890
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.